The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1922, Page 10

A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTAN Sm pIMN'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT. ‘On my way across the plank paved Wagon way at South Ferry | looked at my watch, taking It from my fob pocket Aftached to it is a pearl charm of pecu Mar shape. © © © Walking up White- ball Street I could see, out of the cor- er of my eye as the saying Ix, x woman walking slightly to the left and in my ee. T was paying no tention to her, she was always withingthe line of Wision, und presently | as a man run to her and, holding out MY watch, if it was hers. * mine,” | said, “where did you get it?’ ‘Picked it up Beck there on the “ferry house rond- way.” he said, smilingiy, handing it @ver and walking along without o word ef thanks from me. 1 was too dumb- founded to speak. My presence of mind had departed. It did not occur to me to thank the gentleman until he was too far away. I have felt ashamed ever stpoe. 1 wonder what the finder of th lost watch thinks of the manners of the Joger.—Robert C. Fuller, No. 740 River- aide Drive. LADIES WHAT I8 A GENTLEMANT 1 saw a young mother riding on top of a Fifth Avenue bus with a nleeping baby in her arms, The con- ductor was up there taking fares when she signalled for a atop. He gently took the child im his arme and carried tt down the swinding stairway for her.—A, G. McGregor, No. £87 Hast £4th Street. SHOES ON THE BROAKFAST TABLE ‘With 18,000 summer session students at Columbia all the eating places in the nleghborhood are filed to overflowing. rving” @ seat, which may be seen by anyone as he or she files down the unending cafeteria line with @ tray in hand, is therefore almost out of the question. Some manuge tt by placing a book or « brief case or any sort of package on the little table shelf, This morning In the breakfast hour I saw a middle-aged “teachery’ looking woman stake out her claim by depositing « pair of well worn brown shoes, No one tried to jump her claim.—A, L, Watts, No. 601 West 121st Street. FIRST. Eight or ten men, lined up before the retail stamp window at the ‘Post Office on 18th Street, near Sixth Avenue, A young woman enters, march straight to the head of the line and buy some stamps, apologizing to the man whose turn ‘women enter, one at a time. stamps. And then a sixth woman enter. Without she bad taken, Three other young Go straight to the window and buy None apologizing, never a by-your-leave or with-your-leave. And try the same thing. different man at the head of the waiting line. voloe and assertive manner. Who sald: AT THE OTHER END OF THIS LINE.” But with a A man with masculine “YOUR PLACE, MADAM, IS. She acted upon the sugges- tion, but with {11 grace—Andrew Konik, No. 39 First Avenue. Way ARK SO MANY FOLKS GROUCHY IN THE MORNING? TM Lenox Avenue, near 117th Street, BUT WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR A FAMILY WITH SIX CHILDRENt In The Sunday World I saw three + berg, No. 201 Hast 17th Street. ‘601 West 43d Street. large rooms offered at $47.50 and four large rooms at $57.50 in a new apart- ment house in Nelson Avenue, “Ex- ceptionally desirable and well ar- ranged," the advertisement said, “with every conceivable modern improve- ment.” Rents, Indeed, are coming down.—E. Connington, No. 26 Broad- way. iis morning, I was waiting for a car, I saw the proprietor of a men’s furnish- fags store looking at his show window from the sidewalk. Finger marks soiled the glass. A professional window cleaner ‘Was at work on a store front nearby. Ah! a happy thought. The merchant ed the window cleaner and, in- a big chamois cloth, asked, take that a minute, will you?’ for?’ asks the window cleaner, clean my window,” replies the . “Not by a’ good-morning- site," says the professional, ‘go @ wondow cleaner. Here, here’ one of my cards.""