The Washington herald., 1920-11-14
News by Gable
SAY US. WOMEN
.DEBASEBRITAIN
Social Antics Of Peeresses
Scored as Degeneracy
By London Paper.

LONDON. Nov. 13.-That Ameri-
can peeresses are responsible for
the degeneracy Of English society is
q charge made by the Saturday Re
view. a weekly organ of consider
able standing and high Tory prin-
ciples.
The indictment arises out of the
contents of Colonel Repington's
Diary, easily the most interesting
war book published in Great Britain.
The famous military critic gives a
picture of English society during
the war, which, says the Review,
will be more avidly devoured by
the public than his military criti-
cism. Sometimes on reading the
diary of lunches and dinners at the
restaurants and in Mayfair. of
weekend bridge and lawn parties,
we have stopped and asked. Is
Colonel Repington- also among the
Socialists7
would Increase III-FeeHnG.
Nothing is more calculated to in
crease the ill-feeling (already toe
prevalent) against the rich and rul-
ing class than such a passage. only
one out of many, as the following
Sat on the tribunal all the
afternoon Horrible process Of
sending fathers of families into
the army. Then to the Ritz.
half an hour late. to dine with
Lady strafford's party for the
italian Day. We were a very
large party and had a huge
round table In the center of the
room. -. The contrast be-
tween the afternoon and the
evening made me sad. -. aft
erward a vaudeville. and Lady
Constance Stewart Richardson
posed and contorted and danced.
in few clothes and with bare
feet. She looked like a dervish.
Lady Strafford declared that she
was playing John the Baptist
The Saturday Review points out
ing in 1916, when England's war
fortunes were at their lowest and
conscription had just begun.
Paper Calls IL Degenerscy.
TT is degeneracy," says the paper
"and in Paris IL would not have
been tolerated weli-bred French
people steadily put down entertain
ing of all sorts during the war. and
ladies even gave up low dresses,
We don't blame the men who went
to these junketings anJ revels so
much as the woman who organized
them, and the women were all. with
hardly an exception, the rich Amer
leans who have married titled Eng
lishmen.
"The extent to which these rich
American women dominate English
society is deplorable. Let anyone
consider the following list: Lady
Strafford, Lady Curzon, Lady Cum
ard. Mrs. Leeds, Lady Granard, Lady
Ancaster, Lady Astor. Lady Ribbles-
dale, the Duchess of Marlborough,
Lady Paget. the Duchess of RoN-
burghe. All are Americans, and
they set the style of English society
a la Newport The old aristocracy
may have been dull. but they were
at least dignified and decorous"
widow of Colgate.
OF the American women thus at
tackled, Lady Strafford was the
widow of Samuel Colgate and in
1898 married the Earl Of STAFFORD
a widower, who died soon after.
Lady Cunard was the daughter of
the late z. F. Burke, Of New York,
and married the founder of the
famous steamship line in 1895. Lady
Curzon was the daughter Of Mon
roe Kinds. of Alabama: she hrst
married Alfred Duggan and in 1917
welded the first Earl of Kedeleston.
Mrs, Leeds, the widow of the Ameri-
can tinplate king, recently married
Prince Christopher of Greece. Lady
Granard. daughter of Ogden Mills
of Staatsburg. n. Y married the
Earl in 1909. Lady Ancaster was
the daughter of w. L. Breese, OF
New York and married the Earl
in 1905. Lady Astor, another Ameri-
can. is the famous NJ. p. and was
Nancy Langhorne, Of Greenwood
Virginia. Lord Ribblesdale married
twice. the second baroness beine
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, whom he
married last year. The Duchess OF
Marlborough was w. X Vanderbilts
daughter. Lady Paget was a daugh-
ter of George L. A Moke, Of New
York, and the Duchess Of Roxourghe
was May Goelet, daughter Of Ogder