Show r V Mrs V Asquith Takes Ten Punches at Us V V j 1 V By RUTH ABELING V ON TOUR WITH MRS ASQUITH March 20 America America has made ten distinct distinct dis dis- dis- dis impressions on ott Mrs Margot Asquith As As- drawing room roam politician di diarist rist and lecturer V V V And the ten Impressions gained by this famous Englishwoman the wife br bf a former British premier are arc not altogether altogether alto alto- gether flattering Here Hero they are as she told them to me 1 1 SOCIETY 1 1 ETY V t j v Your social life is is' is terrific You have fifty guests g at dinn dinner r and call it I a party Your hospitality is slightly I d l. l 2 WOM 2 WOMEN ENI EN V VI V V I find all all' women w women men V everywhere who wish to succeed socially are much the tile same They have hearts brains yes brains yes Its It's safe to say Ray bodies bodies cut cut out after the same pattern So America surely Is not distinctive for its women who have social ambitions But among business women you have a a. very characteristic characteristic char char- characteristic element conservative and charming However I dont don't see how how- American business men can employ certain short skirted bare kneed rouge lipped females who wha talk too much I find the average young business man nin a more poised more elegant person than the average business woman 3 3 HOMES In your cities as I r have seen them I have found no women to whom VI 1 I could apply the term housewife with any degree of correctness Then Thea wh where re are your housewives housewives' In the tile country of ot course I have watched your fine country homes from train windows and have said of this ohe one or that one Now there must be a very happy home Though of ot course the furies may be playing within 4 4 PROHIBITION Prohibition which I always favored favor d is most harmful in its effects as I see them in America Lord Lee first lord of ot the British admiralty says my statement that there is drunkenness among American young people is cruel ludicrous and untrue I wish it might at least be bo the latter But I am over over- whelmed with Ith letters from all Il over ovet 4 America agreeing with me in this opinion American people are dyna dyna- mic they thel always overdo a protest 5 J 5 5 JAZZ AZZ America has a remarkable haS sense of rhythm I have heard little beyond your co colored ored melodies meaning Jazz but I like 6 this sort of ot splendid i melody it Is it carries one on After hearing it I should say Not No strange that America moves its feet so fast so much nd 6 6 LITERATURE V Books Bookstores tares eS and ancl stands new stands dot ee every city and town At eVery Very crossroads st station one sees books magazines and papers for sale I wonder how get eti time t to devour you ou so much re matter An And reading what good It does you th the Can any ff people digest so mi much h But Dut effort is to your credit I 7 7 FLAPPERS V I I V You make too much of ot your pers You take them too seriously They'll outgrow It before realize you can 8 8 COURTESY You do rush about everywhere V but hut youre you're very polite There Is a surprIsing ing lag amount of in courtesy public conveyances con con- No I haven't ridden In the subway but yet I think Ill I'll risk it once during the rush hour just for foi an experience I expect to survive It u as well as the next one 9 9 DRAMA V Your drama is vigorous quite often improper but free from coarseness You delicate make a good Job of ot handling indelicate in indelicate in- in I situations delicately Your American actresses are more finished m more r beautifully gown gowned more COnvincing con COn- than English actresses But Englishmen are much better on the stage than the men of America 10 PRESS 15 PRESS I dont don't like YOUr newspapers They are too hurried They even hurl me P And then they dont don't print what j I as I would have say ay ayton it printed They loo too ton little to attention to what I Say and pay too mu much h to who I an am |