Life — September 30, 1920 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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579 moralities, or immoralities, are not very important, and even an enormous adver- fe tisement does not make them so. of the idle-rich people also are somewhat curiously changeable in their al but that is only a part of the “mischief } still” that Satan finds for idle hands to : mos do. But even in New York there are millions of reputable people; both plain and decorative, and the idea that they are not reputable in their private lives and constant in their attachments is mere bosh. Marital infidelity is too expensive, for one thing, to be popular, and for an- other it is disastrous both to happiness and to reputation. We all know tha slanderers, laughed at at home, may be c ances, But 3ut believed abroad, especially when the movies, those marvelous agents of pub- licity, Divorce, however, is likely to be worse seem to sustain them, before it is better. Lack of house-room and overcrowding is very bad for domes- tic life and morals. Newly-weds need homes of their own detached from rela- must live with tives, and when th P deal more perilous. rents, it makes their adventure a good T is disclosed in the paper that West- Both: stor, Tuer! minster Abbey is in bad repair, and there is a call out for a million and a An independent paper that wants the does go in a Hearst paper! The most quarter dollars for a repair fund. Money League but is not tied to either candidate, advertised husbands in New York are the will be accepted even from the United must favor the one who thinks well of | movie actors, and it is quite true that they — States. To keep up Westminster Abbey, the League and wants to join it, rather are not all models of marita) constancy. or any other abbey or cathedral church in and, is an excellent investment for than the one who began by speaking ill of — Conspicuosity of position and great wealth, Ex it and promised not to join it, and still such as successful movie actors enjoy, American loose change. These oldchurches continues to put out daily contradictions seem not to be favorable to domestic life. in Great Britain are as much behind that of himself on that subject. Lire is not Douglas and Mary changed partners only part of the population of the United unduly concerned whether Democrats or a few months ago, and were shown on States which is of British descent as they Republicans v the election, but it cares the screen to repletion and more in the are behind the British at home. Nobody very much to have everything done that midst of the amenities of their new rela- much came to this hemisphere from the can be done to help maintain and certify tion. Now the Charlie Chaplins are try- British Isles before the seventeenth cen- the peace of the world. ing to get apart. One-reads in the paper tury, and in the seventeenth c that Marcus Garvey, of the Negro World, English cathedrals and abbeys were al called the “king of Africa,” would like to ready old churches. Physically they have his marriage to Amy Garvey an- long to England; spiritually they belong atury the nulled. Perhaps cases like this have in- to anybody that derives from England. fluenced Madame Radziwill to her ex- Americans of English desce ay well traordinary opinion. So far as New York help to keep them standing and in repair, ake of their own descen- OMEBODY named Princess Katherine is concerned, somebody should explain to if only for the Radziwill, described as a Russian and her that it is full of people who are de- dants. Nothing is so interestir lately an inhabitant of New York, con- tached in one way or another from most American travellers, not even Mont- tributes to one of the Hearst papers the of the character that their forebears had, —martre, as the English cathedrals. When remark: “There is hardly a husband in + if they had any. It is full of people who — the hat is passed for Westminster Able New York who is faithful to his marriage live a good deal like the birds in the trees drop something substantial into it, not at vows.” and the cats in the streets, and behave as all as charity, but as an investment and an Well, well; what dreadful nonsense nearly like them as is convenient. Their inherited duty to comicbooks.com