The Washington herald., 1919-07-10

New York.. July Alt II snappy
crowd Of Nifty dressers ono sees along
the Rialto these days. with all the
Juveniles. the male ingenues and the
hfe. home for the summer. The boys
with their watches and handkerchiefs
showing beneath their sleeves have
been out over the Kerosene Circuit re-
ceiving mash notes while playing SIX
towns q week.
They come back to town In the sum-
mer to knock K. & e. and tell about
the really big thing they intend to do.
They are handsome on and on. Bril-
ientine gives them their polish
coupled with the experience they have
had in the drawing room dramas.
where they swing wicked tea cup
out on the veranda
The big scene they interpret is
around wicker tea cart at the Astor-
oits summer home. They work up
TO that striking line: mo sugar
lust a little lemon in mine" And
/ when they take out a giittering
cigarette case and tap the gold tipped
cigarette against the thumbnail Oh.
Boy! That Ii real acting.
They eat in the little one-armed
eateries in the Bristling Forties and
tnen sneak out to Broadway to show
how jsuntily they wear their clothes.
so long have they interpreted the
wealthy young society men behind the
iIoothghs that they create the same
impression OF stage.
A few wait until the iandlady viii
extend no further credit and they mt
up to Newport as professional dancers.
Also as companions to spinsters who
hang onto the fringe Of society The
young men make a splendid appear
ahce IN white fannels. spoke,i shoes
ana with tennis racquets thrown over
their shoulders
And at night they look elegant sfl-
nouetted against the moon along the
famous Cliff Walk Sometimes. too
they WOO and win a girl whose father
mas nothing but mazuma-and then the
next season sees them rougning It at
tne Poinciana at Palm Beach.
Ihere seems to be no question Of An
underworld Organization in Manhat-
tan known as the Pickpocket Trust.
Recently an offer was made by the
trust to the Pickpocket Squad Of $500
day II the detectives would keep
away from certain streets on certain
Gays. Thirty-fourth street Is said 10
pocket. The shoppiay crowds are
thick there and people are constan.Iv
being jostled about. also women are
careless with their handbags. Most
pickpockets are drug users and sellers
or drugs. Frank Cassassa, a wiry lit
Tie detective, knows more pickpockets
than any other officer in New York.
He has spurned enormous bribes from
pickpockets. He has picked up twen-
ty.hve in single day riding on the
subway.
good argument has been found hy
the brewers in tho case of a Hoboken
workman who has been drinking two
glasses of beer with bis lunch for
twenty years. When the prohibition
enactment seemed so terribly near to
him. he gave up his beer and began
TO drink coffee. milk and tea with his
lunch. During the twenty years he
drank beer he had never been i'll. But
when he gave it up he lost weight and
felt so badly that he sold his home
and returned to his home in France.
interviewed at the pier he said to the
reporters: america is no place for a
workingman."
I went into ore Of those ohjets dart
sales in private house on Fifth ave-
nue. the other day Weird places The
narrow entrance hall is dark-an an
cient smell like an old stone church
and smell OF incense A lugubriols
man in a Van Dyke beard pieets you
solemnly. He ushers you into a high
ceilinged room where there are Ma
jolica vases. oak tables, bronzes,
worries and high-back renaissance
chairs and the like. Gloomy stuff.