Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-11-14
Breezv Gossip
From Gotham"

Nav, York, Nov. 11.-There are
,,e primitive people in our city
T., the sophisticated New Yorker
.ort to admit Sociologists tell
.hat the intellectual advance of
oarly asserted itself in his love
I' tbe pictorial representation Of
th as he hewed out caricatures in
'ls,ats of stone. Well, some would
' ',sm to be just in the beginning of
'ss;r advancement, if the sight one
D ;trosses in the subways is a criter-
'. staid men and proper women,
~ SOW nothing of the flapper and the
s#iee boy, are seen chuckling over
tAeir favorite comics" as the trains
,r.b along. Each have their favor
's.s all followed every day by our
wv, .,oderns, who, fortunately do not
s,vo to carve out their own observa-
aons on life. Civilization has at
,,.st been time-saving..
rbo much-talked of Americaniza-
aon scheme has achieved concrete
,,onortions. Americas Making" is
The appropriate name for a pageant
,snresentation of the foreigners con-
+,ibution to our national life, One of
tbo local armories is housing a vast
show where every nationality repre-
,srted in our melting pot is in COM
nstition with every other to demon
,trate the industry andachievement
n lis members in making up our ma
fouaI progress. The various foreign
trade committees have made huge
,upropriations to bring in the work
mo evidence of their citizens thrift
and accomplishment. Children and
ruwn-ups by the hundred appear
nightly with song and dance and color
to show the proud Mayflowers that
thew alone are not responsible for
our enviable place in the sun of prog
ress. We are learning many things
about these good people which we
have not thought about before and
great good should come from the eff
fort.
And now it is smelling salts for
mere man! A we'll known professor
possessed of acute imagining power
IS rumored to have "passed out" at a
recent Broadway thriller, and was
promptly supplied with a nasal re-
stOrative by the usher on the job. His
wife was very apologetic in her ex-
nseS to the hand maiden, but was
amazed to have her retort, "That's
nthin', lot of 'em do it.. I say
some of these birds are worse than
the women. They get carried away
BY the sob stuff, and we got to look
after EN-" AS a warning, gentle
men, don't forget your reticule.-
The Four Hundred are at work
again in town. The astute hotel press
men daily chronicle the list of "debs"
who are to come out in their gilded
balls before the winter passes. AS
you read of the rush and demand for
holiday dancing space you find your
self worrying that some sweet things
won't manage to be formally acclaim
ed before society. The pity of that
is greater than we may think, be-
cause after all what else is there for
the poor girl to do? If you are in
ellned to be cynical your question is
whom will she bay in the matrimon-
LA chase, and how soon will the
papers be telling who she was in re-
porting who she is trying not to be,
CeSt Ia vie, for the Four Hundred.
We have had the South Sea by the
matchless O'Brien, the burlesque adj
ventures of the intrepid Traprock,
Johnson and his cannibals, and now
the Century Company brings us the
amazing adventures of Owen Rowe
VNell in Swaziland This gentle
man Boer managed to get into the
neat of this African territory and in
duce the natives to rise up against
lnelr ancient queen and depose her
Inc meref act that it was necessary
70 burn her on a funeral pyre, and
'nat ONiel was there to chronicle
'ne event and make moving pictures
VI the scene is probably no longer
important to the old queen, but it does
make good reading matter, and is
departure from the average travel
book.
Inc veteran English actor
george Arliss, is demonstrating his
pet theory that the public will pat,
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