| Show friendship marred by distance in new boric in new york city it Is possible to know an infinite variety of good citizens you may scrape up an acquaintance with showgirls show girls professors of applied therapeutics novelists pugilists hindu swamps tabloid reporters toe dancers and captains of south american banana boats you may even become warm friends of a or a hoboken bartender but what good will they do youl if you live in the bronx your best friends invariably live tit in flatbush flatau 11 and if you live on city island tho the boon companions you are just dying to see reside in jamaica or jersey city so that it if you are projecting an hours friendly call you have to travel on the subways two hours you are mauled hauled by the theater crowd and manhandled man handled by the downtown war warehouse chouse watchmen going uptown tu to sleep and the uptown swells going downtown to play and when you arrive nt at your friends house nt at 1000 p in limp and shopworn you find of course that he lias has quit waiting for you and has gone to a rumanian elsh house three blocks front from your home which you left two hours ago friendship in new york becomes too often a ter terrific rifle chore it Is far easier to be content with the he casual tolk folk you rub against where your business or your thirst takes you As a rule therefore the people to your tasted taste are not to your taste lit in any deeper spiritual sense but they simply frequent the same resort or restaurant you do anti and are tolerable only because they can speak your jargon of art or business and do not attempt to assault you with beer mugs urnest ernest L meyer in the forum and century |
