Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-31
|MlER|CAN PEEREssES
ARE BITTERLY CRITICIZED
.ondon Newspaper Declares They
Arc Responsible for SOcicty's
Dcgcncracy.
'AMoUs DIARY is QUOTED
iolonel ltepington's Criticisms of
( Conduct OF Women From This
I Country Arc Published In Sat-
urtiay Review.
nY nonERT j. rnIlW.

| Ihb"y
Universal Service Stnn Correspondent.
LONDON. Oct. 3O.-That American
feeresscs arc responsible for the de-
Eeneracy OF English society is
weekly organ of considerable
tanding and high Tory principles.
Tho indictment arises out of the
iarY eas Of S Seions mos, fepingtGns
var book published In Great Britain.
Fhe famous military critic gives
picture of English society during the
more Svidl says ane e by tSs pb
ic than his military criticism. Some
lines on reading the diary of lunches
ind dinners at the restaurants and
n Mayfair. OF weekend bridge and
avn parties. we have stopped ana
asked. Ia Colonel Repington also
.mong tho Socialists? Nothing is
more calculated TO Increase tho i'll
against the rich and ruling class than
fuch passage. only one out OF many,
| rs tho following:
,o Sat on the tribunal all the after
Gathers Of families into the army.
rhcn to the Ritz. half an hour late.
o dine with Lady Strafford's party
arge party and had hugo round
able In the center OF the room.
The contrast between the afternoon
Iind the evening made me sad :.
Constance stewart Richardson posed
md contorted and danced. in few
|;iothes and with bare feet. She
ooked like a dervish. Lady STAFFORD
iSeiared that she was playing John
The Saturday Review points out
hat this sort OF thing was happen
ing In 1916. when Englands war for
I'cription had Just begun.
II liz degencracy," says the pa
been tolerated. well-bred French
ing OF all sorts during the war. and
Radtes even gave UP low dresses We
1ion't blame the men who went to
these junketings and reyels SO much
and the women were all. with hardly
an exception. the rich Americans who
|lia We, married titled Engiishmen.
American women dominate English
society iB depiorablc. Let any one
|sons!der the following list: Lady
IStaford. Lady Curzon. Lady Cunard.
easter. Lady Aston. Lady Ribbiesdalc.
The Duchess OF Marlborough. Lady
|Pnnset. the Duchess OF RoxburGhc.
style of English society n la Newport.
The Old aristocracy may have been
dull, but they were at leas, digniaed
land decorous."
tackled. Landy .Stranord was the
widow OF Samuel Colgate and In 1855
married the Earl of STAFFORD, n
|Gidowcr. who. died soon after. Lady
Cunard was the daughter of the late
+. +. Burke. OF New York. and mar
|ried the founder OF the famous steam
|ship line In 1895. Lady Curzon WAS
Alabama: she FIRST married Alfred
|Dugsan and In 1917 welded the FIRST
Earl OF ksdles.on. Mrs; Laeds. the
widow OF the American tinp!<e king,
recently married Prince Christopher,
|oi Greece. Lady Granard, daughter
|of Ogden Mills, OF Staatsburg. N. Y,
married the earl in 1909. Lady An
easter was the daughter OF w. /,
Brcesc. OF New York. and married
ths Earl In 1905. Lady Astor. an
|othcr American, is the famous NJ. Il.
and was Macy I.anghorne. OF Green
wood. Virginia. Lord Ribblesdnie
married twice. the second baroness
being Mira. John Jacob Aston. whom
he married last year. The Duchess
Of Marlborough was w *. Wander
butts daughter. Lady Page. was n
daughter OF George l.. A. Moke. OF
New York. and the Duchess OF Rox-
burghe was May Goelet. daughter
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