The Washington herald., 1920-02-23
New York City
By o. O.. Mcintyre

New York. Feb. GA page from
the diary Of a modern Samuel
|Pepys:< Lay late and very sad at the
killing of my cousin II. Young In a
petrol Wagon. Vet death may be
finer thing than we surmise- Talk,
ing long with my wife and we did
agree to ehtrain shortly for Call
fornia albeit the expense is more
than we can afford. being in poor
estate what with this and that. Y
Played some sweet tunes on my
harpsichord until NJ. Kingston. the
singer, came 20 tell of a fire coach
pitched in the snow drifts near our
lchambars and in truth it was a sorry
plight, the horses down and unable
to arise. With v. Porter to lunch
on a chine Of beef which was NOBLE
and enough.
Came to our table an old gaming
man OF the days of Canfield and he
has turned straight as pike-staff
and he told US of q time when
young buck Of the town bet $4,000
on the turn of a card. lost for
tune. bid a CHEEKY good night and
gave a toast and at dawn had hung
himself In his lodgings. And to this
day all save a few believe he had a
sudden seizure.
Through the town and the storm
has made people in low spirits the
highways being deserted and I
stopped In to see DR.. Allen, the cui q.
tor, and he gave me IL etchings, as
nne as ever saw. in espeeiall the
one Of Whittier and he would not
take a bob for them.
Home where read two mystery
tayles. both brave and exciting, and
Fred Kelly came and found me in
my robe and slippers and We began
to frolic with the dog. fooling him
with a pop gun until the brute tore
my garters and ran under the bed
with F's hat which he misliked
greatly. And so to bed.
At the high tide of afternoon
traffic on Fifth Avenue the other
afternoon big dapple gray truck
horse skidded to the asphalt. The
usual gaping New York crowd
formed a circle around the animal
in few seconds. They Kicked and
pulled and shouted at the horse but
| he would not arise. Suddenly a
handsomely dressed woman thread
ed her way through uIe crowds.
She had an air of dignity and of au-
thority. She spoke a few words to
the policeman. He got a rope and
tied it to the animals foreless and
with a few tugs turned the horse
over and it Immediately arose to its
feet. You can never tell about
these tea drinking DANES" said the
cop. Sometimes they know a lot
Now 1 wonder wher she learned
that trick?"
There was a cider party over in
Brooklyn one day last week and at
the height of festivities a fight was
started. Three were stabbed and
one had his arm broken. Even the
good old cider is not to be trust ed
these days.
1t Is strange how you become ac-
customed to odd sights in New York.
With a man from the west the other
day limousine passed. He gripped
my arm. Did you see that" he
fairly shrieked. Three women were
.daintily putting at cigarettes and
engaged in an earnest conversation.
Nobody paid the slightest attention
to them. In Manhattan it is Old
Stuff! All of the Limousine smokers
use cigarette. holders for nilady
must keep her fingers snowy white.
Park Avenue. one of the most ex-
elusive streets, has its cigarette
shop for women. Only the perfumed
cigarettes are sold there. And
whisper it softly-there are many
New York women who smoke small
cigars. 1t is not a thing to be proud
OF but 1T is done nevertheless. A
celebrated stage beauty. who is ad-
dicted to cigar smoking, has her
small cigars especially made In
Cuba.
A commonplace suicide at an ex-
elusive hotel the other day suddenly
developed into a rafting mystery
The woman suicide left n note to a
broker. An old time copy reader
remembered the mans name in con-
nection with another suicide. Both
AFFAIRS happened at high cNsS ho-
ttels. In each case the death note
was written to the same man.