The Washington herald., 1916-12-22
New York, Day by Day
Nv o. o. MeINTYuE.

Special Cosresrondeut Of Tbs washington Hersid.
iNew York, Dec. A.-Fred C. Kelly, the
Washington correspondent, has been In
New York before beginning his winter
toll at the Capital. / ran across him the
other evening at church and / didn't
know which was the more surprised. He
asked me IL ! expected to see a couple OF
clog dancers as an addendum to the reg
ular services, but to become the FROG
coat ! wore did not resort to his low
persifage.
Kelly used to be the best Xenia cor
respondent that a certain paper in Day.
ton, Ohio, ever had. In fact, you may
so to Xenia today-If you care for such
trips-and almost anyone there will re-
member Kelly. 1t was my intention to
work this around so that when you ar
rived in Xenis you could inosIire: Has
anyone here seen Kelly" but I find the
wheeze is impossible of accomplishment.
And besides. you may decide not to
take the trip and the effort would be
wasted. Anyway. we dropped up to the
Majestic for a bite to eat and then hunt
ed up Ray Bohn, the famous spendthrift.
to take US to the theater on the next
evening.
We found him and the next night he
took us-as far as the box office, and
| he either had one-way rockets or they
were lined with fshhocks. for after TAX
ing n vote 1t was decided to let Kelly
! buy the seats. His was the only dissent
ing vote, or 1t would have been unani-
nous.
II was an Ibsen play we say. and COM
ing out a young girl In front said To her
companion: Don't you just love Ibsen
Doesn't he just take all the hope out OF
| Iife?"
A hero has been found in New York.
Fontaine Fox. the ca srtoonist. discovered
| him. He is the fellow ~ no has the nerve
| to cat the sandwich they serve on Sunday
with glass OF beer
Somebody sent the brilliant paragra PHI
or on the Evening Telegram a package
of imported perfumed powder. Hear him
rave: We are Obliged for the powder
but never use any of the face or insect
kind. Its heralded recommendations for
| use on fiabby necks ard puffy eyes carry
no weight. Our neck is not 1abby so far
as heard from and IL our eyes are a bit
bulgy some MORNINGS, it's nobody's-that
| is, it's nobody's business. Stuff smelt all
| right, but it made the canary cough. so
We had to throw II out"
A man up in Yonkers has been discov-
| cred TO be the original Hard Boiled Egg
Here is the proof. A week or two ago
| when il looked as though coal would go
| to $40, this bird got several wagon loads
of rocks from the contractors who were
| repairing the street in front OF his home
painted them black and tried TO kid his
furnace.
And speaking OF Hard Boiled Eggs.
Walter st. Denis. OF the Globe. walked
into Doyle's billiard psrIor and net Leo
Donnely. the actor
Said Donnely: "rT"
Said St Denis: Hello. Hamrs
Oscar Hammerstein and his silk hat
were in front of the MetroI olitan the
| other night a. ! passed. wondered Just
what his thoughts We're He produced
grand opera in America and took il to
London and made vaudeville what IL is
today-and yet he has very little to show
| for It, Friends betrayed him. enemies
maligned him. and yet he has never lost
| his faith in human nature. He Is very
| far from through, however. and some day
the world will hear from him again. He
| lives in a little apartment over a drug
| store overlooking his old Victoria Thea
ter