The sun., 1910-05-02
LIVE TOPICS AROUT rOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT Town
The sAleswomen in a bakery on Madison
avenue are 20 accomplished that they
are the envy Of other proprietors. who
have often wondered how such cOmpetent
women are found The proprietor Of this
bakery told the secret the other day TO
a customer.
when they have given a customer
what has been ordered. he said. IL is
customary for them 10 AK u anything
more Is wanted. always try 10 find out
when a girl Is taken on here what Il l.
that she especially likes. Il may be saltsd
almonds or Crumpets or jelly cake. but
she u sure 20 have some preference. So
say 10 her that she should always mention
that after she has served a customer,
Anything more? The saltsd almonds are
delicious to-day she h certain 10 say
that with 10 much appreciation and such
unctiOn that few customer are able a.
resist her. aud il they dOht take almonds
e ten 10 one that she will interest them
equally In something else. 10 Il pays ~
find ont what a Siri likes and have hsT
try that on customer.
A well known woman Of this city who
entertains a geat deal and numbers
among her guests people famous in art,
literature and public life. has hit on q
way Of perpstuating the autographs of
her guests. She purchased large. heavy
linen table cloth which she always uses
when she entertains at dinner. The
guests are invited 10 write their names
on the cloth AZ the places whore they
happen 70 be seated This done, the
hostess herself or her husband takes it
10 a department store noted for its en-
broidery department. There the auto
graphs are embroidered by skilled hands.
line OF carriages in front OF a church
on one side Of the street. line Of carriages
in front of a house on the other. We'd
ding on one side. funeral opposite At
the same hour. And 10 be surs this
might happen anywhere. but here We
are apt 10 -et II down AZ showing the
sharp contrast Of lie in a great city.
Did You ever see anything like this
,il6 painted in black on a post between
the tracks in the subway asked the
man who knows everything See EN-
right along. all the way from the Battery
to Van CortlAndt Park, all sorts Of CON-
hinatiOns ~ fractions with \ little num-
her above the line and a big one below.
What do You suppose they mean? I
didn't know for three year. and then !
asked a man who does know: $50 means
grade of three feet in $50 A. least
that's : what ne said
New 10 me- said a traveller lately
returned from his first trip in the South.
was the lunch table on wheels that they
push along gside the trains there for the
convenience of passengers in the cars.
We saw one Of these at a station in North
Carolina. Table maybe four fee, long
by two feet wide. built rather high and
act M on wheels big enough ~ that TIE
table could BE- moved about on them easily.
Sort of two story table this, the lower
story being practically a long. broad shelf
underneath, ON which they keep supplies
from which 20 replenish the things on
sale oranges. bananas, sandwiches and
- on. Al a station where there is no
dining room or where the train doesn't
stop long they roll this table along AZ
the side % the cars. the table top is high
enough for passengers 20 reach the things
on it IRON the car windows.
New 10 the this was. but they tell me
thar these tables on wheels are common
on English and French railway lines
As I was walking down Broadway
the other day said a business woman.
-my attention was attracted by a hat
worn by a woman ahead ~ me. The
hat iisrlf was all right. but tho trimming
seemed little strange A. | drew
nearer I saw that part Of the trimming
was not trimming at all. but a wreath
II smoke that arose from the crown
and streamed backward a. she walked
Your hat Is afire" cried ~ | caught
up with her. and surs enough Il was.
IN the folds - the ribbons lay a cigar
stump from which the straw had ignited
That very thing happened 10 me once
baforp sad the woman a. she resumed
her walk after eNtinguishing the FIRE.
In These days of big hats Il II wonder
o. doesn't happen oftener.
i like the music of al kinds q instrI-
ments' said a city dweller bass horn
and trombone saxaphone and ConcertIna,
anv sort of instrument YOU might name
but do YOU know tho sound that pleases
me most az this particular time of year,
It's the rattle of the lawn mower. That 10
not what YOU might exactly call musical
/ know. but there Is music
IN iis rattle 10 me.
-On one side u No there's a house.
a regular house. with a grass plot in
front Of II. and the man that lives In that
house has got a AVN mower and he cuts
he own grass He's out there cutting
II now. He dossn Z have far n 20 10 get
across that lawn. but you'd think from
tho sound ~ the mower that he must
H. moving a farm. and n that isn't music
n the hungry ear at this time of year.
then ! don't know music when hear Il.
I don't know what key this mower is IN.
whether i is IN OK Cat major or IN three
snarps Cantabile. hut u makes music
all the same for. ~ IL swells, Il tells.
wnile the cut grass sweeily smells. of
spring
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