Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-31
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BY CASUAL STROLLER

i NEW 1OHh.-Ine uTnfne
spooning season has developed the
mean, sour-tempered cynic. This
iperson-the meanest man in New
York this week-took an umbrella
and wrote a pessimistic message on
one of the nice gravel walks of Pros
pect Park, which is to Brooklyn
what Central Park Is to Manhattan.
He picked out Lovers Lane and a
moonshine night and scrawled this
for all lettering couples to read:
Warning: Love is blind-do not
marry young"
The old time medicine man has
been supplanted by his modern
successor. This is an anatomy ex-
pert who appears nightly on a
Broadway corner. He carries with
him a human skeleton and numerous
charts Of the human spine with
which he mounts a platform and be-
gins h%aranguing the crowd.
SO
Are telephone girls purely me-
ch~anical?
An ambitious newspaperman tried
to telephone w. Frank McGee, Of
w ICCI OuNhtl-6l1OQ IdItiC, dtHlilO
Ludlow street Jail. But the number
Worth 4302-didn't answer. Bush
ness of getting the chief operator.
For tedious minutes the chief OPP
orator tries to get the number. Then
she reports in a business like tone of
voice:
"They don't answer at Worth 1902.
It's too late this afternoon-maybe
those summer closing hours. ......
What? 1900. Well, I don't care if
1t is a jail
ling! Disconnected.
There's at least one old fash
toned porch left in Manhattan. 1t
has easy chairs, sofa cushions and
a porch swing. Some scraggly wisps
of morning glory Chamber over the
side while the yard in front boasts
two lilac bushes. The porch adorns
a boarding house in the Roaring
Forties' and chorus girls make their
home there.
Some charming girls of Gotham
have hit upon a new means of
pin money. Wealthy spendthrifts
seeking to make certain rapid circles
have found the way immeasurably
shortened If they can appear about
town with well known persons of the
chorus.
Consequently purely business like
deals are arranged. The lady agrees
to appear with the gentleman after
show hours at any well known
cabaret. The gentleman pays a fiat
sum for the free advertising which
her presence may attract to him.
l. thousand dollars, it is said, was
the sum recently charged for a sin
gle supper appearance.
What's the biggest thrill in New
York? Shooting down the long
est chute-the-chutes at Coney ISL
and? Dropping in an elevator from
the tower to the first floor of the
Woolworth Building? Exciting, all
right, says a western boy spending
his vacation in New York, but these
are nothing compared to a ride on
the Ninth avenu III as it swings
around a curve over 10th street,
way above the house tops. It's n
of the highest transit points in town.
New York's the most disappoint-
ing place in the country. Instead
of being the city of speed, fast
life and perpetual rush, it's one of
the slowest towns ever. This is the
judgment of a Californian visitor.
after her first trip to the metropolis.
from the moment that her taxi
stopped at the first crossing near the
railroad station, until she had to
stand in line and wait half an hour
before she was able to get to the
ticket window for her return ticket,
life in the Big City was just n
wait after another-in the subway.
cafeterias, theatres, buses, the public
library, and even at the street cor
library and even at the street cross
ings while walking.
49,
The financial district is watching
with interest the progress of a
romance between a leading Wall
street broker and Rheba Crawford.
late of the Salvation Army. The
lovely Rheba, who some time since
held all Broadway enthralled at
street corner meetings, is now con-
quoting an uplift campaign SINGLE
handed.
The broker, in the meantime. Is
endeavoring to win Rheba by means
OF furs jewelry and other little
knlck-knacks which formerly have
peer found ~efficacious with ladies OF
the show world.
But Rheba will-have none of him.