The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1922, Page 14

eT a eer : a Sb cm 4 MANHATTAN THEY CARRY THEIR OWN PUNISH- MENT. While motoring through the farm- ing district near Oyster Bay, L. I, we observed that in one orchard the farmer has posted the command- mont, “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” All 1 could soe were tiny apples as green as grass.—F. P., West 96th St. “OHOOSING.” I saw two little girls standing in front of the show window of a variety store, the principal features of which are toys and candy. They were telling each other exactly what they would buy if all the toys sold at a cent aplece,—Dora Albert, No, 621 East 136th Street. NEAR THE PLAYERS. I saw a man buying a ticket for the wame at the Polo Grounds. He asked for “one in the orchestra.”"—W. Glass, No, 463 West 19th Street. JUST A MOTTO. guve me a gummons for blocking traffic. i * On Broadway, just above Van Cort-|I ran—J. F., New York. DAILY PRIZES: WEEKLY PRIZES: landt Park, a man was bilssfully driving —— , ‘ ‘ % er ; A ae & new automobile on the back of which LUCK. sc etieen stories each day: First Prize, $25; Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed was hung a banner on which was| 1 turned angrily to look at the taxi second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten pri: Q g daily pri i vas IY i * NeIRlger, Okeke auulager: Seaneetiy ba | Walan tend Hoey Dik fue Bat Wah evombs er prize, $ Pp $ prizes of $2 each among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; had a collision and lost one of his front| ing West 158th Street Just off Broadway. ‘or ten next best stories. second prize, $50; third pri fourth 10. P ’ 3; third prize, $25; fourth prize, wherls. He stepped out to look at It} To my astonishment I saw it had no thd 8 man trom a, passing car Jored, | accapanta’ and no driver, West 158th Ne, ' "Keep Smiling,” and the auto owner, al-| Street crosses Riverside Drive at a dan- TOWN most black with rage, tore the banner| gerous intersection known as | “Five ouT OF BRONX from his machine.—JA. ITZGER-| Points.” A traffic cop 1s on duty there AL, No $49 We dddth ureet NX. ats ak cortaa hourey, Down thie stave P pet noth Fate Re) Nt el HL | EXTRA! BOY DECLINES ICE CREAM. a hill rolled the driverless car. Half « b ‘udson Street office building Law él¥i q dibs . RED CA block ahead was “Five Points” with] "ough to toddle* around, ioho |one of the elevator operators received : F der SRST RE TT ERROR ke I saw a really sensible Uttle mother|cars whizzing fo every direction. The| amused everydody on the ferryboat. | two picture postals from tenants away| S°rtowfully at 15 cents worth of Frozen Joy. “What's the matter?” tm the middle of a holiday rush at the|empty taxi, going as unerringly as if| He wore his father’s straw hat, so |on their vacations, He stuck them up| “ed bis elderly companion, “can’t you eat It?” “No, sir,” replied , Pennsylvania station. Her child was in| human hands were at the wheel, found!) p49 you scarcel; 1d tell what | in hi | the boy. “Well, if you can’t ‘go’ it,” sai the strong arms of a stalwart “Red|{ts way unimpeded through the traffic, EAM rite isha dot me were. -\anacte aig The idea took immediately} 1B . , if you can’t ‘go’ it,” said the mau, “leave it there.” {Gep,” while she followed comfortably be-| turned southwest into Riverside Drive| ‘48 under it. Ho walked up and | and to-day the inside of the cievator ix! When they departed I observed to my friend the proprietor that this hind. Other less sensible mothers were| and came to a halt at the curb just as} 401" tho boat, tipping the hat to CM with them. Neurly! was the first time in my Ife I had seen a | " carrying thelr children to the discomfort | the traffic cop leaped to the running| ¢vervbody.—Mabel Losier, P, 0, | every one in the building who has gone| 2 y jad seen an American boy turn down of the children as well as themselves.—|board.—Mrs. N. T. Johnson, No. 801] Box £75, Coytesvitie, N. J. Pie elererach bes remembered Jim and) dish of ice cream. “Humph,” said the fee cream man, “don't worry; b; as complete a| 5 om 'e ae i u JpM. Reynolds, No. 1380 Third Avenue. | Riverside Drive. GA BURNING AND A smemina |Yacation guide as was ever mrintsd-| 2@ tucked threo of ‘om away before you came in.”"