The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1920, Page 37

What Is a New Yorker?’ Playwright Rhodes Says He— “Forgets City’s Past; Careless of Its Future;”’ “Is Notably at Ease With Pleasure;”’ “Accepts City’s Role ‘Siren City.’’’ And Declares ‘‘Life Is So Full, So Free, It’s Almost - Ill-Natured to Be Poor in New York.” By Marguerite Dean. Copyrteht, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) oN YORK is a grabbag in a booth at the World's Fair, but there Can You Beat It! The New Fork Rrenina Word) - Y LLGET ) i \ te ( TICKETS ): 9, By Maurice Ketten is nothing you may not hope to pull from its depths, “New York has from Revolutionary times accepted with equa- "nimity the role of Siren City. »w York is notably at ease with pleasure. “New York does its best to forget its past and to be carcless of its gature.” ‘These are some of the eptgrams on the Empire City as penned by Harri- son Rhodes in his entertaining new book, “American Towns and People” lounge at the windows of exclusive ; clubs, and fair women cut coupons at Tnefdentally, It is a refreshing thing fashionable banks. Life seems indeed to read the impressions of somebody worth living, ‘The whole town who knows a trif_le more about us Even children and nurve-maids in the *than do the foreign celebrities who Park seem more ei ngly c! bilginely before they have WRocent and spirited than elsew murmur obligingly, before they ag if they, too, felt the call of h: * left Quarantine, “Your tall buildings ness.” are wonderful—your women are the Next to vitality, Mr. Rhodes most beautiful in the world!” Ido among New York's lures its tah sgatye ; manipulation of money, nét know if Mr, Rhodes was born In ““wrne shop-girl may have but one New York—he says nobody ever 8— dres, uit it is in the latest but I am sure he understands that style. is ever more than two while you can't help where you were Weeks behind the fashion in New ae York. e do not regulate their born (your parents being the guilty eSpenaitures according to their ine arties), you've nobody except your- comes; they regulate their incomes self to blame if you don't live in the according to their expenditures, or ot which “with great tranquillity try to. An extra cylin in the motor . me P xtra ho Vall Stree assumes that it is the most habitable thee is aii Life ese fe ree place in the coun : that {t seems almost illenatired tobe ‘ow York,” as Mr. Rhodes truly poor in New Yor out, “knows very little about Amoni oth ae advantages of metro- Be NEAL, t America should know cane and of dressing for dinner with- KN —_» O*HARA. pmethi: about New York. New out being a jest to the populace, nes York is the only place any one mi- Universality of the custom of din atta ; cosmopolitan restaurants, PRG HDaaE OO hRCeeL LUCHA Oa h Seay tate iitee ve ORE is no ter : man’s be using his dots for eye grates to, with the exception of Wash toent hotels, the many possibilities for HERE is no terminhl for man's be using ton, No one since Benjamia enjoyment even if you are not in “so genius. We no sooner get and his dashes for eyebrows and ‘rhe toles ranklin has ever moved to Phila- the nearness tol pa ee ee ea ee hia, and, with the exception of treet h one his own New York! VieWS of the annual Elks’ rade uinph for some few who brought a spectal a Mr. Rhodes does not mention what to from the Dime Palace in Bangor, Me., cheek by wire to a distant city and erary baggage, no one has ever ‘set- me are the supreme’ délights of the to the Dre. led’ in Boston, Chicago has a few city: its sheer beauty, the lift of tow- H coeur. ‘ : ipa ike t might be €T$ against blue sky us one walks Diego when along comes a guy to accessions from what thee, but, STs City Hall Park, the jewelled gend pictures by wire. ed the Chicagoan province, but, radiance of Broadway nights, and, sec- bg 1, Chicago to so many of its. cndly, the unti-Puritanical tolerance, when you can toss a photo s sata guy you ha indigenous inhabitants is a Wway- a result of which there are fewer to the operator in New York and and let him pay the charges. ‘ ig a busybodies to the square block in New ‘ fs i ' 7 * ) 5 ary on on the road, A way-station York than in any other spot on the ve it sent to St. Louis with only a new invention will have many use , of course! 