The Washington herald., 1919-10-24
NEW YORK CITY
By O. o. McNrYRE


New York. Oct. 2a-Thoushts while
strollins around Manhattan: A pack
of gypsies going through town In
motor cars. Poor old prairie schoon-
er! Think III buy a Ouija boardi
Just for fun. Magazine editors play
ing around Broadway Nothing to
do, Strike. All the strikers complain
about the lack Of beer. Now that I
self. Still there 10 a lot OF those
frosted chocolates. once YOU acquire
the habit.
Stunty looking girls wear shawls
with fringe. Just like grandma used
to wear. Hope they don't revive the
hustle. There's Wilkie Bard. the
English actor. Yellow spats. Tall
fellow with the pince nee Is Ping
Piunkett the diamond man. Name
sounds like a tennis game.
Dreary drizzle. always want to
buy things on rainy days. Scholarly
fellow IL Hardin Porter. Student Of
Freud. Wonder IL Freud could tell
me why l have a positive fear Of
|old-fashioned razors. Wouldn't sleep
in the same room with one for q
million. Lot to this psychic analysis
stun. But they're all too material.
Sign on a moving van: $40 an hour"
Beats porch climbing. But not quite
so respectable. Fritz Kreisler and
Rudolph GAM looking In a toy store
window. Wish 1 could go In and play
with all the toys without them think
ing I'm daft. I'd stil like to have
an electric train. But my wife won't
let me. Still she keeps an old doll
she owned when a child.
Horse and carriage now the cachet
OF wealth. Newly rich went in too
much for automobiles. Made them
common to the snobbish mind Snob-
berthe cardinal sin! Rather a son
of mine would be a train robber than
a snob. Another shower. Think I'll
drop in at the st. Regis-and buy
a newspaper.
Bobby Edwards and Clara Tice are
engaged to be married. even II 1t Is
such a conventional thing to do. Ed
wards is a maker of handmade uku-
leles and a proletariat leader in
Greenwich villge Miss Tice draws
startling things in pen and ink for
Vanity Fair and The Quill. Both are
now appearing In the Greenwich VII
lage Follies.
It proved to be a romance Of the
arts, for Miss Tice said that until
she played in the same show with
Bobby she had never known what
a fine heart beat behind Bobby's uku-
lele. 1t was not stated whether at
the ceremony the organ would play
The Wedding Of the Winds"
Miss Tice has long been a leader
in the daring Greenwich Village balls,
most of the time gliding herself and
coming TO represent open plumbing.
She Is very thin. She has seen Bobby
around the village resorts where he
sang and thrummed for the sight
seers. and she never thought she
would marry him until she saw him
under the spotlight
I have Just been down to buy 4
pair of shoes. Whittier wrote his
| blessing on the barefoot boy. but
why did he overlook the barefoot
man? Buying a pair Of shoes is just
like picking out an automobile-only
more expensive. In one Fifth ave-
nue. shop the cheapest thing they had
was SIS. I once bought a horse for
that. It seems that there are too
many feet in the country. Buying a
shoe was once an easy matter. The
only embarrassment was to have a
hole In your sock. Now 1t is mat
ter OF shapes. styles and colors. Do
you fancy something with a red body
and a dark brown running gear? No?
Well. how about the latest yellow
speedster model with a one-man top7
You may have a pair OF either for
sum slightly lower than the last
loan to France.
Outside of owning a mint. l would
rather be the composer of that fox
trot THE Vamp." He happens 10
be my friend Byron Gay. The song
is being featured in the Scandals OF
1919: the Gsities OF 1919; Ziegfeld's
Frolic and three other musical shows
which means that the sales are
greater than can be supplied. One
good vaudeville singer can put a son
over but with six musical shows all
boosting it the results stagger the
imagination.