The Washington herald., 1915-12-23
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER
Cs0vsl0AA IA y .. I. osl1l
Special Correspondent Of The Wasliagtea Herald.
(CopyriEht 1915, Mcclure Newspaper sy.Aieats

which customs officers viii have to ex.
ercfse vigilance in meeting"
1t opens up . lot Of possibilities. VIII
there Be air pilots. and how can they
arrange an airship quarantine stationi
You can't corral yellow fever or small
pox or cholera victims on q cloud unlesi
they 60 there 20 stay.
Among other things coming through
the customs IN large quantities durinG
the past week are English plum puddings
That's strange too. Why don't England
send them to the Germans and get the
benefit Of the result? A large, solid, Eng.
lish plum pudding can do . lot Of dam.
age.
While English actors are rushing te
this country Raymond Hitchcock hal
gone to England to act. What he sayl
he has gone over for In to take the spurs
on Henry Ford's doves Of peace.
He did not like acting for the nlms. A
camera is a very unenthustastic audience
to play before. Probably his ardor 60,
cold feet. But wait until he plays be.
fore an English audience. After thai
he will regard a camera a. riotous and
disorderly.
time. money and endeavor was spent in
Robertson as Hamlet. This was done In
Southern France. The film, however. has
never been shown. What's nice Forbes
Robertson done to the movies?
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller is very proud
Of his son, John D.. jr. He had just in
troduced William Hepner to- the young
man. and after the heir to the Standard
Oil had left the room. Mr.. Rockefeller
said: He is making a fine man. am
proud Of him. Watch him and jee how
well he turns out. II he was the sort
Of man that stayed up late and mingled
with the crowd you would call him =
good fellow"
A former Standard Oil man. Edward J.
Furoer, who used to represent the COM
pany In India and Europe. finds that q
man needs three pairs Of evening shoes
TO go to dinner party in New York
The other night he was going to a din
ner at the Martinique and walked down
from his hotel properly dolled up. Alons
the edge Of the curbs on Broadway are
large iron pipes that carry compressed
air for the subway work. In crossing
the street. Mr.. Thurber stepped on this
pipe and his right foot promptly slipped
into the gutter. where there was six
inches Of mud and slush. His right foot
was pot presentable. With a few mur-
mured curses he went back to his hotel
where he had another pair of evening
shoes and put them on.
This time he hurried. He was late.
He had forgotten about the pipe and
stepped on II again. His left foot
went splash into the mud and slush.
He Old not murmur curses. He roared
them. Back 70 the hotel he strode.
for he realised that he still had the
dry shoe that he had taken of with the
other pair. He replaced the wet one
with IL and considered II rather clever
work although they did not match ex.
actly. but he did not want to miss
that dinner.
This trip he avoided the pipe a.
though 1t were an evil thing. He walk
ed way around the block so As not to
cross 1t. Just as he crossed the side
street an automobile sloukhsd around
the corner and soused him to the
knees with mud. water and snow.
That finished 1t. He had no more
shoes, but he has q very pronounced
opinion about New York streets.