0. P. campaign committees can vice continent. few mistakes in the eyebrows. ¢ ts, in short, the MeccA of As for the author's unanswered ques- Hanging pictures by wire is an send faces of candidates to Georgia day rates for fear of tangling up the without endangering regular service. se United States. Every New tion, “What fs a New Yorker?’ I |) ; RY 0G % these United sae ee et, Lea Svould say that true citizenship in New 14 trick, but sending ‘em by wire is gna 5 ey from Waukegan, lii—ad- York ts like true marriage—for love a fresh caper. Old Sammy Morse, their necks. When the travelling Ag who invented everything in the tele- salesman lands in Milwaukee for two graph busiriess but colect messages, or three days he will wire his face “VENUS IN BLAC K”’ WOMAN OF MYSTERY AT SPANISH BEACH. point —, Bait Copyrigi se Pub) ie in. i ig, World.) ng Co. never suspected that some day they'd every night 10 the home office so the 192 N ph companies have | following rates fo cience when they send a mitting pictures by wine: ope—and mouths. It will certainly be a tri- cued the ‘tran yrows, 10 cents a hundred for day serviee; Theatre in San have it cashed at both ends, 20 cents a thousand at night. Dim or the first time wv ples, 11 cents ¢ That's some quit eating puppy biscutt it will be not more than two ce, day or night ywed to a cus tomer, Noses, 80 cents a square Inch. Roman noses at cable rates Whis ker $1 a thousand for night eer- selence » to make fac sta to New Yo! New Yor Whiskers will not be sent a Florida The company has arranged to send all women's pictures through Baton Rouge for retouching. Red hai and not of convenience mits it, But why? What is the lure 4nd not ¢ tence. eee ahae ‘draws MY viche talisman that ‘American Towns and People” is hat draws Vily-cslightly to. para- Published by Robert M. McBride & Co. phraso Jullus Cacsar—had each New r 1or_ be Yorker, male or female, 1 ne of the six million here thn first 4 i jn the ttle Alpine village from which h sho sprung 2 of the reasons are suggested noses bie will not be accepted for transmis- By Rx L.. ston through the State of Kansas, ry, Pictures may be sent collect to art Hie "NS CARDELL . collectors The company assumes Rhode! Comaright, 1920, by The Pree Fybishing Co, protestor, “You never encourage to be an art want him to be ® no responsibility for damages to fea- “Perbup: he chief impression pips Salles talent In your own ohildren. I have real he artist, and he's to work 4, curred bi ling ires, etn the soeris makes,” he 66 HAT’S the use to try tO p14 ie 'y pretty girl Willie drew, and study. For a 1 Uo 1 hy ae Tae is the vivacity of its life, It have a librar: FOMGIKGD ee re pelea’ with noRAd alta Hh ihienit nheasaniel to vOnIe HANG ! rraphs of soubrette their t test expression of our aire Veer sanlatille ook Te ee f Naer” Mit costume subject to delay for ational joie de vivre. For the most help h nd which with it 1s genius, M : ' re La SP ristic moment of this quality @t » chalk himse ht before your “Clara Mudridge-S t e insp on by the wire chic vou would not cite Broadway at What Mr, Jarr called a rary” eves on the parlor mantel, and you was ma ised to da ff AWe sare’ We hight but Fifth Avenue by day. The was that socket in the side-wall of jaye never said a thing!" P RenuReni aint ; sparkle of this famous street 18 per- the parlor into which flat dwellers Ee Hy a . may out Na largely due to the New York eink ‘ Set Well," sald Mr. Jarr, t like them he ‘ ull sa tions, but we the largely dtce aro never perfect, @cnerally insart s neat-ftting upright | O00 mie ts 3 AWcilin’ ae td arin ahd ; ns. bi t ne ng the world's great cities piano and then eall it “the music wes e a : : y of n in American metropolis is singularly room.” e when did you restrain you ; entors are transm z our senses | t t is flooded vi une ms ‘ ske Mr Ja a t a five yeu | fortunate, Tt is flooded with #Un- But the Jarra’ piano was out in Asked Mra : Dy ele ! On the telephone we und on its b days the a ead Mt