The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1922, Page 10

oe A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTAN. SHE Lost. Rowas 8 P.M. and I was aitting In an {eo cream and candy establishment {n our istrict when I happened to nee ® youth of about seventeen standing on the sidewalk and studying the de- Uelous candies in the show window. He @eemed to be, an the saying is, wrapped in thought. I saw him take a coin from his pocket, tose it in the alr, catch ft on the palm of his left hand, cover ft tmmediately with his right, remove the latter hand and note (I suppose) whether the coin had fallen “heads” or “talle.”” He looked sort of relieved, gave a last look at the candies and departed. Wesley E. Barker, No. 569 Amaterdam Avenue. NORTH AND SOUTH. There was something familiar about the old Southern residence I saw at the movies yesterday afternoon, It ap- eppeared three or four times tn the course of the action and always im preased me with this feeling, that T wi easing upon something familiar To- day I found the answer. The house In the movie play In a house recently built tn this neighborhood.—Marie Shields, No, 668 West 231st Street. PLEASE KEEP CooL. A thon tm the Ndrary of Columbia University Law School ian’t making te weather any more endurable. “Do Not Leave Overcoats Unguard. o4."—Stuart A, Rice, No, 601 Wai Mtet Street. READY FOR ANYTHING, Truring the severest part of yester day's downpour T saw ® amall automo bile in Broadway, headed north and travelling at a fast clip, with a canoe fastened to the back of It.—Mra. J. D Carder, 644 Went 148th Street “TROUBLE.” While #0 far as I could ase my radio net wan in good condition all of a aud- Aen the music osased. Finally I went to the roof, where I discovered the antenna line covered all the way from water tank to chimney with some one’ wet wash.—Joseph Spoinelli, €7 Bant Fourth Btreet. A GIRL OF THE PERIOD. My mother, sixty-eight years old, Iin- tening to radio concert while ahe did her weekly mending.—Helen 8. Smith, 216 West 116th Btrect. NO KICKERS. I ea eiyht ttle ladies im dath- (ng suite take poi ion of the dig bronse fountain at St. Nicholas Avenue and 150th Btreet. Three of them were perohed high on the con- tre shaft, whtia the flve others sat on the rim below them and dabbled their bare feet in the water. A feto horaca happened up from tme to time for a drink, but none appeared to be disturbed by the peoular “fish” they found dn thelr drinking oup.—J. D. O., Weat 148th Btreet. “ME AND GRAMPA AN’ TIGE." On Riverside Drive, near 137th Street, a little fellow just big enough to walk, toddling along hand in hand with an elderly man, evidently his grandfather. With the other hand the child hauled along a little wooly toy dog on wheels in the direction of a bubbling drinking fountain. ‘They were travelling slowly Arriving there the boy picked up the toy dog and with serious phiz went through all the motions of giving the “dog” a drink. nor the hoy was thirsty, for neither took a drink. Apparently neither Gramp During all the time I watched them they did not exchange a word. The “dog” having enjoyed his “drink” the trio turned about and n@eed for 140th Street. WHILE “CIVIC VIRTUE" POSES. In City Hall Park, its body tense, a hack cat watching the trees. When- ver a bird came down upon the lawn the black fellow made a jump for 1s. 1 was in the neighborhood nearly a half hour and in that time there were no casualties.—Philip Fellig, 49 Gouver- neur Btreet. “LOOKS?” SAYS HE, “WHAT DO I CARE ABOUT LOOKS!" At Rockaway Beach I saw a middle- aged man wearing a regular old-fash- foned night shirt over his bathing suit. (Ll didn't know they made ‘em any more.) A big straw hat of the hay- maker variety completely shaded his face.