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The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Art, Book, Antique and Tea Shops,
Found in nceAristocratic I Homes,
Supply Demand of the FastidiouS

rooms. They are dainty establishments
generally, TO repeat, done in yellow
and blue or black and white. There
is the Golden Thought. the Rose Petal.
the Mayfair, the Dove Cote. the
Elysian, the Dresden Cat fetched
doubtless from Greenwich ViIlage).
the Blue Rowl. the Briary Bush. the
Even Song. the Cuddlie Shop. the
Mince Pie. the Orange Dish, the Wafiie
Iron, the Southern Afternoon the
Dixie, Old Richmond and dozens more
OF similarly suggestive designation.
Tour of Little Places
Is Interesting Diversion
The further uptown you get the
potter the shop the broader the vowels
OF the attendants, the smarter the
merchandise and the higher the prices.
I'VE sort of taper our to the un-
usual or the extremely costly or tho
more delicate Gway up town here" ex-
planned a woman who sells batiks and
Russian head dresses. THE little shop
in the erstwhile private house follows
the northward trend Of society. II
you've noticed. we little shopkeepers
begin to thin out about Forty-ninth
or F'iftieth street.
Away up here you can sell beautiful
books, costly fabrics OF rare weave.
delicate glass, good art, tapestries and
interior decoration. Expensive furni-
ture, imported stuff, mean, and gold
and silver plate of extraordinary de-
sign goes up this way. but it is pretty
much Of a gamble. Rents are unbe-
lievable, and, to be perfectly frank
with you, it is not so delightful as 1t
looks.
1T is a great deal like doing a
back door trade. You are literally
following the coat tails of the rich,
wheeling your cart at their heels po-
litely crying your wares. People OF
such taste as we cater to and such
means, too. are just a step or two
ahead of US all the time. I'm talking
frankly to you because I've studied
sociology and have applied it to my
business. We are numerically snubbed
and generally ruined IL we try direct
methods with the folks we seek to
reach.
"In my business for instance-Rus-
sian fabrics-I depend on getting
really beautiful things on view at
afternoon affairs in private homes or
at semi-public functions where Social
Register women congregate. You have
no idea how easy it is to get one or
two women to wear your stuff and
drop a word about you at such affairs
It's quite a simple thing If you start
right.
II know a young woman whose So
cial position is as substantial and
sure as Grants Tomb. She Is quite
poor compared with the women whose
homes she frequents She is beauti-
| full. popular, dresses in excellent
taste and has brains. have given
her blouses and headdresses in order
to get them before the folks I want
to attract. She has created some
thing of furore with my stuff.
/ my dear says a wealthy friend
| of hers. where on earth did you get
that heavenly thing you're wearing"
Isn't 1t pretty?' says my adver-
tisement. I picked it up at Cora
lines IN Fifty-flfth street
You see" concluded the batik ex-
pert, lin no time ] have several cash
customers here. 1t takes time and
tact, and-well, the goods
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Sacrifices Must Be Made
il Results Are Desired

Now what are the simple ways by
which a woman can under ordinary
conditions keep herself in fairly good
health, enough SO at least that she Is
enabled In measure to enjoy her
life? We come back Immediately to
that word temperance. Very little can
be done for any woman or man either
who Is not willing to live at some
degree under stress. Not much more
can be done for the woman who viii
not practice sufficient physical ex-
ercise In order to develop better
body and additional nervous energy.
Simple exercises to obtain these re-
suits are very generally known. but
too often neglected. There are nu-
merous books which show courses OF
exercise. and these courses can be
followed at home without an instruc-
tor. although II is my belief that
better results are obtained In a GYM
rasicm under a director gifted with
common sense In the figst place, II
is more fun TO do these exercises IN
concert with n group or other women
than to do them alone.
The cure for excessive fat IL only to
be found in exercise and diet. All
drugs recommended for reducing
weight are dangerous. Diet will take
off pounds from all parts OF the body
generally. and this Is the true way to
reduce. although there are machines
now being used for removing extra fat
from any particular part OF the body
by mechanical massage.
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Professor of Belfast
Gives History of Feud

