The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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that's a. nice piece OF surgical tailor
ing as have ever seen, remarked doctor
who was about to remove the stitches from
damaged hand. 'Who fxed you up2"
"A Japanese student nurse In Roosevelt
Hospital" was the answer.
THAT explains II. said the physician.
Those Japs seem e have 2 marvellous
ness and attention to detail have much to do
with their success In this, al In other lines.
But one thing we should remember, when
we speak Of their wonderful cleverness,
and that IL that the Japanese whom We meet
here. in hospitals. colleges or stores s, are
Of their race. Weshould not judge all Japan
by these voluntary exiles.
@The trading stamp craze docs not seem
to he quite 30 active here lately said o
man just returned from his vacation, but
II certainly has taken good hold on other
places.
Il went on Q sea trip for my vacation,
fax. The Bermudans are simply Wild over
trading stamps. Every store has them,
and the natives collect them feverishly.
with the ambition to exchange Q book
full for some ornament for the parlor
mantelpiece.
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only the people there are less excitable
and collect their stamps In the matter Of
fact, businessike way OF the American
housewife"
Among frequenters OF the public libraries
are certain @ffxtures"- who visit tho
Institutions to remain most II not all day.
They spend their time reading along chosen
lines, sometimes taking notes, often falling
asleep, and never by any chance applying
their researches to any practical use. Usually
the man is we'll past middle age.
Investigation will Disclose many curious
library lovers. One .last leaf has spent
thirty years going through encyclo pedias
and similar gigantic compilations. His
keenest delight Is to discover errors OF date
or misstatements. These he never fails
all the matter he can lay hands on referring
to flying machines and sroetatics In gen.
eml. In ten years he must have digested
collectively Thousand volumes, POM
phlets, &C., yet he sits there day after day
wrapped in his imaginary improvements
Still third races through volumes Of
religious character. growing unduty ex-
cited over a tenet or exposition which
happens TO please or provoke him. Many
Of the old bookworms arc veterans OF
A man who returned recently from
Europe said the other day:
There is q man employed on every
Transatlantic liner, whose duties but one In
q thousand travellers know about.
Il tried to find out on the trip out, blu
only succeeded In Satisfying my curiosity.
OF the last day II the homeward trip.
He never does any work. and yet be 10
always to be seen quietly walking about
the dining saloon. Travellers note that he
never loses sight Of the saloon stewards,
has to do on every trip is to see that these
same stewards do not throw the dirty dishes
overheard, to save washing them, when no
one is looking
woman know takes the bun,' said Fifth
avenue designer Of fashionable gowns.
She Is Kentuckian and before she married
a New Yorker was Louisville belle. EAIly
In the spring planned sage green toilet
for her. Several days ago I suggested an
alteration for this gown.
.Oh, no." said my patron, 'I've already
sent that outfit down home. You see,
have little scheme of my OWL. and Il works
cost me practically nothing About two
weeks before the county fair pens at bards-
town l send all Of my last season q dresses
and hats to a woman who sells them for big
prices. It's q good scheme and enables
me to dress way beyond my income.
The pro prietors Of the various resorts at
Fort George are thrifty lot and they use
every possible resource to increase their
profits. Brass bands and vocalists and
instrumentalists are necessary adjuncts to
their business. The bands, Of course, have
to be paid for, but they get their soloists by
an economical device. They hire no waiter
who cannot either sing or play. If they can
do both, so much the better, and the singing
and playing cost nothing A visitor at one
OF these places may be served with refresh
ments by q waiter one moment and the next
moment will see him on the stage with apron
discarded.
.One thing like about New York" said
the man from the South. ais the prevalence
of paper money. I've been here a month
and have seen only one silver dollar. and
the man who gave me that in change apol-
O eized for it. Down our way one seldom
sees O one dollar or two dollar bill, and they
are usually filthy from long usage. Silver
change pulls all Southern pockets out Of
shape and is nuisance. The reasonf
We haven't any Sub-Treasury nearer than
Washington, and the banks have to pay the
money to be replaced, 80 they use silver.
IL q only few minutes work and no ex pense
for a messenger to get any quantity OF old
money replaced with new in New York.
.Soupe d Toignon (good for all head
aches)" reads the bill Of fare in brdsseris
in Eighth avenue To the uninitiated
the suggestion of onion soup as headache
cure seems curious, to say the least. Yet
it Ia an article Of faith with Frenchmen
that this delicious broth made from semi
baked onions, bread and cheese, is a certain
remedy for all the pangs Of -the morning
after" ,.
Onion soup Is the occasion for a little
Joke among Frenchmen, based on its head
ache curing properties. 1t is referred to
often az 4soupe d Piurogne' or .drunkArds
SOUP There is just enough similarity In
the pronunciation Of oignon and irro0ne to
make Partisan smile at the fun.
"A quarters WORTH said the passenger,
who boarded the Br oadway car at Cortlandt
street yesterday.
Say, where do you think you are3' was the
answer OF the conductor. sid like to tell
You you're riding CO E trolley car now.