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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08

This is the season when the great de
mand for apartments exists rather than ia
the spring as formerly. The first of Nav
nowadays sees families breaking UP house
keeping and storing furniture in preparation
Tor country living and European trips
But about September there is a general
home coming and. If course "a demand for
living quarters. Those who seek for such
places in advance Of the great rush always
fare better. for prices often go away up Just
before the first of October.
Living accommodation in scarCer thar
ever in New York, and yet sometimes it
seems M though an earnest hunt il always
rewarded II people are not too particular
about neighborhoods. Up Harlem way
and in The Bronx there are plenty Of fats
10 be had. of course, but wen in these
sections there are no concessions made
that in the old DAYS resulted in the saying
that IL was cheaper To move than to pay
rent.
Harlem was opSe identified with cheap
rentals. hut it 10 80 no longer, Modern
fat houses with improvements call for a
rental of about Si2 a room. and there 10
no time given free rs in the days of ten years
ago. Those we're the times when Harlem
hsttsrs fitted about from place to place
during a wear, getting a month free. and
sometimes more. Builders filed their houses
in this way in order 10 sell them. and il
did not matter in the least II tenants played
this game So long IA the house was sold
before the exodus.
There are many advantages offered in
upper New York, but there Ia n strong
tendency to locate IN the downtown Sec
lions This is owing to the hard conditions
Of travel during the rush hours. getting
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There are plenty Of fats where families
can he located even II there are one or two
children. Micro than his in the family
makes II n little bit more difficult, hut there
are certain places where no objection
whatever ~ made To children, and they are
pretty lively quarters. You may he sure"
studios are in demand, but hardly so
'huch - rs IN former years, for rents ~
studios have Increased and apartments
are more comfortable, except where husi-
ness is Ia he carried on. Studios are en-
gagged nowadays for giving lessons in
mlsic and physical culture and fencing
aai languages, but they are not 81 much
IN 1omHnd ~ dwelling places.
There ~ n profit in this business Of
Nat hunting after it IL systematized and
stidled out. IL il n woman's vocation
certainly, for a woman knows how i'm.
portant ar" IN" matters of light aud heat
und cleanliness and tine character Of n
place. when II family il 10 make a home
there.
In Obtaining expensive apartments we
get some very good commissions and
naturally enough we give more time and
attention to this branch Of the work. BUT
we manage to make all the work pay, and
We look out for oar tenants If agreements
are not carried ont.
Knowing the various tricks in renting
apartments. we are able TO cope with the
agent who wishes 10 get all the undesirable
flats on his hands first. We know all about
ask ing prices and the actual prices that
will boz taken, and we also know that some
fats 10 not rent easily. and that they may
b. had at n concession or that decoration
and papering will loo supplied generously.
'keally, fiat hunting IL ~ game md re-
quires considerable ~Shrewdness and good
Judgment. The many wonderful conven-
fences that arc built in the modern apart
ment are no doubt very fascinating, but
they add greatly TO the rent and not always
so much 90 the comfort
"You can pick up u daily paper and read
OF convenienc,'s that almost sound like fairy
tales. Electric kitchens arc in many of the
new fats. and there are little Conservatories
and dark rooms for developing photographs,
&c. There are also some houses now going.
mp with on" big cooperative kitchen and
laundry on the top floor. where your servant
may 30 up and prepare You dinner, &c,
serving IL afterward in YOU own dining
room.
The New York fats outdist ance in con-
venience and splendid appointments any
thing In the world. There are omnih,ses
running from some of them to the subway
and elevated stations. There are motor
garages and entrances I'm others: private
bathrooms thai may I've hired for large enter
tainments. and musical attachments that
may he turned on during dinner like an
electric light"
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with some slender emery boards. and I 60
over them with an oily lotion that softens
the cuticle and Keeps them from splitting.
Then put glove paste upon my hands
and alp them into big loose kid gloves for
ne night. IL sounds much more difficult
than IL really ia.
None of my processes is long. but the
results are telling. " I omit my beauty
hour for two nights, my friends see IL and
tell me that | look tired.
Il work upon my defects at this time.
Not long q | saw that my eyes were de-
vcloping puffy little bags beneath them and
] went 10 work upon them. | rinsed my
eyes with boric acid. and managed 10
get rid OF the sacs in a short time. IL was
partly done 10y massage, Tor the sacs can he
removed by working upon them lightly
with the finger tips.
A this hour | try the new fads. Not
long ago | saw a woman with an irregular
forehead. IL mad her look coQuettish and
plquant. so l experimental upon my
own forehead.
"ln a short time ! had the satisfaction Of
discovering an immensely pretty style Of
hairdressing. The irregular forehead has
low. wide, smooth, and as regular a. though
II had been measured of with pencil and
rule.
The pen Of the artist now draws the
forehead with fascinating irregularity. and
IN real life the pretty woman il dressing her
hair 40 that her forehead is high on ono aide
and low on the other.
The woman whose hair grows badly
upon her forehead can rejoice, for the
new style in forcheads makes il possible
Tor her TO be as pretty as her sister, whose
hair grows regularly.
In Paris. where the women show their
foreheads. everything ia done to make the
brow smooth. Tn French woman feelA
that as soon as her forehead gets wrinkled.
she is lost from beauty's standpoint. So
sh" begins when little more han a girl To
keep her forehead nice.
The French woman will tell you that
foods have a great effect upon the brow.
Mix fattens the forehead. The French
woman takes drinks that do not make fat.
and she eats foods hat are little fatteninR.
Her main struggle with the forehead
lies IN the massage pot.
SHE works night nj day with oils and
creams aud lotions TO keep her brow from
getting that first wrinkle that is sometimer
the beginning of many In Paris the women
steam the forehead nj night. ~wripging out
hot pack after hot pack.
These. packs, which are long, thick.
slender pieces Of cloth sewed together with
adding in between. are stepped in HOT
water, then lifted out and allowed TO drip, a
they drip they cool. and when appliedt 10 tina
skin they are barely soothing in their tenn
perature. To make the forehead too hot
would mean 20 injure toe skin, blister the
surface and undo the work OF the beauty
hour '
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08
who HUNTS FOR FLATS
ACTS..tS tGENT ron THOSE SEN
ING NEN MOVIES.
21n6s II Proni atic, Foo knows tho Agents
n Through Them l. he >Onrttm rs
70 Make Better arrangements is Wen
" Treated ", .Ianltors -itJw She works.

