The Washington herald., 1922-08-14

NEW YORK. Aug. la--A page
from the diary Of a modern Samuel
Pepys: Lay late thinking Of this
and that and troubled, too that I
must write ahead against going to
Europe on the barque Mauritania
but fiiled with fine thoughts Of see
ing London. Berlin and Paris.
James oliver Curwood came and
sat about and told of going far into
the wilds and to breakfast with
him and v. Porter who played he
was foxed with drink and did it
well too. And we saw Gilds Gray.
the dancer. who told me I was
looking old, which. heaven help, me.
is true
Then to see Henry Sell. the edi-
tor. and walked with him to see a
dime novel exhibit and over to the
Hudson to watch the Olympic sail
and a pretty sight too. A great
hub-bub near the docks where two
man fought with cobble stones and
the talk was that both would die.
After labouring all the afternoon
my wife and / to a roof garden
and Sir James Gerard there, also
CASTOR Liebert, the French consul,
George Creel and Miss Blanch Bates.
Later drove to H. Doherty's sky
scraper home and had cool orange
drink and so home and to bed.
Newspaper reporters came across
the famous Little Egypt" the
other day in quest Of another story.
She Is living in seclusion in a Har-
lem home-a quiet looking woman
with gray hair. 1t was Little
Egypt" who was arrested at the
famous Seely dinner given before
members of the Four hundred at
Sherry's.
Nothing has even shocked New
York like that dinner. The dinner
was given by Herbert Barnum
Seely. who was seeking to gain
social favor by the hurrah route,
going in for what Hamilton Fish
! called the heavy bizarre"
Little Egypt" then at the pin
nacie of her career as dancer,
had accepted $1,000 to do what the
police had been tipped of was a
nude dance. When the police ar
rived the champagne was flowing
In floods and the pick OF the Social
Register was to say the least all
| merry and bright.
When the police told Little
Egypt to put on her wraps and go
outside to the wagon she laughed
and took hold of the policeman's
arm. He said afterward he felt
like "a harem robber." Roosevelt
was police commissioner at the
time and great pressure was
brought to bear to keep the affair
out of the newspapers. But Roose-
welt demanded a public investiga-
tion and the divorce mill began to
grind. Little Egypt" was fined be-
fore a magistrate and SO far as is
| known never appeared in public
after that. The same sort Of dance
that she did Is now a nightly per-
formance along the Great white
| Way.
| In front of the Harlem depart
ment stores boys make their living
taking care OF baby carriages that
are left out in front One of the
stores has a group of uniformed
| guards whose duty is to watch the
baby carriages
The locale of these daily offerings
are to change shortly for a few
weeks. The writer is to spend a
Few weeks in Europe. doing Lor-
don and Paris Day by Day instead
of New York. An effort will be
made to describe whatever Is un-
usual through yokel eyes. Ny
readers may rest assured I will rot
return in tweeis or spats and
neither will 1 sport a monocle. My
creditors are kindly asked to form
10 the right of the gangway upon
MY return. Al rot to 'owd. II
j hhpDn to aave shilling i1f; I
shall gladly share It among them.