The Washington herald., 1919-03-03

New York. March "A page from
the diary of a modern Samuel Pepys
Up, and came Mr.. Cutting. my school
fellow, with tierce of claret against
the coming of July and I gave 1t to
the hand-maiden not wanting 1t about
the place, albeit / gave him warm
thanks.
Dean Cornwell, the artist, comes
from his Jersey heath and brings
word that R Long, the editor, hath
oeen stricken with the plague but
his fears are quieted and he will
recover.
For walk through the town where
met my wife, poor wretch, and to
Folsom's gallery to see some brave
prints. one in especial of a huter
playing the flute being very excellent.
This day 1 hear that Mistress Ann.
wife OF Tom Stanton. is brought to
bed by a boy and 1 sent six tulips
and Lord the prices A great dark
sky and shower of rain at noon kept
me downtown and / lunched with
Mr.. Knowles on a fine meat pasty and
a large beaker of iced coffee, he pay
ing the reckoning.
At the boot-makers I met the come
lest and most becoming maid that j
nave seen in long time but when
fellow clerk Jostled in passing
she cursed him like a costermonger
and l was abashed.
In the afternoon for a walk and to a
home to drink China drink called
Tea and there came r. Goldberg, the
comick limner. lately returned from
sketching In France, Mistress Gold
berg. Mr.. Williams. from Indianapo-
0rsr
lumbus sketcher, and Mistress Brink
erhon sang some SWEET ayres, very
pretty.
In the evening to a cinema play,
which thought inept, and thence to
Mortazzo's for a large helping of
spaghetti and meat sauce and livers
with onions and then home and tc
bed.
Win the coffee house supplant the
saloon? Two are getting ready to
open on Broadway. The old cof-
fee haunts of England proved an
inspiration for some of our best
literature. Returning travellers
from Porto Rico report that since
the island went dry fifty per cent
more coffee is used, and the restau-
rants are chargin ten cents a
cup. There are a number of Greek
cofree houses on Second avenue and
the Bowery. They are mostly cheap
hang-outs for gangsters and stuss
players. Tea rooms are, of course,
fixture, and are doing great
business, but some believe the col
fee house will be the most popular
of all the new types of drinking
places.
The White Way has been flooded
recently by street urchins who beg
money from military men coming
out of restaurants, hotels and
theaters. The infantile panhandlers
never approach civilian, but
seem to think a story of hunger
here is quite as appealing as if
told on the fringes of battlefields
in Belgium and France. The scheme
has worked. Many of the soldiers
have undergone great deprivations
and they cannot refuse to lend a
helping hand. OF course, the char
ity is misdirected. but the police
have been unable to stop it.
He wore a fur-trimmed overcoat
pointed pair of patent feathers,
with mulatto tops. and the fus-
siest shirt that ever escaped be-
ing an awning. He was drinking
a rainbow looking cocktail in an
afternoon dansant and from tim :
to time he extracted from a dia-
mond studded cigarette case a
monogrammed cigarette and pufred
| at it through a holder at least a
foot long. Some one in my party
| bowed to him in recognition. The
rest got to guessing about what he
did for a living. One suggested
he was a retired street sprinkler
OF Venice. Another opined he was
a hammock demonstrator. All were
wrong. You can never tell in New
York. He was the vice-president
of a large shipping concern. Fur
thermore, he is a self-made man
and gives heavily to charities.