New-York tribune., 1905-01-20
ABOUT TOWN.

In instructng agents TO discourage smoking IN
the waiting rooms Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
the management OF the road incidentally gives
lesson polite department to its officials The fol-
lowing notice to agents may be seen posted in
Brooklyn elevated stations:
Apparently very little effort is made by agents
prevent the practice of passengers smoking in
Agents who notice passengers smoking win call
their attention 10 the rule by saying, Please do
not smoke in the waiting room"
Housekeepers on the Park Slope. Brooklyn were
Just bit puzzled by a circular stuffed in their
grocer It began by announcing, We VIII try by
every fair means 10 make you glad If you join
list OF satisfied customers" Then 1t gave a few
sample items of the stock carried. among them
thing to excite the appetite for drink six in box Is
cents" Now what the housekeepers wish To know
is Did the grocer get his parcels Of circulars for
the household trade mixed with that for drink dis
psnsarles?
At the northwest end Of the horseshoe which
circles the second tier at the Metropolitan Opera
House is for the press. which is to its
cupants sacred precinct The rank outsiders.
matter how many millions Of this worlds goods
they may possess or how high their social station,
who by any chance drift into this room between
acts OF the opera are subjected 10 a battery of
marks directed not so much al them as around
them which usually causes their speedy exit. Only
the music critics. the messenger boys and Mr.. Con-
red have the free entree 10 this room, which is by
turns a workshop and a hatchery for epigrams
Accordingly. when about two weeks ago. August
Spanuth the music critic Of The Stats ZeitUng'
rose from his labors. handed his copy TO messen-
ger boy and sought his outer garments. great was
his surprise to find his silk hat missing There
other critic with silk hat that night
Mr. Spanuth which caused him 70 make certain
remarks not calculated TO smooth the latter's al
ready ruTied FEELINGS There was one other hat
In the room but this, when II was donned by M
Spanuth. proved many sizes too small. perching
his blond head Ike wen. An usher was sent out
70 ind an owner for this hat. but without success
Mn SpanUth went home hatless, and for two weeks
no trace of his hat found
and announced thar h. had ID Sat too large for
him Mr. Spanuth leaped from his chair. Let me
look at il" he cried Sure enough within were the
your head larger than minee''
corner The two principals looked sharply al the
SPEAKER but he was busy writing agatn with the
face of a sphinx
That reminds me-" Mr.. Conried began. The
critics stepped in their work-au but the man
in the corner "Of two uncles of mine Mr.. Con-
red continued ''in the fatherland one stingy
and never bought new hat: the other not
One cay my stlngy uncle was crossing bridge IN
'kowd. II was a windy day. and his old hat
bleE Off as did several others. Ny uncle picked
up the best Of the lot and went his way.
uncle's. told the generous uncle that his brother
had achieved a new hat, and then 70 temper his
his new hat' cried my uncle. We went out into the
hall His Nd was my generous Unclc's. and
took his own hat away and left the old one above
1 How are the lights weTking tO-HightF' some
Rotten said the sphinx in the corner
The Hteralness Of children Is sometimes quite
startling" said a kindergarten teacher the other
day 4 was getting little chap Of five to form