The Washington herald., 1919-03-17

New York, March ia page from
Pepys: Up, and comes Mr.. O'Malley,
the Sun scrivener, and we did a turn
afoot around the lake and a good
talk. he being mighty informative.
This day l cast my accounts and my
wife. poor wretch, in a fit of railing
against me for being SO careless
with moneys which, God help me, is
true.
Down through the town and came
upon r. Howard. the peace enthus-
last, in a brave belted coat, very
swagger. At the Friars was Capt.
F. Tinney, the play actor, home
from the wars and playing billiards
ineptly.
The talk is that the food prices
in all the inns will be reduced. which
is good news and at Keene's i had
a chop. a beaker of buttered ale
and a salade, very tasty, yet the
price seemed no lower soever.
Many new shops for the serving
of ice cream and soda and candies
are being put in order against the
coming of prohibition, the people
being generally resigned it doth ap-
pear.
In the late evening walked
through East Houston street on the
East Side and talked with the push
cart venders and never did | see so
many untrimmed faces. And people
walked in the highway. the paves
being so crowded. and many pretty
| Oriental faces attracted me.
Then to the Little Hungary inn.
where the wine comes from spig-
gots, the food fayre but the place
has changed nightly and l went
home early and so to bed.
When Haywood Broun. now dra-
matte critic on The Tribune, con-
Quoted the baseball department OF
that paper he wrote, without any
sordid motive whatever. that a GER
tain player at the Polo Grounds
had made a two-base hit that landed
against the Gillette razor sign on
the fence. The following day he re-
ceived from the Gillette Company a
handsome gold razor set. A week
later Broun reported in The Tribune
that another player had knocked the
ball against a Rolls-Royce sign. He
is still waiting and hopeful.
Edgar Lee Masters has informed a
group of serious minded college stu
dents in New York that blank verse
will not do nowadays. He finds that
for some reason 1t suited the six
| teenth century, but he seems to for
get that not many years have passed
| since Shakespearean declaimers of
the stage attained their fullest meas
ure of renown.
The paragraph above sounds too
high-brow. l wish hadn't written 1t.
l don't know anything about poetry,
anyway. What's a few iambic pen
| tameters between friends?
Bobby Edwards, the uKuIeIe
twanger and 14-karat Bohemian, is
giving a nut ball next week His ad-
vertisements read: Follow the Gold
| en- Cockroach to the Silver Sink OF
Bohemia" Bobbie is first In every
thing-hrst in the studio and poverty
Bohemian epoch. the labor and an
| archy era, the futurist fad. the free
love stun. the psyChoanalysis craze.
the tea shop epidemic. the arts and
| crafts obsession. the play-acting ma
| mia. the ukulele. craze-he makes
| ukuleles out OF cigar boxes-and all
the other violent and more or less
| transient enthusiasms Bobby has
| made the village pay. Sometimes
those who know him smile behind his
back at his Bohemianism. The VII
lage changes are likes the waves of
the sea-and Edwards is always in
the first van OF the changers. Speak
ing OF the village. Longacre Square
is being called Wiseacre Square A
| wiseacre is generally fool-and
Longacre Square contains more fools
to the square inch than Greenwich
Village contains short-haired nuts.