Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-03-07
SPENDERS GOING OUT

Also. they may like to dress up like I
plush fire horses, but they do not like /.
to be ordered to do so. SO the place .
failed"
All OF which is pifle. Other impor-
tations-Paul Poiret and that count
person who introduced the form fit
ting pants 10 us, for example-haye
New York swOOning in utter admira-
ton. And New Workers most happily
get into the 1916 rig at other places
where 1t is required. And western
patrons usually begin dressing in the
cab on the way up from the depot. The
truth is that the first smash was
caused by poor service. Those which
succeeded It are TO be blamed on the
fact that New York is SOLDERING up.
The architects of the cafe" said a
Broadway philosopher. planned 1t for
the private dining room trade. Brokers
and sons of brokers and rich men from
small western towns-plus their
chorus girl affiliations of the moment
were to be catered 70. What New
York's night livers know as parties
were held in these embossed and silk
/ en- retreats The feminine guest who
| didn't find a 500 bill! in a walnut felt
| she had been defrauded. Guests OF
only moderate digestive capacity
usually were taken out on the freight
elevator"
IN those very halcyon days one pop
ular musical comedy star kept books
on the offerings Of her friends. Year
in and year out che found herself be-
tween $780, and $4,000 to the wind
ward, between the gems and automo-
biles and other jung given her. A big
Wall street operator gave ten shares
of a certain stock worth par at the
time, to his feminine guests one night.
Another presented ten chorus girls
with dingle bangles for their necks
one evening.
Tie man who then got their money
It the pump have found for the most
part that the we'll has run dry. The
fathers sons of today may not be
tightwads, but they're anything but
loose. The heir of the greatest for
tune In town has a Sunday school
lass, the next in line keeps getting
into sociological discussions, the third
is working in a railroad office and the
fourth is busy all day in his own
brokerage establishment Chorus girls
who kept high priced cars five years
ago now find it strains the bank roll
I to sustain a bicycle. So-with the pri-
vate dining rooms catering to the
Sweeney trade-the Cafe de Paris
found it's architectural limitations a
heavy handicap. Too much highly val
liable space had been wasted.
Not that there isn't plenty Of spend
| ing, but, compared to the old days, II
| is of the Zip, there goes a nickel!
| sort. For which the dance craze is
| largely responsible. Every restaurant
| on Broadway is doing capacity bust
ness until one o'clock every night and
with highballs at 40 cents and spoon
full of Welsh rabbit spelling six bits
the net results ought to be satisfac
tory. Nor is one o'clock in the morn
ing a fixed limit One restaurant
dances 24hour shifts, with Just {
pause for the barber during the after
| noon.
Half a dozen shove the terpsichore
an curfew into the discard on occa
sion. And the dance mania is increas
ing. This week one vaudeville theate
announces that dancing will be per
mitted in the lobby during intermis
Il sions. Modern dances will likely b.
4 taught at the recreation centers here
after. The charity ball-which was a
II one time puritanic to the verge o
woodenness-is to permit the tang
and the hesitation this year. 1t
y true that the charity ball isn't exclu
?, sive any more, unless exclusivenes
d is to be defined as the ability to rid
8 in a wagon built like a pilot house.
T. No. The whole trouble is that Nev
e York's spenders have sewed fishhook
n in their pockets. Which fact has bee
noted by visitors from foreign shore: