The Washington herald., 1921-12-12
new YORK FINDS
THRILL in "KIKI,"
SAYS M'INTYRE
J aunty, Bright ColOred
Caps Now Seen on
Fifth Avenue.
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

NEW YORK, Dec. IL. A page
from the diary of a modern Samuel
Pepys: Up and to the wharf to see
barque come in, pretty sight
Then back to my chamber to finish
the outlawed volume Jurgen, silly,
methought. BY and by came X c.
b.. the chronicler, to say farewell
against going to California to- live,
and | regret exceedingly to see him
go
My poor head full of the business
or buying a brave gasoline Wagon,
and In no mood for scrivening, ST.
away to club to pool, and most of
the players fuddled and talking
Latin, though not drunk to scan
dial.
Took Forty-sixth street in my
way and called upon W. Rogers,
the comick actor. who would liefer
live in the Middle West than any
place. In the late afternoon to a
shoppe to see girls hop about on
the new jumping sticks. now a fad,
and very foolish it was.
In the evening with my wife to
a place of fashion for dinner and
she the prettiest lady there, l do
declare, wearing new gown OF
silver cloth and head band of the
same with flowers. and Mr.. DillinG-
ham spoke to us, as did also Ben
Ali Haggin. and so home and in
great content.
The town is athrilI over Xxi"
! a laVs IN
little huzzy of the doubtful sphere
who is. nevertheless. virtuous. She
is in a bed environment, but she
spurns one temptation after an
other until she becomes rather mo-
notonous. 1t is like waiting for
the other shoe to fall in room
overhead. 1t is hagrantly immoral.
and. of course, to the cognitive
Broadway Is delightful. 1t is the
( custom for heroines in New York
plays to crawl out OF opium hunks
and in a QuiverinG voice proclaim
! their chastity. so there is nothing
new about the play-but 1t is good
for a years run.
Those fiossy shops that haber-
dash TO nifty dressers along Fifth
avenue are ShO"lHB caps III N'AS''
windows instead OF hats. Caps
that swirl over on one side in a
taunty manner. and have great
wide visors They are in colors-
dark green. purple, canary yellow,
and one was a salmon pink. Mid
dle-aged men are wearing them,
too. 1t gives them a youthful,
rah-rah dash.
He was legless and blind. \ half
blind boy pushed him along slowly
while he turned the crank of a
| wheezy organ in front Of him. On
top of the organ was a moth eaten
monkey. with a shawl pinned about
it's shoulders, chattering from the
crisp December wind. New York
was hurrying home-a bad hour.
indeed. for vagrant pennies to fall
into the little tin cup. Lights
blinked Gaily all about.
"Gettin' late, isn't II Murphy
called out the blind man.
Yves sir. / think it is said the
| half-blind boy. 1T seems so to me.
I think were on the Great White
Way they talk about" And both
of them chuckled.
Bobo is Palm Beach chair
pusher in the late winter and in
| the summer he is carriage starter
| in front of theater, magnificent
| in a John Phillip SOusa uniform.
Down at the beach" he told me,
Il amt all dressed up, and ] just
| bow to 'em. But when ! see 'em
| here in New York in my uniform
| handshakes EN-" He knows all
| the sporty men of wealth and op-
crates three limoYsines. When the
! alter parties want to go on long
! trips he adroitly orders his cars
Two more years" he said. and
| go back to Florida landed gent.