The Washington herald., 1918-02-25

Special Oorespondencs The Washington Herald.
New York, Feb. A-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary: Up
pretty betimes. It being my birthday
and came a brave sweater that Mis-
tress Lillibridge hath knit and a print
from Rube Gofberg, very amusing.
And the day also being the anniver-
say Of my marriage ten years ago,
in good spirits and am IN good health
and better estate than ever I have
been for which the Lord make me
thankful.
To breakfast with my wife, and un-
der my plate 1 found a silver match
safe and q pencil OF gold. and came
many letters and cards. To billiards
where I played indirferently and came
Berton Braley, the poet, who told OF
a noble song Al Jolson is singing
about knitting a barbed wire sweater
W. Hohenzollern the war lord.
Great talk that Sir Ty Cobb will
wear the uniform of the Yankee bal
club next season. For a walk ant
saw DR.. George Dorsey, who goes tC
Spain shortly. and he tells me Of tht
disease Emitting nerves" among th'
ladies which affects the spectators
and I asked to know IL the noblt
physicians had classified the nerv'
frazzeling effects Of gum chewing OF
the innocent bystander.
To luncheon where I had a hash o
rabbits and lamb, and a rare chine o
beef and fruit and cheese. very tasty
News comes that Lord Theodore &
improving rapidly. and a wag ha!
printed in a public journal:
Storm warning: Col. Roosevelt vii
be able to talk in two weeks"
To a music hall. where a fellow die
trick with an orange, making /
vanish in the palm of one hand. anC
fellow on the horizontal bars die
lose his grip and the talk was tha
he had broken several bones.
In the evening to dinner and ther
to a dance floor, and there came Maj
August Belmont, the banker, jus
home from France. looking very fln'
in his new uniform. And so home anC
to bed.
1t Is q rough life Julien Elting'
leads. Oscillating as he does daily be
tween George and Georgette, the higl
collar and the low neck, and betweer
trousers and taffeta, and leading
double life. Eltinge holds that hf'
does not hold its martyrs.
Not yet thirty-five years of age HI
has fingered longer in lingerie thai
any other man defeating by
furbelow George Fortescue who wa
the enticing Catherine in 'Evange
line" and Richard Harlowe who so
pranoed in skirted role in the musica
"1492."
And now comes the announcement
that Eltinge is to give up the stag,
for, the studio in April. He is tire
of wearing skirts and of being forces
to diet to keep thin and otherwis
emulating the society woman in phys
ical endurance. He is going to retir
and paint and grow fat and
wear overalls. He has made a snui
fortune and has a theater name,
after him and he thinks it is time +
quit
Never was Lincoln's Birthday NOR
fittingly marked than at the Lambs
gamboL Some one there recalle,
that the distinguished actor, w. J
Ferguson. now past seventy, had bee
the prompt boy in the theater tn
night Lincoln was shot-the one mai
alive today who actually saw tn
tragedy. Called to the stage, MI
Ferguson gave forceful and dra
matte picture of Lncoln's assassina
tion, as he saw it from his post in tn
first entrance opposite the Lincoll
| box. Old timers on Broadway deciar
that never was there more dra
matio talk.
It was the s o'clock hour on Fift
! avenue. Everybody was rushin
homeward. From a side street ther
| came an American soldier leading
| sightless young French soldier. who's
empty Tapping sleeve told OF his pa
! triotisn. Almost everybody stoppe
| and watched them. There were yer
! few eyes undimmed by tears. Abou
the only person smiling was the blin
MANNED soldier.