The Washington herald., 1916-07-25
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

SPECIAL cOrr--pOadent Of The wGsinrou B.nId
New York, July n.-The literary crowd
was quite pleased with the marriage ~
Miss Margaret Porter, daughter OF tbs
late q. Henry, to Oscar CeSare tn.
Swedish cartoonist, long with the Sun
but now on the Evening Post.
The romance was one with a oLetfno-
tive o. Henry favor. Miss Porter
formerly edited Short Stories ana also
wrote short stories herself She selected
Cesare TO illustrate one of her stories
and he turned down the Job on account
Of the price
ana so they were married However
there was another element Of romance
70 IL o. Henry and Cessre once formed
sort OF mutual admiration society of
ehelr own The author would drop lines
70 Cesare telling him how good a GER
tslh cartoon was and Cesare would send
words Of praise for a particular short
story when It appeared
Cesare was born in Sweden and wa.
one OF the nrst 70 DO what IN. nara
srsphers call the shoe brush" ,tyl. Of
cartoons They will live In q studio down
IN Warrington Square where Mrs. Ce,-
are viii continue to write and Cessrs
| continue 20 draw.
A sweet young thing IN inpressiv.lv
short skirts entered the lobby OF =
Broadway theater the other evening ana
vas about 10 pass the doortender. Stop
shouted sam Harrison. who was on
guard. You are under sixteen"
flatterer," chirped the sveet young
thing ae she turned. She is a well known
actress who admits 70 years. She adopts
the squab styles Of costume neverthe-
less
There is young newIywed IN town
from San Francisco. The second dsv
ne was walking on Forty-third street
with his bride and he saw David War
field pass in big automobile He waved
at the actor and the actor waved back
There's Dave Wsrheld." said the new
lyWed. AS soon as he hears I'm in
town he'll call me Up" And he said
Dave" two or three times ana told how
he and Warfeld sat around in the lobby
OF the Hotel St Francis IN San Fran
cisco last summer.
And his wife said: Isn't Il nice he's
here and he probably owns the autorno-
Bile" That night the telephone rang in
his hotel room and his wife said: That's
probably Dave" II was the room clerk
wanting to know II they had ordered ice
water. And every day his wife keeps
asking: Have you heard from Dave
And the way she says Dave" makes him
uncomfortable.
He has now advertised for wsrneld 10
call him Up so he can say Hello, Dave"
and ?rcve that he didn't lie. Terrible
predicament for neWlywed.
There is a lot Of balderdash about the
reports end stories OF how the rich Young
oloods OF Gotham carry on II might De
insslred that most Of them were sAtur-
ated with fzz water all the time and that
wherever you found them they were toss
ing pearls and century notes and thines n
the primrose path OF chorus girls.
I happened to be at a nearby table to a
the Majestic late one evening last week
-Four young men in the party are or
springs OF millionalres. Not one OF the
young men drank any Intoxicating drink
and only one smoked a cigarette. The
young ladies were OF the kind that rnight
be found at any church festival They
were indulging in the riotous performance
OF eating ice cream
They danced. they laurhed and they
had 3 good time. and while we saw other
fsshionably gowned women smoking
cigarettes and drinking highbalIs not one
Of these young girls did.
When James Montgomery FIarr started
on vacation the other day he met a
friend who asked him where he was
going. To Niagara Falls" he replied
is that place running yeti" But the
train was pulling out-thereby preventing
murder.