Show Lights of New York Yort By WALTER TRUMBULL One of the fears of your our corre- corre correspondent I Is that when be he Is s some soine somewhere I the old home town for where here the else else Instance hell hell he'll forget and antl think hes he's still In n New York Should that hap happen ball bad Possibly Pos os Possibly fJ pen n it would be Just too sibly he would get his face mussed Certainly the mildest thin thins thing that would happen would be that Hint be would be told he had bad been brought up better The reason for that worry Is the bad manners of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Bad natI manners are contagious ious and your correspondent hns has been elbowed shin kicked shin shuttled about brushed brushe out of the Hie way and snarled at for quite some time now In justice to New l York It must be said that bad manners are arc by no means a distinguishing feature ot of the metropolis Yo Your r correspondent has observed Cd extremely bad batI man man- manners manners manners ners In Paris which once upon a time he considered a courtly and gracious city Bad nad manners have ha been thrust upon him In n the U S SA A at points quite remote from the Island of Manhattan But nut had bad man man- manners manners manners ners seem to be more universal here They are encountered up- up uptown uptown up uptown town and downtown all around the town They prevail on Park ave ave- avenue avenue nue just as they do on Delancey street One outstanding Instance Is lie e a desire of the New York York- Yorker York York-er er to get ahead of ot others As has been said often orten before time seems of greater mue value here than else else- ese ese- elsewhere elsewhere where The greater the crowds the greater the hurry Always there are those who advance ance themselves by the liberal use of ot elbows and sometimes the o old straight arm They may be only pint size or In build resemble a certain well known well make of or trucks But nut they try to get ahead Just the he same And In that endeavor or the female of ot the species Is far more dea ily than the male The subways are the finest cx- cx ex examples amples of bad manners to be found anywhere The race belongs not so much to the fleet as It does to the stron strong In It Is absolute equality of sexes Women and children are arc brushed aside when It comes to n boarding a train That Is some women Others are the ones who do shoving aside and they are just as pitiless with their own sex ns as they are with mere man Eleva Eleva- Elevators Elevators tors In busy office buildings s furnish much clinical material materia for those who desire to study the manners or lack of or manners mannel'S In New York So Sodo Sodo Sodo do theater heater and motion picture lob lob- lobules lobbies ob- ob obbes bies ules Much data can also be picked up In restaurants l Judging by a somewhat extended survey surey of New Nev Yorkers en masse masse- masse the Individual New Yorker Is apt to be quite another story the story the New Yorker If he lie Is s In a hurry thinks only of himself Traffic congestion would not be nearly so had bad were not that true In n case of collision collison It Is perfectly good form for the guilty one to bawl out the Innocent I I victim That Thai folds nolda true whether the violent meeting Is s between two cars or two pedestrians To 10 your correspondents correspondent's knowledge a n trod trod- trodden den ilen corn brings forth harsh re- re re- re remarks re remarks marks about feet teel taking up too ton much room or a glare that sub suL subdues subdues dues the Injured part party There are area area area a lot of towns where your corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent would hate to try to get gel getaway away with anything like that But it t cnn can be done here Much has hns been written about the frozen Insolence of theater box of- of office office of fice they men men they arc are a little more hu hu- hu man Irmo now with so many theaters dark dark-as as well as ns that of ot walters waiters doormen and others Your corre corre- correspondent correspondent Is willing to bear witness to the truth of or such charges lie He Is also w willing to bear witness to the fact that the local constabulary when Informing the motoring pub pub- public public lic lie of errors Is none too gentle In Invoice Invoice voice olce or words In n fact he could coull cite a great mass of or evidence of bad manners Not so much as tn in inthe Inthe the past however howe since there has been no little assimilation hence Jence that Ihal worry 0 1933 1533 Dell Bell Syndicate Service |