The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
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LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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The Brooklyn woman had returned from
a stroll in Prospect Park. where the grass
is getting green and the air smells OF spring
where the benches are all newly painted
and occupied by nureemaids cheerfully
| disre garding their young charges: where
the croauet players are be ginning TO- gather
again for their daily eXercise and the car
ousal man is polishing up the brass ring
friend from Manhattan, -the spirit Of poesy
seems to be in the air. ! think I'll have to
write an epic about Brooklyn" 9.
Aren't you too late. my dear? Didn {
Dante do it?" was the chilling reply.
Thus was civic pride crushed by inter-
borough Jealousy.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolutionist
was looking ove a bookcase in the house
Of Gaylord Wiltshire at q ptlon In bis
honor on Wednesday night. His adopted
son, Nicolay zavolsky Pieshkof, who was
at his side, drew from a shelf a COPY OF
~Orlof's Wife and handed it to his foster
father. Gorky, knowing nc English, scrut-
ini7ed the title and the name OF the author
in a puzzled sort of way, and then handed
it hack.
What is it?" he asked.
AN English translation Of your Orion
Wife," Nicolay renlied.
Gorky eagerly took the hook from the
youths hand and for fully fifteen minute
S'. .Ho% %s sng oS 2 he he" said aid 70 think that
this is my book and yet | cannot make out
| one word. But l see how my name Is
printed in English. I will always remem-
Der that, no matter if I never master the
language"
Sometimes there's luck for q policeman,
..o. L. kk~1a Ia-a npA ~ the mo on
Broadway. who is almost as well known to
women shoppers as the Flatiron Building
has Just resigned from the force TO take the
place Of head f1oorwalker in one OF the de-
partment stores before which he has been
| stationed for some years. The proprietor
had long observed from his Office window
the politeness with which his approaching
customers we're conducted aoroes the street.
He needed the same kind Of attention among
his employees, and when a vacancy came
there was nobody that suited him 80 well as
the man oil the crossing.
The numerous complaints received by the
subway management, both from employees
and passengers, have led to a new expert
ment. The pillars in the subway are to be
painted a lark red. It is said that this
will lessen the strain Oh the eyes, and also
make the lights Of the signal lamps stand
out more PLAINLY
The revenue cutters doing duty in the har-
Dor are no longer armed, the Government
having caused the removal Of the rapid fire
one Founders that we're mounted forward
and aft on the tiny vessels, The cutters
were armed at the outbreak of the Spanish
war.
This making fun Of the countryman is
being carried too far" observed the man
| who never likes to cross Broadway without
having his accident policy renewed. 1t
is ever c%orrupting the manner of the boot
blacks on the ~ferryboats. For example,
when l cross the North River from Man
haitian with my shoes covered with West
street mire, which dries out a sort OF gray
green. the bootblack goes at the job in a
mos. respectful name but whoa |
cross the other way, carrying a foot load
| of clean, red Jersey mud, free from mi
crobes, that.sameb ootblack becomes flip
pant plies his brushes to an accompaniment
Of ieers and turns his head TO make IN
complimentary remarks IN Italian, 10 a
fellow workman"
Il cannot say that I seriously object"
meditatively remarked Luther B. Little.
| chief Republican literary sharp of Republi-
| can State headquarters, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. Yesterday. TO the women's short
gowns, and l do not know that l can enter
a serious objection TO the spatts they wear
with them, but I do not see why most
women wearing 'em-short gowns and spatts
should disfgure the landscape by toeing
in"
The pretty girl had told the artist that
she had posed before, and on the strength
of that statement she got a job. She hadn't
held the pose ten minutes before she turned
deadly white and sank to the floor.
Model sickness" said the experienced
artist, after she had gone, Il knew she
was lying, for the first timers always get it.
1t is as we'll defined a complaint as sea-
sickness, and has to be treated the same
way. 1t is a form of NAUSEA, and is caused
as much by the nervous strain the new
model is always under as by the unusual
experience of sanding in one position. /
nave had big, strong men, even negroes,
go the same way. II is something every
artist has to make allowances for, and only
practice can cure it, although l know old
models who sill suffer from it, especially
if they are in an awkward pose"
A woman hurried up to a policeman at
the corner of Twenty-third street.
Does this cross.own car take you down
to the bridge toward ~Rrooklyn2" she de-
manded.
why, madam" returned the police
man. do you wantt to go to Brooklyn.
No, | don't want to-" the woman replied,
"but | h nave to-"