Evening star., 1922-04-19
LADY ASTOR REACHES U. S.
JOsHING THRONGS AT PIER
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think what we can expect from ex-
! traordinary women"
The clothes nearly all women are
wearing nowadays are unfortunate.
from her point of view, Lady Astor
said.
Nothing lets the sex down like
running about half naked" she went
on. There's no use of talking about
equality If we only use our liberty to
show our hideousness. Last night
wore a dress 1 have used since 1918
all the time you can't keep it on your
soul"
How about the fappers and their
unform?" she repeated. Their
clothes are unfortunate, but that is
their mothers fault. The first thing
woman ought to teach her children
is obedience"
In running for reelection to her
place in parlia ment next autumn Lady
Astor said she would not say one
plank in her platform would be ex-
actly dry. but certainly it would not
| be wet.
Not Against Prohibition.
She had never seen a man or woman
who was made more unselflsh or bet
dreds ruined by it,
One of the largest groups of re-
porters and photographers that ever
swarmed aboard a steamer down the
bay surrounded Lady Astor.
Help. help get my husband. get
fetched the viscount in jiffy. and
they were taken to the boat deck fol
photographs.
Look natural" somebody shouted
cranking a movie machine.
Here YOU she spoke to another
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a hospital for men: behave YOURSELF
Then her belt became united and fell
to the deck as she removed her coat
Her companion to the Baltimore con.
vention. Dame Lyttleton. widow OF
former Col. Secretary Alfred Lyttle.
shouted "Pick UP your belt.'
wait a minute" Lady Astor said tc
/ the semi-circle of photographers thai
kept closing in upon her. She took
, hold of the viscount's arm. winkeG
| and said. married. though happy"
Then began the interview. with the
usual topic-prohibition. II don't be
i lieve what the British papers. say
about prohibition in this country
/ she said. II wouldn't say what !
thought of it's effect, until I had seer
| them.
j "Margot Ascuith's views? As re.
! CARDS her views l could tell you 10,
| of things. but / won't. I'm not goins
! to discuss Mrs. Asquith or any Other
| Individual. All / can say Is that she
] is 10 more a typical average English
| woman than she Is typical average
: American woman"
! United States Influence Needed.
Lady Astor said she had not come
| to try to bring America into better
! relationship with England ant
| Europe. nor to tell any one theil
! duty. nor to tell American statesmen
, what to do.
American influence is needed tt
| help put things right In Europe.
| Lady Astor declared. "As to whether
! Europe ought not to straighten ou
| her affairs before America comes in
| it seems to me that when house /.
| on fire it is a wise neighbor who
goes to help put the fire out. AND II
the man who lives across the stree
! joins in also and pumps water the
confiagration will stop all the
quicker"
"The heart to heart talks" at the
| Washington conference ought to have
made the relations between Grea1
| Britain and America foolproof, Lady
Astor thought
| The Genoa conference she declared
already success, inasmuch as 1t haG
| brought the leaders of Russia, France
| Germany and England together al
| one table. France and Russia mus,
| reduce ornaments. she believed She
| thought that what the world needed
| most Just now Is more common sense
| and good will and less suspicion.
Lady Astor win speak at the annual
! luncheon of the members of the As
sociated Press in New York next
Tuesday