The sun., 1909-11-29

the habit OF cutting OUT uhneoeseaIy
ment % read: Wanted. a white, semi
green maidservant."
Splitting five dollar bill with waiter
when you reach a hotel and promising
him the other piece when you leave II
well served is a poor game, said
veteran waiter in one Of New forks
biggest hotels who read Of il in TIE Sun.
a Western man tried il on me once and
il made me sore. l took pains co serve
him poorly, showing that did not care
for his money. | was 80 careless Una.
when he was leaving he refused me
the other half had him sized up Tor
a cheap skate, so l pointed out TO him
that the piece he had was no good to
him as il was and offered to buy 1t from
him for 81. He thought deeply a minute
and declined. Then l offered TO sell
my half for S. Somehow or other this
appealed to him. and he bought IL and
seemed happy I'll bet he hasn't stopped
figuring out yet whether he won or lost.
One thing he's sure Of. he didn't tip
the waiter"
The family doctor is disappearing so
rapidly that one might think he would be
sensitive about it. But that he can still
joke about the preponderance OF the
specialists was shown by the remark OF
hysician theSother day:
Il heard Of woman who was very proud
of her family DOCTOR he said, and was
urging a friend to employ him. why;
he's the best family physician ever saw,
she added as a final Recommendation.
He can tell you right away whlcn Is tne
| best specialist to call In whenever you
are III. He knows all OF them by name
and doesn't keep you waiting Tor second
to tell you just the one you neeu.
$50 you see that is what the family
physician has become in New YORK.
he concluded, only the walking directory
Of the specialists.
The most interesting thing'in New YORK
to the stranger depends upon the view
point taken. An old lady from\s . rurai
district had just finished the hrsc week
Of her first visit to the city when her
nephew inquired:
SWELL, Aunt Kate. what is the most
interesting thing you have seen?.
do you know was the unexpected
response, Il just can't get over those
nice. long slantng clothelinee we see
roads. They're so convenient I'm going
| to have John get the little pulleys and
put one on the kitchen window so ! can
Just stand inside and hang out all my
wash instead OF traipsing around in the
wet grass,
A Young man at the door OF an East
Side synagogue was inquiring the mean
ing of the Hebraic symbolism from the
door tender.
What is that piece OF sto ne up IN
front with the letters cut in it?' he asked.
That's the Ten Commandments. he
was told.
-And what is that red lamp which
hangs in front OF the tableP Does that
yyaaan that God ia thQrN2'
Sure saws the door tender. But
only one OF the red lamps means that
God is there. The rest OF 'em mean hre
escapes"
railroad contractor who has just
finished a construction job in Wyoming
told this anecdote at the Hardware Club
recently:
"One OF my foreInen gathered his men
together at the section house one morn
ing and said: Boys. I've got a tough
proposition on hand and / want men
to carry it out. It's no job for shirkers.
The gang that tackles the work will have
to sweat like blazes before sundown.
besides being liable to still backs for
week afterward. 1 want volunteers.
TO the amazed delight OF the foreman
all but eight OF the men stepped out OF
line Guess you'll find us on the job,
whatever turns up remarked one OF
the volunteers. We didn't come up
here to play baseball or casino What's
Pm short OF men TO dig post holes,
replied the foreman grinning. You don't
get the job. As l said. l want men,
but don't want good ones. and I'll use
those who didn't volunteer. 1t was time
to sort out the undesirable citizens in
these diggings. and I'm much obliged.
When the Navy Department adopted
gray as the color for all OF the vessels Of
war even the names OF the ships. which
are in raised letters. were painted gray.
While the battleships were lying In the
North River for the Hudson Fulton cele-
bration the letters were painted black
and with a glass IL was easy to identify
the various vessels from the shore. The
ames Of the British ships here at the
same time were in gut. The Rhode
are now in the Brooklyn navy yard fitting
for winter cruising. When they steam
away the names upon their sterns will
| appear in gold letters. In fact In the
| future the names OF all vessels Of the navy
will be gilt.
An auction sale of pa awnbrokers' goods
having been advertised for that day the
queer little man with miserly habits set
| out for the sale soon after breakfast.
Always attends those things, doesn't
heP- said the pert young man. yet he
never buys anything"
He buys. but he doesn't bring the stun
home said the gray headed man. There
| is man who maintains in his modest
way a queer charity. He hasn't much
money to give away, but what little he has
he gives to people who are unable to re-
deem goods they have pewned. All
pawnbrokers' sales are haunted by men
and women who hope to get one last look
at stuff that once was theirs. The. old man
has been through the mill himself-lost
something belonging to his wife once and
has never got over IL. He can spot the
soft hearted unfortunates in the thick
OF the crowd When he can he buys the
trinket that the other fellow would sell
his soul for. and either makes him q
present OF il or else sells IL for the few
cents the poor devil can afford to pay
And that is his charity
On the walls OF a temporary home fol
immigrant girls is the sign in severn
languages: The Lords Prayer taugh
, in English
; why is that the first thing they learI
!, in our languagep' a visitor asked.
aRecauae IL freuuently helDa To ge