The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-07
M1NTYRE SlCHS
ASCITY CRUSHES
SUNNY DIXIE
Beautiful Southern Girl
Dies in Delirium From
Drug and Drink.
BY O. o. M'INTYRE.

W." Iohh, RCD. b.-OUucTncdtn
Broadway's fragrant Fowl of roses
Dixie Dixon found piercing ,thorns.
She died in wild delirium, from
drug and drink in public hospi-
tai calling for the negro nanny
she had left only two menths ago
to seek Hfe's nepenthe.
A sunny hearted girl with laugh
ter on her lips. she plunged into
the whirlpool-the cafes, the night
life and dawn parties. In >my row.
Ing had seen her twice. her eyes
fever bright and flushed with the
life that glows like a dead. rotting
phosphorescert fish along the
White Way.
There was n night ! ma roaming
taxi. visit to a drug den. A
round OF Illicit booze parlors. And
then the race with death In an
ambulance. An old tale along the
aazziinS canyon. In philosophic
tones broadway rooms its sorrow
with "A rood kid. but foolish" and
ITS sparkling waters mock the lips
of those who die.
pace OF the crimsoncd turf OF no
restraints but the majority are led
quickly to oblivion. Still they
come. The ceaseless hordes Young.
beautiful and animated to feast
the vultures and hear the voice
of death.
A savage street-this thorough
fare that blinks with a million
lights. II eNalts. the humble and
skaters the proud and labels fame
with little pine slabs In obscure
Potter's Fields.
The luncheon hour reveals hun
dreds of these vibrant creatures
idle toys with souls of crepe de
chine-sipping cocktails from sill
yer TASKS with heavy jowled,
beady eyed. men. The newness OF the
life Is apparent. The music, the
lights, the gay chatter. the marvel
Gus gowns act as an intoxicant
and one can almost hear them say:
This Is the life"'
Many of them arc cnsconced for a
brief time in Riverside Drive mar
Bile palaces with gold caparisoned
lackeys to attend every want.
There are fur coats and cleaning
Jewels later to grace the unre-
deemed pledges in pswnshops.
Then the quick descent. And how
rapid and cruel 1t is!
On Amsterdam avenue is a little
candy shop no bigger than doll
house. The tiny creton covered
shelves are flled with jcllics. jams
and candy. You knock at the win
dow like Hansel and GretnI and a
head is pokcd out to take your or
der. The shop is not large enough
to permit customers to enter. The
proprietor. a woman, came from
pocket The enterprise proved sue
cessful and she now earns a COM
Portable living.
He is extremely rich even as
wealth is counted in New York.
Twenty years ago he lived with
his wife in q s65 a month apart
ment and once she bought a s12
hat-then considered highly ex-
travagant The other day. he told
me, he came to New York from
his suburban home with his wife
to shop. He left $4,000 with the
hotel cashier for c. o. d. packages
that his wife would send home
from shopping tours. In three days
1t was gone. He placed that much
more at her disposal and 4. had
vanished at the end of the week.
We had more fun. and more
thrills" he said. when she bought
that s12 hat"
A new kind of city editor has
been created. He Is the city editor
of the movie news dailies and his
reporters are the intrepid camera
men who are. sent out to cover all
the thrilling cents of the day
pictorially. There are fourteen of
these city editors in New York and
all of. them came from executive
jobs on newspapers along Park
Row. The pay is from 500 to s175
a week. They write the headlines
and captions for the movie events
and the work is said TO be almost
as thrilling as the regular news
paper Job,