The sun., 1910-06-07
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


The times when customers make me
teel a. n ought 10 be In jail and will
probably land there some day are when
count out change for a blind person.
said the grocer. The blind member Of a
hmiiy very often does part of the market
inE and sometimes he pays with bill that
calls for a handful Of change Other Cus-
toners who have kindly Elperintended
the buying get all worked up over our
finances They watch every cent that
ay down For my regulations sake
would never dare 10 hand over the change
70 a blind person in one lump. Right out
on the counter. where everybody can soe,
! count u piece by piece, ten. twenty-five,
hity, dollar Then the blind man counts
his change agar by touch hnds that he
has not been cheated and everybody goes
home satisfied
I read in The sUN some time ago about
the hot frankurter man who boiled
mess of eggs for a destitute family whose
stove wouldn't draw zaid the engineer.
We'll. | can heat that Down in the ex-
cavation for this new building a pool of
water has formed in a little hole where the
steam pipes criascrosa. and when the fires
are going the water is always boiling hot.
the other day Just before noon q boy shot
around the corner with three eggs IN a
long handled woven wire corn pepper.
Say. mister. he said. let me down
there 10 boil these aiEs, wol I youl We
live Just around the corner, and me mother
don't want & waste the kindlin 70 make q
fire
As rule We take pains 10 shoe kids
away from that hole in the ground. but
that hoy had made out a good case for
himself and ! told him 20 90 ahead. He
scrambled down the hank, soused hts corn
pepper full Of eggs into the boiling water
and in few minutes he was back with
the cooked eggs.-
One would a. soon think Of tying to-
Eether STRIPS of wood a. strips Of rattan.
but here were packages in a cargo ot
china stun discharging on a South street
wharf that were secured with strips
II rattan tied around them. BoXes
two OF three feet square, these packages
were. made of wood sawed or cut very
thin. not much thicker than veneer. and
then these packages were made more
secure not by mailing around them the
familiar box straps Of other countries
Of IRON or wood, but by tying around them
strips Of rattan. their ends in knots that
were more or lesa angular hut that still
were regular innts. These lttan strips
and the knots tied in them were now
hard and rigid. "A rattan always seems
10 be. and 40 one might wonder how
the folks out there in China ever man
aged 20 tie ths knots in them AZ all.
Nobody is treated better than the
photographer who doesn't butt IN I'M
necessarily said the man with the cam
era. People 90 out Of their way to give
IN something to work on Why yester-
day morning received letter from the
proprietor of an uptown hotel. who in
formed me that one Of the city's historic
old trees which stood in front of HIS house
was about 10 be cut down. He though
I might like a picture of the tree and
took the trouble 20 notify me ot Its pro
posed destruction. When | got up there
! found the tree surrounded 10y squad
oG camera men. all of whom had received
courteous note from the landlord
Eventually he may profit a little from
the free advertising but at the same time
he did ~ fellows a good turn by calling
our attention to an old landmark that
We would otherwise have overlooked.
One hotel extends an unusual courtesy
10 it he a courtesy 20 its guests over
the desk where most of the hufiness of
the hotel s done hangs a sign which saws.
The clerk now on duty is Mr. smith p
or Mr. Jones a. the case NAV 10 Whethe-
the sign is intended 20 save the feelings
Of guests or clerks isn't 1uiV PLAIN u
saves the CLERKS from being addressed ~
-Hsv yos- and the guests from having
To say -uh VI rh-h-h
\ man in tho photograph business has
a good -,n"ms Tor ,clliag hIs pictures
livery bright day De-" makes ms head
quarters AZ Riverside Drive and Ninety
eighth street. where he snaps passing
MOTORISTS He takes record NJ IN" 70
csnse nurhcr. hunts up the owner and y
he was not in the auto party tnfs ou' VINO
Wa Tho sale Of his pictures j. an easy
matter