The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16
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streets last Sunday afternoon. They we're
Rumanian Jews, dressed In Turkish fez
and gay Zouavo trousers. The kvass was
contained Ia tank OF glistening ham,
mered brass four feet high. strapped to the
back Of the smaller man. A long spout curved
over his shoulder, CHASED In rude designs.
was hung about, with Turkish coins. The
kvass seller would shout this refrain
"Trink leetle Won der gutter kvass.
Verth neekel glass"
The Rumanian Jews, remembering the
beverage Of their native land, stepped up
kvass bearer bent forward, deity, pouring
the brown ,sugary, lemonady liquid into a
glass which the seller took from brass
rack strapped around his waist. The
seller washed the glasses with water de-
canted from a tall, slender ever Of dull
man might not care to drink the kvass but
what would he not give for the tank, glass
rack and ever, all of cleaning. beautiful
hammered brass and oopperl
The secretary Of one Of the Supreme
Court Justices thought that II would be a
fine thing to spend his three months vaca-
ton in the Adirondacks. He was recon-
mended to 60 to Paul Smiths. He had
never been there. but made special trip
to look the ground over.
Almost the first thing that met his eye
was pretty little cottage to let, which MIR.
Secretary thought would be just the thing.
II not too dear. So he sought out the owner,
price OF the cottage for the season.
WAL, III make 1t 5000 to you,' was
the discreet answer.
Heavens, man. don't want to buy the
place! want to rent IT, explained the
| New Yorker.
"Hel He! He! But you city fellers be the
greatest jokers. That be the best I've
heerd In a longish while the mountaineer
spluttered out between laughs.
Il don't see the joke but would like to
know the rent was the seoretary's next
attempt, but when he found that the sea-
whole years salary, he deoamped without
explaining that the joke was on him.
There Is one kind of perquisite not COM
monty counted in reckoning saleswomans
earnings. That Is the change she is allowed
TO keep by customers who have not time
to wait. Not many people apparently
are in too big hurry to get what money Is
coming to them, yet several times in the
course Of q month almost every shopgirl
is electrified by the command, Just keep
the change. / have to catch a train. /
can't watt
The sums thus sacrificed on the altar Of
haste. range from one to fifty cents They
are the legitimate prize Of the employees.
tributions be reported at the office. How
ever. not many concerns profit by the hurry
Of their patrons, even after it is reported.
! A few Of the smaller shops adj half of the
rake-of to their own income, but most
OF them turn the entire amount over to the
clerk who made the sale
The summers output OF songs has not
yet been sufficient to equal the supply Of
last year, when by the middle Of July half
dozen ditties were struggling for SUI
preinacy. AT this time last year Blue
bell" possessed a deadly preeminence; but
m there w seos 'LeasMin u A1~ays IL o the
by. Little Girl" and several others to COM
pete with its popularity. This season has
so far brought out nothing more thrilling
than an the Old Apple Orchard. and the
other popular songs are taken from the
repertoire of last winter.
New York week end visitor at little
town not far up the Hudson found some
puritanic ideas of the Sabbath still -four
ishing He had his own launch and was
inviting several newly made friends to join
him in a cruise for the afternoon. One
bud Of eighteen told him she knew she
couldn't go. but begged him to put tho
question to her mother
"Oh. no. indeed. 1t would be impossible,
replied the mother.
But the launch is perfectly safe, and III
bring her back whenever you say" pro-
tested the New Yorker.
This is Sunday replied the immovable
one: 4and could not allow it."
Don't you ever go anywhere on Sunday
"Yes; sometimes we take the carriage,
hut then we drive very slowly and go to
the cemetery
Anybody who takes the trouble to look
up toward the tops of high Office buildings
will see growing plants in many Of the
windows. Geraniums. as in most window
boxes in the residential districts. are the
prime favorite. These window plants are
the especial care Of the young women
clerks. In some instances janitors and
employer, objected at first to the floral
disnlay, on the ground that 1t was incom-
patible with serious business interests.
but out Of difference to the tastes of the
young women they consented to the inno-
walton, and now in some Of the most red
taped offices everybody, from manager
10 Office boy. takes hand in tending the
flowers.
Not all the letters mailed get through the
the writer's. This may be done by pre-.
senting to the assistant postmaster an
envelope and specimen az handwriting for
Identification. backed up by plausible
reason for stopping the letter. Most of
these repentant correspondents are women
Men are usually satisfied with the letters
thew have written, or, II not satisfied,
they let them go anyway; but it is no UNI
common thing for woman to rush. Wild
eyed. to the postmaster's Office and demand
the return Of sonic indisorest oommuni-
The reasons given for wishing these
letters back are many. Usually they give
evidence of having been we'll thought
out beforehand, but occasionally the postal
authorities are startled by an exhibition of
surprising candor. They met case of
this kind not long ago.
"Why do you want this letter baok?"
asksd the clerk, severely
because" came the Undertaking reply,
Il am afraid his wife will get hold OF it,
She got the letter.
1t is the part Of the photographer to be
calm under all circumstances, and one Of
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