The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-21
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

day. He passed through the city on his
way to Boston, but made his presence known
, to none OF his friends here. Nine. Pad
erewsh was here for several days at a hotel
resting after the uncertain comfort OF travel
ling in a private car and living during the
pianists sojourn in large cities several
miles down a railroad track. In Chicago
the pianist's car was sidetraoked so far
from the station that II took him an hour
to reach 1t In an automobile
{ Shrimp are seen in the ish markets,
yet except for their presence on sale they
might no longer he eaten at ALL They
rarely APPEAR in the bills Of fare at the
restaurants and few private tablss ever
offer them.
There is little demand for shrimp nova
| days, said fish dealer yesterday. We
provide them more as a matter OF course
than from any other motive. There seems
TO he only one source in which the fish
are still appreciated They are much used
in boarding houses and all that we sell
go TO them. Two shrimp serve for a
portion of salad and for that reason the
boarding house keepers still buy them
They are not wanted elsewhere.
The manicure habit is moro general than
il ever was. but it is saner. The excuses
OF the habit are now avoided and its ten
uenCy IN entlTely Nhnildly'
I've been in this business for ten years, :
one OF the girls said yesterday. For the
last five years I've not had occasion to
use a certain nail polish that everybody
used to want II made the nails shine like
diamonds, and sometimes had 10 put two
or three coats OF II on women's fingers be-
fore they we're satisfied.
But those were the same days in which
women used TO rub their nails with the
OH tAnliahara until fhav hOlnS
through them No foolishness OF that kind
is tried now
The mother of one Of New Works. most
attractive heiresses has set herself firmly
against engaged men and they are made TO
understand her prejudices. Once they are
engaged she strikes them OF her visiting
list in drastic fashion
Il am 40 happy 10 congratulate you,
she wrote to a young man who had in the
same letter announced his engagement
and accepted an invitation to week end
party, but am very sorry we are not to see
you on Friday
Young man was at lose 10 discover why he
was not expected until he learned OF the
lady's REGULARITY.
Felix Weingartner returned yesterday
from the pilgrimage which all foreign
visitors to this country make He had
been to Niagara Falls. Last year he omitted
this visit "a his arrangements required
him to play at too many concerts, When he
made his plans 10 return to New York this
winter no left sufficient time free to make
the trip The reason was the refusal OF
Nine. Weingartner to come here unless
she had trip to Niagara guaranteed. Herr
Wengartner returned with the satisfied
feeling Of a man who has done his duty
The men pressed into temporary service
by the Street Cleaning Department in these
stormy days suffer more from the ice that
their picks throw into their eyes than from
anything else. One in a group at work in
Thirty third street yesterday had gone 10
some expense to protect himself from this
discomfort. He had invested in pair OF
automobile goggles, which looked as II they
might have used mp considerable share ~
a days earnings but they protected his
eyes from the flying bits OF ice.
A group Of guests In an uptown cafe
always attracts the attention Of the persons
near enough to observe the remarkable
ante prandial Investments in which they
indulge Usually they take absinthe with
water As that is the characteristic tippe
of the establishment, 1t attracts no stten-
ton II is the accompaniment 10 this
sympathetically. The waiter always brings
two raw cucumbers, as green as they well
can be These are cut into slices and
eagerly devoured between sips Of absnthe
In the musical play "Fantana the
Fronchman says to the leading woman:
Once more you have given me the Fan
tana frapp6
Now there are Fantana frappeS at half
Il, Id No.
in any particular from the ordinary frappe.
Scrappy Oscar Hammerstein was stand
ing in the lobby Of his Victoria Theatre
talking with an acquaintance the other
night when q man grasped him by the hand
and hailed him a. long lost friend. Oscar
didn't warm to the newcomer and he
soon departed.
who had been talking with the manager
"Oh, he's great writer replied the
manager.
WHAT'S he write for?'
Passes said Oscar.
You've pretty old station house re-
marked a man to a policeman who halls
from Oak street. have you much sickness
down there?'
Sickness. is it, said tho cop Why,
man alive. we don't dare to be sick these
days. It's like an actress with good
looking understudy We dassent give the
Commish a chance 10 get us before the
sawbones. But. say, IL McAdoo wasn'
would be laying on in our paiamas and
drinking beef tea.
StNTO DOMINGO TREiTI'S FATE.
Likely 10 he opposed In The Consre" Of