The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1922, Page 6

be oe ree ee Se One For the best stories each day; FIRST PRIZE, $25; SECOND PRIZE, $10; TEN PRIZES of $2 each for ten next best stories. THIRD PRIZE, $5. DAILY PRIZES MANHATTAN “FEL-LOW © Seeing a crowd in Leonard 51 Btreets, I stopped to listen with th who bad taken his position about if to the Tombs Prison. ‘The gentlem to vote for Alfred Smith, who, splendid record, win by the largest Democratic candidate in any Stut concluded his splendid appeal, I crossed over, introduced my asked him his name. “I am David orator and world’s champion speaks five hours without a halt and withou IT-1-ZENS reet between Lata tte and Crntre em to the remarks of a gentieman teen feet from the visitors’ entrance nin eloquently advised his hearers he declared, will, because of his majority rolled up tails year by any e * * * When the had f and Goldberg,” he seid, “the east side er of the unlverse. I can speak for it drinking a glaas of water. 1 will orator wager $1,000 with any other orator alive taat I can talk longer than he ean without stopping for liquid refreshment."—Louta V. Coglia, No, 231 Bast 117th Street ALITTLE BIT OF ALT, RIGIE. On fist Street, near Broadway, 1 saw ® small boy run his home-t tito a indy, tearing her thin georgette Gress, 1 thought she might have gone home in a barrel, Several went to the Fescue with pins, but they were almost de wagon Ueeless. Just as we were about to give Up a flapper came along swinging ao vanity case. She sized up the sltua- tion and quietly took out of the box not a powder puff or the Ike, but @ needle case, thread and thimble a kneeling, neatly mended the rent and started on her way. The lady who had been in distress asked the flapper for Permission to buy her a box of candy, but the flapp with an “Aw, Yorget it," ambled toward Fronadway.—Mrs Frank Readick, No. 336 West Slat Btreet. BUT BANKS TAKE NO © On the %th Street I, BR. T. station 3.30 o'clock this morning T saw a Bundle of newspapers left evidently for the newadealer there. On top of the bundle were three son honest person had left for a Paper he had taken from Neil F. Courtney, No. 1497 Broadwa: AND JEWELERS ANCES. cents which there fit. WHY WORRY ABOUT COALT In the two blocks on Elghth Avenue between 26th and 28th Strecta to-day I counted 33 fur shops.—Stanley Mead, Mo, 401 W. 37th Street. ROOMS. On Washington Heights I saw seven moving vans unloading furniture at an peeremant house which will not be com- until Sept. 15. And the Tooms there rent for $20 ench.—J. Greenbaum, No. 502 W. 176th Street, SREIN’ THINGS AT NIGHT. I came home late last night and trfed to walk in quietly so, I wouldn't disturb any one. As I entered our lawn I caught @ fleeting glimpse of a tall, white figure. 1 had nothing to @rink, so I crouched down behind a bush. I was a little nervous and then I wanted to see what it was, Every ‘once in a while, when I dared, I'd rise @ bit to see if it was in sight. At last, after lying there for half an hour, 1 ‘went up on the porch with a rush that awoke all hands. I told my story and with clubs and lights my brothers end I started toward the woodshe The white figure walked out. It was my aister! she, too, had come home tate ‘without wishing to disturb any one and thinking I was Dad had hidden behind the shed. Then we all laughed and called the game on account of darkness. —£. Harris, No. 98 Fulton Street, We WHO HAVE TEARS TO SHED— In Paddy Shea’s famous old sa- loon on the Bowery, Coney Island, I saw the waiters serving the custom- ers with ice cream sodas while Mr. Finnegan entertained them with a Ho—Stanicy Mead, No. 401 West Sith Street. THE SHOPPER. T am in the haberdashery Hine. This morning &@ woman came into the store the shirts we have at 95 cents, of them, she pulled one out from the and asked to seo some of bron featuring I brought out a stack centre of the pile and without tak ing the time to c@amine it said, “Why, what poor value for eee cents Under ordinary etr- cumstances I would have been pre pared to argue the matter but NOT in thiv case. The shirt she pulled out was a $4.00 one which somehow had pot mixed in with this lot dur- ing the ruah, So, I let the lady walk out.