—Sadie Beinor, No. 53 West 112th Street. WHEN A FELLER NEPDED A FRIEND Ao I stood at the press gate at the Polo Grounds a boy of about ten ap- proached and handed something to the yateman, The boy was m hie Sunday best, hda countenance joy- fully expectant, The gateman scanne the letter twice and then turned to the boy. ‘Say,’ he aaid, “can't you read? You should have used this last week.’ The young- ater swallowed hard and turned away.—Blizabeth Huse, No. 460 Riverside Drive. KAOHOO! Z saw a man walk two blocks to avoid 8 field of goldenrod.—John Brodek, No. ‘West 160th Street. DOWN AND BACK, Tm Pitt Street on the cast side I saw an old gentleman selling palm leaf fans. was fanning passing pedestrians and calling, ‘Coney Island for a penn: Coney Island for a penny!"—C. Gold- HORTENSIA AND FLORA, While strolling through the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens | came upon a guard who was taking two young- wome task: for picking flowers, ‘And going to give them up," he de “T won't move until you do.’ [couldn't see any flowers and was sure the guard but after five min- ate and delay one of the ENTICING, Between 1034 and 104th Streets at Rockaway Beach | saw this on a card {a the window of one of a row of new| girls leaned over, made a fuss with hi ‘Come in, Please; Go Out] skirts and produced a great stack of '—Miss Grace Hazelton, No. | freshly cut buds.—Miss M. Sloane, 32-36 Washington Place, i} “HE LAUGHS BEST.” On Seventh Avenue between 137th and 138th Streets I saw a five- ‘ton truck headed south. Directly behind it a Ford, the chauffeur blow- ing its born to warn the truck driver that he meant to pass, Giving jthe little car one look, the driver of the truck pulled directly in front ‘of it and for the length of the block zigzagged from side to side in uch a way as to block the little fellow. The driver of the Ford was 8 angry as could be. His comments were strong, to say the least. Nothing happened, however, until a policeman mystertously appeared ‘on the scene, called the truck up to the curb and handed the truck driver a summons. THEN you should have seen the driver of the Ford! He laughed so much I thought he would fall from his car. ‘—Henry R. Kelley, No, 541 West 133d Street, j DID HE, BY ANY CHANCE, OFFER) SWIFTNESS OF TITER HAND ANY ADVICE ABOUT “VIDDERS?" CEIVES THE EYE. In Eighth Avenue nenr 49th Street this T was seated with three friends in morning T saw a wee ple gray pony @ Coney Island cafe when a man ‘yulling a little green wagon driven by a] rushed in with a bill in Als hand. fat man In a beach suit and a derby | “Who'll give me a ten for ten ones?” it three sizes too small. DR- The man wore] he asked. “Well,” said one of my i muttonchop whiskers and had al companions, “I suppose ts an old Mg cigar in his mouth. | thought he game, but if you'll hand me the : be someone out of Dickens—| Ones I'll count. t ‘and ¢ Frank Lee, No, 690 Eighth Avenue 7 elaine all there will give you a ten,” “Ah, said the gent, never turning @ hair, we have with us to-night one of the ONE OF THE GIRLS, At ‘18th Street and Third Avenue 1] wise guys. Count ‘em over, Old maw a feeble old woman, all of seventy-| Timer, and count 'em again.” My five, for a guess, assisted into a boot-| friend counted. There \oere nine ‘a chair, where she gave the man} Tae man grabbed them, “Open th the brush minute directions as to your hand,” he said, them one by one hand, the bills were counted one by one up to ten, und he shoved them in his pocket and passed over the ten. A few minutes later we kidded John into counting again. He had exactly $7.—H. H. ( No. 145 West Fourth § “and I'M count e polishing of her high black shoes. Jack opened his Whew the operation was finished hi helped her to the sidewalk and and went her way.