The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT Town.

ing pace well drive M wall paper anu
tapestry designers out OF business" said a
neurologist while selecting some plain
felt wall papers for his sanitarium. when
l leased a house on the West Side recently
for a private nerve repair shop the agent
wouldn't repaper the house because he had
Just covered the walls with expensive
papers with elaborate designs. Every
director OF a sanitarium for neurasthenics
who prescribes DR.. Weir Mitchell's ply steal
and mental rest cure knows that the
patients brain will remain active when
there are intricate designs on the wall paper
AMI decorations around the bed. While
lying awake during the day the patient
will fix upon a certain flower. say on the
wall and laboriously count through squares
OF designs until he finds that flower design
repeated further along. Patients COM
pute the number of repetitions Of a given
pattern on a width Of the paper and they
find 90 many things to count up among
the designs that they might as well be
porting over a ledger in an Office, for all the
brain rest they get. Total absence Of
designs in papers, tapestry and even rugs
is the only balk to their brain activity
A woman who wanted soap Of a certain
make asked for a blue cake.
1T doesn't come in blue said the clerk.
1T is made in yellow, white and green"
The woman seemed disappointed and
finally bought another brand Of soap in the
desired tint.
THAT is a queer fad said the clerk,
when she had gone out. MANY women are
carrying the color scheme to such extremes
nowadays that they use soap that matches
the furnishings OF the room. In order
to meet this demand manufacturers are
turning out soaps Of almost every known
tint. The color they are most deficient
in is blue
Nine. Gadsk, who is again to be a member
of the company at the Metropolitan Opera
House, has signed a contract with Mr.. Con-
RED which is to cover a period of five years.
She returns to the theatre under the same
conditions which governed her first appear
ances there eight years g under the
management OF Maurice Grau. Nine. Ter
nina, who had been engaged for the season,
was taken i'll and had notified Mr.. Grau
that it was useless for her to remain in this
country. The impresario looked about
him for a dramatic prima donna. n al
Nine. Gadsh was at that time making a
concert tour in this country she was engaged
a long time>
you New Workers. certainly have the
wheel habit said an out of town man
the other day. I've been in town less
than twenty-four hours, but I wouldn't
dare say how many surprises have been
wheeled up before me in that short time.
When we arrived yesterday noon my
wife asked me to go to a few shops with
her. b was my amazement to find
that in a couple Of these shops chairs were
placed for us and we were asked what we
wished to look at. Then up in front Of us
were wheeleda couple OF low, broad tables,
On which were displayed a variety Of the
things we'd asked to see. Il was a new
trick to me, bat l tried to look as II / were
used to it. In another little shop q funny
looking perambulator was wheeled up in
front OF US filed with goods for inspection.
tea wagon and that in private houses they
around afternoon tea ON il. But
she had to confess she'd never seen il used
in a store until yesterday.
About 40 q man asked me into the
cafe OF the hotel for a little something,
lating bar, drinks were mixed and served
and the little wheeled arrangement trundled
OF again. Next I wen into the ladies'
tearoom in search OF my wife and found
her lined around with all sorts OF little
n stands on wheels, on which
such an assortment of furniture on wheels
We'll, 1 thought I'd had about enough
wheels for n day but after the theatre
took a little look around one of the big
hotels, sat Town for a minute, when before
you could say Jack Robinson a table was
wheeled up, a ceilarette ON wheels appeared,
and We were at it again.
Whether it is due TO the benevolent ef-
forts Of the social reformsrs or the desire
Of persons to avoid the crowds said one
Of the clerks in a jewelry store on Fifth
avenue, 1T is true that there are fewer
late shoppers than any previous Christmas
brought out. This year our customers
began to do their holiday buying while they
we're still in the country. | have heard the
same story from other stores. The result
"a that there are no great crowds at the last
and the old appearance Of a Christmas
rush is absent. But we have been selling
since October
A cold weather danger to h~ouseholders
may be termed the back draught hair SINCE.
The time for the infection is any night of
zero temperature, when the householder
feels impelled to find out why the furnace
throwing out more heat. He opens
the furnace door, and as the blue flames
Of gas seem TO be working full time on the
bed Of Goals the householder bends low
10 take another look. Then the back dranRht
sends a sheet Of flame into his face, which
his hair, eyebrows and mustache
he has one. The Investigator feels lucky
not to lose his eyeeight or have his face
blistered.
You are the fourth man I've fixed up
this cold snap said the neighborhood
barber to such a victim. Its funny how
many get their heads singed by the back
draught every blizzard
One peculiar feature OF the shoe trade
this season is the demand for overshoes
to order said the manager Of a shoe
Many women are wearing shoes
rather narrow, pointed toes and the
broad rubbers now on the market are GER
tainly not a very good fit. What our Gus
toners want is an overshoe that doesn't
ook like a gunboat, hence the frequent
for overshoes with graceful Ines