Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-30

ting herself arrested than by the method
she chose. Her STORY" OF the treatment she
received at the hands of the police matron
hasn't appeared yet, but 1t is due shortly.
Yellowism is getting 10 be a pretty deft
thing over this way.
Women Have Their Shoes ssShined.-
New York women don't make any bones.
about having their shoes polished in full
view Of all hands on the ferryboats There
is as simple matter of fact no good rea-
son why they should hesitate to do so. but
II is certain that the New York woman OF
nve or ten years ago wouldn't have thought
or such thing. Once in a while a more or
less oiondined young woman over here ex-
nipits the abhorrence in which she holds
the thing called conventIonality by taking
a seat on one Of the open-air bootblaclc
stands on downtown street and having
hec shoes freshened up. but such a one all
ways attracts a lot of attention, and there
Is no liability OF the practice becoming
common Women do. however, patrorize
In numbers the indoor bootblack stands or
rather. seats. of those shoe houses that
keep the shoes OF customers polished up,
ana 1t is no uncommon tn ng TO see them
in these shops seated alongside the frugal
men VINO take advantage of the opportunity
TO have their footgear polished up free Of
charge.
Two fentenarfans Contrasted.
A man died on Long Island the other day
at the age of l02. He attributed the great
length of his days to the fact that he had
lived an exceedingly even existence partak-
ing of only the plainest and most nourish-
ing food; that he had never In his life
touched tobacco or tasted LIQUOR mali or
spirituous; that he had never subjected HIM
sell TO the worries coincident to the connu-
Dial state, and that every day of his life
ram or shine, he had taken a constitutional
of several miles
Two days later there died in Newark. Y.
J., a jovial Irishman who had attained the
great age of 104. About year ago, when
the newark papers celebrated the old mans
Dlr,hoay by printing sketch of him. it
was stated that he attributed his long life
TO the fact that he had always eaten any
Ola tnlng ne wanted to eat and plenty of it,
whether 1t agreed with him or not; that he
hau peen an incessant smoker and chewer
OF tobacco since his twelfth year: that ha
had drank all the whisky, good and bad,
that he q been able to get hold of since his
eighteenth year; that he never under any
circumstances whatever, took any exercise
when he could wriggle out of It and that
he had married and buried five good wives
rest their souls" the old man wound M,
an On wouldn't moind takin' another at
me prisint age"
Pfckpockets on East River Bridge.
For several years past-since the begin
ming of the present Tammany regime. in
fact-theusands of persons who cross the
big bridge twice a day have been COM
planning of the prevalence of pickpockets
at the New York end of the bridge Not a
day passed that several victims did not re-
port losses of money and jewelry while
mlhsIng with the human swirl at the New
YORK end OF the bridge during the morn.
ing or evening rush hours Several nick.
pockets of international notoriety and with
their mugs" in most of the rogues' gall
leries of the United States, have often
been seen lowering around that point dur
ing the period covered by the complaints.
put none OF them seems to have been mo-
tested by the police. The newspapers call
ed attention to the presence of these ''Ieath-
er workers" and printed pictures of them
SO that the police authorities could have
no excuse, and yet none of them was
taken up, and the robberies from the per-
son have been going right on without inter-
mission Last week one of the cops" sta
toned at the New York end of the bridge
had his gold watch and chain lifted" and
since that time. oddly enough the COM
plants of pickpockets at the bridge have
come in much more slowly.
The liberty which psckpockets Of known
industry and daring are permitted in and
around New York is one of the numerous
pet grievances of Mr.. Jerome the coming
district attorney, and he promises us a
city in which theft from the person will
be rarer. than the black plague in the
Arctic circle. While it may be that this
young man is framing up a prodigious
amount of work for himself when he
comes into office, 1t does seem reasonable
enough to hope that, under his regime a
man or woman will be able to take ride
on the Brooklyn bridge without carving
Naluables under a suit of chain armor and
employing an armed guardian.
Old News WOman-s Riches
Speaking of the New York entrance to
the Brooklyn bridge, there is an old woman
who sells newspapers there. and who has
been selling newspapers around New York
for the past forty years. who amuses her
jollying patrons frequently by her exhibi-
lions of wrath when they undertake to
torment her. She looks a good deal like
Evening Star Mary" that well-known
Washington figure-and rigs herself out in
about the same sort of MISREPRESENTATION
makeup. And yet, six months ago, this
Old New York newswoman paid $4,000 in
solid cash for tenement house on the
East Side that the wanted an invest
ment. She was tremendously indignant
when the newspapers dwelt upon her pur-
chase of this tenement house. fearing that
the effect of the announcement would in
jure her business. Her wrath over the
matter was so pcturesquely expressed that
most of her hundreds of young men patrons
Tow habitually ask her, morning and even
Ing, as they take their papers from her
erty, so that the old woman is I'm a state
has twice been arrested for expressing her
self too forcib1y under such tantalizing cir
cumstances. And if one remembers COR
rectly, Evening Star Mary herself dis
tinctly objects to having any of her GUS
toners intimate that she is possessed Of
large secret means. c. L. c