The Washington herald., 1919-05-23
- Thoughts


New York. May a. - Thoughts
while wandering about Times
Square: There's Ruth Roland. of
the movies, talking to the corner
cop. Call her Hetty Green Of the
ilms. Hope Berton Braley gets his
hair cut soon. Still its q poets
privilege Funny to see them eat
at the Automat and come out of
the Astor picking their teeth. That's
New York all over.
Wonder who Mrs. Vernon Castle
is waiting for in front of the Clar-
idge? That's right: she's married
now. I'd like to dance with her
once. Can't understand so many
people wearing those pearl gray
derbies. Tommy Gray has one. He's
just back from London.
! There goes Hepner, the wig man.
De Wolf Hopper is his best Gus
toner. Arch Selwyn seems to be
on a shopping spree. Reminds me
of a newlyrich going to Sulka's for
go suits of silk underwear. Cost
him more than $4,000. Hope /
never get rich.
Mrs. Fiske going to the matinee
Wish she'd learn. to talk differently.
Gotta tell an Albino lie. Here comes
Flo Ziegfield and l promised I'd write
something about his show Any man
liable to forget-that's why they put
rubbers on lead pencils. No! That
isn't right. Any man liable to make
mistakes. That's why they put, etc.
p@k
in that stunty little roadster. He gets
the money-but o, you Harold Bell
Wright Imagine soda water at 80
cents a copy and the war tax extra
II they raise my rent I'll move. that's
all. White vests coming back too. X.
c. B. says people wear as many white
vests but they don't chew so much
tobacco.
! Like to watch broil chickens in
those rotiss aw, I can't pronounce
it. Third aeroplane I've seen today.
Funny to watch those kalsomined
faces drift into the cabarets at noon.
The Salamanders-looking for a
chance to sting some western buyer
for lunch. There's my car.
A magazine writer looking for life
as it is lived among the middle classes
In New York took lodgings month
ago in Patchin Place-the American
Latin Quarter. Patchin Place Is a cul
de sac behind Jefferson Market The
boarding houses and studios are run
IN a slipshod manner and the guests
are always delinquent with their
board. At this particular place. the
landlady. a bizarre person. had a
daughter who waited on the table.
The magazine writer liked her. But
! he posed as an accountant. They be-
| came engaged. A week ago. he told
her the truth. He was a magazine
writer. The engagement was broken
| by the girl The magazine writer has
gone back to his apartment on the
Drive. He found life very real among
the middle classes.
The Indians gave away the whole
OF Manhattan Island for a couple Of
Manhattan cocktails and a string Of
beads. Now it is impossible to get a
hall bedroom on it without signing
away next years salary as a first
payment II the old Indian chief who
once owned the old place should re-
turn today a flock of real estate
operators would take his tent away.
set it up in another alley. put in q
couple of floors. and offer him the
attic for 500 a month. providing
he'd do the janitor work and cut
the war whoop stuff.
| The first of the month was the
time for people in New York to
move. Very few moved. There
was no place to go. Old in
habitants. those. for instance. who
recall when it was common
practice to buy milk by the quart
and leave II around the back porch
unguarded. remember when house
hunting was a spring recreation.
The first months rent was always
free.
The landlord was good guy.
He'd paint the apartment. paper
the rooms. gild the chandeliers.
mend the iron fence. SOW some
grass seed around the moth-eaten
spots of the little front lawn and
take you around the corner to
meet Jake. But II is all over
new. The $50 apartment of eight
years ago now rents for a hundred
/ berries. A first class little coop
in the Bronx sets a wage slave
back just so lovely bones. 1t is a
rough world indeed.