PARRISH, Maxfield. A post-card of 16 lines, from 49 East 63rd, January 18 [19]19, to Martin Birnbaum, saying he is temporarily undertaking the role of errand boy rather than artist: "I hustled down here last Thursday," he writes, in order to "help out" with "three youngsters" who have influenza. Although they are "on the road to recovery, a maid is in the hospital & in a sad plight I fear with pneumonia. I've sold out all my interest in art for the moment & have joined the waiters' union and am training for running up stairs and down. At outside errands I was always good for beyond my years. Life has too much to make it doubtful, but at its lowest moments we have to console us the thought that we do not have to take out a little wooly dog for its toilet. Why do they have capital punishment when they could sentence a man to air a peevish, costive, long haired rat three times a day? Pardon these unimportant thoughts, inspired by contemplation of Park Ave in the morning ...."
PARRISH, Maxfield. A post-card of 16 lines, from 49 East 63rd, January 18 [19]19, to Martin Birnbaum, saying he is temporarily undertaking the role of errand boy rather than artist: "I hustled down here last Thursday," he writes, in order to "help out" with "three youngsters" who have influenza. Although they are "on the road to recovery, a maid is in the hospital & in a sad plight I fear with pneumonia. I've sold out all my interest in art for the moment & have joined the waiters' union and am training for running up stairs and down. At outside errands I was always good for beyond my years. Life has too much to make it doubtful, but at its lowest moments we have to console us the thought that we do not have to take out a little wooly dog for its toilet. Why do they have capital punishment when they could sentence a man to air a peevish, costive, long haired rat three times a day? Pardon these unimportant thoughts, inspired by contemplation of Park Ave in the morning ...."
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