The Washington herald., 1919-08-08

New York, Aug. Thoughts while
strouing around Manhattan: More
than $4,000 autos In New York state
I've lodged all OF EN-, Hope some
body asks me to lunch today Walter
&C. Kelly. the Virginia Judge, back
from England. Heard he came all the
way for steak. Girl with lemon
coiored curls and hall stockings has a
son in the war. She looks -!
Famous old restaurant stu open. No
patrons. Gives impression OF last
nights beer Flat, stale, squalid.
Hello! A new soft drink named after
Lee Shubert. Soda fountains do not
seoem so rushed as they we're A
Sslamander touching up her lips with
rouge before a drug store window.
Old dowager caught in a traffic Jam
In her Limousine knows how 10 swear.
Feeling for color in adiecuves, that
dame. Cayenne and Mustard! FIrs,
time 1 ever saw a Chinaman begging
on the streets. Used to have one only
in Chinatown. Called him "Old Horse
and Wagon" Hops killed him.
Wonder whstever became of Tony
the croucher? Old prize fighter and
sold penny drinks in hole in the wall
near the Hippodrome. Dreadful doper
Chewed betel nut and hashish. Some
times big Jolt of yen-shi. Knew
Kiplng. Also King Edward There's
Copeland Townsend in a French car
Cecil Cunningham leaving tht
Claridge Tall. stately, Junoesoue
Hope she notices me. NopeI She
didn't Looks like bad day for lunch
invitations. Still I've seen It start off
worse than this and wind up at the
St. Regis There goes Mary Hopper
Fine girl Brilliant. poppy.
Looks like Frank Coates, Of Toledo
Wonder If he put away any? Bunch
Of midgets on the way to the Palace.
What does a midget do with his Sun.
days? Think I'll go to the movies
Hope they don't show those pictorial
news things Get you all keyed up
! Then flash: Butter making contest,
| Sauk Center, Wis" Still they're nice
Dark and cool
! Add Worst Inward Shudders Baird
! Leonard, the young lady paragraphs,
OF the Morning. Telegraph. was COM
muung into town from the wilds OF
Connecticut the other morning. The
| trains magazine boy came to a stoI
before her chair and looked her over
carefully. Then he selected a periodI-
cal from his file and inquired so
| licitously: "Woman's Home Compan.
| ion?' And Miss Leonard is in her
| early twenties and just out of Smiths 5
Fortunately she had her smelling salts
in her beaded bag
Greenwich Village, after innumer-
able delays saw The Greenwich Vii
lage Fouies," at the Greenwich Village
Theater. and cheered Justify. The most
/ interesting thing about it to me was
the three young girls I saw smoking
cigars in the lobby between acts. l
| followed them around for ten minutes
Sonia, the cigarette girl, was in a
! box. dressed in batik drapery. Bessie
Mccoy Davis was the featured attrac-
| ton. She is always splendid. THE
Better ole" got its start at this same
| theater and moved up to Broadway
! for a run more than a year ago.
Charlie Falls designed the scenery
! Charlie is the only artist in the world
with bangs. He is not a Village-ite
! The village just amuses him. Bobby
| Edwards twanged his uke and sans
! the hybrid songs he used to sing in the
rcd ink palaces when the Black Ca
was in its prime. Clara Tice, the per
and ink artist. also had a part in the
play.
Investiators of the Evening WorlC
| stunned the town last week with alb,
solute proof that poison drugs anC
patent medicines containing . per cent
or more alcohol were sold from East
| Side push carts in the heart OF New
! York-to be exact, in Times Square
One investigator bought a patent med.
icine containing 60 per cent alcohol ir
front of former cafe closed because
it could not make ends meet sellins
20 per cent beer. One push cart, os.
tensibly selling oranges, sold S32
worth of drugs in an hour.