Religion: Lipsticks, Soup

" The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth." Dr. John Roach Straton, thunderer of 57th Street, Manhattan, has returned from Europe. Said he:

" Berlin I found to be the worst city in Europe. Somehow, it was worse than Paris, which had always seemed the apex of wickedness. But the French manage to make vice artistic, while with the Germans it is gross. London—well, London is ponderous and heavy, but it is on the way to ruin. It is avoirdupois, not virtue, that holds London back.

"The drinking and smoking among European...

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