Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
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speaking OF street car ana Otner kIhuS
of placard advertising" said man who
rides on street cars a great deal. reminds
me of many funny incidents going to show
how easy it is for wit or maliciously
disposed person to not only change the
sense of the advertisements but to even
do serious harm by their work L have
been riding out on certain suburban line
each DAY for over two weeks, and In near
" every car found that advertisement
had been posted telling of the merits or a
certain medicine designed to relieve infants
of coIiCs and make them fat and happy.
one particular sentence in the advertise
ment is. Babies who take 1t neither die
nor cry Now. what do you suppose was
done by some one on number of these ad-
vertsements? The letter N just before
neither and nor was scratched out, and
the. consequence Is that when | throw my
ewes up to the advertising cards | see the
statement that Babies who take it either
die or cry The advertising agent has not
had his attention called to the matter or he
would probably have corrected 1t before
now. This joke may attract attention to
the medicine. but the blunt recommended
ton will probably not induce many mothers
who accept this alone to give it to their
infants"
g.. A neat little episode occurred at the the
alter the other afternoon, when two women,
presumably lacking the maternal instinct,
got the better of two doting mothers. The
latter individuals, accompanied by two
Cherubic children, bought two seats in a
mezzanine box and went early enough to
the theater to secure the front chairs. No
seats were provided for the children. but
they were installed in the front of the
box, the entire party occupying the most
desirable space.
A few minutes later the two women lack
ing the maternal instinct entered the box
= 1i, al
all taken. In vain they remarked audibly
about the imposition of crOwding children
into places where they did not belong but
the mothers appeared deaf to all such SEN
timents Throughout the first act bland
satisfaction on the one hand and intense
indignation on the other reiSned in the
mezzanine box Then plot was Matched
and just as the curtain rose on the sec
ond act the two latecomerS rose from
their chairs and each quietly but deity
lifted a child from front to a rear seat
and placed herself triUmphantly in the
former. The move was made so rapidly
there was no time for eXpOstulation on the
part of the insulted mothers, and the
only vent they gave to their wounded SEN
sibilities was to glare at the offenders
throughout the remainder of the perform
ance.
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1t Is wonderful how quickly an ambi-
tiOus woman, when left to her own re-
sources, viii see an opportunity to make
a good living In a business that would
seem very unpromising to less clever sis
ter. remarked New York dry goods
merchant to a Star reporter the other
day. Il met such a woman recently and
she gave me a point or two as to how a
bright woman can make her way in the
world. She is a widow with three children
to support, and two years ago, when she
came to New York from the west. she had
just $500 left out of a $1,000 life insur-
auce policy of her deceased husband Mot
knowing what to do with such small
amount of money she wandered about the
city for a week or two looking at things
one day she saw the women crOwding the
life out of one another at a bargain coun-
ter sale of skirts and she got an idea
She let it develop for day or so and
then invested $50 Of her savings in silk
skirts that We're destined for the bargain
counter. They were crumpleJ and looked
faded and tired. out she took them as
they were at small prices and carried them
TO her rooms There she ironed them out
till they looked like new and then went
out in the suburban towns 10 sell them
She found ready purchasers at good prices
and came back for more. These she made
as good new and had no trouble in dis
posing of her stock.
"A few days later she bought fresh
supply of skirts and also added shirt
waists. When these had been sold out sht
next began puSlNS SnDp-WOrn silks, rem
naHts and that kind of stock and grad
ustly increased her territory and having
somebody To do the rnnOyating while she
was attending to the buying and selling
Well. her business has prospered to sucf
an extent that she now employs twenty
persons to renoVate and sci her dress
goods and she has built up a trade tina,
Is paying her this year between 800 anC
500 month. Her children are at a pri
Vate school. she supports her mother lives
well and has accomplished all this in two
years on a capital of SlJO with her business
tact"
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THE finest and most costly leather that
is used in this country for manufacturing
purposes is known in the trade as piano
leather said a leather merchant in New
York To a writer for The Star recently
This leather, so-called because 1t is ex-
clusiyely employed for covering piano ham
mers. is in its raw state an American pro-
duct. being the skin of the gray deer
which are found only in the vicinity of the
great northern and western lakes. But as
American tanners have not acquired the