The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-21
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Metropolitan, Dut MS last parting was
saved for the last matinee, when, in frock
coat and silk hat, he marched up and down
the corridors. Strange. women brought
Visiting cards for him to sign. During the
intermissions he had not time to put his
pencil back in his pocket. The news that he
was distributing free autographs spread
through the opera house and women climbed
down from the galleries to get them. Every
kind Of paper was in demand. Otto Wei
declares that one woman got an autograph
on a transfer slip. Many were written on
coupons 1t was only before the last inter-
mission that the friends OF the tenor, re-
minding him that he had to sing that night
in a private concert, persuaded him to go
home.
The worse the weather this month the
more grist to the riding schools. With fine
weather in March the Central Park bride
paths soon lose their aspect of solitude,
for deserterS hurry into the fresh air from
the class, club and music rides Of the tan
bark rings. One of the few winter riders
in Central Park has been u young woman
who wears a sombrero and site her bronco
man fashion in a bifurcated skirt. Only
children, as a rnle, ride In this style at the
riding schools.
The etiquette of cards is complicated.
But the question had to he settled immedi-
ateIy, as they had rung the bell and the
butler was approaching.
Hand in a lot Of cards. / always do it,"
was the explanation Of one woman.
"Why?" was the hurried inquiry.
well, If you don't hand in enough" she
said, as her companion Owed deep into her
card case, they will say you don't know
ever, they will think that you know better
than they do and that there is some new
style they have heard nothing about. Hand
him a lot"
DR.. j. Conger Bryan has been elected
president Of the San Juan Hill Club. The
members Of this club consist Of the man
who was first to charge up San Juan Hill in
the late u~npleasantness. This man was
supposed at first to be President Roosevelt,
but there are now 1913 members Of this
club, with a waiting list and a ladies' aux
Hilary.
what strikes me most In New York.
said the stranger within It's gates, 'is the
unlimited amount OF confidence the owners
Of automobiles have in their drivers. Moth.
ing seems too high priced to save them a
night in Jail. The moment a driver Is ar
rested out comes the well filed pocketbook
with money to go his bail. One automobile
owner not long ago put up a splendid Fifth
avenue residence, another the Hotel Metro
pole. 1t wouldn't surprise me in the least
he concluded, ito see the Flatiron Building
put up next as bail for some reckless chauf-
feur
Few young amateur sportsmen are so
versatile as the Raineys, Paul and Roy, of
Cleveland and New York. They W q
schooner and a steam yacht, three or four
motor cars, shoot and golf well, play polo
and lyaap IN q U'aataTn RI pipn afrin o. Qa tha
Tippah Farm Stable It Is named after their
shooting box in Mississippi, a reclaimed
plantation at Cotton Plant P. o., Tippah
county.
Simeon Ford came down from Rye, his
place Of residence. the other morning with
an expression reminiscent Of Sunny Jim.
He had a new story.
A dnrky who is occasionally employed to
do odd jobs about the Ford premises, and
who had some local reputation as a temper
anoe exhorter, had hat morning announced
his approaching marriag e to a Dun COL
ored woman Of the neighborhood.
Il congratulated him, naturally re-
marked Mr.: Ford, "and supplemented my
OF a demijohn of whiskey or a ton Of coal as
a wedding present. -,
ITO my surprise, however. in view OF his
attitude on the temperance question, he
hesitated quite a while before announcing
his choice. Finally, on reaching a decision,
or rather a justification Of it, he replied
grinning: 'Wehl, Mistah Ford, you know
Mandy and me ~oal'late on buhnin' wood"
Besides managing the subway, General
Manager Frank Hedley Of the INTERIOR
ough practices what President Roosevelt
breaches with respect to the raoe suicide
problem.
Running the subway is oftentimes a
pretty strenuous business, and in conse-
auence Mr.. Hedley is scarcely able to regu-
late his working day on the union hour
schedule, Recently when he had been
working steadily for nearly sixteen hours
Mr.. Hedley was asked by an acquaintance
what his recreations were.
"Recreations?s he repeated, as though
una cQuainted with the word. NAs a matter
OF fact, | have not had a real vacation since
the subway sta rted. But, when the work
permits, there's nothing in the way of recre-
alton to compare with a quiet restful even
ing at home counting the children"
Several artists and a leaven OF connois-
seurs were discussing contemporary Ameri-
can art at a Salmagundi evening, when a
prominent American painter, whose pen
and brush AVE both carried him far, after
listening patiently to a deal Of sermoniz-
ing on art for it's own sake, interrupted
with:
Since Victor Hugo coined hat specious
phrase, art for arts sake, some fifty years
ago, it has been an excuse for more patch
work art than ever went into a crazy quilt.
If American painters as a class are ever
to be the peers of the best foreign masters
they must adopt some other motto. Art
for arts sake? No. Forget it-turn it
to the wall, and do let us reverently pursue
art, for Gods sake"
One young woman who neither owns an
automobile herself nor has friends who
own one has, nevertheless, explored the
greater part Of New Jersey and Long Island
in motor cars.
How do you manage it?' asked an en-
vious acquaintance.
by watching the advertisements OF real
estate companies" was the reply. Every
little While some enterprising agent adver-
tises an automobile trip for prospective
customers to a choice bit Of his suburban
property. or course, | have no intention
of buying, but the agent doesn't know
that, so at his invitation | pile into an auto
mobile and get whisked all over the sur
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