—F. B., Jane Btreet. __ LUCKY BoBTAn.. When I reached my place of employ- ment this morning there were five new Kittens there. One of them has a bobbed tall. This one my employer says he in going to keep, ¢'for luck." — ‘Mra. Ella Howard, 248 Went 16th Street. PRst. «In Broadway near Fulton Street | saw one man give another a beating up. When a policeman pushed through the crowd the beater explained, "I've Just been trying to teach this plece of cheese that te can’t annoy young women in this town and get away with it." The policeman took them both aside to get at the story. When he walked away, the badly beaten man walked with him. —L. K., Maiden Lane. PUTTING A BOLD FACE ON. While l was walking past the Jail in $4 Btreet, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, I mw a number of prisoners ‘Drought out to the patrol wagon, There were several men, to one of whom a mere boy was handcuffed. The men hung thelr heaty as {f ashamed. Fol- Jowing them came some young women prisonors, laughing, Joking and ap- parently enjoing themselves.—W. Kip- Ming, No. 220 Westogd Street. Frank BE. Buckley, No. 25 West 43d Street, - BRINGING BABY OUT TO 8B DADDY. Two milen an hour was what I Judged to he the speed of an automobile T saw moving through Convent Avenue. A woman who was pushing a baby car- riage walked alongside the car talking to the chauffeur.—l, H. Morris, No. 508 West 185th Street, NEXT TIME HE'LL STRIKE OUT, In 182d Street last night I saw a queer kind of ball game. There were only four players, two againat two. Before the game started each of the kids bought an ice cream cone from a traveling vender. They pitched or caught with one hand, holding the éca cream in the other. Only tohen they went to bat wera they called upon to use both hands. One chgp, on going to bat, handed his cone to his stater, toho tcaa permitted to nibble at it dain- fly. When he made a base Ait she was happy. When he returned from @ tour of the bases there waa no more eream, Io was a good kid. All he aad was: ‘Ain't I got the amart little mater?’—F. Hallet, No. £43 West 122d Street. ‘THAT IS ALL ANY OF THEM ARB, IN THE BEGINNING. As I sat in the Breevort having din- ner with a girl friend a rather lean young man entered and took a seat not far away. Every time T glanced at him he was studying the face of my com- panton, who is strikingly good looking. He produced paper ard pencil and began to draw, When he left I mald to the walter: “Who ts that young man?" "Oh," he replied, “Just a would-be artist.""—Raymond I, Wilson, UNINVITED, While walking up Broadway after the storm I saw a motor car skid, climb the sidewalk and smash the window of a Japanese restaurant at the corner of 165th Street.Mrs. D, Hartman, 663 West 178th Street. DANDY COPPER. I wa and sa. in frontef me. men, but this wi {tting alone at a table in an automat when a cop came New York has some smart looking police- the niftiest looking copper I have seen. He was clean in his black \air, neatly parted on the left; clean in his blue eyes, arched nose, yell shaven chin, spotless uniform. two glasses of milkand ate two sandwiches, He drank When he carefully wiped his hands I notced the smooth white palms and the shapely trimmed nails of his Ing fingers. EVERYBODY HAPy, ‘Two prim ttle old ladies te on the eame car with me r & Staten Tsland. One of them droppedy nickel, which disappeared, She promeaded up and down the car several tity in a vain hunt for it. Sald the othe indy: “T think T saw that gentleman dk up mething.” She indicated a mm who sat near them. He didn't say aytyes, oF no, but grinned happlly, stuck nia hand in his pockets, and gaye the It. ress five cents, I didn't eit tes 4 their lost nickel any more than I belly fn Banta Claus. 1 think he was simpy ore of those anything-for-a-quiet-ly boye,—G. White, $06 West 21st Streat TROUGHTS OF A TENTH AVENUEher, giving me her name MAN ON SUMMER FURS. At 8.25 P. M. @ young woman, about twenty-five years old, passed my house in Tenth Avenue wearing @ thin black sleeveless dress, All qwell enough, but almost hiding her Dack and head was an immense fur piece. My thoughts turned to the poor fellows locked up ot Centrot Talip.—Loute Bohnest, No, #18 Tenth Avenue. INITIAL INVESTMENT. \ street, H. B., West 56th Street, SUN DIAL ON THE GARDEN TOWN I saw the sun dial on the south side of the great tower of Madison Square Garden, I suppose It has been there all along, but I never happened to notice It before, and I doubt that many others have observed it-—H. Seton, Hotel Gotham. On 14th poor old woman wr who asked me if I would direct her to some place where she could spend the night. 