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Show III I Amusing Caricatures of New York Typegj I ! The Brilliant French Satirist of Fashion- 1 able Society Discusses and Portrays S j with His Pencil the Oddities and ll Weaknesses of Our Women. 1 By RABAJOl. fl ! (In an Interview.) j 1 ! ' T STROLL througH the streets, the stores, yi, I ti hotels of New York, looking for -tfpes f ' of your American women. 1 make I sketches of the things that catch my eye and 1 give you the Lest of them. I , My mission is to caricature society. In Paris I j!' they consider It an honor to be caricatured ,f- i ! bv mc Unless one has some featuro that 'c !: lends itself to caricature one is not dlstln-it dlstln-it n guished. j ' :, The New York women are very handsome 1 ; ' ; admire them very much, but 1 lind that they j Ay are a trilie less feminine, less graceful, less j -.' chic, than our Parlsleiines. I- ' The New York girls look at a man with a I L boldness that is thrilling. Their look seems I 1 ; j lo be asking some question that Is perhaps not : ' 1 nattering to the man. It may meau "how long j L ; is your purse?" I am not sure. The look m seems to search one tnrough and through. . I I see two charmingly dressed girls coming h : ; down Broadway. They appear to regard mo : I with Interest. 1 assu-o an air of amiability ' ' and I twirl my mustache, as is the custom j I I ol me Frenchman wupn he realizes mat no is f an object of interest. They march up to me !. .' with an air of undiminished boldness and, be- , holu! l am obliged to dodge suddenly to avoid being trampled under foot by these handsome young Amazons 1 f: " , ' , 1 venture to say that the New York woman ; i ; does not live sufficiently for man. It Is living j i for man that makes our Parisiennes so charm- ! ' , i lug, so adorable. We know that whenever ( ' ' . j she puts a ribbon on, whenever sho adds the ! - slightest touch to her adornment, it Is wilh a ; I i ' view to its elfect on some man. i I j When I stroll about New York 1 am aston. U i ished at the evidences that woman is living ifor her own sex, that she considers herseir first. I see luncheons and banquets where all the guests are women. Amazing! "What can they have to interest themselves?" I ask myself. I i even see women dancing with one another, i That is too much, j The New York stores are filled with crowds j I of women, most of them spending the money of men, I presume. I hardly see a man there ; In Paris a woman, when doing her shopping ! would try to have her husband or some man' j with her In order to have the benefit of hu i approval and advice, j It is this habit-of keeping one eye iJxed on I man that makes the French woman so h-im, j auu contented. It ma be that it is the f-lhFZ 10 observe this priucipio of normality ho, makes so many Now York women look worrti i nid unhappy. 14160 t New Yonc womeu dress well. Their ta0 i excellent. They have as a rule a fine pSoi , as compared with the French women, n? utile matters of trimming aDd choi 0f eoloS they do not yet show the exquisite taste of the Parlsienr.e. Ul iae The New York women dress too much alike too many of them following some now stylo Instead of choosing what Is most becoming to the personality of each. , , FifA Gir " " The Types of Broadway. The "rapt, expectant, almost ecstatic, gaze of the Sady entering a tango realaurent,. to eat, but to dance," as. Seen by Rabajoi. j It is surprising how much the men and women look alike in New York. I have seen a number of young women whom at first sight I mistook for young men. The strong, almost masculine faces of the women are the chief cause of this impression. What are the New York men of wealth doing all day long? Some of them, I believe, are sitting sit-ting In offices laboriously pretending to work. They try in many ways to conceal the fact that they are doing nothing. It is impossible that all these rich men should have work to do. What Is the use of working when you are rich? The American man should not only do less work, but should learn to be proud of doing nothing. Then fewer American women would be forced to make one another unhappy. The- New York woman is in great need of being be-ing caricatured. She needs It even more than the Parisian woman, and I can assure you that I have done a great deal of good to my countrywomen country-women by my Tittle pictures and helpful suggestions. sug-gestions. A fault of the New York woman is that the older and fatter she is the more she tries to be In the extreme of fashion. I see a venerable lady of two hundred pounds wearing a tall plume that nods to the skies. It calls attention delightfully to her obesity. Another appears to have tied "her huihufiK fur coat around her waist. Still another Ui If a large collection of rugs and wraps tlediWlf her equator. m Many of these women would look ver rgJky if they wore quiet and dignified clotha Uitffi did not exaggerate the evidences of tlm aim! good living. There are several fashions o'tfrff moment that are only suited to tho young uSfe graceful, and even to them they are nonetS becoming. There must be a great consplrtvmi to make the New York women wear -irbit ti;Vy not suited to them. 1 I am surprised at the cheapness of liThjSiiKt New York. From what I had heard I eipKtwK to find that food was fabulously dear, but mm is all a mistake. W In the hotels and restaurants oN6wTortlK prices are little if any dearer than in theccttR spondlng class of establishments In PufuKi When you consider that incomes are coaiKinffi ably higher in New York than in Park, iMW prices hero must be regarded as really hnSl The food here is excellent, quito asgoodaWR the other side. iftfi I enjoy an excellent dinner In New Yw for $1.50. I do not believe I could getanytHim like it for the money in Paris. 'Ml |