The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-21
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


More money IL taken in at the subway
ticket booth under the Brooklyn Bridge
entrance than at any other. Tho average
daily receipts there, except Sundays, are
S2,400, one-third Of which is taken In 1t
night. Through the day thore are two
ticket sellers on duty, but at night there
Is only one.
, Jacob Adler, the Yiddish traeedian, tolls
a story illustrating bow even seasoned
actors win lose their lines or forget that they
are on the stage at certain times. He was
playing Macbeth, and the time had como
for the Fia Murderer to put In bis appear
ance at the entrance to the banquet hall.
This worthy was young actor Of consid-
able experience in minor parts. but Of
nervous temperament.
Macbeth walks up to him and pointing
sternly at him, remarks: There's blood
upon thy iaoel' As Adler did 90, the young
putting his hand TO his cheek, replied:
my Godl Is therep'
A young man strolled into florists last
week and spent bali his weeks salary on =
bunch OF roses for young woman a. q
remembrance Of her birthday anniversary.
These he sent to her by a special messen-
ger, enclosing his card with few select
words Of good wishes.
He stationed himself around the corner
from the young Eoman's residence. await y.
latter appeared the young man asked him
whether he had seen the young lady and
what she had said.
Yes replied the messenger, y seen
her. She, was satin on the porch Wit g
s give ke ,' the ses s w. al light. '
And what did she say7'
Muffin to me, but she asked that other
guy II he wouldn't like one Of the roses for
his buttonhole, and whom he said Yes
she picked one out and pinned 1t on him
herself.
The possibilities OF green corn as . salad
do not seem to be Known to many restaur-
rants or housekeepers, but properly pre-
pared nothing is more palatable. Tho corn
should first be boiled until we'll done and
then cut from the cob with q sharp knife
and allowed to cool. When thoroughly
cold mix with sliced cucumbers, string
beans. finely sliced young onions and as
paragus tips. Mig thoroughly With g
with lettuce leaves. Com and apples
mixed together make delicious salad, and
the cold corn alone with lettuce hearts Is
very appetizing served with mayonnaise
A succotash salad Of corn and beans with
a French dressing made with Tarraeona
meal
Il bou ght a rather expensive French trav-
cling clock here not long ago. but it doesn't
keep good time; it rs always fast COM
planned q woman to salesman In Q Broad
way jewelry store.
1T is better for travelling clocks to run
AL <lav id ha tox,
man. .The traveller will then have plenty
Of time to catch trains.
ooh! l never thought Of that. It's a
good idea" admitted the woman, as she
left the store smiling.
The absentminded man took his first
ocean bath Of the season yesterday. Care
fully he donned his new bathing suit. When
he cached the sands he did not hear the
giggles OF several girls or the loud outlaws
of the men. As the first ripples of water
spashed against his feet he became dimly
conscious that he was making something
Of a sensation. and smiled as his mind re-
verted to the new suit. He continued his
march into the briny until the water reached
was curling in toward him, and the absent
minded man was preparing for o fine duok-
ine when q life guard lifted him almost
bodily above the crest Of the wave.
whats the matter?" he demanded as
he was led to the shore.
sOf course tie none Of my business"
exnlained the life saver, but are you sure
YOU want to wear that new straw hat in
the water?"
sYou New Workers. arc . pretty swift
bunch, and your boast that man can get
ANYTHING be wants at any hour in Gotham
comes pretty, near holding good said
the Philadelphian, but even II Philadelphia
in one thing at least. Over there We can
buy money orders or get them cashed and
we can register letters at any hour, day
ar night. seven days q week. / am sur
prised that your General Post flee at least
doesn't afford these facilities
II you want to know the temperature
and there's no Thermometer handy, ask
somebody that is out and about all day
long and day after day, like. say. the letter
carrier, The man keeping still and in one
place can't tell much about 1t, and he may
20 far wrong; but the man all the time
Out and moving about comes to be sort |
Of human thermometer; he is hardened,
but yet sensitive to every variation ,i,n OF the
pretty close to telling the temperature.
Ono of the notable sights from the east
erly windows Of the Columbus avenue
elevated railroad Is the array Of women
driving their hair in the sun in the windows |,
Of their flats after home shampoo. On a
bright warm day hardly block passes
without an example.
Some Of the women face the window |
and throw their hair forward over their !
faces like a veil; others sit back to the win |
dow and spread their tresses out over the |
back of a chair A few are assisted by a |
friend or a maid to keep the hair shaken out |
loose 80 that the warm rays and the air |
nav have a more rapid effect.
Sunday in particular Is the day for this |
indulgence. On a recent bright Sunday |
an idle man counted twenty-three heads |
Of hair of all hues drying in the sun between |
and Fhty-ninth streets.
Bessie Abbot, who Is coming back here |
10 sing in concerts next winter, was earning |
with her sister $500 week in vaudeville |
when the grand opera bee began to buzz
in her bonnet. and after several years OF
study here she went to Paris and ulti-
mately sang with success at the Grand
Opera in Paris. All that time, Of
course, she never earned as muoh as she
!, q oottip q hare In the continuous theaters.