The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-24
1--we TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


goods district that Valentine hosiery is
now on sale and Is expected to divide favor
with pocket stockings. A Fifth avenue
shop which makes a specially OF hosiery
| Is responsible for it.. Besides the allover
X-ray designs and openwork instep patterns
there are hand embroidered effects in white
| on black grounds Hearts predominant
! in the designs Some Of the lace Isle thread
/ kind have variety OF embroidered treat
ments in gold and assorted colors:. TO
My Own Fond Love and TO My Valen-
| tine are favorite sentences in the en-
| broidery Treatments. The announce
ment says that silk Valentine hosiery sells
over the counter IS pair.
| The autograph business has received
a black eye up at the Metropolitan Opera
House and nobody feels more relieved than
the singers. They have received from the
Actors Fund printed cards saying that
the autograph requested will be sent on
receipt OF dollar to go to the support OF
the Actors Home. Since those cards have
been sent on their way there has been
less enthusiasm among the fiends who make
the life Of all the singers burden. In not
a single case so far has the dollar been sent
back with second application
The truth of this story is vouohed for by
the victim;
Where is that old blue coat knocked
around in last summer" he asked his wife.
She was not quick to offer an explanation
1t was here only yesterday" remarked
the husband. Il know il was"
YES" said the wife with touch OF anger
L know 1t was Just got sick and tired
of seeing that coat and a lot of other old
stuff lying around cluttering things up,
and | sold it this morning"
You sold il, Sold the coat-the old
blue coat?'
Yes. sold it. And l don't want you
TO go around moping about IL.
Dear. didn't want the coat, but to-
morrow is your birthday and ] had hidden
a ring and a nice yellow bill in the inside
pocket wanted TO surprise you and |
couldn't think of better hiding place.
The victim says that what happened
after that is nobody's business.
There is progress in all things. even in
the Irewood industry in its humbest form
The familiar sight Of an Italian woman
balancing pieces of old plank on her head
may not last much longer in the wholesale
mercantile district This wood is chopped
10 and sold One Of the women wood
gatherers discovered recently that by using
a pushcart she could gather "A great deal
more wood than she could carry. She
communicated the great discovery 10
countrywoman. they dubbed their earn
ings and bought pushcart Now there
are more wood laden pushcarts than wood
carriers 20 be seen moving toward Null
berry Bend in the evening. and another
bit Of local color has gone.
negro, bleeding profusely from scalp
wound but smiling withsl. shutfied into the
Tenderloin police station the other night
and addressed the sergeant
-Mistah Cap'n, ah tink Aim shot An
doan know for sho, but All know All done
got hit somehow. Yoh see All went over
to see Joseph Jones, an All knock on his
doah He tell me not to come in cause
his wife s tahn' bath.
-Ah went out in de hall an den All knocks
agin Joseph Jones he opens de doah an
he says he doan low no niggah to come in
heah a gun 60 OF an An see Joseph pull
out a razah an a blackjack.
-Ah doan know, Mistah Cap'n. whether
Joseph done shoot me VIII de gun, or cut
me wifi de razah. or hit me wifi do black
lack but All think All m shot"
The little girl was on her fathers knee
saying her next days school lesson, and
he asked her a question the answer TO which
he knew was not on the pages before him
Papa she said. you mustn't expect me
10 answer that. m past mat. ! studied
IL more than weak ago.
Many unnecessary ambulance calls evoke
the indignation OF the surgeons OF the
city hospitals Bellevue thinks it has the
most provoking on record. At o'clock
the other morning a Bellevue surgeon was
routed out Of bed to drive over slippery
When he arrived he found a private ply
stefan waiting beside patients bed
Sorry TO trouble you, doctor" was the
cheerful greeting of the physician in pos
session, but this lady has been eating
something that doesn't agree with her, and
| want to borrow your stomach pump
DO you take me for a messenger boy7-
snorted the ambulance surgeon.
The stomach pump went into operation
but it wasn't used by the private physician.
and he was obliged to 60 without fee.
Ever see the theatre crowd from Brook
lyn here on its way 20 Manhattan?' asked
one OF the guards at the Pennsylvania
station in Jersey City. oh you can see
EN-. Queer, isn't it. to hear OF Brooklyn
ties going to New York by way Of Jersey
City, but very many OF them do. They all
think it's a rich secret.
lhey take tne emmy anna annex Ierry-
boat from Brooklyn here, rush and go on
by the Twenty third street ferry. Ii seems
that while this ia the longest way OF getting
to the theatre it's the shortest and suresT
from Brooklyn Heights.
You can always tell the theatre crowd
by the way it is dressed And we'll clothed
as the folks are they would like 10 beat the
company out OF a three-cent fare. 40 We
have 10 be on the watch for EN- That is
why our special attention has been attracted
TO The fact that II is a theatre crowd
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