The Washington herald., 1918-03-18

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York. March l7.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary: Lay
late the day being fowle and our
neighbor Mr.. McGrath sent hamper
Of the juice of grapes. very refresh
ing. and ! &c The tailor TO have him
fit me with my new spring surtout
which is TO be an effect lounge suit
with a military waist line with a SOL
dierman shoulder that lacks only the
epauIet.
My wife. poor wretch, AYERS / should
dress more unlike a circus horse and
with mOdesty and delivered on the
way home a great preachment on
style and quoted: style is the first
grace digger at the bier OF triteness.
1t is the rouge behind which pallOr
hides Without it. life would be AS
stark az a Green dancer or as stupid
as the Crown Prince" And she sniff
fed at my breath as though l had
been drawing at flask.
Came DIR. George Dorsey, the tayle
writer, to bid farewell before he goes
on a long journey and Pennie. the
mayde, made him some fine FISti"S
and a cup of jelly. Busy with my
writing and casting my accounts and
dispatched a letter to my father, who
is a good man and patient at my
seemingly negligence in writing.
To the park with my dog and watch
ed my old friend Bill Snyder feed the
wild animals in the menagerie and on
through the park to the Plaza and
from a window watched 4 parad" of
soldiers, very inspiring. And then
on through the town and saw Nat
Goodwin and in front OF shop was
sign: Fur Coats Made OF Oul own
Skin"
Home where I hnd Arthur Some-s
Roche. the scrivener, who has bought
a new gasoline Wagon and ia talk
ing J saw strange light in his eye
which made me set him down as
speed demon. To studio Tor tea
where came Dudley Buck and Mistress
Buck, Dan Smith. the artist, Graham
Cootes and Mistress CooteS Arthur
William Brown and many others.
In the evening reading and at mid
night saw a strange red light in the
sky from the window and saw many
at their doors fearing It might be
I'horrendous German air Contraption but
1t was only an astron omical phenom-
ena and so to bed.
theater skirting Broadway has
been converted into a church for the
presentation of a play called The
Book of job" They advertise 1t as
sermon. The first night audience
consisted of preachers and adorable
elderly ladies-and the regular FIRST
night Death Watch. Incense was
burned all about. Instead OF an or
chestra they played an organ. The
old-fashioned hymns were sung by a
quartet Coincident with the ser
mon play comes a new theater-The
Nanderbilt-named after the diStin-
tinguished family. Heretofore no one
had thought of naming a theater after
them. There are Vanderbilt streets.
hotels, markets, hats, Office buildings.
gardens and ships.
Conklin Mann is the hustling editor
or Leslie's Weekly lie used to be on
Park Row newspaper where he
welded a wicked blue pencil. One
night late. the makeup man came
to the door OF the composing room
and asked for the weather report be-
fore putting the edition to bed.
Mr.. Mann looked at his telegraph
reports, found it sandwiched in be-
tween an exciting story OF the day
and called out CLOUDY and Warmer.
Just at this juncture a negro mes
senger boy eddied into the doorway.
He heard what was said. He had
been running and was perspirinG Il
heard yo' all he said. An ef you
got no mo- TO. do than TO insult Culled
cen'n Use goln' TO speak to de boss
editor-that's what l is-to de boss
editor"
The Society OF Salama nders is get
ting ready for a dance in Greenwich
Village. 1t is said that it will be one
of the most salacious affairs the viii
lage has ever seen-if the police do
not get nervous with their clubs.