The Washington herald., 1920-05-22
New York City
By o, O. McIntyre

New York. May 21.-There is
something enhancing about the
gentlemen with a distinctive horsey
appearance who ride on the Long
Island trains to Beinont Park. They
stand out as roses among the des-
ert of tired commuters. Not once
do they look out the windows to
see the Long Island soil receive
its brimming benison of sunshine.
They pore over their race track
form sheets.
They are indeed bright flowers.
A typical race track man may be
seen wearing a flowing oyercoat of
a fieecy fawn color and a derby OF
biscuit brown. He has a gray suit
and joyful socks Of heavy wool,
yellow and black and green in pat
termed squares which are so vivid
they seem cubes rather than squares.
He has a heavy. but close-cut,
black mustache; his sbaven cheeks
a magnificent sfrloin tint; his chin
amazingly blue by the miristration
of a keen razor. His shirt is rob-
ins-egg blue with u thin stripe OF
KIOIlOuS Pihh e-N@ N~
lar matches. His tie Is burst OF
Persian colors. dazzling the eye.
. His talk is brisk and Broadway
esoue, His cigars are black and
pungent. His gold watch has
hunting case and 1t shuts win
fine rich snap. His English Is
strange to stl ange ears. IL Is the
patois of the paddock. lose
young mares .-goats.
He seems to have fine contempt
for his fellow men and he appralses
! a newcomer with a searching eye
And yet he seems capable OF taik-
ing, If need be, to a fashlonaole
looking curate, whose manners are
| superb.
After the lay at the track they
return to the most fashionable
cafes in whose waiting rooms are
finely upholstered women who seem
TO receive them anxiously-seeking
a look that will tell whether the
day has been one of good or bad
luck. They are women who use
rouge with reckless abandon and
they are just as recklessly per-
fumed.
But their clothes are made by
artists-hashy but. fitting perfectly
The evening meal is a feast. no
matter what the luck of the day.
Afterward they settle back to talk
and soon the form sheet OF tomor-
rows entries is brought forth and
a campaign for another day is
started.
Harry Lehr and his wife are to
take a villa in Newport this sum-
mer. They will return to America
from France in June. But 1t is a
different Harry Lehr of the monkey
dinner fame. He is now a sedate
business man and is well up in
years. He has grown more serious
minded but his return to Newport
will bring to mind a food of mem
ories of the days when his daring
entertainments added zest to the
great social comedy of New York.
1t happened in a Fifth avenue fur
shop-one of those magnificent af-
fairs that cater to the very rich. A
lady of gentle birth who had been
hit by the high cost of living was
looking at some fur coats. She liked
one and holding 1t out admiringly
said:
TT is beautiful. But nine hun
dred and seventy-fve dollars. you
say? Perhaps you had better show
me a mum and stole instead"
At this juncture an obese woman
with marks of newly found wealth
in her clothes and manner picked
up the coat and tried II on. Nine
hundred and seventy-five dollars
-~only?" she said cynically. I'll take
it," She pulled a wad of bills from
out her stocking and turning su-
perbly toward the lady said: Them
that was amt"
1t is odd the way New Workers
look at a drunken man now. They
seem to want to talk to him and
humor him instead of ignoring him
as in the old days. Perhaps they
want him to divulge the mighty Sc
cret of where it came from and
what methods were used in the pre-
liminary stages.
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