The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-04
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

lgnace PaderewBki is coming over here
this winter to play only seven times. No
amount Of money could persuade him to
appear any Oftener in public; but he is
going to take the time out OF his brief stay
to play once for charity. Two years ago
ne promised several ladies Of this city to
give a concert for the benefit of the music
school down on the East Side that turns good
tailors and other mechanical workers into
mediocre musicians. The need of more
musicians in this city may be understood
from the fact that piano lessons are to be
had IN many places for 2S cents, M, Pade-
rewski promised to play for this charity,
however, and was prevented on his last
visit by the railroad accident which laid
him up. He is going to keep his word when
he comes over, even il he will be in the coun-
try only a little more than two weeks.
4 never saw anything like the human
ads you have in your New York windows
remarked a girl UP for a few weeks from
the South. What l dislike most about it
iB that most Of them are women. There's
the Oriental eyed girl who sits in Turkish
costume putting some new brand Of ciga-
rette. emitting arabesque whiffs from her
mouth; there's the girl who lets down her
glorious hair and holds out to view some new
Seven Sisters detection; there's the girl
who demonstrates some up TO date collar
or belt fastener, and OH such a host Of
others.
Il saw two mighty queer ones yesterday.
A Broadway window was veritably besieRed
by passers by straining to catch a glimpse
OF a girl drenched by a shower bath operat-
ing directly above her head. That shower
bath was worse than any thunder plump
that ever drenched Broadway; but the girl
smilingly peeled OIL a macintosh which she
wore, and showed the spectators that her
underneath garments were as dry as powder
or a lecture on mnemonics.
Then the other one. A woman in a
window in the shopping district makes the
astonished observer believe she's about 10
perform, in theatrical p~arlance. the Great
Undressing Act. With cool ~unconcern she
unbuttons, unhooks and removes her outer
garments, one by one, and then applies
somebody's Magic Cleaner and cleans them.
But don't see concluded the girl from
the South, looking down ~thoughtfully at
her polished finger nails, why they can't
get men and boys to do those stunts Do
you reckon the women pay better?-.or get
paid less?"
An enterprising barber on Broadway
advertises, not Chairs enough for ALL"
or anything 80 old fashione d as that, but
Make appointment by telephone and so
avoid waiting" Then at the bottom of the
blotters which he distributes through the
business district is his telephone number,
which is made just as prominent as his
address.
The effect OF this new custom is that
customers without telephones sometimes
man who bobs into the shop gieefully,
ready to plump down into the vacant chair,
il apt to be informed that ii has lust been
reserved by telephone.
Georgia people are especially popular
with New Yorx street car conductors.
@The reason why?" said one conductor.
Because they're the kind that stop and pay
their ~carfare at the door. Every little
while some big man in a long coat and a
SLOUGH hat stops and hands out his nickel
before going into the car.
Save you the trouble Of comm in after
it, he saws.
Now, that's what / call treating a fellow
white. ! couldn't make out at first where
all those considerate passengers were
brought up. One day / asked.
Georgia, of course said the thorough |
bred, surprised that ] had had to ask.
Since then, whenever a man hands out
his carfare at the door l tip my hat and
say. From Georgian
Sure says he, every time"
Oscar Hammerstein has found his most
loyal ally in his new opera scheme in Nine.
Melba. She has aided him with her advice
and arranged for the engagement OF GER
tain singers who would not otherwise lave
been willing to come to this country. Only
the other day through an error OF one Of
his representatives Maurice Remand had
by his contract the right to make his first
here in la Damnation de
which 10 would nave been i'm
possible to give on the first nightsOf the
season. In order to get out OF this predica-
ment Mr.. Hammerstein sent a $50 cable-
gram to Nine. Melba at her country home
in England. She made a special trip to
saw NJ. Renaud and cabled her man,
ager thirty-six hours later that the barry
tone would be willing 10 sing Ri0oLetIo or
Don GiOrGRni for his first role.
For a good Democrat there is nothing
bat gloom ahead in the present political
situation, according to Comptroller Metz.
asked the other day II he was still
determined to go fishing on election day
he replied that there were three choices.
and only three, for = Democrat. He can )