The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-04-08
KEEN TIP
| TO HER TONGUE
Brilliant EngIishwoman Set,
Down Some of Her Views
About This Country
BY Ruth Abeling

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ON tour with Mrs. Margot AsQuith,
March 22.-America has made ten
d,stinct Impressions on Mrs. Margot
Asauith, drawing room politician, d.
artist and lecturer. And the ten inn
pressions gained by this famous Eng
ushwoman, the wife of a former Brit
ish premier, are not altogether fat
tsring. Here they are as she told
them to me:
sOCIETY-"1-Your social life is
! terrific. You have fifty guests at din
iner and call 1t q party. Your hospi-
tally is slightly exaggerated"
WOMEN-"2-I find all women
everywhere who wish to succeed Soc
tally are much the same. They have
hearts, brains-yes. 1t is safe to say
bodies-but out after the same pat
tern. So America surely is not dis
tinctive'for its women who have Soc
ial ambitions. But among business
IN you have a very characteristic
element, conservative and charming.
However, l don't see how American
business men can employ certain
s~hort-skirted, bare-kneed, rouge :
Tipped females who talk too much. /
find the average young business man
a more poised, more elegant person
than the average business woman"
HOMES-"3-In your cities, as |
have seen them, l have found no
women to whom l could apply the
term housewife with any degree of
correctness. Then where are your
housewives? In the country OF
course. l have watched your fine
country homes from train windows
and have said of this one or that one,
Now, there must be a very happy
home Though of course. the furies
may be playing within"
PRoHIBITIoN-"4- Prohibition,
which l always favored, is most
harmful in its effects, as l see them
in America. Lord Lee first lord of
the British admiralty say my state
ment hat there is drunkenness among
American young people is cruel. lud-
ferrous and untrue / wish 1t might
be at least the latter. But / am ov-
erwhelmed with letters from all over
America agreeing with ms In this
opinion. American people are dyn-
annie; they always will overdo q pro-
test"
JAZZ-"5-America has q re-
markable sense of rhythm. I have
heard little beyond your colored mel
odies (meaning jazz but l like this
sort Of melody. II is splendid. 1t
carries n On. After hearing 1t |
should say. Not strange that Amer
lea moves its feet SO fast and SO
much"
LITERATURE-"6 - Bookstores
and news stands dot every city and
NJ C'Oiy ciocbAoaus StdtiOA
n sees books. magazines and papers
for sale. l wonder how you get time
to devour SO much reading matter?
And what good does it do you? Can
any people digest so much? But the
effort is to your credit"
FLAPPERS-"7-You make too
much of your ~fiappers. You take
them too seriously. They'll outgrow
It, before you car realize"
COURTESY-"S- You do rush
about. everywhere, but you're very
polite. There is a surprising amount
OF courtesy in public conveyances.
No, l haven't ridden In the subway,
yet-but / think I'll risk It once dur
ing the rush hour. just for an exper-
fence. l expect to survive 1t as we'll
as the next one."
DRAMA-"9-Your drama Is Wig
orous; quite often improper but free
from c~oarseness. You make q good
job Of handling indelicate situations
~delicately. Your American actresses
are more finished. more beautifully
gowned. more convincing than Eng
lish actresses. But Engiishmen are
much better ON the stage than the
of America"
PRESS-'10II don't like your
They are too hurried.
They even hurry me. And then they
don't print what / say Is / would
have it printed. They pay too little
attention to what l say. and too much
who I am"