Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-25

RiPPIes on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.


Nipples on the Current of Life I'm the
Metropolis.
The automobile show at Madison Square
garden last week accurately reflected the
wide popularity Of the seIf-propcied We
hicle, its vastness as a manufacturing in
dustry and tho demand for the finished
product. One hundred and fifty thousand
people visited the show and orders to the
amount Of 100000 were booked by the
exhibitors. An exhibitor calculated that
$500 cars were TO BE- built for delivery as
direct result. IN addition TO orders pre-
viously placed by agents throughout the
country. The Chicago exhibition next
month will, OF course, swell the sales pro-
portionately. The new business created m
future for supply houses and dealers IN
motor accessories, as well as for the auto
mobile manufacturers themselves, is not
negligible in this estimate.
Hudded w In one corner near the ra-
diator. the book agent saw a man who was
fairly sneezing his head off.
Seem to have a bad cold" ventured the
agent.
Awful" sneezed the sufferer.
Got doctor?" asked the agent
mo" said the other man.
Better get one" the agent advised "If
you have no regular physician 1 can give
you the name OF man who cures colds
like magic"
He gave the doctors address and offered
to stop and send him around If the man
with the cold 30 desired That night the
book agent reviewed his days work
Mary a book Sold" he said. but l dis
covered four patients for that jay doctor
around the corner. and hen give me half
of his days fees. He owes nine-tenths of
his practice to me. He didn't have n pa
ttent when l met him. / volunteered to
keep my eye open for sick people while
in pursuit of the elusive book trade, and
when l found one who was a stranger in
town and had no regular doctor to try to
work him in. 1 succeeded so often that
he now has a decent practice, and I earn
more of my commissions from him than
through my regular business"
Tho cocktail bracelet is the fastest for
women. There are fashionable women of
New York City who wear circlets on their
wrists which sometimes contain a Martini
dry or a Manhattan. The bracelets have
one drawback, 1t is said. and that is they
will not accommodate the cnerry that goes
with the fairy cocktail. The other night a
Pittsburg attorney observed a woman of
fashion place her lips to her bracelet He
thought that she was paying tribute to
her own loneliness, but learned later she
was merely refreshing her inner self with a
mixture of cordials. The nip contained In
bracelet cocktail is so small that 1t can
not be called a drink, but cocktail it Is,
nevertheless. OF course the bracelet is
hollow. If large enough 1t holds three
thimblefuls of ready-made cocktail, and
pressure on an almost invisible spring per-
mits the fluid to trickle through a tiny hole
in the gold shell, which is almost too
small to be seen. with one of those grace
full movements which appear to be natural
with a woman the drink may be imbibed
without fear of detection. A Broadway
goldsmith sells numbers of the bracelets
every week, and as most of the purchasers
prefer secrecy in connection with the
transaction, they pay pretty penny for
the obviously useful trinkets.
by whatever route you reach or leave
Manhattan island in the evening, the river
lights are beautiful" says a writer in
Harper's Magazine. ION the North river
the spectacle varies according to the hour
and the season, for the downtown lights
in Manhattan are more numerous when
the days are short and the tenants OF the
great office buildings have to light up to
finish their days work. Across from the
lower Jersey ferries late in the afternoon
Of a winter day glow and sparkle the great
company Of tall shafts grouped against the
sky, each one pierced TO the top with reg
ular rows of shining windows. A memoir
able sight they make, those shafts and
huge blocks of cleaning holes, reaching
far above their neighbors that come
between them and the river There is nue.
in that spectacle to recompense a tired
man for being a commuter, and nowhere
else on earth is there the like of it,
! New Workers. are the most extravagant
| OF all Americans, and New York is the
costliest city on this continent to visit. No
matter how much the average GOthamite s
| income is, he lives up to it, and often be-
! yond IT. Manhattan has so many pace
makers in spending that no matter how
much of a splurge you make there is sl-
ways some fellow ready to go you one
better. In speaking of the people of New
York some one remarked to the late Colonel
Warning: They devote themselves to
! pleasure regardless of expense" and he
replied ooh. no, they don't. They devote
4
ure." A New Workers. income may in
crease from 5000 to $4,000 a year, but he
spends one as readily as the other
| Buyers of mansion sites are still husy
along upper Fifth avenue They have paid
Sc. 900 during the past few months for
plots on Millionaires' Row. Their ac-
| tivity is attributed TO current business
prosperity. William b. Leeds has directed
his architects to draw plans for 1000, OoC
structure to cover his southeast corner at
! Eighty-ninth street. S. Barton French is
planning a $4,000 mansion for the Van
Ingen plot, between Seventy-first and
| Seventy second streets. James Stlllman
will build on the north corner at Seventy
second street. and Mrs. Howard Gould on
the south corner Of Seventy-third street
Edward S. Hardness will build on the north
corner OF seventy-hfth street. Benjamin
| Guggenheim on the south corner of Seven
| tveivtb street Mansions will he nlanned