The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-08
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR ToWN.

nBurcS IN II story which emphasizes inc cohsp
qucnces that may come from tho bad habit or
leaving letters In places that are easily acceS-
siblo. Ono of the young mon, who was en-
ployed in a large office downtown, changed his
place of business and left in his desk n bundle
of letters which no expected to have sent to
him. But tho matter was neglected for a time
and the package rested meantime In a drawer
Of the desk. None OF tho letters was very I'M
portant and IL took tho ingenuity OF n type
writer employed in the Office to realize Just
how much trouble one OF them could create
In fact, with woman's perception In such at-
fairs, she got hold of the only ono that could
have created any disturbance. 1t was a decor
GUS communication written to the young man
a year before ho left his old Office. 1t called
his attention TO an engagement for that even
ing and said that he would be expected to keep
1t. As a matter of fact, u subsequent telegram
broke the engagement, but that detail was not
vital. However, It accidentally prevented
any subsequent meeting of the two, II was
this note that the typewriter. got hold OF. She
S Snnna @ one nan name l. ana ,ha s sdmnanS I tSa on al +
1t, failed to recognize the name which was q
very common Christian name, by the way
him. So he iogrneyod to the address in Har.
lem on the following, evening. He met the
coived with a look OF blank amazement. There
must DO some mistake she began. II DO
not know either your name or your race.
There was more conversation equally discour-
aging, and In sclf-defence the note was pro
dyed dyed Tho young woman recognised T.
nearly a year ago. / cannot understand his
name" With tho burden thus shifted to The
other man, the embarrassed bearer of the note
escaped after the ~frigidity of the interview had
been abated only by tho, warmth which the
conduct. The next day he saw the note and IL
was discovered that tho first name had been
Stafeai b 1aSs able nS s to say exact eXactlS S' how sSP'hhe e hap,
pened to leave q woman's, note in such an nc-
cessible spot, The victim Is trying now to dis
cover just which ono OF several vivacious type,
writer's made him a martyr to her sense of
humor.
Some Of the travelling opera singers have been
giving their opinions Of us at a distance, and
Edouard de Reszke, although he did not write a
series of articles on the subject, Is concerned
about some features of our social life. He has
told one interviewer that nothing.surprised him
30 much here as the general impression that
Americans girls Of wealth should avoid marry
ing titled foreigners merely because the foreign
ers do not work. He quite fails to SEQ, accord.
ing. to his statements, why there should be any
lnsistence on work merely for its own sake when
there is plenty of money without 1t. siRnor
Ancona confined himself to the.subject of opera
audiences, which. he said, were all very pleas
ant and attentive in New York, although in
t%eiiisent and appreciativo in the world. lilo
happened to be in London at the time. But 1t
is fair to say that he would much rather sing to
those in New York than appear in Lisbon.
where he is engaged for the coming winter.
A recent decision Of one Of the State courts
ought to interest all the parents that have chill
dren in New York boarding schools. The par
ticular school which established the law in such
n case is ono OF the best known in New York
and ono of the most expensive. Tho parents
Of the young girl there came to New York for q
short stay and tclegraphed her that they were
here. As she did not visit them. her mother
hurried to the school, only TO find out that the
telegram had never been delivered. She was
livcrcd to the pupils and that the teacher exer-
cised her discretion in imparting their con-
tents even when they came me from Snch Az an un 1;pi
was promptly taken away from the school. In
spite of the fact that she had been sent there for
the term. She had been there but a short time.
and when the bill for a years tuition was pre-
sented, her father refused to pay it. The teach.
right to conduct the school just as her own rules
stipulated. The suppression Of the telegram
was not looked upon as a sufficient reason Tor
taking the girl away.
The rule which O local theatre has made re-
Gently to prevent u crush OF young men from
greeting the nightly exodus Of its chorus girls
is not quite SD necessary now as it might have
been several years ago. The stage door lounger
ID almost as eNt!ICJ us inc uOuO, anu inc lew
specimens Of that class which futter about can
be got rid of easily. Only fathers and mothers,
It appears. will be allowed to gather at the door.
cousins and even brothers being rigidly pro.
hibited from preventing themselves at the hour
when tho damscls OF the chorus pack their red
tights in satchels and start homowurd.
When the fiction Of the stage door dude -four
ishod, some time during the early sos, such a
decree might have been received with distress,
but nowadays its sternncss is not felt widely.
The keepers Of the metropolitan stage doors arc
with very few exceptions a very crusty lot,
who have been trained to consider that every
outsider who presents himself has conc with
designs on the office safe. They can keep the
ncighborhoOd OF the entrance free OF nuisances
better than n squad Of policemen.
The European theatres have never been trou,
bled with the question of keeping the stage doors
clear, as access 10 the scenes of the theatres
there is q very much less difficult matter than
it is in this country. Every frst-night au.
behind the scenes after every act, and this in,
cludcs many persons who are but slightly ac'
quainted with the performers. The regular
visits behind the scenes are as much u feature
OF the affair as the performance itself. The
same hing Is true to a smaller li extent In Lon
dard would, be observed at the reception OF
any man who attempted to get back of the
scenes of a New York theatre, on a first night
He would have to be very closely associated
with the establishment even to escape violence
and there are very few persons who would
effort. I most OF tho theatres-with the OK
coption of those in which some wcll-estahlished
star Is playlng-thC attempt Of the manage
ment is to keep tho actors entirely shut of
from association with the outside world. and ne
communications OF any kind whatever are al
lowed to be delivered to them during the per
formance.
II the New York Magistrates should follow
the precedent of the Cincinnati Judge who dc
cidcd that n woman's character should dc
tcrmine her right to ride'a bicycle In the streets