The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-30
LIVE TOPICS iBOrr TOWN.


Much has been written about man :
inhumanlty to man. hut IL would stir
ones indignation to see tho brutality
~ animal tn animal IN time Of sickness,
aid keeper of tho Central Park men
agarie
Take the case Of tho Four Old Ma ids
IN the Cape buhalo paddock. Those
todT buffalo COWS have lived together
there Tor years through sunshine and
storm and without anything to make
"tn JEALOUS. They ought to he friends
anu 'hey are when all are IN good health:
b'll when one N sick all the others
KICK and bite her cruelty she's too
l"ehl" 20 resist and has To- be taken away
10 save her life. II is the same with all
the other animals and with the birds
As soon ~ one gets sick all the Others
attack the invalid in AN effort Ia mann
or Kill
mlddl- aged matron addressed a
middl" aged woman who sat next to her
IN TIA" street "lr and whom size thought
she rs-ognized a. an acuuai ntance u
her gnlhoOd Pardon me she sal
hut wasn't your maiden maine Blank
1t - was the icy reply
reference book ON Russian history
being ne edsd right an the spot tho lit
erary hack said he guessed he would GO
around Ia Clarke's 20 borrow his He
went 10 Clark"'s. but he came back with
out the book
Didn't he have it, the mans wife
asked
He did. hut hadn't the nerve to ask
Tor II. Clarke plan OF advertising book
borrowers scared me of Before I had
"A chance In Hnaaaan II hs.
steered me past shelves where every few
inches dummy stood sAndwiohed IN
between real books The labels on all
the books were conspicuous. black letter
lng on white. and they set forth some
mi ghly interesting statistics
Three Musketeers, borrowed March
25 bN John Smith. Not returned
After ! had read about "A dozen Of those
dummy labels ! SAID II was a fine day.
wasn't il: Clarke said veS II was and ]
came away To advertise to subsequent
visitors that ! had borrowed one of Clarke =
test books was little too much notoriety
for me
Her Serene Highness the Princess
Parla9hy may have been disappointed
in the hope Of spending a round million
0rancsl. a. she SAYS ia her siI months
stay in this city. but when she comes back
from Europe next fall with like ambition
a. to expenditure she needn't expect the
municipal authorities to take charge 81
her dog aud hoard II for nothing ne IL
did this trip sail an officer OF the Park
Department
When she put mp AT the Plaza last
spring her secretary came Ia the Central
Park menagerie with a dingo. which -
an Australian Wild dog. and said her
Serene Highness " ished TO make q pressn {
TO the city a. a token OF her regard The
animal wasn't much to look at. hut 70
was put on exhibition IN a cage and well
cared for When her Serene Highness
was about TO sail the other day the same
secretary came TO the menagerie and
wanted the dog Ia take Ia Europe The
city - too gracious To offend "A lady and
gave back her present
: Came all tho wav down from The Bron I
just To- usc this telephone. said Column
bus avenue druggist with a nod toward the
woman in the telephone booth
-SsCrets:- queried a man
Not that alone said the druggist
She could have hlahbet them just A.
safely over any other enclosed telephone
She came here because tins telephone
brings good luck Twice " hen she wanted
"a send some ma~Sag e that she was pretty
dubious about she happened to Use thus
yh1ne and everything turned out all
right since then when handling DIM
cult question she iray els from IN" remote~t
corner of the city Just Ia ~. this telephone
She Says that ..v"rNbodv has o mcSv tele-
phone n they only kneS u and that II
would pa" psople who send important
. coTnfniInica tons over the wire II they
would take notice and find out which
telephone brings best results