New Britain herald., 1926-03-16
HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK

that the metropolis Is place where citizens have a wonderful time.
 About sixty first class theatcrs, innumerable night clubs, htghfulutin' restaurants where food is q sidelinn, and all tho concomtants of Il giddy life generally, are held up as cvi- denco that the gay metropolis hus he other minor metropoh looking like lamenting Jeremahs on thu mourncrs bench
 One gets the impression that New
 Workers are great sports, an cnor-
 nous gathering Of voluptuous Hodonsts in city where frol.c- some jocundity is the eleventh and most important commandment.
 At the same time. New Workers pride themselves upon being efficient in business and commerce. Big bus- ness executives arc able to tear their hair and below at the office boys nt least six hours day. plumbers, bricklayers. linotype operators and other skilled mechanics are able to go through the motions for eight hours a day or less; clerks and stcnographcrs are fit and able for from eight 10 ten hours, and other hired hands rarely break down from the effects of the hangover from the night before
 How do they do it? Have New Workers solved the riddle of being fast workers at night and efficient workers by day? Is there something in inc Manhattan climate that causes an cffulgcnt night life 10 be an apt preparation for vigorous ef- forts by day?
 New Workers are able to look like supermen because they "ain't." Looking at New Workers from be- yond the fringe of committing towns is like trying 10 trace the movements of people upon another planet Things are not what they seem to be.
 The average New Yorker may look like a corpulent gardener of joy, a gargantuan gormand, an expert on dancing the Charleston and Q Mephistopheles among the fair
 But he isn't The average New Yorker is as much Of plodder as the average individual walking the numerous Main streets in Minnesota or Connecticut. He thinks in terms Of rent and living expenses, not in t,r rms of cover charges or orchestra chair tickets. Their jubilant night life consists mainly in getting a good nights sleep in a two-by-four apartment, and some of them get up as early as farmers.
 It Is the bloatcd transient visitors who gil1 the night in our blazing The boys who fill up the | big hotels, who are in town on their 1 annual, s@mi-annual or monthly | buying trips" the gentlemen from anywhere up to 800 miles away who ] slip q roll into their bill folds and jump on q rattler to rccupcrato and seek recreation in Now York.
 The average prosperous New Yorker can't compete with tn" visiting gentry. There are about 200, GOO of these in town at all times and it is these who keep the bright lights glowing, They wire their rrsrryations -rcgardlcss of prico- and keep the best seats warm whcrcv'r there is promise of rollick- ing visibility. Whats ton-spot to a New York visitor" About as import ant as a dime to the average New Yorker.
 The selatn citizen of keokuk Iowa, may b" model of restraint in his home town, but when he go"s to New York 10 buy lingerie he isn't ncgIccting subsidiary opportunities to lay a fat contribution at the feet of the goddess Of liberty.
 That's how New York has ac- 1uirod it's reputation of being the modern Babylon. The average native New Yorker knows as little about its famous night life as he knows about inc inside of the aquarium or the r. art museum. Nine-tcnths of the rN- ports live in the small towns; and i they're not saying much when they get back hum.'