Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-05
'DOUGHB0Y HABITS
ADOPTEDN
A. E. F. Has About Deserted
Country; But Natives Con-
tinue "Gumchewing."
BY HERBERT COREY.


NEW YORK, December 4.-one of
!he FRENCH papers published in New
York has letter of lament from it's
Paris correspondent because of the
legacy of chewing gum which the de-
parted doughboy left to France Most
OF the Americans are gone. he says,
cut the gum remains. Statesmen.
midinettes, officers, ragmen,- ladies.
flower sellers-all wag their Jaws .un-
tlringly. 1t is distressing spectacle.
he says. He is really bitter about it,
Inc other day." he says, IAN old
new habit confronted an entranced
couple in the Metro. Their eyes shone
on each other. They rode hand in
hand, now and then they spoke, but
they chewed continually. Their jaws
Wagged on and wagged on. The old
man watched them with interest. and
then with CONSERVATION. Finally he
could not stand it any longer. Lean
ing across the aisle, he roared at them
in anger:
it," - w 'o'e Oh heaVen' swallow
New York Europeanized.
within three boe Ssn sestsrGsp
Signs in French, Yiddish, Chinese,
Italian. Greek and a modest little one
IN German. LIE Roy Ripley walked
with me down 9Th avenue from 34th
~ |otn at the noon hour the
other day. and in that "pasear" we
did not hear one word of English,
garlic man crossed Broadway at
$50 street this morning. hung about
with strings of the odorous vegetable,
precisely as one might see him in
Naples or Rome
we nave long been used to the Slip
pered and bloused Chine man of Mott
street. Now and then one wonders
how the Cinnamon always seem SO
fresh and new. the immigration laws
being what they are. BIT it is a bit
the uptown streets with heavy bask-
cts on their heads, just as one might
see them in score of European coun-
tries. And any bright day the mo-
torist in the outskirts of New York
may find fields in which peasant
skirted. are bowed over their toll
There are districts uptown in which
becapped and whiskered Jewish patri-
archs and orthodox Jewish wives in
horsehair wigs are almost as much
| in evidence as in the streets of Kishi-
neff A gunfight downtown not long
ago had its roots in the streets of
+, Naples. There are French restaurants
in which one rarely hears a word of
English. There are streets downtown
in which the doings of Lenin and
Trotsky are almost the sole topic of
conversation. Nothing good is said of
America because nothing good is
known. Unhappy. lonesome. puzzled,
the poor devils breed discomfort.
No wonder the latest congressional
committee of investigation decided
the town needs Americanization.
Too Wicked for Pest House.
This yarn has seeped in from De-
troit.
"a man." says the teller. had a lit
tie cold in the head. And his face was
flushed. And he went to sleep on a
railroad train. And when he woke up
he was under arrest.
"'You gotta go to the pesthouse.
said the sanitary officer. You got
smallpox.
HE said the sanitary officer was
foolish and a number of other unkind
things. But he went to the peSthouSe
Then he got the chief health omcer
to come out and examine him. After
the examination he said:
"'You see, haven't got any small
pox.'
you're right said the chief health
officer. You have not sign Of small
here
"Then femme co. said the man, be
cause I'm buster than tin peddier
in egg time. I got lot OF things 70
do
Y
Lneyer have had smallpox. AS Tar as
r know YOU never will have small
box. But you've got to stay here for
thirty days, because you've been ex-
posed"
The man says this is true story.
He says the other inmates Of the
pesthouse asked to be segregated.
They said they couldn't stand the
sufferers language.
No Undertakers' Bargains Now.
The high cost of living is being
properly supplem ented now py TN: tne
high cost of dying. There was time
when one could get rather a nifty
funeral here-as per advertisements
I for about SIS, and the mourning
friends could pay for it on the IN
stallment plan. Nothing is said about
the cheapness of planting now. EN-,
phasis in the advertisements Is place
funeral parlors. The deceased Is
eiven every home comfort. If the
friends want to pay they can hire
a chapel with a pipe organ and a
full choir Pending a final DISPOSE
tion the corpse may remain in room
decked with genuine Valenclenn"s
lace and as8Persian prayer rug. me
more luxury the more pay.
at the dispersal sale of the late
So-and-So's effects" is the slightly
disguised form in which the news
story was; recently printed, IAN Aeoltan
nine organ, with harp and chimes,
III originally built at q cost OF more
than $4,000. was. sold to an under.
taker for $4,000. a set of eight
arts of war and peace, went to an
undertaken for $4,000"
II must be a rather narrowing re-
aection for collectors that the sue