Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-28
AS New York Sees 1t
In the Associated Pressl


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CBy the Associated Press)
A new motif in advertising appeared
on New York streets as the first icy
breath of King Winter swept over the
land Enterprising taxi-drivers pasted
on their winSlshields placards reading
Heated" They make an incongruous
/ picture as they sit shivering along
side the sign.
| New Workers as rule, due to the
greater distances to be covered, do not
get to see their friends as often as
folks in smaller citiesz Nut almdst
every family has telephone to make
UP for this deficiency DDeetDrles
have just been sent to more than L.
O7S,0OO subscribers in the greater city.
! bit of the county fair annually
makes it's appearance I'M New York at
the Old Glory auction of thoroughbred
trotters Here one sees that rapidly
vanishing American--the trotting horse
enthusiast Diamond horse shoe scarf
pins and huge horsehead watch charms
are still popular with these horse
lovers.
Modern progress has struck the sub
way guards stereotyped "Step lively"l
something new. Here is the pioneer
change:
Move up, don't let your feet stick
in the glue on the platfawm."
undergoing a change, officials of the
New York public library have discoV-
cred. Analysis of Withdrawals from
library branches revealed that the
trend of reading on the island is not
domestic" Similar analysis of with
drawa1s in Brooklyn, Richmond and
other boroughs shows the books once
read in Manhattan are now in demandl
there.
A new family album of 1900 of
New York's charitable organizations
shows the diversity of racial and ma
tional helping hands extended by the
melting pot city to it's children. Some
names picked at random: "Scandina-
Wan Young Women's Home," German
Home for Recreation of Women and
Children" qFrench HospitaA' Free
Kindergarten Association for Colored
Children" "Sisterhood of the Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue Jan Hus
Bohemian Neighborhood House," Thar
len Hebrew Institute "B'nai Jeshu-
rum Sisterhood Italian American
Gymnastic Association" ''Neustadter
Foundation Home"
Pumpkin seeds are about the last
commodity expected to be found for
sale in the theatrical district around
Times Square, but a restaurant dis
played card advertising them. Pump
kin vines may adorn the windows of
the flat-dwellers this winter.
Commercialized Greenwich Village,
still stimulates Bohemian atmos-
phere.
Friends ring twice; enemies, three
times; bandits phone for appoint
ments," says the sign over the barred
entrance of one tea room there.
For the benefit of those persons who
are constantly wondering where busi-
ness has gone these days, sign in a
vacant store window in Park avenue
announces: Business has removed toi
Blank Market Co, 900 Third avenue y
A movie theatre has given thought
to the customers whose feet are tram
pied by those persistent indfviduals
who bump their way to seats. 1t has
staff chiropodist.
Natives of other countries who wish
to satisfy their native gastronomfr
tastes have difficulty in secluding their
haunts from the hordes of curiosity
seekers. Many an unlighted, and
closely locked brown stone-front har-
bors, not den of iniquity, but rem
devious restaurant for foreign stu
dents, seeking to elude the crowds.
It will be we'll this Christmas toG
carefully examine that J new set of
books: One of the newest sets being
offered here includes, Dante, Burns,
Shakespeare, and Columbus; but the
fooled leather tones break horizontally
instead of vertically to disclose neatI
and compact beverage set.
Strenuous night club life of the pre-
ferred type of ladies is revealed in the
following from the lost" column of a
New York newspaper: Blonde wig, |
night November %, taxi, Club Lido,
Club Richman or Club Ell Fay; $25 re-
ward"
C,allivan Deridec a
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