THE antagonism between Catholics
and Protestants in Ulster dates from
The battle of the Boyne, but it prac-
.ically disappeared within less than a
hundred years later when the repre-
teers met in Dungannon and asked for
the abolition of the penal laws which
weighed on their Catholic fellow citi-
zens. In 1918 there was a strike for
an increase of wages among the Bel
fast workers, Catholic and Protestant,
and the capitalists were faced by the
awful possibility of their employees
forgetting their religious feuds in or
der to combine against them. The en-
ployers therefore did all in their power
to rouse the old religious differences
among their workmen, and the fact
that the leader Of the strike was a
Catholic gave them a fine opening,
which was made still finer by the i'm
prudence of the workmen in bringing
a Catholic labor leader from Dublin.
These Two facts were skillfully utilized
by the capitalists and their news
papers, with the result that the
there was something wrong about a
strike which was directed by a Pap
ish' and in which many 'Papishes' took
part. The Orange workmen therefore
dropped out of the strike. which was.
consequently, failure.
Just before this state had been
reached the Orange leaders made all
union between their followers and the
Catholics impossible by very clever
piece of mendacity. They asserted that
the jobs of Protestant artisans who
had gone to the war were taken by
the Catholics who had remained at
home. Now this statement is false. |
it carefully and found
that not one Catholic took the place
of any Orangeman who had gone to
the front. The vacant places were in
every instance taken by other Ulster
Protestants or by Presbyterian work.
men specially imported in large num-
bers from Glasgow.
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
SES AWAIT LONG ABSENT VISITORS TO IRELAND

One Finds Dublin Is Once More Gaelic With Gaelic
in the Schools, Gaelic Typewrters Used the Sim
Fein Flag Over Dublin Castle and an Irish Army on
Guard but That the Revoutionists Who Brought 1t
Il Al lbout Are Moderate Compared With the ex-Revo
uuionarles Who Now Rule Eastern Europe Republics,
Reports "FIerald Correspondent
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Definition of a Religious
Man in Ireland at Present Time

/ should first like to point out, how
ever, that Americans are very liable
TO be misled by the words religion"
"papish" and Protestant" as these
words are used in Belfast, where they
have a meaning quite different to what
they have in the United States. A
religious" man in Belfast Is not nee
essarily a man who says his prayers
every morning and goes to church
every Sunday; it means an Orange
man who goes on the rampage every
18th Of July and breaks the heads of
"papishes" whenever he gets chance
A century ago the great English
statesman Canning. who had enough
Ulster blood in his veins to know
what he was talking about, laughed at
Orangemen as fanatics who damn the
Pope and never darken church door"
And though even to-day Twelfth of
July Protestants"-me whose attend
ance at church is limited to the sun
day preceding the great Orange festi-
val-are continually denounced from
Presbyterian pu,pits, their number
steadily increases.
In At OF fiery indignation a young
Orangeman once smashed the window
of shop where crucihxes were dis
played; and to the amazement OF all
loyalists. he was sent TO prison for a
month. "If that declared his proud
and fearful mother; "If that isn't suf-
ferin' for his religion. I'd like to know
what is"
Another Belfast Orangeman had
been called to the court as witness
to the peaceful disposition OF friend.
What sort Of a man." asked the coun-
sci. would you say jamie William
son is?"
"A quiet. dacent man." was the re-
piy
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Both Irish and British
Got Limit Out of Treaty

