The Washington herald., 1918-09-14

New York, Sept. 1s.-where are
the cabaret lads and lassies OF yes
teryear7 The daredevil crowds
that flocked around the pink lnrnps
in Lobsteria have vanished ana in
their stead are to be found mon and
W, men w't5 silver hair. The thin
and spinI,v go'deG chairs nrn not
occupied by the young and frivo-
Ious but by tic middle aged /
s'aid
Instead of the syIph-llke debu-
taLtes one sees only the GlitterinS
exponents OF the law OF the sur
vival OF the fattest The draft and
the anti-loafing law has sucked all
OF the pommaded young men into
the J"rtex OF var and the young
women are working at canteens
and becoming Red Gross nurses.
In one dansant the other night.
formerly packed at the cocktail
hour before dinner, there were
only eleven patrons. One was
cruSty old cluhD ar who has not
prt hls right foot on the ground
siocc I''Inc nIco moved uptown.
Another was a'fanous old rOunder.
Just back from q fiIbert farm where
he played with blocks and babbled
like a child, until they fixed up his
jumping nerves.
Not a singel male or female OF
the younger dancing set were in
evidence. Matronly women were
surrounded by tufts OF white hair
and bald domes OF silence. Not a
soul was wooing the good Widow
Clicquot-lemonades end sprir-
water were the thirst qucnchers
and only two couples were dane
ing to a ragged jazz tune.
Not a woman present puffcd at
the movie badge of shame-the
cigarette. 1t was almost impussi-
bic TO believe that in this same
cafe years ago people flockcd to
be in the heart OF the night life
OF the pleasUre-crazcd metropolis.
Also It would be difficult to believe
that in this very place many a 7ut-
terinE moth had had her fTail win-s
singed in the dizzy whirlpool OF
folly.
Some were knitting. most OF the
mon were looking over the mari ct
reports OF tho day. The powdered
footmen at the entrance were AL
most asleep. Not a tipsy giC-ler
in the crowd. All cold sober and
bored-and that illustrates the
heart of Lobsteria with yOuu., ITS
fuel. at the business Of war.
-
Manhattan is surfeited with war
weddings 1t would seem tina; the ma
tlonal slogan is Marriage Will Win
the War" Society reporters are un-
able to keep pace with the war mar
riaEes. A young soldier receives a
telegram at one hour after midnight
saying General PershinE requests the
immediate favor Of his company at an
informal gathering on tho western
front. The first thing b.. nung man
does is to call up The G..' and to-
gether they taxiCsb It To q uStiCe Of
the peace before dawn. T-gug men
who never thought OF pe,luy married
before. receive the call and hing, they
get married Just like that The more
one sees of some war brides, the morr
one understands why our army and
navy are so anxious to get overseas.
A naughty New York woman went
10 a Broadway theater the other night,
saw the play and at its completion
raised such a disturbance in the lobby
that she got her money back. She
went on the theory that when a grocer
sells bad eggs or a CIothier sells bad
clothes patrons get their money back.
She got the impression that the play
was a sort OF Ibsen like. when in fact
1t was a comedy built about the fast
est set in Canarsie or some other wild
suburb.
when the New York City editors
held their convention the other day.
the reporters declared that covering
tho convention was the toughest as
siGnment they ever received. So they
got together and made their reports
exactly alike so one city editor could
not say that he was sCooped by a
rival sheet.