Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-20
LADY ASTOR AND
HUSBAND ARRIVE
ON THE OLYMP |C
Is First Woman Ever Elect
ed to the British House OF
Commons; Scores OF
Friends Greet Her.

New York, April 19.-Vivacious
Lady Astor smiling, chatting con-
tinuously and joshing those about
her, arrived from England aboard
the steamer olympic today on her
way to Baltimore where she will!
address the Pan-American confer
ence of women. To greet Lady
Astor-native of Virginia, wife of
"a British peer and the first woman
ever elected to the house of COM
mons-scores Of friends and ad-
mirers gathered at the pier.
As the Olympic steamed up the
bay from quarantine she gave
reporters flashing comments on
all manner of things-Lloyd
George, flappers, prohibition,
Margot Asqulth, the labor situa-
tion, the Genoa conference, the
servant problem and her own
children--siX in number.
"The only remarkable thing
about me is my children" she said,
holding to the arm of her husband,
Viscount William Waldorf Astor.
Lloyd George still has his head
above water and it's some head.
too"
Lady Astor said she wanted to
make it clear that she was not in
America on a mission. She is here,
she said, because she received an
invitation to attend the conven-
ton at Baltimore to discuss mat
ters of interest to women all over
the world. After that she is go
ing to Virginia where she was Nancy
Langhorne, and then to Wash
ington and Chicago and one or two
other cities before returning to her
children and her job in parlia-
ment.
Speaking as a virginian does,
without a trace of British accent,
Lady Astor said she was still an
unreconstructed southerner."
"And when l hear Dixie, sOme-
thing happens" she said.
Her children she described rs
"mongrels-three-fourths Ameri-
can"
AS to women's place in the
world, she said those of her sex
were just as individual as men.
zone can't say women do this.
and women do that" she re-
marked, because they don't do
things alike any moro than men.
Clothes Are Unfortunate.
The clothes nearly all women
are wearing nowadays are unfor-
tunate from her point of view,
Lady Astor said.
Nothing let's the sex down like
about half Naked" ste
went on. There is no use Of talk
ing about equality If we only use
our liberty to show our hideous-
ness. Last night ! wore a dress
have used since 1918. If you keep
your eye on your body all the time
you can't keep it on your soul"
How about the flappers and
their uniforms?" 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 parliament next autumn
Lady Astor said she would not say
one plank in her platform would
be exactly dry but certainly it
would not be wet.
One of the largest groups of re-
porters and photographers that
ever swarmed aboard steamer
down the bay surrounded Lady
Astor.
Help! Help! Get my hus-
band" she cried. Someone fetch
ed the viscount in a fifty and they
were taken to the boat deck for
photographs.
"MarricG, Though Happy"
Lady Astor took hold of the Wis
counts arm. winked and said:
Married, though happy"
Then began the nterview-with
the ultimate topic-prohibition.
II don't believe what the Brit
ish papers say about prohibition in
this country" she said.
"Margot Asquith's views? Az
regards her views, l could tell you
a lot of things but I won't. | am
not going to discuss Mrs. Asquith
or any other individual. All l can
say is that she is no more a typi-
cal average English woman than
she is a typical average American
woman. l might say she is unique
and l would not be far wrong"