—W. , 1880 Firet Avenue *FROM THE OLD WORLD At the Stadium concert last night 1 paws gentleman of unmistakably * + tan omen rad bee ge yee Hel GIVING THE HOUSE A GOOD NAME, qpaintances and on greeting the Indies} Everybody In 1th { ran for bent low and deferentially to kisw their] Shelter from the ray was one of nds. Miss Fannie Scellg, No. p22]!any who made for the first. conven See i36ih: Street fent doorway, It was that of the Aute mat. We had stood there for M{teen min- AND SHE DIDN'T STOP TO COUNT], Bhedeiae Cheon. Ne ies mat THEM? down, he sald, and room for @ portly woman carrying | others: looks to me as if this rain was H handbag cross Broadway [Svine to keep up for some ttn » a 96th Street. In some way she tripped| 4+ Rosenthal, No. 15 Bast 106th Street e@d went sprawling. the bag dropped, me open, and released at least a sco CLVILrTy a Ereenbacks, most of them “ones Two pigoons were in the roadw “fves.’ ‘One man helped her to ited Stret and Br hats ner feet and others retrieved the money. 538 came rolling along almost into the} on top of the piguons when euddenly . hurried] the driver brought it to a halt to it Mlst] avoid striking them Sydney M. Marcus, No, 535 W Stree crammed t bills back bes and, flushed and mortife op her way.—H. L. C, W 102d YOU NEVER OAN TELL entered a Central Sunday eventn certainly welgh in full dress, and, in a hurry, th along and Along tn made the same tL Np) EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS Tr O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are i Send them to ‘What Did You See?” Editor Evening World, Post Office Box 185, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. -warded Daily and Weekly. addition. City Hall Station. Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 ® words. State where the thing written about took place. Write your own name and address carefully and in full. Checks are mailed daily. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT If you witness a serlous accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. DAILY PRIZES: For the best stories each day: First prize, $25; second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each for ten next best stories. MANHATTAN, BY THE COLOR OF A FROG'’s HYD HOW FAR HE CAN JUMP, One of the biggest men I ever saw Park West car on at Columbus Circle, He BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING, I aaw a man standing om the corner of South Washington Square. He wore a white beach sult, a white velour hat, white shoes and white 1 850 pounds, He was| #00ks. There was a puddle just in From the way he fidgeted| front of Aim but he did not notice Judged he was late for an engagement it, He was waiting for some one. as is always the case when one t8| 7 wondered who she might bo and car simply d-r-a-g-g-e-d stopped» at. every corner.| J made a mantal pioture of her. She must be young and pretty and charming and beautiful, I thought, to complete the picture. I naw her the entles the big fellow an effort to reach his watch. At the little weazened 120- pounder who sat across from him pulled] coming. She was all my fanoy had out a big turnip of @ watch ina Huntar| painted, He saw her coming. His case, A monster of a watch, Under] face brightened. He did NOT see the elreumstances, we expected the} the taxi coming, The taxi splashed giant to produce a clock. He fAnally soiled water all over the young man, tugged a timepiece from his fob pocket. watches,—Annie 820 Highth Avenue. When she reached the corner he did not look as nice as im Act I, acena 41.—Alfred Beradelit, Nos, 14-16 Bed- ford Street “GOOD NIGHT! SEE YOU TO-MORROW! At 5 o'clock in the afternoon I was standing in front of tae Light- house for the Blind at No. 111 Hast 59th Street and saw a number of sightless women emerge. Doomed, as we would say, to the chamber of darkness for life, they emerged laughing and joking and bidding one another a cheery good night, “See you to-morrow,’ I heard more than one of them say. How can one be discouraged or downhearted after witnessing such fortitude?—Sarah Mandell, No, 783 Fifta Avenue. A MYSTIO SPELL, was the smallest of Indies’ small Laurie Williams, No. PERFECT LITTLE GENTLEMEN. 