The Washington herald., 1920-06-04
New York City
B, o. Q. McIntyre

New York. June 3. Thoughts
while stroIling around New iork'
A machine tharSsprinkles perfume
Five cents shot. A snuttereu
house with a face peering from
Ia sement window. Has the look OF
housing sin. A strapping young
figure wearing a ghastly mask. LII
ouId FIRE. A tipsy old hag. arms
akimbo. quarreling with gang OF
hoodlums.
Wonder how I'd look in q straw
hat? A tumbiedown hand launory.
Aged bald-headed man and negro
woman ironing at the window. ooor
of stale heat. A flask being passed
around in a Limousine. A JOY rioe
| in the making. A erect OF garases.
Little groups of chauffeurs. why u
there always some one sitting out
front of a garage on box!
A Young girl nervously leaving a
shady hotel. The night life face OF
Broadway. Half sensual HaiI
, neurotic. And drifting where?
/ janele of pianos. Across the way
row of table d'hotes. Young ldlers
at the door with foggy compilations
All smoking cigarettes. han-
baked cynics. Laugh and nudge
each other at the passing OF
gaudy Tipped blond.
A spirited team drawing tiny
closed cab. And driver In claret
! colored suit and piumed nat. sup.
pose IL is a millionaire Inside, out
| the curtains are down. There's the
! Pasteur Institute. steel -oarreo
windows and a gloomy exterior. My
dog hasn't enough sense to go mad.
But l wouldn't trade him for
/ Fifth avenue block.
The summer loungers in the park
Feeding birds. A human eddy--a
Flethargic. gulf. All desires seem
| vanished Brentano's. grea'
! treat to browse around among the
books there. But / always buy too
many. why do bookstore clerks
appear so mentally superior?
No one rides in those double
decker street cars. And yet theyl'
go upstairs on bus. A melancholy
siren from the river. The sky
| colorless vault A great day for
day dreaming should be working
But I'm going to dream awhile.
! One of the Oldest banks in Wall
! Street has finally yielded to the
/ march of progress-and Installed 4
telephone. 1t will only have one
phone at first. for II is iiihcult 70
uproot prejudices of many years
| They have never had 4 telephone
because they believed that conn
| Dental business could not be con-
Quoted over a telephone. and theil
business is all of that nature. INT
/ atmosphere of the old bank, the old
est in the city, is that of stale
/ oil =,
| in Colonial times. Absolute quie'
prevails. The employees retain thu
| old-fashioned good manners. In
stead of a lovely laughing creature
who tells the world the line Is busy
in thrilling soprano, the bank vii
select for their FIRST telephone op'
/ orator a person with a beard and q
bass voice. able to endow his light
est utterance with a certain pro-
fundity.
1t is to be presumed that dancing
is to have a revival this summer
Flo Ziegfeld is bringing Art Hick'
! mans band from San Francisco Il
play five hours nightly on the Zieg'
field Roof before the Midnight Frol'
! les begin. Newport reports thai
Bailey Beach is to have another ex'
! elusive dancing pavilion catering
! TO the butterfly crowd. But the
| dancing will be of different order
The shimmy has quivered into ar
early grave. The steps are becom'
ing graceful and sensible. .
| In We olden days we quippcd about
! the wealth of the New York waiter
Now il is the waitress who is gath'
cring in golden fruits for her labor
A New York newspaper tells of
waitress at one of the Childs res
taurants who lives in spleEdor a
an ornate hotel. And 1t gives he,
| name. address and everything, so q
must be true.