Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

sentimental New Workers wer,
shedding gobs Of tears over the Danish.
ment OF picturesque horse cars from local
scenery, the callous-hearted push to the op.
posite extreme by introducing high power
automobile hearses. They reason that a
dead New Yorker ought to be put, out OF
sight as quickly as social regulations per.
init. They consider encumbering the streets
with slowly moving funerals a serious dis.
turbance to business and a needless tax on
the nerves OF spectators. The automobile
hearse will obviate these discomforts and
give the deceased as we'll as the mourners
a Joy ride that is worth the price. The
machine combines space for the casket and
seats for eight persons. and can speed up
from five to twenty miles an hour.
The rush to the cities does not find its
sole explanation in a general longing for
the glitter and excitement OF urban life.
The city as a labor market draws its
crowds. One charitable organization In New
York reports that while the supply Of man
ual labor for spring viii scarcely be up to
the demand, New York is flooded with peo-
pie in search OF clerical work. and search
ing in vain. THE class to worry about Is
that which includes the clerk. the sales
man, and the man who thinks that by not
learning a trade he has a chance to be-
come a bank clerk, and then a bank presi-
dent. Anything to be in New York is
the outsiders slogan. As long as that
continues. there will be more men than
Jobs"
That's an easy lot which hangs about
the brokers' office here" said the cashier
Of a fashionable uptown hotel, quoted by
the Sun. They'll bite on, almost anything;
even the brokers themselves will.
The morning that the sentence of Lupus
gang Of counterfeiters was announced, as
one OF the brokers passed my desk l asked
him If he had ever seen one OF the phony
dollar bills that had been passed. He
had not, so 1 took one of a lot Of brand
new dollar bills that ] had just got from
the bank and passed It through the grating.
He looked II over. Then he took 1t into
his office, where everybody took q look
at 1t. Well, they got a big magnifying
glass and scrutinlzed the bill and I'll be
hanged II they didn't take a whole hour
off just looking at It. Then one OF them
came out here and offered to give me IS
for it. OF course. 1 then had to show him
the tillful of such bills"
Some Brooklyn housekeepers are awaiting
themselves of a plan by which they make
two pounds Of butter out Of one pound
and q pint of milk. The pound Of regular
store butter is put with a pint OF milk
into a sort Of double boiler affair, in which
the butter is mixed with the milk by means
OF a paddle not unlike that OF an ice cream
freezer. From this a rather soft substance
energies, to which some of the less con-
scientious housewives add a bit OF coloring
matter, for the mixture is a bit paler than
the original pound OF butter which went
in. When the composition has cooled 1t
becomes hard and to all intents and pur-
poses butter. 1t certainly weights two
pounds where there was only one before,
and is so like the genuine that most fam
lilies do not know the difference. As but
ter is now selling in Brooklyn for about IS
cents a pound, the thrifty souls are get
ting two pounds Of this Just as good" for
q cents, and in this way reducing their
creamery bills.
A portly man, who looked like an Ar
menian, boarded "a Broadway car at
Bowling Green and sat next to a placid,
specialized old fellow. who was reading a
little blue volume bearing the title Mar
Gus Aurelius" The portly man handed
the conductor a dollar bQI. Getting. 95
cents, chiefly in dimes and nickels. He
slipped the change in what he supposed
was his overcoat pocket. At Park place
the foreigner got up. BeforeN doing
so he felt in the pocket in which he be-
lieved he had put the coin. He did not
find IT. His face lit up, and he turned
m his npiaN nafnhhnR nd -1-.awNr.1
You have my money in your overcoat
pocket"
The placid man stared at the foreigner,
who took off his hat, and bowling to the
imperturbable one said, with emphasis,
Il say you have my money, So cents, the
change of a dollar, in that pocket" and
the foreigner pointed to the other mans
pocket. Again the self-possessed old
party stared and went on reading.
The foreigner leaned over and putting
his right hand in the overcoat pocket OF
the disciple of Marcus Aurelius extracted
s5 cents. Spreading the money out in his
palm the foreigner shook his other hand
at Mr.. Aurelius, and said;
You see, it was as / said. We were sit
ting so close that 1 thought your overcoat
pocket was mine"
Mr.. Aurelius' almness was more notice
able than when he first lifted his eyes
from his book.
A little Greek restaurant in New York
has neted its owners a fortune. One Of
them cooked and the other waited on the
few tables when they began business,
twenty-five or more years ago. Today one
Of the men they used to serve with the
pies of Pericles and the thumb-bits of
Themistocles, is putting up a new building
for them, They paid $4,000 for the land,
and they are spending $4,000 on the build
ing, exclusive OF the cold storage plant,
which is to cost $4,000. A cellar and two
sub-cellars are hewn out Of 1.-THE solid rock
Above ground there will not be many
floors. The speciality OF these thrifty
Greeks is the serving Of food, so they insist
upon ample restaurant space. They have
a theory that a table should pay 100 per
cent a day. In this country Greek sculp-
tors turn easily TO carving out fortunes.