ARGENTINA; where the tango comes from.
RUSSIA; where Anna Pavlova and ritual murder trials come from.
PERSIA; where the harem skirt comes from, and other fashions eagerly
embraced by a generation which insists that woman shall no longer be
man's chattel and plaything.
AMERICA; where the profits of all-night restaurants in Montmartre come
from.
ASSYRIA, BABYLONIA, EGYPT, PERU, YUCATAN, PATAGONIA; where the
decorations for Broadway lobster-palaces come from.
EQUATOR; the earth's waistline, unfashionably located in the same place
year after year.
TENDERLOIN; where the world's wisdom comes from.
CAMBRIDGE, NEW HAVEN, PRINCETON, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS; the sites of once
celebrated educational institutions whose functions have now been taken
over by theatre managers on Broadway.
UNDERWORLD; the world now uppermost.
MOUNTAIN; a rugged elevation of the earth's surface which comes to every
self-constituted little prophet when he snaps his fingers.
SEA; where we are all at.
MEXICO CITY; residence of Huerta, the most eminent living disciple of
Nietzsche.
BULGARIA; a nation which scornfully rejected peace and reaped honour,
widows, and orphans; where the Servians were the other day.
SERVIA; where the Bulgarians may be next week.
CHAUTAUQUA; any place outside the offices of the State Department.