Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-17
Checking Watches While Shopping

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Checking Watches While Shopping
The other afternoon a man stopped at
the checking room of n department
store and checked his watch. Lots Of
people do that nowadays" remarked
the attendant. Somehow the impress
sion has got abroad that an unusually
large number of crooks are conducting
their special line of business in depart
1Ucnt stores just now. When one be-
gins to take precautions against pick
pockets the first thing he looks out for
is his watch. He is willing to take
chances on letting the rest of his pos
sessions guard themselves, but his
watch he leaves with us until he is
through shopping"
kiddy Young America
Between the repressed child OF 20
years ago and the altogether too for
ward, knowing and ebullient New York
"kiddy" of today there is a wide gap
as wide as Oets see). we'll, just about
as wide as the difference between con-
ventional sc and gay young '07. A
mothers club in town recently agreed
that the witty child was most desir-
able companion because it (the club
said "it') enforced higher standard of
conversation among Its" elders. Mind
you, no he" or she" just at" One
mother told of a household where the
utterances of parents to the young
sters were on good, old-fashioned lines.
There was little girl whose talk was
calculated to add to the gayety of life.
She was informed that If she was
naughty she wouldn't go to heaven.
"Oh, WE'LL" replied the child, I've been
to two theaters and a party and cir
Gus. l can't expect to go everywhere"
Dress Suit Distinguished Him
The men came up to the hostess one
by one at a party held uptown the
other night and apologized for not be-
ing in evening dress. They thought 1t
was to be just little Bohemian party,
they said where everything went.
They had no idea the crowd would be
so dressed. Would she forgive them?
DO you know" she said, talking it
over later on, that seemed awfully
funny to me. The only man here in
evening dress was a large, tall doctor.
The only way I could account for it
was that he was so large and tall and
splendid it dressed up the whole party
and made the other feel like 80 cents.
don't know what else"
Musical Novelties in Demand
New York people like novelty and
seem particularly interested in any
kind of musical instrument. AT sew
eral concerts this winter 1t was adver-
tised for weeks beforehand that certain
instruments previously heard only in
Russia or some other faraway land had
been secured through the courtesy Of
some obliging conductor or impresario,
and would be heard In certain numbers.
An announcement of that kind draws
scores of people whose interest in the
concert is apparently confined to that
one instrument and who besiege the
ushers with requests to point out the
addition to the orchestra This the
ushers are rarely able to do, and as the
curious ones are never able to dis
tingush it's tones they go away as
ignorant as when they came, but bet
ter satisfied with themselves because,
although they did not know what it
sounded like they heard that new in
strument from somebody's orchestra"
Hair Dressed High
To be sure the opera hat ceased to be
a nuisance ten years ago, but did "wo-
man, lovely woman" I'm giving up
those domes and towers, resign her
privilege of causing torment and tor
! ture? Never! New Workers (the men,
of course) ask: why doesn't the man
ager make the anti-hat edict more
sweeping, so that it will include high
! hair dressing? Look at that" said
man at the Metropolitan opera house
/ the other night. - have to sit behind
that every night" That" proved to
be not hat, but only hair-hair at the
right hair at the left and hair on top
Of the woman directly i'm front. In
| fact one may as well have sat behind
the CircassIan giantess in a dime muse