Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-08


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road people should be surprised or disap-
pointed at this showing. 1t was to have
oeen expected. The people Of New York
don't admit that there is any other city
worth mentioning in New York state out
side of New York city. They have heard
in vague sort of way of Albany and Buff
falo and Rochester and Syracuse and Troy,
and such places, but they don't take them
seriously any more than they take Chicago
or Washington or Philadelphia or San
Francisco or New Orleans seriously. More
over. there is little or no state pride in
New York city. II a big exposition were
to be held in Newport News. for instance,
the whole state of Virginia would be proud
OF 1t and get the money together some
how or another to see it. Richmond, the
metropolis of the state, wouldn't be a little
bit jealous. Or if Pittsburg held a big
fair there isn't doubt in life that the
Philadelphians would rejoice in the atten-
ton the thing attracted from the whole
country. and they would flock to it by the
thousands.
Their Narrow View.
1t is not thus, however, in New York
Paris is France and New York N. Y. is
New York, according to the Manhattan
method of viewing the matter. Buffalo
might just as well be situate on the left
shore of Puget sound so far as concerns
any sympathy or aid it is liable to get from
New York city by reason of its being
city of the empire state. Moreover. New
York city is still sulky over it's failure to
get the worlds fair. which the Chica-
goans pulled off with such conspicuous,
dazzling and memorable success.
1t would be simply impossible to exagger-
ate the insular arrogance of the native
New Yorker, just as it would be out of
the question to overdraw his extraordinary
ignorance of the United States in general.
There are probably thousands of natives
C and -ln yr-nrr how hon,
of the fourishing and lovely city over by
Lake Erie if it had not been for that va
riety show song Put Me Off at Buffalo"
They Are easy Marks"
A theater ticket speculator was fined 50
in New York police court last week for
savagely kicking on the shins a man who
declined to buy a 50-cent theater ticket for
$3.50 This thing happened in front of one
of the largest theaters on Broadway. There
is a sort of extravaganza variety show of
popular sort being given at the house,
and the management advertises in big type
that no seat in the theater costs more than
30 cents. Nevertheless, nobody has sue
ceeded in getting by the doors of the house
up to this time-leavng the critics out
without giving up at least 81 for a seat,
and most of the people who start out to
see the show have to pay $50
The population of the town have finally
awakened to the subject of the meanness
on the part of the management involved in
this ticket speculation, and they are ming
the newspapers with their walls on the
subject. There are numerous theaters in
this town at the ticket windows of which
you can't buy seat at the regulation adj
vertised prices three months in advance.
The tickets are all in the hands of the
Spectators Moreover, the arrangements
of the theaters deliberately put them into
the hands of the spectators at raised fig
ure on that advertised for the public bene-
fit The spectators in front of the theater
at which the man was kicked on the SIMS
don't hesitate at all to declare that they
themselves pay 81 and $1.25 at the box
office window for the seats that are adver-
tiSed in the newspapers at 80 cents. 1et
this theater is jammed and packed all the
time Which is another little point that
tends to clinch the argument often made
in this correspondence to the effect that
New Workers are absolutely unbeatable in
all of the Americas as good things HOW
many Washingtonians would pay theater
ticket spectators $3.50 for 5o-cent theater
seats?
Woman Smokers.
1t is not at all unusual now-a-nghts to
see women smoking cigarettes in the best
restaurants of New York. The women are
not ostentatious or obtrusive about it. but
they smoke right along as a matter of
course, with all the nonchalance (attempt-
ed at any rate of the men accompanying
them Not all of them are of the flash set,
either, although the majority of them are
women of the theater. They do not often
produce their cigarette cases before mid
night. But at the petit souper, when all
hands around the after-theater tables are
more or less mellowed and indisposed to be
critical of their neighbors, out come the
cigarette receptacles and the ornate wax
match boxes, and the women who like that
sort of thing get to putting with all the APP
parent Zest in life. The women who tried
this smoking business on in the better-clasS
restaurants of New York few years ago
rilV down by the
prietorS of the establishments. they
stormed and raved and declared that wo-
men were permitted to smoke clay pipe,
If they so elected. in the best eating houses
of London Paris and Vienna; but the res
taurateurs calmly invited them, in that
case, to repair to Vienna or Paris or Lon
don the earliest available steamer.
True for a great many years the frowsy
lot of women who move about in the So
called Bohemian circles of New York
had been RECALLING themselves with tobacco
after their dinners at the cheap tables
dhote; but it has only been within the
past two years that the really high-grade
restaurants have tolerated such thing.
An American woman with cigarette in
her teeth rarely If ever looks fascinating,
or even endurable. She has difficult time
of 1t, in the first place, to cover up the
guilt not to say the shame. which con-
seriousness of her brazenness produces
within her: and, In the second place, she
has not the grace in her way of handling
her cigarette that the woman smokers from
over the sea exhibit. AS matter of fact,
most of the women who smoke cigarettes
in the restaurant look and act just as If
they wanted to be ba-ad and day-vilish en-
chanting; and they make a dismal hash
of it.
Woman Clerks In Cigar Stores.
And, speaking Of women and tobacco,
the retail tobacconists of this town have
been rapidly replacing their male sales
men with young women during the past
year or so. Perhaps one-third Of the
leading cigar stores on Broadway now
employ female clerks. In all cases the
young women behind the cigar counters
are distinctly and decidedly pretty-indeed,
not a few of them are absolutely beauti-
full And the prettier the girl in the cigar
store the more trade the establishment
gets. The cigar dealers have been quick
to find out that men rather like to be
handed their cigars by young women with
rnguish ewes and pretty teeth. The deal