The Washington herald., 1919-10-03
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McNTYRE
Special correspondent Of the Wash.
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Especial correspondent Of the wash
ington Herald.)
\ New York. Oct. 2.-Thought while
stroiling around Manhattan: Nora
Bayes with q German shepherd dog.
Treason! Fussy little woman is ma
tron In ultra-exclusive girls school.
They say she smokes cigarettes. Any
way, she carries a gold matchbox in
ner vanity bag. Hartley Manners Just
back from London In a nifty plaid
suit Smokes a calabash.
Young John Rockefeller walking
along reading a newspaper. ~Bet it's
ne Evening Post. Still il might be
Town Topics. The President reads
mystery stories. Old Dick earle, the
actor. back In town. Some comedian.
very nearsighted. Why does near.
sishtedness make one look 20 forbid
oing7 The nearsighted look steely
and heartless. Usually warmhearted.
Private home opened for Lonely
Folks League" Studious fellow ID
Rudolph Block. Furnishes the ideas
for comic picture strips. Better
known as Bruno Leasing. Two nsw
dog shops and its getting harder to
Keep q dog every day. Grewsome
sight to see those young boys from
China carving ivory. Most Of them
will be blind in another year.
There's Basil King in riding toys.
Been writing some marvellous stun
on Death. Believes 1t to be lust an
awakening with no loss of individu-
ality. Translates eevrything into
thought Hope I meet someone who
will notice my new suit Looks rather
snappy in the show windows. And
I've looked In every one for ten blocks.
Street hawker selling shimmyins
Teddy bears. Cafe advertises INC
drinks. No smokes" A sober world.
Horatio! No noise in the world like
the rear of the subway Stimulates
imagination. Billy, the oysterman,
made a fortune selling Broadway
oysters. Weighs 800 pounds. Wonder
what an oyster thinks about?
Up along Riverside Drive there is a
knob Of a hill known as Inspiration
Point. 1t gives a commanding sweep
Of the Hudson and Jersey hills. Thou
sands of motorists pass there in a day
and such an assortment Of cars. There
Is psychology in motoring. One sees
a great low-hung imported car with a
stony-fsced chauffeur sitting back In
as though he was waiting for the
Judgment of the world. Then around
the curve comes a hivver. filled to
overlooking. Everybody Is chattering
and smiling and over the wheel is a
hunched up sole owner OF the car.
wiggiing this way and that 1t Is
quite easy to see of the two who Is
having the better time.
There Is something appropriate
about the name OF a new successful
song writer in Tin Pan Alley. 1t Is
Jack Yellen. Applying the tax situa-
ton to Broadway he has written a
hit called Don't Put a Tax on the
Beautiful Girls
They raided a still over on the East
Side the other day. The owner had
a most original excuse. Just my
years supply to relieve asthma" said
the owner. You mean to relieve the
blues" said the revenue men carting
him away to Jail.
The general manager of the Fifth
avenue bus line has defended with
much spirit and considerable clever
ness the right of young folks to
spoon on top the stages" Spooners
were getting so bold that 1t got on
some passengers nerves and they wrote
in complaining. 1t is not unusuai
to see young couples hugging and
kissing in broad daylight and II seems
a pity there are so many grouches in
the world.