The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01


 well stand up.' New benches of concrete are to be built eventually with arms and divided into five divisions.
 Couples can't cohere in blocks of five The city commissioners have added fur ther tragedy to it all by building the concrete benches in the glare of the sun and the light of the moon. No. more dragging the good old park benches back in the shade, night or day. Cupid's down and out. New York has quit him.
 Don't love in Gotham,
 There is no place to go;
 You can't hide in the subway
 Or on the roofs you know.
 There's not one spot to practice
 Without their seeing you;
 Don't love in Gotham
 They will jug you if you do.
 What chance has an industrious and well-meaning young girl who lives in a New York flat anyway? One of them was talking about it the other day.
 Papa" she said, as she sighed anu shook her head, does not realize It! While our flat is lovely and all that, sun it's small and thin young man calle1 on me the other night and l was iR A fever of hope that I might be alone wl.n him, Lu. it happened to be dear orh daddy's night for his hot bath; and how
 
 walrus wallowing around in the next room? Next night sisters beau came and that was dear mothers night lor violsnt gymnastics, steam vaporing anu hot baths-the darling is twice the slze of daddy-and the flat sounded like a Johnstown flood. So sister took her sweet heart out on the fire escape and just then < it began to rain. My! but it was damp evening" You see there is nowhere 10 go
 The destiny of man lies on the lips oi lovers Totten transportation systems pass away and are replaced by others. The tides of politics ebb and flow ana peace treaties are trimmed and turned. Fasn- ions come and 70. But what Molly says to Joe on the old rusty gate. in the bacK parlor, on the benches in the park, or walking in the shady lanes, is the real thing that makes the race, makes me baseball fans of the future the great crowds al the race track, the solid pna- lanz.es of bridge players the poweriul profiteers and the crafty politicians vho in their day will be expected to uphota civilization.
 Tn New York there is a place for every thing except lote. The New York yours man has everything else except that Thay have built him great white way at great expense to wander up and down in and they have sprinkled it with perox- ide and mixed in little red paint to make it exciting to the taste; they have fitted up comfortable pool rooms where he can blow in his gold and they have given him palm rooms where he can finger with lovely hand-painted ladies and tell them how grand he is while low moaning ochestra helps the game along, A. drama af sex is provided at all t'is theatres where he can sit with three thousand other people and watch an ane- mic and halg naked female oounder wiggle Ter muscles all over the stage when she ought .o be at home putting the baby to bed by the light of tallow dip. But he's never alone. When you bring T right down to focus the real trouble with New York is that it gets morahy z mixed, Mentally speaking it is naked and unsaamed but physically it makes enoush mystery out of sex to concoct muddleu dish for the young man of the day taat keeps him wondering and perpiexed few days ago I went to Cuba for short winter trip and in wandering tnrouS'i the eastern end of the island l encoun- tered a great number of nude and un- emba rassed persons. They were entirely ratural. there were no theatrical mana gers tailors, or costumers selling pink tights, union suirs of silver spangles. NO i, one seemed undressed and there was no possible suggestion of sex. Love making was natural and there was no city gov errment to make everything vile by sug- gestion The young people were natural and modest They're never anything else if it's left to them. But it was curious to note how whole some the undraped Cuoahs were compared to the half-drapped cfea- lures of Broadway. There are apout forty theatres making sex appeal in New York, and though the authorities will rot allow the benches in the parks to stay for fear a young man sit.ihi' there may put his arm around the Waist Of a girl, the same authorities will and do permit the most mazing photographs r,io of ct Oe schemes to litter the great White Way The Hobbies of the the atres are filled with these pictures oI the young ladies of the chorus and in some rlaces are signs assuring the pat, rons that the stage people are dressed exactly as represented. A buyer from ont of town bought four seats for forty-fve < dollars at one of these awful shows anu rushed out after the first act hot whn indignation to the manager Well sal1 that worthy, "they wear the costumes repre- sented don't they?"
 ..Yes but darn it all, underneath thev're all completely clad in heavy hign nec, union sults!'
 ..Wcll. it's a cold night, you see.
 The policeman to whom he next com plained regarded him saddly. So you gave up forty-f'-e iron men for this ounA Won hicks made the theatres rlch.
 "3r,f this is 10 hick show it is the top notch resort for laded New Workers. ltt where the smartset men in Ne" i"A all go" u,-ar
 q haven't seen but one New iorner 20 in there for eight years, sald ,Mhe M noliceman. "and he was soused ana aiso kinl cs foolish in the head"
 | The reason New Workers do not go lo these shows that are always being adver- t tised as special pets of theirs is because \ they have for generation been sick of the | whole dreary humbug. And while the | authorities help that game along the ser a poprlar worixingman's dance on sne Il morality in other quarters continues mus II cast side is suppressed for naughty hanc H ing end the hundreds of white light ca,es Il and cabarets exhibit dances night ana "a. that are revoltins to the last degree. A r young man cannot take a nice eiri .o II these dances in New York, nor to sniart restaurant or ,he park.
 An old-fashioned young mana sort oi relic of the past-told me the other day that he actually proposed to his giri ii inc baggage room of the Grand Centra II station There was nowhere else to go.
 eve couldn't get seats in the wati's room and we finally drifted, tired ana | wan. to the baggage room where , .ns | whole world w;.s being loaded onto .ht IT. hcdV