Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06

when the girls are due to enter and emerge
from the theater that you've got to travel
ball flying wedge in order to break through
them. It Is idle for the extra cops who
have been placed at the theater entrance to
push the squirming Johnnies back and to
Percies. while youse Kim" There are too
many OF them for anything short Of
squadron OF cavalry to handle.
The police authorities are now talking of
invoking assistance of the fire department
to turn the hose on EN-, but this would
probably evoke the condemnation of sym
pathetic persons who are fundamentally
opposed to anything in the nature of cruel
ty to imbeciles And. when it comes to
that. these chorus '1Oidies'' In the chrysalis
do not appear to be in anywise disturbed
by the intent gazes Of the Johnnies-they
appear. rather, to be actually fattered to
the point of Illustration thereby-so why
should the cops be SO solicitous? OF course,
the congested state Of the pavement is
thing to be considered but such is the
rustic, tooly looral character Of this al
legged blase popu1ace that one has only to
stoOp to tie his or her shoe on Broadway
to assemble a swaying crowd OF thou
sand rubbernecks around minor her, par.
ucularly the latter, for a woman has not
even the right to the momentary privacy
of an area way or an open hall door for
such a purpose in this town.
Press Agents at Work.
The theatrical press agents, those master
mechanics Of myopic imagination, are al
ready RECALLING us with much superheated
south wind with respect to the prominent
and beautiful society girls who are to I'M
veil their charms (hitherto cloistered for
all but the elect In various sorts of pro-
auctions during the next stage season.
Some of these raging beauties, fresh from
the conquests of pink tea coteries in their
respective communities are going to re-
veal themselves-let us breathe 1t softly,
with the hum of harpS and the lure or lutes
as an obligato!-in tigh-in fieshlings that
is to say. These demure, frightened young
things are already telling the women re-
porters, with many catchings at the
breath. how they dread making their In
itial appearance in the awful things-how
they just know that papa will never,
never forgive them for it''-how the teach
ings which they derived during their con-
vent training incite them to inwardly repel
at the very thought of wearing such thlnss
as-er-heshlings, but that they are willing
to sacrifice everything to art, ETC., etc. But
the society girl gag is beginning to show
the fringed and frayed signs OF wear over
here, all the same. Too many Oh the
leading bellies of ''Tunkhannock' and the
'reigning debutantes of Scituate' and 80
cial queens of Ipswich and "beauteous
buds of Bunktown" have already been
launched upon the teeming tide of the press
agents verbosity over here, and the idea
is considerably frazzled and outworn at
this stage of it.
Nine out of ten of these proteges of the
publicity and promotion craftsmen are real
ly no more a part of the social swim of
the towns and cities whence they hail and
hike than is Evening Star Mary petted
and pampered fgurante of Washingtons
diplomatic clique, and the press agents
yarns with respect to their social triumphS'
are the merest hasheesh fantasies. 1t will
be remembered down there on the banks of
the Potomac how, a couple of years ago,
when few obscure Washington girls of
o,,6 hon, 70 t11 fora
here in connection with the sextets of the
extravaganza companies the press agents
worked the newspapers of this town with
continuous performance stream of nonsense
and humbug respecting the social con-
quests" of these girls in the gilded salons of
the capital. They made it appear-and for
time got away" with their effort-that the
washington young women of the SeXtetS
had, ever since they were brought OUT in
society, been queening it by the general
enthusiastic consent of all hands over the
very 'toffiest'' element of Washington socie-
ty-wherefore the Johnnies more than jam
med the theaters to study the ankles of
these young women, for the idea hadn't
been worked overtime then
Yes yes, all of these deliciously pompa-
doured young things assuredly belong to the
very first families-as you drive in.
Coney Islands Curfew Law.
Don't ]augh-but Coney Island has a cur
few law. Why, indeed, should Coney Island
not have curfew law, come to think of it?
1t is visited by many thousands of young
persons every day during the season, and
large numbers of these lose theirs cars"
you understand. misfortune which neces-
sarily compels them to wander around the
island until all hours. so it does. This cur
rev law of Conveys is eminently fair one
1t provides that all young persons found
wandering around Coney Island after the
hour OF 2:3O in the morning-mark time
shall be gently admonished by the cops on
patrol that they'd better be seeking their
little white cribs Immediately and at once
Could anything be more reasonable than
this? 1t gives all of the lost or strayed
young creatures chance-no hurrying no
crowding, no nothing. 1t seems perfectly
safe to presume that they ought to be able
TO ma their cars again by half-past 2
O CLOCK in the morning, doesn't it? There's
n ng over-previous about Coney Island
Coney believes in giving em time to seek
shelter. 'Curfew" means 8 or half-past
o'clock at night in most places where
there's curfew law ordinance. but Coney
isn't any pent-up Utica, either in fact or
hction. But, even so, some people are never
satisfied. The resident Coney islanders
want the curfew law stretched
Make 1t half-past f. so they can see the
sun rise; they are plaintively demanding of
the authorities, and maybe it'll be so or
dered. w 81 VI
ware the strawberry! New York is filed
WIN men and women suffering from
7'A "bciiy POISONING. You'll thor,
py the score in the course of any little ride
downtown on the elevated-their faces
sadiy broken out in blotches of a fiery
angry red, the men looking angrier than
thelr strawberry marks and the women
heavily yelled to screen their countenances
as much as possible. Medical men of an
tnoflty unhesitatingly pronounce these un
ioftunates to be victims of the straw
perry They say that strawberries are rank
poison for some people, and uncomuronIy
deieterious for everybody. Chemists who
nave analysed specimens of this wears
crop OF strawberries coming from ali sec
lions OF the country state that the berries
are unusually juicy in injurious acids this
year. Thus are the good things of life be-
ing ruthlessly torn from us. A New York
individual with string of scientific do
grees and protuberant forehead rose IN
and announced not long ago that bread
just plain wheaton bread-is the most dan
gerously fndigestible article on the list of
things to eat, and that just bread of the
common, or garden, variety would even
tually be the destruction of the race If the
race didn't forbear and quit eating bread
After while they'll be attacking the mid
night Welsh rabbit, grilled bone and broiIed
lobster as unhygienic and insanitary. and
then New Yorks tenderloin will be about
ready to go into liquidation
The Snap Shot Fiend.
Persons of degree might as well make ND
their minds first as last that the artists