The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-16
THE BIRD STORE WINDOW.
An Attraction for Many Persous-vhere the
Onlookcrs Themselves Are Attractive.

An Attraction for Many Persous-Where the
Onlookcrs Themselves Are Attractive.
There is, perhaps, no store window that is
more attractive. to children particularly, than
that of the bird store. There is n big bird
store In q busy downtown thoroughfare at whose
windows people are almosta always to be found.
The door to this store is at some little distance
back from tho front line, at the end of n deep
recess between the two windows, and often this
recess is filed with people, who stand there and
look in at the windows at the sides as well as
at the front.
In one of these windows there are bird cages,
and home aquariums, glass globes, and tanks
with fishes in them. The other window
is filled with birds in cages, and this is tho
window that attracts the more attention. There
are here birds from various parts of the world,
and there are persons from almost as many
parts among those who.stop to look at them, for
this is a quarter Of the city where many for
eigners dwell. But whoever they are that stop
to look, native or foreign, old or young, they
all like the birds.
Little girls warmly clad but without any hats
and with pjgtails down their backs stop in
front of the bird window, or turn into the deep
doorway and stand. II two of them come to-
gether, as they often do, hand in hand, close
to the glass at the side of the window and close
to the birds within, and view them with alb
sorbing pleasure. Sometimes q little girl will
reach up and put her hand on the glass right
in front of a great parrot and close to its sharp
curved beak, and yet safely separated from it
birds OF varied note and varied %plumaEc. tire:
lcssly, shifting slowly along the window and
t they m eSeio over .f to the n Window nd Sn} aS the Other r siao
Of the deep recess. but they exhaust that quick
ly, and then turn back to the window with
Boys, no end of them, stop at these windows
and make the tour Of them; along the e., front and
two boys together. The arm Of one is very
the birds in company. The boys that stop
from the familiar 70 make it picturesque.
not the only ones that stop to look in the bird
store windows; men stop, often And they are
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Of the style that is perfectly straight up and
down on the sides and that have a flat, straight
that stop to look in at tho windows love the
birds and they, regard them seriously, and. it
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oftener afoot, but sometimes in baby carriages,
often stop to look at the birds;
Sometimes the deep recess between the two
and girls and smaller children. so that GUS
and out of the store; this is n place of active
business and customers are coming and going
out the space between the windows 50 as to give
the customers more room. The big boys he
starts sou out up promptly fi,It yyi, Hnt the e. smaller smaller ch boys an! and
gently indeed; they drift out upon the sidewalk
looking sidewisc Mt tho windows as they 90.
For a brief time tho deep entrance way is
empty. Then the face of II child, q little girl.
most probably, is seen peering around the corner
of the bird window from the front; she has been
looking there and has followed the birds along
with her eye until sho came TO the edge of the
window, Looking around tho corner and down
tho window at the side Of tho recess. shc.secs
more birds, and closer to the window than those
at the front. Here nre more attractions: and in
she comes. Presently more children come, and
before long II Is as it was before. The door Mt
the end of this recess is double. opening in the
middle. One whole side OF the store within is
lined With cages containing birds, stacked ono
above another. Often children when they have
come to the inner end Of the side window. close
by tho doors, stop and look through the doors.
II the. windows are so wonderful, what must IL
be within the storel Sometimes there is a child
at each door; two little girls. perhaps. one at
their faces expressive OF wonder and delight,