Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-06
somewherein New York.

Dear Folks. Genius mas been given
fierce waliop recently and tho long
haired section its pullins its hntr gut
by handfuls It's going TO be q reGu-
lar Nadi"ostoK winter Worse than
in the trenches. For Ia the trenches
;hey have food Listeh.
Speaking OF the horrors az war,
suppose YOU have heard thet the free
lunch, TINT grand old democratic In
stitution Of the ono-fork cafes has
been abolished. They haven't loft a
trace nor suggestion. Even the
scent uf the young spring garlic ls
gone The Jar Of pret2el1 has disap-
Ieared The entire city was en-
Nelcped by this great, unspeakabie
calamity et almost one and the same
moment
or genus and inspiration and bone
rimmed literary astuteness leaves MS
powerleSs 10 do mora than yip an
earnest lat wheezy protest
That stnrdy handmaiden OF genius
the lunCh--ouCe 80 maEnlfioent Is
Iut fragrant memory.
4 loud wall OF anguish rs being
raised which will echo and re-echo
from COant To coast because. II ~ esu-
mated. several hundred thousand
future noVelists, poets artists ana
,laywrights nave been deprived OF
their only visible means OF support
II was the free lunch That attracted
many Of them here. In the goou
ga days the genius only needed 10
End n place 70 sleep. tho eat'ns 'ook
care OF itself ..,.,.. 9
some careers OF course " man
!. starting out to be hackdriNer'
lHrber cor steamftter or To follow any
other profession that pays good
money lie can view this tremendou
episode # the world war with dtsni-
fled calm and considerable iegrec
O., nonchalance But f. can be re-
,,,y,d oniv historically by that grea,
bcdv of lteratl which IL rapidly
clutter,ug up the streets OF this talt
Village and making tho traffic PROB
lem a VeNntious one.
WA. the tree lunch they could pu'
nm IA front without II the front aus
appears.
belicve IL - claimed by some per-
,uns who are supposed 10 Know
uptronoli:an life in all its lights ana
abades md mood, and lenses, that
there are some people here who are
not trying 70 write pamphlets. hro'
chures. vers lihre. stories or moving
picture scenarios. aud | believe thcs
tive right. Every once In whiie
meet "A plumesr or stree cur con
ductur who is not holdingo his heao
in 10. hand ana looking heavenwaro
in a detached way, but these cnnsti'
tute a rather pathetic minority ofIrh'
urlan population.
The bulk II the population. mean
ing the writer's, are doing some deer
thinking on this lunch problem.
Every body I know n New York Z
faeling this nip Of the war dog, viii
the possible exception OF Giuseppe
TIE shoe shnist IN our block. who ha'
.raghetti at home and can afforC
e.
There h no reason why the ,geniu'
Writers. that indominable. group o.
advanced thlnkors, should not give
M something for tholr country In thi'
c-isis 10 ask them 10 give up the
eating oi food liz perhaps bit dras
tr but e"ery man must do his bit
This Is no time To grunhic
II would he a sacrilege now TO de-
,crihe the magnificent lunch libre o'
tho hnNent days before the war Suf-
fce II to say that this lunch com.
lrlsed an the deiicacies and many OF
me indclicacies of the season. But
cr all the items Of that glourious re
tn>t the blind robin had done more
90 encourage genius than any other
fiSh. anir'al, bird or cereal
For three hundred years the blind
robin furnished The basic element oi
the grand free" After the versa
tile and talented ynlny author had
eaten 81 pound Of this delightful relish
q had laid the foundation for q
square meal 81 chopped cabbage
fried liver. cheese, pickles. nadishes
aud highly salted crackers
The Blind robin Is not bird OF
beautiful plumage like the peacock
o' the bird of paradise, but is, on the
contrary fish, or we should say
thr carefully embalmed mummy OF
fish that once wagRed It's tail
loNously down among the ruthless
mhmaunes ana Atlantic cables In
MS natural existence, the blind robin
ls q herring and, in that phase OF It's
'Nlstenco, II stll takes Rn interest In
Nhnt rs going on about H..
After II IS transplanteh to the quar-
TER deck of a New York thirst garage,
u is a mere mockery Of Its former
ustlne self Several things happen
=" the. herring. meanwhile. II In first
more or less thoroly cleaned and it's
Norks are removed, So that II no
longer keeps Gccurate time Then,
ioLs seven weeks. II Is picked In an
'Nphalium solution, TO which ls added
oh potent Of saline tngredient--one
nArrel of salt to one gallon OF her
ring
Aiter the picking process the her
ing ls laid on rock and a stout man
WIN club beats all the original
'hNte out OF IT. IL is here that the
I"rrlng loses lie individuality, The