Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-28

coon shouters, pathetically gowned in
| genuCs and knockabOat artists with repu-
| tations in Georgia and Oklahoma. New
| York's main thoroughfare has become
| street of hamfatters and to a person in
terested III the stage, lis craziness its
| pathOs and its humOr, better acquaint-
ance with some of these erstw lille pur-
yeyOrs of amusement is infinitely more
! delightful than a talk with car con-
ductor about Mrs. Carriers marriage.
"Kleptomaniacs have all the New
York hotel proprietors and the house de-
| tectives on the jump" said mine host
of an uptown hotel i'll New York. Our
| greatest loss is in the transient out-of-
town trade. Half the women must have
"A souvenir of the st. Regis. the Waldorf
or the Holland house. They seem to
! think trip to New York is a failure
unless they have n few prizes to show
| Many women change about at the hotels
so as to have n collection of odd pieces
/ They don't mind showing their country
| friends the loot they have won in New
| York 1t is not regarded as theft. but
/ rs smart fad, and | have vet to hear
one woman denounce the practice. On
| the ocean steamships this souvenir bust
ness has grown out of hounds. On one
trip of n New York liner to this side
one-half the butter plates and one-third
of the spoons were out of service before
| Sandy Hook was reached"
| As "A result of $50 inspections the bu-
reau of weights and measures in the
! New York city hall has seventy-eigat
sets of scales which were cOntiscated
from ice wagons. The captured scales
are packed in barrels. ready for use as
evidence when the corpora ton counseFs
office gets ready to prosecute the ice
vendors.
Patrick Derry. the head of the bureau.
sent all his twenty inspectors out at the
! beginning of the week to investigate
complaints that the itinerant dealers
were robbing the poor who bought from
| them.
More than 80 per cent. of the confis-
Gated scales show from twenty to forty
pounds against the purchaser in every
hundred pounds Several of the wagons
| from which the scales were taken bore
| the name of the American Ice company,
, but the greater number were taken from
small dealers, who We're selling from
open carts.
Lovesick swans and their sweethearts,
under the protecting shadows of Grants
tomb and an avenue of naples that
throws a beautiful canopy over lovers
! lane in Riverside park, New York, sit
and promenade in thousands these sultry
nights. Every park bench on the drive
overlooking the Hudson is the scene of a
| spOoning match, and, surrounded by an
enchanted circle of lovers, the statue of
the martyred President who said, Let
| us have peace" seemingly smiles on APP
| provingly. Oscillation is not permitted
in Riverside, but in Sequestcred spots
| where the water of the Hudson flows
and under the screen of the parks shrub
berry many ii game of Smacks is pulled
off. Said park policeman whose service
! stripes extend to his elbow: There's
nothin wrong about spoOnin' longs ii
done with livery one seem it, Everybody
| knows that's what the young uns come
here for. livery girl wants to be the
! limin and she wants good Squeezer.
See? See that binch there? Wen, l got
me wife off that binch tin years ago.
That was one good case Of spoonin', me
daddy buck.
Patrons of Park Row restaurant,
in New York, Were given hydrophObia
scare by a man with one lung whose
actions caused walters and diners to
make a hurried exit. The Hunger was
Il Civil war veteran whose appearance
Indicated that he had been hitting the
essence of headache hard the night be-
fore Suddenly lie jumped from his seat
in the middle of the dining room and
began to bark like Il Russian greyhound.
His eyes protruded. and for few min
uteS his paroXySms broke the perspira-
ton Of everybody in the place-of course.
! with the exception of the proprietor. The
| grizzled vets actions convinced every
body that he was a candidate for Pasteur
| treatment. and II youth declared that it
was a bad case Of hydrOphObia. Grad
ualy the old warrior ceased barking,
then calmly resumed his seat ut the ia
| BILE. Turning his bloodShot optics ON the
man with the stick he yelled: Hydro
he'll! You blamed idiot | was eating
blue fish and swallowed Il bone Thought
| had swallowed my fork" He later
explained that the absence of Il lung pro
duced the barking sounds when he
| coughcd.
George Il. Winter, the London tailor
who came to the United States To inn
prove the patterns of uniforms for Uncle
Sans soldiers. sailed for England on
the Oceanic. His work here is finished.
! 1t remains for American tailors and
clothing manufacturers to carry ont the
designs which Winter submitted and
which the quartermaster general has ac-
cepted with some notifications.
How will the soldier look IN the new
uuiformT said Mr.. Winter He will
| look as smart as can he, for in the first
! place the men Of your army are smart
| lot. All they need =, Il uniform that
will show them off to better advantage.
! There will be no radical change in the
uniform as it is at present. The chief
difference will he in cut.
The brooches of the cavalrymen Will
b" n little fuller about the hips and
closer at the knee and button. 50 their
leggiuss and booths may be better adj
iuSted. The blouse viii have n different
turn here and there and there will he
some change in the collar. There are
other details which do not feel AT lib
erty Ia discuss
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