The Washington herald., 1920-05-09
New York City
By o. o. MeIntyre

utbctoo . hutto Haog % eesfe-S y
they saw women parading up and
down these thoroughfares this week
wearing hats made Of paper shaw
lings. with economic sharps burn
ing the midnight electricity to take
reef in the High Cost OF Millinery.
1t took the fertile brain Of press
agent TO introduce this new femi-
nine fancy.
And let us give the lady credit.
boys, for 1t was lady press agent
who turned the trick. Further. II
might be well to give her name. Tor
II was mono other than Ann Gros-
venor.Ayres, who hyphenates her
name and writes pieces about Henry
! Savage,s play. You may have
guessed the name. II Is "Shayings.
OF course. Miss Grosvenor-Ayres
had no idea OF the wooden or shaw
ings hat reaching popularity. She
merely had a window display Of the
hats near the theater whore the
play Is being produced. The shop
pers saw them and went to their
favorite milliner to sec IL they could
get something like them. A demand
was created.
The hats became an overnight
fad. Two days later French mil
liner saw the shavings hat and was
entranced. She took the model back
I, to Paris and now cable dispatches
are being sent from the French me-
tropolis that the hat is taking on
over there.
All one needs to make a shavings
hat is to get bagful of shavings.
Make hubby do a little whiting
instead of dropping around to the
club or wherever he tells wifey he
drops. Next brew a straw dye and
apply 1t to the shavings. Then
fasten the shavings to hat block
and apply q coat Of enamel-and
you have II.
Tho hats are really smart look
ing. A variety of models have al
ready been developed with dineren,
color combinations. For economic
reasons the shsvings hat has a sure
appeal for American women who
want to cut the high cost of living,
but are not yet ready to don over
alls and wear tin pals for head
coverings.
| The shavings hat for men mas nor
been produced, but II is promised
soon and with a slant at the ad-
vance prices for the straw hat sea-
son 1t looks like a lot of wooden
heads are going to have wooden
| coverings this season.
For those who like poetry-and
there are few who do not-I can
cheerfully recommend the latesv
Offering of Franklin p. Adams, that
gay and pungent paragrapher or
| the New York Tribune. The volume
Is called Something Else Again,
and IL do say it myself, and not
because I suggested 1t to Mr..
Adams, it is corking name.
F. p. A, as his ever-growing band
| of contributors know him. has
written some sonnets that will fit
every mood. He has plucked lam
bics from such topics as shimmy
dances to vers libre and even
touches upon the mors comfcal sub
jects such as the league of nations
and profiteering. After all the hu-
morists of a country are its best
historians as someone has said. All
of which makes Rabelais a his
torian of France, Dean Swift a his
torian of England and Baron Nun
chausen the historian of Germany.
If. P. A. Is one of our best poets.
wonder IL ,he Is known as well
outside of New York as he Is on
NaIo hiu p
! tie free puff will make him better
known in the hinterland I am glad,
| for / believe 1t will be doing n gen.
uine service for the lovers of poetry.
The brewers are not going to be
| gin making foaming beakers for
thirsty Manhattanese even IL Gov
Smith signs the 2.75 beer bill until
they get an opinion upon the status
| of the new law ss to its probable
clash with the Federal law.
| Hopes were running high this past
week. An enthusiast in Brooklyn
had the following sign hung clear
across the front of a prominent cor
ner
This place will be opened as a
| frst-class beer parlor within a few
weeks" For twelve hours a crowd
stood out front and cheered.
The Federal authorities admit that
IL all the saloonkeepers decide to
open up and the hotels and restau
rant begin selling beer 1t will be
bigger problem than they can handle
with their present force of sniff
hounds.
But the brewers are proving them
selves better than they have been
! painted. They are not going to turn
a wheel or fire a vat or whatever II
is they do to make beer until they
find that they are legally right.
In the meantime some amusing
figures have b.en furnished by
! liquor Investigators. 1t seems that
New York now has plenty of beer
but it is not visible to the naked
| eye. The figures show that in ter
houses out of fifty there are private
ways of making beer and the ANA
teur beer makers are becoming SC
proficient that they don't care
whether the breweries open up shop
again or not.
| What about rural rectitude?
We city dwellers have been fed
up by movies and novelists with
out there in the great pure coun-
tryside' stuff. All wickedness is
traced to the cities, and especially
New York. Hiddens away this week
in q corner Of the New York news
papers reserved for readers who en-
Joy statistics was a faconic para
graph which throws a disconcerting
light on a tenderly cherished theory.
Chorus Girls Keep Out of Crime
List" observes the head writer.
Farmers the Worst Cut-Ups," he
playfully adds. And then follows