Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

Special Correspondence of The Herald.
NEW YORK, April 2S.--Union hours
IN do not obtain in Gotham's social
day. Within the social circle it
is a case of gad. gad, CAD from one
morning until the next, and then the
belle of the social whirl hits the feath-
ers with the feeling that she has
missed something and that her social
career is tainted. The well-to-do peo-
pie from modest little towns in other
states who winter in the metropolis
think they are the whole frommage do
brae until they strike here in the fall.
They can't figure out how the New
York women can keep up the speed and
competition and find time to visit the
beauty doctors besides. Those wealthy,
good-natured persons who come from
pleasant places of intelligence and
somewhat serious people population
five or six thousand) think they are
doing quite well if they have two or
three social affairs at home during the
winter. They have young folks
dancing club, with meetings once
month. There are occasional recep-
tions and afternoon teas, and now and
then something "tolerably worth see
ing plays a one-night stand at the
opera house. Formal dinners are the
exception, and many Of the functions
such as are we'll known and frequent
in metropolitan society they do not
have at all. One social event week
of any sort that brings together
dozen or more people is all they care
for. II there happens to be two they
think they are run off their feet and
are dissipating to a dangerous extent.
Two affairs in one day, even II one
should be a mild cause of "legomachy,"
with half dozen women at the tables,
would be something testing the endur-
ance of the most dissipated society
person in their midst. But in New
York. So help me! if a woman has
only one thing for day she is certain
that her social tiara is tarnished and
that she is a hasbeen. There are in
Vulnerable women of the ''foah hum
dred" who begin with a bridge party
at Ii a. m. and keep it up until
o'clock or later the next morning-all
apparently respectable, too. Here is
the program of woman whose hus-
band has made good out west-they
have been living in one of the most
fashionable apartment hotels In the
city for the past year: Bridge IL a.
m, luncheon 1 p. M, matinee 2:3o p,
m, three teas between and p. m,
dinner 1880 p. m, opera $3.50 p. M, re-
ception II D. M, dance 1890 a. M, an
other dance a. M, home $3.50 a. m.
And this is not merely one day of
hurry, but is practically the average
going of that woman. Usually she
doesn't begin until after luncheon at
her own house, at which she nearly
always has some guests, but after that
she is on the jump. OF course she has
SO little time for each event that she |
gets no real pleasure out of any OF
them, but that is not the thing At
least it does not appear so to reason
ing being. 1t is to see how many stunts
she can do during waking hours. Are
such women ever at home? Not unless
when they have some affair at their |
houses, or have "a day. as some do.
The custom of men calling on women, |
as it used to be, when friends talked
an evening through, is almost obsolete
Among the fashionable set 1t is abso-
lutely so. The women haven't time for
any such mild form of advertisement.
They are keyed up to something much
Iivelier than that; and they have to
have it.
Many Telephones In Use
Within a radius of thirty-three miles
of the city hall is one telephone for
every fourteen persons. Within this
same circle $4,000 women between the
ages of 1S and 25 years are employed
in the business. These women arrange
for the 'talk' of most of the business
done in the metropolis. Their vocabu-
larry is almost as brief as the yea,
yea and may, nay injunction of the
Sermon on the Mount. Number,
please" is the sum total on an aver
age of the communication between a
telephone operator and the person on
the line. OF the number mentioned
n
New York Telephone company. The
remaining 10000 are employed by the |
big commercial houses hotels apart
ment houses, railroad offices, public
buildings and other business organiza-
4ions. These figures place New York
IN the lead in telephone communica-
lions of the cities of the world. Lon
don, with its environs. has only about
10000 girls in it's telephone service. |
The number of messages handled daily
in New York by operators Is estimated |
to be 100000 This Is an average.
The number of telephones in the metro
politan district is $4,000, and 1872 cen
trails are called up every minute In the
day. In many big establishments there
are as many telephones working as are
often found in cities containing a popu-
Iation of from 10000 to 10000. In the
waldorf Astoria alone there are HOO
telephones. In one of the great depart
ment stores in the retail district there
are more than 1000 telephones, and the
system is so simplified that a customer
can sit at a counter and order any ar
ticle in stock in any department under
the roof.
About Mustaches
FWomen in the old country lay much
more stress upon the mustache than
American women do" said the Ger
man woman at the German restaurant
on Second avenue when some comment
had been made upon the mustaches in
that neighborhood that were long
enough to tie in a bow-knot back of
the head. "A German or Hungarian
woman will work all day long for
husband who has a NICE long mus
tache, but it isn't so here. American
women don't care. They are not so
particular as. rule about working for
husbands Their husbands generally
work for them, so they don't care
whether they are mustached or clean
shaven."
The Flower Girls Lisp
In one Of the larger restaurants