The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-11

New York. July 1o.-Thoughts while
wandering around Manhattan: There's
Dom Byrne, the Brooklyn short story
writer, talking to Burns, the detec-
tive. New kind of store on Broad
way. Sells only electric fans. Oliver
Herford always wanted more than
anything else to throw an egg into
an electric fan. Grove Patterson has
the best ambition OF all. Wants to
jump on a shed roof into bathtub
full of ice cream.
| Lew Fields lunching on the Knick-
erbocker porch. Hear he's a riot In
his new play. Mary Miles Minter lead
ing a white collie. Wonder II dogs
have souls? Wherefore said that we
have the right to conclude that ami
mals-some of which have been as
] dear to us as man-will find their place
in the Paradise of God.
! Little tea shop advertises Scotch
lscones filed with berries. Fine bit
of food. Funny sign in front Of the
cabaret place: "Cheek-to-cheek Dane
ing Barred" Man blinking at the
daylight is a subway track walker.
Spends twelve hours in darkness every
day in the bowels Of the earth
There's Capt Simson. Born in Cal
cutta. Speaks Hindustani Cousin
wrote THE Mountain Maid" Been
running in London for three years.
Little cafe in the cellar is where Gle
menceau used to eat Have to know
you before they will serve you.
| Wonder if it's true about cocaine
being sold openly by walters in the
dance halls? And yet they won't let
them have beer. Funny world Think
I'll go to Solomon Islands. No laws
there. Just fish and swim all the time.
Fifth avenue millionaire has a SWIM
ming pool at his bedside. Dives out
of bed every morning. Says 1t cured
\ him of indigestion. II l had that
much money I'd get something with
more class. Govt. for instancei
| Great line OF VIII Rogers. Says
! Wilson will have to be kept in one OF
the rehabilitation camps until they
'dehouse'' him. Think I'll turn back
here. I'm in a tough neighborhood.
Think I'll whistle.
Coney Island-with beer at 20 cents
I a copy-is not the crowded bedlam OF
yore. Those who can afford to go to
/ Coney at the present prices of food
4 and soft drink can just as well &c
/ to some of the more exclusive resorts
! Coney seems to be the magnet for
hinterland visitors and that is all
The most popular attraction there is
/ Underground Chinatown" It Is
weird, uncanny and terrible. The
hallyhoos call It ''yokel stuff''-an' at
/ traction for country folk. The rea
Chinatown was never like it. There
are lot of wax figures like the old
| Eden Musee. The figures are sicklins
looking and the dull light makes then
| revolving. The yc/ls and morbid
flock there to gasp and SILVER.
I The police were called into a tene-
ment house on the East Side the pthe:
/ day by an anxious mother who want.
! ed to complain about her husky son
| He refuses to work and smokes about
! 100 cigarettes a day What shall !
do with him." asked the mother. 81
dunno. lady" said red-cheeked COP
| per. but if he was mine I'd shoot
him after giving him a dose OF rough
on rats. wouldn't want to take any
chances on him escaping"
! STYLE and otknr ME concrete
things have changed the figure of the
/ American woman within the last few
| years. The waist line of the past has
vanished and other alterations have
taken place. but the dress forms of q
| year or so ago. on which women's
clothing was made, are more conserv-
ative and CAM be changed. That is
why the street cleaning men who
conducted cleanup week are cartinG
away hundreds of dummies whose
wasp waists were once the envy OF
/ feminine beholders. but now make
them utterly shapeless.