New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

ohiy once" said the hurry-up restaurant pa
'Ioh' uid ever try to correct the table manners
OF any one there. My neighbor at the table-there
were SIX OF us-was sticking hi, knife into the
common butter plate He was a rough. burly IN
uiViuuai, ana when I protested against his act
though did II politely I thought there might be
a rev words But there weren't. He said he was
bury neg hba begged sS my pardon Next to my
looking. well dressed man. He seemed courteous
ana IN every way well behaved. He was smiling
with the others ooshs on he raised his own
klIe IN me most deliberate manner possible. clear
what had complained Of 1 waited for rein
said word, nor did my bury neighbor. and saw
I'VE Was oeaten didn't order any dessert that
The trouble OF selecting the Nan Patterson
| jury said the New-Yorker who used to live In
Schuylkill County. Penn reminds me of a man at
nome he Is retired grocer OF moderate means.
who spends most of his time when court is in ses-
SION, or soon to go in session about the county
keenest kind of desire to get his nam ne S the
papers do and Incidentally he is glad to an
Grafton eat 49,, So whenever I go back to the county
old Man oiN ,bers al h rne % use to see
serve on the jury
The handsome oak benches on the subway sta
tion platforms look so out Of place that some per
sons hesitate to sit down on them while waiting
for trains. though they were put there for that
ppnrpoSe, An elderly couple visitors from up the
cooking at one Of these settees at the Brooklyn
t nbfse station the other day. Despite the fact
the settee was unoccuped mo. Maria' the man
bench You don't see any one sitting ON them o do
you Ihey weren't put there 20 sit on. They're
Portable" 'i@"e '''''eS ''ON '0ii
The conductor took the nickel prorrered by the
SlAIn-aVe. surface qIa IN and
handed 1t back mo good; plugged" he said. The
PASSENGER gave him another, which the conductor
the car the Conductor a 6he PASSENGER had lst
! .TIHa passenger who was having dry smoke
that bum nickel off on me cant blame him
for I gave it to him in the first place He failed
10 notlce II was plugged that morning but by the
next next day he had found it out, and when he rode
that nickel and we're old 70 chnm .0r ms had Te saSe
Tith me too long to be forgotten. I gave it back
lapse Of memory for he lands it out eyerv me morn
dg He even tries to disguise himself; wears
ears to hide his face thinking / won't recognize
nm nm But he fails every time. I mistake
What boon to womankind and. to a lesser de-
gree man. are those store show windows which
allow one TO see ones face reflected in A looking
slass! Especially Is this true in these days when
broadway is gusty and harpins and hstpins are
ebo 10 Iae denands made on them Before the
passed the scyia of the FistiFon or the CSarybiis
/
rayels her back hair from its tangle In the front
position. She again puts in orderly array hair
pins that stick out from her head Ike tumble of
jaokstraws She pulls her hat from its resting
place on one or the other and more it
assumes it's normal position. This she does with
hatpins and hatrpins and common pins and the
end OF her veil between her teeth FtTst-aid to-the
with propriety. Humanity, be il pretty or homeiy
! loves to look at itself. and they who with non
Ghalant air saunter no to one of these show win
dows, ostensibly TO look at the goods therein dis
played, often conceal their true motive. Pres
| face. A cravat is frightened. collar is ad-
moved and the hair smoothed: various adjustments
OF things awry are made. Serene in the confidence
! that they present an exterior beyond criticism.
| they saunter on again.
They save once a week the electricity and
! increase the dividends is the remark one NAV
| hear any Sunday night at any station on any one
of the several elevated lines 1t is called forth by
the fact that gas. instead OF electricity lights
| every station from midnight until : a. m on Sun
| day mornings. The gas is weak and the burners
few and the contrast between the usual brightness
and the Sunday night darkness is VIVID. As mat
| ter Of fact. however these conditions due
! to any attempt at ecOnomizing the electricity
! that supplies the lights. IL Is necessary once a
week that the apparatus that furnishes the light
ing power should he inspected in the main and sub
sidiarv power houses. The hours chosen are those
in VIII iCb here iS he az