The Washington herald., 1922-07-17
ALL AMERICA, EXCEPT GUS,
TOURING EUROPE THIS YEAR
Edna Ferber Declares Janitor Who Stays
Home is Luclkiest Citizen of Them All.

toned calfskIn oxfords and her bead
chain and her long green earrings
shall ye know her. By his straw
sailor, and his harassed look. his
well cut gray clothes and his lean
broad shoulders shall ye know him.
And by the speech Of both which
strokes over the same plaintive in
quiring note. though the language
may vary. Her hand in her bead
bag. mis- hand In his pants pocket
they say. Qua Ia costa? VIE viel.
Combien, how much?"
Number variously Estimated.
The number of tweed cape suits
and straw sailors is estimated va
riously. Some say there are 100000
OF US. some say more. Every
American woman tourist has
brought herself a fringed shawl, a
tortoise shell BACKBONE. long dang
ling earrings. a large leather hand
bag, a beaded bag. and bead neck
laces. bead necklaces, bead neck
laces. In the matter Of these last
she has reverted apparently to the
early Indian. She rattles with beads
as she walks. Beginning in Italy
ucE HdECH NnIOush Europe Is
marked with a steadily growing
collection of these bright gewsaws
until, were she to put them all on
-lapis lazuli, amber, crystal. coral
jet. ivory, jade-sbe would make a
Sioux chiefs squaw turn white
with envy. Every male tourist has
brought himself a leather billfold,
Two leather billfolds in fact. They
wear out very fast in Europe this
summer.
II anybody has ever doubted the
broadening effects of foreign travel,
let him be convinced this year.
Some of us are here for six weeks;
some for six months. But. weeks or
months, no tourist American. after
doing battle with the acrobatic for
eign exchange. with the hotel
clerks, customs inspectors, police.
railways. walters, can fail to return
home bigger, nobler, wiser and
more chastened spirit. And a more
patriotic citizen. 1t is. believe.
the mode Just now in the United
States not to be a patriotic Ameri-
can citizen. Isn't ht to live in since
prohibition!
PIaints Against America.
Say. call this a free country?
Look at the blue laws, Newspapers
ridden by capitalists. Fella can't
even talk the way he wants to!
Crude, raw lot-thats what we are,
Look at the American theater! Have
we a single actress? Have we a
single playwright? You ought to
see Henna Madupski in that part
at the Gurkin Theater. There's a
cure for that sort OF feeling.
Every discontented citizen of the
United States should be sentenced
to spend six months at the hard
labor Of ''touristing" at the CAV
capitals of Europe as IL is today.
I'll guarantee he will come home a
fiag-waver. a Fourth of July orator.
and a permanent patriot. This goes
for Henry Mencken, too. And, incl
dentally. having seen Henna Madup-
ski in that part she plays at the
GurkIn Theater, wish to be quoted
as saying that / prefer Pauline
Lord in Eugene o'Neilrs play. Anna
Christie
1t must not be assumed that the
travelling American in Europe in
1872 has not been amused. enter
tained, diverted and interested. He
has been. But anyone who tells you
that he has a wonderful time and
has enjoyed every minute of IL, is
blind. unfeeling-or a liar.
Copyright. lssa. by United Esvs.)