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Show NO "MEN ABOUT TOWN." 4 As New York grows larger and more cosmopolitan certain Interesting social types disappear beneath the horizon. ; There is no place on earth where one Is so soon forgotten as In New Tork. No one, except those with very disagreeable and inconvenient memories, recalls anything any-thing which has happened beyond a few weeks or months at most. This Is or is not a consolation, as the case may be, and no one has. like the fabled Arab and his tent, so silently stolen away as the one omnipresent Man About Town. He was the type of success, too. and twenty years ago: today he Is almost akin to the dodo. There are plenty of spurious men about town these) days, but most of them are wine agents, "sure-thing" men and counterfeit srjprts. Pittsburg Dispatch. a |