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. OUT OF TOWN FORGETFUL MEOHANICIAN. ABDUCTION, At our house we have two cate— mother and daughter. Both had kittens recently, but the older one's died. To- day I saw her lure the younger one's kittens away and carry them up to the attic, where she placed them in a box previously occupied hy her own little ones, She would not allow their own mother to come near them.—Julla Jones, Engine No. 6, Yonkers Fire Depart- ment, Yonkers, N. Y. mobile acted Ike a hobbyhorse. there was a noise us. It wasn't ours, cer was watching, packed {t Into the car. phoned to the garage man. “Oh, yes, he said, “we left our jack up under your car. But that tsn’'t so bad. Once I left my biggest ofl can in a car, and it wound around the driving shaft like paper. Another time I left a big wrench in a car. The man came back and asked me to take a ride with him and “hear the funny noise.’ We told him how glad we are that he isn't a surgeon, —V. V., East Orange, N. J. “THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF NIGER.” Walking along the bank of a brook 1 aw a mother snake and her four young ones basking in the sun. The young snakes were about six inches long. She must have sounded the danger signal, for they !mmediately disappeared down her throat. Then she glided into the brook and swam to the opposite side.— A. B. Davis, Montvale, N. J. LADDER-OLIMBING KITTY-CAT 0’ ROSBLAND. EVver see a cat climb @ ladder? I did! To-day. He jumped from rung to rung, all the way to the top. When he want- ed to come down he sifd down one of the sides.—Harry H. Housekeeper, No. 1922 Courtland Street, Roseland, N. J. GOATS AT THE CONCERT. On my way to the concert Sunday afternoon I saw that two little goats were following me. I chased them back. I arrived at the con- WHAT KISH COULD THR POOR GIRL Dot In « Lexington Avenue restaurant I saw a@ girl accidentally spill some salt on the table. She brushed it up into one hand and threw it over her left shoulder.—E. V. B,, Hillsdale, N. J. While tramping through Van Cort-| Great excitement attended the hard-| Cert late and entered as quietly as possible. I scarcely had reaclod landt Park from the Jerome Avenue|fought ball game between the two my seat when I heard the bleating of a goat and, looking around, saw side to the Broadway entrance I came|young teams at 147th Street and suddenly G young man was brewing coffee in an|spur of the moment, called the batter idly shaped brass pot, It smelled] out and not one, not a single one of the good. I believe I caught the wander-|home team's members uttered a word of lust. Like the nobleman in the old|protest,—Gilbert Ginsberg, No. 47 East song, I ‘‘dee-termin-ed to go abroad, | 11st Street. strange countries for to see."—Sue G. Shelt, No. 517 West 169th Street. boy, an iron railing intently sketching on the paper wrapping of a box Ing. 1 really clever caricature of some part of the Bronx some of the young bi railroad. They charge a cent a ride and do a thriving business.—Edward Ryan, No, 355 East 149th Street, w by HOW THE RINGLINGS STARTED, upon a@ picture or the Far n Armentan family _ plent olored rugs spread about upc grass gave the scene animatio: ver a fire built among the boulders a enth Avenue. The “home team’s’ ally the oO to the catcher’s glove. The umpire, fol lowing a rule probably made up on th WHERE TO GO ON SUNDAY. An inexpensive trip away from thi ARTIST ON THE WAY. I saw to-day a sturdy young delivery at 167th Street and Broadway and rid {n uniform and cap, perched on to Woodlawn Cemetery. There stroll about the beautifully driveways and v ® was carry- looked more closely and saw a children light schmierkase (pot cheese), rye ng a hone bath in the street.—M. E.] bread and beer luncheon on ‘the cool v No, 433 West 117th Street, New] randa of an inn opposite the golf course. —Sue G, Schelt, No, 617 W. 169th Street. , BRONX EVERY ONE TO HER TASK. In a vacant lot in the upper eastern ys have gathered a large amount of od and haye constructed a scenic win suddenly the Janitress raised h dow and told him to get out, started playing on her piano and sing: ing.