The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-25
new YORK
AZ the Girl from bonneville
Saw II

| New YORK, Il saw New York.
You don't seem bit enthusiastic, 50
| said her sister, who had done without
pin money for month and made over
her last winters suit in order to let
the flower OF the family" get a
glimpse OF the hurried life,
81 amt" replied the other IN.
dramatically but plainly. Il amt a
BIT enthusiastic about New York. m
enthusiastic al getting back 70 Home.
vile, though" and she sighed with
content and stretched her arms lazily
celingward.
Look" she said 81 can stretch my
fun length here without humping
against anything. Nobody can do that
in New York. They live in holes in
the wall there, about the size of a
slice of cheese This is Il beautiful
house, Adelaide, when You come to
think about it,
Yes, I'll tell You what saw in New
York. | saw windows and windows
full Of jewels that nobody but nabob
could afford | saw shops fun Of hats
that | couldn't buy-hats filled with
masses of beautiful plumes, each one
worth a kings ransom or the sum to
tai of our grocery bill for a year /
saw dummies covered with gowns that
would make your mouth water
standing in rows in the shops | saw
counters heaped with silks and laces
worth a months income per yard
saw touring cars and automobiles that
| couldn't afford to ride in | saw the
outside of hotels and the lobbies OF
theaters that | couldn't afford to live
in or go to. | saw women muffled in
furs and massaged and manicmed and
getting in and ont Of upholstered car
riages saw liyeried servants who
would turn up their noses at me.
saw orchids but ! never touched one
nor tried To smell it, that would have
cost me one dollar | saw blooded
horses and blooded dogs and blooded
cats that belonged to other people
saw women dining in cafes that | ney-
er thought of entering, And I saw
but what's the use? | could go on
forever. My! hut-Homevilles a nice
place
but" protested her sister uncon
WINGED, Il thought the Worthleys were
pretty we'll of
oh, the Worthleys are all right
They have a good income; but they're
only middle class, Out here in Home
vile they could live in a big house ana
drive their own horses and look down |
on the multitude but down there in |
New York. they live in a little fat |
with one hired girl-when they can /
get her-and ride up and down in an |
elevator with an elevator boy who |
sneerS al them because they only tin
him dollar month They never go
to the theaters, because in order to go
TO the lheater in New York you have
to begin saving a month in advance
and TO set your seats weeks ahead OF
time
Middle class people can't do any /,
thing in New York but sit in a corner !
and watch other people enjoy them |
selves. If they dine at a smart res |
taurant, they feel horribly shabby and !
have to retrench on the household eX |
Denses for a week afterward They
eat at quick lunch restaurants when
hey are out Of a servant They so
about town in dirty street car or a
lngy subway train, They never en-.
ertain because they haven't room and
besides they cant be sure they viii
nave a servant girl a week in advance
rhey don't 90 to church much. be
'ause usually the churches are too
ar away. and the man who passes
he plate glowers az them If they don't
mt a big hill in It, When they 80
hopping they resolutely pass by
'yerything 10 stern necessities.
"Oue week more OF life there. Adc.
aide. and ia have been the most dis.
woman on earth. ! never
cit so shabby, so lonely aud so hate
ully euyious in my life before There's ]
little demon of discomfort in the
ir there Now in bonneville" she
dded with comfortable sigh. there
,nt much 10 see-but you can have !
verything YOU do sre,'--N Y. Press.