CHAPTEE YIII
 

GREENWICH VILLAGE
 

This is one of the best advertised sections of our
little community and displays almost as much skill
in getting on the front page as Colonel Eoosevelt.
To the New Yorker it is rather a pleasant retreat,
altogether too far downtown for residential purposes,
hence abandoned to those queer people who like to
go around in sculptors' aprons, long hair and soft
slouch hats, or none at all. It prides itself upon
its Bohemianism, its art and its general superiority
to the average citizen. To the credit of Greenwich
Yillage, however, let it be said that it does not take
itself half so seriously as the rest of the city thinks
it does. There are quite a number of creditable
performers in the art line in their midst, and pub¬
licity never did an artist any harm in the world.
So the succession of "fakirs' balls," "costume par¬
ties," etc., are to a certain extent strictly business.
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