The sun., 1907-03-28
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The missing Marvin boy can't turn up
too soon TO, suit one father In this town.
This man happens TO have boy with light
hair. blue eyes and very white teeth, whose
picture in a newspaper would look just
like that OF the boy supposed to have been
kidnapped. He is also the same age and
has the same weight.
Its awful. said this father, with groan.
the other day. Il used to enjoy taking
my boy out but I've given il up now because
every time we get in crowd people begin 20
stare at us. Then have to pinch my boy
10 get him to say papa The other day
man followed us on a train, carefully
took out soiled newspaper picture Of the
Marvin boy and began staring at my boy
That started everybody else at IL. OF
course l got my boy to say papa but IL
didn't help matters much. It's beginning
70 get on my nerves and feel sorry for
other fathers in this town who may be
having similar experiences"
Il read in The SUNS Live Topics column
Of the merchant who had learned the ad-
vantage of Keeping HIS show windows
lighted all night" said Broadway shop
keeper. Il learned that long ago, but il
was not so long ago that learned the value
OF mirrors in shop windows. You will find
mem and women before my windows all the
IL their oravats are firmly tied, &c. 1t is
not wholly matter Of vanity that makes
people stop to see themselves, though
vanity has much to do with IL. find that
II, have something attractive besides the
mirrors in my window each person who
stops for the one gives the other some
attention. My mirrors have become so well
known that not a few people use them
regularly"
sNf IN all
the city streets just now is due 90 the ter
mination Of the sentences imposed on pan
handlers in the early winter months. Those
who went up in September and October
for six months of retirement are being
freed daily and serve 10 swell the number
Of mendioants. They are a very able bodied
lot now, showing plainly the advantage Of
rest and regular meals during their six
months on the island.
Eat plenty of carrots at this time Of the
year is the dictum Of shington Market
dealer.
Il learned the habit he said from an
old man who has been a customer Of mine
for years.
He said they were the best spring medi-
cine known and advised me TO try them.
The old gentleman has the complexion Of
a girl and he is as vigorous as a boy. /
save the best carrots / can get for him.
little ones as sound and crisp as an apple
and he pays me fancy price for them.
The idea is TO eat one or two raw with a
little salt every day for a month"
In the department of philosophy at CO.
lumbia University is a professor who is
said to be somewhat absentminded. IL
is said that one nighe this man was planning
to go to the theatre with his wife and came
down stairs dressed about a quarter TO 8,
to find her waiting for him.
With a critical eye she looked her hus-
band over. Finally she said:
Il don't like that tie that you have on. l
wish you would go up and put on another
The obedient professor left the room
Five minutes elapsed, then ten, finally
fifteen, until the woman saw that she was
going to be late for the curtain and started
upstairs to look for her husband. In his
room she found him undressed and getting
into bed Habit had been too much for
him when he started to take on his tie.
An optician who was trying to fit a
woman's eyes with pair Of glasses discov-
cred anew the prevailing passion OF femin-
unity. After experimenting for about three
hours she decided that the glasses that gave
her most satisfaction were a pair with
round lenses set in black rubber frames.
They are fine she said, but they make
me look like Chinaman."
They really are patterned after Chinese
models, the optician explained. But what |
difference does that make so long as they
are good for the eyes?"
The look the woman flashed his way
ought to have made him very uncom- |
Portable.
1T makes all the difference in the world" |
she said. Il will take this pair, but have |
no idea shall ever wear them
why not?" he asked.
Il have just told you" she exclaimed in !
surprise. -They are not becoming, and / |
could never stand up before folks looking |
like a fright, even il / go blind as a bat"
Talk about a continual dropping on a
rainy day" said the nerve racked man
travelling across the bridge in a crowded |
trolley car. I'm sure il Solomon had
lived in these days he would have changed
his figure of speech and used instead the
continual ringing of the trolley fare 1t
is bad enough when about eighty fares are
rung up in ear splitting succession, but
when it comes to ringing up eighty or more
fares Just as collected, at intervals OF about
three seconds, the effect is almost unen-
durable l wonder il il would not be pos
sible to devise some other system, or at
least to muffie the fare bell. Would not
this properly come under the jurisdiction
of the Society for the Suppression Of In