The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


does not necessarily show that she needs
the money. 1t is true that she built in
London several years ago theater which
has been a source Of almost continuous loss,
but she Is not poor. She has mania for
increasing her cash bank account and Is In
the habit OF turning her property into cash
whenever she feels that her balance needs 1t.
To have her deposit 60 below a certain sum
seems to her tho approach of grim
poverty. Last spr ing she sold some OF
her jewels which she was not In tho habit
fallen below what she believed II should b..
1t is the prospect OF comparatively large
sum in q very short tine with no risk about
plays that has led her to decide to come back
hero In vaudeville.
Harvard men In New York arc speouistins
a to just what phrases President Eliot OF
Harvard viii ooin at commencement whom
be gives Herr Conried his honorary degree
President Eliot Us famous for his felicity
IN phrasing Q mans career on the spur OF
the moment. Some ono has proposed this
formula: Great operstio impresarto, ex-
pert in handling trades unions, skilled
creator Of dividends.'
Already patriotic Young America has
begun to celebrate tho Fourth Of July, and
the other evening some youngsters on
Amsterdam avenue developed q new idea.
That afternoon firm bad had mon through
the territory distributing cards which could
be cut out to form toy houses some three
inches high.
The youngsters spent tho afternoon In
houses, and then proceeded to dynamite
the structures by dropping lighted fire.
cracker down the chimney.
They had gathered more than hundred
@ft hn ,lo 4 L
required for the work Of destruction to Say
nothing OF the greater labor Of outing out
and folding the toys.
no wonder these benighted Yankees
have Indigestion said Kentuckian who
has just como to town to live. 'They don't
know what to eat. They haven't any gen.
uine hot bisouit-only misguided hunk OF
dough which died OF dropsy, was improp-
erly enlbalned, and then called butter
the real thing, In the first place the meal
is yellow, in the second place it is ground
too fine and in the third place the cook
committed the objectionable sin Of putting
sugar in it; Real oornbread is made Of
almost as coarse as bran. and as white as
-four; mixed with water and pinch Of
salt, nd baked in pone. Sometimes they
put egg in it, and then it's eggbread but
sugar never. Some enterprising lunch
stand man will make fortune some day
by making genuine cornbread and offering
it for sale. All the Southerners in town
will patronize him. Mnybe they might
induce him to keep genuine cracking bread
and old fashioned rye hominy. too
One Of the prettiest spots on the upper
West Side is the garden Of the home for
aged women on Amsterdam avenre, COM
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Back Of the house and easily visible both to
its occupants and the jewellers in all the
| nearby APARTMENT houses as we'll as to the
rasserbv this garden is an attractive green
! stretch in desert of asphalted streets and
treeless avenues. Here are planted pota :
toes, beans, peas, lettuce, beets, onions
and all that makes garden worth while
Then there re rose bushes, lilies, gera niu ms
yeones. a green terrace and little lawn.
where the white haired inmates sit in the
cool OF the day.
! Men can dress almost as they please
in the hot weather and they do it usually
in the way that will best keep them cool.
That was probably the idea Of passenger
in a trolley car on one Of the hottest days
last week He wore a black derby that
almost smoked with heat and his cutaway
suit looked like fairly heavy cloth. His
scarf was tied high about standing collar.
The sight OF him in such hot weather was
degrees. He wore, however. an express
sion Of perfect certainty that his dress was
all right for such hot weather. For he had
on pair Of white linen shoes.
Tho visitor to an uptown apartment
house the other day was admiring the
furniture OF the drawing room. An elabo-
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room. and when the woman stepped closer
to see the painting she observed that the
door was slightly ajar. As she opened it
to look inside there was a sudden ringing.
In establishment she stepped back and as
the bell continued to sound noisily she
recognized that it was telephone call. But
il was not until her hostess entered the room
that she learned that positively.
planned, TO hide it and make it more private.
One can talk in there and not q word will
be heard on the outside and II hides the
machine. 1t happened to ring just as you
looked in, otherwise you would never have
known 1t was there.
The four windows Of a New York club
which stands on corner OF Fifth avenue
offered the other morning the best possible
evidence that summer was here 1t was q
quarter after eight and in every window
facing the avenue there stood group OF
men talking together in numbers that varied
from two to Ave. They had all como there
to breakfast because their houses are closed
and ,hn;r families ont nf town. In winter
even the club servants are scarcely stirring
at such an early hour.
The youthful stepson Of 1gnaoe Pade'
rewsh who travelled with his illustriouf
father during the past season In this country
is to return here next winter to embark IN
the business Of musical management. ht
was convinced from the large profits made
by his relative during the season which has
lust come to a close that there was oppor'
unity for him in concert business.
BOUGHT COTTON FROM JURY ROA