The Washington times., 1935-10-17
NOW
League Smiles
On EUen Rights
BUTSITS TIGHT
By HELEN EssARY

LuGu16 SOLlB VI VIC ASoSNS VA
Nations, Mrs. Abbey Scott
Baker, delegate of the Inter
American Com m isSion Of
Women to the Women's Con-
sultative Committee on Ma
tionality, said today. But
Geneva did show a pleasant
sentiment for the good cause.
In fact, Mrs. Baker thinks the
Leagues definite approval of the
Equal Nationality Treaty, which
Miss Doris Stevens got through
the Montevideo Conference in
1898, is not far off.
The League really wants to do
something to bring about equal
nationality of women and men,
and this sincere wish is one step
inside the closed door. Mrs.
Baker has just returned to
Washington. pleased with her
commissions luck at Geneva.
Only one happening in Europe
only one constant happening.
you might say-distreSSed Mrs.
Baker. The continental custom
of registering a stranger and
emphasizing on the record her
age, every time she steps inside
o strange hotel door, at first
practically broke Mrs. Bakers
spirit. Then it occurred to her
to look the concierge firmly in
the eye, and write on each
register "Age-21" and let her
official birthday go cheerily at
that.
The Chinese delegates to the
Leagues Equal Nationality Com
mission were, Mrs. Baker
thought, most picturesque of all
the women in Geneva.
The Chinese women wore ma
tive costume always. When
Madame Chen rose at the hear
ing, swathed in black brocade
slit to the knee, smiled at the
men and stated her cause, she
was really exquisite.
The gentlemen of the commits
sion beamed in rapt attention.
Madame Chen said, in her art
less feminine way, that If the
gentlemen did not grant women
equal nationality rights, they,
the women, would have to be-
FeministS. Mrs. Baker
said:
"And there were she and other
femlnists Of the old school sit
ting meekly in a row, looking
and listening and smiling a lit
tle. We had to smile a little"
-
One of the most eXtraordi-
nary rumors in feverish Geneva
the ladies bent on keeping
their own nationality after
marriage did not hear twas
the tale brought back by travel
ers from Italy that Mussolini
is in a desperately nervous con-
dition.
II Duce, so the report said,
has alternating fits of depres-
sion and exhilaration. He often
sits with his head in his hands
and broods for a long time.
Then suddenly springs to his
feet and trimphantly strides
through his apartment.
Mussolini, according to these
runors, continues to imagine
himself a conquering Napoleon.
Recently, however, since Eng
land has taken a hand in the
settlement of the Ethiopian
trouble, he remembers that
Napoleon died a prisoner on an
English island. This finale Of
Che Napoleonic picture MusSo-
lini finds most disturbing.
: The glittering hotels along
Che lake front of Geneva were
crowded to the vestibules with
distinguished intern t lion ais
when I was there recently.
There were dinners and lunch.
cons in smart apartments. and
in the big houses in the hills.
But honest-to-goodness life in
after-dark Geneva centers in
the Bavaria Bierscube, a Ger
man restaurant.
Some years ago, when the
bitterness left by the old war
was still sharp, Stresemann
used to come to the Bavaria.
He liked the German cooking
here. He liked the German food
and the stems with blond Pill
gener.
The Bavaria has grown in
fame and popularity since then.
Derso and Kellen's caricatureS
of famous international figures
line it's walls. The sketches show
no reverence for greatnesS-for
instance, that drawing of M.
BRAND reclining in a chemise
de mutt on a ;haise Tongue, and
waving coldly away the ad-
vances Of an austere, white
robed Peace, bearing an enor-
nous olive branch.
The Bavaria firmly closes it's
doors at / o'clock in the morn
ing. Sweeps out many person
ages who are conferring infor-
mally but no less effectively in
this agreeable atmosphere.
Many news stories come to a
head at the B"varia, and must
be telephoned to the home Of
fices. Madame, the proprietor's
wife, is kept 5usy all evening
answering the telephone and
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