NEW YORK IN AUSTRALIAN EYES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 April 1928, Page 17

NEW YORK IN AUSTRALIAN EYES.

Writing from New York a Melbourne girl gives some amsusiug impressions of modes and conditions. “One never gets accustomed,” she says, “to the strangeness and life here ; the signs on tiie shops, the phrases people use, are all so ‘foreign.’ Eor instance, you see written over a door, ‘Loose milk sold here,’ or ‘Stylish stouts accommodated’ (which 1 find is considered a polite way of referring to fat people)! Then there are ‘dog and bird’ shops everywhere, with every variety of dog and bird waiting to be bought. There are no greengrocers; the ordinary grocers sell all the fruit and vegetables—but not bananas. They are a specialty and you are never quite sure where you will find them. \ou cannot send a telegram from a post office, for there are special telegraph offices, only no one seems to know where they are! The chemists are all called drug stores, and also sell notepaper, jam, and ice cream, also cold drinks, and you can see a continuous lino of people at their counters drinking ginger-beer. At one drug store 1 saw the quaintest toy Lhe other day. It was called a “playhone’ for young dogs, and was made of indiarubber just like a child’s toy, only in the shape of a large ‘bitable’ bone, with the inscription, . ‘Save your shoes and stookings.’ ”