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Show SEVEN DAYS IK U't' OL' N. Y. Bv JESSIE HENDERSON -A i (Copyright, 1922, by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner ) NEW YORK, Oct. 7- Probably some work of some kind has been done in New York this week. It tsn l likely that in a city of so many millions mil-lions there wasn't some person who attended to business. Everybody else appeared to he out at the Polo grounds. Oyer In Europe wo are looked on as a nation of shopkeepers shop-keepers who chase the dollar . from rosy dawn to dewy ee. and never think of rrposc, much less of recreation. recrea-tion. The man who started that story ought to be taken within earshot of the world series Within earshot the.-days the.-days means anywhere within three hundred miles of the pitcher's plate. j Mavbe money is tight and it's going i to be a hard winter and coal la cosuy, hut kindly glance a- th-- ph-.isi:re-l ,v-Ing ,v-Ing American citizen out at the Polo grounds with his eyes glued to the diamond or anywhere within a radius of 300 miles with his ear glued to an amplifier. j He even came 24 hours ahead of 'time, this fun-seeking American, and (parked his car on the field so as not to be late for the opening He brought 'his lunch and his family and stood In lime twelvo hours. He waited at the 'gate all night In order to be first to jbuy a ticket. And if that's having a igood time, anybody that wants it can I have It. so far as we are concerned. Yes the sad truth is even so We. lourself, personally are probably the ionly man, woman or child In the city today that doesn't know who won the world series or whether its over yet I No. nor even what a world series is j anyhow I However, this is a groat week for the men. The chap who gets a good 'wheeze out of 12 women frittering laway a whole afternoon on bridge when they ought to bo washing dishes, has practically turned his business lover to the stenographer and is wrest-'llng wrest-'llng with 12.000 other bleacher fans I for a place. The abused husband w ho cant understand what his wife sees !lii a day's shopping at crowded stores , Is getting his tie torn and his hat knocked off by rooters not more exuberant ex-uberant than himself. And the cynical lad v. ho doesn't know why women waste so much time and money at the I movies is pawning last and next-winter's next-winter's overcoat for the privilege of : being milled around for half a day In front of the gat.s In a crush compared With which the subway rush hour Is as la game of croquet to a bull fight-All fight-All of which leads to t w conclusion that If women are a conundrum men are a scream and the while panorama of this week in New York is overshadowed over-shadowed by a baseball bat and an institution called the ' (.'Ints." nthcr things besides the world serie,--. did, neerthclc8s occur Ior(l Mount-I Mount-I batten, the debonair cousin of the king of England arrived, andwlth his bride and his boyish smile won a popularn hardlv exceeded by that of the Prince Of Wales Isadora Duncan, the dancer, after being questioned as to her views on bolshevism or something equally serious, was permitted by the Kills: Island authorities to land with some new (ireek dance steps and a new Russian husband. The latter is as graceful and entertaining as the former, for-mer, and wears powder on his hair. Don t ask us why. He wears it, that's all. And there was a little matter of 3,000 women who arrived to attend the convention of the American Bankers Bank-ers 'association at the Hotel Commodore. Commo-dore. Fourteen of them came as actual delegates, too. with the ability to figure i om pound Interest and everything. every-thing. You may not think that 3,000 additional women would make much of a differenco In such a big town as this but, thin, vou haven't seen their gowns They looked, this three thousand, thou-sand, like something imported en masse from the Rue Do La Paix. There was also among the week's arrivals young Luis Floras, who came Into this" town and this world with eight teeth. There was the rich lady who got tired of being asked to pay a taxi bill of four hundred and twenty dollars and sent the amount in 44.000 1 pennies and a brass-bound keg with her photograph and the Inscription. ' (h La I-a." Guess that made the chauffeur feel small. Moreover, there was the $2,000,000 Yanderhilt house sold for taxes the place on Long Island which went out of the family temporarily, at least, for a mere $15,180.4-1. Then to be sure, there were the Stillman and Stokes divorce cases. Each husband failed to be content with the adverse verdict and made plans for reopening these little matters. mat-ters. And, moreover, the baby Countess Rene De Montes.se, one of the most' appealing refugees front the bolshevist regime, got safely to New York and has been adopted by Mr. Wendell Phillips of Park avenue The two-year-old orphan countess is going to retain her title and her friends hope, that some day she will regain the widespread Russian estates which are hers by right |
