Show I The Real I II j Is in the Big City's Heart I f I BY L L. CULLEN I I I I I I t f 1 I i f s c I f g gw v w h 11 t I s Copyright 1913 1313 by Th n. HE real Is the tho bib bl THE city The Tho humorists would have us b believe lIeve that It Is where the c lives But It t The commuter has hus neighbors They are arc wholesome holesome neighbors that can be rolled relied upon else the they wouldn't 1 be commuters Of a. a mild spring eveninG the tho commuter commuter com com- muter has only to lounge loungo In his front yard ord smoking smoking- his pipe for tor about two minutes before some clear eyed decent chap his neighbor from over the wa way or down the strolls street along and asks him how the tho funny old seeds are making t. O Then the tho two lean against the fence talking radishes and roses and from that et ct to creating policies tor or nations The commuters commuter's wife has hos a a. lot ot of cheerful houses to run Into when she fools like it It and when she doesn't feel teel like It there la Is no dearth ot of wholesome women neighbors to drop In on her But If you stand at the entrance of your our big cSt city apartment smoking smoking- a perfectly good cl clear ar and waiting for tor somebody to stroll along with whom you ou have a little human being about nothing In n particular lar what happens Why the saddle covered elevator boy from St. St Kitts gazes azes at you ou out ot of littering glittering suspicious oyes and after a while the hile-the the janitor from Ups alia In Sweden Swed- Swed en comes alone alonS' and asks you It you ou have ave lost loaf anything and then Intimates that you hat ou are ago mUddying up the vestibule And your our tenants fellow c coming and I going lare at you as It if they foil felt dead dead- sure that you ou were waiting tor fors a chance to rob the vestibule letter boxes Then you ou slink back up to your apartment feeling sort lort of hangdog and your lonesomeness hasn't been ameliorated ameliorated a cents cent's worth There arc tons of thousands ot of mighty nice agreeable people In this town living ltv ltv- InS InS' In apartments apartment whose gregarious r Prell Creu Co Instincts are starving for th the need of a little human companionship to to break the monotony ot of cell life Some Somo of o them have lived hero for many years They want to got get acquainted but they cant They cant can't toke take the necessary chances You cant can't walk up to the square looking chap you ou meet on tho street or car and say to him Look Dill Bill sal 1 like our appear appear- ance Were Yere lonesome at our flat Heres Here's my address Drop In some evening even even- ing and well we'll ha have haa a smoke and a chat But there ought to be some feasible way for tor agreeable people suffering from the unrelieved dullness of apartment apartment apart apart- ment life lito to get acquainted with each other Why hy not put an advertisement In a feW tew ot of the newspapers Lot It road something like this Married couple of good repute wrought upon b by tho lonesomeness and monotony of flat life lite tn in this town want to get et acquainted with a few Cew couples ot of the tho same samo sort who find them them- solves under undergoing n. n similar experience They wish to know couples who are neither hopelessly smug nor o to gayness c The purpose sought Is not night all poker ra ragtime musicales nor yet et phonograph playing futility but for occasional visits back und and forth with some talk talle pitched upon a a. homely home y yet et helpful plane pIano There Is fa generally something g good to eat and drink In the apartment cigars and pipes aplenty and music to relieve the tho situation when t to o talk begins to lag It might work out |