The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-01-01


swarmiuE. ,aykctns streets, or IN be-
hind the blazing windows Of the great
dining halls We're Tor the most part not
waiting tor the future state to so
bust" Every hubble In their glasses
was setting them q No example, and
taken INTO the System those bubbles
caused the world 10 rudy forth in its
happlcst pink tin,s,
Maxim's Left Behind.
The Merry Widow tried to picture
for us what a night at MaSim's Is, how
ebulliert, sifcrvcsccMt and delir!ously
abandoned the patrons OF that famous
Partisan cafe are O mornings. But, TAX
ing the situation as we viewed 1t from
various points Of vantage in the great
restaurants and hotels OF New York at
the birth OF this New Year. and after
ward, the Maxim folk are not quite so
awfully vlvacions.
For instance, at Martins, Anna Held
was not the only vision Of pink and
dazzle OF diamonds that rose aloft on a
table top and "huzzahed' for tile New
Year. There were two dozen others with
g.istenirg shoulders and rainbow Hash
ing rai!nent uo amid the unCorked,
sealed and tIn-foilcd soldiers before she
could snatch up her purple train and
plant two tiny feet upon the napery.
And II the jewellers al MaXim's were
ever any more rce.lunged In Their hi
larity than the Joyous folk al Martins
last or rather this morning., those who
lived through it must have had ear
drums OF hammered brass.
Looking down from a balcony upon
the brilliant nssemblage In any OF Mar
tins supper rooms YOU arrived at the
conclusion tia: there are things to DO
seen In the alertness OF your waking
hours beside which the weirdest phan-
tasnia OF the imagination Is drab
shadow. No sleeping mind, troubled
though Il he with the fumes OF absInth he
or delighted by the seductive poppy.
could mass such a picture as New
York New Years morn at Martins or
any one OF dozen other OF oVr great
dining places
Can't See It ALL
Being merely one OF the participants.
though YOU may warm your blood with
the rarcst vintaSes and surround your.
self with nymphs whose beauty ana
adornment shame the rainbow, yet you
have oply within your narrow marsn
OF vision 9 meagre smudge OF the whole
picture. In all the hundreds YOU will
note beauty and ENTHUSIASTICALLY beau
tilted and ugincss bediasned, the stout,
the lean. the short, the tall the plump.
the rnrgv. the fair. the dark. There
are big noses and little noses. triple
chirs dropping o. q $1,000 diamond
necklace, a dimpIrd, perfect chin smI.
| ing above an undcck"i bosom, WhIe
J and pearl pink
There arc boys with rosy cheehs and
| young blue eyes, boys With saiow
y shesks and eyes tina; have lost their
youth. And here and ,hcre, II your
j eyes can pierce through the haze 81
brllliancy, Won sec Scnus, vita baggy
underllds and ford Jewels. leauIng
crookcdly Al 4 younx.old vis-a.vis. a
Chloe with lips OF artificial cr.msoa
You may pick ou' your types and
stare at them to Ak them IN y0ur mind
Awithout Offering ofirnse. ;1s In da:rg
so YOU have descended 10 the sor,od.
snd are therefore regarded A. cas-:
rom the ric,ure, not worth sircc ar
scowl. and certainly not SALE.
: Smiles are reserved Ter those who viii
I smile BY Invitation. Yes, and there are
some SMILES snsraysn, moulded fast on