The New York herald., 1922-08-13
Our Own Bazaars.


The visitor who enjoys the color and
animation our metropolitan streets
can furnish to observant eyes in the
brightness Of clear midsummer
morning may be pardoned for ex-
pressing degree of annoyance at
hearing foreign scenes exclusively
praised for picturesqueness and
richness of hues. The sophisticated
citizen is usually so blinded by his
memories of the distant cities Of more
romantic names and older story that
to ask him to recognize the brilliant
charm of mere New York street
market is too severe a demand.
To be sure, it is far call from the
exotic kaleidoscope of the bazaars of
Beirut and Damascus, Delhi and
Benares, Cairo and Samarkand, to
First avenue and Avenue A, Man
haitian. But it is only the unframed
and still myopic vision that can dis
Germ beauty nowhere save in the un-
familiar There is zest to be elected
1 from what may have been dubbed
commonplace that often amply re-
pays better than theAsual desultory
glance. Why not, then, try to enjoy
our own bazaars? The lesson is not
irksome and the saving in travelling
expenses is enormous.
Abandoning for a little the nervous
metropolitan habit of fast walking
you will have to, owing to the throngs!
stroll. say, from Eighth street to
Fourteenth street on First avenue, un-
hurrfedly weaving your way through
the dense crowds of the sidewalk.
These are the pushcart markets pa
irons. themselves an element of the
1 street bazaar's display, with their ra-
cial variety and sometimes almost
gypsy gay combinations of color in
their attire All along the curb are
ranged the well laden carts, under
umbrellas only partially obstructing
the sun which brings out the full
intensity Of hues of the heaped vege-
| tables and fruits.
Peppers, some green as ridgy mug
gets of FURNISHED malachite, act as
foil for the fierce Spanish scarlet Of
their neighboring array. Lemons
fling their superb massed brightness
into the color scheme as effectively as
the burning red of brilliant sunset.
Oranges are piled in stately pyramids
of orbed red gold, with here and
there a nothing of smoldering car
mine to betray the blood oranges
Creole fervor.
/ Corpulent grapefruit. yellow as jon
quill blooms, give pledge Of juicy tang
for humid days. And bananas offer
! dulcet nourishment in their benevo-
lent. sprawling hands. Clusters of
snowy onions, with luxuriant green
tops, would pass at little distance
for corsage bouquets of white roses.
Rotund cucumbers suggest haul Of
some plump green seabass with pale
muzzles.
Ting effect OF the exquisite deep blush
over their lucent cheeks. Pears prom
Use butter smooth luseiousness of
flavor beneath the chrome and GRIM
son of their glossy skins. And here
actually are pomegranates. some
with stout tan purses cut open to
Z show the glowing ruby treasure of
their pulp. Mounds of string beans,
some Jade green. others pale ocher,
suggest candy chips twisted in waxed
paper, and carrots rival the buds of
tiger lilies for orange CLEAN.
Plums, purple with waxen bloom
like an unmelting frost, others car
nelian and tawny buff, lie in prim
rows in their correct wooden boxes,
while baskets OF raspberries and cur
rants match their variant ruddiness
like children comparing slim sun
scorched shoulders after day on
the beach. Tomatoes trumpet their
scarlet challenge next 10 ramparts OF
glossy egg plants with their purple
ebony richness OF hue. superb as
mounded chest muscles Of great por-
phyry hided oxen of Admetus that
Apollo tended in his days Of earthly
service. And here dealer is auc-
tioning from a dray TO a laughing
crowd the dark green Zeppelin shapes
Of watermelons, sometimes split in
half to display their tempting glis-
tening meat and lsre the buyers with
its succulence.
On one of the neighboring corners
you may have your fortune told
either by stately milk white cock
atoo with yellow car plumes or by
little living emerald of a para
keet. which win reach from it's perch
at command Of the dark eyed Nea.
politan or Sicilian girl who exhibits
IL and extract with its curvs. beah
ian envelope from a box bel6 con;