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Show j SEVEN DAYS W U'l OL' N. Y. I . (Copyright. 192:. by The Standard-Fxamlner.) Standard-Fxamlner.) NEW YORK. Dee. 9 Every now nd then the Mandarlans and Manchu princesses of this town have been heard from through a tong war or a dispute about laundry But this week the Chinese emerged from the glamorous glam-orous obscurity in which they normally nor-mally carry on their little feuda and rotes, and poised themselves dexterously dex-terously on the crest of tho social wa ve. They held one of tho first Chines baby beauty shows ever given In f.v.s country, ami they introduced a new purlor game to Parke avenue society While the former event made a hit around Pell street, the latter Inaugurated Inaugur-ated an epoch around Parke avenue. Demure little Celestials in hluhly embroidered trousers were numerous enough in the baby show held by the1 Chinese i.nd American Women's Sewing Sew-ing society to offsut the effect of, othor young celestials in the not so, beautiful American baby clntheq Nothing in town was more picturesque than the placid golden skinned god-Mngs god-Mngs in their amazing finery unless i indeed. It might be the 250 society matrons and men also decked in Chinese Chi-nese finery who played Mah-Jongg 11 the Hotel Ambassador to aid the children's chil-dren's library fund The painted Ivory blocks and the ingenious compllca-! tlons of this 1000-ypar-old game rroin tho flowery kingdom ba.- now I.. , n received with acclaim by million dol-1 lar nerves all frayed out by such ol 1 I stuff as bridge and pokej- 4 Society, however. Is not llvinjr ai merely frivolous existence In these I (times. For the last three days such j widely known people as Mrs. Marshall Mar-shall Field, Mrs. John R. Droxel, .Mre I Anthony Biddle, and Mrs. F. A I -peyster have acted ius saleswomen anu floorwalkers in the toy section of a bip department store at Forty-second street and Fifth uvenue. They got footson waiting on captious cap-tious customers, dizzy with answering answer-ing questions, and hoarse with explaining ex-plaining the toys, all in aid of the Maternity Center association. Dividing honors with these various J events In social and aesthetic interest I was the Silver society show 01 fluffy I whlto aristocratic cats ut the Bllt-l Bllt-l more The great lesson for axil catdom to be learned from this event Is about cushions, for Instance, on which reclined re-clined Wimer Pax. tho prize winner, exactly matched that beauty's luminous lumi-nous eyes of emerald. I Cushions and b. autles brings us by easy stages to the eighteenth annual automobile sulcn In the grand ball I room of the Commodore. The cheap-I cheap-I eBt car at the salon was priced at $330". You could pick up a nlco sedan, se-dan, finished in ivory, for ?25:000. Record breaking events come so thick and fast Just now that, what with Christmas shopping and all, it Is hard to keep track of them. But outstanding union the record breakers break-ers was tho launching of the 1200 ton caisson which will serve as part of the ventilating part in tho now vehicular ve-hicular tubo between Manhattan and Jersey City. They christened it with a bottlo of real champagne, an Incident In-cident which brought tears to tho eyes of many onlookers. It does not, however seem to have been champagne which brought tears to the eyes of John O'Hcarn of Ohio. Blttle Mr. O'Hearn with his white whiskers and money order for $125 camo to this wild and wicked vTHago to visit his slstor. He cashed the money order. Subsequently he held up a saloon, cleaned it out of $56, and woke two hours later rn a police cell to ask whero he was, why, and for how long. They told h!m. adding something about intoxication. All llttlo Mr. O'Hearn could remember was his ago, which is 65, and the fact that he did not feel like a highwayman. highway-man. When assured that he not on!v had become a holdup artist with a 1 real giin. but had scared $56 and the I daylights out of three burly NTew Yorkers, Mr. O'Hearn burst into tears. He could not recall even taking a drink, and showed hank books with deposits of $4000 to prove that he j didn't need to hold up anybody's saloon. sa-loon. What do thpy put Into hooch nowadays? now-adays? A shot of hashesh Between worrying over the illness Of Schuman-Helnke and the robbery of Frieda Hempel's apartment, some people found time for a glance at the domestic troubles" of Mrs Julius Boyman of Brooklyn Her husband seeks an annulment of their marriage l.eruuvr bis ,if doe.; not know the first principles of arithmetic. Mrs Boy man retorts In effect that only the first principles are necesnary, If one b; married to Mr. Boyman and altogether the case affords another topic to add to the composlum on why married people seek their freedom- if course, too, there Is the pigmy elephant newly imported from Africa by th" Rronz zoo, age 3 years, height 3 fet. weight tOO pounds And there Is the pet possum, which West Side women .ire leading about on leashes. One of these escaped and gave West Klghty-flrst street residents a bad scare and a lively "possum hunt before it was finally tr d Add possum hunting; tO New York City outdoor roorts. I Five carloads of Christmas trees arrived with a good sized snowstorm, both coming from Vermont and Canada. Can-ada. Some of the trees are on their way to Texas and Panama, hut most of them remain here to squeeze their j bulk iriin apartment living rooms The I sidewalks even thus early are almost I impassable with Christmas shoppers. I 00 |