—J. Sinclair, No. , “ from Revere Beach to Yellowstone Na 2180 Tiebout Avenue, Bronx. ~ BILL M’KAY AND JOE ROBERTS. eee tional Park. And Jim's as proud of it aA Workmen to-day removed the kalsomine from the walls of our Tt was pretty hot in church last | as any man you ever saw.—Otto A WALI IN BRONX PARK. HANDLE WITH CARE. } Wouse, In the hall, when they had cleaned through to the original , peli Leendert ied mH ae” 1006 Washington Street IT caw a lake in the Botanical Gardens] She was Iitile and old and just a bit oO re a bb ; k plaster coating, I saw the folloying dhaeripoenteriited wih iavsara bind Aeben Lace en Guieee ee eat. soe : i Craw and fro abby looking in a blue serge dres: J! penefl on the white plastering: “This House was Tinted and Papered | on the back of the pow in front of | Anveideris indy qieui aOR dae BORE aerate areca leghorn ha white shoes & ug, 38, 1889, by Wm. F. McKay, No. 805 Court Street, Brooklyn.” ANE HOR CE RES INES RY SRORONS ) tnarted ag New Tibeiy sar Gs Aenea (iol Teall) “Accoaah the uke eiverkl Po eeiey ateULy, ad Ate and deposited | {l. Across the luke severa her a small gold s { And tmmediately below these words another signature: “Joseph Rob- eee nickel In the coin box. ‘The conductor | Sil boys sailed miniature yachts on eet eee ae ane erts, Paperhanger.” That was thirty-three years ago. I wonder where “ONE FOR ALL.” demanded an additional three cents.| preg seen pene eee: | two SIONS | ag carr ing a heay ; “ Glas atta 8. boys came vith live crawfish carrying a heavy packing case , these men are now who were not ashamed to sign their names to their On Livingston Avenue during a heavy| She gald she wanted to go to Washin nll bottles, Eo Nat 1 Ghee ria with kind No i ae avs Mae * good work?—George A. Oaren, No. 157 West 81st Street. downpour I saw four boys. The largest/ton Avenue and asked the distance.| !!Ko tiny lobsters. "No, we ain't going | her rted to cross throu ay, boy carried the smallest on his back.| ‘The conductor told her about three,| {0 Kill them, Mister," they replied in| sw ut Broadway and. 76te ,. _ HAD Amr GuEssING. ON ACCOUNT OF “TRAFFIC” Cross. |The others were on either sido ot him.| quarters of a mile, whereupon she three- | answer to my question, “we're going to| Strect, ha athppet sour inte TF sow an undersized, scrawny INGS, rey Betch yes i & dae are a tirade about city people and street car| jon (cm to smoke a pipe Further | she war hidden from sight by | man make feeble, wriggling move- Operators of the Broadway surtace| street, New Brunswick, No Jo | People in particular overcharging and ilieerone’: Riyar tecomae oa e PAC on which was printed | monte in the sardine-packed crowd | Cars seem Setermined to make this tino eo eonsladed “witht They vcen't put re siante Sonn ; ragilo — Handle With | om the B. R. T. local as it ap- ‘8 “safest and sanest.” It too! ONLY CHANCE SH® GETS. F on me, even if I do come in old Ma Nature's bath suits . Castor, No. 71 Post proached tha station. Finally, at. | twenty-five minutes to-night to ride » ETS. from Little Eggs Harbor. ‘The railroad] In the fields men were pltehir I { fracted by his atrugpies, ono of his | {rom Hoth Street to 17th Street. But] On my way home irom the theatre | only charged mo four cents 1 mile to| walked further and RaW Leoc nuke P b Neighbors asked, ‘Are you song to | that was nothing compared to the pleas- | last night I saw a woman leaning out| travel and carried my baggage, and I| from. Fordham Hospital, in, spot Luck. + gat off herof” The WUttle man | re we had in hearing the conductor| of @ fifth story window cleaning the| ain't goin’ pay elght cents to travel] white uniforms, perched thigh wu I had left ir grinned. “Do you know,” he puffed, | Shout in a fatherly voice before and af- slass.—George Craig, No. 508 Park Ave-| three-quarters of a mile without bag-| rock. Reyond the Boston Po byte A ¢ 1 taxicab brief case “that’s (puff) just what (puff) fT |ter each stop—"Hold fast, ‘please, hold | ne Weehawken, N. J Gage.” She didn’t, elther.