The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-28
1--we TOPICS Anour rorN.

The publishers say Of now magazine
announced for publication that IL will he the
cheapest ever 1t will be issued monthly
and the yearly subscription will he iocenta
II Will cost two ents more annually TO m II
II to subscr bars. II Is 10 be called The
Shop and its principal object Ia TO boom
the theatres and the attractions OF a firm
OF theatrical managers who arc paying for
the printing OF IT, The press agent l. it,
editor
The opening Of large cigarette factory
I'm Harlem cross street has caused some
change in the character Of the immediate
noghborhopd. so many more delicatessen
shops and small groceries have been opened
to supply the lunch demands Of the girl en-
! ployees They doa big trade in small parcels
| One girl will buy n roll for "a cent a two
/ cent slice Of cold meat and perhaps two
! cents worth of milk Another. with a
: sweet tooth will substitute "A sugnrpd bun
! or cake for th' milk and drink water.
| Usually one girl will act Ms purchasing agent
/ for a group Of four or five. She will return
I To the factory laden with many parcels,
| but the expenditure will average only about
five cents FOR each girl represented
Miss Everson,- said the woman teacher
in cooking school az Hartford the other
day you should now baSte the fish and CON
tinus 10 haste il at intervals az long as il is
in the oven
But [ haven't any needle and thread ="
replied Miss EveTson-ony heI name isn't
Eversou, hut that name will do for one Of
the upper ten young women of Connecticuts
oaptni.
After the u,entoross had described the
difference between haste "A 70 the method
of using tho gravy TO keep the fish moist
and give il delicious brown hue and haste
10 sew garment by loose and lorge stitches
Miss Everson got along very nicely and
-basted" the fish to perfection.
Now that the opera singers are soon to
disappear society will find IA new interest
to crafty it's musical taste, or asmuch Of it
a. survives at tho end of Il busy season.
One titled woman has already sung at a
concert, and another is on hcr way from
England to sing here for charity She an
nouuCes herself by her full title and deNotes
the proceeds Of her entertainments TO the
charity in which she has been interested
for several years.
There is the usual other side to the cock
tail story.
-The men who complain most that cock
tails are not carefully made nowadays
a bartender noted for his skill said yester-
day. are the least willing to wait for me
10 mix n cocktail properly.
Ii cannot be thrown together IN second
or two. Its ingredients must be accurately
considered and blended Yet, if the bar
tender takes the time 20 do this at the
busy hour no is denounced as dead slow
by the men who complain most about the
decline in cocktails.
Mrs Tom Thumb. who was more famous
under that name than as the Countess
Magri, which she became on her second
marriage in 1885 is still alive and in good
health. although she Is not 50 well known
to this generation. To correct the nm
preston that she was no longer in the land
OF the living, she wrote to New YORK last
week that she was not only alive ami happy
but feeling better than most persons do
Mrs Tom Thumb made a fortune when
dvarfs were moro popular than they are
to-day ana she has enough OF II left to 1--we
in comfort in small Massachusetts town
T,is was what the country cousin. upon
being taken into Harlem fiat, remarked !
"Oh. how cute And | suppose your up
stairs Is Just the samel'
Somebody asked Or. Wilfmd Greniell,
whose good work among tic Labrador |
fishermen has been so much talked of
recently. if he were married.
NO replied the surgeon missionary. |
Il wouldn't ask any woman 20 share life |
In most mission fields wife may help /
her husband. But DR.. Grenfell goes out !
with the feet for months, and shares the
lonely labors Of the fishermen.
The strike Of the ten= IS probably felt
moro l,cenly in the big hospitals of the city
than anywhere else. At Bellevue the
amount spent for eggs is enormous The
patients. nurses and internes consume
daily 20 dozen and on Wednesdays, when
9 gigs are dished out 10 the employees
also the number is increased eighty-two
dozen. As eggs constitute almost the
chief diet Of many of the patients, there
must he no doubt, moreover. about the
freshness of the eggs delivered at Belle vue.
New Workers are complaining bitterly
because butter has gone up to 35 and 40 /
cents a pound, said a missionary who is
about TO return to japan after an absence OF
several months. Down in Cuba and some !
Of the South American countries butter costs |
81 pound and is hard TO get at that. Where |
! am going in Japan you cant get II at any !
price. The population II 80 dense tllat there |
Is no room for pasturage Tor cattle ana
butter is an almost unknown luxury. |
large part of my luggage will consist of !
butter, especially packed for the long /
Journey, FOR though | have spent many |
years in Japan. | am too thoroughly Ameu- |
can in my tastes 10 get along without |
butter.
A man stood in Twentythird street |
with an armful Of fox terrier pups for sale. /
II wasn't that fact which drew the crowd |
about him, though, so much as the manpu /
vres of lady fox terrier, which danced about /
him trying 10 get at the pups Now and then |
he would put one of them down in front Of /
her She would lick and mouth and fondle /
il with foolish affection, and when he took [
il up again she would whine to herself and /
regard the armful with big tender eyes,
THE dear little mu2zerl exclaimed /
n woman shopper, stopping TO pet the ter
rer How much do you want for the
little puppiesF
She left her order before she went away.
Presently another woman shopper and
then another picked out a puppy until they
were all carried away Tearing the tag,
Sold Then the man with the pups went
around the corner and contided in crony.
That's Nellie, he said, patting the girl
terrier. The best salesman in the BUSH
ness. You see, she's datfy over pups-hers
or any other dogs. She'd mother kitten.
That's the fifth batch of pups she's sold for
me this month
THE enamelled leather shoe, said
Ja,lar in mons footwear is going 10 have /