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House & Garden 
The little khaki-snatcher, ; -with the entrenching tool, has just consummated 
a surprise attack on the Handsome Officer. He has already missed 
four trains hack to camp. Probably he will be court-martialled in the 
morning. But what of that? He is learning about life in the big city 
from a woman who knows its every phase—its arts, sports, dances, 
fashions, and gaieties-, its modernist painters, its futurist composers, 
the tendencies of literature, the sensations of the movies, the whimsi¬ 
calities of humorists, the problems of the war, the idiocies of high society, 
and the new Callot silhouette. A woman, in short, who keeps up with 
the times by reading ^ 
VANITY FAIR ^ 
IN NEW YORK—IN A SINGLE WEEK—THERE WERE: 
25 concerts and recitals 
4 golf tournaments 
22 lectures 
3 horse and dog shows 
7 new plays opening 
2 racing meets 
43 playhouses busy every night 
12 art exhibits 
4 big patriotic spectacles 
42 public banquets 
3 carnivals 
60 cabarets and dinner 
Every Issue Contains 
THE STAGE: Reviews of 
all that’s going on —and 
coining off—in five theatre ; 
and portraits of who's who 
in the New York dramatic 
spot-light. 
THE ARTS: Painless crit¬ 
icisms and peerless illus¬ 
trations of all the newest 
happenings in painting, 
literature, sculpture and 
architecture. 
HUMOR: Not the custard- 
pie school, nor even the 
Sunday supplement vein, 
but the most amusingwork 
of our younger,writers and 
artists. 
ASSORTED NUTS: Por- 
traits and revelations of 
all the best known and 
most carefully assorted 
nuts, and mad hatters. 
SPORTS: E very known 
species of sports; indoor 
and outdoor, heroically 
masculine and politely 
ladylike. 
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS: 
The enlivening and uncon¬ 
ventional output of our 
most wakeful essayists, 
critics, and authors. 
DANCING: All varieties 
of dances both wild and 
hothouse and their indoor, 
outdoor, rhythmic and ball¬ 
room exponents. 
FASHIONS: The last word 
—pronounced with a Paris¬ 
ian accent—on the smart¬ 
est clothes for the smartest 
men and the smartest 
women. 
DOGS AND MOTORS: 
Photographs and life his¬ 
tories of the most success¬ 
ful 1918 models of well-bred 
dogs and wel 1-bu ilt mo tors. 
SHOPPING: The heart of 
the blue list shopping dis¬ 
trict; a pageant of its 
riches; and the shortest 
and easiest way to acquire 
their contents. 
To attend them all — to keep up 
with the whirling kaleidoscope of 
modern life in a single city—would 
take forty-eight hours a day, and 
even then one would have to eat 
in taxis and sleep in the subway. 
One magazine knows them all, 
covers them all, selects from them 
just those which sophisticated, 
well-bred, discriminating people 
care to see and know about: 
VANITY FAIR 
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FRANK CROWNINSHIEI.D, Editor 
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