The Washington herald., 1919-04-01

New York, April Modern daugh-
tiers of Eve in Manhattan are hard
to understand. Once they bask in the
light and glitter they begin to sneer
at the humble apartment, the small
salary and the early struggles of the
newly married.
Marriage seems to mean a sudden
transformation from casual comforts
to great brown stone on the avenue,
mauve limousines, French maids and
pear-shaped diamonds.
The Inequalities of the city seem toe
much for youth to endure and KEEP
its head. A lady l admire very much
went into the dressing room of a
Broadway restaurant at the dinner
hour.
Two of the prettiest girls she had
ever seen stood near her. both in
frocks that suggested not the city
shops. but the careful fashioning of a
tired mothers hands. And both were
excited. Their compilations were
flushed bp cocktails.
They could not wait to get to the
dinner table-but had to have a flying
start. Said one: Some simps slipped
the news to mother that 1 have not
been working for six weeks. There's
n big row at home and don't think
I'll 60 back. I'm tired of three rooms
and an apartment without an ele-
vator.''
Said the other: IL don't tell my folks
anything What's the use? They don't
know that times have changed. They
gNf1 81 tI,nx,
think ought to be home at II o'clock
I They will have Inc marrying some
counter jumper at SIS a week ano
living up In the wilds of the Bronx.
! Not for mine. Either Fifth avenue
or l stay single"
Two pretty faces hardened into lines
! that i'll became them. Out on the
street in the glare Of the cafe sign
was a wretChed looking creature al
the curb with a great basket.
Lavender, lavender, sweet laven-
der; who will buy my sweet blooming
lavender" she sang. 1t is one OF
the old cries from London town. She
was A figure along the Strand many
years ago. She once told me her story
she got in with n fast crowd and
was ashamed even of her parents
when she married. Luxury spoiled heI
and she drifted down the social scale
| until she became a bar maid-and then
when old age came a seller of sweet
/ lavender.
Inside the cafe were two young girls
who had the same ideas.
More than dozen former bellhOpi
are either owners. managing directors
or assistant managers of New York
hotels. George Boldt, who started as
a waiter. used to say that boy had
better chance starting life as q
! bellhop than he would starting In 8
| bank Copeland Townsend used to bt
| a package boy. Jack NICK Bowman
was n riding instructor.
In the past five years several bell.
! hops have been financed in business
| by patrons of hotels in which they
! were employed one had his expenses
paid to Europe. Another was remem'
| beFed in the will of an elderly woman
to whom he had been polite and kind.
All of these things were explained
the other day to the Waldorf bellhops
who objected to the abolishment OF
/ the last-in-last-out rule OF answering
strike.
/ Being millionaire in 1910 amt tbs
/ question here" said one. I'VE wani
| the old bench back"
Here is New Yorks homemade ditty
| introduced by Mark Connolly, the play
wright and scribe, at the Dutch Treat
J show the other night
1 know that I'm only the wreck of q
I man,
! Just a poor ice cream soda addict
I went to the bad when merely a lad
With the first scent cone that
licked.
One day the devil said: Why not try
a nut sundae?"
| That was the start OF the end.