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Show LADY ASTOR IN VIVACIOUS MOOD; j American Peeress, Husband and Children Land in New York ! 1 I NEW YORK. April 1 9 Vivacious I-adv Ator, smiling, chatting r ominously omin-ously and joshing those about her. arrived from England aboard the ateamablp Olympic today on her way to Baltimore. MJ . where -he will address ad-dress the Pan-American conference of women To greet her native OZ Virginia wife of a British peer and the first woman ever elected to the hous of commons scores of friends and admirers gathered at the pier. As the Olympic steamed up the bay from Quarantine, she gave the reporters re-porters ret renhlng comments on all manner of things Lloyd George. Fl ppers prohibition Margot Asejulth. the labor sltuntlon, the Genoa confer-ence, confer-ence, the servant problem and her own chilelren six it number. ' The only remarkable thing about me is my children." she said, holding to the arm of her husband. Vl6count William Waldorf Astor. "Lloyd George still has hl9 hond above water and Its pome head, too" CHILDREN "MONGRELS" Ladv Astor said the wanted to mako It clear that she was not in Am.rlca on a mission. She Is here, she suld, becauso she received an imitation to attend the convention at Balllmore to discuss matters of Interest to women wo-men all over the world After that lio Is going to Virginia where she Nancj LahghOrne and then to Washington and Chicago and one or two other cities before returning home to her children and her Job In parliament parlia-ment Speaking as a Virginia does, without with-out a trace of British accent, Lad Astor said she was "still an unrecon-strucied unrecon-strucied southerner.' "And v. hen I hear Dixie something happens." Fhe added. Her children she descrlhed as "mongrels "mon-grels three-fourths American ' ,.s ir. w omens piaro in tne world she said those of her sex were just as individual as men iinr r mnot say women do this and women do that. " she remarked, "bc-Icauae "bc-Icauae they don t do things alike any more than men." ST1 LES I M ORTCXATE The clothes nearly all women are wearing nowadays are unfortunate from her point of view, Lady Astor S 111) Nothing lets the sex down liko running about half naked,' she went on. There is no uso of talking about equality If we only use our liberty to show our hldeousness. Last night I wore a dress I have used since 191S. If you keep your eye on your body all the time you c-unnot keep It on your soul." "How about the flappers and their uniform' she repeated. 'Their clothes are unfortunate but that Is their mothers' fault. The first thing a woman ought to teach her children la obedience. In running for re-election to her plaee In parliament next autumn, Lady A tor I aid she would not say ono plonk In her platform would be exactly dry but certainly it would not be wet PHOT4 GR PHI .RS SWARM Ono of the largest groups of reporters re-porters and photographers that ever warjned aboard a steamer down the bay surrounded Lady Asror "Help Help! Get my husband, get my husband." she cried. Some one fel bed 'he viscount In a jiffy and! they were taken to the boat deck for photographs. Lady Astor took hold of the viscount's vis-count's arm, winked and said: "Married, thou eh hinhv" Then began the Interview with the ultimate topic prohibition. "I don't believe what the Pritlsh papers sav about prohibition in this country." she sa i d . Lady Astor said she had not come to try to bring America into batter relationship with England and Europe, Eu-rope, nor to tell any one their dut. nor to tell American statesmen what to do. OMMON si Nsi: iM j, American Influence Is needed to help put things right In Kurope." she. declared 'As to whether Europe ought not to straighten out her affairs af-fairs before America comes, It sems to me that when a house Is on fire, it is a wise neighbor who goes to help put the fire out And If the men who lives across the street join In also and pump water the conflagration Will stopp all the ciuleker." The "heart to heart talks" at the Washington conference ought to have made the relations between Great Britain Brit-ain and America fool-proor. Iadv Astor As-tor thought. |