The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-30
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

$50 far as clothes are concerned New
Workers. don't have to wait for the sweet
by and by for every day to be Sunday"
remarked a recently acclimated New
Yorker. "Reckoned from a sartorial stand
point, all the days are Sunday here right
now. New York people-those, that is.
who have been here long enough-fght
shy Of even the suggestion OF ,Sunday
clothes. To cling to Sabbatical attire
thing to wear in this town just put 1t on
and wear it on Sunday and Monday and
Tuesday and every other day in the week:
1t took several broad hints from interested
friends to teach me that lesson in metro.
politan manners From childhood had
been used to Sunday clothes, 1 had had
Sunday shoes, Sunday hair ribbons guilt
less of crease or stan, and q Sunday frock
straight from SpotleSs Town. ! was very
uncomfortable, l dare say, in all those I'M
maculate axings, but it was the custom TO
trig ourselves out 80, and we never thought
of outraging custom. But now all that
Is changed. / have shed provincial habits;
l am a full fedged New Yorker, conse-
quently l b have no Sunday Clothes
There is one line in Arms and the Man
as performed at the Lyric that affords con-
siderable quiet enjoyment to the spectator
who has read Shaw's play beforehand and
is also an observer Of contemporary affairs,
This Is i nthe last act, when Rdind announces
with much scorn to the chocolate cream
soldier" that she Is not a schoolgirl as he
had supposed, but O woman OF "a. Chrystal
Herne, who plays Rdind, brings out the
-four" forcibly. Now Shaw wrote twenty
three" but it is hard TO say three in an
artificial manner. Besides when Shaw
wrote Arms and the Man there was no
such local slang as we have to-day.
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Il wonder why it Is that you always walk
on ~everybody's left side,' said the bachelor
girl to the little widow, as they walked
along. .,
Merely a matter Of habit" the little
widow replied. my last husband was
deaf in his right ear
On a busy Broadway corner stood a man
whose chest was labelled with this sign
EYES FREED FROM cINDERs. 10 CENTS.
do you stand here all day long picking
things out Of peoples eyes'' asked a woman
who had been relieved Of some trifing
aNot in this identical spot said the
man. Il wander about. But J. find plenty
Of customers 10 matter where l go. New
York is pretty clean, as cities GO, neverthe.
hunting az eye to lodge in. Usually they
find what they are after, and when they
begin to GET In their deadly work the sufferer
hustles around loo king for relief. That is
where I come in. You make the seven
teenth pate mt I have treated to-day. Add
ing the tips to the regular charges, that is
not q bad days work for a street doctor"
young man who had given an excellent
account OF himself while on trial as a con-
duotor was very much surprised when told
by the superintendent that he would not
be satisfactory as a permanent employee.
whats the matter?" he asked. didn't
I attend to business' Weren't my accounts
yes, you were ell right that way said
the superintendent. "1he trouble is, two
of your fingers are gone. Unfortunately,
there have been many complaints from
passen gers as to the manned condition OF
your hand. Most people are sensitive in
regard to an infrmity Of that kind and
although they do not wish to be unklnd
, they object to being thrown in contact
with it. l have been obliged to turn down
other. estimable young fellows who were
thus handicapped"
sThe great demand in foreign countries
for American made typewriters is causing
some of Ills statesmen a lot Of extra labor
said a city drummer for a standard ma
chine. st has become necessary for us
to learn the keyboard Of the foreign ma
chimes, and consequently the language Of
each leading foreign country, l put in
Just six months struggling with Russian
long enough to give me a working aoquaint-
ance with the keyboard, but l have just
secured a standing order with a Warsaw
firm for 100 machines a month, so l guess
the effort was not in vain. J. have just
heard of a prospective Spanish contract,
and am working like a mailer to get the
language pat and make the sale before the
salesman from some other company beats
me out"