—Louls Jasin, | near West Farms, I saw an artist paint.| COu#ining important papers, and a two- wae beginning (puff) to wonder my- | fast!"—Helen Josephy, No, 233 1. 17th Be eee Yo. 1526 West 30th Street, Plainfield,| ing a ficld ace His cmall con was| hour attempt to locate the taxi through aclf?? The crowd laughed gen- | Street. e nN quietly making statues tn the sand.—.| the main oft had proved fruitles faliy ond mado room for him to : I lifted a heavy stone near here to- r William. Seidel, No. East 164th| Desperate, finally. pass out.—Hal K. Wells, No. 168 ‘raw DOCTOR. day and saw under ft a snake, The : Street, Bronx esperate, finally, I determined to hail W. 68d Street. There is a man who often calls at our| Sake scurried away and then T saw THE FLAG = the first taxi T saw of that company to ches wo ' ‘Ay sees sey it eight of her eggs. They were half the} Four weeks ago T saw a man pick up SHANKS'S MARF. lear I might get hold of my driver IN YE GOOD OLDE DAYS Alated aiccrvaraHienntiniuie iat Sine Ce @ sonienen one end had! a soft! s. suvall) United States fag. from th ’ Postal Trtogra 1 Wid; and ant ara 7 AYs. pee I ah ae catty i : ates flag from the saw a Postal Telograpi one y and the mome spoke 1 saw to-day in a newspaper datea| #nd seeing that he was a Jol! ond ah ghell—Albert F. SIkoWSkY.| street here und place it in front of our| 9" standing near tho car tracks at | to lin about my brief case the passen- Jan. 4. 1800, and called. tho. Ulster] ™an, Twas about to ask him for a pre- eae new honor roll of mien who went into| Fordham Road and Marion Aven 1 the ce 1 one up and asked Shendaban in the town of Woodstock,| the office where he kept his offices and|, 1 vaw ® girl about sixteen years old | every time he mows the NEWBHCRCeEIG |! givel sham cee Tambien Ae aa : A. Abeles, No. S41 holden to lease forever st £5 a year,| Was given the name of a church. Our|!n the country to-day driving a tractor | removes and replaces {t—Lilllan Bol-| (ruck stopped, but he waved : on Street, Bronx pole he te0 acces, atout’ 20" dorsal “doctor” Is a doctor. of divinity.—¥. | the flelds with all the capability of a | vin, Mamaroneck, Gib eo Liecaed ced aiioen id AFR P SS aaa Sfrased. Sith a new’ blockhouse of two] Kossar, No. 509 W. 159th Street. man. I stopped to talk to her and she — Vul\ the automobdiies ‘gave him th RUNAWAY HAT, rooms on same. For further particulars told me she could repair the machine in A MESSAGE TO GARCIA. “go-by.” Finally, with a look o, While riding up town on a Pith Ave- ‘and an {ndisputable title apply to Hen- HELPING HANDS. case it became ont of order. —Martha| On my way to the station this morn-| ‘“sgusts he fell back upon the old- | 146 bus 1 saw a bright red hat flying ange Post."—ROSE CUNNINGHAM,| On the Second Avenue Express train| /¥™mPhanny: Alden, Pa. ipm d paw) ai ittiny hoy of Avelwalking | Ciiglodtoits (ooirct” Mee toe loonie t. ‘There was consider- 0, 803 Broadway, to-day th tring ae ‘ man.—-George We 1gee |down the atre ae consider- a rere ten pape: ees LADIES, BE SEATED? along the street on stilts. He had that| Holland Avenue, Bronx, | able excitement In the bus ahead of us, ANCHOR AND BUOY. man, His awkwardness, was evident|__ We were stalled for « long timo in a/ Sir Of importance the small boy wears F A woman ran down the stairway, An {saw tho Paymaster leave his shipjand at 14th Street he dropped all he|B- RT. train. Many women were | ho Malin mex Bs ched him until IN THE BABY CARRIAGE eee ne Anon to Rapin’ today with u bag of money, to which|held to the floor, where they rolled In| standing and a man arose and moved |AYetten und turned about fer rors ee |, One of the women tenants « avoid rushing bit of finery. ‘The yan tied about twenty-five fathoms of [every direction. But what surprised mo| that all gentlemen who were seated | never could hay Dhed the ome Fe | house went to « storeroom in tho automobile stopped and a man jumped Foe. On ‘one cnd of the rope was tied | wan that a score of people. mostly men, | give thelr sents to the Indies. In a few | Out ihe stilts, Richard wench we vaag | ment to-duy to take out, he Tit aaa plakAd-UMithe HAC G a ihea ae Wtwenty-pound mushroom anchor, and| stopped reading and helped to pick| Minutes every man gave up his seat to] West Newel Avenue, Iuthert aa o, 144) riage. It was protected by ver. | out from him gingerly and offered it to fon the other a cork buoy, which were|them up, and they didn’t finish until| @ woman.