Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28
Bear Waist Attracts
Couldn't nsoakt This Yankee

Deliver me from buying anything in Paris
said young woman to a number OF friends
who had come to the dock yesterday TO We
come her home from abroad. The above re-
mark was brought out when one of the party
asked If she had bought many articles whlie
In the City OF Light :,
mo indeedl" continued the young woman.
paris has two prices-one for Parisians and
another for Americans.
at thought II would be great treat to do
the stores over there. and l must say that
Americans receive courteous treatment from
tradesnen; but there is a method behind 1t.
They spot Americans when they come In, then
follow them about the store, whispering 70
each salesWoman at the table where they stop
that they are Americans, and to increase the
prices.
"In one store an effeminate little chap with
baggy trousers followed me about and told the
saieswoman in choice table dhote language,
loud enough for to hear, that l was an
American and used an expression each time
which was the equivalent of the vernacular OF
soak her At last 1 became tired of his
actions and told him in good French that |
refused to be soaked Say, girlsl wish
you could have seen his expression Really,
thought his blood had congealed
A Delicate Operation
Cloud ticxler surgeons making deli
cate incison in the mammoth Singer building
at Broadway and Liberty street Under the
direction of architects the top of the building
is being sliced off and three additional stories
will be inserted between the seventh ana
eleventh floors. small army OF men are
laborng day and night. The undertaking Will
be confined to the original corner building
which is to be part of the new forty-one-story
structure-the talest office building in the
world.
The slicing is necessary because in order
that the old eleven-story building shall con-
form in height and outline to the new fourteen
story addition, from the center of which will
rise a 612-foot tower, changing the metropol-
tar skyline Instead of raising the four top
floors, under mansard roof. they will be
removed in sections to the ground, Then the
eighth, ninth and tenth floors Will be built
after which the old roof, inclosing the old four
foors will be replaced section by section.
Early Sight on Broadway
That one may see all sorts of queer things
on Broadway has been demonstrated time and
time again. The most unsusal thing man
who is a devoted student OF the life of that
thoroughfare has seen for long time, how
ever, was while waiting for at the cor
ner of Fortieth street the other morning.
He happened to glance up at the window o.
apartment house on broadway and caught
sight of a in some white garment that
resemhled the Jacket of a suit of pajamas
who was holding and reading book just as "A
priest or clergyman of the Episcopal church
does and he was turning the pages over if
he read only a few words on each page. He
wore over the white garment something that
locked like a string of brilliant red beads,
that evidently had something to do with the
ceremony he was going through, for when no
had finished his reading he closed the book de-
lIherateIy, touched his lips to the cover and to
the back of the volume, and then after he had
put the book down, he removed the string Of
beads from across his breast and touched them
with his lips Then he disappeared from
sight.
Mustache Cups for Sister
"a nustache cup. madam?' said the dealer
to a Pittsburg woman Yes we have a few.
7 think But they are not much called for
any more" Then while showing the cups he
said;
',Jn the SOS. when the mustache cups were
so popular that they we're used in the highest
her OF gift goods for the Christmas trade.
There were children's mugs, teacups, coffee
Guns mustache cups and so on, and I had