The Washington herald., 1922-10-28
Ners, York City
Day 81 Day
By o. o. Mcintyre.

Me" 4 II Is ~ n6keahop for wo-l
men. run BY women and patronized
exclusively by women. The found
ers senssd the average female hesi-
fancy at entering tobacco shops for |
men.
The shop Is much like a boudolr,
with comfortable chairs. gay cre-
tonnes and soft lights. A ..hostess.
10 In charge to help with Cigarette
selections and to serve tea, IL de-
sired The founders are friends who
had left their trail Of cigarette stubs
all over America and Europe.
Yet they always felt the habit,
was only grudsineiy recosnized
Out f,thts sympathetic kinship for
sister smokers the idea was evolved
and the shop is, doing a prosperous
business--the only place of its kind
in the United tates.
1t is not q haunt for the chorus
girl of nighty napper. The patron
age comes from the fashionable
East Side section--matrons. dow.
ayers and debutantes. The rabbIe
trade 10 discouraged. A jauntily
capped page boy who opens the
aoor IL the only touch of mascu-
Unity.
To the old fashioned. the prog
ress OF the woman smoker may come
- q shock but to New Yorkers IL
seems to add fresh zest to life.
There are now cigarettes to match
the latest gown or mood at Lady
Me"
There are varicusly colored fin.
to blend with, dinner frocks. The
cigarette for negligee, business Of
hce and tete-a-tete. The dauehter
Of one Of Americas richest society
men gave her bridesmaids recently
In lieu of the usual jeweled train
kots. the expensively monogrammed
cigarettes that were tipped to
match compilations.
The cigarette craze wins many
adherents from those who wish to
De thin and thus eschew candy for
cigarettes. In New York 1t is quite
as usual for women to smoke as
men, yet at a recent gathering. at
which 1 was among the humble on
lockers. l could not fail to notice
that the most sought after girl
present was one who did not smoke
or guam the invigorating cocktail.
The biggest electrical Advertising
campaign Broadway has ever seen
is being waged in behalf Of Marion
Davies. the motion picture star. In
front of the theater where her pic
ture Is showing her name Is spelled
out in letters seven fee high in an
electric sign that completely covers
the front of the building. The let
ters are the largest for any star in
the history of the street and the
sign 10 said to have cost $4,000.
or course the crowds at the pier
snickered. Yet there was some
thing pathetic to me about the meek
little man with a struggling mus
tache who stood awaiting a liner
with a huge banner held aIoft read
Ing: welcome Home. Alice. Here
is Papaw
A laundry collector In Harlem
reveals In a lawsuit that he aver
ages $500 week In commissions,
but he says his expenses are quite
heavy. 1t seems that he has to en-
tertain many of the customers who
favor him with their laundry.
Speaking of odd ac1uaintsnc..
1 met a man the other day who
gives dashine names to mems hats
such as THE Piccadilly," The
West End" and "Nobby." He tells
me that much of the popularity of
that hat depends upon the name.
He has spent a month puzzling over
the name of hat and sometimes IL
comes to him like a flash. He is un-
der a five-year contract with the
1rm that employs him. and now and
then he goes to Europe to study the
hat-naming possibilities. However,
1 still hand the cut glass wash-rag
to the artistic soul who names the
Pullman cars.
William Johnston. one Of the edi-
tors of the World. tips the scales
at $50 pounds. and he likes being
fat so well that he has written
book called THE Fun of Being a
Fat Man" Johnston has the dis
tinction of knowing more prominent
men than any other New Yorker.
He Is also. so far as my acuuaint-
ance runs. the only man in the city
who smokes the rattail stogie 1t is
needless to say that he was born
near Pittsburgh and acquired the
habit early.
Every forty-flve seconds a watch
Is pawned in greater Manhattan.
according to figures compiled by
pawnbrokers. Most of the watches
are pawned in the Times Square
district. Down on the Bowery.
where most of the pawnshops are
located, they haven't watches to
pawn, but they do pawn gold teeth,
glass eyes and wooden legs. One
old Bowery settler pawns his peg
leg every morning before going out
begging and retrieves 1t in the
evening.
A COB and his current f1ancee
were walking down Broadway hand
in hand. They passed a blind man
standing near a subway kiosk. The
COB fumbled In his pocket for
change and his face took on a
worried look. Finally he tossed his
overcoat over the arm that held the
tin cup and walked on.
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