New-York tribune., 1903-01-10


shylock was?' cried his father with look Of sur
prise and horror. Go and read your Bible SIR
A new end ingenious form OF beggary has ap-
peared. The beggars two woebegone dread
fully neglected looking little children, who are
doing the upper West Side business section
armed with this appeal: Little Nellie fell out Of
the window on Christmas Day Please give Us a
penny to buy a flower to put on her grave The
erafe hand and is undoubtedly the work of
older person who has sent the youngsters OUT 10
beg.
In Miss Cholmondeley's new novel she says of
one of the characters, She can't into
roon-she sticks in the DOOR. This coming into
room" comments "The London Graphic used
10 be taught formerly as one OF the graceful ac-
tions Of a well bred like sitting down
courtesying etc. Nowadays no one IS taught any
o. oo Ine I saas irlEind leaving the door open be
biud her or else slams it Violently She sits on
her gown which is al crunpled up nnagf GER heT, sI ao
less movement which is ungraceful as it is inef-
fectual.''
Loss Of sight hearing and speech for more than
sixty-fve years does not seem TO have anecteo
for the worse the usefulness OF Miss Lucy Read
OF Dandy Vt, who now, at the age Of seventy-six
challenges the admiration OF ordinary mortals with
her knitting. needlework bed quilts plush WORK.
etc. Miss Read cuts out patterns oy the alo +S Ts
with which She works BY the sense Of eft taste or
smell rarely making 11astaks- sae as 155o 5Tssds
her own needle with her tongue. In covering and
seines as er 6TaF she e07 vii ns box with a glass il
the cutting the glass herself Win ~ nIs s5s
monumental patience courage ana reS9inLion IG o,a
bowers and putting them to desultory and often
worthless uses
II is said that when Mrs Langtry presented The
Crossways' before the King and Queen there vas
TO applause from the parquet which remained
notionIess and silent The reason for this cold
ness was not however. antagonism 10 the play or
leading LADY, but the fact that the perform
F nsro1ef largely royal servants no one
dare5 applaud unless led by royalty Roya!ty IN
Zitb a result that must have been very damPing
and deadening TO the men and women on the other
An electrically lighted watch clock, espe-
ciallv designed for poor sleepers who everlast
ingly wanting to know what time il is, has ema-
mated from the brain of an Engshman. The clock
Is silver plated affair with face about inches
Fqgarfe e cbsTge6 for six months moderate use By
pressing rubber ball which esn 9e e9s@ peSIqe size
be flooded with light and the time of night in
stantly revealed
The foundation fund established by Nine. Bat-
fol for an annual distribution Of prizes TO girls
e-nploved in the shops Offices and factories of
Paris mas been increased from time time by
1,hilanthropic persons until at the present time
there is a neat little sum for disbursement by the
municipal councillors each year But money could
csrcey be better spent for the work girls of Paris
cheerful set of toilers in the working world and
among the most scantily paid. They contrtve 70
exist on something like $500 $50 year. paying
about $50 for housing Obviously only a FRACTION
could even by the closest economy, be saved from
srch a salary. and the prospect of a wage earning
old age is bleak and bitter enough. II is 70 pro-
vide against this dreariness and possible destitu-
ton that those who know the circumstances nave
from time to time given Of their means
II is At this season that the fnches, larks and
other small birds Of the towers and turrets Of old
Constantinople gather in large numbers prepara-
tory 10 'hockng further south And il Il at this
season that those who find sport in such things
devise II manner OF means to and kill them.
-TFoSe who cannot leave place large bushes
covered with lime sticks and hung with Gagged birds
on heir roofs Society women boast Of the number
their guns have brought down near revolving
mirror the flashes of which have irresistible at
traction for the iuqusitive larks IL does not
near that these utilized as food. The mere
sport of their capture seems TO be the attractive
cir ont