The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-25
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
The effort Of every sender Of a circular
IL now to make It's envelope look a. much
as possible like a social communication
| with no suggestion Of advertising. This
result has been secured In a high degree
! by a newcomer who is spreading abroad
news Of the advantages Of his services
! The envelope in which his letter arrives
| might enclose an invitation to a bah, and
the same elegance oharacterizes the en-
! graved announcement within II says
In heavy script on creamy paper that q
! former member Of the. United States
| Secret Service can be engaged for CON
fdential Investigations pertaining to family
| or business ahaira requiring tact and di-
! plomacy.' Private detectives have never
| hitherto solicited business with such elegant
stationery.
! Fashions 'or next summer prohibit the
| man who would be we'll dressed from using
! colored handkerchiefs. He may wear
! colored waistcoats and even have his mono
| gram embroidered In another color on
| the wsistcoat pocket II he wants TO. His
| shirt may be Of any vivid shade that APP
| peals TO his taste and his socks may match
! Il in hue. But his white handkerchiefs
must not reveal any more color than the
monogram embroidered in the corner
! requires
Public balls Of kind that once houTished
| in New York have evidently lost their old
time POPULAR II the season just closed
Is any criterion Of the City's interest in Such
Affairs. The beet Of the masked balls
was given by a society which has for years
had the reputation OF arranging the finest
ball Of the year. During the last season
II had no opposition, as its former rival
has withdrawn from the field.
The other balls have been but faint sug-
Restions OF what they once were. The
Arion Society has probably given the last
public ball to receive the indorsement
Of It's name. There has long been a large
part Of the society's membership which
did not feel that this ball was! truly repre-
sentative Of the clubs purposes, When
Il was first given New York was smaller than
IL IL to-day and most OF the attendants
were members Of the club.
With the disappearance OF the Arion the
masquerade ball will be thing Of the
past In New York. The principal French ball
had long been given by the men who bought
the privilege Of using the name OF the
society, which devoted the money obtained
in this way to its benevolent fund.
A genius is trying 10 hide himself on Four
tenth street. He sells for a nickel a little
bulb which he calls "a liquid magnhying
glass" After showing a number OF ways
In which the glass may be made useful,
the fakeT pulls out q handful Of small coin
and holds the bulb in front Of one Of them:
1T makes a dime as big as dollar, he
cries. And so II does.
is getting rich while the poor fellow who
sells needle threaders down the block has
to thread his wife's needle while she patches
his old clothes.
A man with bronzed face sat In the Astor
Library one day last week reading with
evident. delight a bound Newspaper file.
Taking a monentary rest from his reading
he confded in a whisper TO a person sitting
Il have been living in South Africa for
the last ten years and never had an oppor-
tunity Of knowing what was happening in
this country. so when / returned to New
York came down here and started In TO
read the back volumes Of THF Sun, begin
ming with 1895. lhave now got as far as 1908,
and IN a few days more I'll consider myself
up TO date 90 far as news is concerned. 4
newspaper range
Firemen have their slang terms Just as
folks In other professions have. The
regular driver OF the apparatus Ia known
as first whip ard the relieving driver as
second whip When the engine OF truck
goes TO a fire Il rolls, and hose IL a line
Station 1875 Ia known as the Irish box
because IL Is at the corner OF Grand and
Greene streets. The kerosene box is 1853,
in Division street, opposite Ludlow, IN the
Yiddish quarter. The box At Broadway
and SIEVE nteenth street is called the pig
tail boz The alarm was sent in there
TO show III Hung Chang how quickly our
firemen could respond.
The mistress Of handsome uptown apart
nent relates the story Of a unique and really
beautiful portiere in this way:
i was eating watermelon one morning
when for the first time / noticed how beauti-
full the seeds are, II they were rare and
costly they would be much prized. It
occurred TO me as ! examined them that
they might be utilized. began. 10 collect
and string them on slender leather thongs,
When 1 had shellacked them found they
had the appearance Of carved wood and
determ med to make a portiere Of them.
before had finished found Il a big under
taking. There are a thousand seeds In each
strand and there are i2s strands. do not
think there Is another like IL, and am sure
/ shall never make another
sGrand mamma had come TO make US a
visit said the studio girl, 'and we were
trying TO explain pajamas to her She had
never seen any. Never heard Of them. in
fact
why, haven't you been down on Broad
way yet5 we asked, where those wax
figures Of men and women are sitting in
the wind w dressed In ajamasP
Ny deaTr .cri d grandmamma Not
IN the came windowv
The weather.
me low pressure ARA was central north Of Lake
s,,nertor vestsrdAy and In lie wake was q second