The Washington herald., 1920-07-24
New York City
Br o. o. MeIntyre

New York. July 23.--At the Vim
cent Astor town house on Fifth
avenue there n an entrance at the
front only for those who arrive In
motors or horse drawn vehicles. 1t
must be terrible for strangers who
are invited and go afoot to find
only an asphalt driveway going
right to the DOOR No telling how
many have snesked away surfeited
with shame.
But these architectural doc-dads
give Fifth avenue its power to awe.
Millionaires like to present snappy
i6eas for the profetariat. And while
IL Is true many of these ideas are
aged In the wood. so to speak,
quite a few show originality.
Far up on Fifth avenue, Ii q red
brick house with a sort OF coming
tower for the butler. From his
cupola he may survey all visitors
and judge II they are fit TO enter
those carpeted halls where one
feels as IL his feet were stepping
on q cat. The door In this house IS
operated by push buttons and slides
back gracefully. revealing a palm
laden foyer.
The Andrew Carnegie home and
the massive pile of white stone
that comprises the Frick house are
about the only ones that have front
yards. There are many OF the great
homes that give the impression OF
being prison-like. All the windows
and doors are barred and only now
and then is there a sign OF life.
Jap servants are supplanting the
stage type OF knickerbockered but
ler. More than one-half of the
homes along Millionaire's Row are
Tcompletely manned by Orientals. On
one of the side streets there is a
japanese Club. whose members are
employed in rich homes 1t has an
air Of elegance not far removed
from the famous Millionaire's Club
itself.
Quite a few OF the Japs make
$4,000 a year and all of their ex-
penses. Lady's maids are now paid
$50 a week. and IL they speak
French the salary is $50.
High-Powered Drinks.
A young author. who has had
several successful novels and short
stories published. reached his TWEEN
ty-third birthday recently. Three
months ago he married a very
pretty girl from a small town. The
young man has been successful de-
spite his taste for liquor, but since
his marriage he has been hitting II
up with a reckless abandon. His
wife had never tasted so much as
a cocktail until their marriage. She
| too has developed a taste for high
| powered drinks. At a recent re-
| ception attended by distinguished
men and women of letters the young
newlyweds arrived buoyantly
bunned. His necktie was united and
her coiffure appeared as if it had
undergone the ravages of a tornado.
They hiccoughed their way through
introductions and when they arrived
in the big room where the guests
had assembled sat down and went
to sleep. Servants were forced to
carry them to sleeping quarters up
stairs. A week ago both were
taken to a sanitarium where ad-
diets are sobered.
Too Many New Fads.
On Park avenue there is q drug
store that seems to be making the
last stand against the onrush of
the new type OF department store
| apothecary shop. 1t has a noble
looking kind Of hand pounded brass
announcing drugs. In one winoow
Is a large green bottle and in the
other Is one of red. On the shelves
are row after row OF white enamel
labeled bottles carrying those weird
Latin Inscriptions. There are nc
placards anywhere and a bald man
with heavy convex glasses ana q
Teutonic professorship look is the
sole custodian. He told me that the
truth was that drugs were being
discarded. But he considers a drug
store as sacred as an art gallery
and he will not resort to the modern
methods. "A few years more" he
says, "and the old fashioned drug
store will be a thing of the past.
Too many new fads for regaining
health have killed of the prescrip-
tion business, Ten of my best Gus
toners within the past six weeks
deserted me. / wanted to see IL !
was at fault and I called them on
the Telephone. They told me that
they had stopped taking drugs
Their ideas had er.re1y changed"