1 took her to St. Mary's Home, acrons the where whe was kindly received. She asked me to try and find work for To-day 1 that she had been found In the to a station house, Mere the matron discovered whe car- te bank booke registering deposits Smanting to thousands of dollars Maat, Te Owens, No. M1 West 1th Ste opp. * rubbe pall in her other hand, A poor boy, dirty and ragged, stepped ae If twunce the cone on the floor into an eleva! ed train at or Street Her Othe ‘stopped her Just in tinae , woman got aboard and he offered her] C. E, Newyork jis seat. She gave him a nickel. Other a ngers, attracted by the boy and the incident, gave him more coins until of jmoney. We wondered as he stepped off would newly-gained wealth. a double handful finally he ‘at Twenty-Third Street what he first do with hi Mately, as if in answer to our| see how you ‘ nae he stepped on the penny! geit.” The biggt tO 8% Kicked your- Glee and weighed himself—Ceclle Le tip ashamed mesned (Beers: Resse, No. 167 West 103d Street. No. 437 Wes Brances_#, Bord, TEA G BY EXAMPLE, I maw ate of fourtee bina reaton yt all a p larger fellow, ehin ‘att said, “Take that TM fee cream store to-day I saw a mother iand a cone toa child who held The child Mined Heking the ball and made to-day kick aoe ing dow. A “ six rushed up to the Meked him smartly in and THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1929.” EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS [{ pace WORTH READING REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily an addition. City Hall Station. the Cit Phone Beekman 4000, Editor of the Evenin, d Weekly. One Dollar Send them to ‘‘What Did You See?” is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in ditor Evening World, Post Office Box 185, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. SPECIAL ANNOUNCE MENT If you witness an accident, the outbreak of a big fire, or any big news story Liberal awards for first news. ity Editor’s Wire. World. ask for DAILY PRIZES For the best stories each day: second prize, $10; third prize, $5. for ten next best stories. First prize, $25; Ten prizes of $2 each MANHATTAN. STRANGER IN NEW YORK. On a Fifth Avenue bus the other day the conductor extended his coin ma- chine toward an old lady, evidently stran She shrank back into her seat. He pushed the meohine nearer to her. She shrank again and started crying. Passengers began questioning her and she waid: “I thought he wae pointing a pistol at me. I'd been read-|, {ng about the hold-ups and I was frightened."—Misa Ruth Welsh, No. 60? Went 147th Btreet. LAMB. Wall Street te not acowstomed to auoh a thing, and every one turned fo stare, but «# was only a woman wheeling a daby ocarriage.—Beane Miller, No, #47 Weat 111th Street. KEEPING HIMSELF YOUNG. Running along Riverside Drive each morning $s @ white-haired man, about wixty-five ‘8 old, in @ track eult— George Sutherland, No. 660 Itiverside Drive. THEY DON'T SHOW DIRT. On West 105th Street I saw a street cleaner wearing brown spats while at Ma work.—J. P., New York ON THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. T saw an old man walking up Fitth Avenue wearing an overcoat and a silk hat, He was picking up buttons, pins and the lke from the sidewalk, but the hurrying crowd paid no attention to him.—Willlam Clifton, No. 207 West 6th Street. COMFORT T saw a good contrivance for a man who spends more time under his auto- mobile than in ft. He had a board fitted on four roller skate wheels and covered with a carpet—Willlam Holi- man, No. 1420 Avenue A. IN UNION SQUAR In Union Square there ts a wire cage ‘on wheels which the park employees use for burning refuse. Every afternoon about 4 o'clock an old woman, who seems homeless, places some papers and splinters on the fire and bolls water in an old tomato can. She carries bread in an old bag. After the water has boiled she carries {t to @ statue near Broadway and makes tea, Then she takes a nap and dreams perhaps of kinder days.