The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-27
Fur Rugs.
GRayD STREET DIrERsIoNs.
Effect of College Football Enthusiasm on
Those of PrOsn1c Lives.

Those of PrOsnic Lives.
Did YOU hear about Mamie Traubman. the
new girl at the ribbon counter. and Mr.Bibby!
asked the taller girl Of Il G two who had board
ed the car ut Grand street.
You don't mean it," said the shorter girl.
sure, / do. Mr. ibhy. you know. is the hoor
manager in the shoe department"
And Mamie Traubman. ell? l don't think
she's 30 nretty. and Birdie BloXheim. who Is al
her counter. tells me that she curls her halr NJ
noon every day with sugar and water. what
about her and Mr.. Bibby? I'm dying to hear"
.She says that she worked on Sixth avenue
before she came Town here last week and she
is that stuck IN about 1t. She only began
work last Friday and she pretended that>she
didn't want to know any Grand street girls
They weren't good enough for her ana you'd
think To hear her talk about her gentlemen
friends that she only went in the tour hun
dred. She-came To the store en- Saturday with
, hip Vale ribbon and she said she had u cousin
who played on the team
You don't sav?" said the shorter girl.
YES. and when she left the store she changed
her Yale rlabon for n Princeton one. Mheh
she came to work on Monday morning biiuie
Rloxheim told me that she was that stuck mp
about sopaethinG thpt she wouidn't RECOGNIZE
the floor manager. Mamie wore her Prince
ron ribbon and with it n little silver Princeton
Gag She waited for Birdie to ask her about
II. hut Birdie thought she wouldn't give her
that much satisfaction. Mamie So9Idnt s'ahu
it. h9weysr,L a rrin SO sme f Saiio VS. are Just lovely.
d"" + don't know anything about them. Miss
T~raubman,' said Birdie: Just like thar. .,
.""."WelI. they are lovely said Mamie; and II
Won won't teIlIii tell you all about my Prince.
eycept by Introduction. but this one happeneG
differently. Hs wore Princeton "9lors ann
when | got into the ear r Sa his seS n'Sh' ne saw
""'"Thank you very kindly said l, noticing
that he had n,s small G ;fS said %u se' :aieir I notice
'' "".""Are You a Princeton MANI said before |
Thought that We hadn't been iherouuceu' anu
ne saw; a Tiger, Then the man in the seat
beside me left and he sat down and we had n
MT" "M !, q told Birdie all about her Princeton
fellow and how his father was OF on q S'thm
tell him Wherre she lived but she said that she
came dow nmS fRot sT shS JUSTINE the ear .p at tV Grand and
Street every night Mt five minutes past y.
Mamie told Birdie that he was the handsomest
ested In her. This made Birdie awful mad.
because o. the airs she PIT on ana she said she
because she had heard that nothing good ever
' '"ThSt val Just like Birdie" commented the
"Yes. bu, hist wait till you hear 1t nj. Birdie
yrns INST sole Emiag how she would wait around
the Grand nakeet station two, or three nights
to see this t~ipceton fellow when Mamie cried
out: ~, r,r,io have he comes now and I don't
wont him to see me here. and with that she
bent Town behind the counter. az y she was
looking for something. Birdie couldn't see
any Princeton fellow anywhere. ana the only
man in sight was. that conGeited Nri Bipby.
I think he's horrible. and 80. does Birdie. put
she says he has been kinder stuck on her
as he stops to pass the time OF day Win Birdie.
Mamie gets tired stooplng over. and she sbbapSs
nm. Birdie says that when she saw Mr.. EDDY
standing right there on the other side 81 the
counter she got as red rs a beet, Birdie didn't
know what To make OF II. ana she says:
=" 'MisS Traubman. | makes you ncHlelnted
with Mr., Bibby Of our shoe department.'
""'Shoe DEPARTMENT screamed Mamie,
Miss Traubmanv shouted Mr.. Bibby'
and then Mamie had Mysteries awful bad. a.,
''Do Won know what? Well. then, MIR: BID,
nv was her Princeton fellow. and, she fooled
shoe department about the wealthy or1,han
he met on the cars. Wasn't that great! The
clerks in the shoe department gave MI; Bibhy
n Harvard ribbon to wear TO- morrow ana '9iu
him TINT perhaps he'd have better luck lie
What does Mamie say" asked the shorter
N'''She don't dare say anything: Birdie takes
care OF that, When she tries to Gct, h0ightyi'
toiehty Birdie says something about her hand
some Princeton friend and asks when ms
father will get back from his yachtilng "TRIP
Mamie hasn't even said anything about me
way they do things in sixth avenue and ~
proaching Lady Hihboners' grand mas1uer'
nda and civic ball,