The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-21
.M1gTYRE PAUSES
TOPAY TRIBUTE TO
$4,000 DIAMOND
And Then Sets Watch in
Superb Fashionable
Gem Shop.
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

NEW YORK. Feb. 2e.-It is n
Jewel shop on the Avenue. built
like the boulevard mansion Of a
french marquis. Two tiny black
plush lined windows. each studded
with a single jewel, announce what
kind OF q place II Is. No highly
polished brass sign graces the ex-
farior. That would be declasse.
When a customer enters an elu-
sive derbied gentleman dogs his
heels as unobtrusiveiy as possible.
The clerks all wear spats. black
coats and striped trousers. and are
generously scented with perfume.
The customer Is seated at a desk
near a window--hanked on one side
by the clerk and on the other by
the gentleman with the derby.
The proceeding Is more like
drawing up a will than seeking
some gaudy trinket. Before any
thing Is shown the name and ad-
dress and description are recorded.
Then the reputation Of the firm for
honesty and other virtues is ex-
planned.
A little foreign gentleman with
a goatee and silken voice is brought
forth. He Is the sophisticated cos
mopolitan proprietor. SNUG in mali
ner, and bids you welcome. In the
rear are rows of tiny. curtained
raised platforms hemmed In by
triple mirrors.
There one Is seated at a small
table and the jewels are brought
in and displayed. II one happens
to glance above the top of the mir
ror he will see a window. behind
which is a dim. feeting image of
face-the face of a guard.
II one likes a certain jewel, say
an emerald, the emerald expert II
sent for. The experts are old men.
who might have stepped from the
pages of a Dickens novel. They
apply a microscope to the jewel as
IL they had never seen II before
and extol its virtues.
OF course the firm wastes much
time on trihers. When 1 went in
they made me feel so important that
l looked at their wares-including
an $4,000 blue-white diamond.
Afterward when ] explained that l
had come in to set my watch to
their clock they didn't ask me to
remain to tea. And I might have,
II properly urged.
In New York the cake eater" Is
the male of the :iapper" species.
In other days he was dubbed a
Sissy" and went to dancing school
in Lord Fauntleroy suits. He is
generally between IS and e5 years
of age and has a passion for purple
socks and pomade. Each debutante
has cake eater" for Il companion
at the dansants. They are superb
dance partners. .,.....r
There are rumors that the Metro
politan Opera lovers are to be
thrilled by the voice of an Ohio
girl next season in the person of
Miss Cyrena Van Gordon, prima
donna of the Chicago Opera Com
pany. whose native heath Is a small
hamlet in the Buckeye State
An ambidectrous press agent
gave out the impression a few
years ago that Miss Gordon was an
Indian. The truth is that she was
adopted by the tribe of Ogallalah
Sioux for her services rendered the
Indian Fellowship League. Chief
Buffalo Bear himself christened her
Golden Voice Eagle" an appro-
pirate name indeed.
While Miss Van Gordon Is best
known in the. Middle West her few
visits to New York have endeared
her to the patrons of the Golden
Horse Shoe. She is a striking bru-
nette. youthful and magnetic.
An actor, long out of work.
pawned his marmoset at an Eighth
avenue loan shop the other day for
S35. Then. overcome by the, loss of
his pet, went to a hospital with a
nervous breakdown