Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11

company is run in at de side door to give
a show-and dey say it was show all
right for fair. A lady give dinner wit
terrapin and canvasback on tap. as many
helpings as you call for, but good chuck
like dat don't fill de bill, and opray
singer from de opray she comes along wit
de black coffee. at a tousand dollars
t'row, and she pipes up to keep de folks
from trimming de dishes at each odder or
screaming wit rage. If a school girl gives
a lunch to bunch of buds dey makes a
hurry sneak to a matinee in a crowd, as
soon as de lee cream IS cleared, so as not
to fall a-fighting over lie bonbons. It's de
same wit all ages and sexes and classes
and styles; dey has to have some odder
amusement dan dey can furnish for deir-
selves. / wonder why!
Broadway is lined for mile Wit tee
aters and de side streets Is filling up fas
wit EN-; every vacant lot Is being dug
out for a circus or a music hall; Madison's
Square Garden is rented a year in adj
vance for new kinds of shows. and de
street cars can't poke trough de crowd in
front Of de restaurants where Holsters and
Dago bands is entertaining de folks at mid
night. What's de matter?
Nobody but old-fashioned folks don't even
dine to home no more, but chases Off to de
new restaurants where champagne is de
cheapest ting man can have, and de
walters faints if dey Is offered less da'l a
full green plunk for tip. Strangers isn't
willing to stroll up de avenoo and see de
sights no more; dey have to have rubber
neck bus carry EN- along, wit tin-horn
lecturer holering out de sights so dey won't
miss none. Chinatown's a show, de Bow
ery's a vaudeville, Wall street has seeing
New York automobile lines, every pug dat
has got his name in de pape. because he
has said he could knock Jeffries' head Off,
opens a place of refreshments and Is a
show all by himself. What's doing?
barb wire fence has to be run across de
shore end Of de docks where de ocean liners
come and go to keep de touSand OF show
hra ring down de dock ana
sinking de ships; de bold bad man dat mar
ries fourteen wives has to be took from
headquarters to de Tombs in hurry-cali
wagon guarded by hundred cops TO keep
da show hunters from tearing de Jacket on
him on de way; Cassie CHADWICK never
made a move witout an army OF sno"
hunters chasing along like she was two
headed cat: and de people dat hasn't de
price for any odder kind of show blocks
de streets to see de odder people going to
shows Has nobody no homes any more
and If dey has what do dey 90 VII EN- u
T was asking something like dis on Mr..
paul and he says, "Chames," he says,
s.you has come to de fountain head FOR your
information dis time. l am going TO write
book on dis very subject; ;+ ana ,t na tnist
time I gets a chance to stay at nome tree
nights hand running. SHAH CAN me book
.De Show Age and discourse dereln IN a
having passed trough de ages Of stone
iron and bronze, humanity naturally eVo-
1utes into de rubberneck, and den into de
present brass age, which, as you observe,
is anodder way of saying de show age
1T et us. Chames, consider dis matter IN
its simplest form: l know man VINO
when he is alone. derives comfort and sas
tenance from smoking clay pipe, put
when he has few good f. - at MS mousse
to sit into small game of poker, passes
out cigars dat costs forty dollars a pox.
Does he do dis because he enjoys oe CT
CARS? Nay, Chasnes. nay. He does De
cause he enjoys showing dat he has oe
price. It Is de same, as shall shoW-snaii
demonstrate mean-in all de activities OF
human enterprise-social. commercial attn
letic and finance. Can you imagine man
who can run a hundred yards In ten sec
onds fiat doing 1t all by his lonelies? OF
course not He does 1t when de neid IS
crowded and dat superior example VIII
solve to show-prove. l mean-in my DOCK
dat de show Is de ting, as Shakespeare SAID
before me, but let dat pass.
Now, II a man can't do anything to show,
o. hasn't anything to show. and most mon
can't and hasn't. he naturally wants TO see
what somebody else has to show. Hence
and de Snowman. Once, Chames. we had
our minds trained so dat when we grew up
we could amuse ourselves Wit reading OF
writing, or wondering why de beer trust
and Senate Is. But row de only use OF
mind dat I can discover is to invent some
sort of show. He Is indeed poor and
simple man who would invite number OF
frens to dine and not provide dancer, to
sup and not call on singer to luncn ana
fail to set fort a leading lady In her famous
scene. Some men buys college and gives
It to a professor to show dat dey is making
good use of DER hard-earned weatt: some
buys libraries and gives EN- to de taxpay-
ers to support, to show de taxpayers dat
or let out de library as a lookup for debt
ora m = uoorhoua0 We are doing our