The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-06
LIVE TOPICS amour TOWN.

The cost Of building a house nowadays
may be greatly reduced il the owner is con-
tent TO use second hand materials.
house which would ordinarily cost $1,000
may in this way be reduced TO 81 500. Tho
house Is just as strong. and when painted
just as presentable, as If new materials
had been used. and the reduced cost puts
a home in the reach Of much greater
circle of workers.
Il have tried physical culture and have
tried starvation" said a lawyer, who Is
recovering from a prolonged siege OF
dyspepsia. -but l find that auto-sugges-
ton knocks all the other fads into a cooked
hat. kept on thinking that | wasn't sick
and after a while l believed it and began
to get we'll.
"There was no faith cure about II, under
stand; The right name for what am talk
ing about is mental healing Nervous
dyspepsia as ] figure it out. is caused by
a rundown condition of the nerves aggra--
waited by worry, which is purely mental
disorder. The way to cure 1t Is 10 live ra-
tionally and stop worrying. 1t used TO
make me feel good TO think that l wasn't
sick and the first thing ! knew that agree
able thinking became a confirmed habit
and my worries disappeared and with
them my dyspepsia.
A1OSt OF the lIlS OF IndnklDu, j am now
convinced, are mental, or imaginary, which
is about the same thing. man who worries
is bound to be out of physical kilter Mind
treatment or plentiful doses OF common
sense is what he needs. l."
The Girl With the Bright Smile stood
waiting for woman customer to make a
choice between two shades OF silk ribbon.
which one shall | take1' asked the
customer Il was never so undecided.
ITS purely a matter, of taste, smiled
the girl Either would suit your clear
complexion perfectly
-0h, then, IN take both
And still some of the other girls wondered
why the Girl With the Bright Smile never
missed sale.
Sleigh riding seems to have lost its charm
for physicians who have to ride great deal
in going their rounds. An elderly physician
in The Bronx had this to say about it yester-
day:
IF we could have snow for months on
stretch. as they do in some parts OF the
country. there would be no fault to find,
but here in New York few days sleighng
at a time is about as much as we can hope
for. By the time you have got used to the
rigid smoothness of sleigh you have to
give il up and go back TO the springy motion
of the carriage
and vice versa makes the muscles ache and
il more exhausting than hard work. Per-
sons who ride occasionally, or only for an
hour or two day don't mind II so much;
but doctors who are constantly driving
about have good cause TO shudder when
they see a snowstorm coming.
ITO those of us pent up in New York the
Jingle of sleighbells is not music TO the
ears. It's carriage for me every time.
4. ~, A,,
a stub tail. Yesterday a gang Of boys tied
a tin can to the dogs tail, expecting fun.
The dog sat on his launches and never
budged until his master came and clipped
the string that held the tin can.
That's the funniest dog | ever saw,
said Policeman Jacobs who CHANGED TO
come along IN time TO see the incident
-Why didn't he rum
You've plenty TO learn about dogs
responded the butcher "A dog with his
tail cut of has no fear of tin cans or anything
else except firecrackers that may be hitched
behind him, If you want TO make dog
with n stub tail run, tie tin can to his neck.
It's the same with a goat
The copper said he would spread the in
formation upon the blotter at the station.
-The skyline Of lower New York. said an
outdoor photographer, is ruined for photo
graphic purposes. There are TOO many
skyscrapers now huddled together in mas
sive punches, and you can get no relief
effect in a picture. Photographs taken
five or eight years ago. when the skyscrapers
stood far apart towering like sentinels
above the surrounding buildings, were
distinct and artistic. Now the only effect
you can get is that OF huge mass of ma
sonry and brick, with here and there a
patch of sky showing above the roofs Of
low buildings.
Fifty years from now. at the present
rate Of construction New York will be
all skyscrapers and then the skyline will
be flatter than IL was generation ago,
although higher up because even the
church steeples will be lost to view"
sThe silk hat" said the manager Of a
fashionable hat store, has about run tia
course for day wear. Only elderly men,
and comparatively few Of them, wear it
in the day time.
Fifteen years ago we often sold more
silk hats in a day than we now sell in two |
weeks. Young men wore them then both |
day and evening. You could see pro-
cessions Of silk hats on Broadway and all |
the downtown streets
But the silk hat vii return. It's passing |
is merely within Of fashion. Il is the most |
dressy hat man Gun wear and also the /
most economical. \ good silk hat will |
stand more wear and tear than three derbys (
or fedoras. II can lie ironed to look like 4
new. no matter what Las happened to it,
Most Of our Gust omers are well TO do, I
but lots Of them in the old days wore silk /
hats for eoonomy's sake A few do yet for 4
that matter, hut they are men past middle |
life"