The Washington herald., 1916-12-17
Seen and Heard
BY GEORGE MINER.

New York, Dec. I6-The Lonely
Club has just been founded and its
operations should bring out some in
teresting developments. The reason
for this club is the basic one that
crowded Broadway is the most lone
some place IN the world.
The founder of the club is a certain
Mr.. Wunder. He is we'll named when
you stop to think Of the job he has
undertaken, which is no less than the
supplying of unattended young wom-
en- with male escorts and lonesome
young men with female companions
at so much per hour and all done in
way to which Mrs. Grundy could
take no exception. If he can get away
with that he is wonder.
| don't suppose it has occurred to
the founder of the Lonely Club that
his scheme. is open to very serious
implications, for Mr.. Wunder, you
see, is a highly respectable gentle
man. He is religious worker and
the secretary of the West Side Young
Mems Christian Association.
His idea is that there are lots oi
young people Of both sexes In this
city who have no nice young aequaint-
ances and who are lonesome and that
it is too bad. Thousands of nice
young men, he believes, would like
to take nice young girls to the thea
ter, but don't know any to ask. The
club is to remedy that. All the young
man has to do is to go to the tele-
phone and tell Mr.. Wunder all about
it. He will supply nice young girl
The young man must not only pay
for her ticket, but also a certain sum
an hour for all the time she Is with
him.
The young man need not worry for
fear that she will suddenly light a
cigarette or ask for a cocktail or de-
mand to be whirled around in tur-
key trot, because she will be certified
to by the Young Mems Christian As
sociation, just as grocers certify to
the desirability and untaintedness OF
high-priced eggs. 1t is not stated
whether the girl gets the fee or
whether it goes to the Young Mems
Christian Association, leaving the
nice young girl to be contented with
the fact that she has been taken to
an entertainment.
Suppose also that lonely young
woman is away from home and
mother for the first time in this big
and wicked city and just aches to be
taken to a dansant, but knows no
young men.
Just call up Wunder and tell him
about it. He will send her around a
perfectly good young man for an
escort, to whom she must pay so
much an hour for being guided
through the dance.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Wunder
can pick the sheep from the goats.
Bishop Burch, of the Episcopal
Church, has come out in favor of let
ting the moving picture houses re-
main open on Sundays, provided the
films presented are censored. l can't
get that reasoning. Is reel that is
offensive or corrupting when shown
on Sunday inoffensive and pure when
given on week day? I always had
an idea that evil was evil regardless
of time or place and that it was no
worse to do wrong on Sunday than
on Monday.
Bill" Sill was in a vaudeville the
ater the other night while friend of
his was exhibiting a trained ape on
the stage. The friend spied him in
the audience and thought it a good
chance for little personal touch to
his talk, so he said:
81 see that Mr.. William Sill, who
has selected so many stage attrac-
tions, is present. I would like to ask
him if he does not consider Pete here
one of the best actors he has ever
seen%
"I1l be glad to answer" replied
Bill, eff you'll tell me which of you is