Show I f i 7 i I Greenwich Village Village Tearooms I I 1 f. f iI W. W w. w Wo Reasons ons Why They Famous I j s I 1 d' d rr r I. I 1 r r 4 rd i I s kt l t I l' l lr iS iSi 1 i I JI I 1 7 1 o f wy w- w G r t 1 t a I I Rom Romany ny Marie Me and nd nd Gr ace GoC Goow express eI arms aims TOP Ir tearooms I II I I I By Djuna Barnes Baines I GREENWICH VILLAGE New lork Tork Aug 3 Fame a-Fame Fame of Greenwich tIla village e tearooms spreads far This I may explain the tha frequency with which women at a lo loss loo s for an nn occupation I pation patron 01 or in search of oC romance l eme here to start atari tearooms Women without homes lonely ambitious young ounG frivolous frivolous come come ome comedown down to the tho village and hang out lh their lr signs ns For one It is 18 a means to life Ufe for another a means to forgetfulness for tor yet jet et another a aVa Va way to solve the tho problem prIMm of oC four Cour children needing needing clothes and food and schooling I And for one It Is the only modern means toward tho the great Teat abandon abandon- the tho life Ilfe of oC the gypsy gypS From Far Rumania On Christopher street Just out of I the ho roar of Greenwich avenue lives Romany Marie Marte A Rumanian a n aK gypsy gypsy-a K GYP ps a robust black e eyed eod od ear- ear ringed woman Some Somo seventeen years a ao ago o she and her husband decided to walk from Rumania to Vienna wh whence they the could get Jet to America I Telling fairy tales fortunes and andI I those sublime lies which arc are called folk folk olk tales they reached their destination desti desti- nation Now this girl Irl was born In fn Ina I a Ii forest and In the tho forest grew rew many man beautiful and Innocent flowers and anda a few Jove lovely I dangerous dan blossoms She Rhe brought seed of tho the lily Illy and roots of ot the tho twining green vines vines and and andI I I when she came tp America and did not know which way WilY to turn she II I thought of ot these seeds coeds and wen went t among the New Yorkers Yorkers' homes an and d made them gardens Then people began coming to he her r house to alp sip gypsy gypsy- gypsy brewed brewed ed tea There were vere many who said to her Get you ou a tea shop Marie Maria and anel we r e will pay you for tor what you OU give u us e now Time to Dream Drum And now hero she aho Is Marie what do you ou feel feol is la the tho mission o of t tho rho tearoom 1 I asked herTo her herTo To bring people together together for for them It Is time In which to dream- dream but for tor meshe me me- me she Bhe he shrugged her shoulders For me the tearoom IK Is I the tho divine vampire It Is s the file way nay of the gypsy gypS for tor there Is nothing like a tearoom to bring out tho the f gypsy inman In Inman man and all nil good men are arc gypsies Not so 80 thinks Grace GraCa Godwin on tho the other hand Site She of The Tho Garret Garret Gar Gar- Garret ret Overlooking the tho Square Adolescence and Idiocy 1 Tho The chief reason for my garret isto Is Isto Isto to pave save young girls If It I did not havo th garret I would not come Into such close contact with young women The They come down to the vii vil lage where there thera is no Mrs Sirs Grundy and no rules and think they are expressing their Individuality while In reality thc they are expressing their thelt i adolescence adolescence- and Idiocy r Ive I've c sent I a goodly number of them back to their mothers When people como come to my 11 I garret arret they come for refreshment for tor relaxation for fora a Q quiet chat Yes Yell most of rn my eo D to are u p to I I too once onto believed In radicalism but Im I'm bock back to tho the other belief now And what w do you consider r th thA h most necessary quality for lor the tho successful successful successful suc suc- maintaining of a tearoom roo Knowledge of ot nature nature to to run a garret you OU should havo had at least ono one child child I I have four tour You ou ou should have havo read Ems Ellis but you ou I should have forgotten him you I should have listened to free love conversation so 80 as to know how to avoid it it and find you OU should havo have a husband husband hus hus- band who who can CAn draw as mine does I hus-I that you may make mako the walls at- at trae e. tI tIe e |