The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-25
AN | NEW \ ! YORK
By JULIA BLANsHARD

New York.-one little block on Eighth street, from Fifth to Sixth | avenues, has enjoyed double It's usual number of sales this past month. Of course there's a reason for it. Knowing human nature, the merchants on this little block advertise that they have some- thing from every country in the world, boon to foreign travellers who come home minus gift from Poland for Aunt Sophia, a little something from Ireland for Mrs O'Reilly.
 In this block there is Russian shop that keeps samovars, all the gaudy painted boxes, the rich Kus- tarni-worked table linens and peasants blouses, Cossack belts and buttons that travellers bring back from Moscow. Next door there is a tiny hole-in-the-wall shop that has silver knick- -knacks, beads and bracelets from all over Europe--and some parts of Asia. There Is a shop that has Chinese brassware, Shanghai embroideries, Honghong teas and water-ffowers. There is a small store that has German toys and gaudy kitchen porcelain sets with German words on them; shop with French lin- gerie, with Made in France" l prominently in every piece; an- other shop with Italian crucifixes and paintings; still another with Dutch and Swedish delicacies for
 It's no wonder that business picks up along this little street late in the summer. Many a seq soned traveller finds himself "caught short" when he begins to distribute his foreign gifts. One trip to this block often uncovers just what is needed!
 Theatrical Farmers
 Pussy travellers who always are complaining about food, service and heat or lack of 1t in hotels could take lesson from the most famous theatrical couple, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne u. They stayed whole week at the Wall ldorf-Astoria before they sailed for a years rowing trip abroad, and nobody in the hotel even knew they were there ..
 They gave a duplicate key
 to their sky.salon apartment
 to their closest friend, Alex.
 ander Woollcott, and had
 special knock and door.bell
 ring for those they wanted to
 see.
 | Discontented folks could learn
 a lesson from these two, also.
 At the height of their popularity,
 they stop everything and take a whole twelve months off-"to
 spend our money and get the most possible out of it," they explained.
 Both are nut-brown from sum-
 mering at their farm in Genesce
 boasts that he raised ALMOST the
 best kale, cauliflower, sweet corn.
 peas and other vegetables in Gen.
 esee Depot. Miss Lunt made her.
 self six sets of handmade lingerie,
 brushed up on her French and
 raised the sweetest sweet peas in
 the United States"
 Draw Up a Chair!
 Fortune tellers and character readers have used everything from ) the bones in ones hand to the
 date and hour of birth as basis for their summaries. It seems curl ous that nobody ever thought of telling adaptabilities or character or lines of work for the kind of
 chairs. that people like.
 Judge Samuel Seabury, for in-
 stance, at his home office, always
 sits behind his hand-carved an- , tique desk, in q very high judges .. court chair. He has comfortable.
 squashy chairs for visitors. But . anyone sinking into them finds he just must look up to the judge. Fannie Hurst's favorite chair.
 the one she always sits in when be-
 ing interviewed. is an ornately
 carved, very gh.backed early
 Italian arm chair the kind that
 looks as if it belonged in Q church, as 1t probably did in its early days. Miss Hursts costumes, her coif.
 fure, her new pallid makeup all
 have this same unmistakable ex. otic. medieval flavor -. Rabbi stephen s. Wise has an l 18th Century Cardinals chair with a faded red-ieather seat that
 he always uses in his stone. .fioored
 study that has q monastic flavor, small, bare with high, small win dows. He bought the chair years r ago at the Flea Market in Paris. Louis Fischer, Moscow corre- spondent for the Nation, always has n rocking chair in his study.
 When some article that he is writ ing refuses stubbornly to "jeli." Fischer finds that sitting down and rocking for a spell helps as noth-
 ing else will ...