—James J, Barnes, No. 388 East 28d Street, APOL WAS DU It was after the theatre when taxis are scarce and clusive. T saw an ex- elted gentleman rush up to an Immacu- late naval officer and ask him to call a machine. Then he apologized, He thought the officer was a doorman 1, A. De Boer, No, 143 Bast 2ist Street IN THE PARK, In Central Park | sew a stout woman wearing a garden hat, eitting on a n with her hair hanging down her B. G., No. 880 Beck Stree QU. ARTISTS, On Campion Avenue, Jamaica, 1 saw three plasterers in their white suits going to work in a 1922 Ford sedan. Their bugs of tools were tied to the running-board, 1 ob- served, moreover, a bi t of fresh flowera in the vanr ‘Mul- ley, No. 8761 188d Street, Richmond Hil, OLD HEAD ON YOUNG SHOULDEALS. Strolling in the garden at dusk 1 glanced at a little bush and was startled to see two bik eyes gleaming at me, 1 was a baby owl.Sheelnh Murphy, No. 988 Sanford Avenue, Mushing. HIRAM LY During the mor Street station of t an old man, Pp to the city, ‘MS ATT ng rush tnt vimost dout 1p laughing at the New Yorkers crowding d shoy- tearing their clothes # train.—G. (. Rickarby, No. 104th Street, Bichmond Hill RICHMOND, WHERE OUR CENT WET, I dropped a penny tn @ subway alot machir vould get no gum, Immedi ately a young man dropped tn another TENS. NEW YORK HAS A HHART, 1 saw New Yorkers show their real Kindliness early the morning. On the car tracke en Amaterdom Avenue im the 100’ lay a Httle Diack dog whtoh had fuat been rwn down by @ truck. A great crewd stood watching Mm euffer, but each hesitated to help Mm wnt a young man pioked up the animal ond car- ried Mm to the sidewalk, Immedt- ately the crowd became members of @ first afd unit, A drayman fetched @ red woolen petttooat for the dog to Ke on; a woman ran to her apart- mant and brought a dish filled with water; a man rushed to telephone the dé. P. 0. A., and everybody seamed to want to help. Well- dressed women rubbed shoulders sith workmen, New Yorkere ARB kind, but they're thmid about show- ing it.—Dan R, Maue, No, 418 Weet 11sth Btrect, GIVES THE HORSH HELP. On one of the East River bridges the other day I saw @ man driving « horse badly Iamed. He was halted by @ po- liceman who told him the horse was in no condition to be used, whereupon the river unhitched the animal, tied him to the rear of the wagon and got into the shafts himself to finish the journey. —A. Parlente, No. 664 West 1 Street. AFTER YOU, In @ crowded car yesterday two women were insisting that each be allowed to pay the fare. Finally both dropped 10 cents into the coin box. Then they started an argument with the conductor to get back thelr money, but to no avall.Il, H., No. 113 West 15th Street. CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY, Last Sunday I saw two youngsters selling bottled soda in @ populous soc- tlon of the Bronx. Two larger boys alm- larly engaged chased them away. Ten minutes later the two Uttle fellows re- turned with their “gang, chased away the larger boys and remained in undispyted possession of the monopoly they had just created.— E. K., No. 26 Bast 99th Street. AT 5 CENTS. In a tobacconist's window on lower Hroadway I saw this sign; ‘Former President Marshall says the trouble with this country is that we need a 5-cent cigar."—Max Berlfern, No. 410 West 124th Street. NEW MODE, MAYBE. I waw yesterday in a Fifth Avenue department store @ stylishly dressed young lady jading a white Persian cat on a red silk ribbon lead.—Mrs. James BH, Squires, No, 147 East 87th Street, AMATEUR LION TAMER, While I tas in the Zoo at Central Park looking at the Hons I won- dered what one would do Mf I looked him straight in the eyes, I tried 4 and he turned his head the other way. 1! went around to the other side and tried (t again, He turned hx head the other way, I walked around and stared at him again and he put his head between hig pawa so T could not see his eyes at all.— LP, No. 117 West 90th Street, UNUSUAL CONDUCTOR, All the passengers on a Ralph-Rock- trolley, Brooklyn, were surprised the other day to see a conductor who hot only called out the name of every street the car passed and repeated it, outed the word so {t could be ood.