The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-07

Cornena Barns in the New York World
LAVE you ever come home from
coney on the last boat-the 1910
4 and sat on the top deck?
Blurred white and black spots In TIE
moonlight. sitting very close together
couples. couples everywhere. You can
not move. Someone is sitting on one of
your feet A parasol is being jammed
down your neck. over many ankles and
feet stretched out on camp chairs Stun
bles the chocolate bar man. Then fol-
lows the handsome waiter
The couples don't even look at them.
They are thinking of things more lmpor-
tant.
George. I'm so sensitive-a sniffle-
my feelings are hurt"-and a dark head
George's-disappear under a big white
hat where there has been one head al
ready. Now there are two She's giving
him back his ring" says the hard hearted
thin man next to us. Mind your busi-
ness" says his fat wife.
II lo-o-o-o-ve you.' play the boat mu-
sicians. who have just come up. II To-
oo-ve you,' huns an accompaniment from
20 different directions. Then a few heads
are raised and a few clear voices-some
mass, some trebe-ring out in the night
air with the harp and the violin and the
steady throb of the engines below. Be
hind the boat is leaving a great cleaning
white streak as it works up the harbor to
the lights of the city, taking all these
people home.
1t is New York accounting. on this boat.
and glad 1t is alive. Glad? peliriousl
For II cannot court at home. There are
always too many little sisters and BROTH
ers and aunts and uncles taking up the
only sitting room.
SO Bessie and George have to go to
Coney and sit on the beach. They eat
crackerjacks. and George doesn't care
how much of his $3.50 week salary he
spends on Paris tunnels and switch
backs and chewing gum and hot dogs.
He bushes furiously when the barker in
front of the photograph gallery yanks
him In with Have yer wife's picture
taken!e Bessie hasn't blushed at ALL She
says calmly, Lets"
Saturday afternoons and Sundays the
parks, too, are a mass of moving color.
L Ihc tCi oCC gill hdPPyb say ttc bi6
park guard. "If fella wants ter kiss
his girl, why, I just sorta don't see 'em.
It's natural and didn't / use ter do 1t
myself me and the missus?" He
chuckled. ''Of course. II the girl is young
and foolish and | don't care about the
looks of the fella, says: Little girl, you
go home this minute. You hadn't ought to
be out at all.
Now, | don't let 'em sit In the dark
at ALL Every night at dark 1 goes across
the playground place there holerin': Get
onter the walks. And they GETS
At 12 o'clock everybody is put out of
the whole park. That Is, unless they are
walking through on their way somewhere.
Several years ago there used to be guards
at every entrance to stop people from
going in after IL o'clock, but that is
changed now.
The guards are big and jolly as whole
Sometimes there are those with stiff col
lars and Comstockian views, who worry
service.
Madison Square is another place for
these strange acting couples. There they
sit on the benches and gaze UP through
the lace work of leaves to the green blue
night beyond-and they talk of their loves.
And Union Square and Washington-al-
most everywhere where there is tree.
They go down to the Battery seawall
and watch the steamers. They take bus
rides-every bus carries several-and troll
ley rides and subway rides and elevated
rides. They go shopping while she buys
her grandmother a birthday present, and
he helps carry 1t, even If it is the size of
a pill box.
And strange. he has developed a real
interest in girls clothes and can tell a
swell lid when he sees one--or thinks he