—H. R. Almeyda, No. $5 North Duss ord, N. J. | When she lifted the cover she screamed. | out funn him ilsort ene ett ands led by the Pay Yeoman.—T. J.!wo had reached City Hall Station,—L, | Main Street, Freeport, L. 1. WARING GUE GQUDEIAH wom Alcock Ok and found four brand new |i it toa taxi driver headed north, ‘The rehan, New York, Bennet, No. 339 H, Sist Street. he esc “J fouse brought Ip a big eat from the | t4xl man took the hat and moved atens ‘At Ninth Street I saw a well-dressed man trying to board a Taird the country. For half an hour tho gg bet gers za Ene 79m 198 & | yoom.—Josoph F. Rosenzweig, No. 1482 it gratefully.-Gertrude Turner, No, 268 Avenue car going south. It didn't stop for him. He shook his fist at fire smouldored in tho rafters and wore five goldfish.—H. Gould, No. Southern Boulevard, Bronx, East ‘Tremont Avenue, Bronx. the conductor, who, gazing at him out of the rear window, held up five then Safes Der frenzy the roof. 181 Watchung Avenue, Plainfield, RICE MO. People in the neighboring summer Nev fingers of his left hand and the thumb of his right. Then the conductor ered ante tka Aes balers. the brow: pointed to a car a block or twe up the street waich was headed in the pants, All ran to help. Boy and UP TO DATE HORSEMAN. | FLIRTATION. same direction. The would-be passenger stopped, looked at his watch, Bie Rocha cared. Mitelste) ald” | Oni the Pulinny Hoan tate ast night On the 5.30 o'clock boat from Manhattan to Staten Island 1 wit- “ der. A rotired Nevo ni ehicle ahead exhibited a - ee PREY FS . took out a pencil and an envelope and carefully wrote the number of by rk fireman climbed on the roof |red “stop” signal, When we ces it nessed a most brazen flirtation, She sat outside. He was inside, look the offending car. It was plain to me that the conductor had told him and tore off shingles with a Scout's |we saw that the carriage was hors: ing through an open window. He started it with a faint smile, which hatchet. A neighbor climbed up and | @rawn, Not a bad idea, certainly, but| 3 y hi that the first car was going only as far as Sixth Street and advising helped him. The Scouta formed a |to the present wriler a novel one.-—-W re demurely returned, He grew bolder. Soon they were exchanging him to take the “car behind.”—Aaron Rauch, No. 18 Third Avenue. weoret brigade. to tho well and in |W. Spencer, No, Broad Street,| laughs, Next she placed one hand temptingly on the window-sill, jew minutes tho blaze was out.— | jrrovidencs lpslireseey i MR. NELSON COMPLAINS. IN A HURRY Sire. A. L. Pomona, Pravidenoe, 2,1 He made as if to hold it and it was shyly with drawn. Phis resulted fa 1 was writing a letter in the writing] There was a long line of ticket buy- SMOKING “EM Ot FISHING TRIP POSTPONEL a game of Put and (try to) Take, she putting out her Hens a ae rying room of a woman's hotel the other eve-| ers at the rush hour in the Columbus] Qyer on the Palisades I saw a woman ! heel a Borasoot boy with a fah- | to take it. At his every attempt she coyly drew ac! en we ning when I was amazed to see aq man| Circle Subway Station, which still em-|sitting on a bench with what at first 1] Ue marching ot hie wide sn mee docked I left them still at It and going strong. No doubt the affair enter and occupy the place next to me.| ploys the ticket choppers, The t took to be a cigar in her hand. When! joig of his left ear sren ontinued in some train or trolley. He was about forty; she—@ i he train | Pfooked more closely I saw it was al [ld of his left car with her right ‘WAS O ; He had a pecullar ear, 1 noticed, Soon| was in and a man, feverish in his haste| holder containing lighted incense, which | and; He sas yelling. L. Verne, | sweet little person of taree or four—J. Cartwright, No. 138 St. Paul's he was busy writing. In a few minutes] to catch the train, presented @ §2 bill| she was burning, she explained, to keep | ange Avenue, New- ‘Avenue, Tontpkinsville, Staten Island. 