—Simon, Kast 125th Street. THE FEU ERS VISIT CONDY. At Coney Island in the evening I was approached by five urchins, who pleaded for 25 cents to get home with were “champeen” bawlers, They told me tearfully how they had been tempted vend all their money on rides and, it too late, did not realize to until They EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1922, Capital prizes for best a FOURTH PRIZE, $19. REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS T° Evening World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. TELi. YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE, IN NOT MCRE THAN 125 WORDS. STATE WI! 4 ER TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRESS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ; @nd ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. QUEENS AROUND, Liberal awarde for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR SEE TH “OLD TANIKY ANYWHERE? On the trotley from Jamatea to NEXT 'TO GODLINESS. Church Street to-day I saw two in the On | saw to-day in an abbatoir fa Brook. | E™mediately the fans from below filled lyn how THE WOODCARVER OF CORONA. Standing to-day in Roosevelt Avenue, here in Corona, I saw a crowd of children gathered around an old gentleman with an interest- ing face who sat in a doorway. The children were very quiet. I ap- proached and saw that the old man was surrounded by empty cigar boxes, He was making dolls’ beds, chairs and other “household” furnt- ture, and the only tool he had was a jackknife with a long and very sharp blade. The article he was working on at the moment was a bed- SSE HAD A HORSE. On my way home from business this they would be stranded, Impressed by stead. He readily permitted me to examine it, and I saw that it was a@ | ovening at ik I saw a emall rent sincerity, I came across, | really beautiful specimen of carving. “Well,” I sald, hoping to draw | boy at Fulton Street and Rochester * © © 1 walked along after them ‘0 Avenue deliberate knoe down a them safely aboard a train and saw m stop another man, I tiptoed close enough to hear them tell him the same him out and perhaps get his story, “that certainly is one way to make a living.” How he chuckled! “Why, God bless you," he said, “1 don't do this for a livelihood, Just as soon as I have a set of furniture ready sinaller girl, Parev and In spite of th boy ran and disapp atte girl's pleadings the ared into a nearby vo the re movole house, I gathered up her pack- he Geet ans, aad the hast: feud | for the market I give It to one of my Httlo friends. It is just a hobby | »ees and she tearfully told me the boy they had gathered in $4 they began] of mine.” Some of the little girls looked at me as reproachfully as if | Who Knocked hee gown yas er a : © had taken hi e ner to another ba ct camntend bas HG I had insulted the old gentleman. I was sorry I had spoken. oe is tha eovie T gave Nan carthes in humar . nee rt a te io Lua. | Smith, No. 96 Corona Avenue, Corona, 1. 1 ‘nd she departed for home happy tre , enough, and it was not until Just a few . ets minutes ago did I realize that I had MISS “A AND MIL cD Pad witnessed an actual daylight hold-up.— It was the morning rush hour in the Charles T. King , No, 138 Marton Street, Brooklyn. subway. Two young mon were seated 2 Ir such a way that If both should 1 move there would be room between _BRONX. them for another passenger, Neither of a Be z . thom budged. In front of them stood a WHY NOT, “ARE YOU THERE, young Woman who from time to time MORIARITY?"" looked longingly at the seat which I gave a Police Sergeant a lift in my might might be but who apparently faactine and bartald melhe Kea een the nerve to assert heracif. At t station another young woman FELLOW TAKES Bis GIRL TO MOTHERS ANE SUCH A CARD assigned to sell Police Field Day tickets came on. She forced her way through CONBY. While waiting for my change in | at roadhouses, and not being experi- to a placegbeside Girl No. 1, Sho seed Y youth OF peranee Bae the wool department of a Fordham Jenced in such activity had Jearned a stood there Yor one second by the clock Ae Coney Talend. tt Waa pain encnmn| department store 1 2a among the | song to interost the diners. The first am eT Ree ptenee aril wee that she was the boy's mother, I met] Other shoppers a woman of thirty or | line of it went, “Whoever gives a young men promptly: arose, Ble tool| say her holding an tee cream cone in] SeThans etOht. Mother Aagistopped and) ‘of course He ts. @ great success hie seat and mnde room for thelone hand while she was otherwise em-| ¢ admire a pretty pink and white | wherever he goes.