Show I NEW YORK SEEN AS BIG CITY GUY OF CONTRA CONTRASTS TS yard Ward Price British Writer Write Looking Looking Looking Look Look- Finds in It Better Belter ing Women Ward Price who was one one of the best known correspondents of the London Dally Daily al Malt Mall on the e various n of the te Mg great war a and I Is celebrated In manEu European European European Eu Eu- England as a special writer on many man lands and subjects subject has been before spending r going a brief on to holiday Canada 01 dl In New York the It was Mr Prices Price's first visit to United States and a Times reporter asked him liIm before his departure for Mon treal for his impressions of life here Mr Price agreed to write them and this I Is I what h hf he wrote By WARD PRICE bewildering contrasts So A city of foreign to a J. J that to hear his own speech In the streets Comes at first as a a. surprise yet where a hospitality apparently without limit makes him feel at t once at at home To the stranger within its gates sates New York looks like a racial labels an international International museum with English patchwork with an Saxon Anglo fringe It has not even a a. cousinly resemblance re re- semblance to London but a strange affinity af- af I finity with Paris PROUD PROUD AND APOLOGETIC J. J f The people of New York are both ver very proud and oddly apologetic about their city They like to hear your admiration admira admira- remember tion n but ir they that earnestly New s York r beseech ere is not t you America Amer e ece to ica Just as a young bride l In e a line i new flew ce lo home reminds m nJ you that the fund furni furniture u ture isn't In order yet ct The human furniture fur fur- of New York has still to be sorted but bilt to the satisfaction of its tenants t f. f while fr fresh sh consignments are always beUng be- be berl Ung fO fOSi at Si the Ellis Kilis island gate t ji had rl d I been badly prepared for Jor New t ji had rl d I been badly prepared for Jor New ca had abroad al- al alq YorKers Venters Why do New Ii tr th the wrong about their a tr q omit omit so much h that really merits Tourists from Europe for in- in uld never be allowed down- down and The skyscrapers they are arere as an iro Ire re are regrettable not ue o obtruded d dever upon greatest app eats They h belong l dw w where ever known f W I w York York's ugly back yard yarO ara A huddled around their base those i Either basel windows S J tiers fliers lers of expressionless l no more attraction than a dolls doll's 4 v ken en through the wrong end or of a t b. b pe or or than a a. cockroach's view of 1 SECTION to o Keep leep your visitors above second Forty 1 i r cool 1 ta stately Delight lg vitas vistas c their I of t eyes the hSe hSeN N with great the uptown p long f 1 a avenues sh show w them toe dignified I 11 f- f squares thu well kept parks an and anu 1 tidy To 10 Impress them with a t open spaces scale or 01 proper sense s nse of the New tew York things let lt them gaze across Central i park parI by night at the huge mass or of the l laza towering into the dark like a 1 jewel j wel studded clUi and divert their approximate estimate estimate esti- esti 1 c im imagination with an of the total Bradstreet values of ot 1 mate the opulent cave dwellers who live be behind behind behind be- be hind those twinkling lights For here more moro than h n anywhere else in n the world is to be beK excepting the Champs 0 K found the splendor that becomes the greatest city of a a. great nation Each oL Oj the worlds world's capitals has a character of Jt own that the tr traveler veler l-veler conies comes to feel re 1 in his bones bones bones-an an Individual o V 1 civic t temperament difficult to define or 1 A to The bright cynicism of Paris i and the t dreaming majesty h ty tg of Rome ju are i ij v 1 p iff c felt by uy intuition m f rather than deduced 3 j f fr from fri i conscious observation And nothIng noth- noth lag Ing J I had read or had quite exi ex- ex o i pressed to me the gay optimism mixed with wih a certain fierceness s which h I seem to to sense e as tsal the h lei mood of c this f feverish V S city There is a r rc prodigality in inthe the nature of this place Men hold hod holdI I health monty mont hIs lite itself more lightly than to LO me ne people of older nations lIty 1 IV live Jive more dang dangerously and are readier to take a 1151 risk Up lip or down still smil- smil smiling L I ing but lUt dead earnest seems to be i philosophy phy of ot New ew York Under this V brighter sky and keener air the flame ot of l burns hurns faster A l Al BEAUTIFUL WOMEN t nd nd no iio one had ever told me one-half one t the truth about the beauty of New NewYork's 1 Yorks York's women The pure loveliness of their complexions the childlike sweetness sweet- sweet sweetness sweetness ness of their wonderful eyes their shapely trim shod feet and their tivo live skill for dress reduce a stranger to beatific bewilderment These Thee things deserve a dally daily hymn of praise I from every every American throughout thew the trie w world orld The amazing fact is that no one oneS seems even conscious of It not even the S girls themselves This must be the most asexual nation on earth Women of other countries one-half one as lovely as a dozen girls to be seen on every subway I ride accept with evident lent complacency y even If the they do not invite the admiration admira- admira tion of the men around them The New NewYork York girl lr ng glances afa is neither Sel to right tw nor left Ello ne tie fait pas de loell and 1 what Is more looks as if it never even entered her ber mind that spy apy one might make eyes at her She has the simple con natural bearing hearing of a child You look at her on once e and you ou think of oC the front row of the best musical comedy chorus horus you OU ever saw you look at her again and meet a a. gaze as dispassionate and conscious as a nuns nun's One thing more dumfounds the wanderer wan- wan derer from afar It Is to find this whole nation of enlightened and self-governing self citizens dally daily and openly inciting one another another another an- an other to commit a felony to break the law and to Incur the risk of deserved punishment It is to discover ones one's self the guest and guest S and willing m accomplice of P I of a gang g of smugglers I mo o o o go goP strong f 1 It ItIs itIs Is Is- Isto to tc see people ople who never used to drink anything stronger than pasteurized water water wa wa- wa- wa ter tar eagerly absorbing whiskies whose origins are mercifully wrapped in mystery mystery mystery mys mys- tery driven to drink by the very difficulty dUn dUn- culty of getting it |