The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
sTUNs NEW YORK MAN.
Amazes a Provincial Visitor
From the East.

A few of the New Workers. who went
to Chicago to attend the Republican ma
tional convention were back in town a
week ago, but most of them were not to
be seen in the places which they gen
orally frequent until the early days of
this week. Since then some of them
have had good deal to say of their ex-
periences in the big middle west netrop-
oils.
1t is curious characteristic of "the
real New Yorker" who has never been
in Chicago or has not visited it lately,
that he expects to see there exactly those
things that cannot be found within its
borders. He knows it is a big city, but
truth in the least, and the town itself,
when he gets there, 81 simply stups him.
cause of its Astounding and diversified
noises SO long that his ear expects to
wherever else he may go. When he gets
to Chicago he finds that it possesses
Of Quite as mucR intensity those WHICH
torture the atmosphere and the ear in
He has somehow come to believe that
in style. and dash and intelligence the
the women of all other parts of the Uni
ted States. When he gets to Chicago he
discovers that he has been thinking not
of the New York woman, but of the wo-
men of the whole country, at all events,
he finds in Chicago all the types which
have been familiar to him here.
Whether a life long resident here or an
immigrant of more or less standing, the
New Yorker is pretty sure to believe that
than the people of any other town. When
he gets to Chicago he finds that some
this town.
For instance when the New Yorker in
the Sc Goa, 90 or So ooo, Goo Subway that We
have been putting through with such IN
anq ao a Of sne erea
ity and sometimes in mock humility, will
explain that he has heard all about the
New York subway and thinks it one OF
the wonders of the age and the world
But, he will ask; has the New York
man ever heard about the subways of
Chicago? No, the New York man never
has. Then the Chicago man will weave
nance ma eth that mortal ears We're ever treat
ed to. He will tell of Is miles of COM
pleted subway, ramifying under many of
without disturbing foot of street sur
face. and, indeed, actually without the
mayor of the city until more than ten
miles of the subways were completed;
easy for the Chicago man to prove his
story by showing the subways and the
ways are for freight traffic only and not
the passenger trains detractS not at all
from the wonder OF their secret ret, construc g
yield the point of admiration after he has
viewed them.
But the greatest amount of admiration
is bestowed upon Chicago by New York
ers with reference to it's manicuring
You should understand" says a New
Yorker who was in Chicago convention
week, that it is so Internally smudgy
and dirty in Chicago that you can keep
your hands in presentable shape there
only by washing them every half hour or
by wearing gloves hot day and DE
The result is not only
that your hands are grimy a good part of
each day, but your finger nails are sure
to be in mourning at least half the time
unless you patronize the manicures ex.
which means extensively, Of
course.
lowing to this circumstance Chicago is
a paradise for manicures. Almost every
barber shop has one, and in some shops
there are three or four or half dozen
and they are busy constantly. l get my
my hands fixed up by professional once
week in New York; can keep my nails
in good shape myself the rest of the time.
In Chicago, though, 1 had to be mani |
cured often as l was shaved.
My first manicuring experience in Chi
cago was sumner. told the barber I
wanted shine on my shoes as well IS