The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
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~ FNouCiif1hn % uDOOuDJeu DLuG oiOON
got stranded In New York. His only pos
scssion that could be converted into cash
was a ring with an authenticated historic
value. He consulted friends Us to its most
profitable disposition.
-Sh0w IL 20 collectors interested In such
things,' they advised. Some one will
probably give you . god price for it =,
Take y to a p0wnbvoker,' n wise man
much as the aSsrsss otIisctcr.s
I Frenchman occeLtcd the advice OF
all; ne visited both collsctors and pawn
brokers, but he sold 20 u ~nawnbroker.
Il knew you would" commented the man
who have such a Keen scent Tor heirIooms
and other articles with q history as pawn
brokers. They are always on the lookout
for such things and they are willing 10 pay
Tor the romantic associations as well 40 for
that calling is not supposed to have the
bump OF sentiment very highly developed,
but me realizes the possibilities OF sucn d
pledge should IL remain In his possession
uuredeemed. n he n willing to secure IL at
the best possible terms to tho customer
The squirrel without a country lives in
the trees OF Washington Square Park,
alone. How he came there nobody knows.
Marooned in that one spot Of green N all
the wilderness OF city blocks about, the
exiled squirrel In doomed TO Punishment
for the rest OF his life. In the daytime he
stays in his hole, half way up the trunk OF
an old elm in the southwest corner OF the
park. The day benchers never see him.
1t is only long after nightfall, when all the
dogs q gone to sleep, that the hermit
over the grass in his search for the days
garnertng OF crumbs and peanuts. Even
then the cats prowl and the squirrel Without
q country is hard put to it to save his gray
hide.
When the toymakers produced miniature
automobiles that steered with q wheel
like the real thing and Progressed by leg
power the realism OF the things made a
great bit with the youngsters. A simple
Continuance, however, increased their popu-
larity 100 per cent. by adding a noise like
the exhaust of a big car. A notohed wheel
on the axle and a springy piece OF steel
humping over it does the business. It's
a little racking on the nerves OF. all Blu
the youngsters, but they don't mind that.
as unpopularity among pedestrians is also
a bit Of buzz wagon realism. .
A coat OF tan doesn't necessarily mean
that the wearer has been out OF town all
summer The ice man who has worked
in the city, hatless and with rolled sleeves,
through all the warm weather. has a bronze
color that a month at the seashore wouldn't
beat. Motormen's faces are tanned, n
some OF the policemen, especially in Brook
Ign, where the houses aren't too close,
are as brown as golfers or c~anoeists. And
they aren't Boosting about 1t, either.
Outside a fish store In Franklin avenue.
Brooklyn, is this sign;
Live Fried Soft Shell Crabs
But the crabs do not live up 90 the
announcement.
Rid0etrdy's, the new weekly, ia to be
known as he militant magazine for God
and country" il seems. n the recent
dinner OF the stat OF the newly organized
pager rang with militant and cody elo-
quence The high water mark OF rhetoric
was touched by one OF the local heads
from a city in the West. This gentleman
had qpme on with a recon- az an earnest
speak came late, and his enthusiasm had
been swelling through the previous speech.
Gentlemen he began at last, fh Good
Book says, Feed NV sheep Let us take
that for a motto. We have a great work
before us. The readers OF the new weekly
will be the Lords sheep, and we must labor
for them II is up to us, gentlemen. Let
us then wade in, I say; LEI us wade in, and
every one Of us do our damnedesti'
when people start a new fad, remarked
the postman in a residence district, they
don't think how far the consequences will
reach. Take this souvenir card business.
Before they cume in We had an easy time
of it in summer. Every one was out OF
and most of the houses shut up. Some
times we didn't have more than two or
three letters TO deliver in a whole block.
Now We a " to carry more stun in summer
than we do in winter. The people that
are away buy souvenir cards by the hundred
and send them to their friends. As they
don't know where their friends are in sum-
mer, they address all the cards to their
houses, and we get them in hunches
Of twenty-five at a time all summer long
A lonely reporter sat on a stoop down on
West Thirty seventh street early q morn
ing recently, waiting for some new de-
velopment in a murder mystery to be given
out at the police station. The midnight
SQUAD Of cops had tmmped of to post and
for over an hour no f~ootstep had sounded
on the pavement. The reporter called over
o Of the night proving puseiee TO him
and by dint Of honeyed urging inveigbed
the lean black shadow to slip up between
his knees.
While the reporter was stroking inc
cuddlinR the tramp cat other shadows
appeared from dark corners and, after
m~uch-rircling around and heeltatinE ad-
vanoes, one by one ak other tabbies came
to Join the imprpmptu family reunion.
The cats rubbed against h reporters
legs, climbed to his shoulders and in every
one OF the coy pussy cats ways OF express
sion the seven tramps Of Hell's Kitchen
showed their gratitude for the first petting
they had probably ever received.
No de- elopments in the murder mystery
~ ~ into tha nnlire RtatioN. and at Is90
O'Clock in the morning the amateur Pied
Piper started for the elevated to go back
TO his Office. Seven vagpnt pussy cats
followed him to the corner, there stopped,
crouched down and watched him climb
the stairs to the train platform.
NO NIGHT WORK FOR CHILDREN.