Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

New York Isn,t Much of a Civilized Place,
After All-Trcatment for Astigmatism-
Fixing Up Business Ohice-A Rainy
rrnoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE

Fixing Up q Business Office-A Rainy
Day Scene.
rFRosr STAFF CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK. Oct 31.-"There are great
many particulars in which Chicago is ahead
OF New York; remarked q Western lady
who had been Que shopping all the after
noon among the big retail stores. "In the
nrst place, all the best shops in Chicago
have large reception rooms for ladies. Some
OF these are elegantly appointed. There are
desks with paper, envelopes and pens and
INK, where lady can write notes or orders.
or figure on ner purchases. There are COM
Portable tables, chairs, sofas and reading
matter, if she has to wait for somebody.
There are luxurious toilet rooms One place
has toilet rooms in white marble, divided
INTO compartments big enough to take
bath In or dress for BALL All of the r e.
cept1on rooms have free telephone connec-
tfons, district messenger and telegraph
calls.
III there are anv such accommodations
for ladies in New York don't know where
they are. Another thing, for women with
small children there are nurse rooms with
maid In attendance. A woman can leave
her children here in the morning and shop
all day If she wants to, and call for her baby
when she gets ready to go home You can
Just hook your baby, so to speak, as you
would an umbrella, and be sure it is well
taken care Of Ii you have a trunk or other
article sent you by express it will be de-
1iyered upstairs in your room without extra
charge and haggling as you always have
here, or having an impudent express man
leave 1t OH your front stOOp. If you rent
piano in Chicago it will be sent up without
carriage charges. These NAV seem like
small things, but here in New York without
them it makes O great difference to those
having enjoyed them Many of my New
! ork acquaintances speak of Chicago as if
its people we're semi-civilized. but tell you
there are Chicago merchants, and even
small tradesmen by the score, who can give
their New York prototypes points in secur-
ing and keeping customers"
Pernicious Activity of Policemen.
1.-THE police are said to very active in
this campaign" said Colonel Dan Lamont to
me the other day. ''and 1 know of at least
one policeman in my neighborhood whose
interest comes very close to pernicious ac-
tiyity. 1 was coming out of my residence
last registration day and, seeing an officer
down on the corner, 1 thought I'd inquire
where our registry place was. wanted to
get on the list.
"'Right down on the street there said he
--Just this side of that saloon. And you'd
peter hurry up, young man, II you want to
II hurried up," laughingly remarked the
railway magnate and ex-Secretary to the
couldn't help wondering what ticket that
officer wanted me to vote. Tm in It, any
how"
AstIgmatism Makes Expensive Families.
Il happened to be in Broadway opti-
clans store and saw a good-looking, we'll
dressed matron with a slip of girl and q
small boy, all OF whom wore spectncles. The
lady gave some directions about pair Of
glasses, and when she had gone asked the
optician whether defective vision is heredi-
tary.
Rarely" said he. "That lady has four
children and all OF them must wear glasses.
The fathers eyes are sound. The mother
and her children are afflicted with astig-
matism, a defect of the vision which is al
most AS rare as anything that afficts the
human eyes. 1t makes straight lines crooked
and parallel lines fade into one. Special
each person and sometimes the respective
eyes. They cost IS q piece, too. So you see
a large family of children with astigmatism
cost good deal of money in glasses alone. |
As the children grow up the range of vision
changes; they break or lose their glasses |
oftener than adults, which increases the ex-
pense.
eyes, 1 think more young people wear
glasses now than formerly. This is owing to |
the fact that early education is more gem !
orally pushed, and that young people read |
more nowadays than they used to do. |
Another thing is becoming known-the eyes
often differ with each other in strength and
vision. One eye gives out before the other.
In choosing glasses both eyes should be
as both feet should be suited in
buying pair of shoes. Few people pay any
attention to this, though the eyes would be
much more effective and would last longer |
If treated with equal consideration"
How Tradesmen Treat Customers.
1t takes about as long to fit up an office
n this city as to furnish a house. The
smaller the job the more difficult it is to get
gas stove, or the change of burner or the
aging of yard of oilcloth or something
ike that it will take a week or two weeks to
ret the work DONE This is because trades
nen will take your order and feed you on
promises until they can detach a man from
more important work An energetic man
le gets 1t in complete business trim. If he
,e not philosopher he will chafe and fret
more over multitudinous trif1es than over
he serious questions of six months busi-
Tess. He will run after the painters and
plumbers and decorators and sign men and
arpet men and house furnishing men until
le becomes haggard and careworn and
kinks life scarcely worth living
His chief troubles are due to mistaken
that all trades are standing
eady to serve him at once to the exclusion
through 1t all and Is neither insane nor a
onflrmed inebriate he settles down to the
almer judgment that he Is not the only
nan IN business his eAporleIico udS TAKEN |
ONE OF the conceit out OF him if it has re-
ulted in nothing else. 1t has also con-
inced him that breaking of promises and
aid-headed lying are more prevalent than
yer and should be punished with the early
'uritan severity.
Human Nature on a Rainy Day.
The Broadway car was crowded. The
ain came down in damp sheets that cut one
bove the knees. Everybody who couldn't
ct out of the gusts and wicked eddies that
wirled and tipped around the corners made
dive for the passing cars, and gaining the
rowded platforms looked daggers at the