| Show A TASTE OF GAMBLING How a New ° York Man Experienced Experi-enced a Sale Sensation A MORAL FOR SPECULATORS Do Yon TrcatA Story of City Experience Fashions in Faces as Photographs Show Them NEW YOKE Oct 11S9L ISpecialcorres pondence cf THE SUNDAY HERALD The other Say when Deacon White failed and Wail street was in an uproar a New York man tilted back his chair and said to another man manDid Did you ever know that I was once taken with the speculative fever No I didnt said his friend Well I once had it bad I studied the I situation scrutinized cruse and effect in the j 1 I progress of affairs in tho street and I came to the conclusion that I had a natural faculty j fac-ulty for successful speculation Mind you I had never bought a share of anything or I a bale or bushel of anything in my life But I figured it out that there was a philosophy in these things and that the man who has the gift for mastering this philosophy re eardless of any mere faculty in detail is the man who wins All this I reasoned out Yet I am a cautious man and I bethought me that perhaps it would be best to feel my way to experiment at first before actually placing myself in a position to lose anything more than little time How could you fro that Ill tell you I mentally went into the market I surveyed the field atulose quarters quar-ters and bought as my judgment dictated Do you mean No I dont mean that I actually spent any money I simply imagined the purchase pur-chase you understand It went no further than my books for I opened an account in i these imaginary purchases Then I held or sold as my judgment dictated I risked some pretty heavy longs and tackled shorts with a boldness which my confidence confi-dence and my actual financial safety helped me to use I held on or sold in pursuance to the philosophy of speculation as I bad reasoned it out It was exciting I can tell you even if I had no dollars planked down on the gamble I kept this up for a year At the ond of that time I sat down to my accounts to figure out where I would be if inbtead of Imngibary speculations I had actually been risking mymOtJe in real traf fic on change And of course you found that you could have made big stakes if you had only hI found nothing of the kind I found that I would have been hopelessly ruined three times over You may bo sure that I congratulated myself on my caution if I could not be as flattering to my speculative sagacity I was a wiser without having to be a much sadder man There is a philos J wrVnrSPrs ioIIoJ I ophy in this incident and I think it would be a mighty good thing if some men who plunge into Wall street without baring in I any way tested their capacity for the pecu liar kind of warfare carried on there could bo induced to try a little speculation on paper Believe mo itisa superstition that imaginary speculations always succeed It is not all luck it is science and being science skill will determine the result every time I didnt have the genuine skill and I didnt succeed I think I have taken the moral duly to heart DO TOO TREAT It may as well be confessed that the anti treating movement so far as New York is concerned Is a complete failure The movement started out with a certain lusty aggressiveness Nobody was to treat anybody to anything Primarily nobody was to treat anybody to anything to drink for said the author of the propaganda with a wisdom no one theoretically questions to treat to drinks is to presume on a similar privilege and obligation in all the treated and the result will be that a man who wishes or at least needs but one drink will take six or eight according to the number in the treated group It is possible that I some people may have tried to in reduce the new everymanforhimself principle in I drinking But the actual instances havo never been satisfactorially located A strain of ambition to bo thought well of not to mention a strain of natural cowardice in i every man has made it a practical impossibility impos-sibility to enforce the nontreating code The reform had to begin outside the regions of conviviality A good many tried the reformed re-formed way of paying car faro Dutch treat was always the phrase for this method Some people with what authority I never discovered called it the Philadelphia Philadel-phia plan Mon occasionally went out to dinner and instead of paying on the alternating alter-nating treat plan paid each for his own meal This practice undoubtedly prevails Ito I I-to a certain extent now And advanced people still struggle against conventional ideas of politeness and generosity But among the great average the plan fails Men and women especially women struggle ridiculously in the horse car before the pitying contemplation of the conductor who is skeptical enough to believe that one person in every pair is secretly willing to let the other pay but makes a show of getting get-ting at the conductor first Everybody who thinks willing to agree that treating of any kind when it does not shield hogs or tempt hypocricy is a downright down-right nuisance But all the same nine people peo-ple out of every ten never even question the ancient methodhogs hypocrisy apd all As for New York in particular it has entered on the great annual orgy of treat ing For five weeks the wholesale treating of politicians will liberate rivers of beer and lakes of whisky This is tho saloon keepersand particularly the bartenders + harvest One of the taxes on candidature is an exorbitant price for drinlts No despotism des-potism is more complete than that exerts by the saloon keepers during the election season The most hardened candidate i is I often staggered by the lump sum charge for a round in some miserable groggery but he dare not utter a complaint It is one of the amenities of running for office undo our ingenious political system VVIIAT WE ARE COMING TO A New Yorker a parson in fact tell s me a story which has he thinks not been in print This is the story A venerable lady from rural parts cam to New York to see the sights She was a sagacious and inquiring person and while she was thoroughly steeped in the conservatism conser-vatism of a quiet country community she had made up her mind that when she came to the city her personal prejudices on the moral or aesthetic side should not prevent her from opening her eyes and seeing what was going on in the world as the world is illustrated in New York The old lady said to her niece whom she was to