—Henry B. Fink, No. 1211 reet, Ozone Park, L. away under; RECAUTION, On a Howard Beach bus I saw etand- ty in front of me a young man on whose shoes were printed with chalk: Keep Off.""—Harold Sea, No, 9414 Jamaica Avenue, Woodhaven, L RITA GASTON, No, 63 West KATE ROONE N BERNSTEI penny. Me Kot In return eight penni aix pleces of chewing gum and a plece of cardboard —1 wh ‘ 4 Maple Parkw Harbor 1 Yesterday's Special Prize Winner First Prize, $25 HiWLEN STAGG M’KIM, No. 158 West 58th Street Second Prize, $10 Ten Prizes of $2 Each 1. CURTIN, Richmond Hill Circle, Woodha No. 81 East bith Street VIRGINIA WEEKS, No. 510 West 124th Street PHILIP GUSTAVBON, No. 266 West 2ist Street | No, 856 Wadaworth Avenue M. B. ANDREWS, No. 99 Cromwell Avenue, Dongan 1 : WILLIAM OLSEN, No, 49 East Third Street, Br phone GET FACTS. WEEKLY PRIZES: Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. BROOKLYN HUMANE. On 4th Street, east of Sixth Avenue, I saw the driver of a water wagon hold- ing bis hand on the nozzle of the tire hydrant and giving his two horses a shower bath.—F, X, Roland, 70 Java Street, Brooklyn. BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS. In front of one of the rides at Coney Island I eaw a young man reach for one of the back pockets of hin white flannel HOWL YOU RAVE ‘PM, OR ROLLY Keveral uncut Cincimnatt bolognas hang on the wall at our procera. A mother cama in this afternoon with her four-year-old son, homeward bound from Coney. The ittle fel- low studied the bolognas for a min- uta and eried out: “Mammal mam- ma! look at the hot doga! Gee, ue they grow big down here!” — M, T., Laat Fiathush, Brooklyn. BREAD trousers as if he wna after money. “Grace,” I heard him say,| KITTEN WITH NO ACQUAINTANCES “I've been robbed!" 1 thought some- AMONG ITS KIND. body might havo relieved him of a val- uable flask but, according to his story, he had taken from him a wallet con- taining $80. The thief, apparently « professional, had cut tha pocket away.|}) —Thomas Ahear, Ft. Hamilton Ave- |! nue and East Fourth Street, Brooklyn Having been with us since It was one week old our kitten had never seen a But tt ts always wandering and iny brother found st tn the nT picked ft up to pet tt 1 or the first tima a black spot Wh reed mn e Kitten’s tn When J anno ed — qt my discovery my brother sald, “Ob, DIME FOR THH LITTLE BOY, WHO], jivays think that cat ta different LIVES IN THE LANE. from any other.’ The kitfon resumed In Nassau Street I was one ‘of sev-| its wandering and pretty soon I heard eral who watched the antics of some|a ent spitting. In the next room I boys of eight or ten whose method of|found TWO of them, our own and the getting the coin was e bit unusual. | one h the black spot on Its nose. They recited pleces like “Ra, Ba, Black Sheep.” The money wasn't coming very | with wile open eyes and trying to touch fast, but some one tossed them a dime] him with a soft paw. The visitor, no and they plied one on top of another] pet but a regular gamin, answered every in the effort to corral it. Just then alenress with a spit ant an arching of pushcart loaded with ice cream cones|the back. Finally our puss backed away came along and the recital was over.|in terror. My brother placed the visitor walked out from under one of the{in the street.—M. Melia, No. #14 Clas- dime.—Wesley, Avenue L, Brooklyn. son Avenue, Brooklyn. PASS ONE. . As I sat in the back row at the Halsey Theatre this afternoon I saw a boy about thirteen etanding outside a door which had been thrown open to give a little more fresh alr. Apparently the lad was keeping one eye on the usher, for when she turned her back to him he quietly entered the playhouse and as quietly sank into a seat. He was not found out—Francis R. Smith, No. 630 Chaurcey Street, Brooklyn. HOBO, KNOWN AS RHODF ISLAND “RED.” I returned on the Erle Ratiroad trom my vacation, At ons station wher our train stopped two crates of live chickens were brought alongside to be put aboard. One of the crates fell to the station platform and was broken open, The chickens flew in every which Our kitten was looking at the stranger WHAT KILLED COCK ROBIN, T visited my sister at Mineola over the week-end and saw a poor robin on the Iawn with {ta beak opened #o wide it was unabie to eat. Three times on Saturday and again on Monday I tried to catch the bird. He came back to the same place again and again but when L approached too cloae would fly away. ere appeared to be some sort of ob- struction In the beak, By this time T suppose he $s dead from starvation T. P, Travers, 1274 Park Mace, Brook- lyn Two stations further on a chicken | 7) the from under one of cars, where {t evidently had perc! ‘on a brake beam.