Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-18
GOSSIP DOWN TO DATE PICKED
UP AROUND NEW YORK CITY

to go alone If It Is not the old folks,
there are sisters and cousins and aunts
waiting to be asked And no man whom
| know has so perfected himself as to
be able to run an automobile with one
hand.
I'VE so often sigh for the good old
times"
W6men's Golf oos
While the fashionable tailor is about it
J why not devise something more attract.
| I've than the majority of golf togs?
| Women have all sorts of pretty things
in the way of tennis SUITS bathing suits,
and never do they think of riding except
in regulation garb, but when il comes
to golf almost anything goes" The
woman golfers who are playing I'm the
national golf tournament in Braeburn
| display great individualitv-if one
| wants to call It that-in their golfng
costumes. Almost all wear sweaters
and have their hair kept in place by
| light-colored ribbons Miss Isabelle
! Smith of Chicago wears high French
heels on the. links instead of regulation
! heavy shoes The only reason she gives
for this most distressing style that af-
J flicts civilization Is that she likes 1t
better.
Putting It Up to Stay
Everybody in New York points to the
colossal superstructure of st. Johns
cathedral, the erection of which was
started several years ago. During the
last year the building seemingly has not
| grown an inch. A crowd of visitors was
looking at the monster arch of the edi-
flee, which serves as a sort of north
star in the land navigations of the out
of-town sightseers in Harlem and, in
| fact, all the upper part of New York
city. wonder why they don't put some
real New York business enterprise into
this affair?' asked one. "A slxyscraper
construction company I know of could
finish this building in year." said am
other One of the workmen chipping
away at a huge block of stone over
heard the conversation. I'll tell you
one reason why this work is not hast
ened along" said he I'VE have to wait
for the stone to season. A piece of lime
stone or marble fresh from the quarry
is as little fit to go into wall-for
cathedral especially-as a plank from n
freshly cut oak is to form the trim in q
house. We allow stone to season two
years before using it. The cathedral is
being put up to stay" Then he told
them that there was another reason for
the rather slow work, and that has to
do with the matter of money.
|
Can't Use the Phone Properly
New York women almost invariably
gesticulate and bow and shake their
heads while at the phone. In the tele-
phone booth in a Columbus avenue drug
store is the sign, please hold your
head still while talking" what does
that mean?" asked a woman who had
been wrestling with the telephone for
| the last tnT1 mi ia
the drug clerk, that if you had obeyed
instructions you would not have had so
much difficulty In making the person at
1.-THE other end of the wire hear what
Tyou said. Every time you jerk your
head the current is disturbed and your
words are cut in two 1t is the pro-
pensity for bobbing the head that
makes woman's voice so choppy over
the phone and makes it so hard to talk
1 with her.
Outside the Pie Belt
Il guess we're out of the pie belt"
said the manager of west side res
ftaurant in answer to complaint
j I'VE did try homemade pies for a
while, and we kept four or five kinds;
but 1t does not pay us to run more
than the standards apple, peach and
mince. Most diners who call for pie
here want those kinds, and they do
not appear to care whether they get
bakers or homemade pie as long as
it's pie The rest of the diners have
a fondness for ices and creams, though
there is always large and steady de-
mand for rice pudding. L should say
that we sell eight times as much pud-
ding as pie, and you will find that once
you get away from the quick lunch
places there is no real demand for pie
here in New York. That line Home
made pies of all kinds is just bluff,
but it's bluff that's not called more
than once or twice day, and we let
it go through"
How Italians Bake Bread
A familiar sight on the Italian
streets Of the city is an italian woman
carrying an immense loaf of bread as
large around as dishpan. She is
carrying home a loaf which she has
made herself, but which she has had
baked at the bakers, because it was
too large for her own oven. The
| Italian housewives of the poorer
| classes seem to have one Interchangeable
recipe for baking. Agents of chari-