The sun., 1907-08-04
NEW NOTIONS IN TOWN.
Private Mugs, Family shooting Irons,
Purses. straw Hats and the subway.

Purses. straw Hats and the subway.
The idea OF having ones own mug in ones
favorite cooling off station took hold re-
Gently and has been spreading faster than
it ever did before. No longer will barber
shops hold the monopoly Of the private
mug. Mr.. Jones will go into his corner
saloon, order a glass of beer and drink it
out Of his private mug. There is a certain
hygienic advantage in the custom.
+ Another example Of a habit newlyecuuired
comes from the ranks Of the architects who
build the apartment houses. For years
fiat dwellers have suffered while small bows
on mischief bent rang their electric bells
and scurried away in high good hunor.
! This is about to ceGse.
The architects have Joined the ranks of
the new idea gatherers. They are honoring
the small boy by paying attention to
him and arranging the rows of push but
tons at a height no ordinary small boy can
reach. 1t will take a full grown person to
ring the bell in the fat of the future, and a
great part OF the JOY OF the Manhattan
urchin's life will be taken away from him.
Women. as a rule, fear and avoid lethal
| weapons. A revolver scares them into the
bedroom behind locked door Yet the
new idea is TO. teach the wife or the sister
how to handle a shooting iron with skill and
| dexterity.
Families which never in the past felt the
| need Of a revolver have set aside hidden
| corner where reposes the loaded six shooter
The timid young wife has been taught how
to shoot the thing.
The bathing suit was once regarded as
an article Of apparel to be rented at some
summer resort and used for few hours
Now all is changed. The bathing suit is
as necessary to the modern New York family
as the furnace or the washtubs or the
kitchen range.
1t is purchased down on Twenty-third
street or Sixth avenue and it is kept until
the family moves to the seashore or iauuts
down to Coney Island or Rockaway Beach.
Then il is used as a bit of private property
and enjoyed as such. The bathing suit is re-
ferred to here in the singular number but,
Of course. in big families il is plural and gen.
erously so.
The next new idea is even more mys-
terious. A vegetable grows in Southern
climates named the paw-paw. after which
the little town in Michigan is named. New
Workers have begun to develop a liking
for it, The paw-paw cannot be bought
in New York for love or money. but it can
be ordered from the South at a very small
cost and its taste has made it popular with
istence.
The newest phase Of the money question
is that New Yorkers have come TO the con-
clusion that carrying a purse Is all wrong.
TO have his money jingling around in his
trousers pocket. II he has bills he stuffs
them away in any one Of a half dozen
pockets, but he has decided that the purse
or bill holder is no longer the real necessity
it once was. Hence the exit of the purse
in Manhattan among men
The next on the list of new ideas relates
/, to straw hats. which from time immemorial
have been cleaned in New York by p,r5lic
stations at 25 cents each. No longer are
straw hats cleaned in public, speaking
generally. They are taken home, accom-
panied by any one of dozen hat cleansers,
and the official cleaner for the family APP
plies the preparation with a toothbrush.
Next morning the faded straw appears
once again in all the freshness of the rose.
and a ten cent package Of cleaning stuff
will last for several months
A situation in ethics confronts the oh
server in the eighth new idea. For years
il has been the general belief that a man
or a woman who lived in New York was
responsible for the entertainment of his
or her friends from the West whenever
such friends arrived on the island. The
| proper thing, according to usage, was to
! look up the proper beaches, theatres. slum
viewing expeditions, monuments, parks
water trips, street car rides and so on for
| the benefit OF the strange Westerner and
to accompany the said stranger with all
the enthusiasm of a sightseer.
1t was never taken into consideration
! that a New Yorker going home to his
| native Western town received just about as
much attention a. q newly arrived crate
| of eggs The proper thing was TO show
the new arrival what New York was. and
| expense be hanged. This Is tho founda-
! ton Of new idea.
The result is that New Yorkers are be-
ginning TO act Just like the residents OF
| other cities. They are telling the new
arrivals to 20 get guide books and look
| the town over, Just as they would be told
if they landed as strangers in 81. Louis.
! Pittsburg. Chicago or any one OF a dozen
| other Western cities.
Tho most astonishing new idea OF all.
which has taken two years to eat it's way
into the thinking apartment OF uptown
I New Workers.. is that subway express train
from Ninety-sixth street to Twenty-third
| Ii only three and half minutes faster than
| local train and usually It gets stalled and
! N nve minutes later.