The evening world., 1911-04-15

trihes which Is the outward NANTES,
I read these strange impressions OF a
Lady from New Haven while going
downtown IN the subway yesterday
There was no one in the train that ever
suggested the Queen of Sheba In color
or m~agnifcence OF attire. but at Twen-
ty-third street a young woman wearing
n peculiar y cut skirt got on. II was not
a harem skirt. but the mere suggestion
tina. It might be. which seemed TO COM
municate itself mysteriously from one 10
another In the car. made every man IN
the train look up from his morning pa
per and take a long survey OF the I'M
conscious passenger.
1t was the bankers and brokers hour,
and these well-dressed men represented
the very class which the visiting critic
commiserates as the sla y of a goading
commercialism.
The late David Graham Phillips and
the omnipr Robert W. Chambers
have pictured the opponents of this
type as ruthless Titans, for ever schem-
ing the wreck OF nations. navies-or
railroads at the very least. Yet Every
mar stopped reading or schefning to
look at and m upon the rather
ordinary garment Of a very ordinary
girl. One shoulders to think OF the of
feet upon their childish i~nlag!nations o.
the Queen OF Sheba or even OF a SOW
erefgn from the Hawaiian Isles.
Walking out OF the subway, ] was
halted for a by a crowd o.
nifty or sixty men and women gathered
upon the sidewalk. Ter years ago, view.
Ing such an assembly. l might have
surmtsed h a man had been muir,
dered or q child ruin over. But yester
day I knew h a a Itreet faker must be
making an Easter bunny hop across a
hagstone. so that perhaps twenty OF
the crowd could see It and that the
others we're patiently and hopefully
awaiting their turn.
Most Childish Place on Earth.
For We all learn after We have been
here a few years tina. New York Is the
most childish place on earth and New
Workers the most childish ~people-child-
ism in u curiosity. childish IN .ur
snobbishness. childish In our curc',y. in
our forgetfulness, In our superncis. lty,
In our irresponsibility.
n OF the things tina; every New
Yorker. born or adopted. knows is that
IL a sky pilOt could he half as sur. OF
an audience as a steepiejack putting a
gold ball on a hsgpole. our churches
would not be empty. For the harr!ed
American business man is never so
pushed by the stress o; work that he
amt stop 10 watch another man climb
ing Il pole. Down in Wall street the
financier touches elbows win the mes
senKer boy whenever the possibility of
such q throbbing spectacle presents IT.
self.
Why?
Because. like q and me and every.
body else IN New York. ne takes a
childish interes, IN littIe thiugs
Notice him al his work. Is there not
a rather nnne essay rush. q distinctly
overemphasizcd seriousness about him,
quite like that OF a small hoy going on
all errand 10 the grocery store ana in
trusted with a whole dollar for the hrs.
time?
Notice his wife az her w~orh-thst a
pretending to herself and others that
she really has something worth while
10 do. Observe her preening SUPERB
ority when SIC Las on a vuiearly cNpen-
slve gown. How does f. d'Mere from
that of u little cir, who dressed up n
uer motHer's bail Gown, say, twenty
wears ago. and strutted ~fatuously he
fore a pier gas?