The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1918-12-09

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! Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herai'
New York, Dec. s.-As Samue
Pepys might record in his diary: VI
betimes and casting up my MONTH,
accounts find. blessed be GodI ! shall
be able to give my wife a new gowr
against the coming Of Mr.. Cravath'i
! house party at Bsyside the new
years eve.
To breakfast with Lawrence Dor
sey' the play actor on liver anc
bacon and creameG potatoes and
marmslade and beakers OF cold mill
and thence through the town to tn,
pier to see the barque George Wash.
ington upon which our Lord Wood
row set sail and the crowds so thici
1t was impossible to move and great
| cheering and a rogue put his hant
in my waskut pocket but got moth.
! ing.
There has come lately in oui
neighborhood to live Miss Fritz
Schefr whom | greatly admire and
have worn my new scarf and great
coat on simple errands but have
gained no notice whatsoever. The
| town very gay with this party and
that for returning courtiers and this
| day l did talk by phone to Sir Wal.
ter Chalaire who downed nine flying
machines and is now llmping with
a badly wounded leg.
To lunch where came Mr.. Harmon
a well spoke gentleman from ART
iona who tells of the great copper
mines at Narragansett and of the
mighty fortunes wrested out of the
earth in the west country. Tayles
OF brave fortunes always thrill me
1t being my ambition to strike II
rich in Alaska as so many have.
To a shop on Fifth Avenue where
met Japanese gentleman and
after a small purchase we engaged
In conversation and he told me the
japanese typewriter has 5000 char
acters and he gave me a tin OF
sweets, very tasty.
With Mr. .Lardner to the Green
Gate and after good and pleasant
dinner to see Mistress Cowl in her
new play and thence by coach home
where l found much company and l
played few tunes on the harpischon
and so to bed.
Up to date I have not found a
person who attended the six-day
bicycle race at Madison Square Gar
demand yet year after year they
come along. eating up columns OF
newspaper space. The hold it has
on the public is uncanny. There is
never anything startling unless see
ing a tired man take a header At
night the nightbirds drift in and
the hOOdlums are on the Job. Should
man float in with an opera hat
1t Will be smashed Immediately. II
mas always been paying PROPOSE
ton and this year more than ever
Louis II. Chalif. the Russian dan
Ger, has received letter from an
actor now in France. who tells the
following story: An American SOL
der brought in a German prisoner
recently and found the fellow had
poCketful of French money The
American looked at the money,
thought OF the fine restaurants in
Paris and then. tapping the Ger
man on the shoulder. said: KAN
Grad. kans du craps schutzen?'
T. S. This is positively the last
yarn we will tell about the Ger
mans. refusing even to tell the one
about the Irishman, who had to cap
tuTe twenty-one Germans before he
could find a pair of shoes to At him.
Let a new story about a German hit
New York. then try to tell II to a
man from San Francisco, and he will
tell you he heard it two years ago.
And doubtless he has.
Caruso's father-in-law referred to
him as a public singer" The role
of irate father-in-law will probably
always be one OF enormous joy to
the world. Somehow or other,
apopIexy has always been the COM
edian Of ailments.