visit during her metropolitan so journ Jennie I want you to let me see all the things I never see up in Briggs junction junc-tion I wanter kinder look around and see how people live and what they do down here you know and I want you to take moo mo-o places and get me around so that I can kinder size up things when I get baok Jennie assumed the responsibility implied by this request After trotting the old lady I about the city during the day she took heron her-on tho first evening to hear a talk by Bob Ingersoll The old lady heard Ingersolls theological analysis without flinching Other people warmed up and applauded and others drew into their shell ascowling But the visitor from Briggs Junction did not commit herself her-self She simply said nothing and sawed wood Jennie was a little surprised not to hoar a comment of some deprecatory kind But nothing was said the old lady retiring for the night in a state of obvious mental activity ac tivity On the next evening niece Jennie took her aunt to hear a dress reform lecture by Jeanness Miller It would be difficult to say which seemed the more radical to the rural conservative Ingersolls attack on ecclesiasticism ec-clesiasticism or Mrs Millers ripping up of old dress ideas But aunty said never a word during or after the lecture That night Jennie saw the old lady safely bestowed in her bed She had kissed her I good night and was turning to leave the room in something of that luminous silence which had prevailed on the previous oven ing when the venerable occupant of the bed heaving a deep and troubled sigh gasped Ahl I Jennie what is the world acoming tot I No hell and no shimmies I THE BATHERS LAST DIP The remarkable number of warm days during September nowhere e produced amore a-more curious result than in the prolonged activities at Coney island Coney island had been considering itself illtreated by the weather July and August were entirely too cool for trade Very warm days were the exception and every body at Coney island who is interested in crowdsand who is not down th ro3 became be-came positively morose by the time Sep tember 1 arrived But September instead of the few spasmodic spas-modic hot days early in tho month which New Yorkers learn to look for has kept up a peculiarly summery temperature None of the weather experts public or private has any record of such a September It is beyond all orthodox precedent Up tow to-w thin a few days of tho end of the month the sultriness continued These conditions greatly discomforted people who had hurried hur-ried home from the mountains but they have delighted Conoy island people who were as you might say standing with the closing shutters In their hands paused in i astonishment put away the shutters brushed up things again and have actually been doing so much more business during September than anybody had any right t go expect that they are quite mollified in their retrospective glance at the actual summer season Crowds linen continued to besiege the Now York boats Ice cream has been tasting tast-ing seasonable even on the breezy pier The outdoor concerts have retained a picturesque pictures-que popularity People who are so curiously curi-ously constructed as to be able to enjoy life at a West End hotel are hanging on with a willingness that is charming the proprie tors The dime museum freaks who expected ex-pected to be chased back to New York on the 20th have been grinding in freakish de light at the unexpected prolongation of their seashore tenure The merrygo rounds have been humming a cheerful tune and the man who has been shouting in a steam whistle falsetto for the elevated railway rail-way has risen at least three tones on his upper register under the influence of the unexpected rush Down on the sand it has been delightfully warm at a season when it generally begins to get inhospitably chilly The bathers are taking their last dip They are taking it as if in realization that it is an unexpected I pleasure Rockaway and Long Branch too have I been enjoying this advent of the unexpected The amount of September bathing has everywhere broken the record People who fish a good deal September and who generally gen-erally expect to do some of It in an overcoat over-coat have been adding a swim to the conventional con-ventional excitement Yes September has been an unexpected month Thousands of the nabobs who got canght in town have been swearing at it i viciously But many thousands more have had a good deal of outofdoor satisfactipn out of its unexpectedness FASHIONS IN FACES Oae of tho things that people do who have plenty of time on their hands is stroll up Broadway and study the photographs ex hibted in the show windows All manner of windows now display portraits por-traits of statesmen and soldiers and actresses ac-tresses and virtuosi and ladies who have married decayed European counts and every grade of professional beauty Music stores run rather to musical celebrities but take the cold edge off the severe professionalism profession-alism of such a display by scattering about a few types of people who are nothing i in particular but who have been talked about 8 good deal There is a certain fashion in faces Just now the fashion seems to be for a sentimental senti-mental Early English type Our American Amer-ican stage women are affecting this style and sometimes with a very fetching success It is hard to tell tho English from the American Amer-ican beauties so clearly does fashhion conventionalize con-ventionalize both varieties Julia Marlowe makes a hit 1n her effort to look like a Walter 1 Wal-ter Stott heroine Corinne is of a style to have pleased Byron Marie Wainwright has a face to fit some romance of the Elizabethan Eliza-bethan period Lillian Russell is modern in her beauty and manages to still have the most popular face of the group Mane Tempest again is of the romantic order and is very popular with sentimental portrait por-trait gathers The Countess of Dunlo and long list of titled Americans are coveted on imperial cardsby the nouueait tclie e and Anglomanic multitude The burlesque peopleMaria Jensen Louise Bandet Annie An-nie Meyers Della Fox Florence St John Nellie Farren and the rest are always popular pop-ular with the kind of young men Bronson Howard satarizes in his Henrietta who wish to appear to be very wicked and heighten the illusion by having a naughty array of photographs about their dressing table MATT LAMAH |
