The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-09
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Ninth street.
THE streets are cleaner. the children are
cleaner and better behaved. but above all
Is the presence Of flower boxes in the win
dows. Hardly fiat or apartment In the
district Of the lower East Side but bears a
box OF plants Of some kind. Sometimes II
Is only pot Of geraniums but again every
window Is filed with towering plants"
A marked contrast was noticed last week
! at the American Theater between two
classes Of patrons. one the regular patrons
OF the house and the other the Jewish and
Yiddish folk, who were attracted to the
house by the appearance there OF Bertha
Kalioh.
Tho fine performance OF the woman was
at times marred by the fact that the Amer.-
can part OF her audience failed to appreciate
| the peculiar gestures Of her race and OF her
mode Of acting. while the Yiddish portion
could not understand all Of the, English.
| expected spots.
But there was one line which never failed
to bring down the house 1t "a this:
By her e father s she Is Greek, but by her
Some oddly Of pronunciation made It
sound to the American audience:
BY her father she Is Greek, but by her
mother she % llob."
A man who lives on the West Side Is being
guyed numerically these days about a
little mistake he made. His wife went out
to see some friends and left him to take
care Of the children, OF whom there are q
number. All Of them are small. She didn't
return until late and the children were
well how did the children behavei'
| was her first question.
.v Pretty we'll, except one was the reply
was the matter A minute later she came
rushing, down stairs. mo wonder he cried, :"
she said excitedly, that was Mrs. Browns
little Tommy"
Times changes are making . regular
polyglot parish for the Rev. DR.. d. j.
Mcmahon, who has charge Of the old church
at Second avenue and Twenty rst street,
and he has to hear many jokes about It.
Sometimes he retorts. He got the beet
OF one Of bis friends on this score the other
evening by remarking, o. he came into his
study, where the friend had been waiting
| for him for some time:
I'm sorry to have kept you, but we've
just had wooden wedding In the church"
Nonsense" said the other, =! never
such ceremony"
MOP answered the doctor, with q twinkle
in his eye. We'll now you'll know 1t here
after. 1t was for couple Of Poles
Among all the chang es that have taken
place in and about the Sands street entrance
to the Brooklyn Bridge, no one seems to
of the big sign at the head Of the stairway,
which for more than year has read.
1Warnign,' in the notice to passen gers
not to get in or out Of the windows OF the
cars.
There was a small fire in a tailor's shop
uptown the other day. which WAS caused
by a spark dropping from a customers
cigar into a tin pan containing naphtha.
which the tailor used in cleaning clothes.
The dana &c was slight, but nevertheless
the tailor was in no mood for frivolity.
When he was questioned by the authori-
ties as to the origin OF the fire he exclaimed
Vat use is dere asking questions' Dere
vas no insurance
Good models are hard to find said
well known artist the other day. "A lot
of ordinary ones apply at my studio. but
1t isn't twice in a year that find one whom
/ am glad to use. They may have good
figures and now and then see one with a
pretty face, but from the artistic point Of
they are not desirable.
AN artists Ideal Is woman with a
stature. But in the past few centuries the
head has been developed ut the expense
OF the body, and now we find that most
persons have heads entirely too large. The
tendency to outdoor life, however. may
again give us, women with, properly pro-
portioned heads-women such as the Greeks
have immortalized.'
A New Yorker and his wife moved from
Harlem to Crawford, N. j., the other day.
The man came in to business the next NOM
ing with smile that extended from his
cowlick to his Adams apple.
"I'll tell you the truth and see II you
believe it, -he began. I'VE had just moved
in and my wife was getting dinner when
somebody knocked at the door. 1t was |
our next neighbcr.
We saw your van he said, and knew
you would be too busy to get anything to
eat. Won't you give us the privilege Of
sen ding you in some dinnerV
provided. Ten minutes later the family on
the other side sent N an invitation to eat
with them. The man across the road sent
over his hired man to help lift thin gs. Now |
try to ina CINE all that heppenin in Harlem.
Somebody asked John Kendrick Bangs
at the Hippodrome II he could understand
the words that the chorus sings.
NO." replied the new fedged dramatist,
sadly, II haven't got wise enough to know
even my own lyrics when the chorus trans
lates EN-. How could l hope to recog-
nize another mane?'
The butchers who draw trade by giving
free with cuts Of corn beef have
a rival in little Fast Side place where, on
Wednesdays only. the purchase Of two
pound stewing chicken carries with 1t four
potatoe. and an onion. On Saturdays.
when the housewife's thoughts naturally
turn to chicken fer Sunday, the vegetables
must be purchased on the side.
Magistrate Pool is fond Of jollying the
lawyers that come before him. The other
day young lawyer asked that his mother
in-law be accepted as bondswoman for
a client.
lis your mother in Jaw worth anything?"
asked tho Magistrate very seriously.
The lawyer glanced around and saw
the mother-in- Jaw at his shoulder.
"She certainly is, Judge" replied the
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