The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-10
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Collars are lower, and the man who wears
high one nowadays must realize that he
Is at war with the fashions for men. Few
Of the shops that cater to the most particu-
lar clientele are offering any high collars,
toners to buy eoilSrs Of medium height.
theatrical companies that are stnl re-
heasing W II next week have to give up
for several days the halls they are occupy
ing. There are few halls which have not
been occupied since the beginning ofAugust,
and. although there Is less ACTIVITY, there
now, most Of them are still In use by the
rented for the coming Jewish religious
hol days. Favorite cantors are advertised
10 sing at the services, for which various
prices are charged In the different halls;
In some as much as 81; so Ambulance VIII
actors will return to their places to finish
rehearsals.
A New York woman had q music box to
be repaired and sent for Swiss expert.
lately landed. When the time came to pay
the bill she was In the Adirondack and
so she wrote to find out. The address was
all right and she got this letter by return
mail:
My DEAR MADAM: l am very much thank
full and grateful for your kind commanicatal ton
Box w ss amazed shs at ooy
e eane &c ady
forward your communication and my humble
amount to above address, which | will receive
you best and long Of health and happiness
in those waysde beautiful mountains,
remain. very respectfully.
Odd bits OF timber and boards rejected
by the workmen on the subway job near
the Post Office are gathered up at once by
children and carried home for firewood.
Mister, will you lift that log to my sisters
head was the request to rasserby there
yesterday from one Of trio Of little girls.
They had all OF the firewood they could
carry in their aprons, and one OF the group
stood expectant beside block OF wood fully
three feet long, which must have weighed
nearly as much as her tiny self. She had a
handkerchief coiled like a turhan on her
! head in the manner Of italian women
! The request was so odd that II had to be
made to several before any one paid bee, heed d
! 70 IL. Finally, when a willing person lifted
| up the block and set 1t on the handkerchief
there was a little group gathered about TO
see the child walk of.
Unusual evidence Of the spread OF cigarette
smoking among women was furnished the
other night on an open car on the Third
avenue elevated line. woman who sat
in the last seat calmly took package OF
! cigarettes from her pocket and lighted one
! OF them. The surprised looks OF the men
| smokers who sat near her didn't appear 10
worry her in the least, and when she finished
the first cigarette she lighted another. The
woman appeared TO be a native horn Ameri-
can in not overprosperous circumstances.
His face was SO gloomy and he was so
evidently dow ncast as he sat in car re-
turning from Sheepshead Bay the other
evening that cheerful soul who sat next to
him sympathetically asked what the trouble
| was.
Il was blamed fool enough to play a
hunch," said the melancholy one 1T was
such a good bunch too. SO good, thought,
that went out end touched all my lriends;
You see my wife's name is Dorothy, but
always call her Dolly. The other day my
little girl was very naughty and made
face at her mother.
Dolly. spank her. 1 said.
Then it came to me all at once that a
cracking good three-year-old named Dolly
Spanker was entered in the Omnium Han
iicap at the track. Why, it looked like a
message from heaven; banded th e o9 '1,rd
Moneys gone and I've got the other Dolly
Tough luck" said the sympathetic
man. launches amt no good nohow."
A few weeks ago THE Sun made public
in this column the fact that looping the
loop is a great process->to sober up on
And now there's a new sign beside the
loop the-loop wagon. 1t reads:
No ticket sold to an intoxicated person.
you fellows pretty nearly swamped me,
said the attendant to a Sun man. For q
few weeks had every jag on Coney Island
and they're still coming, in spite Of the
sign.'