The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15

Of a foreign trip j. a scrapbook filed with
reminders of the journey
One girl In the city, who has travelled
all over the world has several scrapbooks.
She keeps not only mementos OF the voy-
age over and back, but also menus OF i'm
portance, cards Of noted persons she has
met photographs of places of interest
passports and knickknacks Of any sort
which might have value in reminiscent
way.
Trying to evade paying for meal check
NAV be a mans trick, but hardly woman's.
Certainly it was the last thing that would
have been expected Of two nice, motherly
looking women. past middle life, who re-
Gently ate a hearty breakfast al restaurant
in the city
Their genial benign coutenancoE as
they entered the place seemed 10 carry
benediction with them u, IN ordered he
meal and seemed 10 "0jny Ii" repart
thoroughly.
One check amounted 10 IS cents, the Other
40. When the meal wac over tle woman
with the ID cent check marched up to the
cashier, paid it, and started to 60 out
Just IA moment put IN the cashier
Where Is your friends check
oh, she didn't eat anything, responded
the woman. Atill edging toward the door
Calling the waitress he found as he
suspected that each had n check Tie
cashier held them the women meanwhile
protesting indignantly, until the waitress,
returning brought some torn bits Of card-
board which she had found beneath the
table
Seeing that the game was up. the women
paid the check and departed, leaving the
customers Of the place with less confidence
in their judgment of human nature than
before.
Al one Of the woman's exchanges in the
city Is a consignment Of dolls chairs and
tables manufactured 10y young woman In
town who made lot Of money during the
holidays by their sale. She makes them
herself and they are wonderfully clever
both in workmanship and design. They
sell at S. - II set Of table and four chairs.
Every woman shopper during the holidays
must have had an experience with young
ster-, supposedly newsboys. asking for
cents.
Gimme penny to buy Christmas
present for me mudder' or Gimme penny
70 help get dinner for me sister Annie or
some similar plea was offered by the little
urchins. 4 few papers tucked under one
arm lent color to the statement that they
were newsboys Many "a coin found its way
into their hands and some OF the youngsters
must have cleared a good round sum each
day.
Agent Forbes Of the mendicanoy depart
ment Of the Charity Organization Society
is after them now, for he says it IL only
new form of begging and so quick are the
East Side youngsters TO catch on 20 any
new trick Of the sort that unless the scheme
II nipped in the bud the town will be over
run with the importunate begging pseudo
uewsboys.
II isn't always well to kin the goose TINT
lays the golden egg and oculist~ shouldn't
interfere with anything that helps thaH
business Nevertheless although mos ni
them derive a good share OF their trade
from the feminine fad of wearing Wells
oouli-ts are open in their condemnation
Of the practice.
One Fifth avenue oculist recently mad"
the assertion that the number of his young
women clients had doubled within me
past year He lays II 10 dotted wells
In my opinion the increase in oculat
troubles among women the past year
said he IL due 10 the fashion OF wearing
dotted or figured wells For it's not alone
tho dots that work harm. The fglrc-
showing trailing vines and convt nj onsl
designs over the surface are equally per
nicious
"Of course being man, | don't sec why
they wear the atrocities az all, and being
an oculist. why they're not all blind =
mystery ! can't fathom