The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-21
Low NECKS IN TROLLEY CARS
AND OPERA CLOAKS WORN BY
BAREHEADED WOMEN.

-lrs Hard Town for the Cabbies. hut
It's Great for the Mere Loeker-0e
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.-Opera nights
here are not opera nights In New York.
They are sandwiched in between. But
that's not the only difference.
Suppose that you should get into street
car up In Harlem some winter evening
and that at every other corner . party OF
men in proper evening clothes escorting
bareheaded women in opera cloaks should
come aboard and sit shoulder to shoulder
with the other Passengers, what would you
think! II you were q New Yorker you
would probably wonder what had hap
psnsd tG ph ihe cab service But you
for moment that you were at home again.
for that 10 what happens here almost every
night the whole winter long.
It's one OF the customs that make people
say how much cheaper II is to live in Phila-
delphia than It In to live In New York.
All over the western and northern parts
Of the city there are lines Of trolley cars
wriggling in and out on their way TO the
centre OF the town. These are the dist riots
where almost everybody that il anybody
owns his own house. And owning your own
house Ia 'reat begetter Of prudence and
economy, or perhaps IL would be more
correct to say that prudence and economy
are great begetters Of owning your own
house.
At any rate these cheerful house owners
take their pleasures economically, and
enjoy them none the less for that reason.
and many Of them 60 rather often to the
Academy Of Music when the opera season
10 on. They dine together and dance
together, and are nationally happy-but
they eschew cabs
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and pretty trappings that fashion pre-
scribes for evening just because they don't
choose TO lavish their money on the hire
OF private vehicles.
It's delightful thing. after the surprise
and the color that these merry ero usrs
can put into more humduim street cars.
There will be dashes OF pale pink and blue
and red and white where the opera cloaks
| alternate with the sober black Of man.
evening dress. The gloss Of black hair
and hrG Dnc :usurn End f0d shines light
or at most by thin coverings Of lace.
Jewels fash and underneath those brilliant
| mantles-f you could see behind their
folds-are often marble shoulders and
| soft, round arms.
Madslne's shapely foot Ia not less win
| on her patent feathers. She isn't going
70 catch cold by treading too close TO the
| frozen ground.
But what protects her head1 When a
woman goes about all day long with a
velvet hat above her temples and mudied
interposes to save her II she robes herself
| in a low-neck gown and q wrap and goes
forth after nightfall without . speck OF
| millinery to crown herr
You may see women thus attired any
clear night Of the winter ripping up and
ANxa 1tnsVt - al
street, not one or two, but scores Of them.
Stand In front Of the Academy on a gala
night. There are carriages. Of oourse
and folks to ride in them. But how many
Of the pink and blue and white visions
float away on their own tootsies and wait
for their appropriate trolley cars At the
And how few Of them arc addicted to the
late supper habit The restaurant here
Sherry's. Mr.. Kniokerbocksr, d very small.
and few there DO that find II. Thsre ara
others, larger and lees select. but II would
make you lonesome and melancholy to
silence and eat your midnight rejection.
There's no upper Broadway, no Fifth
avenue, no Sixth avenue hero. Halt an
hour after the curtain 70 down The gay
in whisper. and 30 heard from one side
Penn. high up on the City Hall tower. looks
down upon peaceful city.
Most OF the restaurants Will then be
either empty or else filled with chorus
girls and Johnniee. but here will be many
: ohanng dish taken down from many |.
those who wear the hnery in street cars
and arc content.
They eat their cake and have some Of 1t
too, and abide In frusal 10y.