0 I n fiEW IE YORK I I NEW V YORK Oct 1 We Ve We who live so so so colso to toI to I the tinseled pageant pageant pa- pa geant cant of Manhattan are prone prone perhaps perhaps per per- haps to come to treat as commonplace commonplace commonplace common common- place those glaring phases of our city's life and tendencies that smite the observant visitor In it the eye Or writing of this and of that in New Yorks York's kal kaleidoscopic life lite we may fall fail to Interpret noted by the k keen en stranger strange So it is that I take the liberty herewith to reprint certain quotations quotations quotatIons quota quota- from the article of one IrvIng Irving Irving Irv Irv- ing Brant a western newspaperman newspaper newspaper- man appearing In a recent Issue of Editor and Publisher To 10 walk down Fifth avenue at this date in early September Is Isto Isto isto to encounter all the allurements that human genius c can n devise to extract the winged dollar from its uneasy resting place Fifth avenue then Is Is a symbol the of the age It stimulates and satisfies the spending urge Its overpowering beauty transcending the dreams of silken and r ruby iby laden India is soporific to the sense o of touch Now Nowhere ere else elEe except at atthe at atthe atthe the rIng ling of a prize fight is there thereso so vast an appeal to that state of mind in which h a 20 gold piece looks like a plugged nickel He tells teUs of w wandering in a Ritzy fur shop and learning that a mink might be had f for r a trifling The real basis pf pi my business the shopkeeper told him hint Is that people have so much money to spend they dont don't know how to spend it It I r strolled up and down clown the avenue ave ave- avenue avenue nue looking at the shops and shop shop- pers The simplest street street dress today is a glorious creation of chiffon or silk which would h have ve passed for a ballroom gown a few years ago For a single window displaying the quiet richness richness rich rich- ness of browns and wines there are a dozen gleaming with the colors colors colors col col- col- col ors of the rainbow The Theold Theold Theold old fashioned jewelry store with its its' display of wat watches hes and marble clocks its trays of rings and shelves of silver has sunk to oblivion ou- ou o J- J livion in the age of luxury y His shop is a blend of of th the the palace of Versailles and a Flemish l monastery I r stopped before a window that displayed an ideal outfit for a boy of 13 years years It Jt centered a large brass bound trunk forthe for forthe forthe the youthful traveler to a boys' boys boarding school upstate In Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switz Switz- erland or the Appalachians What is happening meantime around the block The Sixth avenUe avenue avenue ave ave- nue furrier in his dingy store beneath beneath be be- neath the elevated announces thata that a deposit of 5 will hold the most expensive fur in m his stock So the New York will go to work next winter in Hudson seal or silver sil sn sil silver ver vel muskrat and the last Instalment Instalment Instalment ment will be paid in the fall faU of 1928 s f f There you have Manhattan briefly through the eyes of a perceptive visitor And I 1 let him tell it because I know its it's all true and theres there's much more besides and I couldn't have told it half so well GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1926 NEA ServIce Inc