The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-03
LIVE T0PICS ABOUT TOWN.

A Brooklyn sohooltsa cher with n leanfug
toward this occult has bit on n now plan for
governing her large and somewhat unruly
classroom. She manages IL, she says,
entirely by the signs Of tho Zodiac. Shs
asoertalns under what constellation zach
child wus born, and arranges them accord
ingly. For example, she will seat all the
Ta1ruaes together, and. noxt them she
will put only those children Of n compile
mentary nature, such as tire Capricorns.
She knows just what tendencies she has 20
meet In eaoh group OF chlldren-in the
Aries she must expect imEatience and
extreme aRgressdvepess-in tho Tauruses
she must look for stubbornness and perse-
veranoe and extreme loyalty, and so on
through the twelve signs. She finds great
merit In her system and says that the dis
cipline Of her schoolroom has never been
80 good or so easily maintained as 1t now ts.
Publishers Of the popular two for FIVE
song sheets, sold on the streets, have not
failed to take advantage Of the interest
in San Francisco TO boom their trade. New
editions have been issued hearing the head
line, San Francisco Disaster Song and
Sun Shines, Frisco The song tells, how
-on a Wednesday morn, 1t was just at da wn,
San Francisco got a shock,' and later. how
"a cry Of fire from the Coast rose higher
ana swings nUO tHlS TeiTdiu'
Wait I'll, the sun shines, Frisco. though stricken
We viii send sucoor, Frisco, don't you sigh.
Relief trains are fast speeding, Westward they
Wait Til the sun shines. Frisco, by and bTf
In their search for a modest four room
apartment the two bachelor girls entered
a splendid apartment house Of marble
halls and glittering e,ectrics, hoping against
hope that there might be something small
and dark and cheap in the back.
The brass buttoned hallboy ushered
them into a palatial suite.
The girls backed timidly away.
Il am sorry one faltered, but II doesn't
suit. There are not enough baths she
added after a moment Of inward thought.
One of the foreign fire insurance corpora
ions that lost largely by the San Francisco
fire has lost twenty-seven times its original
capital by risks placed in America for more
than q century. The company was origi-
nally projected by Daniel Defoe. author of
Robinson Crusoe,' at the time when he
was, pamphleteering for the union Of Scot
land with England, Defoe's fire insur-
ance project was left In allegiance while he
turned his energies to the project. that
fruotifed in the Bank of Scotland. In the
first stage Of the South Sea speculation
this fire insurance company was organized.
CIleuy IOE pTONiIuhB pai ibuO5 q Il Oh-
gines and paid fremen, whose services
were to be paid for by assessments on rate
payers. This was the first paid fire DEPART
ment in the world. This old corporation
and. one other, also hard hit In San Fran
cisco, are the only survivors Of the seven
thousand projects floated in England In
the South Sea era Of speculative bubbles.
.Illike Bellevue said a doctor who has
recently been added to the staff Of that
hospital, because most Of the sick folks
you meet there are patients of experience.
In other hospitals the ranks Of the LII are
mostly made up Of raw recruits: Now
the raw recruit ls difficult to handle. He
is afraid. He finds q hundred ways to get
out Of taking his medicines properly. He
to stay indoors when he should go out,
and he fights to go out when he should
stay in. The old stager, who has saturated
himself with medicine until his pores ooze
drugs, il the fellow who brings JOY to the
heart OF his physician. He Knows what
scientifically and even joyfully. He watches
his symptoms and the effects OF the drugs.
He knows all about his tongue, his tenn
perature and his pulse. and can determine
the proper dose. That self analysis saves
a doctor q lot Of trouble, hence his par
TALLY for a set Of patients who know how
to be sick
There were nineteen different styles Of
automobile spectacles and goggles on n
tray in an opticians window, an interest
ing proof OF the benefit of motoring to
this trade. The opticians are quick to
cater to the patrons in every sport and
some Of the automobile s%peotacles seemed
the first cousins Of sorts first offered to
bioyolists They sell, too, glasses with a
special clip for golfers, warranted not to
fall off when playing a shot, besides special
spectacles for rifle shots, field gunners
and fishermen, the latter Of opaque glass
to offset the SUMS reflection from the water.
Yachtsmen and horsemen are also GUS
toners for special speotacles as well as
for field glasses