Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23

am not afraid to be respectful to a once
brilliant man"
Decorated Baggage Now
There Is a new wrinkle about trunks.
Utility Is an old story now; decoration
Is the latest idea. An observer Of one
of the piles of baggage which crowd the
station platforms, now the rush home
has set In, l saw several trunks painted
with odd designs. One New York
woman has her trunks, "trunklets" and
boxes" marked with a design Of
pair of gloves done" in red, black and
gold. This "brlllant idea" helps to
identify ones baggage instantly, even
at distance. Such remarkable trunk
decorations have been seen in some OF
the French watering places that those
introduced here seem tame.
Restaurants Are Cafes Now
The word restaurant will soon have
been thing of the past as far as New
York Is concerned. Gradually on the
novel signs of eating places 1t is being
supplanted by "cafe." For many years
there were restaurants devoted exclu-
sively to women. Many of these are
now designated as ladies cafes"
Broadway has several cafes which de-
pend solely upon the patronage of
women, and they thrive. Two Of the
larger nOJelS nave opened
cafes" and at any hour of the day one
may see scores of business women dis
cussing commercial affairs over their
sherry, claret or favorite drink with the
sangfroid of Wall street brokers.
The Cab Driver
The law schools should include cab
drivers in their courses. This Is not a
light or flippant suggestion; anyone who
has noticed carefully the duties of a
New York cabby ought to realize that
in no other way can eloquence, argu-
mentative reasoning and answerless
persuasion be so thoroughly learned.
To convince a woman, first, that she
owes you twice as much as she thinks
she does and then to prove to her that
you have given her the proper amount
of change is surely good practice for a
man who will some day have to con-
vince jury that every man who gets
into trouble is insane, and to finally
persuade a much-intoxicated man that
| this is his club, and the identical place
he wished to be driven to when he per-
sists stubbornly that his club never
looked like that before, is nothing short
of triumph and would obviously give
law student long jump toward being
a Judge. Arguing through a small
square in a roof is capital practice; it
does not allow of any reliance on effec-
tive gestures or facial expressons-the
words have to do it all.
Don't Make Love in an Auto
Dan Cupid decries report that love-
making in the auto is dangerous and
that the chug- -chuggery worn by the
motorists is often proof against his
darts. New York women, as a rule,
claim that it is dangerous to spoon in
the motor car unless both persons are
experts in jiu-jitsu. They urge all
women who venture on an auto flirta-
tion to insure their lives heavily. Love-
making and bonebreaking don't gee,
the devotees of the auto say.
The Growing Woman
Speaking of increase in woman's
height physical culture experts of New
| York vouch for the fact that she is add
| ing to her stature at the rate of one
inch in ten years. Some one with
passion for figures may ask: "If wom-
ans height increases by one inch in ten
years, how much will she measure in
100 years?" The results of the calcula-
tion are just a trif1e startling and not
altogether pleased to think about
that is, for a man.
Loses Both Ways
Some 1900 of the new nickel-in- the
slot gambling machines have already
been placed in New York, with 600 in
the borough of Manhattan. In the Man
haitian lot some are to be found in the
saloons in the Wall street district The
agent for the machines is a man who
owns, or did own until recently, a.
saloon or cafe in Newark but who now
devotes his time chiefly to inducing
! saloonkeepers to admit the gambling
device to their places. The letter class
of saloons are not, as a rule, taking
kindly to the machine. because the pro-
prietors say there is Every little in it,
for them, but the smaller fry are will
| ing to take chances for whatever trade
checks may come their way. To the
owners of the machines go the bulk of
the nickels, for it is only one out of
many who put their coins into these
| little bell-shaped mouths who ever
hears the Jingle of even a 1O-cent check.
The gambling instinct which is said to
be latent in every man is aroused the
moment one takes a chance. tempted
by the red Iettered sign, Free cigars"
and one is likely to keep on until his
last coin is gone although, win or
lose, there is really no gain by the play.
In the old machine, no matter how they
were fixed" to defraud, a man had a
chance of hearing the rattle of a shower
Of nickels coming out, but with the
new ones the trade checks are turned
over to the saloonkeeper In this in
stance the fool throws away his money,
giving the lions share to the promoters
of the scheme.
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No Flowers in Flats
New York houses will be as much
abloom this fall as ever. Already many
of these in the finest residential dis
tricts are decorated with various kinds
of growing plants. But the apartment
houses are almost without exception
bare of such ornamentation. Owners
have begun to disapprove of the floral
decorations. They were too fantastic
and the individual tastes Of every
tenant had too free a sway There
were flowers Of too many colors and
qualities for ornament. So there is now
scarcely an apartment house in town
which allows the tenants to place
flowers in their windows.
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A Weather-Wise Cop
Central park has a weather prognos-
| ticator in the person of a big pOIice-