The Washington herald., 1920-02-13
New York City
By o. o. McIntyre

New York, Feb. 12.-Thoughts
while strolling around Manhattan:
Big fellow with a wide hat looks
like a Western cattleman. Heard
woman say IL was William But
Ter Yeats, the Irish poet. Wish
could go to Ireland and study folk
lore and play with fairies. Ouch!
The big stiff stepped on my foot.
Everybody is talking about Sir
oliver Lodge. Somebody gave him
dinHer and the headwaiter failed
to show up. Host brought man
from his Office who said he'd once
been a waiter. The first thing ne
did was to say 'iGood evening all"
when guests entered the dining
room.
Smart looking woman is Mrs
DR.. Joseph Blake. People used to
go to the Metropolitan just to see
her in the Mackay lodge In the
diamond horshoe" gorgeously
gowned and glittering with jewels.
Boze Bulger and Frank Ward o.
Malley going into Brownies for
lunch. I'll speak to them and may
be they'll ask me. No luck.
Queer>shy little Russians seep over
from the East Side. Pathetic look
ing. People say we must look to
Russia for future artistic develop
ment. Hard to believe. when you
think of the headlines. Still there
is caviar. And sables. Always
we'll dressed, happy crowd at the
Lambs entrance.
Little Margaret Gender. Hit Of a
Broadway show. Comes from Lima.
o. how these snail town girls do
get on in stageland. Charles Oar
ton, the critic. Always has his
name in electric lights over the
Winter Garden because he likes the
show.
Old actors waiting at the Hippo
drome for extra parts. Sort OF
dumb hopelessness about them.
They stick together and divide their
small earnings. Here's a hot waf-
file shop. Now for little indiges-
tion.
David Bispham. the singer, tells
of Rudyard Kipling's visit to New
York in 1899 and a reception given
in his honor at the home of Richard
Watson Glider Toward the close
of the evening Bispham was re-
quested to sing Danny Deaver.
At the, close Of the song Kipling
rose, hastily said goodbye to his
host and left the room, to the sur
prise of everyone present. A few
days later he was stricken with
pneumonia broI ght on through
leaving the hot drawing room for
the snowstorm outside.
Rispham never heard anything
more from Kip!ing until next spring
when a friend of Kiplfng called to
send his apologies and regrets for
what seemed rudeness in leaving
the room so suddenly after the
song. He reported that Kipling
would like Bispham to- know that
he had been so powerfully affected
by the rendering OF the ballad that
he could not trust himself to speak
and had to say good night as quick
ly as possible. The amende honor
able!
This seems to be the day OF the
tiny toy dog. The toilet of no lady
in Manhattan Is complete, without a
little yapping live bit of fur. Even
staid business men fall for the
aristocratic CANNES and may be
0 StNA NASAA ~ s~AS
avenues.
The other afternoon a long pur-
pie limousine spun lazily down Fifth
avenue. The chauffeur and foot
man had excellent Yhysiqres. They
were fitted tightly tsto royal 9nrple:
Silver buttons shone on theirNrigid
collars. On the doors of the motor
initials famous in society CLEANED
in chaste silver.
Within, propped on purple velvet
cushions. proud. alone with a nose
tilted at an aristocratic angle and
eyes that looked neither to the
right nor left, weighing about
pound and a half. was tiny silver
gray dog out for a daily airing.
The 'Peke" leads in popularity
with the Pom" second. There are
several Pixies" in New York that
cost their owners more than $l0,-
900 each. The Pekinese is the an
cient palace dog of China and Is
nerhanal the oldest dog known.