"Oh, it was much less interesting than my husband's," answered my young
Y friend, and lifting the conversation out of the personal she asked,
"Have you read Mr. Keynes' 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace?'"

"I had n't read it myself," she confided to me later, "but it was the
first new book I could think of!"

That is good American manners and what the French call savoir faire.

The Far West still keeps the American inheritance of open hearted
hospitality and its provincialism. The West has inherited some of the
finest virtues of our country, and if it is not bitten by Back Bay,
Philadelphia, Virginia, or Charleston, it will grow up into its mother's
finest child.

"No church west of Chicago, no God west of Denver," we used to hear when
I was a child. But to-day, the churches are part of the community and
even men go. People in the West do not seem to go to church merely out
of respect for the devil and a conscience complex, but because they like
to. Churches and schools are important places in the West.

President Harding has said that he hopes more and more people will learn
to want to pray in a closet alone with God. There are many people like
that in our Middle West. I say this, because I hope it may help other
American women who love their country to fight for honesty and purpose
in our national life, and for tolerance and respect for the simple
things in our private lives.