The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-05-17
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A rev tihss About the shoprinr District
ana f,s ahoppera.


and ~ shoppers.
The Broadway Of the promenaders Is
divided into three parts.
The first part, the shopping district
reaches from Eighth street north to
TWenty-frst. the second part stretches
from Twenty-8rst to Thirty-third, and
is the widely known "Tenderloln or Hoff-
man House district" and from Thirty
third 10 Forty-second stretches the "sou-
brsttes' parade"
There Is no other walk in this country
to compare with Broadway on sunny
day.
It begins to fll up with shoppers aa
early as IL, but Il Is in the afternoon that
1t Is at Its brightest and best.
The shopping district is the least inter
esting to the men. The women who 60
there are in hurry. They are preoccu-
pied; they have mission to perform,
They have heard that there Is . place
where they can get piece Of surah silk
to match the stuff they bought last week
at another place for fully three cents q
yard cheaper; and they are looking feE
that place.
They take time In their haste to leeh
at each other, OF. rather at each others
garments. They also take time TO lool
At what they themselves have ON rs they
pass, the impromptu mirrors Of the plate
glass windows. II the reelection is 9
strong one they win stop and walk up K
II, keeping up an appearance of deep in
terest ia what Is displayed in the shoI
window, but in reality seeing only theil
own pretty faces and bonnets.
They are just az busy and earnest ovel
their gloves and trimmings as are thsil
husbands and big brothers over theiI
''p1ts'' and ''calls" down town.
You see very few men in the shopping
district. They leaveit to the enjoymen
of their feminine relatives and walk fur
ther up.
From s. to 8 o'clock the real prone
made begins ON Broadway. It is genu
Inc promenade, for the pedestrians ar
not there by accidents they walk ther
for the pleasure Of walking and of see
ing each other and being seen, Perhap
il would be more correct to say to b
seen, and then incidentally to see others
You win see everybody who is any
body on Broadway sometime If you wal
long enough. But you will see very few
of the swagger set, either men or women
They keep to Fifth avenue, and only strik
Broadway where the avenue crosses II
Broadway is only for the less fashiona
BILE and perhaps less select citizens o
Gotham. The women who are seen ther
are just little too conspieuously dressed
and the men who saunter there stare a
them more than is quite proper. Thi
may be because all the actors and aC
tresses in New York walk on Broadwa
in the afternoon, and the non-professior
ais are always ON the lookout for then
They are frequently rewarded by tn
sight of Sara Jewett, who dresses ovel
much on the street and looks, for som
reason, shorter and broader than sh
does on the stage, and Pauline Hall
sealskin and diamonds, Cora Tnnie i
black, with black boa, and general
accompanied by her mother, who is sal
to be q real mother and not hire
''stage mother" and sweet Annie Ru
sell, who sees no one, but keeps straigf
ahead with eyes "front."
The men who haunt Broadway are 6
well known by sight IS the Worth moi
ument or the clock In front of the Fift
Avenue hotel, and they are quite {
hardened to the curious glances of tn
. pedestrians. New York Evening Sun.