Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

carry little pieces OF the table at which
stanford White sat, with an artistic
bloodstain smeared upon them. These
they sell for q dollar each, and
Grand Rapids firm has taken q large
order to supply these pieces Of wood
bv the carload. The chair i'm which
White sat can be purchased for any
thing from So to what the easy mark
cares TO pay.
"HelI to Be Single"
A magistrate over In the city Of the
baby carriage and rubber plant, known
as the borough of Brooklyn, says ITS
hell to be single-married life is the real
thing" This magistrate, whose name
Is Connorton, wants IL understood that
he Is no criminologlst, but that during
his seventeen years experience on the
bench he has noted that more unmar-
rled men get i'm the police courts than
the married ones. The refining In
luence of home, he says, Keeps the
married man busy lodging fatirons
and other household utensils and avoid
ing family Jars. "If an idle brain Is the
devils Workshop" he declares, folks
ought to marry. A married mans
brain is not often idle. If it had a
tendency to get him in trouble IL would
be too busy to do It," Some of his
for the promotion Of matrimony be or
ganized with Connorton as president,
but he refuses the job.
The Busy Press Agent
Pity the poor chorus ladyl The last
week has been a trying one for her.
Her publicity agent has had her
camped on the steps of the distri at.
torney's office for hours waiting for
summons in the Thaw case. He always
accompanies her. riding a white horse
and blowing a cornet as he rushes to
the newspaper offices, where he dopes
her out as being one of the most i'm
portant" with esses in the case. cal
though 10th to testify" he says, "she
will tell of a conversation N which
gentleman friend whose name she
would not reveal for worlds said he
heard it reported at the Metropole
that it was rumored at Jacks that
somebody at Churchlll's was quoted as
saying that on one OCCASION at Mocks
there was talk of somebody having said
something that nobody could under
stand and which, therefore, must have
a vital bearing on the whole affair"
After giving all the papers her photo
graphs, the color of her hair. her waist
measure, the number of her room and,
young woman, who belongs to one of
the oldest families in Virginia, feels
the greatest reluctance in testifying,
but is animated simply by a desire to
see Justice DONE" The roof garden af
fair is indeed "meat" for the press
agent and he is not allowing grass to
grow under his feet.
Put Evil Eye Out of Biz
The great evil eye which has winked
at the patrons of the Second avenue
street railway and sharply scrutinized
them when they were returning home
in the wee sma' hours of the morning
has blinked it's last blink. Some weeks
ago the big optic was put up as an
advertisement by a manufacturer of
optical instruments. 1t was a huge
eye of many colors. From it's place
at a prominent corner near a curve
it blinked and winked at the passen-
gers and threw them into a nervous fit
every time they passed the place.
Sometimes the eye had an expression
that was real devilish and then again
when it's color changed from green or
red to blue it had a goo-goo cast. The
patrons of the road have raped the
eye so hard that it is now black. The
merchant has put up a new sign.
New York's Soda Jerkers
"Up and down. up on three and both
ways on five" It's not a roulette game
or policy numbers, but merely a glib
little girl in a Nassau street drug store
shouting her soda orders across the
counter. A "jerker," without further
comment, proceeds to draw a chocolate
soda, a sundae of the same brand. a
strawberry soda, pineapple soda and
pineapple sundae. No other words are
necessary. The well trained "jerker''
knows the numbers of the flavors as
well as he does their names and never
makes a mistake. To the onlooker the
system presents a greater difficulty
than even the phraseology of a short
order restaurant waiter. In the latter
case there is some resemblance be-
tween the real names and the invented,
but at the soda fountain the real
names disappear, and the thirsty pa
tron sits in wonder when he hears the
order not knowing whether he is to be
served with a porterhouse steak or a
couple of boiled eggs. New Workers
have a wonderful capacity for soda
water. On a week day the downtown
soda fountains are overworked. Pa
irons line up at the counters ten deep
and struggle just as hard for the col
ored effervescent liquid as do the wo-
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