The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-09
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR TOWN.

The manager of an OK expensive bachelor apart
ment house on MURRAY IIill recently adver-
used an empty apartment aud waited for pros
pective tenants They arrived occasionally
during the first week. On "A later day when
the advertisement was once more printed,
they came in such numbers that by 0 o'clock
ten men had asked To see the rooms. II was
not long before the cause Of this sudden de-
mand was plain TO the manager. lie learned
II from the first arrival who locke at the en-
y rooms, admired their good points, aud then
showed Enthusiastically that he was disappointed
But where Il the C1uteenF" he asked.
The manager was amazed and could only
repeat, The cantce9Y- Then The visitor took
iisemcnt plainly read. 'Cantenn on promises"
wa z mistake for caterer ON premises. ="
But IN tho unprecedentlv long list Of men who
came 10 inspect the apartment that day. there
was not one who failed 10 inquire about the
cantecn.
The news that Iond,n halmakers are TO fol-
low American styles this year and make hats
smaller IN size shows that they have returned
TO their own models rather than that they
have copied the styles made here. The small
DERBY hat was imported here first from London
and so were the straw hats with low crowns
and narrow brims. but the local makers %intensi-
fled their peculiarities when they began to
manufacture them until they were so extreme
~ style az TO become distinctively American.
The small straw hats worn during the past two
or three summers In london have been the cause
OF some amusement to Englishmen, ard this
Vas disconcertinE to persons who thought that
the small American hat appears 10 have made
its impression in spite Of the criticism II has
sanda has N Seen 'h pnItv us snG Ss5sd q nls rropRr
Justice to acknowledge the credit due for THIS
result 10 Charles Bancroft Dillingham; of New
York and London, who has done more than any
other tItpTUaflOuQl celebrity IN nrpnOtp tho
cause Of the small hat on both sides Of the At
lnntic. Mr.. Dillingham; has steadfastly chung
10 mlniiniZed headRear for some years and Ia
more entitled to the honor Of having produced
this last evidence Of Anglo-American sympathy
than anybody else.
As a result OF the enormous audience that
heard tho first matinee performance given by
the English Opera Company at the Metropolitan,
two Broadway theatres have already reduced
their prices 10 a figure which puts the PERFORM
ances on Wednesday afternoons within reach
OF persons who might otherwise not be able 70
enjoy the pleasure OF hearing them. The
figures are not. yet so low as those prevailing
at the Metropolitan on Wednesdays In view OF
the ambitious character OF what the Metro
pulitan offers Cheapness Of opera In foreign
has often been discussed. but It Is cer-
tain that q performance OF the kind offered on
Wednesday afternoons could nowhere else be
enjoyed for 25 cents II the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Company accomplishes
NNAihA NAN b.tihs - o'h'ph Nlirlc wan Always
be the Creditable achievement Of having putt
the power OF 80 many persons TO hear
operas done as they are now by the English
company There Ia little likelihood that the
at these matinees will decrease, |
and their success Will probably have It's eject |
IN more theatres than the two which have 50
soon followed the Metropoutan's example.
Mrs. Alec Tweedie. who Is already well known
n England through her books Of travel. Ia
In New York on her way 10 Mexico. She |
has hitherto written about such countries as
Iceland. Finland and Norway. and Mexico |
will be the first southern country which she
las visited with literary intentions. Mrs. |
Iweedie first attracted attention through her
book "A Girls Ride 20 Iceland which she
In 1890, although II was intended
It first only for the enjoyment Of her family
Il home. IL was so successfulthat Mrs. Tweedie, |
BY tho advice OF Mrs, L. Lynn Linton, Samuel
smiles and Mrs. j II. Riddell. decided TO try
Ter hand again, and wrote "A Winter Jaunt !
o Norway" and followed this with Through
Finland in Carts Mrs Tweedie has recently
peen in Canada, which will probably also sup
by material for works on travel. She was
me ~ the SPEAKERS in French at the women's
held last June AT the Paris EXPOSE
Iou. She studied at Queens College in London
md completed her education in germany |
me Of her latest books is a life ~ her father, |
George Harley. a well-known London
lhysiClan. |