dare did not answ and ald risk being 1 isp and tonic quality main salon, and Mr. Jarr had 4), tt ‘i Near by Ww By colle tactt understanding, !l- ca some amall boc 1 3 i a ‘ . essed and sad people keep off Fifth ornamental but extremely useless "What : ile 008, iss or On a bright morning there 4, Tin thet tanliy ee reailed hp for f vay ' v nin vis ne 1s we e no ng the street's gay intoxi- desk int ne SOE . never lo t your old books, And if That hat 7 1 eplied ite hn. ‘The most expensive shops in Hbrary, Re ee ee ce aiatie aM & UG HA vel Nis world are cle ut hand, the best frere—cause of his prot Wee good will they do to encou apes yn it rilves? Why d h The only thing y le tauranta near by, Brave Men Master Willie Jarr surrounded by a foe eee ee and literary Wo" 1 . ; 1 © fx it 20 we can tust clutter of paper, pencils, colored 1") Uthat aia Wille | Redo ok a vime. by wire and smell! ‘That w DOWN! chalks and a box of cheap water ooo oat antist pulled off by and bye. And ae Ne colors and a glass of water for saine tical : , Pp Migne luelcnva ces Publishing Oo Master Jarr was comunitting Ie'd better be a gaat iy nber an ae ; be ing emma . 4 Has a his mother called “art.” ure of his gakes,' muttered. Mtr ane alld i : { SORROWING ONE: . “T sup) intend he shall " up connection h Montrea If the world reviles you This epnaisted of putting carbon “AIT | BUR s , ; ; ecutes you and says @ paper under book illustrations and ? y vs : with other prominent Canadian — citte ‘8 pout you, then carefully eo mleone the line i ve atihy ay replied M r bay that happens th i ler the tree $ the pleture with a hard pencil, that “(eod books and good music 1 1 will 1 and Barly e oH : host sticks @ Sheet of drawing pu beneath ‘ Senet a ' ae picture and the carbon she And M rked buck a volored Hist 1 ¥ ad BLOROP “where lowe put it when There is certai » Jiny ian r i Always, ‘or goodness’ sake! Don't be so Come ne L didn't mean to hurt | t fra. ® Oh, yea, w han. of aan whom t ALBPALMA SMUTH testy about every littio thing,” pe- your fevlingy about sald Mr. J&rr jt in the Ib as Wiille's Christmas “0tloveme : It looks like the be: ant lg incognito has driven nea t marked Mrs. Jarr to (he paternal repymtantiy, "But if Willie 1s going gift, to yout 8 yet to come! ly frantic ubappeased curiosity, i t bs { ° 4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1920 . Is a Girl a ‘‘Sissy’’ Who Refuses to Smoke? © Some of Them Think So, 4 BUT— By Fay Stevenson. Copyet by The Prose Pubitshing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 2 SA GIRL a sy” because she refuses to smoke? © * ; Because her friends all inhale dainty little gold-tipped cigafettes: and carry jewelled cigarette cases need she feel that she is “a weale sister” and quit There was a time (and’ that time isn't very far off) when colle boys felt that they simply HAD t smoke or be called the “college Now, that same question is up to the girls, Shall they be vanilla ce cream bables or shall they smoke and prove themselves good sports? "1 don’t like to smoke, but every- body's doing It, wo I Just got Into the habit," I heard a sweet-faced litte thing whisper to another girl, as the two were speeding home on the subs way, And that ix just how mogt girls started, : But, according to Dr, Clinton B. >. 6 Kast 37th Street, when once a gir) gets the taste for tobacco she can never give it up. iris are simply crasy about smoking,” Dr. Achorn told me, “and it isa baby Achorn of } more dangerous them than for men, A more opportunity for habit for woman has smoking than a mat more likely to induls 8 especially true of the A man ge in nine cases out of ten throws his y at ithe He probably takes smoke, but during and ts much to excess. “This married woman es to business and clmar or cigarette stub av door of his office. an after-dinn the morning shed to give vent. to arr s too busy and too tobacco a “But a woman has all the cares and responsfbilities of the home upon her shoulders, If the bills don't come out right, the laundress doesn't show up or she is troubled, she takes It out in smoking. In the afternoon she probabil ulls upon some of ‘her friends and as tbey chat they smoke pumerous cigarettes. And then In the evening she Is at it again,” ‘Many women claim that tobateo aulets thelr nerves and this is also what many men smokers Hasn't tobacco more or less of a soothing quality?" I asked — Dr, Achorn, not because Tam in favor of ‘COURTSHIP e—=AINTD : MADRDIAGE Yo Byer VINCENT el 66 TEAR Miss Vincent: About a year ago | met a young lady whom | dearly love. Untortunately, she loves my brother, who cares nothing for girls, and | am positive he does not love her... If only she could see! {| should be very gratetul ‘or your advice. 