The Washington herald., 1922-10-31
Nes., York City
Day By Day
6y o. o. Mcintyre.

NEW YORK. Oct. so.-The most
irritating thing about New York is
its superior and cynical native. His
world is q walk-up apartment by
night and . stuffy sky.scraping
office by day. From these heights
does he look with contemptuous pity
/ on the rest OF the world.
His cieverness 10 expressed In
Jibes for the visiting Elk or the
Booster delegate from Threeforks.
He eats At white-tiled hole In the
wall and dawdles toothpick in the
lobby OF highfaluting hotel.
knowiedge means knowing the la
test wise crack.
crying out loudr' Being great
means a bow from reigning per-
oxide shimmy y-shaker in q supper
club. He fawns at the feet of the
Ais and Guses who have become
dazzling spenders through bootleg
ging.
His idea Of literature is a we'll
hlled "cluck book" with phone num-
bers and descriptions. He SCOTS at
marriage and goes to the Palace one
phrases. He will laugh at any joke
II the bottle Is on the table. Like
this: ''Ha. ha. Til take another high
ball"
He is not going to Palm Beach or
Miami next season. Too many farm
ers from Iowa are going. He'll just
loaf around his club-which In real
ity Is some pants pressing club In
his neighborhood. Europe, too, has
lost its zest. 1t isn't the same since
the war.
The fact is he has never been west
Of Hoboken. 1t Is because this
metropolis is a city Of terrifying
loneliness that he Is able to crash
into gatherings of real people The
boys In front Of the village store
would have his number in a half
hour. They would laugh him out
Of town.
He moves from one crowd to an
other. always presenting his su-
premest fournush. He never spends
a penny. and he is Injured to any
insult. Many of them have done
their bits In Sing Sing for petty
crimes. And there are any number
who live off the spoils of a woman's
shame.
There Is a treat in store for the
hurried New Yorker every now and
then in getting away from the
hurly-burly and treading the peace
ul by-paths. There Is nothing more
beautiful than the CLINT of the moon
on the Egyptian Obelisk in Central
Park. 1t was made $500 years ago
at Helipolis. Grants Tomb at dusk
with the Hudson nearby offers an in
spirational setting. A few tseps from
eth tomb one wanders across that
little fenced inclosure which con-
tains the marble slab with its rather
mysterious wording: I'm Memory OF
an Amiable Child" The Palisades
with gathering purple haze OFFER an
atmospheric mystery. And across
from the Dyckman street ferry is in
outdoor shrine to the Virgin Mary,
and when night falls many people
go there to kneel and pray.
The manager of Jack Dempsey Is
said to own more suits of clothes
than any other man in New York.
He has two rooms filled with them.
Coincidentally reporter has found
that a man who Is the head of a
great corporation and has given the
world many scientific discoveries Of
value has only two suits of clothes.
New York has its sky line and
bread line. But few know of it's
blood line. 1t forms at Forty-second
street and First avenue. the slaugh-
ter house district, every morning at
| nine. The line is composed of ane-
mic patients who wait for their
supply of OK blood which is pre-
scribed by physicians.