Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1913 — Turned Down. [ARTICLE]

Turned Down.

W. Somerset Maugham, the English playwright, was praising the American girl. “The independent American girl,” he said, “will stand no nonsense—especially from elderly married men, "Coming over on the boat there was a beautiful American girl, and one afternoon an elderly married man’s wife was heard to say to him: “George, I don’t like the way you’ve been looking at Miss Blanc.’ “Poor George frowned and muttered: ' “‘Well, she don’t, either!’”