New Britain herald., 1930-02-17

modern Pepys: Up and came mE . cousin Harry Williams, who IS I . tutor at Oxford. and we drove l through town and set off along the countryside for brisk walk and biting wind came up 10 blow, as fierce as ever l Weathered.
 So among noon-timc crowds on the overflowing sidewalks of narrow Nassau street down town and listen cd to the cries Of curb haWhcfs' who have always fascinated m2. And it strikes me many are super salesmcn wasting talents in petty occupation.
 Home to labour anu Will H. Hays dropped by but in his quicN' nervous manner stayed only fc" minutes and was off for perhaps dozen or more cngagcments. D'ncd with my wife in q Houston street Hungarian restaurant and We danced an old fashioned waltz 10 slow dreamy music.
 1 New York has much of the charm | OI dIlS TOT lIii lElSu Lf fN 'tt 'I'~t Va i the lower East Side. Every no" ] and then one may suddenly come i upon q lost anI mellow haven, com ! pletely out of step with the rest ol the city. There are blind alleys which seem to be carved out 1 medieval age with q, solid arched stone doorway. a courtyard, an an cent mulloned window and per haps a struggling tree trying pa l theticaily to bloom.
 Indeed. in che little courtWay l saw a wrought iron balcony upon which sat q shaWled italian girl gazing with enchanted eyes, ani apparently lost in reverie. Ii was as though some forgotten canvas or a Ilorentine master had suddenly come to life.
 The East Side. too has ma ' dark. inviting restaurants like thoSc along the French quays. There are rot glittering tables lit with silver and an electrical glow. There Is rough old linen. and the walls are si,adowy with queer arabesques, l@, the food has that rare and silnpIe charm SO often accomplished oh'N in humble kitchens. It may 33 served by a slatternly man or q fropzy woman. but it bocomt1' somehow, a philosophical affair lIh1
 an old poem.
 The great trouble with cooking in
 high toned restaurants ill Ne"
 York to my notion is it's extreme
 artificiality. Its zcst comes from
 potent sauces and not the cu'siue
 and has the samencss of being
 cooked in the identical vessel Only on the lower East Side ha'l I found cabbage soup that is cooE'
 cd with that earnestncss that 1la'' ors the entire neighbolhood with It:
 nunccnt odor. In some places it l' served in wooden bowls and cat with a pewter spoon. Stale rye brea . "nunked' Tn cabbage soup IS th'
 most robust dish l know. It dc serves a position of honor "'
 menus norlhWald.
 The effort of beauty to rcr}
 through the East Side shabbinoss i
 ever appealing. In the dlngles :, blocks will be found sidewalk bon :, ouet sellers with faded wares. Fac.
 window has a cracked pot of fam
 lshed flowers in winter and often Il :. the summer the entire fire escape
 gwen over to q patch Of garden. n Along the serpcntine path ot th @ elevated one may sec through t'' > curtainlcss windows into Chccrlc. 5 tenement rooms where many chl
 dren by dim oil lamps. arc studyln 0 their home lessons. No class
 pupils arc so eager.
 of It is only in this pal" of tow l2 that one also finds men, ottt
 wearing shoulder c&pcs, who pro
 about among old prints and secol 1l Toonorx1;llo Folks