Show N 6 1 Ii 1 t eI ir n N NY ew Y York or k I J p NEW EW YORK rattan snap- snap eh shots W v I doorway stand three dwarfs quarreling q over a sideshow con- con tf ct Their voices barely I leave ea the the sidewalk and only by liste Us- Us pr 1 te ning J intently may I eavesdrop on tf their troubles The big stiff It 17 r r said 1 was getting out of the Tom rom Wl Thumb class said there'd N te i been three fellows smalle rn me f around looking for work in a a. week to take less money They r r always x pull ulI the same noise Hes He's r v just trying to get me to come down do tt jI and youve you've got to stand with merti me rt i ir just do that and well we'll get the t t 3 same circuit w And And so down V the street to a little the hoe the wall where an over- over AI bland girl bangs hour by hour at ata ata a piano while the sheet music covers cov coy W era ers shriek their colors and titles 5 I from the tiny window wIndo I have passed there time after atter time and always the same girl banging at the thet t same came ame piano and a couple of drug drugstore drugstore store sheiks getting t tie the e latest dope on what to play the girls next Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day clay on their ukuleles ku eles e eThen Then the window where the spotlessly cutie bakes bake's grid- grid v dle cakes cakes in the window hour by Hour And a a. few doors down that other V where three girls roll ron ciga- ciga hour by hour while the Idlers gape And not far up street another window where a most uncomfortable able chimpanzee moans and frowns fro and bangs cage and window in rage against his hIs' captivity and the discomfort discomfort discomfort dis dis- dis- dis comfort of his quarters And more crowds gape and laugh Somehow this poor creatures creature's misery strikes them as funny I Because their own own perhaps is not so funn funny At least to them i And another fellow v chained to a a. window by the necessity of dis displaying displaying dis- dis playing hour after hour bour some safety dIS 1 razor device Instinctively you hasten to another another another an an- other street where time doesn't seem to chain so many creatures to windows All of them look so self- self conscious and unc uncomfortable most uncomfortable most of all the ape GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1927 27 NEA Ser Service ice Inc I |