The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-10
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR TOWN.

The younger Of thetwo was unmist akAbly
a country sohoolteacher out on Saturday
shopping expedition. She booked unses-
ingly out Of the car window for few mo-
ments. and then suddenly exclaimed.
i have such a good ideal You know /
have 10 teach music In my school, and
know nothing at all about Il. Well, last
month IN a Homan's journal there was
Win nsoSn Sr''HS c fS,so aIo Sn a. hV AM
illust ration, and told how 70 interest the
children 10 him by telling little stories about
him, and than, at the end Of the half hour,
y said 10 present TO each child a oooky In
the shape Of dog,-so that they would
remember him; Bark, you know. Wasn't
that hnel And just now when We were in
that music store thought Of such q good
musician to use. I'll AJAX ma TO make me
some gingerbread basksts, and after LITTLE
talk I'D give them to the children, 90 they'll
remember-Handel you know
Two perfectly dressed, refined boxing
girls we're talking in the subway.
win you come around 10 See me 70 NOR
row afternoon?" said one.
"Sorry,' said the other, "but ] cannot. .
Mother Is to give something for Cousin Ada
to-morrow--a ressptton jigEer, with tea
s enc tat StCsSsed 70 one end o. It, you know
And Il is said that slang Is dying out.
According to expert authority there is
more booze sold to the square inch in a
little barroom in John stree I near Broad
way than In any other place on earth. his
statement is TO be taken literally or not At
all for while the bar IL not over twenty
feet long six bartenders and a glass cleaner
work behind il from early morn 20 deWy
eve-the place closes early-and they never
seem to have a moment TO spare.
One Of the attractions Of the place Is .
liberal and varied free lunch OF excellent
quality, and along In the noon hour the Gus
TONERS are usually three o. four deep in
front Of the bar in spite Of the fact that no
lager or other five cent drink Is sold there,
The volume Of our business gives the
lie TO the Oft repeated assertion that your
Av rage man doesn't know the difference
between good and had booze said the
alert cashier. The quality Of the goods we
handle il alone responsible for the immense
business we do.
The SoutheTner who had spent several
weeks in New York was talking about come
OF the things that impressed him here.
Il came to wonder after a while, he said,
IL anybody in New York ever went home
to dinner. ! never went TO telephone
that some man vss not telephontnE 20 bis
wife that he would not be home TO dinner
or that some youth was not Sendtn similar
young girls telephouing word that they
could not he home to dinner. After a
while bel a 20 ask myself whether New
York ever went home to dinner al all.
Our old friend -Mr. Fish, whom so many
innocent persons have called up on the tele-
phone April / only 10 get the Aquarium,
had q rival this year IN Miss Black The
victim usually found a note on his desk
stating that a lady Of this name had asked
that he call her up, a. she had something OF
great importance 20 commmicate. On
that Il was a colored asylum and that there
was no inmate named Miss Black.
Ever since Greedy won fame for his far
thest North, that remained for year after
year the nearest approach to the Pole.
the weather sharps have been filed with
longings for the realms OF the blue lceo rgs
and the long aight. II Il be indeed true
that close devotion TO the va carries Of climate
entities a man to o sojouTn whore he may
stand a good show OF freezing 70 death
then nobody has a better claim to the re-
ward than DIT. Otto Fassig, who sailed
few days ago to take command q one Of
Mr. ZisgleT's polar parties He win direct
the teaToh about Greenland for the missing
Fiala FaaSig went into the Signal Service
years ago when Cen. Greedy made the
weather, and he vent into the service
had not long bean about the routine work
Of tabulAtinR clerk before the chief OF his
division found out that the quiet young
clerk had the winds and the barometric
gradients and all that sort OF thing az hla
finger tins. A man with such qualifications
could not be kept long on desk work. Place
after place was made for him, and At last
the whole library OF the weather service
was put under his care, and there never
mepts In Washington. After leaving the
Weather Bureau be rose to be CHIEF
Of the Maryland Weather Service, and -
may have been noticed that since he has
been In charge one reads only very rarely
that the peach crop IL q total failure; he
regards his trip 70 Greenland as a holiday,
IN such be q weather sharp'a idea OF q little
pleasant recreation there viii be Few 10
dispute his taste.