The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-18

NPpo9ih6 ptNCuef " warming up uNtV4N bA1
game starts. Have a couple Of players
with you 60 nip anything rough before IL
gets a start. AZ the right moment ask
the pitcher What the blank he means by
going around and saying so and 80 about
Matty and Bugs Raymond and a few
oshera. The pitcher Of course gets sore
and swears he never said such a thing.
which he didn't. Then you run over the
names " all the rest VI the New iorks
and quote them a. your auth0rities
A moment later that pitcher steps into the
box with his mind made up to sink the
hall into the head Of yourself and every
man you quoted. The result is he can
pitch at all.
And there's another thing that ought
Ia encourage tho bush league boys. and
that ~ that even the best teams some
timeN need q poor player very much;
It's this way: Piek out poor player and
send him out To play for an inning. After
a Few minutes the bush Lacquer. following
Instructions. picks a quarrel with star
man on the other side. Then the umpire
throws them both out % the game and so
you've weakened the other crowd TO the
extent OF one star man"
There never was q time in which the
market was so full Of good asparagus a.
il Ia this season. Although it should
still lie In the luxury class the best kind OF
asparagus may now be bought for no more
than IL will sell for At the height OF the
season. On Saturday the best grass a.
the dealers call IL. sold for IS cents a bunch
and there was excellent quality to be had
for still less. 40 there N no reason why
asparagus should not this year be on every
table.
The supply 10 too large one Of the
dealers said the other day. That 10 the
only explanation to he made Of the sltae-
ton. California and FLORIDA growers
are sending in the vegetable 30 fast that
the price has gone down TO a lower figure
than 10 has reached In years. IL won't
be long either before the Jersey crop will
he added 20 the present market and then
the public will get all u wants
II IL interesting to observe in spite OF
this abundance that az q restaurant on
Sunday evening the price OF asparagus
was still scheduled Al u q portion.
Il was much Interested In the house.
keeping instinct % pair Of pretty weaver
birds from the White Nile said q woman
visitor to the Zoo. "Ou, of the many birds
of difierent kinds in the hyinR cage they
wers the only once making an effort tn
have a home OF their own instead 81 liv-
a pair % hooded lovsbirds were
perched on a branch 81 dead tree bill
ing and cooling. the black skimmers he
orioles. thrlIehes and other birds were
Aging about as though having no thought
- the morrow. But the pair Of weavers
were busy constructing a bird fiat,
The only material they could get for
a nest was the loose bark hhre from the
dead cedar tree which the male pulled
on and carried To- the other tree. Mrs.
AZ La WsstNF
had 90 do much fighting with other birds
that war sd to 500 what was going On.
The nest was not completed when ! came
away"
You may think YOU are quite familiar
with the bazzinR Sf AIT omoblles. but II
Won want 20 get q new and more vivid
impression % this new note in the city's
music take . ride zap Fifih avenue
on am automobile stage Al points along
the route YOU will he halted in Accord
anc, with traffic regulations, while travel
flows Tor a time along some cros- street
and It - when halted thus that YOU get the
new knowledge " the bi1Ziug OF auto
mobiles Looking down from y"ur high
p-rch vou may find Yourself quite sur
rounded ~ automobiles and Niih more
and more automobiles massed Ola them
near and far. all standing mpttOnles-.
waiting. bu' ali keeping their engines
running. buzz buzz buz,ing. ready To
90 on, and AZ you look down upon and
listen 20 all these assembled machines
all huzzlRg. bnE1ing. buzzing in steady
insistent chorus. Il comes 10 you that now
YOU are hearing buZZing such as YOU
never heard before.
The New York man may deserve sDme
Of the jolts that have been landed in his
midst as a rebuke for general riieneSs.
said the Englishman. but | want to say
this in his defence. lac takes 81 his
hat in more public places than the men IN
any other part % the world There are
cities in Europe where church - about
the only place that inspires a man %
remove his hat. In this town hats are
taken OF not only In church but In art
galleries and museums. There - no
particular reason for going bareheaded
there. Art has not become a religion
with ms. 80 IL 10 not reverence for pictures
and statuhry that prompts the homage.
Common poIiteuess seems 90 he at the
root 81 this everlasting removing II the
ha1 Hardly has New York man passed
through the lobby door Of a theatre. con
cert room or amsisement hall 81 anv Kind
when his hat comes on. In Grants Tomb
- course hats are removed inSsinctively
Most men wander about the Hall % Fame
With hat in hand. The Jumel Mansion
and Fraunces's Tavern alHo exact this
tribute IL respect Many men take on
their hats in elevators II women are
crescent About the only public place
where men wear their hats l. the AJtsar rum,
and that may soon demand bareheaded
homage.
Did Won ever notice. said the man who
come. % town ON the New York Central.
the fiock Of pigeons that make their
home in the crevices above the second
aoor Of the Belmont Hotel' Well. for the
Inst year I have been watching those
bir,ls nd they appear r. be ~ oontented
among the noise and eNoitement az trasfic
a Forty second street as II they we're In
the open country The cab drivers who
have their stands In front ~ the Grand
Union aud Belmont help u make life
worth while for them nv feeding them
the leavipgs u the hOrses' feed Tags
Just hefOrs the benedictiOn the minister
oppressed a polite wish that his congre-
lRatiOn would patiSe In the vestibuls on
their way ont and look at n SERVES u
photographs on the wall. Everybody
iooked. Some said oh. isn't that ter
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