—Louls Levy, Street, Bronx, ILLITERATE. I was attracted by a sign in the window of a St. Ann's Avenue grocery: “We Have the Best Brand of Roach Powder on the Market. Sure Deata to All Bug: Cans of the stuff were neatly stacked in the window, Over thera a number of roaches were rambling around, in utter disregard of the danger.—Leo Henkin, No, 828 Beekman Avenue, the Bronx. Bronx. D. HH. T was going on an errand through TIDY. a cok we heard a lot of splashing b Btre eu Je. Be- | the Boston Post Road, sitting coatiess| stopped, removed thelr ‘rubbers’ and} 07 AED: ROREES 4G SE MERID) ANC, oF on the front seat, with their coats] him them carefully in @ hedge, prob-| nd saw fsh jumping up out of the tween Park and Madison Avenues I | hanging back of them on coat han; ably to ye called for thie evening on} Water. We rowed stratght throug heard a man on the sidewalk shout Mrs, G, De Lorme, No. 412 1a7thlthe way home.—M. Murphy, No, 283] school of them, somo of them to a boy who was wheeling a laun- | Street, the Bronx. the boat. When we got home we dry cart. “Watt a minute,” he found we had siz of them. They elled. The boy halted. The man ’ > at . . were snappers, which usually swim eee eee duane te Yesterday’s Special Prize Winners in schools of hundreds.-Mary Bor- ‘approached, pi ling, Richmond Hill Circle, Wood- the cart and said, “You're on the Sates way back, am't yout” The boy First Prize, $25 = sald he w Seibia all! sight,” aan “BOBBY” GRACE ELSTON, No, 17 Sound View Terrace, South HE MUST MISS THE BELL eco Ni i hare Age nag Norwalk, Conn, AWFULLY, your boss oven sold Aim th There was no answer fro: * I eaw a Brooklyn man learning to Per eu he aavieg ender bert Second Prize, $10 | drive an automobile, He handled the the atranter waa we rhiel (anadeys LAURA 8. TURNBULL, No, 217 Park Place, Orange, N. car rs kwardly, but the most pe- tie Gh Uf ha eupeoion the cullar thing about his driving was that Wot Sian thalanr? Paygnernypes Third Prize, $5 at every street corner he came to a full of the way, Instead of revealing MRS. T. GILLIGAN, No. 918 Brook Avenue, the Bronx. i 2 ieerned <a Fe ,ORuaHy, was a any such intention the rival jaun- . x an.—Bruno “ an, dryman returned to the sidewalk, Ten Prizes of $2 Each z Hmebing de Name ee Oe aee MISS M, DORNEY, No. 200 Bradhurst Avenue, the Bronx. AND THR SY dian return to the cart ag BACK TTA - ~ SIMPLY NODODIES, boy reached hs destination, when He esas ee ae er or ncat the meone: For a month or more a big turtle has the man shouldered hia big bundle i a 6 Ht d made {ts home In our back yard. To- anain without even a “thank you JOHN J. McCARTHY, No. 21 Fort Washington Avenue. day a strange tabby cat came there to Wilham Shapiro, No. 1869 Bath- M. L. ABELES, No, 941 Simpson Street, the Bronx. Se and kan Ueatent upste aar, gate Avenue, Broz. H. PALMER, No. 424 Henry street, Brooklyn Turtle. Promptly on the defensive, that D. B. LANDAU, No. 420 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn. ¢]gentieman drew feet, legs, head and| NEW YORK'S PLAYGROUND. ALBERT ADLER, No. 19 Louisiana Avenue, Brooklyn. arma under the shell, The cat looked 1 saw a str in Brooklyn marked ith # tennis court marker for a regular ball diamond.—R. P., Bronx Cc. B. WOHLEKI SAW HENRY, heavy hitter hit a foul high in the air. It fell and bounced from a mun‘s head crowds is to take a Jerome Avenue bus cpt walks and an endless number of handsome mausoleums. * * * Then a I saw @ man playing a violin in my yard. He was playing beautifully, but Then she No, 616 Hast 136th 1 saw two men in an automobile on d Avenue, Baldwin, L. I the same pair immediately behind me again. They cheated a commo- tion, sir, and practically ruined that particular number on the pro- gramme.—Charlotte E. Koch, Mahopac, N. Y. ie TALE OF A COAT. My wnole was #0 angtous to catch the 7.49 for New York that he grabbed his brother-in-law’s coat and ran, We discovered his mta- tak and I was sent to the station with his coat. “he traim was mov- o| ing out. I handed the coat to the conductor with a request that he e| deliver it to umole in the smoker, 1 | Unole wouldn't take ét. Told ua all about st to-night when he reached home. Satd he thought it must be- long to somebody else of the same name, The conductor, we learn, left -| st im the Lost Articles Department at Jersey City.