Elaborate plans have already been
drawn up by the Military Operations
Department at the War Office in Lon
don for the reoccupation of Ireland in
case of necessity, and it is believed that
the expedition could accomplish its
work in a month. TWO hundred thou
sand British troops would invade south
ern Ireland from Ulster, while the threat
of a naval bombardment would lead
to the evacuation by the Republicans
of all the ports and to tie occupation
of those ports by the invaders. The
Irish troops would be caught in their
barracks as in death traps or else
rounded up and annihilated on the
hills. In ten years time they might
be able to offer sitter resistance:
but. with curious perversity. De
Valera wants to. force the crisis now
when the army is in process of forma-
ton. is divided against itself. and is
quite without artillery England's
"scuttle out of Ireland is. therefore,
a very clever strategic move on the
part OF England. And England's ac-
acknowledgement of President Griffith as
the spokesman Of Sim Fein has only
increased Englands Eold on Ireland.
Twice within the last month has poor
Mr.. Griffith been summoned, some
what peremptorily, to London by Mr.
Churchill; and he obeyed each time
with alacrity. Mr.. de Valera and his
supporters make use of these facts to
prove that the treaty does not give
Ireland anything like freedom; but
this view is as extreme on the one
side as Lord Carson's is on the other
The revolution in Ireland has, as 4
have already pointed out. been a re-
marlSably moderate and sensible revo-
luton; IL the Sim Feiners had wanted
more England would not kave signed
any treaty. and II England had given
less DE Valera would have upset the
treaty But had an independent re-
public been established. it would not
be so strong and so safe from British
aggression as the Free State will prob
ably be. and would have no prospect
OF ever overcoming the hostility of
Ulster Griffith is the Cavour of Ire
land. TIE idea of agtating on Hun
garian instead of on Redmondite lines
was his discovery. and 1t has been
brilliantly successful The modera-
tion with which he treated the Com
munist revolt at Dublin and at NAL
low and the Republican revolt at
Limerick shows him to be tactician
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Woman's Physical Advance
Greater Than Mans

With women IL Is another thing.
The feminine athlete has made far
greater strides along these lines and
she can run faster and play vigorous
games which were unknown. or. at
least. untried. by her grandmother.
She has made greater progress on the
tennis court and in water sports than
the male athlete. and this Is due en-
tirely 10 her greater freedom OF move
ment, increased physical activity. and.
OF course, TO her desire to excel
The better physical type Of woman.
common to-day. is due to her general
conservation OF the laws of health and
to the fact that very few women give
no attention nowadays 70 some kind sf
physical training. In schools devoted
to the education Of both sexes there
has been an enrolment in the gym
nasium of from flve TO ten times as
many women as young men. II is
evident even to the casual eye that the
most popular girl Of to-day is OF the
athletic type. Women themselves no
longer consider II compliment to be
told that they look frail and delicata.
On the contrary. they delight in being
thought heathy and welt set up, good
The New York herald., 1922-04-16

Witness, with great emphasis: mo!
Certainly not Jamie was never any
ways religious man"
Economics as Well as Fury
In Orang Religion
If. therefore. any sincere American
Protestants. profoundly hostile on re-
lgious grounds to the Church of Rome,
imagine that the Ulster Orangeman
thinks as they do they are greatly mis-
taken. The "Papish" to whom the
Orangeman objects is a peculiar kind
of "Papish." He must be low class
Irish. belonging to the Ancient Order
of Hibernians or at any rate connected
with some of the Irish Nationalist par
ties; and as a rule he is also an un-
skilled workman, likely to undersell
the Orangeman in the labor market.
There is. therefore. as much economics
as religion in the Orangeman's fury:
and, as a matter Of historical fact.
Orangeism only became serious force
toward the end of the eighteenth CEN
tury, when many landlords in Ulster
preferred Catholic tenants to Protes-
tants because the Catholics were will
ing to pay heavier rack rents and
raised no awkward questions about
rights and privileges. The Orangemen
showed no hostility to the late Duke
of Norfolk, a prominent Roman Catho-
lie, who took their side during the
Carson campaign of 1913. They show
no hostility to Col. Archer-Shee, NJ. p,
an Irish Roman Catholic. who is one
sof ,ni,- pfa cIaY M nil in
British House of Commons to-day; and
they received last year with every
mark of respect the present Viceroy
of Ireland. who is not only a Roman
Catholic but even an Ultramontane
Catholic.
Lest it be thought that l am some
what hard on the Orange Society. it
must be remembered that in 1885 a
select committee of the British House
of Commons condemned that society
root and branch; and from that date
till few years ago no member of the
British army or navy or judiciary was
permitted to join it. In a famous
charge to the Wexford Grand Jury
Judge Fletcher. an English Protestant,
speaking as one attached to no party
put the case dSdlISt oldilselSHl Rather
strongly. These societies called
Orange Societies." he said, have pro-
duced most mischievous effects. and
particularly in the Nortl. OF Ireland.
They poison the very fountains of JUS
tice, and even some magistrates, under
their influence. have in too many cases
violated their duty and their oaths.
:. OF this / am certain, that so
long as those associations are per-
mitted to act in the lawless manner
they do there will be no tranquility
in this country, and particularly in
the North of Ireland. There those
disturbers of the public peace. who
assume the name of Orange Yeomen,
frequent the fairs and markets with
arms in their hands, under the pre-
tense of self-defense or OF protecting
the public peace, but with the lurking
view of inviting attacks from the Rib
bonmen. confident that, armed as they
are, they must overcome defenseless
opponents and put them down.
Such are the pretenders to loyalty.
many of whom / have seen; and in
calculable mischiefs they perpetrate.
1t is not their interest that their coun-
try should be peaceful; their loyalty
is sea of troubled waters
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
The Further UP Town
The Higher the Prices