—Hazel Young, No. # Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn MAKING A LIPR LINE. Bathers at Long Beach the other day came to the assistance of a life guard who was trying to rescue a man and waa impeded by the strong undertow. ‘They formed a hand-to-hand chain and pulled in swimmer and guard.—Harry . 1568 Atlantic Avenue, APPRECIATION. At the corner of Whitehall and Bridse Streets, In the noon hour, [ saw a young man rubbing a horse's nose with his hands and occastonally with his face, meanwhile whispering to the aniinal. I think the horse enjoyed the attentlo for it whinnted softly for ‘‘more.""—Edn A. Luhra, No. 807 Bay Ridge Ay Brooklyn. AN AFTERNOON OUT. I was on a De Kalb Avenue car which stopped near a subway sta- tion. An old lady wearing a8 light, short-sleeved gown and carrying a small blue basket, obviously a party favor, came running from the exit calling “Stop! Walt!” although the car had come to & standstill. Conductor and motorman helped her on while she begged them to walt for her daughter. "Wouldn't think of moving # step without her, lady,” said the motorman, and to reassure her he sat down, An- other old ludy, for all the world like the first, came trooping along and calling out in the same w This was the daughter. “f didn’t want to go to the party at all," she told everybody, beaming from side to side, “but mother Insisted ¢0. She really ought not to de out so late.” When they came to their getting-off place they were again helped by the crew. The queer fisures trotted off, mother outdis- tancing daughter as before, I did not hear from one of those on the car a single expression of amusement or impatience.—Miss M. Melia, No. 314 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn. yISE TRAVELLER. A crowded Jamatca car was held up the other afternoon during the rain by an aootdent. Many were WHO WOULD? While seated at the supper table I heard fire apparatus go whiatling past and of course hurried out to tnrown late for their dinners, all, ‘gee the fire”? There wasn’t any. perhaps, but one man. He sat him- False alarm! One fireman was aelf on the floor, opened a suit-care, madder'n a wet hen, Ho arrived qnade sandwiches, pared a cucunb: and some fruit and then feli-to as casually aa if he were at home Grace Lynch, No. 158 Norman Ave- nue, Brooklyn. with one side of his face clean and the lather atill clinging to the other Feide, having been interrupted in the middie of his shave. He did NOT register happiness.—-Anthony Mohr, » 15 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, EXPPRT. I saw the motorman of a trolley car run bis car across Broadway at the tn- section of De Kalb Avenue while he held a big slice of watermelon tn one i nibbled at {t from time to hand a MANNY ZUCKER, No, 862 Sumner Avenue, Brooklyr time—c, A., De Kalb Avenue, Brook s Third Prize, $5 ae —— MRS HOOSMAN, No. 885 St. Ann’s Avenue, Bronx BUT THEY'RE LEARNING, The other evening on a Smith Street critic) A twenty-five women lighting at various corners and all but dor jumped off facing the ins. F, W. Rice, No. “t, Brooklyn. counted 100th Street, steny of the HIS ALARM CLOOK STOPPED, In a passing taxi the other morning ak Lyn, his shirt BERG, No. 882 Eastern Parkway, | : 1 sy a eontiose man with , ed Haye, BroURI ES THICK. to saw a man in ‘Tremont Avenue having some trouble with his car. He asked a passing gentleman to loan him his walk ick for a minute and when the gentleman complied stuck It into the gasoline tank to see how much gas he had. He returned the cane without wiping It, though he did have the de- cency to say ‘'Thanks."