The Washington herald., 1918-04-15

Special COrrespondent u The Washington Herald.
New York. April 14.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his dairy:
Up betimes and with my wife 10
take the ayre, it being warm and
pleasant, and on the street a fellow
did tell me OF Ralph Smith, OF the
Herald. being lost in an aeroplane
over the German lines which made
me sad. A bright, capable. young
man who bade me farewell only a
short time since and he leaves a
young bride of only a few months.
BY tram to a fine country house
at Tokeneke. which / am thinking
of renting for a short spell this
summer and 1t has a brave big yard
which will be fine for my dog and
a tennis court and 4 wide veTanda
near the ocean and talked with my
wife how We lived so happily in
one room in Cincinnati for which l
ought for ever to love and admire
her. and do; and persuade myself
she would do the same thing again.
if God should reduce us TO it.
Back and TO little inn down a
cellar way where We had cheese
cake and beakers of fresh milk and
strawberry pastries. very fine, al
belt a mopish bcsotted fellow at the
next table kept talking to himself
about how he would Kill a certain
rogue for stealing the love of a
maybe. And came a constable who
told of a fellow who did lately fling
himself into the Hudson and we
went to see, but the hospital wag-
gon had carted him TO the infrmary.
Home, where I fell to reading
Damn by the satiriCal Mr.. Mench-
en-, who ] hold in high favour and
he asks what could be greater hu-
NOR than life itself and he points
out how John Millington Synge
wrote Riders TO Sea" on a second
hand typewriter and Herbert Spen-
Ger sang bass in a barber shop
quartet and william Shakespeare
bought himself a bogus coat OF
arms.
In the late afternoon for a walk
through the town and stopped at q
musty antique shop run by an odd
fellow who showed no interest in
making sales but was intent on
playing solitaire and on the high
way 1 saw Sir Howard Chandler
Christy. the artist. and Sir c. T.
Brainard. the publisher. Lord May
or Hylan and MIR. Stone. the play
actor.
Mucn talk Of a gay bOulevardier
who was in his cups and went to
playhouse and made so much nOyse
that he was elected by force and
outside he sat on the curb and wept
and his wife's mother came along
and saw him. Home all the even
ing reading and casting my ac-
counts and late came some CSllrIs.
very uninterosting. and We talked
of this and that namely and so to
bed
Many years ago he was a pros
porous painter. He is very ola and
has failed to keep pace with the
younger artistic world. Lack of en-
ployment has driven him to dire
poverty. He was discovered living
in a hovel in New Jersey. His pride
prevented any charitable aid
A group of artists who knew him
in the heyday of his career held a
meeting the other night. A large
sized sum was raised. The next day
a representative posing as buyer
called on the artist and gave HIM
commission to do a picture.
When he completes ii, rlIe sum
that was raised will be given to
him so he can live in comfort the
rest Of his life. The picture will bc
put in a storehouse.
The newest thing in sanitary
barber shops has just been opened
in New York. There are fifty chairs
in the place, which is of white mar
BILE and mirrors. Every barber in
the shop cleanses his hands in an
antiseptic solution before serving
customer. He will use sterilized
lather brush from a sanitary enve-
Iope. He will sprinkle fresh pow
der on the lather brush. The razor
will be sterilized in boiling water
after each stropplnE. The towels
are also in sanitary envelope and
30 are the combs and brushes. AZ
terwarl the customer will pay the
cashier with money probably all
gummed up with various germs.