Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-09

powder habit and the day has passed
In this city for the barber to ask
Powder, sir2" after he has shaved
the face of a customer. Not many years
ago II was considered effeminate for
man to use face powder--the only
kind used was put IN their pistols-but
nowadays It's nothing to see young
fellow emerging from a barber shop
as pink and white as a rose. In fact,
many young men of New York who
have no wives from whom to steal II
keep box Of 1t on their dressing
cases, soft, white, flowery, sweet-smell-
ing stuff, to use after shaving.
Just q few years ago a scrape In soap
ana cold water, with a stinging appli-
cation of bay rum afterward, was con-
sidered luxurious and dandlned enough.
but now an average barber insists on
giving you massage with your shave
and makes you as velvety and lovely
as a 16-year-old school girl. And that
isn't all. In the department stores they
are selling French powder puffs the
size of a plate with which to fluff your
body all over with dainty talcum pow
der after bath. A man would have
thought these for the women and
would have turned his face directly
the other way If he hadn't seen two
husky chaps investing in them. by
CAD, sir" said q man while the powder
question was being discussed at II
Fifth avenue hotel the other evening,
"the first thing we know the gentle
men will be carrying their fancy work
around with them as they did in the
days of Louis, and they will all be so
dainty and sweet and pretty that no
girl will be able to resist them. Gim-
me whisky and soda. I need It,"
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Ticket Agent Llneulst
The ticket agent at an uptown sub.
way station in a section where many
French and German people live has
become quite popular by reason of his
linguistic abilities. He can speak
French, German and italian fluently,
as well as English. AS he is we'll ac-
quainted with the regulars" who use
his station in the morning he has a
pleasant good morning for each one of
them in his own language. He greets
the people who speak English with a
Good morning" the people who speak
German with "Guten norgen' and
those who speak French with a bon
jour- Sometimes he holds short
conversation.
Morgan a Back Number
Few visitors in the city enter the
offices of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.
these days. Even the seeing New
York., enthusiasts only turn heads to-
ward the building when the megaphone
man yawps: "Pierpont Morgan & Co."
This is in striking contrast to the hun
dreds of visitors who were determined
to see the offices a few years ago when
the Steel corporation and other great
combinations were in process of under
countrywoman who at those times
could get near enough to the sanctum
of the financier considered that they
had made the visit of a lifetime. The
officers and clerks had all they could
do to prevent Mr.. Morgan from being
mobbed, so great was the desire to see
the man who had revolutionized the
financial and industrial world.
A Preliminary Balloon Race
An elimination race in ballooning is
practically assured next year to pick
the American representatives forg the
Gordon Bennett International cup
competition which will be held in this
country. 1t was announced today after
a meeting of the directors of the Aero
club of America that four applications
from American aeronauts had been re-
ceived. AS the conditions of the con-
test stipulate that only three balloons
shall represent each country, an elm
ination race or some other test of abil-
ity must be arranged by the American
club in choosing it's competitors. The
applications already received are from
DR.. Julian P. Thomas, ]. C. Mccoy, Leo
Stevens and Charles Walsh. Lieuten-
ant Frank P. Lain, who won the cup
this year in the French race will surely
be in the field again, so that five Amer
lean representatives are now candidates
for the team.
Autos and Noises
Cant something be done to stop the
nerve-racking, brain-upsetting noises
that the automobiles make these days
in passing through the New York
streets?" observed visitor at the Hol-
land house the other night. "There was
a time when the plain 'honk-honk' was
sufficient, but the auto f1end had to
have something new, so worse noises
were invented for him. Now the ire
pressibl6 'bubblers' have taken UP
combination of warning noises. Last
evening a machine passed my hotel
making more noise than rickety
threshing machine could ever hope to
emit. Going at once were the old
fashioned honk, Gabriel chimes, bell
such as was used on the old Chicago
cable cars, a whistle such as you hear
on the subway cars, and siren with it's
outlandish wall. The combination of
dins made by that auto defies descrip-
tion. Chief Croker's red devil is peace
and quiet In comparison. If this thing
keeps up I will be compelled to take
treatment at sanitarium before start
ing back" ~
Valuable Condor Killed
This fine bird, worth at least $500,
and the only specimen obtained in four
years, was murdered by means of a
large rubber band, worth half cent,
administered on the sly by some visitor
who is worth ecen less" In these words
is expressed the Indignation of Bronx
zoo officials following an autopsy per-
formed on the zoos California condor
which died the other day in great pain
The rubber band had lodged In the
pyloric orifice of the stomach, COM
pletely closing it. The bird was a fine
specimen of what is a rare and almost
extinct species.
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