New-York tribune., 1921-10-03
BooRs Percy Hammond aS

Inhabitants of the hintcrlands fire.
quently indct US, in manner Of
speaking New Workers, for an insular
incapacity to realize that life exists
elsewhere than in this islct and its I'M
mediate environs.
They set up the sad Venetan's out
cry that they have eyes, hands, organs,
dimensions, hopes, passions, diseases,
hurts, ct cetera, just as we have; and
that yet we look upon them with the
startled amazement of a Traprock re-
garding for the first time the primitive
and outIandish Filbertines
Having emigrated hither from Zanes-
Vile or Quincy, it is said, We are prone
to forget that geography endures to
the north, the west and the south;
that songs are sung in Scranton; that
the ribald shimmy saraband was man
gered in SO remote a news as Gary,
Ind, and that Miss Lulu Bett" and
"Spearmint" were prairie born. Have
you heard that one about the New York
clubwoman who was vcnturing west
ward in the course Of the war to vend
Liberty bonds to the provinces? Well,
when she awoke on the train the dag
after her departure from New York
she looked out of the car window upon
Lake Erie's broad expanses. "See," she
said proudly, arousing her companion,
who was from Chicago. "See how wide
the Hudson is this morning."
Explorers from other lands WHO come
to penetrate the new hemisphere and
to write, later, articles entitled "Amer-
ica," are also subject to this infec-
tious pseudoblepsia. They can see and
they are impressed by almost nothing
except New York. Mr.. E. Y. Lucas, the
English essayist, for example, in "Rov-
ing East and Rowing West" arrives in
San Francisco, looks it over, proceeds
by what are known as easy stages
through such casual suburbs as inter
vene between here and there, and he
considers them in his book as such.
A bellhop, bust of Beethoven and
the Robert Louis Stevenson memorial
intrigue him slightly in San Francisco,
and he hurries middle westward to
Chicago. There he observes in
waste space near Michigan Avenue"
what he calls satisfying object of
American sculpture, a spirited figure
of General Logan upon frozen horse,
but which, as & matter of fact, says
'Whoa!" founder than most equestrian
statues do. Mr. Lucas, in Chicago, at
tends Frank Tinneys performance in
"Springtime'; writes about that nutri-
tious experience-and hastens to the
big American destination.
1t is in New York that Mr. Lucas
sets up his periscope for a long and
thorough survey of America. Here he
finds, as others do, the hemisphere
most interesting. Woolwoyth does not
scrapc the sky, he salutes the heavens
with beau gcste. Bush, with his
alabaster chapel, translucent at night,
does likewise. The Illuminated two
Seoiy eioeh M Mdulson square tells
the time, and peculiar fish wave their
fins about in the Aquarium Broad
ways lights are animated and bizarre,
but those of Luna Park trace loveliness
against the blue background of late
sky. keats's "Lamia' Qs2o0 is acccs-
slble in n minor museum, with an in
scription from thc author to Charles
! Lamb; Babe Ruth hits homc-runs,
whatever they are, and for every dane
ing floor, cabaret and supper resort
that Paris boasts, New York has thirty.
New York women are not less aoiGnees
than Parisicnnes; their bread and cof-