The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-21
LIVE TOPICS ABour rowx.

DO presented In o form that would reach the
Dyes OF tho sleeping-oar porters, soon convince
them that the power to improve their condition
lies entirely in their own hands. 1 have been q
traveller for a great many years, and I have
seen the change that has lately taken place in
the character Of these mon. There has certainly
been q great one. The sleeping-cnr porter has
long been represented as q tyrannioal and over
bearing parsonage, but that representation was
for many years nothing more than tho humor
which subsequently, took the hotel clerk and
his diamond ring for It's subject. The sleeping
car porters Of several years ago, say. ten years
back, were attentive and polite, with some
thing of tho desire Of the wcfi-trained servant
pssspic Sp attended e: They sapestsd an
days they over. failed to get their fee.
what the passenger gave, them. But a new lot
are insolent and self.asscrtive, and the old
porters that survive seem to have acquired a
II Is common enough now to have porter com-
pietely ignore 9 passenger Throughout the jour,
to his needs grudgingly. But let he passenger
approach his destination. and the porter. who
to dust his clothes until he brushes the pattern
on. With the, end Of the journey In view there
T. no limit to the %oficious bustling, of which the
hitherto despised passenger Ia made the victim.
smoking room during the daytime to the exclu-
and 1 have Known Of ali sorts s. Of Similar In'i in.
stances from my own experiences, and not from
old porter, who was polite and assiduous, even
II In the somewhat exalted position no held he
was sometimes a little pompous, When the
scarce, because the passengers were willing to
pay for the attention they got"
1t will be remembered that Mile. Calve was
unable through IA combination of accidents to
i appear as Cherubino in THE Marriage of Fig
aro," and public curiosity on an important mat
ter was left unsatisied. Mile. Calve sang
Mi0non in Boston several years ago, SO that
city would not have been 80 disappointed as
New York was over the failure to see the singer
rs the page. 1t was not until the opera season
had closed that New Workers were made aware
Of a means by which their disappointment might
be in a measure mitigated. Although Mile.
Calve did not sing Cherubfno sho was photo
graphed In the pages costume. and that picture
hangs now in the window of a shop on Broad
way. 1t is q curious outcome OF the stu
alton which revealed the counterfeit present
ment OF Mile. Calves, charms to the Broadway
promenaders before tho Metropolitan audiences
had a chance to witness them; But there are some
ment of tho page would have been disappoint-
Ing, In the photograph referred to she is shown
sitting. in a high-backod chair, with her legs
crossed. One leg hangs down., and its outline Is
distinctly visible up to the knee. 1t Is not plump,
hfrh ~ ~ espeeially graceful IN form. 1t is
Commencing considerably nearer The Knee aI than fan
iss s9 nne. anS ;bs TIE b d, Ps snd .S costume IN. Il + 2 ~ besGm:
OF that young prima donna OF The company who
went to, the costumer to be measured for a pages
that it would be impossible for her Tn sing The
part. sing inc
But ! heard you 60 through IT. and 1 know
The II i yoTns y, singer GER shook b Ok her head deciisiyely
costumer says that It simply can't be done '"'
insist. Nile. Calve expects S to sail for ana Eur r,1 mot oS
Vote. after having gone etthe roI;eb m an n hisse ne
arduous season. She is under contract to an
pear at Coyent Garden in JuIy bnt n Ia scsrce1Ry
Thought probable that she VIII The Wsstern
concerts Of her tour were not as successful as
for some Of these she received the snm ~ 90 snn'
hecame intsres,.d nnt ,onn ~ T.. hi n1
go H.. - - IoAe 5 "
tisinr nrrnosos ', I've
~ .ho,Ia sa,i =. A.. - y,
made from ,ho ,ott.rs H. = ,.o.s "oiu'
Thara 80 800 go. ~ o " .nns was gwen.
~ th.n, h.,nn mor.a,a .'' "o.u'on'' nie
contes, vos th,, NJ Io,,.u -. =
Th,s m.thoma,;,oI 49, go oa N
teaches mathem.tio ;n ~ vi. aomN "o
y;sea a sohomo hv whioh ,hom aan, Sa.eoue
nossihI. conh,n.,,on =, - y 49,
Thov fNppJ that thnv oo,,ld ~o. ynn
r. ,tsh - 49,. 49, w Io'Usnl1eu
sent to a Princeton professor and he adGeI
two more words which were unfamiliar
~. nmrs e1peIinn tha nhey Siant win
II merely printed the Winners name xitbn"t
giving the number OF words that he had sennt in n
fine mathematical man looked nm rho winner
and asked him how many words he had made
from these seven letters. AZ turned In 1000"
hoWever. and the matbemntica 70 n snow rc ms hsti
that shakespeare used only 5000 words In his
writings. N'
How long did IL take You to copy your list q,
he asked.
about ten minutes.' said the winner Tho
mathematical man says that copying 5000
words in ten minutes ia even more IemarIsbIo
than The feat Of constrnctinr tbem from INK T Ieto
tiers given, and he is now wondering whether or
not thcro WAS any "string" attached 10 The
prize offer. ~
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A naval officer who Ia attached to one of the
United States ships now at the BrookIyn Nav
SHn ~ mp y nIooNi'h navy
wearing on the lapel of his coat a button OF the
Society Of the Sons of the American Revolution.
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