If you have the time and want en-
shops and tea rooms. You can find
anything from permanent wave to
an India shawl; from chicken and
waffle dLnner to a second hand motor
cycle: from a pair of bra?s candle
sticks to a player piano. You can equip
yourself with clothes from hand-me-
downs to the most amazing creations
of Paris dressmakers. There are Of
fered renovated furs of dubious worth
and magnificent ga bles foc which you
we'll paid. Sheraton furniture, first
editions of a Charles Dickens, clocks,
ships in bottles, lamp shldes with
Greek dancers painted thereon. etch-
ings of your we'll known se,f. holiday
cards and fac SMILES of the wills and
other private papers of celebrated
criminals, statesmen, philosophers and
authors.
You can buy silk hosiery and scarfs
Knitted sweaters and vests. copies OF
T'uvis de Chavannes. Rosa Bonheur
Mariana F'ortuny and Meissonier's
1914. not mention duplicates of Dore
Whistler and others. PhiIatelists and
numsmatists abound in numbers and
for tho reasonable sum OF s5 a lovely
girl will do your silhouette for you.
One of the profoundest os mysteries
concerns the life OF so many tea
The New York herald., 1922-04-16

streets l emphatically declined. and
congratulated myself on my prudence
when, next morning. / saw the dead
body of an unknown young man lying
right in the center of York street. For
not only is one in danger of being hit
by bullets fired at random, one is also
in danger Of being potted by special
or British soldier. especially If one
commits the terrible indiscretion of
walking with his hands in his pockets.
The New York herald., 1922-04-16

IN URlNG the last twenty five
years woman has advanced in
physical strength and skill
many times faster than man. Never
theless, while the woman of to-day is
much nearer the athletic equal of man
than her grandmother was of her con-
temporary. I do not believe that she
will ever or can ever become mans
equal physically.
| question IL the man Of to-day is
any better in physical matters than
the man Of forty years ago. Records
show that he runs a little faster.
jumps a bit higher, swims a little
farther. but why shouldn't he since
the physical conditions are better?
Tracks are faster. the stroke has been
changed, more time is now given to
preparatory instruction so that ath-
out of themselves. They have learned
how to train the body, take care Of
their breath and control or expand
their efforts in the easiest direction
for the best results.
At the basis. however. everything
being taken into consideration. it Is
very doubtful IL the man of to-day
is even as good physically as his pred
ecessor OF forty years ago.
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Remarkable Restraint Has
Been Shown by Irish People

On the whole. therefore. the present
revolution in Ireland is. so far, one of
the most moderate revolutions that
has ever taken place. The Irish peo-
pie have shown remarkable restraint.
To realize how great that restraint
is one has only got to stand any day
in Grafton street and watch the
lorries filed with members of the old
I..~. G. coming in from the country
TO he disbanded. When we bear in
mind the hatred felt for the members
of this force by the people now in
power. we wonder. not that some OF
them have been murdered, but that
any of them have escaped. And the
moderation shown by the British au-
thorities in Ireland has been even
greater. At Beggar's Bush Barracks.
which is now occupied by Republican
troops. I watched one day the arrival
OF lorry after lorry filed with boxes
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Once an Arisfocratic Home,
But Whose, None Knew