1 wanted an envelope. He percelved I| as he asked for one ticket, Then grab- | @WAY Mosquitoes. Mrs. R. C. Halstead, . i Was looking for something, and when I) ping chan, 4 tick Palisades Park, N. J OO? —<$ $< $< <_< —$— Jac OMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, gaked for one he pushed seve al over 0] oe vv pl on ie cl ve Bd ee 2 ; 4 4 | In the rear seat of a taxicab whiazi me, eaying: ‘Sure, Indy, take ‘em all.’ | wo ave time to make the train, AN APPFAL THAT VAILED. = ’ -* Nae egal I And just as 1 finished addressing one,| he made a mad rush for tt, dropping as| Our dog Buddle, worshipped by the | Yesterday s Special Prizes down Broadway I saw @ man who must he turned to me and began to talk.| he ran his change instead of his ticket | wetgh all of 250 pound The signal at "Gee!" he exclaimed. "I'm sore—sore| into the chonper. Ho didn't realtze his | familys baal ve ie han to domand he'a the front of the cab proclaimed to all all over! They threw me out-threw| error until the doors had closed and the | almost right—1s to sit up on his hind . A e: s o vA. me “out--and ‘I've ‘been “all over ‘the| train atarte orge Kellman, No.| legs and beg to get anything he wants. CRG Se First Frag, ida Pepe Ocoee IER ciiocane canning ete prich D e ies Pra but 3'il 496 Third Avenue, He had py or Resp denied anything until sti SID NESBOTH, No. 650 Smith Str a Harbor Hospital, New Brighton, 8. I. n't 1 i DUE F oe to-day when he chased a kitten which i re naa Sat tates need TRAINED, sought refuge in a tree, Buddte barked 3 a Second Prize, $10 DESECRATION. anvclape he pushed a newspaper over| From My window to-day I could see|a few times and leaped into the alr, D. C. DONOVAN, Centre Moriches, L. L | white bathing yesterday after to me and said ‘There it {s—that's|& man housecleaning under the direc | but when the kitten refused to come - . Bouin Baksh [RAW © Girl in a onespie how they treat me. I'm writing to the| tion of lis amplo spoune, Ho washed | COWR ge Mae UP Gn tle hind lege and Third Prize, $5 | bathing suit drape herself in an Ameri- Sporting | Editer of The Evening World : x asl begged, waving his little white paws, JOUN JMG ILM, No. 482 85th Street, Brooklyn, J cun flag. Patriotic women patified the about i” I caught the title, “Tattling |{2@ Windows and pamted tho sashes. | heseechirg for kitty to seme down. But | 3 - 7 | cttice, who warned the you@s woman eles fwn Out of Leonurd-Tendier | 2° cleaned the furmiture and awept | Kitty had a heart of stene. She refused Ten Prizes of §2 Each Phat another offense of that kind would Figh' So that funny litde man with | the fe He took down the curtains | absolutely and for the frst time in his -'S REV NBURG Pee ros > followed immediately by est the square head saa” funny car ce and put up the curtains, and then he| life Buddic begged tn vain.—M, 1. G. “ 8. R. EB. VREDENBURGH, No. 3470 Broadway. by cialened X nmnedisisly, by BvARy me Battling Nelson !—~Mios G. V. M., New|started in, still under the direction of | Keyes, No. 12 Taylor Street, Provi- IRS. N. W. NELSON, No. 155 West 153d Street, venith Street, Rosebank, SL York. his wife, to make up a bed, He made | dence, R. I. MAY M. GRIFFIN, No. 384 St. Nicholas Avenue, Smith Street, Rosebank eo it up three times before she finally ap- INTERESTE (RVIN RITTENHOUSE, No. 118 West 74th Street, YOUNG AMERICA, GET THEM WHILE THEY'RE Hor | proved, and not once did he make In a small and amateurish way I am, i. KETCHU . 27 BeeRman Place, i 7 » No. 27 On a Staten Island ferry boat to-day A crowd, gathered around @ peanut |Monstrance.