—Peter Hillen- brand, No. 1964 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx. SHOPPING. When buying a dress the other ug) at a ‘anle’ T saw one woman hat almost every dress in the lot, finally select one, elip it on over her street clothes, walk to the door and parade up and down in front of the shop a few times to note the effect. Then she brought It back, returned It to the counter and departed without matdin @ purchase.—Mre. Sohneider, No. 226 YOUNG MB. YEGG. Grand Avenue. * I was watching the kids at the mah tery diving into the water for penniem Ona urchin crept slowly up behind @ fully clothed little boy, apparently an @f- fice boy from one of the skyscrapers at that end of town, s'd shoved him ta, straw hat and all. ‘The office boy was pulled out as thoroughly soaked as @ drowned cat.Samuel Kohan, 724 Bast 160th Street, Bronx Wor'T YOU TAKE A OHAIRY At Prospect Avenue and 1blet Street I saw @ fruit wagon pass with a big load of caned chairs, A sign on the cart, plainly a hold-over from {ts last previous outing with fruit, said "8 for 2e,""—Jullua B. Bucher, No, 689 Pros- pect Avenue. FIBBER, 1 was ® a candy store in Bast 140th Btreat when a little boy about siz came im and bought a cigarette. “Por my father,” he told the clerk. T walked out in tims to asa him SPATS FOR EVERYBODY, Not long after ® o'clock this moraing Hght the cigarette and pase it |I saw a northbound seven-car train in around among a group of ‘little boys the Lexington Avenue subway with and girle $n 8t. Mary's Park.—Mrs, |only five passengers.—Giadye Kopits, C. Polttt, Ne. 661 Cauldwell Avenus. 2081 Monterey ARE YOU AFRAID OF LIGHTNING? Near the 181st Street subway atation in St. Nicholas Avenue there is, in Ghe of the offices of a new building, a middle aged man wha, on the first sign of an electrical storm, drops everything and rune down {nto the subway station, at this point about 100 feet below the street level. He was {n consultation with some cllents the other day Avenue, when at the first thunderciap he bent his usual retreat. They waited for him. He reappeared emiling. “When it comes to Ight. ning,” he sald, “I'm a coward. 1 become panic-stricken. Tf have @ sought oH kinds of safe places In a storm and the safest T have found ts a eubway station far under ground. There T know the Ightning cannot reach me.” M. P., Cedar Avenue, Bronx MOVING. GENTLEMEN, DF SPATED. Sitting across the aisle from ma t the Strear terminal of the (nan “1"" train to-day I saw three u ley Iino T saw a bat~ wae the lady ' i men hai w le he pald the, Inated the battle wal children, the youngest nine and the oldest perhaps twelve years old. Apparently they were on their w to the new domicile from the o Ona carried a amail black cat. The ¢ lively he result was that one man accond had a big dird-cage with ‘ three yellow canaries in ét. A little | 80t the seat And the other a damaged boy clasped tohtly an old-fashioned | NOSe—Tohn Th NW dr. 1864 Ane Kerosene lamp.--Jack Greenberg, | ony Avenue, No. 1188 Clay Avenua, Bronz. seh CHARLES 1. WEIZENHEMER, ‘The clerk in a store In upper Broad. way, where a sale of straw hats at re | ducea pi sin progress, was sur- WITH BUT A SINGLE THOUGHT. In Central Park I saw a young lady feeding six pigeons, two sparrows and) prised to-day when and elde stomer two squirrels, none of them showing Dicked out three “When prices come fear or trying to scare away the others, | down.” he explained, “I get in enough —David Somer, 1469 Fulton Avenue, | Of them to carr through the fol- Bronx. ing enson. T do the same on Duying at the end of the sea- son." —Martin Petry, 1887 Cedar Ave- nus, Bronx MISTAKE. On Sixth Avenue at 20th Btreet I saw an old man leaning against @ post with his hat In his hand. A lady dropped a few pennten tnto Ho tossed the FORCE OF HABIT, PROBABLY. Twas surprised to eee on the subway it, the other day a letter carrter standing coins into the street, apparently insult-| all the way downtown, nlthough thare ed, clapped on his hat and walked away. | wers many vacant seats In the ear. —Ida Savel, No. 878 South Boulevard,| Leo Hinken, No. 928 Heekman Avenue, Bronx. Bronx. OUT OF TOW ANACHRONISM, EVER. I saw a movie play, all the action which takes