—Esther Welnberger, RuRADe pees Farber, No.| ployed on a frankfurter sandwich, I| sweater and was asking the sales- . 1215 Boston Road, Bronx, 91 East 156th Street. saw them go on the carousels, and met] jady all about the swool. Then she nae A CITIZEN 18 REFUSED PRO- | ast glimpsed them he wat pe passed along to the next table cnd | MIRACLE OF THE WEED ON THE TECTION. persuade her to try the Scenfe Rall] @gain stopped to examine the wool. ROOF. way! ¢ © © d- .” ried the \s AN tha cocrwir let Blonton: aes “| aca inte fine swung men 1 cneusni || aite/or antl eee gre ane francs Ia tee athe seat ov wuich teem cold Goerck’ Streets I saw a couple fight- ing. A policeman came along. “Go on up stairs,” he said to the hus- band, “I'm afraid to go up,’ said the man, “my wife will hit me.” The cop looked at him for almost a minute. Well,” he said, “what do you want me to dof Come up and rock you to sleepf”’—Saul Ber- ger, No, 108 Goerck Street, ON A RAINY NIGHT. When that rain was simply pouring down, at about 6.30 P. M., I found myself at the corner of Third many others, sought refuge under! “many” others? 500! Mostly women and kids of ten here and there like the raisins in a at least one “spare” umbrella. whai was all the excitement about Avenue and 106th Street and, with neath the station, Did I say Oldtimer, if there were ten of us there, there were n or twelve, but with men sprinkled cake, And every one of them with I asked one motherly looking person , and she told me she was waiting for a daughter who is employed downtown and who left the house without her umbrefla.—-Willlam Ha AT FORT LEP FERRY, When I was coming to work this gorning I saw « string of freight cars goving along in front of the Fort Lee Werry blocking {raffic and, of course, Yhreatening those of us who are ware earners, and who must be on the job et a specified time and no excuses. It ‘was about 7.40. ‘There was a bie crowd, end the people waited patiently for eight minutes or so for a “last ear which never come. I siuw scores of men and boys “hopping” the train Bome climbed those duers” the brakemen use, and went over the top Some climbed ween two cars. an the loss of 9 fand down the other side through in the space be Where a slip might 1 Jeg, en arm or a life, But inost sur prising of all was that of a you woman of perhaps twenty-three w elimbed through from the further side and made her way pust me to the ferry She didn't make any "bones" of her athletic fitness—got away with it as if ehe were a boy in high school, award @bine, No. § St. Nicholas Terrace MUD. Going to-day to the home of a friend ‘who had just returned from u six-weeks waeation in the country [ was fully p pared to congratulute her upon her su- perb appearance, When I saw the young woman I nearly tied. Her face wo ‘and hard lookingg. She read the fn my face and laughed at me “Don't be siliy,”” she said, “I'm using teauty clay.” —Hlse, Asattorgara avenue rt 0, 110 East 119th Street, Hoor LAt HERE WE 1 saw street ARE AGAIN In Sixth Street acrobats, between Avenue A and Virst Avenue} queer looking om top of Ais straw A dandy show. There was one man] hat. When he came alongside I saw who bunsed away at a Dig base drum,| tt tas a dragon fly, or what the ged the organ, all by himself. ging came down to them from the win 1 could see that the passenger the employ of the railway company, cymbals and played a hand] ¢ He worked the was in- a box on the roof on which I keep old flower pots, noticed something growing in one of them and although I eon- how strange It Is that so few make a looking at all the real pal of thelr Best Pal.—Mrs, Al East 188d Street, Bronx wool!