Experienced woman agent viii look mp
APARTMENTS for - r-pu- prior 10 their return
40 town. tommi~ ION ht,i> Srnd rlriiCu-
lars OF what you need To Advertiser.
Tins advertisement IN n g spapcr ~
recent date doubtless hrolCh, Jov to many
of the sunlfNnr hotel and boarding house
women contemplating a return 10 town
and dreading il' necessary hunt for hS-
Ing accommodations In tho city.
A letter 10 the advertiser brought q
speedy r"sppuSs, with a printed slip to
BE filed ouI by the prospective tenant.
mentioning the number of rooms desired,
n number ~ persons 10 I've
dated, the price, location, az we'll IA refer
0poss as 10 responsibility, &c.
Al q convenient Now York address, The
advertiser WAS to I've secn after business
hours. Her fiat hunting labors she has
added ss A branch 20 the work oC decorate
Ing apartments and opening country and
Town houses in rpadlpcss for he arrival
of their occupants.
Il find the uumlpr al persons desiring
mo go find fats for them FAR ~ "Vcess
Of my expectations, she sad. indicating
q pile. Of correspondence. Il have also
found that 1t IN necessary for mo q" charge
. fe$ In advance ia ORDER la insIr" the
good faith Of my clients.
-rhaye carried ON this work poS for a
few teeasose. bu I did rot advertise until
this. year. Undoubtedly IL offers u licld
Tor york which would monopoli2e tha at
tention 81 any one wiling Ia devote thought
n labor 'torhe enterprise.
II nov employ two or three bright women
Who do The ~, uatf,a, hunting tor me When
IbegsnT went about %,rvs,'i and thus gsinci
q pretty good knowledge of locations.
prices and the Ways Of rgpt"rS, agents. R,ni-
tors. &c.
AZ u hvcly ar1 interesting work. but It IL
very tirinc and ono iulsi 80 strong and able
tohsapd fa'iguing climbs 10 "" - siiccess 1T
~ IL IL diiiiGult To- Understand that some
women go out ~ THESE tours oi fiat ,nsIect-
ing who. 81 tho %janIturs and agents say, act
uslly enjoy II
Women com" ~ irntn oft az town aud
make rounds of furuishcl apartments ad-
vertised tor emf ir-t To- Ses the furniture
and decorations and. of late. a class Of pcliy
thieves obtain entrance To homes on thus
pretencs.
"Yon SEE, then that tho woman who ~
knowu ~ agents to be in the business Of
+. nat getting will nave more success than the
stranger. who may bo suspected OF killing
m OF going about the now buildings
through curiosity, =.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08
TASKS OF TIE BEAUTY HOUR
THE PRETTY UOWAN'S ROI TINE
BEFORE GOING TO RED.

