Life — May 29, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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1F WE GO OUT WITH THE Ss MPTOMS begin to appear of the change of life which is advertised r this world. New York has not nged very much yet. but people pay them. Rents are lut so are wages. People come to live more than ever. The r has a committee on housing vhich declared as lately as a fortnight at it did not intend to put up or houseless persons at present. people can’t find shelter in New they can't stay here. The rest of country is not so very crowded, cither is it in possession of an enemy. ew Jersey, Long Tsland, Connecticut t modious states of Penn- and New York, all nearby, still hold more people, and can ess find sleeping room, if neces- WHEN THE COUNTRY GOES DRY BOYS FOR A GOOD TIME AND DRINK EIGHT Sherry’s Shuts Down sary, for the redundant population of this metropolis. But when Sherry shuts up his res- taurant, that’s different. That inti- mates some changes in life, not for people who can't live in New York, but for people who can. When Mr. Sherry says that in the face of Prohibition and “war-born Bolshevism” he feels constrained to draw in his sails as a purveyor of luxury, that is quite sig- nificant. His inclusion of Bolshevism means that he cannot any longer rely on getting such waiters as his stand- ards of entertainment require, Private families by the thousand have made the same discovery. Waiters of acceptable talents and deportment are scarce. So are waitresses. Kitchen- tinct. Housekeepers, who OR TEN ICE-CREAM SODAS used to have tables set and meals served and dishes washed, begin to wonder how much food is really necessary to family life and ruminate upon the pos- sibility of cultivating a new set of habits. Such servants as there are want high wages, and get them; and food to feed them is very dear, and people whose incomes have just about covered their living expenses are de- tained at home making painful calcula tions in arithmetic. 3ut let us not repine. As a sign of the times, the closing of Sherry’s is interesting. As a fact, it is of only limited importance. People will still he fed, and there will even be public dinners. There are still hotels, enor- mous and numerous, and more build- ing all the time, and there are innumer- comicbooks.com