The Washington herald., 1920-04-19
New York City
By o. o. Mclatyre

New York. April 1s.-A page from
the diary OF q modern Samuel
Pepys: Slept III and lay late. At
breakfast witr w. Fields. the COM
lex jugeler. who told me Of his
travels In foreign countries and q
mighty modest man he Is. To the
booksellers, and paid two pounds
for books. among them two by Mr..
Buchan. whom l like. My wife In
Connecticut and has promised to
write the next diary for me.
To the whey-house at noon for
a couple of beakers and +. Casey
there, telling me he has gone with
Mr.. Gibson to labor on the journal
Life. At pool. Brsley. the poet. took
me for five shillings, and am re-
solved to quit a game at which
I am 50 inept. My barber clipped
one side OF my hair too short at
the temple and ] was for basting
] the rogue. for he hath done IL
twice before.
Home through the town and at
my accounts. my gettings increased
for the month. but are due this one
and that one. Lord! What Is to be-
come of usl Mr.. Stanton at the
| Beaux Arts introduced me to a
Turkish gentleman who told me OF
| life in the harem and I reported
IL to r. Rohn. the limner. and he
seemed resolved to get him one.
All the late afternoon picking
neas from the dog and then to my
she-cozen's and a fine dinner Of Q
cooked pullet with dumpiings and
gravy and a large helping of apple
strudel with whipped cream. very
noble. Later to the playhouse to
see "Florodora" and walked home
| in the bright moonlight, full Of
1 fine thoughts. And so to bed.
The resort-keepers in the fright
ened Tenderloin are doing some
rare explaining. following the in
dictment of Inspector Henry. Their
explanations are in nest cases
highly amusing. for everyone knows
they have been openly fiouting the
law for years. Cne notorious res
taurant keep in the neighborhood
of Lincoln Square whose place has
been a center of night life for
years offers the non sequitur in ex-
plantations. He was accused of har-
boring vicious women. selling in
toxicating drinks. and keeping open
after hours.
He said: sI am a citizen and tax
payer and I have worked hard all
my life"
A great argument Is raging in the
Evening Sun. a gentleman wrote
| to the paper protesting at the fool
| ishness of applauding motion pic
| ture plays. Most people agreed with
the idea-but later came an ava
lanche of letters calling the idea
preposterous. They came from
you've guessed 1.-THE motion pic
| ture actors.
Sonia. the Greenwich Village ciga-
rette girl. is to become resident of
Boston. For years Sonia nightly
appeared at the Purple Pup. Pirates
Den, Polly's. Bertolottfs and the
score of other village resorts selling
her own cigarettes. She is young
bob-haired Jewess who has some
quaint philosophy. But the village
is drab now with prohibition and
Sonia wants her soul to expand so
she is going to try her luck in Bos-
| ton. Tiny Tim, the candy man, re-
mains. He says he is selling more
candy than ever before since the
dry law went into effect.
1t was in front of a Fifth avenue
art store where a painting was on
display. A gentleman came up to
see. He was one OF those men who
make a sacred ceremony out of the
mere putting on of eye glasses.
When he mad finally adjusted them
he looked at the picture carefully.
Then he took his walking stick and
broke the window. That picture
annoyed me- he told the, police who
came up and seized him. And the
judge sent him where he will not be
annoyed by the higher arts for
q hila