The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-31

nonoF not TO let the DUG DloodeQ pups tuu
pussies associate with plebelan animals 10
the desire Of many exclusive persons this
summer. They advertise TO that effect.
Wanted: Board. lodging and careful gem
eral attention for fine cat and dog in private
family, Is a notice that may be seen every
day in the week, There was a time when
an animalb boarding house was consid-
matter what It's lineage. but those days Of
democracy are past
A woman bought three pictures In a Fifth
emu art store.
shall | send some one up TO hang themi'
asked the dealer.
Ill don't know" hesitated the m
who had already exceeded her allowance
in buying the pictures. How much extra
viii it cost?'
mot a cent" the dealer assured her. 4ln
the case Of any important sale we prefer
that one Of our men superintend the hang
ing OF the picture. That insures justice
for the painting. Without meaning any
disreepect for our customers. | must say
that not one person In a hundred who has
had no special instruction In art can take
a picture home and place it IN an adySn.
tag0ous position. A man who has been
trained 10 that business. OF the other hand
can tell at a glance where to hang It n all
the others in the room 80 that each will bring
out the beet points OF all the rest
Overlooking private house yards, seems
TO he anew induoement offered this year
by real estate agents in the renting OF apart
ments and fats said an apartment seeker
the other day. AT first when | noticed
this phrase in the newspaper advertise
ments 1t struck me as rather absurd. but
after seeing apartments looking out on
innumerable Ere escapes and pully lines,
an even row OF old time private house back
yards In the rear Of a comfortable apart
ment appealed to me as a blessed relief.
There were several good sized trees. here
and there a Towering shrub OF some
sort. and even an occasional bed OF flow.
ers. 1t was paradise compared TO what
I'd seen all day, and when ! decided to take
the apartment l frankly told the agent
that he knew what he was about when
he used the phrase overlooking private
house yards"
-Four Of our best customers said a
woman employed In a Fifth avenue Ladies'
Hair Dressing Establishment. ARE men,
bald old gentlemen who would he hldeous
were IL not for the wigs and toupees we
make them. These pieces. Of tho exact
color and texture to suit each ones com
pleNion. are very expensive. Each old
gentleman owns from two TO four, the extra
ones remaining with US to he kept clean
and glossy when not In use. We've had
these Same four customers for years and
have carried them from solid black or
brown into the pepper n salt stage,
and In one case down to venerable white.
One 10 q wealthy Westerner who comes TO
New York regularly for a change Of hair.
The other three live nearer New York,
but not In it. l doubt II a soul in their
own towns suspects the false hair"
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A favorite dodge policemen work on pay
day to get their envelopes from h CESSATION
before they report off duty is 10 find a dead
cat somewhere along their beat. By orders
Of the department they are required to
report this find to the station Immediately.
but nothing binders a friendly cop from
passing the cat over the line into another
policeman's territory. Then he too may
report to the station the discovery OF a dead
cat. But at the West Thirty seventh
street station house the other day the
sergeant behind the desk got wise when
five OF his men reported a dead cat within
two hours. He ordered "A roundup OF q
half dozen street cleaners on Tenth avenue,
and with one accord the white wings testi-
fed that IL was a discarded muff which
the cope had been reporting n then pass
ing along down the line.
A prospective bride in looking over her
wedding presents found. three gifts from
persons she did not know.
Who are these people?" she asked. Il
never even heard OF them. Why In the
world are they sending me presents?"
-They are fishing for an invitation to the
Wedding said an experienced friend.
That is a popular trick with the modern
social climbers. They study wedding an
bride who's marriage they particularly
wish to attend. Sometimes that UNI
solicited attention gains a belated invitation
from the family. who are anxious TO fulfil
all obligations. Failing that, It is quite
lished list OF those present. which, for the
social climber. is a big step upward
Information-one might say oral instruo-
tion-on the furnishing and decoration
OF their various rooms seems to be officially
by our newest hotels as Of great
interest to visitors. A special attendant,
fully equipped with knowledge as to the
makers employed, the styles OF
period decoration carried out and the
used in construction, will on re-
quest accompany a party from top to bot
Of any new hotel. Under the title OF
Decent, such a guide is part Of the staff
has benefited by his explanations must
hat our Metropolitan Museum has
the Boston Museum and the New York
hotels get ahead Of it.
Where are all, those people going?'
asked a passenger on a North River ferry
boat.
"Hoboken," said an officer. They are
going over there TO study local color. That
is a new Saturday evening diversion for
New Workers. Hoboken, at any time. is
a plac &c to c~onjure with: on Saturday nights
is particularly a place Of mixed delights.
Then it has a decidedly Old World atmos-
phere-the crews Of the steamers locked
on the Hoboken side Of the river are ashore
dressed in their nattiest uniforms, r
Of language from every country in Europe
can be picked up in the cafes, there are
bevies OF pretty girls who have hocked down
10 the piers TO hirt and watch the flirting.
and a score OF other picturesque features
to the time and place. New
on the lookout for untried attrac- |
ions have found them in Hoboken.
THE Marcel wave,' said the hsirdresser,
illustrates how oapriciously fate often
fame or a man by giving his name |
rs discoverer to something he never dis
The wave which we know as the
Marcel wave was invented long before |