The Washington herald., 1921-11-09
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NEW YORK, Nov. s.-Those caba-
iistic chorines who achieve chin
chiilas' imported coupes and Drive
apartments after a few weeks reel
tation Of the deathless rne. "Ah.
here comes the prince now!" have
found new way of appearing. as
the late Bat Masterson used to say
as chaste and simple as a virgins
wimple."
In other days they spent the long
nours between noon breakfast and
the Nesperal hour cocktail in a
dreary round Of the beauty parlors
-hghting valiantly and cosmetical-
ly against the first sign of a double
chin or facial wrinkle.
The luxurious beauty parlors
along Fifth and Madison avenues
were havens where scandals red
forked tongue had full play. Frow-
zy-headed women barred the COM
plexion of their souls as well as
their faces. Misery found rare COM
pany there.
And then, too, manN an innocent
locking bottle of hair tonic held a
palatable jolt for the jaded. But
such places eventually pail. FASH
ionable and respectable women be-
gan to side-step the gilded colfture
caches and had their hair dressing
| done by expert hands in their own
boudoir.
Where to go? What to do? For
these women with crepe de chine
auras dread nothing SO much as be-
ing alone with sombre thoughts. So
II is that you see them now in an
entirely new setting-a setting as
sedate and contemplative as the
cloister.
They roam through the private
art galleries of Fifth Avenue where
they may at least rub elbows with
respectability and on the benches in
the shadowed hooks they whisper
the racy gossip of those who play
fast and loose with the conventions.
Since prohibition there are no
cafes whe'e one may dawdle over
desert through a long afternoon.
In the smartest places the walters
leave at 2 o'clock and do not return
until tea time.
At the theaters one may not gos-
sip save between the acts. People
wondered why in the art galleries
tn s week appeared a sign at the en-
trance reading: Admission by in
vitation only. Please present card
at door"-at least some people
wondered but there were other per-
fUmed and befurred women who
knew. And they passed on.
Prowling about an old second
hand bookstore does not hold half
the adventure of a prowl about the
largest newsstand in New York
located in the Grand Central Sta
ton. Magazines and newspapers
from every part Of the world are
flamboyantly displayed.
One sees travellers from Scotland.
Australia, London, Berlin, Nome and
China step up and ask for their
home paper with as much nonchal-
ance as doing the same thing on a
native street corner.
There Is excitement in watching
the magazine buyers. saw one
man hide a detective story pamphlet
under the placid covers of the
Bookman. A woman with lorg-
nette looked over the racks and
seemed anxious to buy the Atlantic
Monthly, but as very few were
about she bought a magazine with
a zippy cover showing a brazen
creature in half stockings smoking
cigarette and drinking champagne.
Incidentally wilton Lackaye came
along while was there. And guess
what he bought? Popular Nc
chanics.
The man who christened all the
Pullman cars must be in New YORK
naming new restaurants. On Uppe-
Broadway there Is a new restau-
rsnt that welcomes hungry pedes-
trians with a sign on the window
reading: "Oo-La-La- Buffet Lunch"