Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-05-29
FUN FOR A DOLLAR.
The Many Enjoyable Things q Bright
New York Girl Bid One Day.

The Many Enjoyable Things q Bright
New York Girl Did one Day.
[From the New York Evening SUM-
One morning not long ago I started out
for whole days lark with just dollar in
my pocket. It's amazing the amount of diff
ferent things you can buy with dollar and
the fun you can get out of 1t if you only try.
This is what did: After breakfast-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 horse
back. On the way out bought q 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 got into quiet
corner of the park I sat down on 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, 1 couldn't have done that better
from the cushions of the finest landau than I
did from the bench OF the side of the drive.
Then took a stage down town to Ms
for my luncheon. ate two oyster patties
with gold plated knife and fork off mis-
handsome china; that blessed privilege cost
me twenty Eve cents. You keep account of
fifty-five cents, isn't i'a Then I walked out
and gave poor old man on the curbstone
five cents, to get the fine glow that comes
from the consciousness of q glorious deed.
first thought to invest ten cents in Life,
but on reflection concluded that could
find just as much to laugh at and something
more beRides In dear old Charles Lamb, go I
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 ita
The next thing did was to go into one of
the picture galleries and see the paintings
that gave me blessed hour and didn't cost
me cent. Then I bought some Ice cream
soda with ten cents and Eve 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 pocketl
And then I started up home with five cents
left. Just below my boarding house stood a
man with hand organ playing the "Last
Rose of Summer" Somehow it suited me-
the organ wasn't such bad one-and gave
him the five cents aud told him to play me
five cents worth of the f'Last Rose" He
said he could play "Annie Rooney" and lot
of other things, but held firm to the one;
and go he came under my window and played
the "Last Rose" through five times, while
sat up in my room and felt soothingly 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 made some
amusing observations on various people; then
touch of the esthetics of life in the flow
ers, a glimpse into the fashionable world in
the park, touch of elegant living from the
swagger restaurant, taste of the finest lite
rature in Lamb, a lesson in art in the picture
galleries, a hint of wealth in the possession
OF few stamps didn't need, the luxury of
charity in the five cents gave away, with q
touch of nonsense at the last in the organ
grinders music. And there was only one
thing left undone that really wanted to do
Ito sit up on street chair and have my
shoes blacked. But that did not dare.