The Washington herald., 1919-06-30

New York. June 2s.-A page from
the diary Of a modern Samuel Pepys:
Up betimes and through the park,
where came upon q group Of men
with white boards playing croquet,
and they told me thay had been play
ing together for forty years. And
on to the reservoir and Mr.. Car
negie. the steel merchant. was doing
his turn about the walk and he seern-
ed bright and showed very little de-
cay.
To the Lambs to sec Mr.. Wolf
and Mr.. Owen Moore was there wear
ing the prettiest checkered scarf I
nave seen In a season and he is to
act In the silent drama here. walk
ed down the Broad Way. Galloway
and Breitigam with me, and saw Mr..
Shubert. George Jean Nathan. Mr..
Cohan's mother. Mistress Helen, and
R. Hitchcock. the play-actor, who rs
home from London town. He wears
his pants in the manner of the Strand
tight-fitting to the ankles.
In a chemists shop in Times Square
red plush COW. quite alive. was in
the window and a milkmaid with gar
lands upon her pail sat on a stool
beside the animal. II all being an ad-
vertisement for the tiny cigars called
cigarettes.
Home and with my wife, poor
wretch, aboard a stage and we fell
into a deep discourse about crossing
the ocean shortly. which I think we
will do. and vet II seems a big amount
to lay out for so short time, al
belt many in similar estates are
doing 1t.
In the evening I settled to my
chamber about my accounts until my
eyes ached and I find myself some
what improved in money. but very
little. Making ready for bed. the
boy came to tell Of the great fire
across the harbor. but could see
only a dull red blotch against the
sky. And SO to bed.
Many fortunes are to be made in
soft drinks after July /. or many for
tunes will be lost. Soft-drink palaces
are springing UP mushroom-like in
every block downtown. In the sec
tons occupied by the workingman the
new soft drink places are not meet
ing with any great success. The
workingman Is still holding out for
beer. and apparently IL he does not
get it he Is not going in for milk
sop stuff" There Is a silent, brood
ing in the Bronx. where most Of the
better class OF skilled labor resides.
Several meetings have been held de-
nouncing the ban on beer. At one a
huge sign ran across the proscenium
reading: THE Rich Have Their Cell
lars Full and We Cannot Even Have
a Bucket Full" But the soft drink
places In the Tenderbin and over
on Fifth avenue seem to be thriving.
Bartenders are getting drinks in soda
fountains and in many instances a
high-class drink-mixer is being paid
$50 a week.
A new dance Is supplanting the
shimmy. 1t is known as the jelatine
jazz. 1t Is as wobbly as jar OF Jelly
and Just as sensible. A great many
believe the suggestive new dances
will eventually kill the dance craze.
Each week the dances are getting
worse. In the syncopated halls they
just stand cheek to cheek and shiver.
No Barbary Coast honky-tonk ever
touched the shimmy and jelatine jazz
for vulgarity. Maurice and Walton
in the new "Follies" are doing their
best to save the modern dance Just
back from Europe. they have refused
the shimmy. Instead they do a grace
ful ballroom dance to classic music
The residents Of Hester street. on
the East Side. are to war on the push
carts. Refuse from these wheeled
stores. which sell everything from
wedding gowns to dill pickes, is trod-
den under foot all day long and most
OF the night. The street forms an
impenetrable barrier against trafffc II
is said that there are many children
living on the street who haver seen
an automobile.