pitce in the wild West, when it was the wild West, back In the Kit Carson days, Somebody must have been asleep at the switch when they were shooting it, for in the far distance While motoring I saw two signe tn- tended to keep people from trespassing on private property. On @ wall which doubtless would serve as a table for | picnic parties was ‘WALL UNSAFE. KEEP OFF." In a field at the lake- | in one scene we saw an automobtle—| sho: “POISON “ BE: Ac. Pontiand, Na. 108 Park Avenve,| signs, Tu. warrant. yring werter’ rent Weehawken, N. J. than the customary “Keep Off.” —_- Florence B. Bambard, Bedford Hill PLEASE PICK THEM UP. N. ¥. ° In @ Vesey Street bookstore, at noon to-day, a card reading: “Books on Tha Table Half Of."—D. B. By Cos Cob, Conn, THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN TH WORLD, I saw a bride and groom tn full re- ella on a crowded subway train. The clectric fan was blowing her veil almost the length of thee car, but she was as obitvious to the crowd aa if she and her husband were tn taxi —Misa H. Linke, Rdgefteld, N. J. ST. PAUL’s CHURCHYARD, T counted elght persons on the rear steps of St. Paul's Chapel. Two women were eating luncheon, One of them had a thermos bottle, A man who needed & shave, reading want ads to another WHATL YA HAVE? man, A woman Knitting a scarf, Two| In Newark to-day I saw in front of @ girls embroidering, A boy trying to}saloon (or what once was) a sign: rite a letter. What solace and com-|"Treat Miace,”” but on second glance T fort this churchyard offers to down-|saw {t the name of a Newark town workers.—Brett Blitoit, In street.-T. R. A., No, 660 Madison Ave- ton, Ta I nue, Elizabeth, as MAKING EVERY MINUTE COUNT. ‘A young man entered the barber shop this morning with trousers five sizes too big for him, no hat, and shoes large enough for him, the barber and me. “Where's the party?” asked the tonsorlalist, The young mar laughed. Leaving the ehoes with the cobbler he had bor- rowed a pair to replace them. His pants were being pressed by the neighborhood tallor, who had given him the frst pair he could reach. Tony was cleaning his straw lid, "“\While I was waiting,” he satd, “Y thought {t a good idea to get a haircut and a shave."—Jerome Attell, No 92 Pennsylvania Avenue, Long Beach. “WE GIRLS.” I saw a wonderful trolley conductor When the car arrived at a point where AMBIDEXTERIOUS PAINTER, er Ave I saw a man many prepared to alight he caHed out:| Beside htm were two cans, He had a ep a little lively, girls! Come, girls, paint brush fn each hand and both Mvely, please!’ The ages| Nanda were busy.—Thomas Lume-No, step a little lively, please!’ ergs aa bath at Careline TF pos of the ‘girls ran all the way from] 1, 1 40 to 80. They all appeared to be de- lighted. Some of them poked him wit! Go TO THE ANT thelr fang, and ‘aia vive feo AW] In Van Cortlanit Park after a plenta gah Ss a at T saw a large bluck carrying a cake A STITCH IN TIME. rasta tne as stoop, open a handbag sand get ah tlre ee stoop,- open a handbag and get some atkon curnins needle and thread, Then she removed | Wari! and onee + etely over. Twenty= A shoe and becan darning her atock-| five fect f I first saw him he ing without taking ft off—Mrs, B, D,|left his Hisappeared into @ Newboner, Prattsville, N. ¥ hole in the ind a little further away, He returned with three other ants, In IN THE HOSPITABLE COUNTRY. y rumb be On a trolley here going to the station of them h of 4 woman lost her hat. The motormen Eleanor Pop 130 obligingly backed the car four blocks so[ Lee Avenue, Yonke she could get it. We all missed our train.—G. S, Plerson, Freeport, N, ¥ nin DAY. : T saw an old man step into the COALS TO NBWOARTLE. street fa keep from waiking under a 1 saw a traveling carnival on the| ladder and then, a few paces further on, ) short walked from for a moment walked in th 1 from whtch he had com Browne, Noy 118 Nassau Plaos, Peekakill, N, Ee when a@ black oat doorway. He paused n turned and Hackensack Plank Road doing business in some one's front yard, although one of the laggest amusement parks in the world was just a little way beyond Mias Marian Sayler, Creaskill, N. J.