The Washington herald., 1917-07-19
New York, Day by Day
BY o. O. MCINTYRE.

| Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
F, New York, July 1s.-As Samuel
Pepys would record In his diary; Up
betimes and to the park for a stroll
and saw a woman In a short skirt
wearing red. white and blue stock
ings. and the traffic bobby declared
he thought It was playing a low
down trick on Old Glory. And for
his sparkling repartee 1 proffered
! him a pence e1erott. which he ac-
cepted.
To the station to bid farewell to
party of gay r ;'sterers who are
/ of to the wilds OF Maine for an In
dependence Day holiday. and was
depressed that l could not go in. es-
pecially when / saw Mistress Dem
ner and Mistress Roland and my
wife, poor wretch, cautioned me to
/ feed the dog and water the plants,
which I promised to do.
For walk through the town. very
lonely. and at the Gotham Inn saw
Lord Northcliffe, the English Scriv-
ener, and was introduced. To a pool
hall, where ! played indifferently at
billiards and lose three games to H.
Roth, and see there Tad, the
sketcher, and ]. Tannen, the comic
actor, and o. Hammerstein. the i'm
pressario.
To luncheon at an odd tavern on
Eighth avenue, where only folk of
the Circuit dine. And there came
trapeze artists. slack-wire masters.
bounding acrobats and the like, and
they all seemed like Office clerks and
dressed modestly and in good taste,
and I met M. Monazzi, the clown,
and found him very droll, and he
tells me of his great love for chill
dren.
Home by stage and saw many hur-
rying to their trains for the holiday
vacations, and one husband, with
spouse and thre children, had guz-
zled too much ale. and was surly
and abusive, and 1 felt glad that
strong drink was to be abolished.
Dinner alone and afterward to a
Cinema show to see d. Fairbanks,
and found him amusing. And so
homo and to bed.
The startling discovery that habit
forming drugs are being sold by
pushcart peddlers on the East Side
was made this week. Three thou
sand bottles and packages Of fake
cures were seized by health depart
ment inspectors. Most of the mix
lures contained heroin. morphine and
cocaine. The most surprising feat
ure is that this trafTic in poisons
should flourish to such an extent,
The East Side is sort of under
world about which the rest of the
city Is not greatly concerned, and the
pushcart is an almost subterranean
vehicle, so little does it attract the
attention OF the upper world as it
goes on its dark. devious ways, pro-
noting poverty. disease and death.
Bide Dudley, the World photog-
rapher. visited his dentist the other
day, and despite the ordeal produced
a 4-karat bon mot.
The dentist who was snaggling at
| nerve was an optimist about lust
| how 1t felt to Dudley. We" he
said. aren't going TO mind this
much"
Dudley looked at him strangely.
Where do you get that We stufr?" he
| inquired.
Amity Is in Orange County, n. J.,
far as the railroad goes, and then a
little further. In Amity village lives
jeffrey Wisner Utter, a tall straight,
strong. old man OF 20. with a hook
nose as delicately chiseled as an
Arabs; a pair of clear. blue eyes, as
kindly as womans and eager as a
childs and hands Drowned and
! gnarled by lifetime OF farming.
He has been beekeeper for forty
three years. Twice a week he goes
out among his neighbors carrying the
| messages he says he has received
from his bees. Some think he is
crazy-others believe in his teaching,
He has never been stung by a bee.
The bee, he says, will never sting
tnose VINO are unafraid. But the
moment one fears. the bee will sting.
Utter applies the same principle to
snakes. He is not afraid to pick I'd
any snake, and he has never been
bitten. IF I feared them" he said,
they would bite"