The Washington herald., 1921-04-01

NEW YORK, March 3l.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Spring! Mother Earth coming up for
air. Bright-eyed ladies in neat
fiting toques. Overtones. Nuances.
Perfumes. That ash cart driver is
wearing spaU. What has become of
all of the Russian dancers from
Illinois and Iowa. Mountainous
piles of trunks going to ocean
liners.
Prewar prices for flowers. Clara
Tice. black and white satirist. One
of the first to bob her hair. Zebra
waistcoats with pearl buttons.
shades of Pixley and Luders! A
beatifc fat man going into a dance
academy. He has fallen for the
Dance and Grow Thin" propaganda.
A burlesque theater lobby. All
the razzle dazzle of a Lost Vigor
ad. Oliver Curwood, the novelist.
Something about him smacks of the
lonely forests and quiet rivers.
The bilious glare from amber
lighted shop windows. There's a
woman who once shot a millionaire
and she looks SO demure and peace
full like.
A lady of spanking proportions
y
no one seems to notice her either.
A chauffeur with a profile like Jack
Barrymore. Tenement house win
dows. Milk bottles and geranium
plants and dull staring eyes. And
always the smell of frying dishes.
Two blocks away and fine man
| sions. That house with the stone
veranda is owned by an heiress
who married an English title. When
she brought him over here he used
to sit out on the veranda and do
| embroidery work. And now she's
married to a Wyoming ranchman.
| No wonder!
They dress up the children here
| in ribbons and silks to go out and
roll a polished ebony hoop. I had
more fun in a pair of 25-cent over
| alls and a hoop from a cracker bar
rel. Still. that is perhaps why I'm
so unrefined end everythins. Stilt
walking has become a lost art in
Boyville. The put-put-put of the
river launches. And canoeists are
skimming over the dancing waters.
Coney Island will soon begin pre-
pairing the hot-dogs. That is the
life, I'll inform the cosmos!
| .Tne little ONCE snOp on west
| Forty-second street where Oscar
Hammerstein used to make his own
| cigars and plan his operatic battles
And peculiarly enough he wears a
French style high silk hat.
BLACK Mike" is a rather shadowy
| character who wields a lot of in
fiuence in the background of the
| Sicilian avenging societies. The po-
lice know him, but. so far he has
| never made a slip that would be
cause for his arrest. He runs q
| little eating place mp in Harlem and
| so careful is he to impress the po-
lice, with his obedience to law that
| he refuses to permit anyone to
| bring any liquor into his place on
the hip. The other night he per-
| sonally elected three men who had
flask from which they started to
take a drink.
A faded Japanese print that
| might have been sold for cents
| in the streets of Tokyo half a life
| time ago was bought the other day
in New York for $4,000 by a Japa-
nese collector. And that transac-
tioh is mefei ohS inCioeht IN gen.
eral movement \of Japanese art
treasures back to Japan. Wealthy
Japanese have awakened to the
beauty and value Of the homegrown
| classics of their island empire.
which the Western world has been
rifiing of its art treasures for
thirty years..
| A couple honeymooning here dur
ing the last snow storm wanted to
take q sleigh ride in Central Park.
The husband searched. stables and
garages an entire day before
sleigh could be found. They found
one only by going to brooklyn
where people still go sleighing. All
the, livery stables have them on
hand over there.