—Harriette Parsona, Westwood, N LAST ESTATE OF AN ANCIBXT HORSE SHED. 1 attended a community party. It was held last night In a large unused carriage shed belonging to the church. The twtertor was Mghted by strings of Chinese lanterns and draped with big signal flags used on the mont during the World Wai F. Morse, Greenlawn, L. I. TALKING MACHINES. I saw an advertisement In the eve- ning paper describing an apartment with @ private family In Montclair and specifying “No phonographs."—V. V., William Street, East Orange, N. J. HARD BOILED. I saw a guinea fowl settel an ar- gument between two roi ‘3 which had fought one another wntil they PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DPSTRUC- ‘TION. I was watching my two-year-old] Aardly could stand, He watched niece trying to dance, First she used] thom a few minutes and then her right foot and then her left. Then| pushed himaclf between them, pick- she tried both at once, With disas-| ing and clouting first one and then -| trous results. She began tocry.—Ernest| the other until they were glad to ©, Benmore, No. 242 South Second Ave- give up and run away.—A. B. nue, Mount Vernon. Davis, Montvale, N. J. QUEENS NO GOOD CAN COMP OF SUCH CON- DUCT) YOU'LL SHE, ‘The sidewalk was wet and it was still drizaling this morning when I saw two pretty young giris of the period coming out of a house on a nearby street. 1 saw Mother waving to them from the porch, ‘Remember, dears,” she called, ‘don't get your feet wet!" I walked at some distance back of them. When we Were out of alight of the house they GosH! My friend and I decided to go flah- ‘ng and her parents let us have a rowboat from the boathouse. At the end of four hours the only bites we could truthfully testify to had come from mosquitoes and ferocious fies. So we pulled anchor and headed for home. Nearing the mouth of the Sanford Avenue, Flushing, jumping 80 high that they fell into Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood L, I. at the shell for a minute or two and then walked away in disgust.—C, B., Syonset Street, Woodhaven, | IN THe WILps OF FLATBUSH. On the way home from the garage where it had been overhauled the auto- ‘This morning when we crossed a trolley troak suggesting that the whole back of the car had fallen out. We looked back and saw with astonish- ment a Jack on the car track back of but the traffic offl- 80 Wwe got out and ‘Then we tele- YOU SEE TO-DAY? A PAGE WORTH READING BROOKLYN STUDY IN STRIKEBREAKERA While standing oppoalte the Ratlroad Employment Office I began to notice the behavior of prospective strikebreakers about to sock jobs. Seven out of ten would walk by the office, giving R a quick glance and continue to the corner. There they would stop, look around &nd then retrace their steps to the door end hurry In, The other three would walk im boldly —M. Olsen, No. 5810 Highth Avenue, Brooklyn. Watching a macaw hunt from the window of one’s Flatbush home {s un- usual, but that is what J did to-day. A small boy was the bunteman. The macaw hat gone Into a tree. The boy took @ broomstick, raised it up Into the foliage, bore down a branch and lo! there came down on it the macaw. He was @ handsome fellow with a voice Uke @ motor horn.—Harriet Moir, No. 118 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn. WHILE THE SUM SHINES. On De Kalb Avenue to-day I saw a pushoart covered with hay. On the hay was @ man asleep—in the middle of the afternoon, tool—Sam Brown, No. 901 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn. CALLING A OHHAT. I'm @ street car conductor ond I ea @ gent try to ap me a lad @uarter, A man did not necd good eyesight to tell that thie two dite was N. G., but the gent scomed eure prised when I told him I could not Gocept the coin, He started to de bate over the thing wnttl J told Man that we would leave it to the cop om the Brooklyn side of the bridge, This gent then dug deep and hand~ ed me a perfectly good quarter and kept otill the rest of the trip.