The Washington herald., 1919-08-19
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE

New York. Aug. 18.-There was L
fire in, a theatrical boarding house
near the Hippodrome the other
night and a disheveled young lady
bounded out OF the first floor bay
window like a gazelle with only a
Turkish towel wrapped around her.
She stood at the curb while firemen
carried out the furnishings OF her
room. The huge crowd that col
lected showed her no attention
whatever-they were gazing intent
ly upon a tipsy man coming down
a fre-escape carrying an old-fash-
ioned horse-hair sofa
1t was added proof that New York
is shockproof. It will stand for
on a drug store window and give
only a passing glance to a modern
young Eve trotting up Broadway in
a barrel. A Hawaiian dancer wear
ing four blades OF grass and carry
ing a spear failed to excite New
York even before the war.
Several years ago Kitty Gordon's
back and Mary Gardens frontal ter
rain caused a few mild gasps, but
since that time the latest evening
gown creations have given US all
such chance to brush up on our
physiology that the most daring
costume hasn't a single shock. In
fact il was said that the com bined
clothing of the young ladies attend
ing a recent Greenwich village ball
weighed only three pounds.
Ankle addicts do not hang around
the Flatiron Building on windy
days any more. Nobody gives a
hang about an ankle. Women cut
ting their skirts to bathing suit
proportions stopped all interest.
Even in a Broadway show running
just now the poetic license was frae-
tured with these lines in one song:
I'd rather have a sip of Haig
and Haig
Than to have a peep at
woman's leg.
And as for woman smoking a
cigarette in public-that is old stuff
All-Of the smart places sell carmine-
tipped cigarettes not for the Boil
sheviki, but as a camouflage for
too loosely applied lip rouge. On
almost any Broadway corner one
sees young girls in their teens dis
tributing birth-control leaflets. In
any tea room one may hear a dis
cussion among finishing school girls
on the euEenically unit father
Often it makes me want to go back
to my little home town. where do
ing fancy work on Sunday gives a
girl a bad name.
Bellevue Hospital has made a re-
port Of an Increase OF alcoholic
cases in the psychopathic ward for
July. 1919. The savings banks for
the first six weeks of prohibition re-
port business about normal and do
mestic strife as revealed in the Do
mestic Relations Courts continues
without armistice-but prohibition
gives us nevertheless a great cause
for Thanksgiving. 1t has killed the
cabaret.
William Johnston. the author. has
a playwright friend living down on
Long Island, who is distressed over
the effect OF the movies on his wife.
He dropped in on Johnston the 9TH
or day to unburden his woe. He
told how she would drop in to see a
movie star and the next day she
was trying to dress and act ike her.
Flrst,' ne said. 1t was Norma Tai
madEo, then it was Mary Pickroro
and then Theda Bara" Johnston
assured him it was nothing to worry
about and to humOr her in her little
sartorial whims
Yes he said hut I have NOT
told you the half of it-noxt week
Annette KelIermann is coming to
our village"
Tn" lost and found department IN
tho worlds largest hotel in New
ork. employs six clerks. Every
. thInE from bunch OF keys to a
NIoiln may be found in the depart
m"nt. But in all the time the hotel
has been opened only one Guest
left his pipe. He cabIod for it from
Franco.