The Washington herald., 1917-01-19
New York. Day by Day
by o. % MCINTYRE.

special Sorrssrondent OF The Washington Herald.
New York. Jan. S-It was at studio tea
that 1t happened. The guests were intel
lectual brilliants. who smoked cigarettes
and inhaled highballs. The discussions
concerned Browning, anthropoiogy eco
nomics. Inherent sin. Euripides and the
fourth dimension
Two breezy young men, who wore pur-
pie socks. and lived In the West, were
invited to sit in and absorb some of the
intellectual atmosphere They listened
until they were tired and started a dis
cussion of their own about musical come
dies, Laura Jean Libby, ham sandwiches,
melodranla, hair oil and red fannels.
Even the joss sticks quit smoking the
air was so electrified with the brow
isms. One particularly athletic woman
Of commanding presence ventured to
remark In an aside to her boboed-haired
friend from Greenwich village that the
West was so uncouth, my dear"
One of the purple sox boys heard her.
His face famed, he stood up. Ladies
and gentlemen" he said far be il from
me to break up this little soiree. My
friend and came at a special Invitation.
Heaven knows we didn't want to come.
We have been openly insulted several
times. Let me tell you one thing. II
you pulled party like this under the
guise of a studio tea in our country you
tual? Bah! You're a bunch of nuts"
And with that the boys in the purple
sox put on their hats and coats and
walked right away from there. How
uncouth," said the hostess as they were
all regaining their breath.
The boys who turn the flap-jacks in
the windows of the white tiled cafe
terias have formed a club of their own
and rented a clubhouse. They call them
selves the Flap-Jackers Guild. Can you
beat that? AS the noted old Roman
Erysipelas would have remarked: Guess
that's poor"
These young men, however, are real
artists in their line. They can take a
bunch of dough and let 1t brown on one
side and then deftly hurl II to the ceiling
and while 1t is coming down look out Of
the window. smile at the pretty girls and
still catch the flap-jack on their paddle.
In fact in front of one window on
Thirty-fourth street the MONDAY lunch
ers make bets as to whether a flap
jacker can accept ten chances and miss
only one.
She was young and very pretty as she
tripped out of a mauve limousine in
front of the Hotel Majestic. The gold
bTdlutu DO"tO ~" anu Suducillg
the air was pierced with a shrek.
The young lady rushed back TO her car
and there was a wild confusion as she
tore up the neat coverings, the floor car
pet and almost everything else in sight
A crowd collected and finally the lady
pushed her hand into her muf. She
smiled and drew out a wriggling ball of
what looked like white cotton. Did 90
muzzer lose oo?" she cooed. The white
cotton was not white cotton at all, just a
little French poodle.
Madison Square Garden is to become a
temple OF art, music and dancing. The
noble art of self-defense is not included
unless it comes under the head of dane
ing. For awhile It was feared that the
garden was to be torn down to make
way for a skyscraper. but a syndicate
got hold of 1t and It will remain true to
art 1t has never been the same since
the White murder on the roof garden
Fortunes have been lost In trying to
make 1t popular but the hoodoo still
hOvers over it. The new management
promises to Danish the Jinx and make 1t
one OF the liveliest places in the city.