New-York tribune., 1905-06-25
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

She was woman well over sixty, with gray hair
and spectacles resting the end Of her nose. She
saw by peering them She was accompanied
by young woman-her daughter, thought one VINO
watched them as they sat down at table in the
large hail, where people were eating and drinking
and listening to good music. There pro-
nopneed touch of the Puritan about the elder
woman. Cotton Mathers mother must nave
looked like her. unused the onlooker. whose IN
terest increased ne noted the air OF severity ana
primness she bore, relieved to some extent by the
spctacies which every moment threatened TO fall
from the edge to which Ihey clung- Rather risky
place for Puritan he thought Then, as he saw
the elder woman call a waiter. his curiosity as to
what she would drink absorbed all other emotions
He was somewhat shocked when he saw the waiter
bear down with tray containing lager and a
New New -Bnslander. and New-Englanders have preju1-
places TO think that this grandmotherly woman
should drink beer He felt as if some one
placed in front of her while the lager went her
dSagnder S and ne as actually pained when he saw
teeth at home) close over the straws and saw the
he watched her as she listened to the music and
slipped two more creme de menthes, ,peering over
eS;onnoSseurlike lingering over the taste on her
New-Englander went out He couldn't bear TO stay
10 see that disappear.
There lots of parrot stories but most of them
are fiction founded bit of fact. This how
ever. is truth-cold. unvarnshed truth. 1t
ouf4fg the heaNy thunderstorm last week. An un-
usually vivid fash Of lightning accompanied by
peal of thunder that made the windows rattle
drove the servant in West Side apartment from
the KITCHEN to the sitting room where her mistress
our ears next she cried her face white VIZ, fear
by the voice of the parrot Thank you! Thank
you!" said Polly.
A dentist who is trying to establish a practice
here has a novel method of advertising-one
that revives the memories of those days when
boyhood for quarter and the excitement of the
adventure sacrificed itself the altar of the street
fskirs demonstration Of the efficacy of his tooth
ache remedy. This dentist has a wagon which
are mounted dentists chair and enough of the
appliances OF his work to allow him TO treat easy
cases. A six-foot Senegambian, clad in a cutaway
coat that reaches to his heels and red beaver is
the coachman. Leading from the street to the
dentists chair is staircase Tbs, The dentist an;
free of charge any tooth that needs pulling. His
@ PS SO that frG~R he a bas sis lack Of
hnation of red ana black in the mean time is dis
tributing cards among the crowd. After an hours
you haven't an ache step up and get one," says
street wag.
If truck horses and stray dogs could talk there
would have been last week such indignation
meeting lower Broadway had never seem The
stone drinking trough in front of the Mailst. side
of the Postof1ce and City Hall Park was out of
order and instead of water thirsty horses who
stuck their into the trough found there
green slime and collection of banana and orange
peels and other refuse They couldn't understand
it, and in the stineing reminder of the
whip necessary to get them away There is
drinking fountain in the city that is such boon
TO tired thirsty horses as this one 1t is ABOUT
trates how easily the sufferings of dumb animals
could be alleviated by the expenditure of a Few
dollars for more drinking troughs in the sections
where the streets all through the hot summer
days see endless professions of trucks. That the
Mail-st. trough allowed to remain stopped up
for several days was a piece of inhunlan careless
ness.
Sound the kneT of the gin rickey, said the
bartender. Don't know whether it was the death
of the man who supposed to have orig
mated the drink what. but its popularity as a
summer cooler is on the wane. The wane began
last summer and this season is even more marked.
BY next summer it will be down and out. Ths
horses neck, ginger ale and lemon peel is another
fad drink that has lost its following The Scotch
highbaiI still holds its sway, that is not
called for so frequently as hitherto"