The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24

Il have seen but one dog that looked
like a dog since I came to New York.
said a man from Atlanta. "You have a
way Of trimming them up TO look like
monkeys, foxes and heaven knows what.
The particular Instance was the other day
touched. Il was a good sight for tired
eyes To my dis rust the next day I saw
the same beast clipped to look like a Hon"
An expressman who called ct a Ninety
second street boarding house for two
they were going.
i don't know" hs said. you soc, I do
only half the hauling. will take the things
to our Office and somebody else will TAX e
them the rest OF the way. The boss at the
desk will know the address. The moving
Is lone on the fnstalment plan 10 keep you
folks here from finding out where the other
people went. They wsTo AFRAID e t-ss. ne
with the number for fear you might worm
il out Of me, 50 they told It to nobody but
the manager Lots Of people who move
often make the trip In sections like that.
Half the time when l take a trunk away
from a boarding house l JOINT know where
when there has been a row and the folks
who leave don't want 20 be followed. Been
a little trouble here, l imagine" he added
tentatively.
Yes, Slgneu the ibllui1iyf a WV
yearly service" is the phrase which one
hears 40 much at present as the remedy
for the disturbed condition Of the anculary
| department. An optimistic proprietor OF
an employment agency says that any per-
manent arrangement Of that kind is the
final solution OF the present situation. When
servants are hired by the year, whether
they are to be employed in city or country,
the servant question will be near solution
she said. Look at those families which
employ their help by the year and do not
set them adrift every spring: Ihey keep
rood servants. The habit is spreadin 2
now, and 1t means relief to many persons.
The more generally that yearly service
is adopted the less difficult the servant
question will become"
"It's a curious thing" said the actor
who had just returned from an excursion
With his colleagues, "how we always try
to amuss ourselves. II a lot OF shoemakers
get together they don't make shoes for one
another, nor do tailors work at their calling
for amusement when they are gathered
together. But whenever actors meet II Is
always to begin acting after a little whle.
Whether we are at a dinner or on an outing
we are never happy until we have begun
TO amuse one another by going to work
Just as we. nave to do at other times
Old Alfred A. Arment, who died the other
day, remembered the first performance
of opera ever given in his city. That
was I'll Barbiere di Siviglia," ung by the
late Manuel Garcia. who died only a few
months ago in London, and his troupe in
the autumn of 1925. Ar. Arment was then
7 years old. He recalled the interest
awakened by the arrival Of the company
Of singers and waited all the day OF the
first performance about the theatre with
other boys who had heard that something
wonderful was to happen that night 10
the temporary encouragement OF all con-
cerned a rainstorm came up late IN the
afternoon, but could not interfere with the
b~rilliancy Of the occasion. Mr.. Arment
remembered the rainstorm better than ne
did the presentation, for an unfeeIing
father seized him and carried him OF, 10
bed lust as the distin guished audience had
begun to gather. incident must have
ever. as he was associated for the greater
mart Of his life with various operate enter
prises in this city.
The mother Of a girl 10 years old now
playing the part of a boy in a Broadway
play is sorely put to it to keep her child
from finding out too much. In the play
the boy is not the child Of the supposed
father. but Of the dead wife and her lover
All went well at rehearsals until almost the
opening night, and then at a dress rehearsal,
in full view of the assembled company,
the boy" turned to her mother m sald:
Say, mamma, I've been thinking, and l
want TO know how | can be Major Blank S
little boy and papa not know it,"
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