The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11
ANYTHING ODD
DRAWS A CROWD
New York Is Truly Just
an Exaggerated Copy
Of "Hickville"

Nobody who comes 10 New york
need complain OF not being noticed
N he goes about getting recognition
In the right way. In this enormous
rampnrt OF noise an individual voice
can sim be heard. In this mighty
beehive Of activity the efforts OF
u single soul can still gain atten-
tiou.
Tho man who has never been
noticed In his lie should come 10
Sow York he should buy a supply
~ striped ncckties. imitation dia-
mond rlnga. waterproof collars, OF
almost anything at all stand on the
corner and shout his wares and be.
come the Cynosurc OF all eyes
Take one home 10 the bai-by!"
bawls ont soodv individual with a
cart Of grotesque jointed dolls. And
the current OF busy life halts while
the blaso hawkcr puts the poor lit
tie painted creatures through q ser
les Of contortions.
Sweet lavender. nice lavender,
lovely, fragrant lavender chants
tho vcndcr OF lavender seed, and
the crowd obligingly gathers around
and listens.
crowd Always Ready
on almost every corner uf New
York hourly those ephemeral. weird
eyed, rubber skinned fowl do their
pathctic death agouies. And always
| q heartless and goggle-eyed crowd
close about 10 watch the little fell
/ low crane hls neck with dismal
stiff legs and crumple gently for
word.
ON sunny days New York echoes
huzzcs and rcsounds with the frcn-
zled appeals uf vendcrs. eVangelists
and wranglers OF every description
/ Let man with a bright red tie
/ take his stand and howl out a way
TO save your cents. or a bottle-posed
/ evangelist climb to the curb and
/ promise Ia save souls, the result is
| the same.
/ \ tousled speaker Chambers to the
/ curb and denounces the Bolsheviki
! resoundingly and scgments OF the
/ crowd dctaCh themselves from the
! hurrying mass, float to his vicin-
! ity and form the nucleus of an
| other crowd, II the same earnest
| agitator takes a position on the next
corner and cxtols the virtues of the
/ Bolshoyiki the same crowd viii lis
ten with the same rapt attention.
II isn't even necessary 20 talk TO
| gather your crowd. A person who
trips on n cobblestone, stops his mo
! tor car 10 ask a cop a direction.
gets run over or stands In the win.
dow demonstrating vacuum clean
ers, 10 sure of an audience. A man
building a house, painting a sign,
! demonstrating new kind OF sus-
] penderS or advertising a shoe repair
| pdrlOr, has equal chances. They
simply take their stand and New
| York. the embodiment OF an enor-
nous hick with goggle-eyes. gaping
mouth and cotton umbrella, elbows
nudges and pushes near enough 10
see all that's going on.
An Unaskcd For Audience
The other day gentle. unassum-
ing little man hurrying along VeseS
street. stepped all unwittingly into
n boiling caldron OF notoriety.
He was about five feet in height
with pale. timid eyes and . meek
and mild manner. Coming rapid,
down Vesey street. the little maj
stopped short at The corner OF st
Paurs church with a thoughtful ex
preston, lie pstted himself on the
chest, blinked and moved abstract
edly toward the curb.
His mild eyes fixed on the oppo.
side side OF the street. the little mar
stood blinking and thinking.
a splay-footed gentleman with ar
enormous bulbous nose appraised
his attitude with interest. A severe
looking woman regarded him sus
piciously. A small boy gnawlng I
lollipop stared at him hopefully.
And that Is how the crowd start
ed
AN automobile accident?" quer
led a bland, pink-eyed youth wht
waits Off accidents and stands oil
the corner filing his nails between
rounds.
= "A fight" hopefully essayed
cheerful salesman. abandoning hi
flivver at the curb.
= a troop OF sightseers from Spo
kane, an ex-prize fighter, a dappe
actor with a gardenia In his but
ton hole and a couple of little dark
les were magnetized 20 the circle
p The little man gazed at nothin
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