Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-28
FAITH IN PARTNER
GETS HARD JOLT
Experience of Two desert
Rats" and Other Incidents,
Described by Mr.. Corey.
by HERBERT COREY.

ISwinncrton. the New York artist,
erubstaked Il pair of desert rats" for
a prospecting tour last winter. Just
as the two ragged. hairy bacon
| creased old men We're about to start
| punching their burroS over the sands
| Mr.. Swinnerton'S heart sottened.
"Itii be a long. dry winter for those
| old tads, said h. TT! stake EN- to
a little OF the old stuff
SO he conferred twelve bottles Of
| good whisky upon them. Each Old
| man took six bottles and thanked Mr..
iSWinnerton huskily and kicked his
+, burro in the stomach and started for
| the desert. At the first nights camp
| each old man preached one of his six
bottles and swigged from it in mod
GRAFTON. Then the devil of greed
loverCame each.
Counting on His Partner.
If I get rid of all my booze" he
said to himself. my good old pardner
Will have to ask me to share his. And
if he don't ask me I'll make him"
SO as the procession of burros and
TRY old men moved toward the hills
! III which fortune presumably waited
each hid his bottles. one at a time,
one on one side of the road and tother
on the other. Each hid five bottles.
while pulling in discretion at his
sixth. When the first snow fell. each
came to the end of his sixth bottle
ana suggested that his partner divide
| up. Then each made the discovery
! that somewhere along that weary
| rambie across the desert ten bottles
of excellent hooch were hidden. Next
morning they started on the back
trail In the spring two haggard old
men faced Mr.. Swinnerton.
+, Well" said Mr.. Swinnerton. what
did you find this winter?'
We found four of the bottles" said
the old men.
| Victory Arch and Artists.
rather violent school of New
| York thought holds that the lath-
and-plaSter Victory arch at 5th ave-
rue and 23d street should be pulled
down and forgotten as soon as pos
| Sible. Another school, principally led
| by those who had one or more hands
in the making of the arch, think that
| II should tie perpetuated in marble.
The chances are that the fuss will
be continued until the arch falls of its
own weight and blocks the street
| Those who dislike the arch hold
that its art is of the early Tweed
| era. Also that it spoils the fine vista
| down 5th avenue. or up 5th avenue,
as you will. Also that the arch is a
heritage from Roman wars and vic
set upon the neck of a conquered
| people. Also that if the American
| people is to monument it's achieve
| ment in the war, that its artists
| should be able to devise an American
| form of art expression.
! "The depth bomb was an American
| invention.' say these persons. "and
the depth bomb finished the sub
| marine. which at one time threatened
| to finish the war. The American, in
vention of the airplane was the one
big new thing in the war 1t would
| he r2fher nitv If the ri
| artists are forced to fall back on an
! art form that was old 1000 years
| ago"
Thrift and Rubber Pastry.
! Thrift is the trick hereabouts. There
! is no doubt Of it. Thrift wins. One
of the foremost art galleries on 5th
avenue might not be in existence to-
! day except that the grandmother of
! the present art expert used to sit on
| Sth avenue behind basket of shoe
strings and combs. A fine block of
! apartment houses uptown owes it's
existence to the extraordinary faculty
| its builder had for discovering values
| in rags and old iron. Even today the
| old man patrols the back streets with
| his tumble down horse and wagon and
the immensely valuable lot which
neighbors one of his apartment
houses is used for the harbofing of
| his collection of junk.
SO that the latest bit of hotel econ
| omy is only to be praised. The morn
ing order of toast has been cut down
by one-third. though the price has
not been changed. In a big hotel
sand slices of bread daily. and no one
knows what that might amount to in
forty years at compound interest.
And when the visitor sits down to
write a note in the hotel writing
room he finds two sheets of paper
and anVp1nno in the deck In the
! oDen-handed. extravagant days of be-
J fore the war every drawer of the
desk would be damned by cream-laid
| and steel engraved paper and en-
Lots of people laid in their years
supply of stationery when they paid
| their annual visit to hotel.
All this stuff about thrift is to
serve as introduction to the fact that
| the mouth watering display of pas
nowadays is apt to be made of rub
| Der. That is the very newest thing.
! ProfteerfnE Expensive I'm Paris.
A friend writes from Paris that
! the French authorities know how to
! handle the gouging profiteers. One
i of the great department stores in
i that city has lust been fined 1000. 900
I francs. At the before-the- rate
! of exchange that would be almost
; 100000. Even at today's rate it is
! more than 100000.
But the prices of things in the
! stores have not come down." she
mourns. The salesgirls say the store
| has been forced to keep the prices
up-that it may pay the fine
! Anyhow. there is not much obvious
/ nrofiteering in the Italian part of
! New York. Very excellent foods are
priced in the windows of Blocker
! and the neighboring streets at fig
ures that take away the breath of
| those who live in the seventies. And
| | found a little italian restaurant the
! other night in which an absolutely
! first-rate dish of spaghetti was served
| for IS cents and veal outlet Ia
/ Milanaise at 25 cents. They could
not have been improved on in quail
| ity or the fashion of cooking. One
! sees imported cheeses in these Italian
! windows quoted at lower prices than
| the uptown groceries ask for the do
/ nestle article.
"Down here" an Italian grocer ex-
| planned, rather sadly. they will not
pay the price. They know too much"
! That is one of the reasons why the
! immigrant gets rich.