The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-09-20
new YORK CiTY IS
SEAT OF new FADS:
'rivate Mugs, Family Shooting;
irons, Purses, Straw Hats
and What Not.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sur.
The Idea OF having ones own niue.
IN ones s2vorite cooling off station took
hold recently and has been spreading
faster han it ever did before. No!
longer will barber shops hold the mol
,noply Of the private mugs. Mr.. Jones,
will go into his corner saloon, orden
a glass Of beer and drink it out of his!
private mug. There is a certain hy-'
glenic advantage in the custom.
Another example of a habit newly
acquired comes from the ranks OF the
architects who build the apartment
houses. For years fiat jewellers have
suffered while small boys on mischief
bent rang their electric bells and sour
ried away in high good humor. This
Is about to cease. T.
Inc architects have Joined the ranks
OF the new idea gatherers. They are
honoring the small boy by paying at
tention to him and arranging the rows
or push buttons at a height no ordinary
nat of the future, and a great part of
the Joy Of the Manhattan urchin's life
VIII be taken away from him.
m as a rule, fear and avoid
lethal weapons. A revolver scares
them into the bedroom behind a locked
door. Yet the new idea is to teach the
wife or the sister how to handle a
AAoAA VAIN thA III ieAlGIllN.
Families which never in the past felt
the need of a revolver have set aside
a 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
~ some summer resort and used for a
rev hours. Now all is changed. The
bathing suit is as necessary to the
modern New York family as the fur
mace or the wash tubs or the Kitchen
range.
Portable Baths.
1t is purchased down on TWENTY
third street or Sixth avenue and IT ia
kept unit! the family moves to the sea-
shore or jaunts down to Coney Island
or Rockaway Beach. Then it is used
joyed as such. The bathing suit is re-
fe7red to here In the singular number,
but. OF course, in big families IT Is
plural and generously SO. i
The next new idea is even more mys-
ferrous. A vegetable rows in South
ern climate named the paw-paw, after
which the little town In Michigan is
named. New Workers have begun to
develop a liking for 1t. The paw-paw
cannot be bought in New York for love
Or money. but 1t can be ordered from
the south at a very small cost and Its
tas.e mas made IT popular with the
limited class which knows of its ex-
1stence.
The newest phase OF the money cues
aon Is that New Workers have come
% the conclusion that carrying a purse
8 all wrong. The present day New
aorker is satisfied to have his money
hngltng around in his trousers pockets
4 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
II once was. Hence the exit OF the
purse in Manhattan among men.
The next on the list OF new ideas re-
lates to straw hats. which from time
1mmemorial have been cleaned In New
York by public stations at 25 cents
each. No longer are straw hats cleaned
Nm public. speaking generally. They
one of a dozen hat cleansers, and the
official cleaner for the family applies
the preparation with a tooth brush.
Next morning the faded straw appears
once again in all the freshness Of the
rose. and a 1o-cent package Of cleaning
The Country Cousin Problem.
A situation in ethics confronts the
observer in the eighth new idea. For
years 1t has been the general belief that
g man or a woman who lived In New
York was responsible for the enter
VI HE VI IcI 1fleQO2 from the
vest such friends arrived on
ne island. The proper thing, accord
ng to usage. was to look up the prop
beaches, theaters, slum viewing ex-
editions. monuments. parks. water
lips. street car rides. and so on for
te benefit OF the strange westerner
I'D to accompany the said stranger
with all the enthusiasm Of a sight
seer.
1t was never taken into consideration
that a New Yorker going home to his
native western town received Just
abou as much attention as a newly
arrived crate OF eggs. The proper thing
was to show the new arrival what New
York was, and expense be hanged. This
is the foundation Of a new idea.
The result is that New Workers are
beginning to act Just like the resi-
dents Of other cities. They are telling
the new arrivals to go get guide books
and look the own over, just as they
would be told IL they landed as strane-
ers in st. Louis, Pittsburg, Chicago or
any one OF a dozen other western cities.
The most astonishing new idea Of all.
which has taken two years to eat its
way into the thinking apartment of
uptown New Workers, is that a sub
way express train from Ninety-sixth
street to Twenty-third is only three
and a half minutes faster than a local
train and usually gets stalled and is
five minutes later.
WOMEN AND BALLOONlNG.
At some Of the alloo ascents re-
bently there have been some gloriouslN
ionic scenes in the air. Smart ladies