New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-10
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

al have often admired said q New-York housewife
the other day, the generosity which prompts Irish
people In this city to many forms Of selfdenial IN
order that money may be saved 70 pay the passage
Of brothers sisters left behind to the New World
that they, too, may share It's advantages. But u
never occurred to mo until recently that there Is
often more solfdenIa about II than the nero scrapne
together OF the money involves. smart, cookbook
ing servant girl Of mine had been in this country for
four years, and in that time had managed to drop
her brogue had acquired considerable taste IN dressing
herself, and had made wide acquaintance among
American girls of her own class, and was possessed
Of no little pride, not wholly unjust!fabln. either
1t her progress and requirements. She surprised
me one day by telling me she wanted TO go down 70
Castle Garden 20 meet her younger sister, whose
passage she had paid and who had Just landed. Laor
In the day shD returned. without her sister but with
look OF worry her generally smiling face that
forced me to inquire tho learned that the
sister lad arrived, but without hat stockings and
In such coarse peasant garh that my stylish GIRL whose
clothes as she stood IN them probably cost 800 was
ashamed 10 bring her into tho street. She had como
mp for some Of her own clothes - put the stranger.
And whom the new arrival did appear, what stupid.
ugly dolt and what 6rogue, and how ignorant
broofe over her like hen with one chicken, spen,
on hOT got her place a. IA Kitchen her help ara
friends, yet she will do H. doubt when she has. a.
she expresses It, licked tbs colt into shape"
Is to raise canarIcs. Good singers always bring good
prices, and the poor ones worth something
There is considerable amusement, too, to be derived
from the care OF BIRDS by who Is fond Of pets
and the cost Is next to nothing after tho parent birds
and cage once purchased The rules for sue
cess are simple big roomy cage, wide, shallow
nest and cleanliness arc requisites Paper spread
on tho floor Of the cage spnnkled with sand is easily
removed and renewed. bird Of light color is best
mated with one Of darker hue, the offspring will
look either washed out dlngy II the mal>
canary is good singer, cross with lnnot Will
produce tho best results Let birds alone much
as possible. DO not russ over them. no not be
alarmed II they fight little at first, they settle
upon which Is to rule the roost Err rather tho
side Of TOO little than too much food. Be careful to
give nothing salty or greasy. Ono pair Of birds will
raise several broods In yoAr The lue ones arc
perfect rights at first, but grow fast At Tour weeks
hoy begin 10 squeak Their first efforts arr positively
painful. but I'm weeks notes should De distinctly
andble II the bird Ia 20 be 9 singer Too writer hal
a hon bird that died when hor brood wac week
old, but the whower raised tho whole family ana
beauties they were.
The surest harbingcrs Of summer and the summer
time arc here-the flannel shirt the shirt Of fancy
stripes and the rissetcoiorod shoes OF each
singly or IN combination. BE- Sren daily I'm stroll
along Broadway. The American takes naturally 10
these undrcss COS fumes, and the demand the fur
nishcrs say is enormous and widespread. ono cause
Of tho popularity OF this style OF dress IL 10 h found
In the growing fondnrss for all OF outdoor sports
The fancy Of the designers Of these shirts and shoes
IA allowed 10 take tho widest and gorgeous turns
and Solomon in all his glory probably was not ar
the average young OF the period when he dOns
his iOahng' costume