The Washington herald., 1918-02-18

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York. Feb. 17.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary: Up
early and the day looking as IL IT
would be fowle began the cleaning
up of my writing cabinet, a dull task
And yet came upon many letters that
have been written to me which l
treasure nightly and one in especial
from C. D. Morris. the editor. who
has printed brave piece about me in
journal in St Joseph.
Came Robert Rhode, the scrivener,
and told me a most comickal story OF
fat BOY living in his heath who
went to the barber for the first time
and when the barber told him he was
going to shave his neck the boy rolled
over in the chair on his stomach.
For a walk through the town and
saw Harry Houdini, the magician, who
has grown very stout and gray. And
on the avenue a drunken fellow did
snatch a lady's purse and bolted off
into the crowds and after a chase he
was caught and TO the constable he
sniveled that he was hungry and the
rogue looked it
To the Museum where came many
serious looking men to eat cooked
whale and I did taste of it, but found
1t not at all appetizing yet one may
learn to eat anything these days.
Great talk of Lord Theodore's illness
and one journal sent out its criers
that he had died.
To pub with some gay blades and
they had a Hawaiian porter, the first
ever I saw, and he came from Homo
lulu to twang the ukelele, but found
the people soon had tired of the music.
And he told us of his longing to go
back and collected quite a sum and
afterward we learned that he does this
! every day at a great profit and ex-
poets to remain here permanently.
Home where ! found my wife, poor
wretch, has adopted an orphan in
France which we must support and
in great glee until 1 learn that we
may never see the child.
In the evening to a great ball where
came many beautiful ladies and saw
Capt. Churchill and he tells me Of the
fellow in Wisconsin who introduced
the lecturer from Russia as a man
| who knew Mr.. Bolsheviki intimately
and could talk entertainIngly about
! him. Home late, in great content, and
so to bed.
Billiards seems to be growing pop
ular with the ladies. A special room
in one of the larger billiard parlors
has been opened for them. A women's
pocket billiard tournament for the
Ambulance Fund was held last week.
| Spectators declare that women are
| not as graceful as men when they
play billiards. But they play we'll
better than they pose. There are some
| shots indeed that tax their ingenuity
for posing.
Never until now has anything like
J a harpoon or a spear been used to cap
! ture a cigar; but New Workers live
| to learn. There is something new each
| day. A new device has been set up
in a Broadway help-yourself lunch
room which provides the spear for a
nickel. 1t doesn't miss penetrating
the back Of a cigar near the band.
Then by a twist of the wrist. the
cigar drops from a slot The device
| doesn't guarantee the cigars.
Curb brokers who stand out in
Broad street in the heat and cold
wig wagging their orders by finger
signs are to have huge shed to house
them. The plans for the shed have
been submitted to the city and IT Is
| expected they will be o. KID. The
past few months have been full OF
| prosperity for the curb. 1t rs reported
that several snug fortunes have been
made during the winter. The curb
brokers are chiefly distinguishable by
their extreme youth.
IJfe's little ironies: A man taking
Off his hat in an elevator in the Singer
building out of Difference to the lady
into whose face he blew cigarette
smoke.