The Washington herald., 1920-12-03
FINDS GOTHAM
50 BOURGEOIS
Crowds Watching for Bride,
Knee Length Skirts.
That Hard Look.
~ o. 0. lleINTYRE.


NEW YORK. Dec. 2.-Thoughts
while stroliing around New York:
Black. overhanging clouds. Street
lights and buildings agiow at noon
Curious crowds stand in the drissls
at = church entrance to see the
bride. How bourgeois! A beautiful
woman left that car monosramms
m. G." I'm going to stick around.
Maybe it's Mary Garden.
The aroma Of . doughnut! And
I've just had lunch. A row Of en-
ployment agencies. Everybody
wants . house servant and nobody
wants the job. Japs, Greeks and
Chinese waiting for fresh bulletins.
A window filled with live Holsters.
Why do deiicatessen dealers have
coats with such long sleeves? A
blind violinist shivering in the gale.
All the girls are wearing wool
stockings. There IL nothing SO In
triguing as q sporting goods store.
Blue steel guns. Pup tents. Fish
ing tackle. Jaunty shooting jack
cts. I'm going there some day and
take my lunch. A policeman leading
white faced man out Of . bank.
That reminds me, think my ae-
count Is overdrawn.
My, but Nora Bayes is getting
stout. And q few years ago they
scme place. Prices will tumble
they say. but the only drop / notice
Is in pig iron. And aside from
cauliflower. think pig iron means
as little in my life as anything. In
fact ! don't believe / could ever
bring myself to care fer pig iron
There goes Pee Wee Pyers. Toots
q saxophone In q cabaret and Is
fond of Montaigns. He pulled the
line about the crowds In the cabaret
belonging to the league of notionA
laundering line Of green buses. 1t
IL chilly on top but they all want
to ride there. Gil Beag, the restau.
rant king. Five years ago he was
. reporter.
So many beautiful faces and yet
cosmetics give them the look Of
hardness. Whatever became of the
fellow who paraded up and down
the avenue in white duck and hat
less during the winter? Here 10
where ] was to meet my wife. And
she's not here. I'll be gentle-but
hrm.
A certain Broadway chorus girl
was invited to a party after the
show the other night. She found II
to be a gathering of extremely
learned people who thirsted for art
and talked briskly of subjects al
together out OF her ken. When she
returned to her abode her room
mate asked her what kind Of time
she had.
Awful" she said. 1T was a ter
rible bunch OF highbrows and all
could do was to sit around and look
bilious"
Knee length skirts-and some
even above the knees-did not reach
the limits OF immodesty among
young New York women HaiIing
from a rather puritanical settle
ment I could not have believed It
possible. But l saw it. There is q
cozy dancing place frequented by
after the theater crowds. 1t Is small
and exclusive. 1t Is not patronized
by typical Broadwayites--and yet
there were four young girls who
had their stockings down to their
knees and as their skirts were knee
length when they danced there were
flashes OF bare skin. This Is not un-
usual and during the past few
weeks has been so noticeable that Il
has been the subject Of two soath-
ing sermons. Strangely enough the
necks and arms are covered in the
dancing and dinner frocks this sea-
son.
South Sea McAfdle Is back on
the Bowery for the irst time in five
years. He Is a beach -comber and
Is we'll known among the Polyne-
SLAMS but every once in awhile the
call of civilization brings him back
to his early stamping ground. He
remains for q winter and then dis
appears again for about fve years.