The Washington herald., 1919-09-12
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By o. O. McINTYRE

New York, Sept. n.-Thoughts while
walking around Manhattan: There's
Helen Keller talking from her auto
at the Astor curb. Wonderful Great
Dane beside her. No handicap too
big for her-and 1 let some soggy
pancakes at breakfast spoil my morn
ing. There goes a changing ambulance.
Perhaps another wood alcohol victim.
Eight blinded this week by the stun.
Some dust the Herald kicked up by
the story that Mrs. Castle married
three months after Vernon was killed.
Wonder what a food profiteer thinks
about these days? There goes Frank
Crowninshield. editor of Vanity Fair
Marvellous guy. Knows how to pro-
nounce the name OF the author
of The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse"
Hotels now charging "corkage" when
you bring your own liquor. They al
ways get theirs. Rupert Hughes watch
ing a street faker. He looks like a
country doctor. Chorus girl wearing
stencils for a stocking. Mrs. Ray
mond Hitchcock on her way to the
theater. She's an usher now at the
strike benefit shows.
New cafe OF Italian swillage. Poses
as ultra-Bohemian. Fashion illustra-
tors fiirt with interior decorators and
mourn decadence of art. Boys from
Wanamakers talk soul stun. Still 1t
is packed. They will fall for bunk in
this town. Hope Harry Brown buys
my lunch.
Every movie palace has a Wild West
film. New Workers like those hand
to-hand fights on the edge of Grand
Canyon. Great cheers when they flash
hero saying: Come gal, we'll go out
into the great clean heart OF the West
where a mans a man" Wonder how
I'd look with a wrist watch?
Avery Hopwood in a brand new car.
Wish could make more money.
"Poodles" Hsnniford. the Hippodrome
clown. Looks more like lounge
lizard when he's dolled up. F0ppish
young squirt in the floppy flannels
trying to f.rt with that pretty girl.
Think I'll be hero. Still better not.
Getting too romantic. Better scoot for
home
The New York window cleaners have
gone on strike. They want s39 a week,
an eight-window day freedom of the
stains all over the newly-painted sash.
Nothing else in American life has
dropped as often as the window clean
er who failed to watch bis step. they
say. 1t is hinted they may demand
open paraChutes for those who wash
the windows in the Woolworth Build
ing. The window washers are stand
ing pat. firm in their conviction that
the public is dependent upon them for
a clear outlook on life. 1t has been
recommended that the strike arbitra-
ton be presented to Secretary Glass
Don't shoot. We surrenderD
Tom Powers. the cartoonist. tells
this wheeze. II was perpetrated by a
neighbor's boy on Long Island. Said
the little boy: Mother, can never
be President"
why not?" asked the mother. You
were born in America. and il you
work hard you may be elected some
day"
NO" insisted the child "I can
never be President. l get seasick too
easily
While the strike closed New York
theaters, a magician had a chance to
slip into one of the best theaters along
the Rialto. Being the only show in
town. he drew big crowds. Strangely
his performance pleased his audiences
Spectators began buying the tickets,
and for a week it was as difficult to
get a seat to see the magic show as it
was to get a first-night scat for the
Follies. The vaudeville houses. too
have been packed as the result OF the
playhouses closing