Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-02
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW
Tor the Times-Republican.

Hardly had the echoes awakened by
Watterson's onslaught of the 400 of
New York died away when the Fish
tragedy occurred. Referring to it the
Chicago Chronicle says that "the inge-
NOUS Mr.. lola has written many stories
dealing with the secret life some
times led by eminent respectability but
he never has portrayed anything more
strange and shocking than the specta-
Gle of man of advanced years, a man
of eminence, the inheritor of a great
name, the recipient of trust and honor
at the hands of his country, slain in a
low saloon quarrel over a woman. I'm
agination never has been able to rival
the queer turn of facts In brief, the
story is Of a well-born, educated, prom
inent citizen of New York, man with
q wife and family, who comes to sudden
death, in a low-down saloon, while in
the company of two fast women, and a
man the friend of the women. Yes,
lola has invented many stories of
French life no more wonderful than
this true account of the life of q New
Yorker. But secret life"-not a bit of
ii. Watterson accuses the 400" of New
York of q fast, furious and disreputable
style of living It's their open life that
constitutes his text. The eminently re-
spectacle Harpers Weekly, referring to
the Watterson editorial, makes no at
tempt to deny the truthfulness of the
statements, but claims that the 400"
are such an infinitessimal part of New
York society that the attack suggests
the hunting of English sparrows with
nirrI,f -
effect.
Now while the writer makes no claim
to have any personal knowledge of the
Goings of New Yorks "4OO,' while his
knowledge of any part of society" in
New York City consists of only an ,oc-
casional visit down east, still he has
sources of information not given every
one. and what follows came to him from
a close observer and loyal New York
err. So that this scribe says that the
| open (what we call disreputable) life OF
the average New Yorker rivals that OF
Paris It's matter of history that
While Freddie Gerhard was acting as
1.-The friend" of Mrs. Langtry, New York
society did not blacklist him. Only a
few months ago readers of the papers
We're RECALLED with the account of a
stag party at SheEry's, a high-toned
restaurant in New York, where part
of the program was where an actress
performed for the benefit of the invited
guests a scene in which she could have
been photographed as Eve. Like the
model in "Trilby," she was dressed in
"the altogether" And New York So
ciety men and women still frequent
Sherry's. The best of society still "eh-
.tertains" there.
And for a man in New York to be
known as having a kept mistress in
New York than in Paris. AS conserva-
tive paper as the New York Sun
prints without italics or quotation
marks or abbreviations all of the swear
words in the vocabulary. The New
York Sun, that eminsntly religious,
strictly orthodox paper. devotes much
space in each Sunday issue in giving
decisions and advice concerning the
American game of poker. New York
City is the home at least of two maya
zines that each month fill their pages
with stories in1language elegant and
thought outrageous and impure, that
depict the doings of society in New
York. Saratoga and Newport. lola
writes of the same in France and calls
Il spade spade, but these magazines
wish to use the United States mail, and
so cover their pastiness with flourish
CT words and suggestive sentences. And
these magazines have clientage, an
audience that enjoy this kind of liter