The Washington herald., 1918-08-05
By DwIc

would record in his diary: Abroad
with Kari Kitchen, the scrivener, he
having put on his brave new tan
surtout and is mighty spruce and
through the town and to the Winter
Garden TO see stage rehearsal at
sunrise and the play-actors had been
at IL all night and were still lively
And Mr.. Howard sang Tom, Dick
and Harry and Jack" very fetching
To breakfast at a coZy place called
Ttm-Tani and many girls Of the
chorus there and a loose company,
though full of Wit, and worth being in
for once, to know the nature and their
manner of talk. and lives. And saw
there lady who lately lived in our
row. But, Heavens, what a change!
She did have wonderful golden hair
and now it is rust coIored and had
purple blotches, most horrendous. ~
Home by coach and great crowd
at the park entrance the news being
that boy is newly drowned and his
father, in great sorrow became sud-
denly bereft of reason. A sad plicht.
Going over my accounts till luncheon
and came Mr.. Howe who tells of iust
tenderipg a loan of a few shillings
to a Russian prince and how the
fellow once set pace in spending.
After luncheon 1 played the har-
monica, very sweet, and We sang
tavern tunes until my wife, poor
wretch, bundled up and left for a
neighbOrs. she not being very good
friends with me over the business OF
bringing strange visitors to the
house
Came in the late afternoon a woman.
/ believe seeking money aid, who told
the wierdeet story l have ever heard
OF how her husband had died from
the shame of a false scandal after
she had starved with him and was
on the eve of success-four plays
having been sold by him which were
never presented on account of the
stigma attached to his name. And
my wife and believed, her story
albeit we can do nothing
To dinner under an arbour and
came Mr.. Johnston. the editor. and
Mr.. Kelly. the magazine scrivcner,
and young girl giddy from drink
made a show of herself and was
asked to leave by the manager and
she showered silverware and dishes
upon him while the crowd Clapped.
To a cinema theater where we saw
noble pictures of naked savages in
the New Hebrides, and how they
buried old men alive and lived on
cocoanuts and fish. And afterward
met the lecturer and his wife, a
comely young woman, and they had
done wide travelling with Jack Lon
don on his boat Shark and twice
faced death among cannibals. So
home and to bed with great content.
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able bodied will have to carry his
own luggage upon arriving at the
Pennsylvania and Grand Central
Stations. The "work-or-fight" rule
has been put into effect. The grim
ming porters, known as red caps"
have been cut down more than half
for the duration of the war. There
were some red caps" who made SO
day in tips by carrying baggage a
short distance.
A bright new quarter lay on the
steps of public bath house in
Brooklyn, and Rabbi Isaac Click
mans eyes cleaned as he saw it.
"A quarter saved is quarter
earned" he muttered as she bent
over to pick it up. As he did so there
euS at ms CodIIaliS. Inc rappl
Strengthened up, slapped his hin
pocket and gave vent to a wall Of be-
reavement.
The quarter saved was $40 lost,
for his wallet had washed. Some
one had taken an unfair advantage
of him as he bent over. The trick
has been worked all over the city.
One man stopped over to pick up
dollar bill in a cafe on Broadway,
and when he Strengthened up he not
only lost his wallet, but his watch
and expensive scraft pin.