The Washington herald., 1920-06-19
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

continues to drop like prices have In
Manhattan recently some of our best
tenors will md themselves the own
ers of deep bass voices. The old
clothing placard Take me home for
s22.5o" has been busted of ana
hangs out front on the suit that was
selling for SIS a few weeks ago.
And those sprightly young men
of the Rialto who are connected
with the best families-by telephone
find that they can dress In all
their pre-war glamour. for the Pull
Me-In shops near the Pennsylvania
depot on Seventh avenue are dis
posing of nifty made-over second
hand clothes for 81 each. And so
the young blades may have a suit
for every day in the week.
1t was rough picking for them
when even a hand-me-down second
hand suit sold for $35 for IL was
their front" that permitted them
to pose as young swells around the
hotel Hobbies and cabarets cadging
drinks and making small dying
touches. Now they may strut and
affect the English drawl with the
same old abandon.
Several OF the big cafes have Gu,
down prices slightly but hardly
enough to notice. The best news
comes from the Bowery where Beef
steak John has restored the 15-cent
dinner-steak. potatoes. coffee and
a vegetable. When the Kaiser went
loco he had to charge 25 cents and
IL was a serious blow to the human
driftwood that looked forward to
at least one good meal a week at
his sawdust carpeted culinary pal
ace.
A new retail candy store just on
Fifth avenue opened with a bang
several days ago and announced old
before the-war prices. 1t put quite
a crimp in the Fifth avenue shops
that are charging $1.75 a pound for
almost every kind Of candy. SILK
shirts in many of the best shops
are marked down to $3.50 and the
tailor-made shirts are now being
sold for SIS. whereas they formerly
sold as high as s32.5o.
Most all of us will sympathize
with Ed. Wynn, the comedian. who
complains that the laundries do
not clean his collars anymore. They
sharpen them" he says
Gradually all of the New York
hotels are lifting the ban on dogs.
1t used to be that all of them per-
IN ha
kennels in the basement. Then an
English concern came along and
built an exclusive hotel and they
literally retailed eXclusiveness.
One thing they refused to permit
was a dog. Several other hotels
have scientific kennels and those
who haven't kennels are permit
ting dogs of all kinds. But they
are making a charge OF 81 day.
And what is that to a man who
loves his dog?
Some way or other the bobbed
hair prejudice is disappearing. 1t
is true that the big department
stores will not employ girls who
bob their hair and this in spite OF
the fact they employ floor walkers
with bald heads and Van Dyke
beards-but il seems bobbed hair
has come to stay. Greenwich VII
lage put a stigma on the fashion
at first. At one of the last nights
of grand opera a music critic count
ed ten women in private boxes who
had bobbed hair. At the races.
smart cafes and theater they are
frequently seen. Many of them
are married women who have
found il is the only way they can
keep their hair and still others find
il the most becoming way for
them. One of the society journals
tells of a matron past so who re-
Gently appeared at a social func-
tion with her silver hair bobbed.
That is perhaps going too far.