The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-20
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- mNeRLD'S BEST
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WEST 10th STREET. NEW York.
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
2 WEST 10th STREET. NEW FORK.

This game Of putting sherry on your
Strawberries said man who had just
been up against it for the first time, may
he all right for gourmets or gourmands or
whatever you call EN-. but 1t means a cry
ing need for big labels on decanteB. At
dinner in bachelor house the man said: or
course, you will take sherry on your ber-
ries, it's what they always do in the south Of
| France The south Of France game al
ways lands me. 80 reached for the sherry
Jug and dosed the berries Just as though
! Just want 10 ret that the south Of France
doesn't ha', ny unlabeled whisky de-
! canter loafing' around contiguous to it's
| berries. That's what got, and I got it
| plentiful, can take whisky when / know
what it is but when took it in teaspoon
with sugaed berry felt like turning in
I three alarms. Next time want to see the
! labels first"
Yes. I've had to serve breakfasts, and I
find 1t pays" said the woman proprietor
Of lunch room which has long been popular
with clerks in the retail shopping district.
You'd be surprised at the big crowd OF
men have every morning. Most of EN-
are married. too. Some of them board at
so-called fashionable boarding houses up
town, where breakfast Is not served until
o'clock and they must report at the stores
down hero at that hour. Others tell me
frankly that their wives do not like to get
up to cook an early breakfast. These are
the couples who are living up to the very
card parties &c, and a woman can't pre-
serve her good looks and freshness and cook
early breakfasts Your New York man
would rather go ont to breakfast than sacri-
flee his wife's good looks.
But I don't get women clerks for break
fast. They either live at home or have
coffee and rolls in their own rooms
There's a man with an odd hobby
said downtown dealer in secondhand
books as he closed the door on departing
customer. 1T is reference books. He
has library Of perhaps 5000 volumes,
and not a novel or book Of poems, travel
or adventure on the shelves But he has
reference books in half dozen languages.
and is ALWAYS in the market for books Of
this sort. We dealers notify him directly
we stumble on anything worth while in
his line. 1t has taken him thirtytive
years to make his collection and | do not
imagine, that there is another, private
library like it in America. A college pro-
fessor? No. he's railway official"
4 famous Broadway shop that went out
of business on May was small cigar store.
1t was kept by Spaniard who made his
own cigars from tobacco sent to him from
Cuba. Most of his customers were theatre
cal men. and he would have been doing bust
ness at the same old stand vet IL he hadn't
had trouble over the renewal of his lease.
! The proprietor Of this store never lost his
love for his native land although he had
been in this country many years. In the
Spanish American war he was often sorely
tried by his customers. who never lost an
opportunity. to run down Spain. The
cgarmaker frequently lost his temper when
chafied about his country, but he was so
good natured about everything else that his
customers forgave him.
-I've had many odd blue Monday
victims of Sunday and Saturday night
excuses. said a physician, "hut a new
case came to my notice last week popu-
lar actress came to me with the complaint
that she had fairly to whip herself to work
every Monday.
Why she exclaimed, I seem to grow
stout between the time the curtain falls
Saturday night and it's rising for the Mon
day night show. My maid has an awful
time lacing me into my gowns.
Now l happened to know that she never
drank and rode daily to keep her figure
trim, and ! was really puzzled But finally
hons and sweets, and her Sunday indul-
gence consisted Of lying around in loose
wrapper with a novel and five pound
box OF bonbons at her elbow. There's
lesson in her case for every stout woman"
All three we're from the country. but
the women tempered their rural appear
anoe with a certain recently acquired
smartness. The lone man had made no
investment in store clothes, and he looked
thoroughly miserable as he stood in front
OF the soda fountain and sought to manipu-
late glass Of ice cream soda.
Isn't this lovely town to spend money
in?" gurgled the younger of the women,
The man dropped his glass to the counter.
you can bet 1t is. he admitted. with MOURN
full distinctness. And that's Just the
reason we are gon' home tonight
The principal change in the interior Of
the Metropolitan Opera House next season
will be the new curtain. which is to be made
in Paris and will be a heavily embroidered
affair in gold and a shade OF green that
harmonizes with the red OF the theater
decorations. Probably source Of much
greater convenience will be the new ar
rangements for the carriages. They will
in the future be able to arrive and deliver
their occupants twice as rapidly as in the
| past. 1t will be made possible for the
carriages hereafter to drive up two abreast.
You New Workers think YOU are pro-
gressive" said the man with the straw hat
who had just come in from Boston via
Philadelphia. but as a matter of fact you
are away behind the times. In Boston we
have been wearing st raw hats for wo weeks
and mora. In Philadelphia it is just the
same Only here you think it's smart 10
be uncomfort able unit Inc first of June
and-make mo look like 30 CENTS"
And no did l2ok fc rloTn in the l,wds ef
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