Evening star., 1898-09-03

lums came along.
Hi, tn re- BILL said one of them to the
soldier. been hit, have you? How'd 1t
happen, and where?"
The soldier, man of not many words
briefly tod the loafer who addressed him
that he had got his wound in the fight be-
fore Santiago.
Jaw, s'wan." said the hoodtum; "all O.
youse ducks wit uniforms on is nottin
but fakes. Ycuse is got yer 1ipper done up
jest t git de goils Z pipe youse Off
The soldier was too weak to make any
reply.
'Spose We jest fin out about dis ducks
wound. eh. feilers?" said the loafer.
Before the soldier sitting on the curb
stone had time to more than look up three
of the hoodlums were upon him. While
two of them held him. the other one delib-
erately tore the bandages from the gaping,
unhealed Mauser wound in his shoulder.
The soldier was unconscious from the loss
of blood when the hospital ambulance pick
ed him up Only one of the hoodlums was
coralled by the police. He was fined 81
for disorderly conduct in the police court
the next morning.
For several weeks past the "help want
ed'' columns of the New York newspapers
have been filled with furriers' and cloak
makers advertisements for "shapaly young
women, of thirty-six-inch bust measure
ment, to act as models" Why thirty-six!
is the question that j put to an acGuaint-
ance in the fur business. He replied that
thirty-siX was the average measurement,
and that the thirty-six models are all snap
ped up early in the season; hence the plead
ing, almos. fearful advertisements for
young women of that particular measure
n.ent by firms that waited too long before
picking up models.
And, by the way, in this sort OF wealth
err said the man in the fur trade, there
more delightful occupations for young
women than that of model for the trying on
of fur garments. Come down to my place
and I'll show you why.
This fur man place consisted OF couple
of huge lofts on Broadway-one of them de-
voted to the fur manufacturing business
and the other sales room. In the sales
room ffteen nice-looking young women
were trying on heavy sealskin coats and
sacques, to exhibit the garments as worn
to knots of buyers from western cities The
temperature of the loft was about 100 de-
gress. and there not a suspicion of
breeze. The young women were dressed in
thick cloth suits. the better to show on the
fur garments-shrt waists wouldn't do, so
the fur man told Ine. Some of them ware
compelled to keep the heavy sealskln gar
nents glued to their backs for much as
half an hour at a stretch. Two of them
tainted from the heat and from fatigue
while l watched the dismal scene in the
loft. They were carried to a reviv1ng
room,'' and returned, looking pale and hag-
gard, few minutes later, to resume their
labCrs One of the young women thus
bravely earning her livelihood was well
known in Washington until the death OF
Ter father, a naval officer, few years ago.
The Gerry Society got hold of an eight
year-old Polish boy over the east side
the other day. whose thin little body was
strap-welted from the top of his head to
the soles of his feet. sThe hospital people
had something of a Job to pull the little
chap through. When he was able to talk
he told the Gerry agent in broken English
that the reason he had been welted so
nearly to deaths door by his Polish father
was that the father had repeatedly over
heard him talking in English. His father,
the child said, demanded that he cut the
English speech out altogether He had d:3-
obeyed the demand, surreptitiously. he had
thought but his father overheard him talk
ing in English with some boy companions;
hence the terrible cutting up he had re-
ceived. When the Polish father was
brought into the police court he confessed
the soft Impeachment. Yes, he had de-
clined to permit his young ones to make
any use of the English language Why?
That, said he through the Interpreter was
his business. The man got thirty days, not
as lesson in Americanism, but for nearly
killing his boy.
New York is emulating London in its es-
adjustment of a summer silly season de-
voted to the discussion of Questions of
manners IN some of its newspapers. The
question as to whether men shall remove
theif mats in restaurants freuuented nv
women Is now raging in one of the weekly
periodicals. Fact 1t appears inconceiva-
PIE, but IT Is SO. all the same. Queerer
stlll most OF the contributors to the argu-
Tneht take the negative side of the oues-
uoh on the ground. for the most part that
III tne New York restaurants the hat racks
are located 1nconveniently, and that there
fore, gents" can't be expected to rest
thelr chapeaux on the floor One must NOT
20 SO lar as TO say that in the best of the
NeW york restaurants the men do not doir
the tables u o.
But in the middIe-class restanrsn+s-ro+
cheap-Jaek eating houses on the Io1verV
put places even on Broadway and on etb
Ssehue' "here fair prices are paid FOR food
ny men ana Womon-it is common epouob
10 see dozens of men seated at the tahIss
Nlth their hats pushed back from their
1ofeheads and shopping women seated
= : IS-Lu ,Snt aiohsSioe OF them. The women dcr't
apeear 10 perceive "nything rernarEah h,e
IN inns. In these same restatirants sonta
u the men. upon entering instinctiyeIy
tenloFe e mo their hats; but when you examine
they are not New Workers They haven,t
got the dash and swing of New YORK;
ers. The fellows who keep their hats
sioeu 70 their heads always look at the
i'eh VINO remove their hats with sneerino
eyes. In truth, the rev man. over bnre
Is achievlng wonderful results in his strife
!@pr @ Independence. He very rarely helms
fror,, woman accompanying him to alight
hrst himself, instead. and then walks rieht
ahead- The woman with him scrambles off
as pest shs can, and, with the exercise of
some htte activity and nimbleness she
soon catches Up with the man. who has
meantime Joined the crowd on the nave
n ent; New York is the ore American citv
that iong ago got past the discussion as IN
whethef street and elevated car seats shall
oe surrendered to women. You sfmnlv
HeNer-h-e-V-e-r-see a man resign his car
seat 10 woman over here nowadays And
py the way, in his efforts to he Guide
philosopher and friend to his women folks
me New York man-quite a lot of him
apstalns from permitting the women RI
lake MS arm after nightfalI Instead he
ciutches her arm, and thus guides har
through the thorougnfares This ts not
pretty. Nothing that is Common is
pretty. 10
AS there is but one Dewey so, also. thers
is put one Tod Sloan. The jockey-who
IS second TO no living man in .he admira-
non OF this populace-needs to be seen in
MS compartment Of the palace car that
goes every afternoon TO the Sheepshead Bav
race track, to be appreciated You see he
rises at such late hour-and his man"
100 Is so careful In making him up for
public appearance-tkat he doesn't have