The Washington herald., 1919-05-13

New York. May 12.-Stephen Lea
cock. q serious college professor In
Canada, but q wit when he comes
down over the line into America,
dropped in the other day-gave the
city of mad pleasure the once over
and opines that the great metropo-
lis is going crazy. He cannot for
get the days of the 50-cent table
d'hote and the 10-cent tip.
He dropped into q Broadway eat
ing place the other night and just
as his soup came a group of Homo
lulans dashed out in the center of
the big room and smote their
blooming ukulales and then q lady
in spangles came prancing bare
legged up to Mr.. Leacock's table
singing, Il Wanna Go Back. I
Wanna Go Back. to Dear oil Ala
bam." Mr.. Leacock tossed her q
ltwenty-case note and told her to
take the next train, but let him
leat in peace.
Right there he declared that II
over a movement started under the
name of the Alabama Repatriation
League for sending back to Ala
wanted to be in IL from the start.
Every cabaret girl he found is
singing that she wants to go back.
New York is going crazy-Mr.
tLcacock is right. The average
citizen has found that his diges-
ton will work only to the wild
beating OF the tom-tom and the
mad shrek of the jazz. The
whine and throb of the ukuleIes
begin at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
and the Marimba artists start at
| g. The town wants to satisfy its
thirst before. the White Way be-
comes the Arid Alley.
People who never patronized the
jazz joints before are now fiocking
to them The one grand splash is
on. Peculiarly some welcome the
Punishment of the highball. the gin
drinks and the like. but for three
successive nights a straw vote was
taken in one of the most popular
Restaurants in New York. The
question read: DO you favor the
2.75 per cent beer?" There was
not a dissenting vote. but nearly
Everybody wrote on the card that
they opposed strong drinks. The
mild brew they were willing to
give as a sop to those who claim
their personal liberty had been
abridged.
In the meantime the cabarets are
reaping the harvest. In a few more
weeks Broadway will know them
no more.
A diamond expert happened to be
walking down Franklin street the
other day and discovered the full
grown and dazzling gem which p.
L. Barnum. the old circus man.
used to wear on public occasions
70 give circus touch of spIendor
Ihe diamond. which weighs five
ana one-half karats. is now owned
W VI. j. meyer, wholesale food
merchant. The diamond was part
OF the Barnum uniform for ten
Years He always wore it when he
igned ono check for more than s1O,-
uoV. FOR less important dickers
he had cheaper grades of the biion
stuff ' oi'ou
Dancing Johnny Dooley has be-
come celluloid comedian and will
soon bloom in the fI-lums. He was
standing in front of a booking
office the other day when a. police
man asked him to move on. you
can't suit the police these DAYS"
SAID Johnny. "A couple of weeks
ago friend OF mine was arrested
ior driving his car while drunk
Yesterday they took him for park-
ing near a hydrant."
However, Johns best story of
the season concerns Private Uopop
seated in the first row at his fare
wen theater party before sailing
Tor France. He had imbibed a III
tle too freely. An actress singing
over There" kept pointing at
hosan. You're going over. you're
For the love o. Mike" said
Hogan, iTritatcd Il know il: Won
don't need to push me-"
III. T. Webster. the cartoonist.
was over in the wilds of New
Jersey the other day and approach
ing the station master asked when
the trains left for New York. EFF
teen minutes after. half-past. quar-
tcr 10 and at" replied that worthy.