2. Z, 2." Hlave you called upon the young ady or ever shown her any ¢ al uttention? ‘Phat is the only way you can make dlize the situation “Dear Miss Vincent: A young gentleman of my acquaintance proposed to me at a very unfo Knowing that | haa ler, he came to the house unexpectedly and after my caller left he proposed. | feel that he was spying on me and he said before he married me he would have to reform me. Of course | could not accept a pro- posal like that. Now he has pro- posed to me in an entirely ditfer- ent way. Do you rights matters? UNCERTAIN.” 1 do not think that the young man, nt to “spy” upon you, although he may have been a It ous Hygwever, he did not hav ght he would 1” you, and right in rejecting such @ Now that he has changed 1 were proposal his tactics and proposed in the proper way, | think you muy consider his ofier if you eare for him “Dear Miss Vincent: | have been going about with a young lady for two years: in fact, wi are secretly engaged. Every time | call upon her either her mother or father stays in the room, which makes it very unpleasant. What can | do? SLIM.” © mother and father are fied in chaperoning ¢ Why not asic the parer ‘ to ann e Your engagement mstead would probably find then that they d be less watehfu NEWEST INVENTION from t ries Idle to enable 4 barbe down at his work, moving himself and his patron about at will n a new book for nirror that re pages and completes only half of which are o be iin Japan fe 4s and milltary Attachment for rmits a cork to be but prevents It r. Achorn, a Specialist, Says ‘ Is More Sensible if She ‘‘Doesn’t’’ quite “out of it,” If she refuses to follow sult? sid ‘ woinen sinoking but simply becdiike £ wanted to plead their case, “This may be true with men but BE have my doubts In regard to wot id replied Dr. Achorm “And I would to say that while there are plenty men who buy women drinks clgarettes they have more respect: the woman who keeps her finge stained and ther lips free froi aroma of stale tobacco. “Nor do I believe the woman ts keen mentally who. smokes woman who refrains from ni added Dr. Achorn, “Man has had a very keen intuition, or been as quick as woman with ‘natural instinct’ and it may just! his long use of tobacgo wilh jurred his brain, But, even pus! the mental or physical effects (ond a woman's throat is not as well idapted to the use of tobacco aia man's), there is another side to ogh= sider, “It is the children's side. ever I see young woman smo®i always hope that her little ol may never get such # picture of There is a certain abandonm' carefree mosphere, which rounds the woman smoker, It tipy be artistic, but It certainl finement.” 7% In a recent article published in the fortnightly Review we learn t 1] Cut-purse, @ notorious womaniof gland during the seventeenth cen- tury, who was also known as Mary Frith, was the first woman to smoke. Since then many women have fn- dulged. About fifteen years ago It was aj crime or misdemeanor for a womah to smoke. ‘Those who secretly indulged wore rubber coats and epps so that they might still retain a fem- inine daintiness. Now we see fall types of women enjoying tobaeeo. tures come from Paris | with men smoking pipes as the latest Davega’s You Can Purchase This Genuine $125.00 Victrola |] Balance on easy weekly or monthly paymente | NO INTEREST NO EXTRAS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Four convenient stores: 125 West 125th St. Near Lenox Ave, Open Evenings, 111 East 42d St. Commodore Hetel 831 Broadway Near (3th Streat 15 Cortlandt St. Nour Broadway