— Wl fam F. Wangerien, No. 868 Bat bridge Street, Brooklyn, GET YOUR GOAT’S MILMI I saw @ big man going through Car roll Street, Brooklyn, toting a fat nannygoat on his shoulders, He was looking up at the windows and calling, “Freah milk!" I saw a woman come to him with a pail in her hands. He grinned, swung the goat from his shoulders, dropped beside {t, took the pall and went to work. When she patd him he shouldered the goat again and walked along looking for anot tomer.—Mary L. Gilbert, No, 236 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, TRY THIS ON SARATOGA, WIRELESS, While I was paying my weekly SOMETHING GooD. I saw to-day while walking along Lex- ington Avenue a flowerpot made of a German helmet. Inside the pot-helmet was growing a flower.—Harry Silfen, No. 416 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn. PAYING A BET. Winding Ma way slowly and wretchedly I saw to-day a young man on Broadway, Brooklyn, roll- ing @ olothespin with hs now was embarrassed but game. than Basr, No, 88 Melrose Street, Brooklyn. WANGEL TO THN RESOUR. On Sunday my chum and I went bath- ing off the raft of the Artel Yacht Club at Bath Beach. Sitting on the raft we watched a young woman swimmer using the pecullar six-beat craw! Johnny Wiesmuller has developed to such per- fection. Thinking to show her how the stroke should be done, my chum, Her- man L'Angel, dove into the water. Suddenly the young woman threw up | he commented on the weather and learn- her hands and sank. Herman swam to her and after a quarter of an hour man- aged to bring her to shore.—Harry L. Sinlawer, No, 174 Grafton Street, Brook- lyn. WHAT! NO PICKLDst A girl who sat at the eamo table with me a restaurant at noon to- day began her luncheon with a ploce of peach pie. Then she had a bowl of soup. Last, half a canteloupe.— Gladys Stevens, No. 447 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn. milk dill to one of Renken’s drivere hts horse started down the street. The driver yelled “Whoa!” but ti horae paid no attention to him and continued on ita way. Then the driver shouted, “Will you PLUASH stop?” and the horse came to @ atop inetantly. “That horse,” the driver told me, “won't do a darn thing for me unless I say ‘please,’ * It certainly did look that way, for the minute he emphasized the word “please” the animal stopped.—Mra, Irene Mackenzie, No. 457 69th Street, Brooklyn. A SCRAP, A COP AND A GOOD CITIZEN, ‘Walking along Atlantic Avenue I saw two young fellows step out of @ garage and assume pugilistic attitudes. They began feinting. I thought they must be skylarking, but when the stockier of the two saw an opening he landed a solid punch on the other fellow’s mouth. less than no time a crowd had gathered. All sorts. In My nearest neigh- bors were an extremely tough individual and a pious looking little man. around when he's needed.” tough citizen. be stopped, Gard: said the hard one, ‘to see something half as good. won't last long, they're hitting too fast and too hard.” “It’s a shame,” the little man said, “there’s never a policeman “Wotta ya want a cop for?” asked the “No cop could make 'em go any faster.” insisted the little man. “It ought to “You'd give t'ree bucks at the B t they He was right, the tired scrappers came to a clinch, Then a policeman hove in sight and the “gallery” slowly faded. “Come on, scatter, you're gathering files,” said the cop. The pious looking little man was the last to leave. “What's the matter,” the policeman says to him. “Are YOU glued there, or are you waiting for an engraved invftation?"