New-York tribune., 1920-06-21

instead OF predictions, 1t might be
safer to begin with advice to politicians
and others about to go to San Fran
cisco. First of all, it seems to US,
that statesmen should avoid falling off
trains. We realize that it can be done
in France and we have no desire to
belittle the toughness of our native
political fiber. The fault lies with our
landscape. Perhaps it is virtue
rather than fault, for our railroads cut
across torrents and over huge noun
tains and through vast deserts. Still
1t may be that even the realization of
these facts will not suffice America
pride nor answer the familiar slogan,
"Anything that a foreigner can do we
can do better" Perhaps it is nee
essary for our national honor that
one of our leading public men should
fall off a train. We nominate A. Mitch
ell Palmer.
Should Carry Safety Razors
Travellers on the Denver g. Rio
Grande should carry safety razors.
BY all means let the traveller provide
himself with two or three good books,
and we suggest "The Three Black PEN
nies" by Joseph Hergesheimer, as one
Of the most thrilling we have come
upon in year. To us "Thc Three
Black Pennies" and switchback rail
road in a recreation park Just outside
of Salt Lake City were the high spots
in the journey across the continent
And yet we sometimes wish that Mr.
Hergesheimer were not so intent on
putting warmth and fire into all his
heroines To us they clank little like
steamheated apartments We weary Of
being told of frank curves" and also
Of frank flesh" nor do we care par
tlcularly about "candidly blue eyes"
Such phrases we think belong with
truthful tonsils" and "a daring liver"
All of which reminds us that politi-
clans travelling to San Francisco will
find that we talk a good deal Of rot
in the East about the Puritanism of
the Middle West and the West.
Women Bathers Discard Stockings
On a Sunday in Chicago we went to
popular city beach and were amazed
at the extent of the frankness. None
of the women bathers used stockings
and practically all wore mems bathing
suits At Long Beach or Concy Island
members of the morals squad would
have been trotting up and down the
beach and raising fearful ructions.
Everything was quiet and orderly on
this Chicago beach and we all felt dis
tressingly provincial.
One member of the party had
brought with him Winter Garden
chorus girl who happened to be vaca-
tioning in the city. We all realized
when she went to her bathhouse that
the honor of New York rested square
ly upon her shoulders. The costumes
roundabout were rather striking, to
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and we hoped and believed that when
the young lady from the Winter Gar
den came to the waters edge she
would knock the eye out of everybody.
There came stir and a pink furry
upon the beach. The Winter Garden
girl stopped and thrust the toe of one
stocking into the water. She wore
boots and long skirt and hat and
every additional attachment which
can be placed upon bathcr She was
the most arrantly respectable figure
for miles around.
Delegates also will find that stock
ings and skirts are discarded by women
bathers in Salt Lake City and San
Francisco, as we'll as in Chicago. 1t is
only in New York that we identify silk
and Isle with morality.
Crap Shooters Defy Iowa
For all this the tradition of great
belt of Puritanism in the Middle West
is so comforting that we hate to aban-
don it nor shall we utterly Coming
from Chicago at midnight q game of
craps began in the rear of the obser
vation car and everything went we'll
enough for some hours until the train
stopped just before dawn at a little
station which, as we remember, was