The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-11
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR TOWN.

The greater profit that comes from the
sale of women's clothes may be under
stood from the way in which every shop
embarking in this industry ultimately
yields to it's attractions When haber-
dashers begin to make waists for women
they usual end by giving up their original
BUSINESS altogether. he same thing hap
pens when mems clothing stores add a
Women's branch TO their enterprises,
It's the increased profit that causes the
change. said merchant who had passed
through II himself. I'VE soon see that
we can get much better prices from the
articles we make for women, though the
outlay IL the same Greater profit lies
always in dress for women"
Yes remarked young man in the
car, I'm for the all night bank, but the
crying need Of these times Is an all-night
haberdasher. Listen TO this tale OF woe
L had an invitation last night to an
affair that was just Bohemian enough to
begin at 1890 O'Clock 80 that the theatrical
guests could come in on the thick Of IL,
and just conventional enough 30 that you
wouldn't dare appear in "a business suit.
Now yesterday afternoon / remembered
that I'd dropped my studs out OF my suit
case few days before. So / went into
haberdasher's and bought a set OF cheap
enamel ones, the kind that come apart
and fasten with q snap.
About 10 o'clock 1 began to dress.
About 1918 put the studs in my shirt
They wouldn't work. I'm not enough
OF n mechanic to know what was the matter
with them, but every time / expanded my
manly ohest-bingl Out they popped
I tried every game I knew on 'em for a full
half hour. No go. They would not stay
together.
rushed from room to room to borrow
Every one OF them was out. and every one
the landlady told me. had worn his even
ing clothes 1 did burglarize the room Of
the man 1 knew best of them all, trusting
that he might have an extra set and wouldn't
mind my using them. Nothing doing
Finally | stripped OF my toys, telephoned
TO the hostess that l wasn't well and went
to bed.
Now suppose had been keeping girl
waiting? 1 say that this city needs all
night haberdasheries.
Tho popular downtown method Of melting
SNOW 10 the cross streets, by building big
fires under the heaps in front Of the stores
ia likely to be particularly hard on those
thoroughfares where tho new wooden
pavement has been put down. The wooden
blocks are saturated with pitch, and when
the snow fire gets good and hot and burns
down to- them there will be series OF
charred holes to spoil the smoothness of
the roadbed. The asphalt streets suffer
already in the same way.
A New Years supper given by the pro-
prietor OF hotel near Longacre Square
is still the talk OF that neighborhood. Into
one Of the subterranean apartments of his
hotel this proprietor mysteriously invited
some of'his men friends. They. were all to
come in fancy dress TO very piquant mid
night supper To man they accepted,
and were at the height OF their gaiety at
about o. clock in the morning.
Then the host let loose his little Joke.
The door opened and the wives Of all the
guests entered. As the party was still
stag until that time, the complication was
not 80 serious as it might have been.
One Of Theodore Thomas's brothers is
still living in this city and active in musical
affairs, although in a different way from
his more distinguished brother He Is the
tickle. taker at the Philharmonic concerts
and can always be found in his place at
Carnegie Hall. He is younger than the
late conductor. The youngest brother IS
in the theatrical business