The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-14
LIVE ToPEcs ABOCr rowN.


TO do with Il, While the last rehearsal
was under way I bought four seats for
another opera. When I went to pay for
them found just IS cents in nv purse.
! had money, hut IL wAs In my blouse.
and my blouse was fastened down the
back. told tho box Ofice man how IL
was and asked him 20 lay aside those
tickets until l could get my money He
Was very sympathettc He aaid he would
Now. said I, 10 you will Just call q
woman S,% clerk 90 show mo where TO go
He allowed that every woman on the
place was swampcd with work just then,
o1t he'd do his best He telephoned
two or three times and pretty soon q
young woman appeared and said Come
with me. They just had ca let me- into
the opera ho'Iss then. There was no
place else FOR a woman with mOney that
she couldn't get at TO 20. Away rack
IN corner by the aid of a tiny electric
light the unbalttoning and buttoninR up
The reheareal was in full swing and he
fore ! could get oaIf ! had seen nearly all
u the best act. That's what call luck!-
The importation Of EngIirh styles,
which h increasing constantly in this
country. has not stopped at mere clothes
and mannsrs- The use 20 the monocle
h becoming more and more common
every day in New York
just watch some bright afternoon
along Fifth avenue remarked close
observer. -4ou will see dozens % men
wearing monocles. In the big hotels at
tea time they are especially common,
young chaps who have taken up the fad
do not appear to be wholly at ease with
the single glass
One sight I can't get used to on this
corner said the street railway switch.
man. is to zee people who find them
selves shy Of carfare borrow from that
old beggar nc the foot Of the elevated
stairs. Most places IL Is the nearest
druggist that the dead brokes 90 70 for
money enough 90 get home. Here II
IL that heggar. He 10 a regular capitalist
IN his line Many man I've seen bor-
see here, old pal I've heard EN- say.
I've spent more money this afternoon
than | ought TO have spent and can't
get home. I've chucked a good many
eoppers your way in my time. Let US
And the old pal comes tn the scratch
every time ~ course he Reta the loan
back with interest but II looks funny TO
borrow from hegear, just the same
AhS ENNui' khA s3AoNNd sAhtTt-n rlaAs
Of cake wrapped in tissue paper and
tagged with well known names
That 10 wedding cake she said. q
got these pieces because designed the
cakes. Early last fail came IN the CON
clusion that wedding cakes don't stand
as high in art as they deserve to For
the first time in my life I took 90 studying
society notes whenever big wedding
WAS announced put in q Sid Tor design
ing the wedding cake. just a. an architect
bids for building house. The idea
always on the lookout for novelties and
they paid me q good price for drawing
up plans for the baker TO work on. In
addition 20 the money ] got alice
Of every cake The money Il all gone
but am still hanging on Co the cake
.Thousan ds 81 New Workers ~ this
generation and more Thousands 81 people
who have come here In the last dozen
years do not know that the Aqua mum IL
old Castle Garden: that IL IL the same
building in which Jenny Lind sang said
"a Rowan gatSkeeper az the Barge Oaice |
Very often men and women who give
evidence n wealth and prosperity come
down here hunting Castle Garden. un-
able 10 recognize the old building in its
newer stirroundingr Nearly always
they ssy IN effect That's whore I
landed a stranger in a strange country
With only what | carried In a handker- /
chief
A physician in speaking ~ his Patients
the other day said a great many men
would be surprised II they should happen
% meet their wives while tho latter were
on their way 20 some doCtors ofhc"
Many women have q firm belief IN the
policy ~ wearing their shAbhie-t gsrh p
on such occasions said he Their idea
IN that IhyNicians Judge ~ tho state ~
their patients finances bv the clothe. they .
wear. and charge accordingly and there /,
IL a good deal ~ truth in IL too"
Riding uptown in seTi-crowded I
Broadway csT the other might. a we'll !
dressed woman was having great deal of .
dificulGy trying 10 pacify q crying child
Who was sitting on her lap She was evi- /
IDENTIFY the child's mother. After she /
had exhausted all the ordinary means
she tried an entirely new one When \
ever = IN ale passenger boarded the car I
a nd made his way up the aisle the woman \
would iouncs the "a on her knee and
your father II may not have been .
exactly the proper thing, but u served
TO pacify the child.
NnlValrpus VII Jpu~s puTpFis~ty uTpIlINI
a fifty cent piece az the fset n the poorly
dresaed woman who decla rcd that the
subway ticket sgent had cheated her ont
81 half a dollar Then he picked IL up
and said:
Madam. you dropped sonne money
She looked in her pocketbook.
I don't think IL IL mine she said
-Mayn. you dropped !, yourself
oh. no said Mr.. Jones. You dropped
N. heard II fall
She took the half dollar. then before
Mr. Jones could interfere she made =
dash for another man who had bumped
4 Rainss her and Mr.. Jones when the money
feii.
thrust the 50 cents into his hands
-Thanka- ~ III he. and jumped into a
subway train which Was ready 90 start.
= - said Chivalrous
Mr. Jones.
That woman across the hall IL hOrrid, =
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