New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Sleeping on the roof IS a pastirre never any too
safe. for every summer the police records show
that dozen or more people fan off and end their
sleep abruptly somewhere between the seventh
floor and the pavement. Since the garbage has
srevn the streets the roofs have been pretty bare
on the East Side. The odor is. II anything. a bit
more intense moro varied and penetrating
there than I'm the streets. And tho things the
street cleaners strike has done 10 the roof garden
restaurants have made the managers moro UNI
happy than the frgidity Of May and June One
sits down a cool and pleasant table, and imme-
dately there Is waited. with the cocktails the odor
Of a cabbage that once was. BY the time the
dessert is reached the smells are spread over the
roof in regular layers. and any one who has been
walking the streets at all has difficulty in iden-
tlfying them. The thing is pleasant but New
York make joke Of anything. and the moro
fortunate people who escape the worst of the
trouble az home have had lot of fun. thinking
little of the dying babies south Of fourteen and
OF three
Aren't your shoes comfortable?'
Post '''''
II IS trite thing to say that New York is never
empty. OF course 1t isn't because the only vaca-
tons that the East Side knows much about are
those furnished by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
But what is meant is that the New York OF the
butterflies is always pretty full. Up around Broad
way and 42d street things are just as lively as
and IL isn't crowd from the country that Is
making things lively, either. The influx Of those
who look New York as a summer resort isn't
due for another month. It's simply that New
Workers are getting fonder Of the town every year
They realize that evening on a roof garden
followed by a cool ride home open car TO
comfortable home, where one knows ones way
about and isn't bothered by all the hfty-seven
thousand kinds OF insect life. has some advantages
of it's own. And that's why the noble husband
who tells his wife TO stay away bit longer with
the children, and that he will make up for II by
not going away. is getting commoner every year.
Little Ella-Tm never going TO Holland when
Governess-why not?
Cause our geography says it's a low lying
country. Life
The cornerstone of the battle monument of
Gettysburg was laid forty-two years ago to-day
and 1t will be fortytwo years morrow that Pres
ident Johnson approved the finding of the military
commission before which the persons charged with
the assassination of President Lincoln and con-
spiracy 10 overthrow the government OF the United
States was tried. Payne, Harold. Atzerodt and
Mrs. Surratt were hanged on July :; Arnold DIR
Mudd and O'Laughlin sentenced to life i'm
prisonment and Spangler the stage MANAGER Of
Fords Theatre was sent 10 the Albany penitentiary
for six years.
Father-N1end your ways. you'll fill a drunk
dad; couldn't take the deck and fill a bob tailed
Innsbruck.
An American tourist, who has been making
prolonged stay in the Netherlands under circum-
stances which brought him into close contact with
the peasantry, thinks that disciples of the Simple
life could get some valuable lessons IN rural Hol-
land. las far as possible" he says we avoided
the big cities while in Holland. and lived out In
the country In close touch with the people We
found them charming. kind and unaffected They
didn't even know that they interesting and
picturesque. So far could discover they
have reduced life to the simplest possible basis
They are Unmarried by ambition. and are satisfied
with the sound elements of healthy life They
show in their daily business and pastimes how
easily could follow simple life ideals without
being crank
What's that sign you're making there?" asked
the grocer.
Fresh Eggs. replied the new clerk
HIN. Make II read Fresh laid Eggs while
you're about it
What for? Everybody knows the eggs were
fresh when they were laid
Just and that's all it's safe for US TO say
about them. catholic Standard and Times.