—H, B., Ruusell, No, 78 Haat ITeth Ste —— cluded it could be nothing but a weed, Bronx, LAY O¥ THE LAST MINSTREL, | decided to give it a chance in the air = In our courtyard I saw an old manjand the sunshine. Wondering what it sco! who played a mandolin, He was one of] Would turn out to be I watched it day At 7.45 P, M., when the storm wan at} those old. men of whom We say he|H¥ day with interest. In the beginning {ts height, I looked out of the window] “may have seen better da: Te be. | it was merely a green stalk with a few and saw that although it was quite} can with the popular melodies of the | Straight leaves OW. Week (81 BUS dark there were no street Hghts, Three | day and sanz them painfully out ot| made Its appearance This morning I different car Mnes pass at the corer] tune, ‘Then he switched to the old, | looked out and saw an Easter lily In full bloom! ‘The weed turned out to be the lily plant [ bought at Easter and discarded when it appeared to have died. to say nothing of the motor traffic 4 I was thinking how easy ft would for some one to be knocked down, ‘id songs and when he sang these 1 iked his singing. The children came to hear and watch and I saw him guid- in the da wa street ¢ I could hardly believe my eyes when I ue ag wid lady aticnt | chubby fingers across the strings} saw an Easter lily in bloom In Septem- from tt. I was ready to begin worrying | While he sang. I wanted to laugh and} her, and for the second time in a year. from It. 1 was ready to begin worrying | ry at once—¥. Neumann, No, 2606|-Wonrlettn MacDonald, No. 414 Fast off, tie raised his. umbretin,| Valentine Avenue, Bronx elizsth Street, Bronx, Jed it to the old lady, turned on a pocket flashlight, took her by the arn and escorted her to the corner, where he Upped his hat and left her,—Edith Nathan, No, 1980 Webster Avenue, Bronx, A BER IN HIS BONNET. Im Chureh Street I saw aman con ing toward me who had something ildren call a “darning needle, 1 was about to speak to the stranger cymbala with hie feet. Another man when another man anttoipated me, ’ . . turned somersaults and balanced athird| TA wearer of the peculiarly de Ss i tieinier af te teouphe an a cha | rated hal took Sef glanced at the aturday’s Special Prizes Firat he held tho chair by his hand;| darning necdlo and put the hat bac ci then Ha iifted i046 Machin: “She on his head, Oh, that’s nothing, 4 5 {ive performance was staged in tho vers] 40 said, and walked on.—C. N. 1 First Prize, $25 contre of the strect, Money’ was ol-| 7, Nov 966 Trinity Avenue, Bronw. RANK CALLAHAN, No, 646 Hast 16th Street locted from the spectators, but nono} #rone, had to pay unless he felt lke It ne Somaes f \ ‘ M te 5 OWES HER 84.50, Second Prize, $10 BERT J. GARV. dows.—Kdna Goodinan, No. 149 Pinit ; In ao restaurant on 23d Sistot tadey Y, No. 71 Ames Avenue, Rutherford, N. J. Avenue. saw a man sitting opposite me who * . == found fault with the prices of ev gs 7, Pose Third Prize, $5 ONE OF THOR KCANeT YouT {0K Everything the waltross brought AGNES V, EVBRETT, Keansburg, N. J. Beha eo him was criticised because of the price : 2 Each on cADt . put on it. ‘The waltress waa in such a Ten Prizes of $2 Eac «There was man on a northbound fatter over, the, orttlciam that whe mh sh W. DOUGLAS, No. 407 West 19th Street. Recond Avenue "LL in to-day whol] made out his qheck she figured 5 cents THO Bil $, 2 EB: h Street valked up to the conductor and asked [too much, He made such a fuss over PEO oa Boe is pet S8ith) Hite whethe 8 train goes as for as Bronx] tt that when he finally left she breathed os Ci roadway: Park. The conductor wasn't feeling| a sigh of rellef. And then to her sur ABRAHAM LEVY, No, 422 Bast 86th Street very good. He suid, “Can't you read?"| prise and mine when she started pick- C. M. B., Halsey Street, Astoria. discovered MRS. J ing up the dishes she h WOOD, No, 1475 Mast Second Street, Brooklyn. dignont, but he “took it” and went and] had left here a 60 cent tip.