The sun., 1905-06-18
THE MODERN WOMAN.

-There il one question | want to ask you,
dear" said pretty Brooklyn girl az she
toyed with her diamond ring When we
my own bread"
"You can do as you like, my darling
he replied. but shall certainly insist upon
your not baking mine.
The thing that's worrying the girl stu
dents up around Columbia Just now more
than their examinations Is how they nre
going to pack up the college trophies which
have been gathered surreptitiously during
the year. For the girls vie with the men
in collecting queer signs and other de-
tachable bits of property, and the one who
can pinch. purloin or otherwise aprropri-
ate the greatest number of such prizes is
surrounded by halo of glory and looked
up to by her student friends.
As a result the uninitated on entering
students room might think for an instant
she had gotten into Bronx real estate Office
by mistake. This LOT for sale, Private
property. no trespassing" and kindred
signs win meet the eye. Over the dresser
will be seen a poster advertising church
concert, while in close proximity -Genu-
inc Turkish cigarettes" will keep it com
pany
Book beer on draught" is sign highly
rrzed by the rnasc uline fraternity but
the girls generally content themselves with
announc eHlents Of soft drinks
ANYTHING from the ordinary poster to
the wooden or metal shop signs is desirable
to the girl collector while the men won stop
at n gate if they can appropriate it without
detection.
sentiment attached to these finds nor real
i've tho importance placed on their pos
session. II parallels the ability OF the girl
to shine in athletics or to be at the head OF
her class.
1t takes a faksr to know human nature,
and one on Sixth avenue in the shopping
district last week certainly was versed
in the subject. He was presenting patent
needle threader to the public and mad At
tracted a crowd OF women shoppers
As hs dilated upon the merits OF the lnven-
ton his glance rested upon woman on the
shady side of 90. After little she objected
to being made the object of his remarks
and spoke up with some asperity:
you can sell that new tangled article
to them that needs them, don't, ,,,
know at a glance that your eyesight was
nerfect. but there may come time when you
ret old that you will need one.
The woman silently handed out the price
~ the article and walked away, while the
faker gave a sly wink at the crowd who en-
loved the joke at the old lady's expense.
II YOU should ask the census man who is
out getting statistics just now what ia the
chief of his troubles, he would answer,
feelingly:
women"
.I'ye got a wife and thought I knew
women" said one Of them to sympathetic
listener the other day, but l don't. My
wife is a sensible woman, but most women
have moro whims and fancies than you
could shake stick at
MY chief difficulty is in getting them to
tell their age. You would think when
woman Ia married she would get over being
sensitiye about her age, but | tell you she's
more touchy on the subject than the old
maids. . ,.,,
about it, too. When you see that faraway
look creep into their eyes you may depend
upon it they are doing little computing,
irving to decide just how many years they
III woman says s5 it is pretty safe to
make it 40. Add five years every time
and you will come nearer to the correct
Men make trouble for me on the finance
question. They all want to appear richer
than they are. Clerks want to be put down
as business men, business men as bank
presidents and bankers as men OF the rich
leisure class. You certainly come to learn
human nature In the census business.
II the advocates Of Sabbath observance
had happened to overhear the following
conversation between two pretty stenogra-
pliers who live in summer near Van Cort-
iandt Park they would have been strongly
tempted to butt into the conversation;
aTm mighty glad tomorrow rs day OF
restl" remarked one of the girls as she
boarded a subway train at the Bridge,
That's so, it's Sunday, isn't it, replied
the other. Let's 60 to the golf links early
Good ideal That's what we'll do