The Washington herald., 1920-12-04
FAIR LADIES,
EMPTY HEADS
Gotham Observer SaysThey
Look Good But Cannot
Rank Intellectually.
NJ O. O. M'INTYRE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Broadway
Is filled with beautiful ladies with
frivolous minds. What many mis-
take for naivete Is generally stupid
Ity. Girls who fairly dazzle with
their natural beauty cannot carry
on an intelligent conservation. Their
orbit includes only the small, bright
world in which they live.
They make fine marriages and two
or three months later are either d.
vorced or their husbands leave them
nat. There is a very rich broker,
who was graduated from an East
ern college. He has personal charm
and is a~travsler of note.
He fell under the Establishments
of a Broadway charmer-a sylph-
like creature with eyes that brim-
med with innocence of worldly
ways. And so they were married.
In a week he had returned to his
bachelor hall. willing to be nicked
for large alimony simply. as he
said. because he could not stand for
such gross stupidity.
He confided to a friend that he
found out that his Sirl could not
write her own name and that she
had never been to school. And yet,
coached by stage managers. she had
a smattering of good English and
had won a high place as a show
girl. What is more, she hooked a
Tive one"
Another girl. a stunning blonde
with figure that won praise OF
painters, has for years been dane
ing with a professional dancer in
smart restaurants. She won the
affection of a rather stolid but sue
cessful business man. They went
to Europe on their honeymoon. He
came back alone and she returned
later to begin suit for a separation.
He said that when they arrived in
Paris she asked IL they would re-
turn to America by rail and IL they
did she wanted to stop in Honolulu
to pick up some of the Hawaiian
dances. This might sound like a
bum musical comedy joke but 1t
wasn't a joke to the business NAH.
In London she wanted to know II
ii would be possible to call on the
President Lloyd George.
There is an old adage along the
White Way that runs something
like this: Supply Broadway with
beauty and Broadway will supply
the clothes-but there is one thing
Broadway cannot supply and that is
Intelligence.
A bit of street hawking psychol-
ogy. Over near the ruins OF the
Knickerbocker Hotel veteran curb
merchant sells toys from a tray he
holds in front of him. He has cul-
tivated an expression of sadness
and yet he told me in a burst of
confidence that on cold days he
made his best sales by leaving his
hands ungloved SO that they ap-
pear red and raw to the passersby.
In bitter cold weather, he says.
there are times that he has to put
on gloves for a time to keep off
frost bites and during that period
sales drop of so per cent.
Five hundred former bartenders
are now working behind soda foun-
tain counters in New York. Instead
of whisky sours, various cocktails
and other heady drinks they mix
panama Splits, not 1uOEe SOnuaeS
and frosted chocolates.
A newspaper reporter hunting for
some satisfaction as to what the
former bartender was doing found
soc Of them at the fountains. They
are not very pleased with their
new calling.
Say it amt true. buddy" whis-
pered one ex-barkeep. Say you
amt one OF them newspapermen
No one never put nothing under my
pillow. I know it's n comedown or
a letdown. butt did it for the
wife and kiddies."