The Washington herald., 1920-06-29
SAN FRANCISCO
HAPPY TO MEET
ALL DELEGATES
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E.
the delegates have discovered the
mint-bordered springs in what Is
officially down on the map as an arid
desert.
Also, this being a regular Demo-
cratic convention. with Mr.. BRYAN
in attendance on ii. there is every
prospect of regular peach of a
night over the league OF nations
and the dry plank and every other
scrapablc subject. All of which
puts heart .nto the situation and
permits JOY to be unconfined.
Moreover, when San Francisco
entertains convention she enter
tains it. I'll tell the world that.
She doesn't take you to her breast
the better to rob you. as is the
wont in most convention cities. On
the contrary. her merchants are
forbearing to profiteer, and even
the tHxls and the restaurants have
not raised their prices. Which
smacks of the days of miracles.
salespoepIe Polite.
You ran get all the sand dabs
Meuniere - which are undoubtedly
the ambrosia on which the gods
Toasted on high Olympus-that you
want for 90 cents, and a bunch of
red roses as big as your head for
two bits-Rnd with plenty of sand
dabs and red roses life Is Paradise
anew. as old Omar so justly re-
marked.
Stranger still, in the shops no one
presses on you a hideous "souve-
mir" that you will dump into the
garbage can the first thing after
you get home. The salespeople
treat you as guest, to whom it
is a pleasure to show their lovely
things
In San Francisco there are sew
eral marvellous Oriental shops that
the veritable museums of the art
of the Far East. Through these
wander never ending procession
of curious and gaping delegates nd
their women folks from Rabbits
Track, North Carolina. and Bird
Center, Indiana. who exclaim Wa
a-al, now look at that" and "watta
yPI think of that?" and Gee, amt
that swell?" as they gaze at fat
stomached Japanese gods and grin
ming Thibetan devil masks and
splendid mandarin coats, but who
never buy so much as a chop stick.
And they aren't asked to buy, or
scorned because they don't buy.
Courteous statesmen show them
about and explain the mysteries of
lacquer and damascene and Migg
pottery to them just as if they were
collectors good for a big bill. For
these people are guests of the city,
and every San Franciscan feels him.
self a host to them. It's very con-
fusing to the Eastern mind. And.
Oh! so nice.
Streets Full of Gayety.
I have said the streets were gay.
Since the Shriners' convention.
which was held the early part of
the week. in Portland, splendiferous
is the only word that even remotely
describes the street pageant. For
the Shriners have descended on San
Francisco in all Of the unchas stened
glory of their gorgeous regalia, and
wherever you go the eye is dazzled
by the spectacle arrayed as Solomon
in all his glory never was. 1 had
thought a beribboned and bebadged
delegate. wearing on his manly
chest a life-size sunfiower, or an
ear of corn, reinforced by a portrait
of his favorite candidate, was a
beauteous sight, but he pales into
insignificarice beside a Shriner, built
along the general lines of a bay
windowed bungalow. who adorns
himself with a pair OF white shoes,
long green stockings. red satin pan
ties. a green velvet coat embroid-
cred with gold. with a red fex set
atop Of his bald brow: and there are
many such here, hundreds of them,
making the landscape blossom as
the rose.
Open House Everywhere.
In my secret soul l have always
pitied men because they were
doomed to wear a few hideous, drab,
tubular garments, and l have won
dered why they, too, should not
have lovely ribbons and frillies as
women have. / know now that the
convention that lays down iron clad
laws about mems dress ID the mercy
of God to us. Men are not to be
trusted with color. They run riot the
minute they get chance at IL.
Everybody who Is anybody in San
Francisco IL keeping open house,
and one of the notable entertain
fnents was the party given by the
mayor to the newspaper men, on
which was staged a new moving
picture with scenario by Irwin
Cobb and Ring Lardner, with Sam
Blythe, Miles Lasker, and Robert
Edgren and other famous literary
lights taking part In It.. IL was
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