Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-30
FUN FOR A DOLLAR
The Many Enjoyable Things Bright
New York Girl Did One Day,

One morning not long ago | started out
for whole days lark with just dollar in
my pocket. It's amazing the amount of
different things you can buy with dollar
and the fun you can get out of it If you
only try. This is what l did: After break
fast-it was one of these warm spring
mornings-I took the elevated out to the
park to see the pretty girls taking their
morning canter on horseback On the way
out l bought tiny little bunch of violets
for ten cents, but there was just as much
fragrance in it as in dollars worth. Then
bought three big bananas for ten cents
more, and when l got into quiet corner
of the park sat down on a bench and ate
them.
There, in the violets and bananas, had
"my tropics and my Italy," all for twenty
cents; and, as for seeing the pretty horse
women, | couldn't have done that better
from the cushions of the finest landau than
l did from the bench at the side of the
drive.
Then took stage down town to Ms
for my luncheon. l ate two oyster patties
with gold plated knife and fork off his
handsome china; that blessed privilege cost
me twenty-five cents. You keep account of
the expenses; that, with my fares, is only
and gave poor old man on the curbstone
five cents, to get the fine glow that comes
from the consciousness of generous deed
first thought to invest ten cents in Life,
but on reflection l concluded that could
find just as much to laugh at and some
thing more besides in dear old Charles
Lamb, so l bought ELLA" in paper for ten
cents and read twenty pages of that, and
laughed and cried both, which | couldn't
have done over Life. That's seventy cents,
isn't it?
The next thing did was to go into one
of the picture galleries and see the paint
ings-that gave me blessed hour and
didn't cost me cent. Then | bought
some ice cream soda with ten cents and
five postage stamps with ten more-the fun
in that Is there any luxury in the world
like knowing you've got an extra stamp or
two in your pocket? And then l started
up home with five cents left. Just below
my boarding house stood man with a
hand organ playing the Last Rose of Sum.
mer." Somehow it suited me-the organ
wasn't such bad one-and | gave him the
five cents and told him to play me five
cents worth of the Last Rose" He said
he could play annie Rooney" and lot OF
other things, but l held firm to the one
and so he came under my window and
played the Last Rose" through five times
while sat up in my room and felt sooth.
ingly sad and sentimental.
Now, see what got out of that dollar
First, "a little journey in the world" on the
elevated and in the stage, where l made
some amusing observations on various PEG
pie; then touch of the aesthetics of life il
the flowers, glimpse into the fashionable
Il e
ing from the swagger restaurant, IA TASTE
of the finest literature in Lamb, a lesson il
art in the picture galleries, a hint of wealth
in the possession of a few stamps didn'
need, the luxury OF charity in the five cent!
gave away, with a touch of nonsense a
the last in the organ grinders music. AnC
there was only one thing left undone tina
| really wanted to do-to sit up on stree
chair and have my shoes BACKED. Blu
that | did not dare.-Intervew in New
York Evening Sun.