hat is the moving theme that holds the multitude at the movie theatre
bound in a spell? What is it that answers deep unto deep between the
literature vended at drug stores and the people?--Concern for money
overthrown by idealism! The triumph of ethereal love over the base
temptation of lucre! Is it not so: the rich wooer in the top hat and
the elegant Easter-parade coat is turned away, and the poor lover with
his flannel shirt open at the collar and a dinner-pail hung upon his
arm is chosen for bluebird happiness--and the heart of the maligned
masses is satisfied.

Money (the conviction has passed into an industrious bromideum) will
not buy happiness.

I knew a man who had a wife; and he was told by sage counsellors that
if he would treat her right she would give him "what money could not
buy."

But what need is there to multiply examples? Take a turn around the
block and return with the wisdom that money can not buy. Come; get
your stick and let us go.

A beneficent Providence, sir, has caused it to be that the finest shows
in this world are free of all men. Nature charges no admission fee.
The dawn and the evening are gratis. In the matter of art, the
performances of the little men of the passing hour are to be seen in
Bond Street, on the Avenue, and at the academies and societies, for a
price; but those treasure houses of the enduring masterpieces, the
great museums of the world, demand naught from him that hath nothing.
A collector of customs sitteth at the golden door of the movies; but
the far more delightful and far more human shows shown in the show
windows are quite free for all to see. And to those blessed ones whose
eyes have not lost their innocence and whose hearts remain sweet and
simple the costly spectacles of the world are but tawdry vanity as
compared with the feasts of entertainment enacted daily in show windows.

One of the very best theatres in this country for entertainments of
this nature is lower Sixth Avenue, though the Bowery is not to be
overlooked, and the passionate lover of pleasure should not neglect any
business thoroughfare which presents a particularly shabby appearance.
The actors and actresses in these fascinating histrionic presentations
are not called comedians and tragedians, comediennes and
tragediennes--but "demonstrators." The effect of their performances
thus is twofold: they gratify the spectator's sense of the humorous or
the curious, and they demonstrate to h