The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
NEW YORK CITY
Bv O. O. McNTYRE

New York. Oct 16-There Is . sar-
donic cackle or 50 in the humor Of
life In New York these strike nlled
days. One sees the queerest people
doing the aueerest Jobs. I always
imagined the errand girl In Manhat-
tan to be q ribfuily thin, wide-eyed
child Of the sweat shops with q hack
ing cough. After her day iugging big
PACKAGES to white-wigEed buffers,
imagined tho spindiy legged child
picking her dinner out OF q garbage
pail or something.
You see lived in q small town and
believed everything IN the Sunday pa
pers and the scent novels. The other
morning the most important member
of my little household had me tele-
phone to q dressmalking establishment
to have them speed up her pink voile.
or yellow satin, or tunic, or whatever
II was.
And a voice. delightfully."- Parisian,
answered that madam's frock-they're
always frocks or gowns and never a
dress-was done and would be dis
patched waited for the tired child
OF the siums to come with II. When
the doorben rang, about the snappiest
looking girl that ever escaped Ziegfeid
was standing there with q package
containing the dress.
She is the new type OF errand girl
She was respectfully rouged, and wore
one OF those zippy hats with aigrettes.
and carried a gold vanity case. And
there I stood like q fat-headed boob
with Is cents m my hand to tip her.
The erraud girls are on strike, and 80
the dressmakers pay their designers
and needlewomen extra for delivering
packages.
As a result you see some Of the best
dressed women fitting about the town
carrying packages to customers. And
our messenger -boys!" You should
see them. They all have gray boards
and white hair. From my observation
there is not q messenger boy In town
under o.
As have said. there Is nothing so
funny as life. For two years I have
been shaving and economizing to buy
a certain gilt-edged security, and I
awakened this morning to read in the
paper that an adolescent living down
the hall, who never knew the pangs
of honest toll. has walked away with
a fortune. and will spend the rest of
his life roughing It between Palm
Beach and New York.
Horse Hniment has suddenly grown
into popular favor with the owners OF
disappointed rum appetites over in the
Cherry Hill district. The newspapers
report at a racket" over there the
other night potions Of a horse lini-
ment-so per cent kick-were served,
81 vaA AHas rt<xAf
than army underwear. Among other
things that are reported to have been
used lately are hair tonic, extracts,
prune whisky and the lowly shoe
polish.
An excited group OF baseball fans
were collected around the ticker at the
Claridge the day that Babe Ruth made
his twenty-eighth home run. After
ward they collected around a table,
and, over the grape juice, discussed
the feat. One man in the party showed
such a lack OF interest that Raymond
Hitchcock questioned him about it. 1t
was learned that the stranger was a
Peruvian professor OF Icelandic Ian
gusges. and the fact that a man was
able to swat a sphere of rubber so
hard with piece of wood that he
could touch three bases ninety feet
apart and get home before the BAH
was returned meant nothing to his
young Peruvian life.
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