The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
New York City
BY o. o. Melntyre

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New York. June 27.--A page from
the diary OF a modern Samuel Pepys;
Up hastily going to the outer door
lin my breeches and a. commotion
there and two policemen and be-
gun heartily to sweat. But It was
a rogue who had made on with
some Jewel pieces on the floor above.
A noble day and for walk and
came upon a fellow entering
coach. and driver and footmen In
plush suits and Lord! what pref
udice was wrought in me.
Great talk OF the Elweli murder
and of his nifty toupees. which
seems enough for any man grown
bald. / dare swear. And near the
Mall we saw a girl in erstwhiie
humble circumstances at our board
ing place in a great petrol wagon
and fine furs nor did she notice US.
AT lunch with Eddie Cantor. the
comick actor, who spoke wittiiy OF
A new song. 20 What Pal was
Mary!" by Sir Douglas Fairbanks.
Near the booksellers was a man
blind with both arms gone and 1
mighty merry and versed in many
things.
In the evening with s. Tilton and
Mistress Marie to roof place and
a fellow, foxed with drink. knock
ed of MY hat spelling my temper.
But a great crowd there. / did see
F. Frueauff. the Denver capitalist
and his wife Mistress Antoinette,
fair lady of great beauty and made
bold to speak to them. Ana SO
home and to bed
Nellie, the beautiful cloak model;
her sister, Bessie, the biscuit shoot
er. and their cousin, Gladys. the
| baby-eyed vamp. have a rival. She
! Is none other than Gussie, the moon
shine Diana, who has just come to
bask in the glowing lights OF Broad
way.
Gussie will invade the city's cab
arets. restaurants and social cluos
| in search of bootleggers and liquor
men willing to take chance. She
will be accompanied by experienced
rum sniffers in boiled shirts ano
patent leather pumps. Where they
| find high powered refreshments
they will make arrests.
The selling of booze. outside or
| the army of bootleggers. has now
narrowed down to the exclusive re-
sorts where IL one is known he can
get all he wants IL he is willing TO
pay the price. Only few can az
| ford IL.
A French officer visiting in New
York tells of sitting one day before
the war in the Cafe de la Paix talk-
| ing to young German reservist.
They were jokingly discussing
possible conflict between their coun-
tries when the French officer asked:
But what would you Germans
do with Paris il you did take it,
First, we would scrub the
Louvre" he replied.
| The highest musical taste in New
York exists on the East Side among
| the foreign born and very poor.
This fact has been brought out by
| statistics gathered concerning the
sale of phonograph records. Up
! in Harlem they revel in the fos
| trot music and the Bronx favors
| soulful violin solos. The music
stores on the East Side do not han
die shimmy and jazz numbers-only
| operatic records.
The day of the Bowery melodrama
| is echoed in our new fiction. Having
| a liking for mystery stories clerk
persuaded me to buy a volume for
! two lovely dollars and upon the
| fourth page l find this passage:
Thief and blackguard that you
are. who meanly stole my promised
wife when / could not look sitter
my own. Ha, ha, ha! You at least
will squirm when I am done with
you"
/ used to get that kind of stun
for a dime and hide II under the
bed from my sainted grandmama-
/ 1t had titles like "Deadwood Dicks
Daring Defy or The Gold Brick OF
the Sierra Madras"