The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-08

time" and the rest about her decided in chorus that they really are
 Taken from an artistic viewpoint. the best time to catch the atmosphere of a
 New York roof garden is when every one
 is just about to sit down, the colors rise and fall and scintillate and surge, crouch
 and scream and cry and grope and cough,
 and are bold and are clever and are witty
 and are wise; and every tone Is so very apparent in his or her temperament and taste is so good and so foolish, and all
 taste is worth its mcdicum of moments Around comes the white-coated attend .
 ant thrusting a toy dog with musical in sides at you.
 T just love those little animals" gur-
 gles the youngest Miss Van Dusen. and
 the attendant passes on. the basket of furry folk held out in front of aim.
 The types who appear at the various
 roofs are marvelously different and ter ribly interesting. Each hour has it's par
 ticular type; those who come at the be- ginning and care so much: those who came late and care less, and those who
 come in too late to seem to make 1t worth while.
 There Is the couple that comes in at S:3O sharp, intent upon getting all there is to be got like the little boy at the cir GUS; those that come in at 10:3O and daw- dle with a glass of something for the rest of the evening; those that come in at 12 80, not even deceptive in their careless ease.
 The real roof gardeners, the fans"
 know their garden so we'll that If they were blindfolded they could walk with
 their hands behind them to a particular
 table, still with their hands behind them pick out a particular chair, and in the end could find the floor These range from banker to baker, from mere journal ist to the languid lassitudinous creature who accompanies the nouveau riche wear ing large, impressive earrings and a won- derful gown of something or other. She 1 is essentially crepe; she moves in long, pathetic lines and she is bored to dis l traction, because she must go to some old l roof garden every single blessed night of her life.
 l She isn't a good talker but he does not wish her to talk, and sue realizes that | what looked good in Shapespeare's eyes as a quality to be desired in woman is | still good.
 Don't take any more of that hors 1 d'oeurve,' she begins. Its too late and | it will make you sick"
 "It won't hurt me-" says old Mir Mill l lionaire, and straightway devours all he | wishes of the rich, indgestible food. The Misses Van Allen from Patterson, | N. J., have spotted her already; r.1cy have | taken in the way she does her hais; the | cut of her dress and the high polish of 1 her beautifully manicured nails, and in ] their mentalities they don't forget. Next 1 day the little French dressmaker from | Mount Vernon comes in Cat $2.50 per day) | she used to be head woman" at Lu- l cies, but couldn't get along with that | high strung lady, so now she sews out 1 by the day). to copy the frock described | by the Misses Van Allen.
 Women are supreme when it comes to getting back to, shall we say, supper. 1 If she does nothing else well. at least | she does this magnficently.
 | She will leave and thus require her escort also to leave the most picturesque little order of salade, even if 1t is lob | ster, in it's most excrutiating intimacy; | she will abandon the most elusive bird in l it's flight; she will leave unrestrluinedly | the bright, sparkling Burgundy in tall 1 stemmed glass-leave it all languidiy. just | to go through the mazes with her escort
 of some new step, and finally come back | to it coldly and disinterestedly ae if she
 had never known 1t existed and yet of a
 certainty she is the hungriest .hing ir