The sun., 1908-08-14
1--we ToPICs ABOUT row.

The obvious comparison OF o spidee
weaving its web is frequently used In speak
Ing Of the work Of laying the many thou
sands Of single wireS for the four twenty
inch thick cables for the new Manhattan
bridge. When you have once watched
the process going on you see how appro-
pirate the comparison ID. The wires are
carried across from pier to pier by car
rier running on trolley wire, This carrier
has projecting from its round body several
leg like looking spurs which are necessary
parts Of the work It Is performing, and
when seen from distance, aa, for instance
from the Brooklyn Bridge the centre wheel
and the outreachlng spurs readily lend
themselves to the fanciful notion that II
really is q spider hurrying across the big
space. aud the three-sixteenths steel wire
at that distance Ii only dimly seen, like
single strand In o spiders web.
A problem poem which has hoated back
to Manhattan from the Long Island sum :
ner resorts opens quite as wide field for
debate as any Of Browning's most intricate
fancies. It has been q subject Of hot dis
cussion ON more than one hotel veranda.
II goes:
Which do you think 10 the greatest slur:
Did he kiss herr
Did he kiss her? .,.
Did he kiss her3
Or,
Did he kiss herr
The degree OF care now exercised with
canine pets Is shown by the woman who
twice day parades through Fifty seventh
street to give her dogs an airing In
baby carriage Of the oapacious desi gn made
for twins she rolls four fuzzy white dogs.
made fast by strings to the vehicle and
not allowed TO move from the regular row
In which they are placed. Slowly they
progress from east to west on the north
crossing to the lower side Of Fifty-seventh
street, turns them toward the east.
II was noticed that the woman devoted
many more hours to mirror gazing than
formerly.
Il can't tell," she said dreamily. show
many times have caught people-espe-
cially women-enapshotti me recently.
Il wouldn't be so puffed up about II II
/ were you," said the brute OF man. 1T
wasn't your good looks that attracted them.
aiS hey oesid ospS their good points in
.in that case said the woman after q
momdnt's visible disappointment, Il am
more highly complimented than II they had
been photographing me. Nature 10 re-
sponsible for me. but designed my clothes
myself
I'm always sure Of a certain lot Of pa
tients just at this time Of the year. said
New York physician. 'They belong to
the class of employees who get two weeks
vacation with full pay. They come to me
for o general looking over and the assur-
ance that they need more rest than they
could get in the regular two weeks vaca-
ton. Many employers are ready to grant
this additional time II letter from physi-
clan says that the employee 10 run down.
To tell the truth. the average man or woman
who has worked steadily through the year
is generally in need OF little, more than
two weeks, and so never think It's bit
dishonest to write the letter.
At the docks Of the local coast steamers
one sometimes may see the longshoremen
handling big fish which are shipped with
out any cover. They weigh up in the hun
dreds and look like burlesque stage prop
critics. The stevedores load them onto the
waiting trucks with hooks and seem to
enjoy tearing them as {nuch as poesible.
They may be horse mackerel sturgeon or
shark. For the shark Mt least one would
predict only limited market. but tradj-
tions to the contrary notwithstanding the
East Side has developed the sharkeating
man