The Washington herald., 1920-07-19
New York City
BY o. o. Mcintyre


New York. July ia page from
the diary Of modern Samuel Pepys:
Up early and to the depot to see w.
Larkin and Mistress Charlotte. home
from India. and he brought me q
noble carving. We Jared forth by
coach to Bowling Green. There
light. and talked OF many things
eat newly catched mackerel and hot
bread.
Great news that Sir James Cox Is
nominated. albeit ! know little OF
politics- While I laboured on an op-
position journal In Dayton ! learned
to know his nne qualities and shall
vote for him. yet I know. too. that
Sir Warren Harding is a good man.
Called to account this day for a
! foolish letter writ a friend In anger
! and we talked long and earnestly
with the result that we are on bet
ter terms and am resolved 1
should be cudgelied for fool. MY
dog Is without fieas for the hrst
summer. thank heaven.
| To nv haberdasher where ] Sc
lected light. yellow, silken gloves
and so through the city, not litue
proud. God knows, to meet seVerai
scriyeners who feigned not to notice
my little conceit. Yet know well
they were eaten with jealousy.
Home and fell to reading Steven
sons tale Of the South Seas and so
| absorbed that forgot the company
my wife, poor wretch. had invited
but all very joyful withal. Then
iAy late reading and J. Gwynn came
knocking at my chambers long past
midnight to tell me q strange story.
And so to dreams.
| RennoId wolf-Toastmaster.
Rennold Wolf. the famous chron-
icler Of Broadway for the Morning
Telegraph. is taking his first vaca-
| tion in years-ten to be exact. He
! is going 40 London to write four
plays that have been rattling
around in his head for some time.
No first night Is complete without
Rem. And no banQuet-wet or dry
| is bowling success without him
as a toastmaster. He Is the best
after-dinner speaker in New York.
Wolf came from little town up
State. He knocked around on Park
Row until the late Alfred Henry
Lewis suggested a job for him on
| the Telegraph. Between first nights
he managed to write fourteen plays.
many of them in collaboration with
his best friend, Claiming Pollack.
| 1t is rumored on Broadway that he
| has decided to give up newspaper
| httt
Is hoping IL Is just a rumor.
| I don't know exactly what II is
but there is something that re-
minds me OF William Jennings
Bryan in the five-story fall that a
Bronx man had the other day. After
he struck the pavement he jumped
up and walked away with a broad
smile.
White Faces q Fad.
The faces of women in New York
these days are ghostly in their
whiteness. 1t is startling - even
eerie-to the visitor. They are re-
mindful of statues in chalk. Coat
ings of white powder and liquid
give the appearance Of the mask
of the mine. Only the women OF
Broadway splotch their white
cheeks with red. Whiteness seems
to be a fad along the avenue. Rouge
is banned. But under the eyes are
penciled black shadows. Only one
description fits it. 1t is merely dis
| gusting.
A young girl 10 went out with
some young men and women on her
first party" one day last week. She
was induced to take a drink of
brandy-the first drink she had
| ever tasted. Three hours later she
was taken to a hospital in convul-
sions. The next day she was per-
manently blind. The brandy was
made of wool alcohol. The other
members of the party only suffered
a slight illness.