New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-28
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

How can French cook have the heart 10 say
nothing Of conscience, to gouge the soul out Of a
fair, round, plump, rosy tomato, cool, luscious and
delicate in order 90 make for stung its worth
less skin with his highly seasoned forcemeat? Yet
they all do They will do It, and home abroad.
especially abroad, amabe, patient counrymen put
up with it and even try to think 1t IS
all right, because the French such good cooks you
know. And they spoil that most delicate Of vegcta-
bios, the artichoke in much the way doubt
thinking We must like anything that calls Itself sen
bansome" The real artchoke, mind, the PRIDE OF
the thistle family not that upstart Perkn Warbeck OF
| the vegetable kingdom that masquerades under the
| namo OF Jerusalem artichOke. well knowing all the
while that II IS not artch0ke, worthy TO be
olof IA the heart of the flower, but lowborn sun
flower, with its best part underground like a mere
| potato.
Damp and dull tho dog days are upon
What's this dull town to me- to any OF long
as Robin" and Robina and all the rest OF them
not here" but ava at the hops and the seaside (?
The town is empty, what IS called empty; empty
likewise the clubs, restaurants, hotels and other places
| where men most do congregate. The streets up
for gas, electric subways, and sewers nnumerable.
The builder IS busy, with his wooden bridge in every
street TO BIO surmounted evaded by the unwary way
farer his pile of brick and stone, his other pile OF
rubbish, and his asthmatlc hoIstingengine. What a
lot Of building and rebuilding, to be sure! The
town aud its Inhabitants vie in Indifference TO all
outward appearances. The italian bootblacks trade
langushes. only taldng Wild revenge In contemplating
the damaged and dsreputabe look Of the hated yellow
shoe, that never needs backing, but SO soon needs
Which but lately it slOrided, the flannel 81
knowing that its days are numbered, with, no
artful Bourke Cochran 20 plead against It's takins
HIS fIlblown Joy there Turks the canRer OF disag-
pointment, For though now he can catch his on,
wheel In the curve of the car-rack and dash
full he
out his Hop or hay or hi" at the poruy citizen,
swinging pole and the wde-s tIaddling horses Cheer
be able again to splash and scatter the busy crowd
bruse tho billionaires hub and to rake the yarnsh
Of his new brouglam. " And thus the wninlgig Oh
time brings in his revenges."
People complain of the high prices of living, yet
here are two hotels at least, strictly frstclass Of
the kind, within FIVE minutes walk ONO matter
where gentlemen only can have lodging for "the
ridcuously small sum-" Mr. II. Montague puts It,
of 81 so a week. Lodging apparently includes the
privilege of sitting four abreast in the open window,
airing your boots, and reading yesterdays or last
weeks paper all day long. Baths are probably not
eud The opposition house FoV T0 sRs s ony
gentleman for II %. # you want your mustache
Win do the job for you for fifteen cents. Cheap
enough? This last privilege also extends 10 gentle
men only"
The lotus in the lily pond in the City Hal Park,
the beautiful Indian lotus, already given free adj
vertisement IN this column. Is now at its best But
don't wait for sunset effect because all these water
loving plants born members of the early closing
movement
There can be few finer courses for chariot-race
than the lower part of Broadway, and few hours filter
than D. m This gives every a chance to see
the fun; every one that is. except the policeman
the corner. What be more eXhilarating in these
dull days than to see Adams Express wagon, with
two beautiful horses driven at full galop from
splashing or the Imminent risk OF some complicated
accident as the price OF such a spectacle.
The most thoughtless tramp in the city of New
York must think az times that whether not no
has bed In which to lie down he comes in for
Of the pleasures of home. 1t is true enough that
hls intimacy with homes is not remarkably close,
and that the benefits he derives from other peoples
homes rather Indirect, but when threefourths of
the people of the city are abed may that a
popular lodging place for uamps is to be found at
every furniture store. Before midnight every van
standing before these stores has its occupant and as
the hours 60 on and more dodgers seek rest in
the big wagons until it becomes time 70 put out the
sign of Standing room only This sign is usually
a hafshod foot thrust out over the tailboard for |
the that there is no longer within the
seems 10 be distinction I'm the minds OF policemen |
between people sleeping under wagon in the street |
or In the wagon. for while in the former the tap
OF club suggests the improperly OF such resting
place those who crawl into the never dis |
ulbed, at least by their aIch-enemy the policeman.
added to the Immunity from polcs persecution is |
the great advantage OF shelter overhead IN OF
rain, for few furnltura wagons covered And /
50 all these modern cOnvenences7 are In great
demand among that large-szed army Of nen who
walk the streets by DAY an: sleep in the streets ar
night