The Washington herald., 1918-02-11

New York, Feb. l0.-As Samuel Pepys
would record in his diary; The day
being a heatless one I lay late and
read the public prints and did call the
barber to trim me a luxury I can
Ill afford. And in the bath did slip
on a bar Of soap cracking my spine
and raised such cries, that the boot
boy came from below stairs yet he Is
Of bad hearing.
"Donned my new surtout and new
hat of brown and Jared forth for
breakfast looking very noble and to a
little inn where I could not eat be-
cause of the walters equity hands,
poor wretch. In bad humor l set of
for a walk through the town.
Met Sloane Gordon, the scrivener,
who tells me that Col. Irwin Cobb is OF
again to the wars albeit he vowed
that he would never go again. Much
talk of Col. du Pont buying the
Waldorf in and that the space be-
tween it and the McAlpin will be pur-
chased for the biggest inn in the
world,
Saw also Sir Dudley Field Malone
and then to a luncheon where came
also Inspector Dominick Riley, who
knows the Chinatown and Bowery
rogues.
ITO a playhouse to see THE Love
MILL" which has the most tuneful
musique ever heard and was writ
ten by Earl Carroll, who was there
In army uniform, looking very hand
some.
Home where came A. Resener from
West Virginia and We recalled the
days when we played truant from
school for one entire season and how
we hid our books in the lumberyard
every morning and carried them home
at night, and he has grown prosperous
nevertheless and has a fine home and
a baby daughter.
''Supped at a Greek coffee house
where came sailor with a heart tat
tooed on his check and there vas a
fight and a drunken fellow drew a
stilleto and frowzy jade came In and
sang "The Rosary" very screechy. A
most interesting place which I shall
visit again soon. And so nome late
apd to bed"
There Is something the matter with
Mike, the only ring-tailed monkey the
New York Board Of Health ever lad
a quarrel with. He's out of work to
begin with and those who know him
best declare he's suffering from acute
comfort.
inoculatee of the health department.
Nl1..
about the action of any disease, Mike
was pumped full of germs. He re-
ceived anything that the doctors de-
sired to fill him with and he has
never given the department a bit of
aid.
Nothing made him sick. A few shots
of the germs of leprosy would cnly
increase his appetite. The culture OF
Asiatic itch or the Scandinavian hoof
rot would just make him more zippy
as he swung from perch to perch by
his ring tail. Germs meant nothing
in Mikes life. He was just too dad
blamed full of health and the Joy Of
living for any measly germ to foor
him.
There Is talk that the only Oscar Is
70 ledNo lno p" dluOiA- I1o ADS pccii
there 25 years, coming up to a man.
agerial post from a waiter. he kas
furnished columns of copy for news
papermen. He talked some years age
of retiring but those who know him
say he will never quit He works lf
hours a day and has for IS years Os-
car was just a little reeved because
he was not told Of the sale Of the
hafara
the reporters galloped In for the news.
His last name is Tschirkey, but no
reporter could ever spell his name, SO
he grew famous under the name OF
Oscar. He still lives in the little apart
ment that he rented on Madison ave-
nue. when he was waiter. He is a
millionaire and owns many country
homes. but he spends most Of his time
In his lille 1at