—-Thomas Lloyd, No. 265] suppose, @ naturalist, I have a large MORRIS PEGALIS, No, 8770 White Plains Avenue, the Bronx. |r raw parents and two children, The slot machine in New York Station of West 38th Street. collection of insects, which 1 mount in| D. H. ©, Chureh Street, South Amboy, N. J. mother with a gay shawl over her head, the Central of Jersey. A penny had e . seal tin boxes contalnnig cotton, hie MORRIS MARCUS, No. 434 Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn. rite girl holding to her skirt and a aaaeene amenat, in the little disk and CLASS. morning I was sorting some recently JAMES LYONS, No. 552 West 160th Street tiny baby in her arms, ‘The infant was each time the handle of the mach _ Just look at what T saw thered specimens when I suddenly ob- | MARCIA GLATT, No. £068 Kast 17th Street, Brooklyn ee 1 in some sort of white shawl, was turned ‘ave forth a har ZYMOLOGY! Yes, sir! down | served that three birds were hopping | ee etal but on his tiny, wabbly little head, en- beanuts (re 4 A sone of f xr the end of the Z's in my diction- | along my Window sill. ‘They appeared Re A . a tir upported by ears, its black | oramd seamed. in, © sansts! de [ary and i means the ‘sclence of fer-|to be ware. Bau h Interested in the bees, = ead to-day's stories, Pick the ones you think are best, fluttering in the breeze, was a that urn a8 | mentatios home brewer is a| beetles and grasshoppers spread out on inners w yenin Night Pie dark blue sailor's hat with its bright long as the peanuts lasted, which was|zymologist! Aren't we classt—John|the table in front of me—Francts Gree. s will be announced in this even ¢ Mobs Pictorial ut eres United States Peri foal | aati R., No. 146 West 45th Reseokar, No. 606 East 11th Street, si aE Grove Strest, Valley (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow, Teuise B. Hunt, No. 25 Richmond Ave a us, Rork Riobmond, & A at WELCOME HOME. She was only twelve and she was being wheeled from the train by a por- ter. Two women rushed toward her Joy- fully and she held out her arms to them, shouting, ‘Mamma! Rose!" and then she began babbling happily how much better she felt since the operation. She was obviously weak, but she wanted to walk to show them she was well, and with voices in which tears mingled with Joy the two persuaded her to wait, to wait until they got home. Off they went in a taxi—CHARLES M'ENROB, No. 819 East 30th Street. peer MOB. Some call it “mob psychology,” and maybe it was, for hardly had I dropped my spectacles on the sidewalk, where the lenses broke, when a crowd began to collect as I stooped to pick up the pleces. In a few seconds a hundred people were about me, pushing, craning, pulling—end then a man who had stooped to help me suggested I run before a policeman addition. City Hall Station. |qo REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be| awarded Daily and Weekly. One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in Send them to “‘What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 words. State where the thing written about WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. | took place. Write your own name and address | carefully and in full. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT sie Be rer ie aed re he Mind of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news ry, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Eve WwW BE SURE OF YOUR tacos vening World. Liberal awards for first big news. Checks are mailed daily. * watt sexes * BROOKLYN RIDERS OF DHE PURPLE SHIRT. On Parkside Avenue I saw two young men dressed as cowpunchers, Hach was mounted. One was leading another horse. This horse was a trifle balky. I think ‘he was afraid of their loud shirts and big hats. You couldn't blame him. The shirts were a loud purple. The “cowboys” wore red bandannas around their necks.—L. F. Townsend, No. 33 Woodruff, Brooklyn. CHEAPER THAN COLLEGE. On the crossing watchman's shanty of the Long Island Railroad at Arverne 1s a sign which reads, “Questions an- swered here for 1c. each.”"—Arthur E. wine No. 634 Central Avenue, Brook- yn. MAYBE. I saw near Battery Park to-day an automobile. with a Missouri loense plate and carrying the markings, “World's Series, St. Louis vs. St. Louls, October, 1922."—M. W. Weisbard, No. 1051 Eastern Parkway, Brodklyn IN NEW YORK TOWN From my office window IT c down and see the roof of the Stock Dx~- change. There fs a little house built there and a mother and daughter live in it. Every Monday morning they can be seen hanging out thelr wash in the heart of the financial district.