The Washington herald., 1918-01-24

New York. Jan. 3O.-Paradise Alley Is
one of the quaint spots tucke1 away
in an c'i corner OF Scw York that
very few people visit. 1t Is in Green
wich Village and the entrance is
through a hole in the wall in Sixth
avenue. between jefferson Market Ja.l
and Eleventh street.
Paradise Alley Is a row OF quaint
dwellings that slant in outrageous
fashion. Everything in alley is strange
to the point of queerness. Inside you
forget the world and its hustle and
the world seems far away. A quaint
little old Italian drives his herd Of
goats up to the doorways at dusk
each evening and milk them for his
customers.
Paradise Alley has its patriotism.
There are five service flags there. The
occupants are dreamers writer's,
artists and sculptors-who are rarely
heard from and who scarcely ever
leave Paradise Alley. Living is very
cheap. A man may rent a shack for
81 a month.
Around the corner from Paradise
! Alley is Patchin place. Patch-in it
should be. 1t was in this queer back
water spot that John Masefield, the
poet. ate and slept and rocked the
cradle of a man child in the days
when he tended bar in New York. A
queer lad was Masefield.
A thousand songs struggle for birth
in his brain. The world knows many
of these songs today for he ranks
in the second fight of living poets
When he lived in Greenwich Village
the only part of the public that got
the benefit of his poems was the
saloonkeeper's baby. Masefield put
the child to sleep every night rock
ing the cradle and grooming his poems.
Never wall came from the baby
while John Masefield sang. Which
goes to show that a child-even a
babe-may recognize what is true,
what is great. what is elemental
The camouf1age or trick Sunday
sandwich in New York has been
abolished and thereby signalling an
other victory for Hooverism. To buy
drink in an eating place in New
York on Sunday also required that pur-
chase Of food and invariably the
waiter brought a trick sandwich that
nobody would eat.
1t would be difficult TO estimate the
tons of sandwiches made on Satur-
days to serve as camouflage for cock
tails on Sundays and then to be
thrown into the garbage cans on Mon
days. A magistrate has discharged a
waiter arrested for serving a drink on
Sunday without the camouflage sand
wich and thereby established a pre-
cedent.
1t is to be assumed now that when
customer orders a Sunday drink in
cafe he is going to order food. If
he does not-the hotel or cafe cam
not be blamed
And speaking of cocktails, there IS
a, financial writer who recently paid
visit to a friend in Oklahoma. He
brought back with him some samples
of oil which had been placed in some
cocktail bottles for the lack of any
other kind of bottle. The labels were
still on the bottles and they were
placed on the financial writer's desk.
While he was out the other day a
friend came in and helped himself TO
a couple of drinks. When the financial
writer returned he found this note on
his desk:
Dear Bob: I've just sampled your
new tangled cocktails. 1 don't know
the ingredients, but do know I am
all limbered up. II your hear Of an
explosion IT'S me.-BILLL
A musical comedy chorus girl ap-
peared on Broadway with a few dark
blotches springled artistically over
her face. At first glance it looked like
court plaster bat a friend investigated
closer and found they were not. She
asked for an explanation.
"oh," said the wearer. "these are
just little touches of coal dust have
placed there"
MY, my such ostentation," gurgied
the other in downright envy.
The Socialist mayor of Milwaukee.
Wis, recently, vetoed the resolution
Of the common council to purchase
$4,000 worth Of liberty bonds. claim
IpE the purchase was illegal.