The Washington herald., 1919-08-01

Ne" YORK. July 31.-Thoughts
while walking around Manhattan:
Soft job that fellow has. Nothing
to do but smoke TN endless success
sion OF cigars in a show window.
There goes Elsie Janis and her
adopted son into the foyer of the
GLOBE. Hello! Big electric sign ad-
vertises ice cream soda. Once ad-
vertised Scotch high ball.
An actor with a plaid derby,
Marc Klaw watching a group of
street diggers. Benign, frock-coated
man. hands clasped behind him.
owns a chain of tough saloons.
Clara Tice, the village artist,
sketching atop a bus. Theater ad-
vertises: Gentlemen need not wear
their coats in here"
Tom Healy announces dinner
served at tables on ice covered floor.
Gotta do something in cafes now
with booze gone. Nell Brinkley GO
ing to a Chaplin movie. They say
Chaplin's hair is turning white.
Worried about keeping up his
Clowning.
Big line waiting to buy tickets to
see the latest shimmy dancer. Won
der what a shimmy dancer reads ?
There's BrOadway's funeral church.
Looks like the front of a restaurant.
What does an undertaken do with
his evenings? There's Bruno Les
sing, the writer. Gets a big salary
furnishing ideas to comic artists.
Fellow in the closed car with a
silk hat is a big finanCier. Goes in
for spiritualism. Everybody seems
to be taking that up. Back home
we used to think spiritualists were
queer. Now they represent an ad-
vanced thought. Still I don't care
/ if never hear a table rap.
/ Lots of Japanese in town Spend
| loads Of money. Hear they're wild
over American dancing. Ted Lewis
the jazz king, has an offer to go TO
/ Shanghai and then to Tokyo. Five
thousand a week. I'd go anywhere
! for that. Even to Brooklyn. Snappy
/ little French coffee house. Lunch
80 cents. Think I'll try it.
The big hotels have created a new
Job. 1t is known as telephone booth
watChman. More people lose valu-
ables in telephone booths than any
other place. In one hotel alone
/ bags and purses with Jewels and
| money worth more than S45.00O were
, found in single week. 1t is said
that many times the women leave
hotel booths in a state Of agitation
after a telephone conversation and
have walked a block or so before
they discover their loss. Perhaps
two or three have used the booth
by that time and unless an honest
person finds whatever is left it is
never recovered. Now each booth IS
/ given the once over by the watch,
man the instant anyone leaves and
before anyone else enters.
1t was a home going crowd sway
ing back and forth on the rhythm.
Cally lurChing Fifth avenue bus. \
fine old school gentleman was tax.
ing great pains to point out ths
sites of real interest to the two dis,
| tinctly commonplace gum chewi7g
/ young girls. Doubtless they wrr.
strangers in New York and had ask
7 Cd him some questions.
THE Astor Library there remind.
. me the Olu gentleman was say z
pointing with quantity carved gOlC
headed stick to the handsome stone
pile guarded by the much maligned
. lions, that Mr.. AstOr was jcercd al
back in 1896 for building the ole
Astor House as far uptown as Cham,
bers street. But later-dear me
there's my corner" with a Courtly
boy he fastened out and the two
girls resumed their conversation.
II planned to have a permanent
wave, you know. But Cert says moi
to. She says Ed is a fish faced NUT
and"
After all the old gentleman anc
the two girls were strangers in {
great city.