“Such a law,” said Lady Briggs, “would prevent international complications, and thereby prevent war.”
Lady Briggs also suggested that the Women’s Peace Party undertake to bar naturalization of aliens; to revise American histories which she declared contain untrue accounts of the wars with England, and finally to expurge “sanguinary” lines in the National anthem, declaring the English were therein referred to as a band of hirelings and slaves, whose “blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.”
Mrs. Amos Pinchot, president of the New York branch, soothed Lady Briggs with the statement that few persons really knew to whom the lines referred, and those who did took them with a grain of salt.
Woman Devours Twenty-two Lobsters in Contest.
A contest in lobster eating, held recently in the Mecca Café, at No. 3550 Broadway, New York City, was won by Mrs. Eleanor Reynolds, of No. 540 West One Hundred and Sixty-Second Street.
Mrs. Reynolds ate twenty-two lobsters and three loaves of bread. Morton Ohrback, her rival, ate seventeen lobsters.
War Spares United States’ Mails.
Not one bag of United States mail has been lost through the activities of the war fleets of the European belligerents. In fact, post-office-department officials said to-day no American mail had gone down with a merchantmen destroyed by a warship within the last hundred years.
Postmaster General Burleson expects no interference with the mail service to result from Germany’s sea warzone proclamation. It was pointed out that the mail steamers are fast vessels, carrying passengers and but little cargo of the kind belligerents would seek to destroy.
Goes 25,000 Miles to Satisfy Law.