The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-13
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
"ln all the years that / have been handling
tickets | never sold 40 many single seats
as | have this season, " aaid the man in the
box office. Each sex seems to take its
dramatic entertainment separately. The
men set the example. Some unsociable
chap steals out to zee the play alone, then
the girl who should have been his COM
panion is also compelled to play a lone hand.
The %strangest part of it IL that the I'M
mated couples do not come to the theatre
In parties made UP Of members Of their
" sex, al they used to do. Give me q
sin gle seat is a popular demand for both
afternoon and evening performances, from
orchestra to second balcony"
None of the interesting houses on the
lower Vest Side is a finer specimen n Of an old
New York home than the former residence
I OF John Ericsson on Beach street. u ocou-
pies a fun city lot, Ia larger than any Of its
ncighbors and the white marble steps and
entrance are perfect examples Of Empire
decoration as New York architects Of hall
a century ago were accustomed to utilize 1t.
The house, which was presented to
Ericsson by the city. il now used. as an
Italian tenement, and it's fine old marble
Ia broken and worn. The Swedish inventor
continued to live in this house long after
st. Johns Park had been con verted into a
railroad station.
The apartment hotel went the way OF
some OF its predecessors and began to
harbor the transient. The first outward
and visible sign Of this change is always
the acquisition of a band. II played mer-
rily it's table d'hote repertoire. and some
guests fled nightly from its uproar to seek
elsewhere the quiet they had been ac-
cuStomed to.
why, don't you like the band?" asked
the polite clerk of one guest who had gone
out ever since 1t arrived. Il thought you
We're musical.
Il am" she said: that's why | cannot
stand your band
And the clerk has not yet understood
what she meant.
The housekeeping methods Of people
who live in New York fats and who buy
nearly all their food ready cooked are
amazing to their friends from smaller
towns, who are accustomed to dwell on
the ground, with plenty Of storage space
A Western woman who was recently
visiting some New York friends in an
apartment was praising her OWL skill as
a cook, and in proof offered TO prepare
chicken q la Maryland for dinner, The
offer was accepted and the hostess acted
as assistant cook.
At the proper stage OF the game the
Western woman asked for the hour. Going
10 a small tin box which stood on a con-
venient shelf the woman of the fiat pro-
duced two pound sack.
Il asked for the -four, " said the guest.
looking blank.
This is the -four" replied her hostess:
That" gasped the other woman, sinking
into a chair for support; Il thought 1t was
the baking POWDER
The difference between the prices OF
some things on Manhattan Island and
in outlying towns cannot be accounted
for entirely by the freight charges" said
a salesman for a New York house who
visits towns within 100 miles of the city.
Down at Patchogue the other day | saw
a gardener selling asparagus that ne nad
grown himself at IS cents "A bunch. Inc
grass" as the dealers call it. was raised
under glass, out of doors, and was Inc;
big, fat and tender, and in one bunch
counted thirty-five stalks, Tha Pat
chogue gardener thought he was getting a
good price.
Did YOU ever notice how many people
take IA nap on the train on their way home
at night" asked an old HarleInite. Well,
they do. lots of them, and it il a helpful
rest, too. OF course you cant sleep COM
fortablv unless you have a good inside seat
In a warm car, but when YOU are liked mat
way it is all right A little practice Will
make YOU wake up at your own station OF
at the one before, which is better, l know
a man who gets on ut Rector street, reads
his papers to Twenty-third street and then
sleeps until Eighty-frst street. where he
gets of. 1t gives him II good little rest
and he does it every night. ! &C. TO sleep
myself wherever | happen to feel most
like il, but | have trained myself to wake
up at Ninety-third street
you may think it is always quiet and
serene on a market paper, but 1t isn't, said
an editor employed on one Of New Works big
commercial dailies. Il e to my present
place from a sheet where there must be a
given number OF sensations every day and
where failure to produce them means dis
missal. | thought I was going to the Sim
pie Life.
THE fret week l was there two reporters
we're fired for missing the news OF n corner
in codliver oil. A bulge in ginseng or
Manila hemp causes as big a stir in our
office as a triple murder, a divorce scandal
or a war cloud does in other shops
President Roosevelt ought to visit the
New York Day Nursery these days, for in
the number Of children being cared for
daily it suggests the busy old woman who
lived in a shoe. Afortnight ago the twelfth
baby to hail from one family was regis
tered at the institution, and hardly had
the nurses ceased to comment when a
sturdy two-months-old youngest err was
brought in one morning by an Italian woman
who thankfully announced that she had
had twenty-eight children, of whom nine
teen we're living. She had fetched No. 2s
to the Day Nursery 30 that she could resume
her bookkeeping. The new arrival has
been photographed as a record breaker.
whats the matter? Afraid ~somebodyll
steal 'em?" said. a testy guest in a big
hotel to the clerk. The guest had paused
TO consult a directory, one of a number
of directories of different cities lying on
the counter, and when he had drawn the
book toward him it had brought up I'M
expectedly at the end Of a chain.