The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

4Wil you call at my house Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock2" the invitation read.
Then there wes a postscript: III you
haven't a new spring hat, don't come"
AS a result Of this a~fterthought six of the
eleven girls to whom the notes were de-
spatched invested in vernal ~headgear before
obeying the summons. When they we're
all assembled the hostess beamed upon
the millinery display approvlngly.
They are beautiful" she said, "but I
don't see how you had the courage to appear
on the street alone in such conspicuous
toys 30 early In the season. I haven't.
That is why I sent for you. 1 have a new
hat, but 1t ie 30 SNOWY hat / am ashamed
to wear it unless there are others along
equally striking to divide the attention,
1t was so good OF you to come. Now let's
all 60 out together n show our hats
Supreme Court Justice Wilmot Smith,
who died last Thursday, and William Man,
q veteran member Of the New York bar,
who died a month ago, were both descend
ants of Smith the bull rider for whom
the town of Smithtown, l.. l., was named,
and both delighted in telling the historic
exploit Of their ancestor.
In OAtBihni III Ndo OLlO u AN NOV
white settlers on Long Island, and became
friendly with the Indians. They offered
to trade to Smith for a lot Of trinkets all the
land he could circle In one day on the back
of a bull. He rode around the present
Smithtown and a considerable area Of the
surrounding country.
sWe had the hardest kind OF a time getting
models this season." said a Fifth avenue
mi ptIfa ntt1rinu fnilnr[ Tho nthar 1au u
think it must have been because Of the
increased number Of theatres Offering places
to young women with good forms. Usually
we ave been able to get plenty OF stylish
figures at $1d a week, but this year we were
compelled 20 pay $50 and sometimes $25 a
week for what we wanted.
when the season for selling fall goods
opens In a few weeks we anticipate more
applicants than we will have places for,
because many OF the theatres will then be
closed and models will be wanting to earn
money for their summer vacations. You
have no idea how many women OF seeming
refinement and gentle birth apply to US for
work"
Il don't think that the habit Of drinking
is on the increase among women said a
milliner in the rear of whose establishment
is a regular buffet, where customers may
have pretty much what they wish con-
cocted by a real white coated mixer.
we were not compelled to serve drinks
in order to keep, our trade the milliner
said, ~but We find that women stay longer
and try more hats after they have had q
highball than they did when they drank
only tea
When the American athletes who are to
compete in the Olympic games at Athens
sail for the other side there will be aboard
the ship some 400 gallons Of water for the
athletes express use. Every drop Of the
water is being given by q mineral water
concern whose business aoumen prompted
the gift for advertising purposes, 1t is
an American water-"an American water
for American athletes" say the givers.
The woman who was in the office Of q
publisher on Seventeenth street west looked
out of the window.
What on earth are all those wicker chairs
doing on the roof of yonder?' she asked.
Everybody who sits in that chair you are
in asks that question: returned the pub
Usher. Those chairs or others like them
stay out there all the year round, summer
and winter, in all sorts of weather, sunshine,
rain, snow, cold, l don't know why, unless
IL is the roof to an antique store and that's
the way they get them old"
There is soon to be a new restaurant
added to the number On Fifth avenue. 1t
seems almost like the irony Of fate that
this newcomer in the uptown field should
have had the opportunity to buy the estab-
ishment in which he served his apprentice
ship and rose to be a head waiter. 1t was
his subsequent SUCCESS as the proprietor OF
a downtown that is to lead him
to a place among the Fifth avenue establish
ments.
A New York woman who has a fortune
for an annual income invited her friends in
the other day to hear some music provided
not by hired singers but by her own pupils.
Four hours of every day she gives up to
teaching. No profess ional compelled to
earn her daily bread is more earnest than
this teacher who has devoted years to the
study Of an art and wants to hand the results
on to others. The great success she. has
met with has proved her quail fcations.
She of course receives no compensation Tor
her services and demands OF her pupils
only a certain amount OF training and an
enthusiasm equal to her own.
C. Grant La Fargo, who lectured the other
day at the residence OF Mrs. Herbert L..
Satterlee on the progress OF building the
Cathedral Of st. John the Divine, Of which
he is one of the architects, received many
compliments from those who were present
on his skill as a lecturer.
you really mean it?' he said TO those
who said nice things to him. Then he pom
fessed that it was the first time he had ever
appeared on the platform, He was per-
fectly at ease in his speaking, and 1t was a
surprise to his auditors that it was his debut
DO you know, 4" he said TO a friend after
ward, Il nave been so nervous over this
affair that 1 have scarcely slept for three
nights"
"Itfmay be only imagination on my part
said the subway conductor, "but it seems