—C. G. Garrett, No. 35 St. Mark's Place, Brook- lyn. ‘THE POETRY OF MOTIO I saw a little girl of seven—totally unconscious of an admiring audience of spell-bound grown-ups—dancing to the rhythm in her own soul as she watched her own graceful movements in the big dna mirror of a millinery store.— Murphy, No. 816 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn. and—wailing solemnly in the rear ing the donkey. TROUBLES OF A BILL COLLECTOR. I saw a greenish looking young man trying to get Into the office across the way, Tlearned he was a collector. The man he was after was in the office with the door locked. ed from 10 A. M. The young man wait until 1 P. M., when an older man appeared apparently on the same sort of mission. Gaining the young man’s confidence he induced him to go hunting for the janitor who, he said, would open the door for them The young man disappeared, the new- comer tapped lightly on the door and the Man Inside stuck out his head “Now's y ur chance,” said the supposed Collector No. 2 and they fled through the hall. G. D., No. 716 Madison Street, Brooklyn. HE KNOWS BOYS. | saw a St. John’s Place car stop be use the pole flew from the trolley wire, but the conductor didn't even open the door in an effort to replace it. He had seen a small boy and called young- a litt 765 St. him to do the work, which the ster did gladly and with not cost but a dime. at all. To-day “smoothest tobacco grown.” from discarded tobacco cans.—. Brooklyn, THE KID. My wife's mother és in the coun- try and the four boys are on their own resources at hon We visited the house this morning to ace how they are getting along. We savo the YOUNGEST getting the break- fast for his brothers and when tho meal was over HE washed tho dishes. Then he touched the eldest for carfare to his job.—Hyman Friedman, No, 988 Gates Avenuc, Brooklyn, CONSCIENTIOUS, While watching the flights at Curtiss Field, L. 1, on Sunday I saw a black and tan dog chasing earnestly every airplane as the machine taxied along the ground preparatory to a take-off. The black and tan would begin to run before the machine got started, but even with this handicap was outrun, of course, before the plane traveled 100 feet. Once the plane got a lead on him, th@ pup would slacken in his speed and finally trot back to the hangars, only to spurt away again ag soon as another plane started.—Harry Quick, No, 19 Schenck Avenue, Broo’lyn. ws + THAT'S ALLS WAIT! A policeman warned one of his neigh- bors about the improper care of garbage. When the copper left the man gave his wife a fine dressing down, bawling her out proper. She passed the buck to their young won, berating him for Inck of Judgment in propertly ‘lo- cating” the garbage can. ‘Gosh, Ma,” said the bo ‘don't blame me, I saw You Ju: happened to think of something she had asked him to get at the grocer’s and, grabbing his hat, ha left the house hur- [sted Bh, Bos Gates Arena, Bronklyn, Ginat, Cedar Manat, Le 1, Dad searching all through that can for something he had lost and throwing |the rubbish into the gutter as he searched." At this moment Father | At suw car. had and man grou THAT. Avenue T Vord touring t start it. He nearly an hour NEVER THOLGHT OF th Street and Mermaid crowd around a ‘The motorist could: been cranking for couldn't get a kick out of it, A who appeared to be a mechanic pulled up in another car and joined the ip. “I think there must be some- thing wrong with the engine,” the Fordist told him. over “Everything will be O. verdict was, “if you'll just put your key ‘The mechanic walked to the dashboard for a look around. K., Jack,” his a {nto the switch and turn it on.” ‘The man with the Ford, very much embar- rassed, followed orders, cranked her Just once, the en, started and he climbed in and drove off.—Harry Ja+ cobs, No. 507 77th Street, Brooklyn. THE GUARD WAS FOLLOWING IN- A Beach subway “Final baseball.” The guard ordere him to “beat it." A well-dressed ruddy-chee white-haired, — prosper looking gentleman took the kid's part. Any one ever stop you from trying to make a living when you were 4 boy he asked th guard. “Aw,” replied the latter, “Ll never was no newsbo: “Well, I was,’ said the passenger, ‘‘and 1 know what it 4s for a kid to have to hustle for himself, and if you put this lad off you'll have to put me off with him.” The guard only muttered. ‘The newsboy remained.