The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12


When women put on q tan walking sho,
and every smartly dressed woman wear
tan boots and vry short skirts this year
and then puts a black rubber over the
russet, her feet look abnormal. This ID
especially emphasized where extension
soles and instcp skirts are worn.
Now, our foggy city sisters are rather
oleverer at these things than We Ameri
cans, and some time ago they dlsoovf rec
that tan rubber could be made as well al
black ones. and that a r''sset rubber ovsr Z
| russell ehoe made the 70 Il look four siz6
smaller and q whole lot Dresden
On top Of the vendome Hotel Is an electric
sign which used TO read:
'Vendome Gardens
Something went wrong with the wire.
a while ago. First Gardens went out o.
commission. and then the "a and the SECOND
.e' Of 'yendome end down Broadway
flashed this sinister word:
Venom
The closing Of the gambling houses has
had the odd result in one case OF increasing
the coal bills OF a college cl b and bringing
the house committee to their wits end az
to how 10 heat the place. The clubhouse
is an old residence in which a steam heating
plant has never been installed. On one
side Of the club Is a gambling palace scarcely
less famous than Ccnfelds. When it went
out Of business. Just about at the beginning
Of the cold SPELL that side Of the clubhou q
became very cold. although the furnaces
we're run at top notch. Some OF the SILVER
! ing members would like to petition Mr..
Jerome to take OF the lid.
J An organization Of which many police
men are members gave big ball the other
night, and cop who walks Sixth avenue
beat borrowed ~ carat solitaire diamond
ring from pawnbroker on his post.
Amt you afraid that the inspector
might see that ring and suspect you Of
grafting1' asked the pawnshop man.
NO. replied the cop, but there's going
TO be girl at the dance that I've been try
ing to marry for year. and II she suspects
I'm making enough on the side 20 buy dia-
monds like this, I'll DO satisfied
man appeared at n Broad way theatre
on FIR day and introduced himself to the
mana ger as the super ntendent Of blind
institution.
Il want TO bring ten blind men to SEQ the
show toni ght and ss they can't see. think
you ought 10 make some reduction ia the
septs.'
Tho theatre manager agreed TO let the
blind men have seats near the stage fer
half rri &c, and the enlssary rrc dIccd $40.
asking TO have seats at once. The manager
wouldn't part with them, but agreed TO
give the blind m n their seats when they
appeared.
The visitor returned In an hour saying
that he must have the seats at once, but
the mana ger again refused Then the
visitor bought ten sea "a at the regular price.
The mana ger took the number Of the ten
seats and made it his business to watch
for tho persons who PRESENTED them.
A few minutes before the performance
ten clear sighted men walked into the
theatre preceded by the man who had
tried to work the new ounco game The
manager loo ked at the fellow. sided up to
him and whispered this word in his ear:
Crater.
A knight Of the brake beams who holds
forth just now along Park row. giving
hard luck story In exchange for dimes, has
just been abroad. He says that he won't
go again, and adds:
Those tales about beating foreign mil
roads are all pipes. II can't he done,
every three miles. The guard don't just
drop you of and let you walk. He pulls
you. And Il Amt funny TO go TO jail in
France or England. / know. The freight
cars amt, built night for free riders and
comb at every stop. had to stoke my way
back, and il cured ms OF the work ha bit
for good Me for the land of the freel'
81 want dozen Of those acorn eggs"
said Harlem bride day or so ago TO her
grocer. Il think that they are 80 cents
DOZEN
what kind. madam asked the mysti-
fed grocer.
why acorn eggs,- replied tho bride.
you know thoss small white ones. My
maid got some yesterday. They were
just splendid. She said that you told her
that they we're acorn eggs.
i see" said the man. And be put q
dozen white Legbon eggs in bag.
II Little Hungary thinks 1t Ia going to
get ahead Of Ireand with Roosevelt fea-
lures at its coming dinner 1t will find
it is making a big mistake. Frank
Travers and Billy Penny, who are fixing
the detail for The st. Patricks day dinner,
at which Friendly Son Roosevelt is to te
present, have already arranged that the
Sxty-ninth Regiment Is to escort him 20
Delmonico's. The souvenirs will be black
thorns cut from the original tree from which
Fin Mao Cool, the strong man OF Ennis
most strenuous age, got his historic shLi e ah.
The one for the President Is a beautiful
stick that has been carefully polished by
four generations OF the O'Briens Of Tho
mond and then dried in the turf smoke
OF a mountain cabin.
At the new entrances TO the subway from
the Brooklyn Bridge an experiment is being
tried to do away with the danger Of slipping
on the smooth glass; and concrete vault
light and steps. Brass rings are inserted
all over the surface to roughen II. In the
thirteen eteps OF the island entrance oppo-
site the Stats Zeituno Office 100 holes had
70 be drilled 70 insert these rings.
A negro minus both legs, who walks around
on his knees covered with heavy leather
pads. Is raking In money on the East River
ferryboats by doing song and danoe
turn. He keeps perfect tine and does his
work in such a businesslike way that it
Is a wonder some vaudeville manager has
not picked him up before this. The negro
must have been a big fellow before he
lost his legs. He keeps on the ,men's side
Of the boat and 10 one trip on the Long
Island ferry a few days ago be gathered in
nearly FIVE dollars In nickels and dimes
FIRST DATTERYS CIRCUS.