The Washington herald., 1919-11-17
NEW YORK CITY
By O. o. McINTYRE

New York. Nov. ia page from
the diary of a modern Sampel Pepys:
Up and to the tailor and for good
husbandry took two surtouts to be
turned. Somebody told me today
about some mean tricks OF drink
adulterators and that four men lay
paralyzed In an infirmary. and pronfi-
nent they are. Edna Ferber comes
from Chicago and tells me she will
not go to see her new moving picture
play. which l deem odd.
Through the town and came upon
Eddie Cantor. the comic actor. who
had great coat OF seal brown and
big patched pockets and white pearl
buttons and | made bold to offer him
my own coat and a bounty but the
vain fellow laughed. All I hear
throughout the town is complaints of
being unable to get a sip of beer or
goblet of wine and strangely by many
l never suspected of tippling.
Home where ! was nightly pleased
with the company present. Mistress
Louise being in especial radiant and
my wife. poor WRETCH. in her new
cloak of henna. very fetching. l did
fashion several well turned japeries
and all mighty merry with good music
playing and excellent cakeAw hich cost
me Cos and a noble sack posset.
In the afternoon to see Clarence"
at a playhouse and like IL mighty
tine. On the way home l met Earl
Carroll. the song writer. and Mistress
Marcelle and they badgered me TO
walk twice around the resei toir and
did and we had a right merry time
what with this. that and rag tag
and bobtail. Home where ] finished
reading a book by Mr.. Merrick. which
I did not like so well as others he
hath writ. And so to bed.
There is at least one class OF New
York's ayistocracy which rises po-
times these crisp autumn mornings
the girls of fiapper age. out In smart
habIts to preserve their caInplgN .ons
and their social status by q brisk trot
around the bridal path In Central
Park
There are strange sights TO be seen
from the paths overlooking the bride
path. Odd costumes galore. 4 rider
wearing a monocle is not unusual.
The girls who ride astride aim tor the
mannish attire In every detail.
Now and then q runaway enlivens
the spectators these days that make
for equine friskiness. A scream A
clatter Of hooves. A white fact star
ing out in terror for help. 4 compe-
tent policeman bringing his mount up
alongside and carefully stoppin~ the
runaway. Then a swoon. And the
crowd collects.
1t is indeed small world. The
other day / went down in the eleva-
tor in my building with Morgan
Kingston, the Metropolitan tenor. We
discussed the weather. Three days
later in the dining room of the Hotel
Roubidoux in ST. Joseph, Mo-, Mr.
Kingston sat at the adjoining table.
Again we discussed the weather
Already the New York bootleggers
are being criticised by their clients.
One such surreptitiOus salesman has
patron, so it is reported, who
| threatens to turn him over to the law
if he doesn't mix less tobacco juice
with the fusil oil he serves.
jewelers. along Fifth Avenue are
doing the biggest business in history
With prices for gems sky-rocketing
the demand is greater each day. One
diamond merchant tells of a man with
pick coming into his place on his
way home Saturday night and pur.
chasing a diamond ring for 81, 500.
Just a little present for my old
woman" he said.