Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-02

header over the dashboard of the car
and was half buried under the coal.
Penny Arcades Doomed
The reign of the penny vaudeville
theaters, hundreds of which have
sprung up within the past few months
and which have been the cause OF
numerous complaints to the police, Is
about at an end. Police Commissioners
Bingham has decided not to issue any
more licenses to them unless the fire
and health departments give them
clean bill of health, and as the latter
departments denounoe them as very
dangerous and unsafe from the stand
point of fire there is not much danger
of any of the theaters getting a re-
newal of license.
Different Kinds of Bread
Five or six kinds of bread are served
at the complete dinner this spring.
Among epicures bread connoisseurs, as
pompous and pigheaded as wine con-
noisseurs, have sprung up in town, and
with them a dinner is not a dinner un-
less the staff of life" is served in a
half dozen styles or shapes. The oysters
must be accompanied by sliced brown
bread and butter. With the dinner
proper-the roast and the game-goes
long French roll. With the cheese
two kinds of dry toast, one salted and
one fresh, are served, and between the
courses one must pass about seawater
bread for the dyspeptic and whole
wheat bread for the anaemic. Finally,
no matter how elaborate the dinner, 1t
will not be quite exquisite If some of
the many kinds of anti-fat breads Is
not offered unostentatiously to such
guests as tip the beam at 200 or more.
Detectives Mask to See Crooks
When the sleuths of Commissioner
Bingham's reorganized detective bu-
reau finished work last night each was
presented a full-length black mask OF
the sort popular at masquerade balls.
These masks will be worn when the
detectives have their usual daily inspec-
ton of the crooks arrested the nlgnt
| before. Since the bureau was reorgan-
lied Commissioner Bingham has felt
that while it was we'll for the detec-
tives to get acquainted with CRIMINALS
it was even better for the crooks not
to know the new detectives. Several
other plans for Cooking the crooks
over have been formulated, among
them a scheme for viewing them
through a keyhole or an opening in a
curtain. The mask idea was put into
operation today.
Hotels New Idea
A fashionable hotel near Central park
| has established a novel system for
transient diners to liquidate their bills.
| At the conclusion of the meal, instead
of the waiter presenting the guest or
host of party with check represent
| ing the amount of Indebtedness, he po-
| litely advises that payment should be
made at the office direct. At the desk
all the orders signed during the course
of the meal are available for inspec-
ton, and the clerk informs you of the
total charge. By this method the table
servant Is barred from fixing the change
to suit his fancy, taking a chance on
the patron not going down In his
clothes for smaller coin. 1t is said that
with this unique arrangement the help
fare better on the average than under
conventional practice. OF course, there
is nothing to prevent the customer from
feeling the waiter, either before or after
settling.
Loving Cups Are in Vogue
Loving cups are now staple articles
in the shops of Broadway, Fifth avenue
and Maiden lane jewelers.. The loving
cup habit never ragged with so much
yirulence in New York as last season.
Every club and society in the city felt
| impelled to present one or more per-
sons with loving cups some time IN the
course of the winter. Now and then
these testimonials were prepared on
short notice After the jewelers. had
| lost sales because of the poverty Of
their stocks and others because the
work rushed through to order proved
unsatisfactory, they decided to keep on
hand a variety of loving cups that only
need the inscription to make them ready
for presentation.
Demand for Watercress
"Cressing'' is the latest craze among
the vegetarians. The demand for wa
tercress is increasing at an astonish-
ing rate in town and faddists who
have tabooed meat have an appetite
for Watercress that outrivals that OF
COW for new mown timothy. The
peppery little leaves have always been
popular in New York in the spring,
but this season beats all records For
some reason or other patrons OF vege-
tartan restaurants are asking for wa
tercress mixed with various kinds of
salads Some of the old-time "vegs"
who have been "cressing" this spring
declare the pepper in the leaves serves
as a sort of stomach tonic, coaxing
along digestion and making heavier
| meals 'S1C well. Inc price OI WdleT-
cress is soaring and many Long Island
farmers are now cultivating it.
Hotel Porters Kick
The Hotel Porters' Protective union
is UP in arms because they are COM
PEELED to ''ante up to the head porters.
! The head porter is an autocrat who,
without doing anything for it, gets a
share of all the good things which
would otherwise fall to the porter. The
latter are not going to strike, but will
bring the "moral pressure" of organ
lied labor to bear on them. The head
porter engages the regular porters, who
say their wages are so small that tip
ping has become a necessary evil.
Expensive Walking Sticks
Thirty dollars each for imported
walking sticks. trimmed with gold,
figure in the price list of Fifth avenue
/ haberdashery shop. The entire stock
is manufactured by a prominent UNI
brella firm, whose sample rooms have
worldwide reputation. Such novelties
in pimento walking sticks are shown
bearing sterling silver mounts. Tri-
colored designs divide favor with
square models. The old-time cylindri-
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