Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-08
SOME QUEER FOLK
IN THE CITY? WELL,
RATHER THEN SOME
Frinstance, the Man That
Operates on Eggs Know
Himp-and Then the Girl
With the 365 Hats.

In spite OF the fact that on this day
OF grace S2s years ago Mary Queen Of
| scots got up early in the morning and
put on scarlet robe preparatory to
| making one of the most intensely salts
Tying sensational exits from this weari-
some routine of existence on record, 1t
Is nevertheless true that while you are
still drowned in the sweet oblivion of 6
G. NJ. slumber people are throwing eggs
and hapjacts in the ill-lighted basement
OF an all-night breakfast emporium near
the Postofnce building.
Not logical sequence of ideas, you re-
mark? Well, neither Is IL logical that
you should be allowed to lie abed while
other folks are UP ana about And, be-
sides, If the Queen had to get UP early
why can't your
Four OF the eggs that are regularly
and every morningly metamorphosed are
prepared in that same basement, where
the only channel OF communication with
the world outside is through the dumb
waiter shaft, down which comes floating
th refrain at b;S7 o'clock on the dot!
Fry one! Make II four One gazing,
one cataract, two sleepers! Ra-a-ight"
Presently, above, in the long line of
specimens on stools at the breakfast
bar. one attired in dark spectacles and
drab overcoat, acquires the eggs so
specified and proceeds to re-establish his
fame as the Queerest Dick in the night
owl set It's funny, but there's tragedy
In It. He used to be one of the most
skillful surgeons in delicate operations on
the eye. Whisky helped keep his nerve,
then broke II, and now his sister gives
the poor old man, whose one mania is
harmless, n home.
STILL SKILLFUL WITH THE KNIFE.
Nearly blind himself now, he operates
on the only eyes any one would trust
him with First he poises the knife deli
cately over the two 'sleepers." They're
the eggs that are so completely turned"
that no sign of a yellow streak is visi-
ble. Deity he makes the inCision in tho
white top and in n moment discloses the
hardened yolk beneath without a scratch
on it-a dead, but awakened eye.
Then the cataract is removed. That
egg is of the type whose hidden gold
glows through thin Aim of white Skill
fully the thin Aim is landed and sight is
restored. But when he comes to the
"gazer," that paragon of fried eggs, with
its great yellow eyes staring up inno-
Gently into old Dicks face, he hesitates.
Nothing wrong there. No operation
needed Dick remembers himself with a
start, looks up (as every one looks),
bushes and eats the "gazer."
He leaves the others, and Jim. de-
vouring them downstairs, remarks:
Some bug Say, that guys going
nutty!"
FLORA OF THE HATS.
Speaking of eccentrlcs, Flora of the
Hats, in the opinion of many, has it
all over Dick" She really is beautiful,
You must not always believe newspaper
story that begins Pretty little blonde
Dora McGollywopper, of 1887 North
Oriental street." because it's probably all
true except the first word.
But Flora is really beautiful. She was
crossed in love at Is. Her fiance cNiticIsed
her hat and they parted. Life Is as dis
gustlngly foolish as that. He went to
war and died on the way to Cuba-of
typhoid.
So, for the last II years, Flora has had
1865 hats a year They are all different and
she walks down Chestnut street every
morning to the office where she earns
$3.50 a week and back up Chestnut street
every afternoon. And she never is out
of fashion as to the head-that is as far
as the outside of II is concerned. And
she has only bought one hat in II years
the one her young man didn't like back
in 1898
You see, 1t really was a good hat.The
materials cost only Si,S9. But what Flora
ain with them. And he didn't like II. A
woman was so paralyzed with joy at the
sight of 1t that she swapped five $40 crea-
tlon for that one little objet d art (French
object of art).
And what Flora did with these five