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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.