The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-28
LIVE TOPICS ABOTT TOWN.

4 certain young matron in need OF a
maid was talking Ia an applicant for the
place The girl appeared anxious To get
the work. hut past experience had made
the housek~sper wary.
Well. you 60 and get your reference
she finally concluded. and come hack
to- morrow
-iou won't hire nobody else'' inquired
the girl. III, ,,,,.,,. T., =. >.
asked the lady.
gravely took out a 81 bill and thrust 10
| on the young matron.
She rushed on before the other could
recover from her astonishment and re-
turned the same day with the needed
reference.
People who are always sympa timing
with lonely bachelors don't appeal to
me- said a travelling man who CHANGED
10 spend Thanksgiving in New York. yes
terday. Their intentions may he good
and all that. bat they shoot a mile from
the target when they try to make a man
happy 10y hauling HIM TO the family re-
union.
1T was this way: New York was on
INV Aiih u bhao
made my plans tn have "a good time. l
intended to eat a hang up dinner and
then after a ci gar or two go To the theatr
in the evening. Now. fellow drummer
learned was in town and he was heart
broken tn think any one should spend the
ma tionaI festival away from home and
friends So ne insisted on my coming to
his house for dinner. l couldn't refuse
and wis there.
$50 was Aunt Kate and Sister Susan.
with her three children. or course they
tried to- make u pleasant and talk on
general subjects. hat they would much
ra Their hav. discussed their family afairA
instead Of wasting time on me. whom they
would probably never zee again. Any
WAY 1 missed the theatre ana had tn eat
,wi,,. as much a. I wanted. Next time
I'm in town IN a holiday I'll have An IRON |
clad enga cement not to 60 to any family |
parties.
On tuesday d-licatss-"n store chickHn
salad sold for 50 cents pound: ON
"Wednesday II was 81 cents.
what nads, u go zap all Of a sudden
gasp-d the customer.
Quality Said the store keeper. This
IL NOT ordinary chicken salad; IL is bridge
salad We make bridge salad on Wednes-
DAYS Thursdays and Saturdays during
the. card playing season. Thos. are tho
DAYS vi hen most VI tho women IN this
n.ighhorhood play hridg" They serve
Refreshments, hut do not want 20 go 10
the. trouble ol preparing their own salads
They d.u..nd upon the i.lIcafssr-s-n for
that hut rh. ordinary store salad ~ not
rich enough for entertainments. 50 the
man who IL sur" ~ suffci.nt tran" 10
warrant 1t makes an especially fine salad
on hridg. days and boosts the price &C
cordlngiy
Funny bits II information are picked
Nh by rh. person who goes ont 20 look
for work said the pretty girl Last
week | got a new job The Office hoy who
had entertained m" while | waited for
An interview with 'he manager stopped
IN. on my way out and asked II got
the plac. told him yes and hs said
Good Now. I do hope you won't get
cold fee,
cold feet with a slang Specification
ar. tn. only kind 81 cold feet I know
anything about from experience. so
said oh. don't think | shall lose my
-Th. big shifted ! mean sure enough
cold feet like most Of tn. twenty-six
other girls who wor here have he said
I've got enough hot water bottles 10
attend TO now
weather So, in his duties have increased
50 per cent between = and o'clock ia
tho morning
ITS the hot water bottles that keep
me on the jump, he explained They
woolien cosies and put under the girls
desks before O'Clock so they will ia out
Of sight before the boss gets down
rheyv We got cold feet those girls have.
The doctor has told them 10 IL bad for
their health 10 sit down TO work With
chllls in their toes. so they keep their
circulation going by means OF these
bottles
4 gave the boy dime as . guarantee
Of good faith i may require good
sur. 81 this. you will never have TO I'LL
n hot vi t.r bottle for me
Accordin z 10 the label signs one Of the
cages in the Central Park bird house has
been tenanfed for three weeks by robin.
starlings, blackbirds. thrushes and wood
packer The children studying nature In
from; Of the cage seem little perpleysd
about which IL which and cant pick out
the robin or the wOodpecker. This is not
strange. because the birds in the cage are
n thrush. four star Nm ~ and three troopials.
"a kind Of orIole from tropical America.
Troopials should bs very striking In yell
low and black pl,irnaRe. but those IN the
Gag. have grown frow-y. some 81 the
bird loving visitors wonder why Gagged
starIings are exhibited, for the parks
starting colony has Increased tn over
flowing and thers are outpost nests under
caves and Corr,ices in some 81 the streets
near by Three or four starllngs walk
about on the green with every feeding
flock ~ English sparrowa. whiIs others
lisp and gurgls in the treetor-. Some-
hand the crisp viii viii Of his winsbeats
can bp heard