The Washington herald., 1919-04-22

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New York, April 21.-Have you .
little still in your home? No house
beautiful Is complete it seems without
its de luxe and cozy little brewery.
With July the thirst looking around
the corner. New York Is already get
ting busy to supply its quaint and
more or less prodigious thirst Wet.
ting ones whistle Is to be the chief
indoor SPORT
Revenue officers more than a month
ago swooped down on the East Side
and potted q couple Of y.moonshin-
ers" at work over their stills. They
did not run true to the moonshiner
type. They were not tall, rangy, with
massive Adams apples. ~
In fact they were short and squat
swsrthy Of complexion and one spoke
enough Yiddish to get around New
,, York easily and the other could gar
gle words In native Russian. They
wore silk shirts, checkered vests and
| were a far cry from the one gallus
moonshiner who sat on a lonely stump
with a shotgun waiting for the
agents" to start something.
But the teeming East Side Is not
the only place where stills have been
found. On the exclusive North Shore
of Long Island where estates are
known by classy names as THE
Lodge" THE Elms" and n lot OF
other "Thes'' a still was discovered
the ether day.
While there was no. great. clamor
made about 1t, the inference was
given that the veranda hounds. ham
| M fnlra oh tt- HA-
votees Of the seashore do not intend
to be deprived of their o'clock ap-
petite whetters by such a trifling
thing as a mere law.
New York newspapers are daily re-
porting instances Of thousands OF men
and women who during the days OF
| unrestricted personal liberty thought
Of the manufacture of alcoholic
liquors as something mysterious have
now suddenly discovered how simple
it Is to fill the foaming glass.
In the homes of all classes the wife
is becoming the brewer and the bar
tender and hubby is served over his
own dining-room table. Down on
broadway thousands of cards and
pamphlets with liquor recipes are be-
ing sold by the street hawkers who
formerly sold lead pencils. suspenders
and paper flowers.
With a group Of New York report
ers 1 visited the other day the North
street clinic established by the board
of health for the emergency relief OF
drug addicts. denied their drugs by
the police crusade on INSCRIPTIONS
doctors and druggists.
= 1t was a hungry line OF eyes-wait-
ing for the White Key to the door
OF dreams. A school teacher, a maga-
zine writer, a gaudily dressed colored
girl. a white-haired woman. two fiat
chested Hedda Gabblers of the streets
and a defiant young girl with a whit
ened nose, carmine splotched cheeks
and flat scallops over her ears.
In every brain the same idea burned
In fire. That was to get little black
box with the white pills that have
come to mean everything to them.
The line forms a few hundred feet
from the apez Of the old Five Points
once the solar lexus of New York's
ur dcrworld, the most famous gather
ing place of criminals in any land.
Four famous stars are grouped to-
gether in the presentation of a play
called THE Good Bad Woman" 1t
is one of those stupid, inane plays
that have their run every now and
then and nobody seems to know why.
This special production has as the big
theme-the subject of Birth Control"
new little conceit among Fifth
avenue 'matrons is creating a lot of
comment Middle-aged women who
promenade on Fifth avenue in the late
afternoon are carrying canes, at
tached to the wrist by thongs. The
dandies, fops. exquisites and beaux Of
the avenue have dropped the carry
ing of canes due no doubt to the war.
No man wanted to stroll down Fifth
avenue with a cane-unless he was
in uniform A very rich dowager
who just returned from Paris started
the craze.