The New York herald., 1922-04-20


make one wise. She took OF the fruit
thereof and did eat. Gave unto her
husband with her and he did eat
1--WE have no record of Adam MUIR
muring against the fruit--of his not 10
ing anything but eat 1t with docility.
In passing. | would like 10 say That the
first time Adam had a chance he laid
.he blame on woman. However. we will
leave Adam
Ever since womai's consciousness
looked beyond rhe mstcral, mems con-
sciousness has feared her vaguely. lie
has gone TO her for Inspiration he has
relied on her for all that is best and
most ideal In his life. yet by sheer ma
teriai force he has limited her. He has
without knowing II. WesternizeG the
harem mind OF the East.
II don't believe he knows It yct. 50
we must break II TO him gently We
must go on beirg his guide. his mother
and his better half. But we must prove
70 him that we are necessary half
not only in private but in political life.
Must Reveal AItrufsm.
THE best way that we can do that 's
TO show them our ambitions are not
personal Let them see that We desire
a better. safer and a cleaner world for
our children and their children and we
realize that only by doing cur bit. by
facing unclean things with cleanliness,
by facing wrongs with right, by going
fearlessly into all things that may be
disagrceable. that we viii somehow
make II little better world.
II don't know that we are goiing to
do this: l don't say that women will
change the world; but I do say that
they can, II they want-and /. coming
from the Old World, which has seen a
devastating war, cannot face the future
without this hopc--that the women OF
all countries will do their duty and
raise generation OF men and women
who will look upon war and all that
leads to it with as much horror as we
now look upon cold blooded murder.
f'If we want this new world we can
only get 1t by striving for 1t. The real
struggle will be within ourselves. to put
out of our consciousness, OF our hearts
and of our thoughts all that makes for
war. hate, envy. greed, pride. force and
material ambition"
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, wife Of the
artist and sister OF Lady Astor, gave
supper party in honor of the visiting
Nj. F. Among her guests ere the MEM
bers OF the welcoming committee Of the
league, Mrs. Gait and Miss Hay.
During the afternoon Lady Astor saw
| home with the Gibsons
She looked equally handsome in the
dress she wore at the evening meeting
and in the one she wore when she ar
rived on the steamship. She is the
same type as Mrs. Gibson. but shorter
and more slender. She and viscount
Astor stood at the deck rail all the
time the Olympic was being warped into
her berth.
As the steamship swung in this slen-
der, fair haired young woman, enveloped
IN blach and gray furs, cupped her
hands and leaned over the deck rail and
shouted to a group she recognized on the
pier "Oh, I'm so glad to be back'
Does Dance on Ships Deck.
Then she turned to her husband. exc
| cuted a vivacious little dance and
clutched the railing excitedly as she
leaned over again to catch a ge
that was being megaphoned i'm the same
hand fashion by Mrs. Gibson, who. with
Mr. Gibson, two nieces and an aunt OF
the now famous Lady Nancy had been
on the pier for more than an hour
we feel like poor white trash down
here. shouted back Mrs. Gibson in her
charming Virginia drawl and the visitor
smiled in a superior way as she folded
her fur collar. a new gift from the Wis
count. closer about her throat.
Lady Astor simply sparkled with en-
thusiasm, gayety and brilliancc from the
moment the two score reporters and
photographers met her after boarding
the steamship at Quarantine until She
finally escaped from the last lot at the
pier. She has the exuberance OF youth,
the high spirit and beauty OF the South.
she seems genuinely democratic, and has
a m n nd cd IF
and flinging back repartec that kept the
reporters on the alert TO catch her every
word
Her eyes are blue gray, clear and
| searching and she looks at you squarely.
Her hair Is reddish gold, her mouth
sensitive, generous yet firm and she has
O quick gesture with her small we'll
shaped hands. She wore under her fur
coat a dark serge skirt and white
blouse heavily covered with Rumanan
embroidery in blue and red silk. Her
hat was soft black velvet toque with a
steel ornament.
Mrs. Gibson was the first to greet
Lady Astor when she stepped off the
gangplank. Then followed the commit
tee of the National League of Women
Voters.
Others to welcome her were Miss Ruth
Morgan, chairman of the leagues recep-
tion committee; Miss Mary Garrett Hay.
chairman of the New York City League
of Woln1r Voters; Mrs. Montgomery
Hare. Mrs. Herbert L, Pratt Mrs. STAN
ley Mccormick. Mrs. Henry Rogers Win
throp. Mrs. Ronald Tree. niece OF the
visccuntess. and MIR. Tree and Mrs.
James Lewis. an aunt, who was head OF
the Virginia suffrage organization.
"I've come over for the conference"
she began as the reporters gathered