The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-06
STOPPING To- CONQUER.

STOPPING To- CONQUEk.
Gravity and levity are reduced to the same
values for the American woman who would De
a social success in Paris and London by that IN
defatigable babbler about things feminine, w.
L. George who airs his theories, IN puDhcalioh
designed exclusively for perusal by "oniei'
with a confidence that is due one day TO receive
a numbing shock from some female, gHted LII
repartee, who finds his offerings just a httle Oh
the side of triteness. The Parlslan, says MI.
George, asks the American woman who would
shine in the Gallo metropolis to MAINTAIN as
much gravity as her mercTia temperament al
lows: to do in Paris as the Parlsians 90 ana 10
remember that she is among the soberest race
in the world The Partisan wants sympathy Tor
the wounds of France, which are still. open;
briefly. he asks the visitor for an expression of
her admiration for France, expression with
vioor and felicity. and he wants her to show her
heart"
! Among the Londoners, this mere male person
who rushes into print with his advice finds the
American visitor faces different problem and
must above all things expose her heart Let her,
he says. '.wear her most triumphant clothes
and If she gives us chance to be family shock
ed, we shall appreciate her all the more Lon
don knows no mood of mourning, so the Amerl-
can must forget all about the war, for England
keeps her wounds to herself; indeed London
will love the American lady if she abandons
all seriousness. all views, religions and ideas,
If she confines herself to annexlng popular Eng
lisbnen at dinner and finds her reward IN the
exercise of this virtune.'
: AS matter Of fact what most American
women will do in the face OF approaching WIN
/ ter continental discomforts and extortonate
rates, is to stay at home, be comfortable and IN
trust to some other nationality, which enjoys 1t
more, the .Jekyll and Hyde role, which Mr..
George seems to think so admirable
! Fifty of the Pilgrim fathers have been identl-
fed and their descendants may now prove
their ancestry from the passenger list OF the
IMayfIower But there are ifty-four Pilgrims
who cannot be vouched for, whose hneal de
iscendants must stand on the side lines and
watch the guaranteed offspring walk at the
head of the parade Perhaps it the fifty
four. however, who brought over most of the
furniture.
! SO many dog owners seem to believe in self
determination for their four-legged possessions
that no small percentage of the dogs In Keokuk
are unlicensed and stand in daily danger of
being made acquainted with the official gas
box. The man who maintains dog in the city
, ought to be willing to pay for the privilege
The old age of Emma Goldman, working al
manual labor on the soviet railroads. is tragic
t The tragedy is that such driving power anc
: capacity for work as this strange woman pos
4sesses might not have been diverted for The
benefit of this country instead Of its attempted
' destruction.
e The failure Of Europe 10 take our low grade
= wool is blamed for the stagnation OF the home
:, market Is this the care or is it because Europ
/ refused to take low grade wool at high grad
s pricesf