The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-24
LIVE FOPs(S AHOrT Town.

the name % every new tuns she hear
spent half an hour In a room where q
dozen other women were playing cards
When the other women had gone shs
asked the hostess:
guests kept humming every little whilsi
IL 10 from some new OPERA"
NO opera on earth was ever 50 popular
a. that song il Just now laughed ths
hostess lit was composed by a teacher
OF bridge. She put the most important
rules Of the game into rhyme and set them
to music. It's pretty. lifting tune that
appeals to the ear. Women that had
never been able TO remember the rules
from one day to another could easily
remember that song and become pretty
excitement they forget a point once in a
while but they have that song at their
tongues end and few measures sets
them right
Speaking Of funny breaks said a
coach for amateur theatricals, about
the best ever saw wasn't In an amateur
show at all. but by one OF the best pro-
fessonal readers in the country.
He was giving Monsieur Beaucaire.
the play drawn from Booth Harrington q
runs something like this: And l saw the
barber coming out of the pump room AZ
Bath, Now what do you suppose was
tbs way he read that linep IL was this:
And | saw this barber coming out OF the
bathroom in pumps
A little girl in an East Side school was
busily cracking her finger joints. The
teacher admonished her but soon the
cracking was resumed The teacher
det aimed the girl after the others had
gone home.
Minnie the teacher began, don I
you know that to crack your finger joint =
IL not nice. and besides when you grow
up to be lady you'll have big. ugly
knuckles
That's why I do it Minnie replied.
we get big he's going to give me dia-
mond ring and then well get married.
| want my knuckles to be big enough TO
keep he ring from slipping on on wash
day My mother lost her wedding ring
that way and papa never got her another. :
when I called ar nv dressmaker's to
have a suit fitted the other day young
woman said. she had an old ramshackle
chair in the room. The legs were sawed
OF 40 that the seat stood about a foot and
a half from the floor
II suppose you Use that for children
TO stand on when you are trying on their
dresses. | said.
No. she replied. that il sonnet hing
| have rugged up for hobble skirts. My
Gust omcrs don't want TO have a dress
made and then find that they can't get
on and on street car without assistance.
80 they Use this chair an a test. II IL
about the sans. height from the ground
a. the step Of car. When a woman
wants a hobble skirt | have her place one
foot on IN. seat OF the chair and then
measure the distance TO the foot on the
floor. That gives me an idea OF about
how narrow the skirt can be. When
h@ skirt IL basted together the woman
riss getting on the imaginary car and II
she IL able to Wa go ON with the dress-
making IL has saved a lot Of trouble
90. for several women have found be-
fore II was too late that they couldn't
wear as narrow a skirt as they thought
Lemons continue 20 be handed to New
York in great quantities from far east
ward despite all that Florida and Cali
Tornia are doing to keep the trade at
nome. Sicily in particular secs to il
hat there Is no lack here OF the sine qua
ION Of lemonade. whiskey sour. lemon
Die. lemon cheese cakes. lemon water
co and other detachable things.
The very week in December that nine
'arloads Of lemons arrived here from
'alifornia Sicily met this big shipment
" dischnrging 300 boxes from the
Ionigin I.uisa and > 700 from the San
Il the oddities Of the New York whole
ale lemon trade There they speak
4 Sicilian lemons in bulk by the name
4 tn" steamship on whictr the particular |
~ fruit arrives. For example. |
ON Thursday two steamers. the Virginia |
nd Pannonia. were the offerings
though Sicily grows lemons that are !
amous the world over. Florida il holding
h. hammer for size Down there they are /
growing Ponderosa lemon that some !
lines runs UP 20 two pounds.
i -aa a good many odd things while ,
ny patients are waiting TO see mo at nv |
flee said a young physician. but 1
hen a man SAL mere looking at n paper !
rhich he held upsid. down I was .
~ ask him about it. Obviously |
"a was reading. not having a day dream.
thought maybe had case in which 1
he image focused wrong side up on the ,
atinl or in which there was some other \
bnormal condition. and was ina ginning
low | would describe the case for a medi- b
al publication. But all my theories were ,
Incorrect The man was n printer. He ,
aid he read that wav from habit | !
new that printers had To read type |
nat was upside down hut | never had !
Ieard Of one who adhered To the practice /
n reading his newspaper
There must be- | suppose said q \
nan Who appeared 10 have himself ons
4 the kind he mentioned. -.ich n thing |
- . selsctive ear, an aar that enables
II posSessor tn hear sounds that he wants
. hear undisturhed by louder sounds |
hat may h. exploding all around him.
ZONE people cant hear AZ n telephone
kept in the midst ~ surrounding quiet
on SAY you can. and there are some
Who can hear easily in the midst II tur-
roil I am one II the turmoil sort and
ird that sort e an ear one GOOD IN have.
md ssy, is that new term 81 which ]
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