The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. July 1s.-In my neigh
borhood is on of those gloomy
stationery stores without which no
New York block Is complete. The
windows are all alike - inartis-
tIcaily hIled with rubber stamps. for
tune telling books. pencils, bottles
OF ink, puzzle games and JINGLE
tumble of nothingness.
1t Is run by three brothers and
one confided to me the other day
that they had not spoken to each
other except on business in hye
years. Yet they cling together each
afraid to cut loose for himself. I'm
der an l. station they have a hut
from which they sell the latest
editions.
Queer telephone messages lead me
TO believe that among other things
they accept divers wages on horse
races. Tha. seems to be the main
support of the stationery stores. But
the character of the clientele Is what
interests me more and SO STOOD
for a half-hour at the counter ap-
parently reading from newly pur-
chased magazine.
First came a woman clad IN
loose wrapper with a silken shawl
thrown about her soulders and her
feet dragging loose sandals. II was
evident that she lived upstairs ana
that her mate was delayed. She
wanted to while away the dragging
hours so she bought a zippy paper
back by Bertha NJ. Clay.
Next came a young man VINO con-
fided that he had just lost his JOB.
The boss always had IL in for him.
Feared he would supplant him. His
room rent was SIC and 1t was
tough game living in New York. He
went out with a copy OF Every Man
a King"
Then came a truckman, with his
motor racing at the curb. He
bought a form sheet of the next
davis entries. He smelled of onions
and honest sweat and his voice was
gutteral and his shirt thrown open
at the collar revealed a massive
hairy chest.
Others who came were a little
boy after a bottle of red ink; a
bootblack next door who bought a
Night Edition and turned quickly to
the market page; two girls who
wanted to use the phone and swore
softly when they couldn't get Hell
ME; a small shopkeeper with his
two dogs on a leash with the news
that an auto had just upset and was
burning up on Broadway
Beautiful Oyster Bay.
oyster Bay Is one of the most
beautiful spots around New York
and perhaps the best known be-
cause the Roosevelts live there. and
too. because il has been the meeting
place of many notables. 1t Is q
town that has a lot of civic pride.
In two Of the gable ends OF the
Town Hall the brown stucco cover
ing has been set with oyster shells.
the pearly inside faces turned out
ward The effect is odd and pleas
ing and as appropriate and natural
as the use Of the acanthus leaf In
ancient Corinthian decorations.
On the good ship Perseus. VIII ch
plies between New York and Co
ney Island, is an enterprising candy
salesman who. before he starts to
sell his wares. places a sample In
the lap of each passenger. He has
learned a bit of business psychol-
ogy that efficiency sharks might
not discover in years. As a result
of this bit OF a gamble he inyaria-
bly, sells more than 90 per cent of
his wares.
Irwin Cobb Returns.
Irwin Cobb is back from Arizona
with a new hot-weather story. II
seems that one day IL was so hot
there that from his train he saw a
dog chasing a rabbit and both were
walking.