But the agent didn't know. His
story was much like that of the agent
for the Thirty ninth street place. A
large trust company had commissioned
him to look after the property. The
reporter asked him whether he looked
after many private houses that had
been converted into hives of small
shops and showrooms.
"Oh yes" he said, land it is a swift
game. To-day we may have tearoom
ir what used 10 be a ballroom; to-
morrow your tearoom goes out of busi-
ness and in comes a chap with a stock
OF etchings or second hand Sheffield
plate. He will thrive for while. may
be, and then move or fail and then
we have two nice young women selling
chic millinery at prices that would
stagger the Ahkoond Of Swat"
In Forty-ninth street, just off
Fifth avenue, in the basement of q
FIVE story brownstone of such COM
manding appearance that you are sure
that the American equivalent of a
Russian Archduke tpre-war rates of
course) dwelt therein, there is an art
shop, the sole and complete stock OF
which comprises three oil paintings of
the BarbiZon school. You can buy
any one of them for a few thousand
dollars and the young woman presid-
ing over this shop conducts herself
OH the principle that he or she who
enters understands that it is an art
market and needs no guidance.
This young woman stands well
away from the potential purchaser
while the latter views the Barbizon
trio. II a question is propounded by
the visitor the young woman answers
with the utmost of dignity and schol-
arly courtesy. Being informed that
the reporter had no desire TO equip
himself with a Barbizon she consented
TO talk about her shop and the house.
"Oh. this hasn't been used as a pri-
vate residence for ages" she said.
II have no idea who occupied this
shop before ] moved in. My sister
used to be in business with me. Now
I am going 1t alone. We used to be
down in Thirty-eighth street, but this
business must follow a certain class
of customers. Therefore. / shall have
to move uptown In a year or so If
business improves. You see you don't
sell such pictures every day"
These three examples OF what the
reporter found in somewhat hap
hazard tour of the thousand and one
little shops that are to be seen in
erstwhile private residences between
Thirty-eighth and Seventy-second
streets. are cited because they en-
body certain typical and common
characteristics.
Not in one instance did the occupant
of one of these shops know who used
to occupy the premises as private
dwelling; neither did the renting
agents. It was always obvious that
at one time the space occupied by the
shop was portion OF a dwelling that
cnnannad tnni1rh rtnnnn,, In ,,nlrnnn
The New York herald., 1922-04-16
ThERE is a shop in Thirty-nintl

NhEHE1 is StlOp III HlI " -lilIllli
street, just east of Park ave-
nue., wherein unusual bird
cages and out OF the ordinary jewelry
are offered for sale. Two middle aged
ladies preside over the establishment.
You have no idea how interesting an
unusual bird cage can be until you
have listened to them hold forth on
the architectural delights of the gilded.
bronzed and lacquered coops they sell.
This shop occupies the basement of
what was once one of the most digni-
fled private residences of a New York
family of great affiuence. Neither of
the ladies selling cages and jewelry
could remember the name of the fam
lily. Neither could the renting agent.
The property had come to the agents
books from a real estate firm that got
it in similar manner At least ten
agents have had the renting of the
place since 1t was a private residence.
"All we know" said one of the bird
cage ladies, sis that the woman who
lived here was a widow with a great
deal of money. and she IS said to have
moved to ConStantinople."
"Constantinople?
We'll that Is what we understand.
We've been here four months. This
basement was a tea room before that
and a saddler had it before that.
We're thinking of moving up to Six
tieth street, only the rents are so
high"
In Fifty-seventh street few steps
from Fifth avenue, there is another
such shop, this one on the first floor
and occupying but one room of it, in
which Russian embroderies are to be
bought by all who can afford to pay
the somewhat extraordinary prices
asked. The proprietor is a profusely
bewhiskered Jew with huge, we'll
shaped hands and manners that would
make any thoughtful American a lit
daughter-a tall, beautiful girl who
works necessarily in a bad light-do
the rich embroidery work.
I'VE have been here but a few
weeks" explained the courteous Rus
sian, land we shall have to move fur
ther uptown, l am afraid, because our
trade is one that must follow our Gus
toners. But the rents are very high,
and in times such as these even the
rich buy embroideries sparirgly. / re-
gret that I do not know whose resi-
dence this was. Possibly the agent