The sun., 1909-06-16
1--we TopICs ABOUT ToWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
1T is only In great city like New
York remarked a leading jeweller the
other day. that one can see the peculiar
effects OF certain causes. Take one effect
| OF the change in our mems fashion OF
carrying watches. Nineteen out of twenty
now carry their watch on fob OF stuck
loose In their pocket, Now and then they
stick the watch down their trouser leg
Instead OF into the fob. Sometimes they
notice the mistake; sometimes they don't.
Go down to the lost property room Of
ne lnterborough or any railroad and
are found on the floors Of the cars every
day, Ten or fifteen years ago. when every
man carried his watch on a chain, such q
| thing as leaving a watch in a street car
was absolutely unknown"
1T would seem to the lay mind said
one OF the left at home over Decoration
Day. "a good plan to keep the shop win
dows open on holidays. All Sunday and
Monday saw crowds OF people walking
up and down Broadway trying in any
way they could to soc what was in the
carefully closed windows. Sometimes
they would walk into the vestibules and
peep into the cracks in the blinds or they
would peer with interest into the side
windows that were left with the blinds
up. Why the opportunity for 80 much
advertisement was lost | don't know.
! never saw a keener lot OF people to find
something to look at. Over on Fifth
avenue there were just as many searchers
for something to interest them in the
closed as those on Broadway. where It
took real work to got a sight Of any Of
the things inside
The woman who had left her own COM
Portable apartment to camp out for two
days in dollar room OF a downtown
hotel was asked to explain her absence.
Il went there" she said. $50 1 could
get fancy blouse and lace and chiffon
skirt cleaned in hurry. needed fine
feathers for a special occasion. had
neither the time nor the money to buy
anything new that would be good enough
and IL would have been impossible to get
my old clothes home from a regular
cleaning establishment in less than a
week. But the hotel cleaner helped mo
out OF the difficulty. Tho clothes OF tran
sients are hurried through in those places
in double quick time. By being q guest
at hotel | became a transient and my
gown was renovated in two days for the
sum OF S.. including my room rent"
This is a hustling town, to be sure. q
place where people waste very little time.
but this did seem to indicate almost the
limit Of time saving-the sight Of one
woman debating 10 another. a shorthand
writer. coming downtown in a Madison
avenue car. The stenographer had her
notebook on her knee and her eyes on the
M hAr az 1v Av-
ing. while the dictator sitting beside her.
talked along calmly in low. steady, even
tone until the car came to Forty second
street. where she got on, apparently to
60 to the Grand Central Station. and the
solution seemed to be that she had been
thereupon she had summoned her STE
nographer to ride to the station with her
in the car and take these letters there in
the only remaining available time,
Il wonder il you New Workers realize
what a remarkable collection you have Of
what are known as 'doormen' or some
times carriage men, said an observing
Western man. These men are most Of
them marvels Of physical development.
A few years ago any one Of them would
have been conspicuous on the streets.
but now these powerfully built mon are
employed by your banks. safe deposit
companies. theatres. hotels and large de-
partment shops and are taken quite a. a
matter Of course. New recruits to this
army OF athletes seem to appear each
time I visit New York and where such
striking looking men come from I'D really
like to know. Perhaps the most notable
employed, one by big department shop
and the other by recently opened
theatre. These men stand head and
shoulders over every man they happen
TO stand beside. while the largest women
seem mere pygmies in comparison. Yet
these giants are light on their feet and
quick In their movements
The woman in need OF a cook was so
well groomed and looked so generally
prosperous that the manager Of the en-
ployment agency thought he had at last
found place for the high priced French
cook for whom he had been trying to find
a situation. But the new customer would
not even listen to the praises OF the French
cook.
she eaid,> nor graduates OF cooking
schools. I've tried both. like their
cooking and I don't object to the wages
they ask but they take up too much room.
My kitchen isn't large enough to hold all
the cooking utensils they require and my
income isn't large enough to buy them.
Those stylish cooks need four times as
many pots and pans and moulds and
things as ordinary cooks use. II hire
fancy cook shall have to move into
fancy apartment to get a kitchen big
enough to accommodate her.
THAT is common complaint against
these experts. foreign and American
sighed the manager. Il arm beginning TO
think there must be something In II.
The limit Of praise for food was reached
the other day in a Sixth avenue restaurant
where tho old fashioned confidential
Irish walters are still to be found. A man
we'll known to the place came in very late
at nj ght for supper and asked the man
who had taken his order for years:
W hats good to-dayi'
"I'u tell you, SIR was the reply. we've
lust got some clans in, fresh from the
water and this In q whisperl l don't
mind telling you. sir. they're 30 good the
waters are eating 'ern Themselves
Tho news that building operations
were about to begin on the adjoining
lot reduced the third floor woman to q
state OF tears and lamentations.
-Oh, DEAR she walled. now ] shall
lose Martha, and she is such a good girl
and has been with me two years..
will the noise drive her away asked
q sympathetic friend.
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