The Washington herald., 1919-01-17

New York. Jan. 16.--No one can
tell you why the west side OF Fifth
avenue is the busiest-but it is
And by the same token, the most
confirmed New Yorker cannot ex-
plain why the further north you
travel from Forty-second street the
more exclusive are the surroundings
and the people.
The pedestrian does not see shoe
stores north of Forty-second. They
become "booteries." There is more
starch in life uptown. The people
| like the gloss and their minds be-
come moro perfumed and frightened.
1t would be impossible to find
hat store, nay, not even a hat shop.
| There are (chapeauN parlors where
! ravishing Creations are on display
high upon lovely thin stems.
1t may be run BY Nine. Georgette
or by just Gwendolyn and both may
in private or domestic circles be
Mamie McSwatt and Gertie Hasepef-
fer. Their regular names would
never do up on Fifth avenue above
Forty-second. Those who do not
run to high sounding names are
known as Maison lie Blanc or
Maison Something Else.
A corset shop would be as out OF
! place as a sauerkraut parlOr. when
lady wishes to buy a corset up
town she goes to n "corsetierc."
And If she wants a waist she asks
for a blouse" Florists shops are
"roseries" and "violcteries" but the
| flowers smell just the same.
The twist in name applies even to
the bakeries. A select little bakery
shop will be known by such a tltl"
as The Queen Ann" Th" fruit
stores are hcraldcd with little brass
signs reading "Fruiter"rs' and tho
delicatessen shops have long been
passc and the butcher shop three
years ago changed to the simple
name Market"
What the Salvation Army Is I"
Fourteenth street, the Christian Sci
ence Reading Room is to the upper
sections. These reading rooms are
always packed to capacity. Perhaps
after all higher civilized conters arc
merely composed of a higher class
of thinkers.
Sunday morning people dress in
cutaways and high hats TO go to
church. In the afternoon they call
in the old fashioned way. The old
IA shioned call down around wash
inCton Square has degenerat"d into
tea drinking and cigarette smok-
! ing scandal contest.
They are all Daughters Of F.V"
Two blaCk-rObed. white-wImpled
I figures of the middle ages sat sufhy
/ amid the brightness and happiness
| OF a shopping crowd. To many,
nuns seem never quite women but
a species of remote lmm"rtals to-
| tally removed from the mundane
| world of the department store.
And vet they Were buying gloves
with the instinct that is age old.
| They tried them on, leaned toward
| each other and whispered about
| them Then they tried on others
and at last hit upon their selections.
Mother Eve is an irrepressiblc f.
male.
Not even q mere matter OF a
shaved mead and black gown Will
! subdue her. and she will peep slyly
| out of the COnscCrated rob" to show
there is a woman there after all.
Samuel Goldfish IS biz moVin-;
! picture maEnatc. he had the nerNn
| to use a name that might be IN"
| basis Of many punS lie has
achieved greatness. thereby show
! ing that there is nothing in nam.
and il was not until he had won
high honors in the movie world that
he decided to chang" his name.
Henceforth he will be known a.
Samuel Goldwyn, the latter nam"
being tn" one he coined to use a.
the name for his large movie com
many Goldfish by the way. is th''
man who bought some remarkablr
Park Row talent with big contracts.
Several newspapermen who used to
seek the friendly aid Of the cashi"r
on Friday noon for lunch are now
driving around in limOusincs as tn"
result Of Mr.. Goldfish being able
nnicl.I,. tn rncngnize trln RCniuS.