The Washington herald., 1919-11-13
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New York. Nov. n.-This wicked iit-
tie island does strange things--apd
different things to different people.
Men who may be crooks In Washing
ton or Atlanta come hare and find the
returns greater waiting on tables In
cabaret. Girls who come here to sip
lifs's bitter dregs are sent on their
siniess way to mothers arms.
Women who revamped one dress q
year back in their home town--now
buy five and shout shriil orders at
tired shop girls. There 10 Broad
wayite who delights in having his
name flared In the press. He Is the
son Of noted educator.
He In o connoisseur Of rare editions.
He knows all the poets and has dipped
deep into the classics. And yet his
life Is spent IN taking one beautiful
woman after another out to some
snowy place for dinner. He II mar.
ried man, too.
He has found that the only human
game that steadily increases In dan
ger. romance and desirability 10 the
battle of the sexes, women having
never been SO provocative, sense-dis-
turbfng and altogether deadly delight
full as under the complexity Of high
powered civilization in New York. 4
His motto as fs the motto of many
other Broadwayites. is the great line
OF Nietzsche: BE hard; live danger
ously." Then there Is the small-town
sport-the wise crackin' guy from
Hillsboro-who hops out OF town with
a joke on his lips and comes to New
York. to be sobered down. The city
awes him
He finds no place for his small l-town
wheezes. He gets q job-joins church,
grows side-wheel whiskers or q little
bristly mustache and goes back home
to visit so changed that they do not
know him at the corner drug store.
1t Is true that no one lives In New
York ten years without undergoing
some kind OF a change. 1t may be
better or worse. depending upon the
individual. Ideas of living change.
Ideas of friends, too. The great city
Is wonderful in her magic, her wis
dom and her radio charm, and to win
or lose here 10 a tremendous expert
ence.
Sidestepping the payment Of a din
ner check in all hts phases and cir
cumflexions/ has puzzled the best
brains in the Eating Belt. Every trick
has been tried. So many men take
chance acquaintances to dinner and
when they see the check mounting
into big fgures-when they know the
queen Is used to prunes and hash
they try to dodge. That is Broadway.
To make big play and then fzzle at
the climax. The real man would face
the thing like a gentleman.
A fiashy young man fell in step with
a young lady in a fur-trimmed dress
In Times square the other day and
took her to an expensive cafe. He had
Just SIS in his clothes. She ordered
about s11 worth of the card at the
first crack. Excusing himself, the
young man walked out past the hat
check girl. barehesded. into the street.
Going to nearby hat store, he
bought a new lid and skipped home.
The visitor TO New York has learned
why he pays such big prices for his
food. 1t has become public that six
of the biggest hotels in town are con-
trolled by the packers trust and the
young man who was supposed to run
them is merely a figurehead.
He had a fringe OF gray round his
bald head. At his table were three
young things-frivolous and full OF
life. He was buying them all the ex-
pensive dishes. They jollied him. As
he went out he said to the hat check
girl: What can an old man do but
buy"