The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-27
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a few days ago, enabling the producers at
the wells to get more for their product.
There was no gain for the oil company;
howled just the same. The price Of some
kind Of oil had gone up the trust must have
done ii, and the trusts profit was taken for
granted, One theorist even, had it that
the company was getting back the amount
of its San Francisco subscription by the
advance. The fact that the producers
reaped the entire benefit of the raise es-
capped their attention entirely.
An elderly woman who goes about look"
ing for the bright spots in life saw a young
man in a Broadway car wearing a medal
engraved with the monogram &C. f. p"
She tilted across the car and sat dow
beside him.
Il want to tell you" she said, show glad
| am to see you wearing that badge. !
don't know just exactly what c. +: P. stands
for, but l suppose II is something about
Christian Endeavor, isn't it?"
"Yes, ma'am," he said, uneasily.
When the old lady left the car two blocks
| further on the young man breathed a sigh
| of relief. Another woman who had been
an interested witness moved into the vacant
seat.
aH YOU won't think me u~npardonably
nuuisitiye," she said, Il should like to ask
| you, myself, what G. E P. really means" .
ut stands for Champion Euchre Player
said the young man, but l wouldn't have
told that dear old soul so for worlds
80 doctors know how their own medi-
cine fastest" was a question put to a group
of physicians.
"To be sure we do" said n 'but We
| have hard work to convince our patients
that we do. If you only knew how this
beastly stuff tastes, doctor, you wouldn't
ask me to take it, is the complaint they
make when dosed with an especially dis
agreeable connection. And they are hard
headed people, too, who say that-people
who are by no means raving in delirium.
No matter how sincerely / protest 1t Is hard
to convince them that I do know how the
stun tastes just as we'll as they do.
"''How did you find out about itT is one Of
been laid up with all the diseases in the
dictionary
1T never occurs to the average patient
that tasting drugs is a part OF a medical
students education and that no man is
qualified to practise until he has learned
the flavor OF the medicines he prescribes."
$40 you know what we're coming tor
asked the shoe manufacturer. @Well, here's
a forecast along my line. We're going
back to the days Of Greece. In five years
we won't be wearing anything but sandals Z.
In summer time at least. Leather sandals
for children were introduced by us several
years ago. They sold like hot cakes last
season, and they're going better now.
We're turning them out as fast as our factory
can be operated. And this year we've been
making a quantity OF large sizes. They're
| almost exclusively for women, but the men
will be wearing them in a year or two, and
mark nv words, In about five more seasons
Of summer leather d will be the
whole thing. Well look like the Greeks,
all right, and we'll feel mighty comfort
able"
Signs of the summer fitting from town
house to country this spring are automo-
biles packed with the family and servants
rolling down to the piers. In other years a
string OF the family's horses and carriages,
each horse or pair usually towing at least
two carriages or wagons, was a visible
sign to all that 1t was geta way time. This
spring the automobile doing duty as an
omnibus is common but the vehicular tows
are few and far between.
sItalians are like quail" said the man
who is fond Of the Italian table d'hote,
they take fright and scatter 80 quickly.
The moment the American discovers their
retreat, away they go. Now this place,
for example. Five years ago it used to be
| alive with Italians. The only English you
heard here was what you spoke yourself.
Now look at it. With the exception of the
proprietor inc the walters, not an Italian
to be seen. l can't help wondering what
becomes of Them
She wal almost the first woman passen-
ger to leave the parlor car of the express
from Boston, and she hurried down the
! Grand Central platform to the news stand,
an anxious frown showing beneath her
gray p~ompadour. Behind her came a
younger woman, obviously a salaried com-
panion.
Throwing down a cent, she caught up
| the evening paper and drew out Of the
crowd, searching the first page with eager
eyes. v
cisco" murmured a sympathetic woman
to a friend, and they drew near the reader,
Just in time to see her crush the paper in
| her gloved hand and murmur to her COM
panion:
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