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Show FOREIGNER WHO KNOWS GOOD THING. From the New York World. Herr Hugo von Kupffcr, editor of the Lokal-Anzelger of Berlin, has made two delightful discoveries, either of which would be amply sufficient to reconcile rec-oncile us to the discomforts of a Presidential Presi-dential year. One Is that In the past ten years American women have been growing prettier not that there was much room for Improvement, for Herr von Kupffer hastens to assure us thnt he has "always considered American girls the prettiest of any in the world." The other discovery is even more entrancing en-trancing and still moro surprising. It Is that the American woman, far from losing any of her womanliness through her Independence and her Inclination to rule, is "a far better housewife than .the German." Certainly that Is the very last admission admis-sion we should ever hao expected from a German, to -whom tho superiority of German housewives is an article of faith. Dr. Bmll Reich, the latest Teutonic Teu-tonic professor to put us Into a book, talks about the "ovcr-mentallzatlon of the American woman," the "hyper-galvanlzatlon "hyper-galvanlzatlon of her energy," her "de-femlnizatlon," "de-femlnizatlon," her "submerged spouse." and her responsibility for "the Incredible Incredi-ble host of boarding-houses" that serve our people as substitutes for homes. Herr von Kupffer will get home Just In time to serve as an antidote to Reich |