Show WHY HUMBUG THRIVES seso hoople dona kao wbk to do mth their mur the fact of the matter is america ii Is a famous place to make money in but wretched pot spot to spend it in plo of prent great wealth and people poo of mall small aked income incomes gravitate tu QU europe P 0 VA the moth mith to the flamo name thoro 1 ii an alluring rad 11 lanco about a lifo life abroad which compel compels the rich and attracts bill act the poor there ie Is no city in tho the world where one pain ote so 0 o poor a return for a lavish of money HI as new now york there te is no on the globe lobe where alto mime misery ry of living on a small A flyod x od eiph is so ampha izod dizol it has ottin been figuro l how much families who maintain groat great establish meats ments liko like tho the alton aston the vendor buts the belmont or Co couplets can spend in a year li ith incomes rasing 1 anywhere any where from to tol 1 WO E 04 lay says tho the illustrated thoo these people find it wretched hard work to get rid ci 01 1 a year no wonder that they invest in huo huge loam team yachts and diamond sto tomac machers ben A box ut at tho the obern a ball or horses and earr carriages lag and a retinue ot of servants ervan tj tako only a out ot the barrel 1 and then than tho the opera box W ii catra let el ro roll th turn birn to ashes tho the horses and carrlos carrl ngo are knocked about over the wont worst pavements in tho the world and a ri multi tion of domestics only meant eo so many more drunks drunk ati anil I incompetent incompetents bolow below tain stairs A man may colony belong to a dozen different cluba and scarcely find one that ii Is agreeable A woman will pat roaldo I 1 enty different modis modiste tesi and bo be lucky to find two that fit lit her bee I 1 iho ho mero more fact that all tho the town insists upon crowding into thi uncomfortable confines of Delmo coa when it wants to give a ball or cat a luncheon prove proves how utterly without resource reeo new york Is i as a dispenser ot of amusement and comfort our theaters truly enough corn oom pare favorably with the beat best ot of 11 iris and L ion on but they begia bezin at an hour when most people prefer to be at din nor ner and if a play uc ceole at all it ie is kept on the boards until it dies of old age flower howa shows boreo howg shows and dog howe shows all very well and I 1 retty in ia their way but neither intellectual nor on enduring daring oro are seized upon by society with an gin atward avidity born of ennui A new inper singer or pianist or violinist li is hunted like a quarry and made amused but happy to find that ho he can command ridiculous prices to RO go and amuso amusa bo ed people at their own houses men take to drink or hunting according as tb the frost efrost is hard or aou women band together tog ether la in all sorts of classes and cabals to bo be imposed upon by posture rs and Delsart eans 1 elm aim ply to kill time every kind of hum bum i bue bug thrives and prospers in new now york k simply imply because lecause the people who I 1 live tv there have bave money to pond are c crazy to ba amused |