—Val Moran, No. 1701 Elm Avenue, Brooklyn. In a window of a downtown ators STRUCTIONS. newsboy came on the’ Brighton train last night calling, ONE WHO KNOWS. a display of bottles and a placard, bovsting a mixture guaranteed to be ® | sure death to mosquitoes.” “Use S vo Je ray, “AL” GETS A REMINDER, The proprietor of a certain hotel at Creedmore, in the Borough of Queens, is the proud owner of several dogs, a donkey aud a cow. is a man-of-all-work about the place whose name is Albert Albert's duties every morning is to take the cow and the donkey from the stable and lead them out to grass. starts from the barn to a grass plot in front of the house. Albert, holding a rope attached to tae donkey’s halter. Flo, morning, for the first time on record, Albert was so deeply engrossed in other duties that he forgot his 7 o'clock “chore.” Great Dane, startled everybody by appearing from the barnyard lead- Walking straight up to Albert, rope at his feet.—M. C. Flynn, No. 57 Hale Avenue, Brooklyn. GOOD ACTI As I ascended the stairs of the Reoe tor Street Station of the BR. T. a small old lady standing at one side of the landing stopped me and timtdly ked for a nickel to pay her fare me. She said she had lost her money, Clothed in a black dress o! sign, which bespoke « el tween respectability and her soft-spoken qT thetically genuine, Sh To-day, two weeks later, woman again in the sar » tion, and although the favored onea didn't know It, they saw a flawleag piece of acting for 5 cents.—s. F ¢ ver, No. 607 Flatbush Avenue, Brooke lyn. CAST UP RY THP SBA. T was sitting near the edge of the water at Brighton Beach watching the tide come in an electric bulb up on the sand. It Jaa appeared to be unbroken. 1 took 1t home and {ft has been burning for @ week.— G. C. N., No. 2105 Foster Aves nue, Brooklyn. WHERE THE UKULELE CAME FROM. About ten days ago I bought a toy ukulele for my 1 wondered ow on earth they could be price and give workman, manufacturer, jobber and retailer anything the toy was broken and on the inner side of the bent tin I discovered the name of a tobacco manufacturer Apparently the instrument L. Reese, No. 809 Highth Avenue, BREAKING NE LAW TO OnSERVID , ANOTHER, saw a big motor truck pull - foro a Third Avenue buil See undergoing. reconstruction. In the doorway of the building could be reen ten or a dozen cans of paint. The truck driver took a snow white hand kerchtef out of his pocket, unfolded it and dipped it into a can of red paint? Then he walked to the rear of the truck and fas’ pd the bright red cloth to the end of a pipe so much longer than the truck that it protruded several inche. . The young man wiped his hands on bis overalls and Jumped back to his seat. Other truck drivers have told me tor day that the law or ordinances re quire the display or a red flag when an object {s long: an the vehiele it is carried on.-— Sullivan, Avenue D and Ninth Street, College Point, L, I. THE DRUM, Spending the day at Midland B saw the fishing boat Sea Star p her catch of fish, One was a drumfich weighing about sixty pounds, ‘The druw: fish was caught of Bundy Hooe > te sina boss Who ling about wanted par ticularly to know the name of the bi fish, “It a drum," id the skipper “Beat it." “Aw, where's the sticke?® one kid -William F. Quinn, No, 228 Hancock Street, Long Island City. WHERE DO You su Ook SHE G Out on the porch T «aw my little daughter, just three at h self iy — Liquid,” says the sign, “and uu will sleep nights. We live tm rsey. We KNOW.’—J. A. Mure No. 706 6Uth Street, Brooklym There One of Daily at 7 A. M, the parade First comes Then the cow © eS) Tuls a Great Dane. At 7.05 Flo, the the dog dropped the FOR 5 CENTS. a week ag A wave cast little girl It sold at that and the words was made QUEEN r with a book inh ven new ir she had n the Her fee , and when sh comfortably seated shg me alone; 1 want ta | amilie A. Holze, No. 1 Mattthiag