The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
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Borrowing carried X the limit wa illus
trated In an elevated train.

aohou ono uhhu VI Vno pdoSenBer DeSiuo nlHl.
"For the present was the reply. If
you want to borrow it a while I don't mind
"oh, no. said the first speaker, Il don't
want your paper. I have three Of my
own. The trouble is / can't read them. I
left my glasses at the Office. I thought
maybe yours might suit. II you're not
letting me try2"
The audaoity of the request deprived the
other man OF the power of refusal. He took
on his glasses and sat staring out OF the win
dow while his neighbor read the evening
paper.
There Is q rumor about Police Head
quarters that Commissioner Bingham will
abolish the one man detail of interpreter.
The Commissioner himself speaks German,
Italian and French. Capt. Waldo speaks
French, Spanish and a little Chinese and
Moro. The new deputy, Mr.. Mathot,
speaks Spanish, French and Italian.
At an uptown hotel 900 men and women
played euohre for charity Tuesday night.
There were 100 prizes, all arranged on tables
In one Of the smaller rooms. The man or
woman having high score went TO this
room, walked slowly around, made a choice
and was hustled out, for second high
were waiting to make their choice. In the
excitement Of winning and Of choosing no.
body seemed to get Just what he wanted.
take that awful tray when there were 80
friend and exclaimed: aIsn't II Just like a
man to take that corkscrew, when might
have had that bracelet, those grape fruit
glasses, that shirtwaist box or those lace
doilies-anything but that corkscrew,. we
have a dozen OF ~them-wasn't he stupidl'
The disappointment over the wrong
choice seemed much greater than the pleas
ure of winning.
A pegboard on viii oh the members Of
the family can record their outgoings and
incomings Is common in Brooklyn homes.
All you need Is a piece Of wood with holes
in 1t like a oribbage board arranged in
two vertical columns. Each column has
as many holes as there are persons in the
family. So when George goes out In the
morning he puts his peg In the "out' column
and when he comes home he puts 1t back
is at night, and the one who takes the last
peg from the out" column must make
secure the front door with the chain, with
out which nc Brooklyn home would be
complete.
Il saw a story In THE Sun last Sunday
telling how having a race horse named
after you is q h%oodooo,' said a baseball
crank. Maybe that's why Manager
Griffith OF the New York Americans has
had such persistent III luck In the matter
Of his players being injured. You know
there was a ~two-year-old named Clark
Griffith. and a good n he was. II the
hoodoo is removed this year. I believe
Griffith can win the pennant with the ma
terial he has
eft aaoDna a ahann RI ahtlf I'm fha nlQNa
for the summer . said the woman with the
pretty little fat, "but that is what I shall
have to do. Rent it out to a friendf Never
This Is what she did to me. First she
went TO my grocer and started r unning a
bill in my name. The grocer said he thought
it was funny. as I had never run a bill but
he let it 60, she seemed 30 affable. Then
Then she began to telephone. She must
have called up everybody she knew, in
Guiding her long distance friends, for /
nave never had such a telephone bill before
nor since.
out. 1 at last found her. I wrote her
/ wanted to see her. She came. The
moment she entered the door she burst
into tears. l said to her:
uo rDoh IT cry F Is1I Ry;' wba hate te to to see So a
are making a good deal Of oney now.
aren't your Well, you just pay me $40
a week until you settle with me. How will
that do?'
1T will do beautifully said she, smiling
the last I ever saw OF her.
"fThe idea that the wearing Of wings,
breasts and other feather ornaments on
women's millinery necessitates the whole
sale slaughter Of birds is all bosh,' said a
manufacturer of feather goods. Once in
a while a fashion comes In that calls for a
particular feather or quill that only one
bird bird P Pro %Soie BIRDS 9qe ~ are made edSaf srom a the
feathers plucked from poultry, dressed
for table use. We take bales OF feathers,
sort them, dye them, brush them, curl
them, and work them up into whatever Is
wanted, and not a birds life is sacrificed
Early the morning after the big snow
last week the engineer of a factory up
town, instead Of waiting for the laborers to
come around and shovel of the sidewalk,
proceeded to do the job quickly and
thoroughly himself. He attached 100 feet
of steam hose to a pipe leading to the bat
tery Of boilers, turned on the steam n
tackled the snow. II disappeared like
dew before a summer sun, n In haIf an
hour he had not only cleared the sidewalk,
but the street.
A youngster with limitless faith in the
power and reality Of Santa Claus wrote a
letter to him last Christmas. The letter
was answered by gifts that the boy had
asked for. His idea of Santa Claus's resi-
dence is sup in the sky" where he thinks
that God also lives. Recently he was taken
down with measles and he confded to his
mother that he wanted to write a letter
To- God asking to be made well. He was
told that God could not be reached by let
fer. and he said, in a tone that defed con-
tradiction: Well, couldn't l send it to
santa Claus, and wouldn't he give it to
GodY" His mother permitted him to write
the letter.
AT least three songs sung by Tony Pastor
in his stage reign Of forty-one years can be
whistled by about every homebred New
Yorker who Is between IS and 90 years DID,"
said a city bred man They are Jim the
Carter's Lad Down In a Coal Mine and
Pull Down the Blinds.
aFach was a craze in it's day and brought
from England for Tony, who was then in
his best voice. The first two he made a
success on the Bowery, and the last when
he Arut want IN Fourteenth street. The