The Washington herald., 1918-10-17

New York. Oct. 16.-Anybody In liza
bic to make a mistake BIT Willis
Burkhardt, OF New York. and dur
Ing the farming season. FeIu .nocs.
N. j., is I'll ~ the farm Of John
Wyckon through a case OF mistaken
IDENTITY natu al enough in ~ ,oi~I'-
tel hoe pat -'ot and a man WHIP vas
drought up Snd.r The electric lights Of
BroaJvay.
Mr.. Burkhardt, believing Mr.. Hooy-
ers natty epigram that food viii win
the war enlisted early last month In
the land army. intent on helping
| short-hsnded farmers harvest their
crops. The other day Mr.. wyckon
ordered him 10 drive the cows from
the pasture to the shed for the days
| milking.
They are gentle" he said reas-
suringly when Willis registered re-
! luctance- IF they try TO run. lust
holler at them and treat EN- rough Z"
In one pasture is Farmer Wyckorf
| milk herd. In the other he keeps
two sturdy though short-tempered
bulls. Land Army Member Burkhardt
wandered into the wrong pasture and
proceeded TO put the prescribed bully
ing tactics into effect
An hour later. in the cool dusk OF
quiet bedroom at the farm. he mur-
1 INJURED that there must have been
some mistake. Il never knew cows. d"
, he whispered. were 30 rough"
! Nassau street is to become a little
! less congested. Nassau street was at
one time a cowpath in the days when
Redskins held sway on the island. IL
I has never been much wider. II winds
its uncertain way for a good many
( blocks a short ways below brooklyn
| Bridge. II is a street OF pencil stores.
haberdasheries and any kind Of Hscr-
Chandise that appeals TO the clerk and
! stenographer At noOntime II Is the
I promenade for Office workers IN the
big skyscrapers. People do not al
tempt to walk on the sidewalks In
: Nassau street They walk in the
: street Now the police have issuc1
. an order freeing the canyon OF dan
1 Gerous vehicles. Trucking. motors and
/ delivery wagons, in fact, yehicular
| traffic Of any kind is barred from the
| thorOughfsre.
Gay motoring parties have been
| leaving New York for the Berk-
shires this past week. In the heart
Of the Berkshires is a town in
which a spicy divorce case is being
tried. The husband secured some
! love letters his wife is alleged TO
have written to a hotel man in New
York and he told how the same
wife bounced a pink marble egg
! OF his head now and then. The
letters were enough TO attract Gu
rious New Workers but when the
papers spoke Of the pink marble
egg" nothing could stop them. The
pink egg was used by the wife to
darn stockings. New York dotes on
case OF this kind. The griIs and
cafes are alive with the chsttering
details.
There are three so-called high
brow plays on Broadway just now.
The plays are frankly above ordi-
nary standards. The lines are bril-
liant and the plots cannot be fol-
lowed by the tired business men,
The three plays are bowling sue
cesses from the standpoint Of the
gallery and balcony. which brings
up a question: Are the most intel
ligent poor II is the contention
Of the high-brow that there are
more Intelligent persons who are
sons who are rich. II would seem
so
Another thing about gallery su,
diences. The average theater's
/ profits are in the gallery The sal.
aries OF actors are higher than ever
before. The thester must I'll itl
downstairs to break even. II de-
pends upon the gallery for profits
And speaking OF actors salaries
there is a thespisn playing the part
Of butler in one Broadway show
He appears in two acts and speaks
about Is lines. He gets q salary OF
$3.50 a week. War is. OF course. re.
spOnsible. Many OF the best actors
are over there. Those at home real
ize the shortage and have boosted
the prices.