The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-01
avs ToPIes AnoCT TowS.

A Hroohlyn man stood on a ladder prin-
lna o young shsds tres In fruHt ~ bis homs
IN on avens1e eornsf. when 70 nsiahhDr,
stopping ~ scfateh q msich On fhp mail
bux on tho lHmppust, arooHe 81 him 9TH
'DYnr YOU know you're liable 4" arrest
for quitting 'hAt treeY'
'Otiaas not I planted n mvself
Yes, iHH yai forfeited all control ~"
msaueuf YOU apt " ~ M the Ffreet Ih#
Park Uppar ment has al fishta over that
TRES nv ansi the penaltv y heavy Tor
fne1titine with ~
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90 ~ ATE Uuita
sWbHfH yuffei on me-"
sYpn srfafole-i y match on = letser los
Z pctr ssm provides . sRp p.nsityisoT That
l. iha, 90 We'll I Girs- no M mas
Knows sl the lass
Futures In weather. aren't Just nv line .
ssbI q veil Nnorsn memler of tlie stock
Rsohangr the other day. but ! Wouldn't
mind loading ntodestly on July and Aug't|t
options I've had nv wrather eye on New
York freak winters and ths following sum.
mer~ for several years and have made
certain deductions. When W. do most Of
aiT -hlvering sway along In February and
March I've noticed that we sizzie gDod and
plenty in July or August, az both The
last time We got what cold weathsf We did
aet m February and March was Ia ieJ2,
" 10 tho middle Of February ~ that Y ear
We could get along fairly comfortably In
llDan d1steTa. And the hmm OF ipn7-
who will forget u u had to epend hts
days In town. Even the women discHrded
collars. AZ for the men, the drapery OF
parison. II ssemsd AZ II the hot wave
would never stop hsMting upon the city.
That wn only one Of the freak winters aud
aizgltnR ummer I can recall, an d III lay
a modest one that New York will be another
bakeoven this summer.
Diplomacy Ia tho life OF my tade.' said
d barber In the Wall Street district. THE
people I cater 60 arc the sfnartest people
in the world because they spend all their
time doing each other and they don't like
10 be disturbed.
ri a man comes In here and begins to
talk loud don't call htHi down or throw
him out. | use diplomacy. | do. say to
him
Are you a politician"
Why lac says. .
Because you're such a good talker,'
say. and ten TO one lie never comes BACK,
which Is just what / want.
Same way with "a fat man that comes In
whistling. say To him:
'Have o ever been on the stageF
s'Why;' he asks. -.
because you whistle so we'll you might
be- ] say, and he gets 80 mad he loses
weight
A club has been recently started In Har-
lem which il called the subway Club
The object of this club is to practise the
different movements necessary for trave
in the subway express the stride you
must get ON you in crossing the platform
for the express, which doesn't wait; the
swimming effect, the striking out motion
Of hands and arms for the purpose OF Great
ing q path for yourself; the step lively
motion which necessitates alert elevation
Of the head and throat and the sharp look
out of the eye; The quick, positive and de-
cided workings Of the elbows upon, APP
preaching the door; the graceful holding
IN TO the strap while the train IL in notion;
but above All the peculiar and very neces-
sary teetering motion with which one awaits
the stoppageo OF the car in order to prevent
utter and ignominious collapse into the In
ruriatcd laps of the seated passengers
The hair OF the manicurist had been a
pretty iron gray. Upon close ob1erva-
ton the customer found 1t to be Il dark
burnt brown. which was not so pretty.
81 had TO do it, explained the manicurist
sullenly. "You zee. We are hair dressers,
too, and we sell a hair dye that we declare
TO be perfectly harmless 70 the hair. My
customers said to me, III your hair dye IL
harmless, why don't you use it on youro-a
hair2' So there was nothing else for IT,
And the worst OF IL is,s she muttered more
sullenly still, "I'm not dead sure the old
stuff Is 50 perfectly harmless