Show SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN IN LONDON Rita ha had glimpses of the Gould Drexel marriage marriage mar mar- and devotes otes a u page or more of the Times to describing it in her liveliest and most caustic man mau nero ner Most c cZ cl what she sty says we suspect is deserved more especially the actions of the seething and aud senseless crowd that struggled and crowded in a pouring rain to see the happy happ couple board a dr motor car or as she states it to cee ree ee a commonplace commonplace commonplace common common- place young man anLa anda young oung woman get in or our out of ot ota a motor car Rita JJ is English you ou know Now had the commonplace young man gone to England and bought a countess and they had been married in old St. St Paul would not the crowd on the other side have l ve behaved as silly And would I not the house lOUS owners on the other side just as willingly will will- inglr have sold the use of their windows while the procession pass passed d for 25 each as they did when the funeral procession of King Edward went b by 1 To tell hll the truth it would have been beena Jl a better show because the commonplace young man was very verr much alive live while the king w was s de dead dVe d. d AVe We are not finding any aur fault with the bright romans woman's criticism We Ve suspect it was just but would it have been just as us bitter hid had it ft been in London 7 1 Especially had the groom b been en my Lord and aWl the bride a lady in ii waiting upon t the o queen een 1 We Te fear not Why it is not half a aye ye year r since the thc British papers had illustrations of ofal ai al arm army of Amazonian women s suffragists march down a Lon London on sti-e sti street t fighting the police as they marched and making a display of a far more honest hon lion cs est cst fight than that one between Jeffries and Johnson John John- son But we wc presume Rita would excuse that on the ground that the English women were making a struggle for their constitutional rights Well Vell gett getting getting get get- t ting ng married is every woman woman's womans Js constitutional right and ind there there- i is nothing ing in- in inthe intile tile the world except getting married that i interests a woman so n much uch as to ace ce s some rne other woman get married We Yc got our language our laws a a great deal of cf f four our literature from lom England We Vc had hoped we weh h had d dodged English toadyism but as s the country grows rich that germ is beginning to grow on this side and in twenty r years more if not alread already the the American people promise to be worse orse toadies to wealth and and titles than even en our English cousins It E is altogether sill silly and we are ad lad that Rita has bas pictured one exhibition of it on our soil but would Rita have seen it in the same light had hadL L t groom been a degenerate scion of English nobility no or the bride had been one of the titled ones of h her r native island 7 We V c fear not and if she would not that is a pretty good ign that down I deep she is something of a toady l herself Fal Falstaff taff urged that it was instinct that caused him to drop his plunder and run when attacked because his I instinct would not permit him him- to fight the heir ap apparent apparent ap- ap ap 1 parent even when the heir apparent nt was robbing him Is Rita free from like instincts |