The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
LIVE tories ABOUT TOWN.

| A New Yorker who has just returned
from Paris sat yesterday in Fifth avenue
restaurant. He had been abroad for nearly
year ou 1900. . ,
fashion for Themselves he said, -and that
they cover their hats. never saw anything
like them in France, although saw women
at Longchamps and other places where
/ they might appropriately have followed
such fashion. But the New. York veil
seems a local invention or is, at all events,
confined to this country"
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the English
composer, Is coming to this country next
month. He is one OF the most interesting
, figures in the world Of music. and his visit
here would under ordinary circumstances
celebrities usually receive. But while Mr..
! Coleridge-Taylor's mother was English
his father was full blooded negro. He
was born on the western coast OF Africa
try by Washington musical society OF
negro singers, which is to perform sew
eral Of his works. He will spend some
time in New York.
The fashionable stationers have again
made it necessary for all who want to be
IN the last mode to change their card plates.
by new design in lettering, known as
French script 1t is not 70 distinguished
as either the old English or the pls IN script
that preceded it, but the new style has been
have been made for several hostesses there.
In contrast to this eagerness to adopt new
fashions Is the invitation that has been
used for years by the hostess whose an
nual ball is the most exclusive in New York.
That plate has already begun to show signs
of wear and no change in the fashions
has ever dissatisfied its owner with its
simple design.
"The most extraordinary bit OF mail
that has passed through my hands in many
day. said a clerk in the post Office the
othcr day, was a playing card, the ace
stamp was pasted. In the white margin
was written:
Keep your oath if you've got the nerve.
The card was addressed to man up.
State.
Folks living in the side streets In the
neighborhood of Long Acre Square have
been wondering why the kindling wood
they have bought recently from early
morning vendors would not burn The
fve-cent bundles OF sticks usually so handy
to start breakfast fires we're no more in
NaiHiLtpie uHn cay. One householder
took the trouble TO Investigate. he dis
covered that tho Italians who peddle the
kindling wood obtained their supplies
from the refuse timber thrown aside at a
new building in Long Acre Square which
had been treated with freproof solu- |
ton.
Now that the tourists and visitors to the |
country are coming home the stores that |
make a business Of looking after the wants
OF the amateur photographer are very
busy. In the spring they sell rolls Of Aim |
for all styles OF cameras and at this time |
OF the year they get the rolls back again |
to develop. Many who take pictures use
up dozens OF rolls and keep them until |
they return to town. One downtown house
last Tuesday took In more than 1000 rolls.
] hese rolls have ak or twelve pictures on |
each, no that a fair average would make |
that lot about 5000 pictures. OF these
the percentage OF good ones In very small
away as souvenirs OF the trip.
1t was Samuel crothers who recently
in an essay dwelt upon the great debt
we owe to the unconscious humorists Of
everyday life. 1t was one Of these hui
norists who delighted New York woman,
The guest OF an out OF town relative, on a
recent night, The small boy Of hefamiy
had been despatched to his
"oom on an upper floor and was supposed
% have gone to bed.
Mother (hak hour later, calling d. foot
" stairs(: Aren't you undressed ye1P'
Small boy. Nope