The Washington herald., 1918-07-16
By DMc

like a punchbowl Of champagne.
with roses floating on the surface
has its sharp. cruel, piercing thorns
hidden underneath. And Lieut..
Alexander McClintock, a fine up
standing lad. a hero Of Ypres. and
still in his twenties, was pierced by
the thorns.
met MccIintock. who was wear
ing q Canadian uniform. shortly
after he was invalided home from
the blood-soaked battlenelds OF
France. He limped, and now and
then had to fight for his breath as
the result OF gas and shrapnel.
But he was full of the joy of
living. He was modest about his
adventures. and was inclined to
belittle his heroism. James Muir
ray Allison, New York correspondent
OF the Cincinnati Times-Star. had
taken him under his wings and
brought him around to call. We
spent a delightful evening together.
McClintock became a sort OF hero
around the Broadway cafes. Women
fawned over him. and orchestras
played patriotic tunes, the minute
he entered q place. He dropped
around to ste me several times, and
i noted a change. He was be-
ginning to like Broadway.
And for this he was not 10 be
blamed. He was young. He had had
the great adventure. The Broadway
camaraderie could not help, but
have its appeal McCIintock was
not going the pace as Broadway
understands it. That is he was net
distributing fabulous sums up and
down the thoroughfare. But he was
mingling with the wrong crowd. He
perhaps did not know il.
He met the girl-the girl who de-
lighted in being seen in his COM
pany. His book Best o. Luck" had
brought him handsome royalties. 1t
was the old story. The other morn
ing they found Lieut.. McClintock
with a gaping wound in his head in
the Murray Higg Baths. A revolver
at his side told of his suicide. He
had only a few pennies left, and on
a table were some sleeping potions
that told of his fight for sleep.
His body had twenty-seven distinct
scars. l visited the undertaking es-
tablishment and bowed my head rev.
erently over his bier Broadway had
exacted its cruel toll 1t had well
coined many heroes before and prov
ed them clay. Broadway's whirl does
not stop for the dead. For Broad
way means song, laughter, wine,
beauty. color and life-always life.
A group of literary giants and
sprinkling of dwares were at the Bre-
WORT telling each other of their
cares. One asked Harry Kemp, the
poet. what occupation he would give
II the military authorities approach
ed him. I'm a thinker" replied
Kemp.
The Coney barker may continue to
extol the wonders Of the Samar twins
the greatest marvel Of Old Ma
Nature, ladies and gentlemen; pun
zling to the scientist and layman
aiike"-for Magistrate Mcmahon has
so decided.
+ Lucio and Simplico are their names.
and they are linked together in the
tasnion that gained free puffs in the
press Tor their predecessors, the SIAM
ese twins. The Children's Society OBJ
jected to their continued puzzIinR Of
scientist and laymen alike, at the tax
Of quarter a puzzle, on the ground
that they were under age.
II was established that Simplico
was SIXTEEN This furnished the per-
iect aifbi for Lucio, and the case was
dismissed.
The little one-armed eateries-
known as the dirty spoon restau-
ronts-are not such havens of refuge
from purse gouRine any more PIE
that used to sell for 5 cents a slab
now sells for is cents. Coffee Is ,I5
cents cup and a ham sandwich is
Is cents. A dinner in. these places
used to average about 30 cents with
a nickel tip. Now the dinner cost
about 400, II Is hard to find a place
where a filling dinner can be had in
New York for less than 800.