—Frank P. Flynn, No. 2058 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. WHEN THAT COLLIE WAS ALIVE HE WOULDN'T TAKE THE Sho- OND WORD FROM ANY BULLDOG LIVING, In one of Namm's windows, at Hoyt and Livingston Streets, was a stuffed collie. Along came a man with a big bulldog and stopped to admire the win- dow-dressing. No sooner had he halted than the dog, growling and then bark- ing. leaped at the plate glass, The gen- tlerman had quite a little diMeulty get- ting the bulldog away.—Robert Beago, No. 2028 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn. B. R. T, BRBAKDOWN LEADS TO A FAMILY REUNION, In that borough-wide tie-up on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system I, like many others, had to trust to the good- heartedness of the driver of a commer- clal truck. I begged a ride and we were on our way through Flatbush Avenue— about three miles from my home—when a woman standing at the curb with many bargains In her arms signaled to the driver for help. He not only pulled up for her, but got down and helped her into the “limousine.” From that point on we had quite a joy ride. The lady with the bargains was my better half.—I._ Ritter, 1447 East Ninth Street, Brooklyn. “OFF! THE TRAVEL STUFF FOR LIFE. ‘To-day I went to Asbury Park for the first time and I'm not going again in a hurry. I am not going anywhere, I no more travel. I don't want to ee anything. I've seen enough. On the Hamilton Ferry I saw the body of a man floating in the water. At the close of a day at Asbury Park we reached the railrag! station just in time to see the rear end of our train. Wadted two hours for the next one. While wait- ing I saw a little boy of three fall from a bench. When he waa picked up hin face and clothing were covered with blood. Me for Brooklyn!—G. Rodgers, No, 28 Third Place, Brooklyn NEIGHBORLY OLD TOWN. My husband, Iittle daughter and 1 took refuge from a sudden shower ander the porte cochere of an exclusive apart- ment hotel, We doubted our welcome, for near us was standing a white halre man, evidently the manager. How ing that we were bound for Brooklyn he offered, to our astonishment, to lend us an umbrella, This is heartless New York!—Eather Anderson, No, 7311 17th Avenue, Brooklyn. in Manhattan knocked cold by a full pottle of mil which fell tenement hou my word of honor, there wasn't a faoe to be seen in a single minutes before I had noticed that there were two or three in every window on the Gates Avenue, rake drawn by farm Dobbin kicked his heels, flirted his tal and bounced up and down in the road ke a on for dear life and yelling as if Dobbin were a runawe day's work.—Mra, H not Park, 3. ! A SAYLOR’S LASS, My husband took me boating om Sunday on Prospect Park Lake. There was the usual crowd on the dridye watching the funny thinge that happen to the amateur boatmon and their passengers, and aa we ap- proached my husband said: “Now, keep your eye on the Captain; 1’ show ’em something.” I belleve he meant to go under the ‘bridge on the atrength of a single pull at the oara, for he put all Als etrongth into and—kerplunk !—went overboard, belteve the greeting he received from the gallery on the bridge ta teohe moally deaoribed as “the ras.” But he’s a good boy and I’m proud Mm.—LAltan Frachtman, No, Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn. “NOW 18 THE TMH FUR DISA PEARING” I was walking along Qlinton @treet when I was almost from the window alll of a I looked up and, on window. Two block.—Bruno Lehman, Brooklyn. No. 2037 RICHMOND DOBBIN'S LITTLA JOKD, ‘Two little boys riding home on a hage the most dignified ot@ the world, Suddenty horse tn two-year-old, the boys hanging After acting 80 for a moment, Dobbin looked over hie shoulder at the boy gave his tafl @ final flirt and was age the sedate old farm herse going home from a har& . Miller, Hugues RESERVING TABLES IN A CAPS. TERIA, I saw to-day at noon in a cafeteria on Nassau Street a man enter wearing three hats, pne piled on the walked to hat on eac! men came fn and claimed the ch hats occupied. They were u serve the table.—Frank 8) 124 Garretson 8. 1 other. Ht placed chair. Soon two bareheade ira the d to re- ‘an, No Dongan Hilly an empty table, Avenue,