The Washington herald., 1920-10-15
HALF ROOMS
COMING NEXT
New York Now Flooded
With One-room Apart
ments, Says Mcintyre.
BY o. o. sr,rNrYRE.

Especial Correspondent of Washington Hersld.l
New York, Oct. II. Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
A strange quiet square two blocks
from Broadway. Ancient buildings.
CHIPPING sparrows in the caves.
Nursemaids knitting in every door
way. Old, cadaverous faces topped
with skull caps peering from the
windows. A sign over the boys en-
trance to public school: mo smok-
ing in the Railways" o temporal
o mores! They'd dare us to smoke
in my time.
A debonair gambler sitting at the
window of one of the most exclu-
sive cafes. As Oliver Herford says
they cater to the exclusive masses.
Kenneth Roberts, the writer, home
from Russia. Began his career
writing jingles for Life. A street
blocked off while they pull down a
ruined wall. The girls are not
wearing eyebrows this autumn.
A bankrupt baroness. Once feted
~ Nho It our hundred. NOW Sne
paints flowers on velvets for hats.
Still she may be happier. A work.
| man being lifted to the nineteenth
floor at the end of a derrick. I'm
getting giddy. But you can't help
watching them.
| i wonder what a Midget pays for
a suit OF clothes. Hot waffies and
| Japanese walters everywhere. Car
| toonist Webster's idea of wealth is
| to have yacht to refer to. Mine
| is to have a Japanese valet answer
the phone when anyone calls.
Marilynn Miller, the dancer. Gosh!
, But she's pretty. And chic.
Here l am caught in crowd.
| Why do people scratch and strive
and push in city when they could
live in a cottage and be happy?
| Rubberneck wagons taking folk to
| the scene of the Wall street explo-
| sion. l wish | knew how to pro-
nounce viscount.
All the rich bachelors live at Del
monicos. They dress for dinner
with meticulous care and then eat
| alone. Glad / gave up baseball
years ago. 1t must be an awful jolt
| for the fans. Understand a crowd
of them went to the Polo grounds
the other day wearing crepe bows
! on their arms.
In Theatrical once.
In a theatrical office the other
| day a young stage beauty came
with her professional mama and sat
in the outer Office to await the ar
| rival OF a producer. Mother spoke
so all might hear-of il being so
| beastly in town and how they
missed that little house near Cow
Cnt Garden in London. Then she
| wondered-out loud-if they had
locked the jewel safe Edgar. the
chauffeur. was in such a beastly
hurry. After awhile the daughter
excused herself. l happened to see
her in an outer hallway. She was
boldly putting a cigarette-and in
haIIng deep.
Half Rooms Coming.
The half-room apartment! Like
! a certain kind OF -four and a GER
! tain kind of typewriter, 1t is bound
! to come eventually. Just now the
| town is flooded with one room
| apartments. Next year landladies
are planning to cut single rooms in
| two-and behold the half-room
| apartment. To turn around one
must step out into the hall.
\ Iefthanded Pay Raise.
There is A newspaper column con-
| ductor in town who has gained a
certain vogue. The other night at
club someone suggested to the
! publisher of the paper that the
columnist was a bright fellow and
was conducting his department
| ably. The publisher knew there
was column but he had never no.
| ticed who was writing it. The next
day he sent for the columnist and
among other things asked him how
| long he had been on the paper
Seven years" was the reply
We'll" said the publisher, from
now on your salary is going to
be" and he named the amount.
| The Columnist never cracked a
smile, tainted or anything. The
| amount that was named was just
half what he was getting. Now he
has got to bribe the bookkeeper or
something to keep the facts hid.