The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-19
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

The shops Of the kitchen suppliers In
the French quarter are so attractive that
they bring many persons there from the
larger department stores. The cutlery
Is Of kind rarely seen anywhere else.
The number and variety Of knives that a
French chef must need, would never be
suspected. Then there are all kinds of
caps, aprons, white trousers scissors on
chains and other kinds OF culinary appa-
ratus that none but Frenchman would
use. There are even wooden sabots for
the cooks to wear and white jackets with
collars that look like Pierrot's These are
only few of the novelties that American
housewives occasionally wander over into
the French quarter to look at If not to buy.
II you happen to notice an apparently
ownerless pocketbook lying forgotten on
the platform Of West Side elevated sta
ton do not rashly make dive for it. II
you do you will find it like -the smile that
won't come Off" You will recover your
poise, but not your dignity, only to be
greeted by laughter from the agent, the
ticket chopper and the newsboy. The
trio at an early hour yesterday morning
were engaged In pounding three-inch
nail through the pocketbook into the
wooden flooring in such a way that the
flap concealed the nail head. Then they re-
turned to their respective posts grinning in
anticipation.
Its curious thing how healthful exer-
clses for children die away and revive" said
an old New Yorker. -The other day l saw
child rolling hoop in Madison Square, and
the sight struck me as novelty. When I
hoop, but it has been out Of fashion twice
since that time. The little people have
their fashions as we'll "a the grownups.
Yet hoop rolling Is graceful and healthful
pastime. l wopder II it Ia going to revive
4 never knew just how far the limits
Of Greater New York extended said
Colombia, until I crossed two chains Of
the Andes OF mule back to get to Bogota,
the capital Of Colombia. One Of the vehicles
found In use there is a prehistoric ark OF
a stage coach such as Is only used IN buhalo
Bills Wild West Show and the Humphrey
+. Murphy Association outings on Staten
Island. 1t gave me quite thrill 80 far
away in Bogota to see inscribed in what had
been letters of gold on the sides Of the
coach Brooklyn Bridge have been
wondering ever since how It got there
Gen. Nelson A. Miles recently attended
a smart tea in Murray Hill and sat near
suade the General to take a cup OF tea.
She closed her little appeal with the plati-
tude:
"You know. General, this Ia the cup that
cheers, but does not inebriate.' 49,,
aYes, replied Gen. Miles, 'that's Just
the trouble with it.
Since tho warm weather arrived the
young fellows and girls who come to the
park at night keep me pretty busy, said
an old employees of Central Park.
"The young folks have strong dislike
for places that are lighted up, so they re,
move the benches to dark hooks behind
trees. Every morning when ! come here
to clear up I find row upon row Of benches
removed from their places.
4 have to go on a hunt after the benches.
sometimes spending nearly whole hour
in doing so before l can find them all. Then
/ have to work like horse dragging them
back to their former places.