The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre


New York. Feb. s-A page from the
diary of modern Samuel Pepys: Up
and churlish, the breakfast. mail and
everything wrong, so with my wife to
the Shakespeare garden. and she talk
ed to me earnestly about this and
that, and we went home In great con-
tent. Charles De Woody came and sat
with me and told me tales of hrs trav-
els in the Orient, and of the mothers
who throw their babies in the Ganges
and of the China boys who carve
ivory. the splinters going into their
eyes until they are stone blind, and
Of the great fear of the devils.
This day ! met Sir Ben Lindsey, a
kindly appearing little man. Great
talk of the nerve of the killer Handy,
who was done to death in the prison,
and Mistress Nellie BLY, hath written a
fine piece in the Evening Journal
about 1t. Through the town, and
saw a woman in a tan dress trimmed
with white fur and toque of flam-
ing red, and everybody turned to watch
her.
To lunch at Keene's, and there seems
to be as much jollity as ever, and no
drinking soever. Thence to the park
to watch the skaters, and irving Ber-
lin was there and slides well. and the
yenders were selling hot coffee for %
cents a cup, tasteless and sugarless.
People 1t doth seem will pay any price
for chea pthings these days.
All of the afternoon at home putting
shings in order. In the evening to
see Mr.. Skinner in his part. whicht nc
does well. but the play iept Between
the acts l did hear that the actors
were complaining that audiences were
colder since the liquor edict, which l
doubt. To an apothecary for juice of
grapes. and so home and to bed.
Sam Bernard is appearing in a new
play, in which he has the role of a
man dissatisfied with conditions OF
today and eager for the good old
times of yesterday. lie is suspicious
of his wife. at odds with his friends.
worried in business, and he yearns for
a change to other times and places
where only bliss and contentment
abide.
So he is taken back to the days of
Napoleon, of Cleopatra and of Helen
of Troy. He quickly tires of each
period, and at the end of his expert
menting with yesterdays he asks to
be brought back to today.
Arthur Chapman. who write "Out
Where the West Begins" and left Den
yer journalism flat to free lance in
Manhattan. is running a column on the
Evening Telegram. The first thing
that has happened to the Telegram
under Mr.. Munsey is the absence of a
cartoon. He is a cartoon Aheist. He
has also stopped the TELEGRAM from
coming out every few minutes. 1t
got so bad that a famous Broadway
wit said he liked to read the Tele-
gram because he found news in it that
he never read anywhere else. In the
old days the Telesram's presses were
humming day and night with extras.
No news item was so trivial that the
Telegram could not weave a pink ex-
ira around it,
Henna is to be the reiGning color
for women this spring. according to
the advance information from the
designers of women's suits and frocks.
the latter known slangily as gowns.
There are to be henna hats, and even
henna colored shoes. Fifth avenue
shops already are showing some
henna-colored creations. but are refus-
ing to sell them. That is a trick of the
trade. 1t makes the buyers more
eager than ever to get them.
Two Gypsy fortune tellers got into
the foyers of a couple of Fifth ave
nue. ultra hotels the other day, and
were soliciting business before the
amazed house detectives found what
was happening. There have been so
many costume charity solicitors that
the dicks never realized these wom-
en- were the real things.
The earnings of the songs written
by the late Harry NJ. Blossom, some
of which brought a net return OF as
much as IA cents, may account for the
rush OF youth for work wherein a
union card adds something to what
one may earn. Too many pictures OF
great wealth from song writing have
been painted in press and magazines.
The percentage of those who make a
living at il is too small to figure.
About one out of every 5CO,0O is able
to make a living. and about one in
every million grows rich at song
writing. Yet everybody tries il and
keeps on trying it and no amount of
discOurag cement will stop them.