The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-12
LIVE rOPfes ABOUr Town.


eslsphons habit h the general improve
slOcution. -Of course I'm sentative to
all tricks Of speech. FOR it's my business
90 notice that sort of thing. and within
the last two years New York people
have become 30 addicted To the telephone
/ habit that their enunciation has improved
| wonderfully. ! was told onlv the other day
| by the superintendent OF one Of the big
department shops that fewer wrong
Address were taken down than ever
before. He thinks. ~ do. that the tele-
phone has made people, particularly
women, more concise in their directions
and more careful in giving the correct
sounds 70 nnmbers Instead Of running
every one did few years ago. IL Is Gus
tomaTy 20 pronounce each one separately,
as in giving a telephone number. Instead
Of one twenty three IL IN now one two
three such and such a street. and the
stre.t number u in two or three figures
IL given in the same way. Room numbers
in the big hotels are usually given sep
nrately, as though q number was being
repeated over the telephone. and the
carriage calls Rt the theatres arc another
evidence 81 this Improvement Names are
also pronounced more plainly than they
used tn he
The enthusiasm that leads 10 applause
when Frans Halls ar Corot IL offered
for sale has spread to other auction rooms.
At sale of second hand clothes on
Saturday afternoon unimpas>ioned spec
tator- were astonished by the applause
that greeted pretty pink evening dress.
The hand clapping was scattered at FIRST.
hut the snthusiasEn spread and -OOn per
HonS all over the room were expressing
their approval
why shouldn' they applaud1- said the
auctiOneer 1T has never been done
before. but a Eiee dress ~ jrst "a much
| of a masterpiece an q picture and 10 Just
- worthy Of appreciation.
BY having record kept nc the cashiers
desk % nav checks which patrons fail
10 turn in I sometimes make up my losses.
said the proprietor % large restaurant.
To-day a man got a check for IS cents.
To the cashier he presented one for p
cents. The latter. glancing al his missing
check card. discovered that IL was one
81 the listed ones. OBTAINING the man,
he notified me. After besng confronted
with the waiter the beat wanted % paw
both checks. | ordered policeman
summoned. The man's pleading led ns
To show hin the list % missing checks.
which amounted to something like $50.
saying that didn't know but that he was
the lot IL the matter would ~ drOpped.
and this proposition ! accepted.
A. odd an enterprise "a any IL that %
a man who advertises instruction in the
game of checkers Folks naturally wonder
has come IN again strong enough To
warrant professional coaching.
while collecting rents in poor quarter
~ the city discovered a novel use for
an old Churchyard.- said the renting
agent. Several 81 nv three room fats
In n building overlooking the yard are
occupied by laundres~ss Last week
! happened 20 got into the kitchen of one
Fat and saw that every laundre~s
had a pulley clothe-line stretched across
The yard from her kitchen window to n
corner 81 the church. Fortunately the
yard was in the rear of the church and no
one except the neighbors had a chance
To be- shocked at the contlGnity OF laundry
and religion. The laundre~s whom !
questioned said there had been some
pretty hot debates an the church over
the proprety Of combining cleanliness
and goodness in that practical fashion,
hut the pastor had cOntended 30 stoutly
that the twenty-five square feet ~ space
could be put to no better Use than 60 enable
hard working women who had no place
els. 20 dry clothes out doors to earn a
living that the trustees had finally gwen
in.
Poets as a rule are not good bus, ness
men. huJ an exception ~ one of a little
group ~ young writers and artists who
dine every evening together and talk
shop. The poet very often reads the
verses he has composed. and sometimes
the comments are not exactly hattering.
That's rotten!- exclaimed an artist on
hearin one Of these illusions recently.
I'm ret you sS can sell V to a maya
zine replied the poet
The wager was made and the artist
lost since then the oct has made -sver1i
similar bets with his -COffinE friends and
has won them all He Was Chuckllng
over " tc an outsider the other day. You
must have wonderful confidence ia the
merit OF your work said the rank out
-ids'r
Confidence nothing laughed the poet !
I couldn't lose. ! never read a POEM to
IN, ~ fellows until ! have first sold ~