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Show U. S. GIRLS NOT HEAVY DRINKERS English Sculptress Finds American Flappers Are Not So Bad International News Service LONDON. June 17 Mrs Margot Asqulth's aeciisiMon al the end of her American visit, that young American girls are heavy drinkers, was indignantly indig-nantly denied here today b Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Kngllsh sculptress, who has Just returned from an 18 months' vis-It vis-It to the I nlted States and Mexico, Not only did Mrs. Sheridan put her "O. K " on the American flapper, but she said that American women are the freest In the world Unjlki the English Eng-lish womon, she declarer, that American Ameri-can women aro not subservient to domestic do-mestic Or household obligations, but are complete mistresses of their own Careers from girlhood on SOME FLAPPESRS DRINK "America took Margot seriously and made a mistake In doing so," said Mr. Sheridan. "Flappers may drink in Am i lea, but 1 did not meet any intoxicated. intox-icated. Of course, they dance a great deal, but why shouldn't they0 Their dancing I thought very graceful "My country people in Enjrlnnd make me wild The seem to think American youth is composed entirely of Immoral, drunken flapper., lounge lizards and roadhouse rogues. Let me tell ou. they are wrong. "Young America Is courteous, gallant gal-lant and diligent When one reads the English news here he would think that the only things which happen In the United States are holdups, murders and divorces "These things do happen In America, Ameri-ca, but they sre committed by foreigners; foreign-ers; not by real Americans,'' 6he ex-. ex-. plained i "English application of American art does not go beyond Whistler and Pcnnell and Sargent. But ther ..re hundreds of equally brilliant artists now flourishing In America. IGNORANCE AMAZES "I am staggered over the amazing ignorance n fellow diners in May fair displav nightly regarding American art. When I hear them talk I .could scream. 'Everything in America tends toward to-ward the unhampered development of woman-kind. Women In England aro still obligated by domestic and home responsibility, and are not taken oerl-i oerl-i ously. "America still has a kindly feeling towards England, but it is the feeling of a vigorous, trustful son for an old fashioned father ridden with traditions. tradi-tions. England needs to wake up and make America's acquaintance." |