The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT Town.

II the time COMING Whon wonen VIM
60 about studying he aghts through
opera glAss@sp" said the city salesman
4 sAw q pionear in tn movement ~
day last week IL ~as not matinee ,Lly
30 she had not been 20 the theatre. nIt
she carried her opera glasses and made
good use % them. Fret a mounted police
man went dashing past Lv"ry6ody knew
there had been an accident a block and Q
half down the street. but at that distance
nobody could make out tbs character OF
t. The woman with the opera glAneoa
was right ON tho Job and she could not
only sse that a man had bssn hurt and
carried into tho drug store but she could
tell what he looked like and What he had on.
On the way up town discussion
arose over aone flowers in a hotel window.
That woman didn't have To vsx her brain.
She simply adjusted her opera glasses
and said hyacinths. and that settled ~
With the aid u thoss glasses she read
three new advertising signs that every
body was anxiOus Ia make out out
couldn't She found that a spring suit In
a store window had been marked down
90 tSS. and she read the subject Tor sun
days sermon ON two church olIlooards
Judging by that Woman's experience
ann Inclined 10 favor the use OF operA
glAsses in the street.
These pay telephones are very moon
vsnient when you haven't nickel handy.
remarked a lady to one Of her guests.
who wished 90 use the telephone. But
I was driven TO IT, Five and ak umes
day Their. were calls for my maid. and
the moment | vent out of the house
found that she was at the telephone.
calling up her friends l suppose tns
others wait until their mistress goes OUT
and thsn they use the telephone Just %
mine does
Why don't you keep a record q your
own caIls. a. they do in oficesf' sug-
Sested the guest ..A,.
That would BE- too much trouble.
Not Just had q pay telephone Put 20.
and a number 81 my friends are doing the
"a nn. and Tor thu same reason. IL saves me
about o. a month but | am AFRAID; the
wAy things are going. girls who are !ook-
ing for a plac@ will soon bs asking u you
have pay telephone. just - they a=A nov
many IN family.
IL peopIe who own dogs they no longer
wan, would only bring them To M to dts
pose u. said the manager ~ one OF inc
large dog hospitals. "A great deal OF un,
. sc~-sarv ANNOYANCE and suffering would
ha avoided But nino- tenths OF the people
would rather abdandOn pet IMAM nave u
The fayorite deNloe IN
such cases ~ 20 take the dog over 70 oSA.eh
a
This is how staten Island became the and
- Homeless dogs condiuou when
spells 81 official dog raooGhs
every little Will"
There was nothing unusual about the
woman when she called al the once
,aid tbs. renting agent, except thht she
wante,i o. hook over q Vacant top moor
.,parrmsnt AZ night ! took Il tor grant'h
that sh. wautei "a $500 " ~ was too NOISY
fpr sleep. and made an appointment
for the newt night az 10
When she joined me in the elevator
saw shs oarriei a bag pair OF held glasses,
When 49, got into the apartment rhe
diin', look AZ the rpoms. hut went Z"
front window. threw M the sash IN,
htntar,si her field glasses and S"ann.i
the horizon. After a few minutes sue
tlrna,i Apparently satisfied. ana ntter
Rlancing casually al the rooms slid sh"
tai. them Then she eXpatned
Fog ten years I have hv'-t ~ New
York. From our first apartment ! Could
always sse az night a CERTAIN r"'i hkh'
dIgplavssi IN Harlem RIVER brloge.
Ne had luck IN that house. lhen We
Lgbt and lad al awful run - mis-
fortune Then we moved hack INTO range
OF that hight and our luck r~turn'@i
I never mean to liV" anywher" That
car. : ..- that hight v ! can help ~
4 certainly got hadly treated not long
ago.- aid a downtown business man.
4 bought ~ auction al rather high figure
d, handsome C.rrassian walnut chIfoni"r
A dty or Two ago accidentally chippsi
i and found there was not an ln'h OF
real wood about u II was mad" ~ some
Kind 81 curnpositi1n clevsrly grainest ana
stained And now furnitur" dealer
tells me Clrc.tssian walnut ~ IN" mus'
uncertain wnod IN the furnltur" market.
'If,t isn'r ra.ta n, says. ~ Is apt % be-
southern gum or some other substitute"
We were invited n dinner the other
evening, my wife and L. said staten
Island preacher. by some people who
had lust moved into the parish: mad
,er,aDrlv ruy wife had allowed the maid
10 % 0lt that day. which involved the
u my boy. who ~ Just
, yenru Old. NV wife telephonsd asking
N IL would he agreeable g. bring ~"
y,ungster. OF course the new parlshioners
replied that they would 10 d"hghtei.
80 went.
Al dinner I was asked 20 say grace.
and not satisfied with this the family began
~ rap.,at IN turn = passag" - scripture
The hravity 81 tho Baatitude- seemed
~ make the most popular appeal. ana
when nv boys turn came ] saw - tNinkie
ia b;s eve hut was scarcely prepared
for what followed With a look 81 extreme
piety ha folded his hands and exclaimed
Blessed ar" thu-s' ~hO H.t ~ '-'cS
for they shall rise again!