The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03
LIVE TOPICS AMOUR rOWN.

You'd be surprised to know how many
women In the course Of q week will 20 out
Of this store and forget their change said
a ~ioorwalker in a large department shop.
They meet some friend, get to talking and
forget all about IL.
That's where our system OF a lost and
found bank comes inland it's the only
a m In the city, l guess, where all the
depositors are women. Even an item OF a
few cents Is as carefully kept as a matter
OF many dollars would be. All that's neces-
saTy In order to secure the payment is to
recite the circumstances, show the check
for the goods purchased, and our books
prove the rest. Then l draw a check on
the lost and found bank and the woman
goes to the proper window and gets It
dashed.
Incidentally. it's q good chance to study
human nature. Sometimes q woman will
come back after an interval Of several
weeks and demand some mall amount
perhaps ten cents or 80. On the other
hand, occasionally an item Of several dol
lars viii v DO called for
Il would Like to know said a busy
woman, why men as q rule take pains TO
let a woman know in the beginning Of a
conversation that they are married. Being
q usine woman I naturally meet q good
many men, with some Of whom / am bound
TO carry on lengthy conversations or
course l do not meet the same men day
after day. Many strangers are confided
TO my tender mercies, and just as sure as /
for several minutes at q stretch he takes
infinite pains to mention his wife. Gener-
ally he manages to work in the additional
Information that she Is Jealous
In England said an Engishman, -the
gold sovereign IL more common as medium
OF exchange than a pound note; but in this
country paper money 10 50 common that a
gold coin is scarcely recognized by the
average mar. was in line at the cashiers
window in the Post ofice a few days g
when the man in front Of me presented an
order for t5. The cashier showed out q
tve dollar gold piece. The man looked
at the small coin and smiled. I want five
dollars he said. There IL is,' said the
cashier. That's a five dollar gold piece
The a picked it up doubtfuIly and ex-
amined it. He balanced IL on his finger
and put II slowly in his pocket. He had his
hand in his pocket holding the coin tightly
as he went through the doorway
Il WISH said the perplexed business
man, that some one would explain the
psychological principle whereby the best Of
typewriters invariably spell certain words
wrong. have now in my employ ayoung
woman who would write music 'musci'
one hundred times a day II she had occasion
to use the word that often. Twenty
she always writes ~'twnety' and sixth
'sixht.' These are but examples Of a score
OF errors of which she Is constantly guilty.
All these words are in common use. The
girl knows better than to spell them so,
but her fingers unconsciously get the letters
twisted. Every employee I have ever had
made similar mistakes in other equally
familiar words. Why do the fingers so
persistently disobey the mind, in spite Of
determined effort to discipline them'"
All the French daily newspapers arriving
at this port just now have large vacant
spaces in their advertising columns. Special
editions are being printed for the American
mails and the staring white gaps are places
where advertisements have been lifted out
to comply with the American postal laws.
The city Of Paris is at prese Mt advertising
an issue OF bonds which have a lottery
feature. Tit New York postal authorities
detected two or three weeks g the pres
coming to the New York importers OF foreign
not only the offending papers but all books
them.
As soon as the dealers here got on to
the situation they sent hurry orders to
to stop the papers until the adver-
tisements ceased to appear. The enter
prising publishers, however, solved the
difficulty by printing the special editions
without the advertisements.