The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-25

fastldlops customers 10 demanding. .Lindn's
Ss.s9iiShmept merits notice and would repay
pice-lookinR. people in the trim apartment
house, politely, turn their hends lp the other
direction and LOOK over 70 where the cleaning,
the dealer In ornamental glasses, lamps and
peacock featherB displays his stock.
the rear. round on 8he other side. is backed up
10y quite cheerful, looking dentists and doctors
and dressmHkers' quarters and compensation
baths. where calm Asauredness of aspect
the tasteful apartment house. Diagonally op-
looking, dormer endowed set Of old houses
whose divers doinRs and divers seeming ten
ants would REQUIRE q microscopic minuteness
81 inquiry IL. separate them into their several
lastnessea. Many partitions. additions and
outside, flankings have been tackled onto the
I'M. and down countryside simplicity. A bis
cult and cracker company and a sale, exchange
s a,nyo so Sr stable a secondLhHnd dealer N
vegetables. are. the main tenants. with u sand
YichinR OF cobblers aud carpenters truck In
Intelligence. Office in the top story, over all
bangs out from a curtainless attic window a
strines rain merged and sun streSEed, a for
lorn epitome Of the anomalousnesa II crowns.
1p the, bottom, floor of the dingiest and most
shamblinR, OF these houses. the one that leans
most Openly for suppoTt against the brick wall
oil the iM-smelling stable, IA shop IL maintained
chat" and e%osSiyiaMI in seming. tho w1iI' more re
Hhrewd. than the soda fountain tender under
the big apartment house. This, little, shop
Noah'S. ArI. and tbere pre- smeary fpm bIers
beside II. and on shelves tackled up against the
solored mint dron Iozenges and the like. with
the assurance In English on stained brown Ia
per that a certain apportionment Of this can
dy. goes with the soda dram for one cent.
Behind the stopped-up windows In the little
shop Is q table where Q party OF convivials sit
chattinR over their dished -out cream. the
RtrinRa OF ODiOna on the wall behind them niN-
Ing distinct scent Of primitiyeness. Most in
teresting OF all the tenants that sit about and
lounge out on the topping stoops and on the
brew teacher, TO bs told by, his students cap
and coat of slick alpaca and by the absorbed
way in which he poses over a book, seemingly
deaf to the surginR turmoil around him.. The
afternoon sun Is warm and a little child lust
u single little undershirt. a garment that leaves
tern and fashion of the little pickaninny fig
urea that ecud about as light as ether on the
The tndiference and shiftlessness Of these
corner people are in pointed contrast with the
well-appointed inmates OF the apartment house
e8p essfs rs Of eff"S counte nance o''. The H Ii brew
teacher looks Renteel. after his kind, but in
genuous. unworldly, almost TO antediluvian-
ambitions nor bothered about eXiGencies.
They loo& of a pisce with the h~appy-Eo-lucky
houses that someho Y manage to stay up under
the protection of their petters.
And. all the time. on this Sunday leisure
afternoon girls quite creditably and stylishly
dressed promena lie In the midst OF the suualid
thronR with a simmer OF satin, a ft Of Skin
and bodice and a smartness of hat and head.
gear that is attractive. They walk well. too
the most OF them. and wear colors that accord
There Is something on the east side that con.
duces to a great lowering OF locks, black
brown and red-hued. and gives a bloom and
even cheap feathers. gilt fiummery and poorly
made gowns cannot disguise. Taken all II
all the east side Young woman in Sunday OeaI
Is more pleasing to the eye than the east side
young man; she gets herself up in better style
and carries out the character she elects to pic
richer for poorer. worse and better, is instinc
and abroad OF a Sunday afternoon. and there
right there in folk street with the grades o
gentility and refinement shining out in start
ling, evidence against the ranks OF the de
latter either hopelessly or happily poverty
stricken. according as they make IL or take II