The Archive · 1926

A Premium on Lying

Countess Catheart, interviewed pressmen at Ellis Island, was cheerful and talkative. She said that she was her own worst enemy, and got herself there by telling the truth: "So it does rather put a premium on lying."

Countess Catheart asserted that, adultery was not a crime in England. If it were, all the: English nobility would be placed, in goal and if England had the ime immigration laws as America, she' did not think that many, American women would get in. She declared that she was wonderfully well treated at Ellis Island and had received hundreds telegrams of sympathy from her friends.

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