the things that New York was thinking about at the moment. These I
selected from the current newspapers in the proportions to the amount
of space allotted to each topic and the size of the heading that
announced it. Having thus a working idea of what I may call the mind
of New York, I was able to collect and set beside it a list of
similar topics, taken from the London Press to represent the mind of
London. The two placed side by side make an interesting piece of
psychological analysis. They read as follows:

THE MIND OF NEW YORK THE MIND OF LONDON
What is it thinking? What is it thinking?

1. Do chorus girls make 1. Do chorus girls marry
good wives? well?

2. Is red hair a sign of 2. What is red hair a
temperament? sign of?

3. Can a woman be in 3. Can a man be in love
love with two men? with two women?

4. Is fat a sign of genius? 4. Is genius a sign of fat?

Looking over these lists, I think it is better to present them
without comment; I feel sure that somewhere or other in them one
should detect the heart-throbs, the pulsations of two great peoples.
But I don't get it. In fact the two lists look to me terribly like
"the mind of Costa Rica."

The same editor also advised me to mingle, at his expense, in the