The Washington herald., 1922-11-13
Nerl, York City
Day by Day
By q. q. Mclnfyra.

NEW YORK. Nov. izs-A page
from the diary Of modern samuel
Pepys: UP bstimes. Sat at my
I window and watched snow -nurry
and dreamed Of matchmaking with
the mounted police In the frosen
wilderness untl my wife came from
marketing. then pretended to be la
bouring.
To my tailor and ordered q gray
surtout, very neat. Saw winthrop
Ames there. but he paid me no no.
tice nor did Jesse LIvermore. the
banker. Bought a few Christmas
gifts. the best my poor purse can
anord. and remained long in q toy
store hying . nying machine.
walked to w. Hogg's in the hope
OF remaining for lunch, but found
him out. So to the Dutch Treat.
club and found r. Brinkerhoff, the
hmner. there. and he tells me he Is
going to France to live a year as Is
also A. Roche. the pamphieteer,
In the evening to see La Ten
dresse," very good, and greeted
Frank II. Adams. the tayie writer,
ana Roy McCardell. the humorist.
Then to waffle place and so TO bed
There Ia woman lawyer In New
York who dresses In an extremely
mannish style-derby hat, loose mt
ting coat. waistcoat. wing collar and
walking stick. In the building
where she has her ONCE she was
riding in an elevator with six other
women. The elevator dropped four
noors. She was the onlv woman to
faint. None was hurt.
New York becomes pretty drab
sometimes, but there are moments
when 1t crackles with interest. On
block in West Forty-seyenth
street the other morning necks were
stretched to the breaking point.
Barney Oldfield was going into n
flower store. Across the way Mary
Pfckford was leaving a jewelers.
shop. A parade was passing up
Fifth avenue and Lord Shaw Of
Dunfermllne. on a visit here, was
feeding a delivery wagon horse a
loaf of sugar in front of the Ritz.
The fiashily dressed women VINO
attempt to make a living in New
York playing the races are a type
distinct. They live, as a rule, in
the apartments over shops in the
Forties and gather in the hair
dressing parlors to discuss the days
fortunes. When they are winning,
they are the best spenders in the
shops. Strangely. they are well
dressed, or rather over -dressed.
Their laughter is JUST a bit louder
than that Of their sisters. Jockeys
and trainers, in their eyes. are he
roes. They apparently know moth
ing OF the world about them. Their
life is made up of past PERFORM
ances" and their jargon Is that of
the tracks. They are birds of pas
sage-in New York today and Ha-
vana tomorrow. Pawnshops find in
them their best customers. They
have no interest in savings banks.
They invest instead in jewels that
can be quickly converted into cash.
The ghosts OF 1912 are stalking
at the Duncan Phyfe furniture ex-
hibit at the Metropolitan Museum
The furnishings of the period-old
mirrors, gilt vases, girandoles and
silver plate-are shown in addition
Phyfe was a Scotsman and heir to
the traditions of the great English
cabinetmakers Of the end of the
eighteenth century-Adam. Heppel-
white and Sheraton He made
chairs. tables and sofas principally.
His workshop was in what is now
known as Fulton street. where the
fish market Is.
Broadway has 4 new mystery.
In one nf the triangular squares for
three mornings there was found a
quart bottle of unopened cham
pagne