. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . All the shop people in New York are proficient in theart of making their windows interesting to the peoplepassing in the street. There are professional men knownas ^window dressers who are said to earn unusual sumsthrough their skill in displaying articles to the best ad-vantage in shop windows. Very attractive are some ofthese windows, not only in their arrangement, but also inthe quality of the articles shown. In Europe things offineness and value are hidden in the secret places of theshop and brought out only by special request
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . All the shop people in New York are proficient in theart of making their windows interesting to the peoplepassing in the street. There are professional men knownas ^window dressers who are said to earn unusual sumsthrough their skill in displaying articles to the best ad-vantage in shop windows. Very attractive are some ofthese windows, not only in their arrangement, but also inthe quality of the articles shown. In Europe things offineness and value are hidden in the secret places of theshop and brought out only by special request, but inAmerica they are often openly displayed. This does notmean jewels and goldsmiths work alone, but rare rugs,rich silks, fine porcelains, Japanese embroideries, worksof art. It is not an unusual thing to see a twenty-thou-sand-dollar picture displayed in the window of a FifthAvenue gallery, upon a background of valuable tapestry;and the window of a china shop may show Chinese porce-lains that are worth many times their weight in gold. ^i^t ><V -.,. Pl. 42. — Twenty-Third Street SHOPS AND SHOPPING 199 On the inside of a New York store one is astonished bythe stock carried. Whatever kind of stock it may be, it isalmost always large in quantity and in variety. Floorafter floor is filled to overflowing with silks, rugs, finelinens, woolens; with tons upon tons of bronzes, silver-ware, china; with uncountable boxes of hats, shoes,gloves, fans; with tens of thousands of books, engravings,etchings, photographs. The furniture stores seem capableof supplying beds and chairs and chests of drawers for allcreation; there are enough articles de Paris in the shopson or about Twenty-Third Street and Fifth Avenue tocover half the drawing-room tables in New York; andin the huge dry-goods stores along Broadway and in theside streets between Union and Madison squares, there aredress goods sufficient in quantity to clothe half thewomen and children in the land. The bulk of goodscarri
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