The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-13
GOSSIP OF GAY GOTHAM

New York, March 10.--Louis d. Pills
bury, warden of Blackwoll's Island prison,
after a service OF fifty years as a prison
official. has resigned to take effect on
April /.
The first work done in the Waldorf-As-
terra each day is the preparation of break
fast for 1900 employees. The last OF these
meals is served usually before the earliest
rising guest sleepiy orders his eggs aud
coffee, thinking himself almost hero TO
be brealfasting at such an hour.
A certain entcrprising woman here has
sent out prospectuses of a "school for
wives The art of housekeeping and
.honlee making are. net- 20 -ha he only I'D
vantages. Training for peculiar cases is
TO be a feature. One interesting item in
the coure laid down for girls who intend
10 marry poets and painters is, "One meal
day and one new gown per annum."
One life insurance company sets a good
example to other institutions Of the same
sort when 1t Announces that ANY citizens
OF the United States who are already in
sured In this company have the right 10
enlist for war service without our charg-
ing them any extra premium. and in CASE
OF their death In service the policies would
be paid in full the same rs they would
had there been no war and they had died
o. natural causes" The corporations ara
also truly loyal.
The Lenton devotions are literally pune
tuated with fancy costume affairs and
vaudeville suppers. The warmed over
vegetable party'' at the Hewtt's few
nights ago scored second nit. This time
even Chauncoy Depew caugnI the 'nfec-
tion and grinned at the company from Il
Gilt frame es combination of peach
and modern Demosthenes When Mr.
Depew poses as living picture there's no
telling where The foolishneSs will drag the
deyotees.
A polite French waiter in one Of the
swell cafes was so profuso with his
thanks when he pocketed the dime that
asked him II times hadn't changed since
the uptown movement set in "oul, oui.
Mseur Re times yer dull, even here
Msieur We feel re gratitude for re dime
now Just re same as we did for re quar-
taire In 10 good time down at re old
Brunswick, Pardilg, M'sieur, re same?
oui" TIPS have surely been scaled.
He came 10 see the town. and curiosity
led him to enter one Of the so-called gar
dens In the Tenderloin, "Oh, sir, what
a lovely cane you've got" exclaimed
young woman who approached him. And.
picking up the stick, she tapped him light.
ho Ia,
diamond dropped out Of ITS setting and the
girl remembered an engagement she had
elsewhere. The young man now keeps n
firm grip on his stick. but he's wearing a
four-in hand fastened with q stick pin
worth about 10 cents.
Brooklyn has something rather unique
In tho way of clubs-an organization which
has no annual dues, no assessments and
not even club room. 1t is called the
Jolly Hundred and was organized near.
ly twenty years ago by 100 young men, |
For several years each member paid $50. j
by balls and benefits the amount in the
treasury was brought up to $780, 900, which |
was put In savings bank to draw inter |
est After that the members paid no |
more dues but the interest ON the clubs |
capital gives them two festivities a year
perhaps fine dinner In the winter and
moonlight trip In the summer. or some |
hing OF that sort. Each man must NJ |
end these affairs or forfeit $50; and when
4 member dies his heirs receive $1,000
sratuity from the clubs funds. So far but
me member has died. and 1t seems as 4
he club name should be changed 10 "rhe
Ninety and Nine"
a company OF energetic women Of So
'iety intend to make an interesting en-.
'eriment next Friday. They propose TO
make the innocent tea table the means Of
breaking down the alleged dividing vail