Processes II the Toilet That Undo the
Hayages Of the pay fare ~ the Hair,
Face ami Hands The Tinc 10 Treat
Defects and give Trial to New lads.
The hour between II O'Clock and mid
night IN INV beauty hour" said n profess
slona beauty, During that hour | undo
the ravages Of the day and make myself
~ good looking that l pass as a very pretty
woman.
This nay sound a bit concerted, but the
credit Is not due to me, but 10 the beauty
Of the hour. The idea came to me one
summer in Paris.
Il was visiting a beautiful French woman
who showed me. upon her dresser, a cal
endar which instead Of being for the
month and year was for the week and
day.
This is my social and beauty calendar
said she.
Upon this q calendar was the days pro.
gramme. II began by recording the hour
to get up and take the cool perfumed plunge.
Then came the Ave minutes Of exercise,
then the light breakfast Of coffee and rolls,
and then the days engagements.
Running her slim finger down over the
page my hostess came TO the last hour
in the day. II vas marked beauty hour
and then oame the %outlire Of the duties for
the beauty hour.
II have It all written down. said she,
because l am apt to forget. am tired
and sleepy. like all the rest Of the world and
unless ! have it in black and white ] may
omit something: And each desail il inn
p%ortant.'
"FHha tAau s,ozr~aaal M NJ q ,o1l sL-.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08
Attendance at British Museum Failing on.
From The London Tribune

The British Museum return for 1907 shows
q further decline in the number Of visits to
the museum for the year 1905. The total
lumber was s9l ,aio. u falling on 81 nearly
i:2. 600 from the number In 1905. Nor has
the decline been confined to weekday visits
a. u was In the previous year. The 81, 7as
visits on Sunda vs. were fewer hv 4.38g than
those Of 1905. We must 70 hnCk 10 the year
I1rl - ith its ts0, . 80 visits before finding a total
4, compare with that Of the year lnO8.
Al the same time u IL an indication OF n
steady growth OF intelli gent interest, In the
collections that. while the numbers of visits
decrease, the sale Of guide books generally
70 tncreaso.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08
CLEANER STRAW HATS.
4 Mt a. Modern Progress Ven Ma m
serve In the streets .Dust Now,

w"
Time was.' said the boss of the b.,
cleaning establishment. when all the
straw hats you saw men wearing alops closs
20 the end Of the season. like il ia now
we're tanned ard dingy and dusty. Men
put on straw hats at the beginning OF rho
season and just wore them through without,
touching them. and by the time Sepsembe,
came the hats looked a. II they were at tn
go in the ash barrel, and 30 they were.
But now you 500 plenty Of mon wearing
good. fresh looking straw hats right hang
smack up 10 the end OF the season, How
do you suppose they do H.: keep buyine new
hats every week or two2 No, sir: thew &c,
their hats cleaned. and have EN- clean.d
whenever they need it; and 30 always have
nice. fresh looking hats.
Fifty years ago there used "a he hs,
cleaning establishments. but bleacheriee
they called them, and you'll find such still
out these were mostly for the cleaning and
shaping Of women's hats. You would And
o~ccaslonaily some thrifty housewife who
wouid SEND her husbands last years straw
nat around to one Of these places in the
spring and have II fixed up so that he could
wear IL through the season. but the bleach
cries worked mainly on women's hats.
D.' 'o-u"y theTe are plenty OF hai
cleaning places that clean mep's ba,a
mainly. the women's hats they get being
Incidental. And while in the oh times Won
hao 10 wait a day or two or three 10 gp,
your hat back. in these DAYS there are
plenty OF places where you can eel vonT
nat cleaned while you wait.
Some Of those latter day places arc
purely temporary. while Others are hired
Tor the season; and now there are mems
nat cleaning places that run the year
around. switching from straw hats 10
felts In the fall; and there are now boot
DiackinR concerns that combine hat clean
ing with their work. and so do hat Cleaning
through the year.
fou find these modern hat CLEANING
places now in the very busiest parts Of the
business districts and airo in the
parts. SO in one way or anothe,
thousands Of men who oncc neye,
mad their straw hats cleaned have then
cleaned now, and some Of them will have =
mar cleaned two or three or four times IN =
season whenever II needs cleaning, IN
fact, u can now be done 40 hsndily.
30 inns new modern business. a blsl-
ness that pow in Of really considerable pro-
portions. mas sprung up, In the course Of
the seascH these hat cleaning ea,ablish-
ments take In altogether. at a quarter q
CLIP. q good many thousand dollars, AM
thus IT, happens that instead Of all men
appearing at the end Of the season in dingv.
uirty mats. an they once did. you see nov
great numbers OF men wearing fresh. gocd
bell rings.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08
school Teacher . Growing Giant.
From the Philadelphia Record.

