The Washington herald., 1922-06-28
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NEW YORK. June 27.-A page
from the diary Of a modern Samuel
Pepys: Early up and resolved to go
through exercises but lost zest there
for and flung myself on the bed and
mapped again. and late to the train
to see H. Webster. the Inner, and
Ethel. on for California, but waved
farewell through the gates. Charles
Norris. the novelist. was on the train.
too, in the gayest of all his gay suits.
Walked to laundry and had high
words about the loss of my shirts and
In such agitation slipped and fell to
the hoor. thereby spelling the dignity
OF my brave speech. Back home and
at my stint and In gay spirits too,
my wife complimenting me on my
drollery.
Took lunch with Eddie Ricken-
packer and Steve Hannigan, who were
ready to hop-off on a $4,000 mile
Journey through the air. and I more
nervous than they at the thought.
Nor could l Join their quipping and
quirking. To a variety hall with my
cousins Josephine and Lucy Virginia.
the fairest prettiest girls / know
with their bodied heads and summerv
frocks
Dlned In my chambers and came
X. Long. V. Porter and ]. Kaufman,
the latter tn say good-by against go
ing to Europe. Much rag, tag and
oootail and then to the train sheds
again to take coach to Kansas City
10 see my father and sister.
Edward Dunn. Broadway faneur
ana ooulevardier. who is known from
Columbus circle TO Herald square for
the maRnihcence OF his waistcoats, is
the author of a play that is to be
produced In the fall Dunn has been
George NJ Cohan's man Friday since
that impresario waved his first flag.
He Is now going to cash In on his
ripe experiences.
Nothing is ever considered unusual
In New York: at least, the New
Yorker likes to affect utter boredom
at everything. For instance. there is
huge brass sign of Fifth avenue In
one OF the Fifties which reads: DIR.
t. ]. Black-Tree Surgeon"
People hurry past the sign without
reading. The sign is on a private
house with magnificent French win
dows and an onyx entrance that mu 81
have cost many thousands. There is
a waiting room and secretary in a
frock coat
The doctor renders his surgical
skill on the estates of millionaIres in
Westchester and Long Island and is
said to charge $3.50 merely for con-
sultation. Heaven knows what the
charge IL he decides TO snip off a
limb.
There are three chorus girls in
Broadway musical productions who
have one glass eye each. 1t is i'm
possible to distinguish the slight de-
formity through the glare of the foot
lights.
These torrid nights are almost in
sufferable in the slums. Down. In
Halsted street, where families sleep
htfully on fire escapes and children
whine piIeously all during the long
nights. an ice wagon numbered to a
stop in front of a corner grocery
early In the morning. In five minutes
the wagon was swarming with half
naked women and children. who
pressed their faces against the huge
blocks Of ice. The driver Clipped of
chunks and presented hem to old
women who were asprawl in door,
ways. There was such a babel of
tongues over the excitement that a
policeman came along and arrested
the driver for disturbing the peace
To the credit of tie magistrate be-
for, whom he appeared he wAs in
stantly dismissed and the arresting
policeman Was given a stern rebuke