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women vastly her superiors. ! 'Atierioan men are oo good to thsir wonen 1 ' 
this Is the kind of women they ©r© good to— parasitio females, as 
Olive Sehreiner calls theiiT-livlng in a hotel, married 1£ years and 
r, no children, thank heaven, rt sh® said (1 say thank heaven, too, that 
she isn't propagating h r kind ) , covered with Jewels and ah out ones- 
quarter covered with costly frail gowns, a dozen different ones so 
far, drinking, sacking, flirting, gambling , the "typical lew Yorker" 
(rich implied} the designer saad she is, though she was horn and 
grew up in ray own Chicago. For decent coapany I'd choose third class. 
There are a few well-bred women on hoard , hut over half are living 
cartoons. The "peach that "Jiggs" is always trying to make up to in 
the funny pictures is her® in the flesh, exactly. I looked around 
for |iggs hut do not see his, hut "Maggie" is here, lots of her. The 
designer talks to ■» in German to help me. She corrects ay tenses 
and rearranges uy verbs at th® end. She has boon in Europe so often 
that she is giving ae usful information— advised at to travel second 
class, which I meant ' to ; anyway. Sh© advises ae to put down all that 
®©dicin@, glycerine, etc. for the Haokels and ethers, for "personal 
use, since I am not going to sell it, hut give it away. She said 
something that has been the greatest coafort to me; "1' an glad that 
an- American like you is going to Europe. That (nodding at the Hubens 
woman's bed) is the sort of American they are used to. !T It is ft great 
strain ©n one's self-confidence to be always on the unpopular side, as 
seems to be my fate, to be called a "Oalaslty Jane" because I cannot 
but soe below the surface, always being advised, tactfully and un- 
tact fully, to be "like other people 1 ;. S© when on® of lime. Haver stick's 
wide experience said that to me it was nighty comforting. Sh® very 
tactfully suggested to our Bourgeois® cabin mate that sh© wear the 
plainest clothes she has and put away her jewelry whils in France, 
"They have suffered so terribly, you can't blaa© then for feeling 