"""HtT VTtH HttOTd.
Nreene connty has produced a prodigy in
staniey wright. its youngest school teacher.
who. for height and avoirdupois, IL h. beIieved
stands withou, a peer In the state.
Young Wright IL a product of Ricbhiu
township. and although only II years Old
stannSo leet ] inches In his hose. tips the beam
az ~ noGniS and H. still growing HI wears
= plumber Is shoe. which he has made TO order
me young gisnt Will teach In one Of the
kichhil ~schoolboy who undertakes to Tcp
the teacher viii need to b. o David and knoV
how - threw Stones. INV
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-08

triumph to church, where the banner iu-
won is blessed.
For weeks after the race the Festivities
81 the successful contrads continue. The
horse is paraded through the streets With
music. he Is brought upstairs to the second
story OF the Palazzo Chigi and exhihaisd
from the balcony TO crowds OF admtring
and ~applauding spectators below. and
finally banquets are given in tho open
streets and the horse ia invited and occu-
pies the head OF a long table With q fns full
manager before him.
Such are the races Of the palio ut Sian.
to-day and such have they been for hundreds
Of years gone by.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-17
OLD SOL GETS BUSY AGAIN.
Makes Poor Humanity Forget All
About Late Spring,

The city was more tolerable yesterday
than it has been since the beginning of
the hot spell Not once did the mercury
at Afiieck's rise above 9311z degrees, and at
the hottest hour, o'clock, it barely
touched that figure The Weather Bu-
reau thermometer doesn't credit the sun
with doing any better than IS. but. situ-
ated high up among the trees and the
breeze, that machine hardly tells a true
story.
To those who were compelled 30 walk
on the Avenue about noon and thereafter
s314 was easily conceivable. No break in
the heat is promised for to-day, but 1t
will not be much hotter than yesterday.
and a cooling shower or two may come
up late in the afternoon.
Two prostrations resulted yesterday
from the heat.
Charles Ashton, colored, forty-two years
cid. living at 24S Fourteenth street north
east, was overcome by the heat at Elev-
enth and G streets northwest about 4:5C
p. m, and fell. receiving cut on the
chin. He was taken to the Emergency
Hospital
Sam Phillips. colored, ffty-three years
old, living at 3i6 G street southwest, was
Frustrated in new building at Four
and-a-half and I streets, while at WORK.
He was taken to his home
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-17
CALLS Us BOMBASTIC NATION
Libre Parole Real Mean in It's Ref.
erence to America.
French Paper Has Greater Respect
for PrOwess of Japan Than
of Uncle Sam.

Paris, July 16.-The Libre Parole paws
its respects to the distinguished head Of
the American government in an article
considering the prospects Of war between
the United States and Japan.
Incidentally. it gives one foreign view
of American Prowess. The Japanese. il
says. are stin living in the enthusiasm of
their victory over the Russians. They are
in admirable war training, and are vi
brating with patriotism and warlike
ardor.
On the other hand, the Americans have
been softened by long years Of peace.
coupled with unexampled prosperity, and
now appear rather stripped of that in
tensity Of energy 50 much celebrated by
President Roosevelt.
The President himself has lost some Of
his prestige. He has talked too much.
meddled in too many matters. and in
tervened IN too many negotiations which
did not concern him He has caused his
portrait 10 be printed too often In the
illustrated papers while the japanese have
for their part the prestige of force en-
velOped IN mystery.
The Libre Paroles article found its
excuse and inspiration in q letter ad-
dressed to the editor by the Hochi SHIN
pun, a japanese newspaper. asking his
opinion Of Japan. a country which the
editor Of the French paper frankly saws
he never visited.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-17

Special 20 The Washington Herald
San Francisco. July I6-Edward r. Tay-
Tor, physician and lawyer, dean Of the
Hastings Law College. and Of the Uni
versity Of California, and a resident OF
San Francisco for forty-fve years, to-
night was elected by the board Of super
visors in place Of Mayor Eugene Schmitz,
recently convicted Of extortion.
The position was offered to DR.. Taylor
this afternoon about o'clock. and his
acceptance was given 10 Rudolph spreck-
les and District Attorney Langdon less
than an hour later. He is between sixty
and sixty-fve years of age, and has never
taken part in politics, but Is known &c
be possessed Of scholarship and admin
istrative ability.
He was the third man 70 whom the po-
sItion Of mayor was offered and his selec-
tion proved a great surprise 10 the cltl-
zens. who for weeks past have been try
ing 10 guess the identity Of the new ex-
ecutive.
Dr. Taylor, II IS announced by the dis
trict attorney. has now assumed control
Of the administrative affairs Of the city,
and the extraordinary administrative
powers held by the district attorney have
come 10 an end.
Mayor Schmitz insists that until the
court Of last resort confirms his convic-
ton, he still is mayor Of san Francisco.
Chief Of Police Dineen declares that
Schmitz is the only man he viii recog-
nize as mayor