Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-03
New York
Letter

NEW YORK. Mar. at became
worse than banal 10 talk OF the
swarms Of impoverished entities Of
bygone years now enjoying oblivion
In the squalor OF the poorer sections
Of New York. Yet the following story
recommends itself, II only because
it is too romantically maudlin not
70 be true.
When n woman named Annstasis
Tchaikovsky arrived in New York and
announced herself TO be the Grand
Duchess Anastasia, only living
daughter of the late Gar Nicholas,
the tabloids searched about for per-
sons who could prove or disprove
the claim. They found Hindore, the
"made Monk" once the c~onfessor
and theological teacher OF the Rus
sian royal family, working as a
porter for twenty-four dollars q
week. One tab persuaded him to do
q series OF articles, d~fsprovinT the
Grand Duchess assertions, and
agreed to pay him q good round sum
for the same.
Then the difficulty arose. The
monk. through his interpreter, spoke
as follows: NV employer mas heard
that / arm ia. write for your paper,
which he dislikes very much. He
says he will no longer employ me
as his porter liz I do not give up the
project. So ! am afraid l shall have
to give IL up"
The man who had once been head
of the orthodox Russian church had
to be assured that he would be found
another job MS porter, before he
would continue.
Credit the best wheeze ct recent
weeks to Sophie Tucker. Says So
phie: when better men are made,
Ill make em!"
Prolific and almost universal &C.
centricities makes a New York daily
column, such as this one, possible,
For example, should one enter q
store titled william Debit, Steam
filter" on upper Third ven II
would be best to ask, not for steam
fitting, but for books. For Mr.. De-
bitt deals mostly in rare volumns
and pictures.
IL seems that, steamfitter though
he was, Mr.. Debbitt's soul nevnrthe-
less always yearned for art. So he
began 70 collect books. When his
home began TO belch dusty tones
according to MIR. Debitt's own story.
Mrs. Debit put her foot down
Mrs. Debit said: "Bill. you'll have ~
DE- xonething with those books.
can't. have 'em clutterirr un nv
house any longer
So for want OF anything better u
do, Bill started moving them dowr
to his store. And customers began
10 buy more books thru they did
steamfitting. Now. Bill does an &C.
casional job ut his old trade. Just
10 keep his hand in. And absent,
minded fellow that he is, Mr.. Debitl
has N changed the "Steamfittins'
on his window to Books"
Nc doubt the story about the pro
fessor who conducted a test 10 es
tablish the relative reaction D.
blends and brunettes rv amorou.
stimuli has been broadcast. TX
those who came I'm late. \ explain
that the professor noted the Bloc,
pressure Of the girls MS they watches
4 movie in which hearty neckinr wa,
portrayed. The test was held IN
theater here. And the professor nm
nounced that his experiment shove.
that brunettes were much morl
sensitive than blends. The three
flaxen-haired girls showed sompara
lively little reaction. IL seems to M
that the learned man might havl
been q bit more scientific In his Ok
pertinent. Could HE net hrve teste,
the ladies' hair to find out IL fhl
color was n~atural1 For, ~ ~ hap
pens. two of the blonds were horl
brunettes and transformed BY perox
ide.