The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-15
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

about ~ years old. At last the agitation
reached the danger point and ono Of the
women exclaimed
"Im going to speak to their mother
about I'll don't like to SEQ twins dress
alike, but there's something wrong about
a mother who gets one daughter q dozen
gowns to the other daughters one; and
shoes and lingerie and everything else in
the same proportion!'
At this psy Geological moment the mother
joined the group. and the spokesman was
driven by the glances Of the others to be as
good as her word and bell the cat. The
mother burst into almost hysterical laugh
ter.
you are right. she said. -there Ia some.
thing wrong about it, and II any OF you will
tell me how to make it right shall be most
grateful, It's this way: Dolly is neat.
stubs out her toes, lets her hat ay on into
the ocean or damages her clothes In any
way; while Polly 10 perfect terror. In an
hour she can make complete new outfit
| look as IL a Japanese shell had struck II,
| Oh, yes, know. I've tried disciplining
her by making her wear her damaged
clothes, but she doesn't caro- In the least,
| while Of course II mortifos me almost to
death to have her look 30. Now, any OF
| you can tell
II want one Of those teething articles,
said the man with an infant.
"You mean q baby comforter" said
the druggist.
although to judge by the comfort ct
when the baby Is chewing on It, you ought
to call 1t Dads comforter"
"This Is the queerest precinct In the city,
said Smiling Harry Smith, the policeman
at the Brooklyn Bridge.
"How's that?' asked his neighbor.
well, you see,' replied the bluecoat,
.it's the only New York precinct IN which
the station house is out Of tho borough.
You know, it's in Brooklyn, on Washington
street. Then. it's tho only precinct which
has no station house In It; the house Is IN
Bridge
Eyes. and you can stand in this precinct
and be over another in New York and over
third on the Brooklyn side.
Draw poker, which was the favorits card
game on political outings in former years.
| remarked an East Side politician, "is DO
| coming unpopular this year. and bridge
whist ia taking Its place In former years,
BOXER games would start in different parts
! OF the boat. Now you will glance around
! and see them playing bridge whist
an the popular mind, the stokehole OF q
| big steamship Ia the hottest place In which
human beings are called upon to labor,
said a steam engineer, but the subceliar
of a skyscraper, where the boilers, engines
and dynamos are located 10 very close
culiar architecturaf difacultles have been
encountered the engine rooms are veritable
| furnaces. In summer, one sometimes gets
an idea OF the under sidewalk temperature
wherein men are roasting, when ne passes
an open ventilator and = wave OF hot air
that starts Precipitation IN second strikes
him."
She was picturesque: he was athletic,
alert and interested In every one. They
appearsd TO be the best Of friends, and she
was evidently generous toward other
women. for as the two lounged on the sands
at one Of the fashionable beaches she did
not resent his enthusiastically expressed
admiration for her natural enemies.
there's fine, vigorous looking girl.
the listener heard him say. with manifest
preference for the buxom and sumptuons
| in womankind and his slim, lissom COM
panion added without envy:
.Yes and she's graceful. too. and 30 on,
indefinitely. What more liberality could
woman show?
After about an hour Of that sort OF thing.
however she finally turned full on him
the the : sss .s, we of her big brown
az" s1' cT ike to have YOU show me good
He proudly called attention to himself.
"Yes, l know. she said. but another;
ri fAo hn roan0ndad a
Rooseveltian grin. but there's one that's
The girls eyes lighted up "a she looked
| at the man indicated.
she She said snsnu snd
Her Companion changed the subject
A few minutes later, the stranger again
passed them In his walk up and down the
There's that handsome man again.
said the airl; and the listener heard q barry
| tone growl that sounded like:
-Fat bloke.'
1I'd like to know how she got her fine
bronze tan in two days. said the woman
on the seaside hotel piazza whose face was
az red as a lobster, pointing to another
woman who looked as II she had been IN
the sea every day since June. She came
to this hotel the same day came, and she
VI was as fair as a lily, She must have a
wonderful skin to tan in two days"
THAT'S easy" said beauty specialist
who overheard her. Take a cucumber
to the bathhouse with you. Just before
YOU 10 to the beach, split the cucumber
and rub the juice we'll into the parts to be
eIposed. then sit in tho sun till 1t dries
before taking the surf 1t gives the
REGULAR bright bronze color 30 much de-
sired in a few hours. and prevents sun
burn soreness
Every time lunch with my cousin Ed
ward" said an architect whose work usu-
ally keeps him north Of Twenty-third street,
" get different kind Of meal.
Edward deals in unlisted securities,
or, to put it vulgarly, he is a curb broker,
and his prosperity IL the most changeable
thing in nature. I dug him out OF the
Broad street mob, one noon six months
aeo and suggested our having something
to eat together. He was smoking bad
cigarette when found him. AZ was In
a strange country, asked him to lead the
Way. He took me down to q longshore
beanery where, he claimed, you could get
more beans for nickel than anywhere this
side OF Bunker Hill Nothing would induce
| - y. hro.L orr old rr,la ~ every man nav