The Washington herald., 1921-11-04

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NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York.:
A turbaned Hindoo. with gigsly
g rls at mis- heels. One Of Man.
hattan's great criminal lawyers. A
lions head on a dwarfish body. A
silver cocktail set In plush window
settings. Walter Lippmann. He's
going 20 join the World STAFF. too.
The cry Of a catbird. Um-m-m!
Pumpkin pies in bake shop win
dows. Now the cops are wearing
steel Jackets to stop bootleggers'
bullets. There goes Else Fergu-
son! Dan, the Telescope Man. Points
out Old Sirius the dog star to timid
yokels. He's been at the same cor
ner for twenty-five years. A pursed-
up scarlet mouth. Hungry eyes.
Plying the oldest profession.
Muckers toiling at the dripping
jaws of steam shovel. Burly
necks and unshaven jowls, yet gay
and care free. Strangers emerging
from the Grand Central runways
with the look of a startled faun.
I've spent my last cent on those
weight machines. There's no thrill
like seeing your own photograph
IN a strange photographers win
dow.
Troupers leaving for new adven-
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stolid. cigar-smoking under-sheriff.
On their way to the great gray
prison up the river. could never
be a sheriff. I'd turn 'em loose.
Depot lotharios who wear bouton-
Eieres anil carry canes. And sprin-
Killed. among the crowds are many
cadets.
That looks like Tom Mix. / like
his description ~ the swell New
York d nner. He said the only thing
he recognized was a radish. Laugh
ing, bright-eyed commuters going
home from matinees. New York's
gaiety is almost too unfiagging. 1t
savors of strain.
Dusk Legins to fall. Night
brightens into an electrical fantasy.
The metropolis tingles with a new
and remote appear and disappear.
So do dinner TASKS. Enough
thoughts for one day.
Broadway imagines II coins all
the slang for the universe. Anyone
along the Rialto will tell you that
"hick, meaning a Western rustic,
was first introduced by a popular
light opera comedian. In Steers
comedy. The Funeral" written
many, many years ago, Lord Hardy
is made to say Richard Bumpk n!
All! A perfect country hick"'
Joseph Jefferson O'Neil. who was
praised by Lord Northcliffe as the
best reporter in America" leaves
the first of the year TO Join the
Fleet street journalists. Northcliffe
has offered him a responsible job
on a London newspaper and Joe
signed on the dotted line for one
year.
One OF the valued books in the
private library of Louis Untermeyer.
the poet, who Is also a manufactur-
ing jeweler of Newark. is a Bible
sent to him by H. L. Mencken. II
bears the legend. Property of the
Hotel Aston" on the cover, and is
inscribed on the title page, ITO
Louis Untermeyer with the COM
pliments of the author"
A gaily bedecked group Of chorus
girls stood out under the stage can
opted entrance to a Forty-eighth
street theater. Saturdays pay en-
velopes were in rneir hand bags.
An old flower woman came shuffling
along with a few bouquets of faded
flowers. She told a pathetic story
One girl tossed her entire weeks
salary in the flower box. All the
rest did the same thing. Now that
we're broke. let's go," and off they
went in merry giggle.
Here's an old slant on human ma
ture. At the Museum of Natural
History there is a seismograph. WIS.,
itors will hurry along but when
they come to 1t they stop and wait
for five or ten minutes II the
needle moves to record an earth
quake they want to be there.