—Mre. L, GLADYS WILBE 448 Grove Street, Brooklyn, sat gown But then something hap-| Cahn, No, 20 W. 190th Street, Bronx, LILLLAN V. BIGGIN, No, 586 Ridgewood Road, Maplewood, pened, There was another man in the — J aie ho carried the of one hor- 4 ve SIKINNIN , ry rar Wa carried the sie of author SYMPATHY ; M. M'SKINNIN, No. 49 Firat Street, Waterford, N. ¥ ty. He stepped up to the croas con-| 1 saw two young girls passing my WILLIAM JACQUES ductor, showed a shicld, took a little] house, walking rather rapldly, One of a ACQUES, Kumson, N. book out of his pocket and made a] them tripped and hurt her ankle, The ——— A note of the man's number, We were] other instead of sympathizing with her For best stories of last week and names of Capital Prize told that thi# man was an inspector in] sald; “Oh, May! It was your left foot . winners, see Page 5. Winners of to-day's Special Prizes will —| You tripped on, and that's a sure sign be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) Manny Friedman, No, 318 Stanton] we'll meet a fellow."'—Florence Kramer, leditlan'and Invoths pi bb me No, 2323 Gyotona Avenue, Bronx, Fr editions to-m f ) make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded D Bad One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in addition. Send them to “What Did You See” Editor. WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN E THE CHECKS ARE MAIL ily and Weekly \wELGH2O RHOOD. RITTEN ABOL! THING W ED DAILY. 4f you witness a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4c00 FACTS. BROOKLYN, SOME DAY I'LL WANDER BACK AGAIN.” I wandered to-day into the nelghborhood where I used to play, a8 & child, more than twenty years ago. I saw many of, familiar places, What was that wonder- Far’ Rockawny: 1 raw 6 parece tO] urchins washing their shirts entirely of saloon doors and plate glass] Horse trough Satara 1) and memories cuine crowding fast. Suddenly I thought of the little at Wiaaina I eASSaN ERE thon pesca ae i 2 Hs i the Hid candy shop on Sixth Avenue near 16th Street. BN a na decanters | ful candy called? Oh, yes, “pot cheese"—a tri-colored, pink, waite and QUEER WAY ‘TO MAKE A Livewe,| Satine and hold the garments over I. : + Yes, brown, mound of creamy cocoanut deliciousness from which they and, oh, such few slices!) for a penny. 1 wondered if the little store possibly It might be, J reasoned, and perhaps I would find (their name was Hamilton) selling * * * The store And there were the same little round holes * * * * J reached it. and my heart sank. There behind Rita Clare, No. one man haa solved the prob. | the garments with alr and they fluttered] shaved thin slices (oh, so thin tem sot leading luubs to slaughter, [in the breeze.—Gordon 8 Le Messurler,| My, but it was good! * * * i alan ee Kiled there every day, 1 No, 8635 110th Strect, Richmond Hill, could he there still. drive then into the slaughter pen |i 1 some descendant of the old family Tho mon Have hadito whouk andl save ‘tees i tigate ee Clie and wave cundy exactly Hke my old favorite. I hurried on. them ahead a, NOWOVREN ER RUKEL Get Me ee eee was exactly where I left it trots in among them and at a word from| 28 @ Poker game last night I saw one} 1 11, wooden steps leading up to the entrance. his master {t trots straleht for the pen, | of the players display a royal flush, S ; All the Inmbx follow trustingly ‘and | and he neither fainted nor dropped dead.| 1 stopped, looked In at the window, ; without giving any trouble, When ail! Instead he had each of the Ave playeral tho old counter sat a cobbler, pegging away for dear Iife at somebody's trotted out, but none of the lame fot | Indorse the cards for framin shoes. My candy and my dreams were gone toxetzer. allowed to.—-Kdward Hurrls, No, 100 | Rellly, No. 288 Washington Avent 77 Garfield Place, Brooklyn Hunter Avenue, Long Island City. side, Rockaway Beach, L, I. R. War In a fairly crowded park here to-day | ‘This afternoon while sitting outdoors : saw a young ma ach an empty |T noticed suddenly myriads of insects ench, glance cautiously about and place | rising from the grass. STILL PUTTING A TOP ON IT. a haba) PISANGRTHORICLE ae tli mn gr Looking more I bought a hat in a shop on Fulton) vied ay Hf as a ea Ne Jelosely I discovered the ground alive Street, Brooklyn, to-day and to my sur- | ritia, Suny tte retuened In a few ttle red ants rushing madly priae discovered I waa in tho storcroom |The wen uany, (nia, Children. removed rowding up from their nests once oceupled by Fred Schumm's f-ing words “Wot paint Re oy winged ants. The litle red mous bar ut No, 995 Fulton, Strovt, | Whole usty. the te oid workers were helping the winged males where nearly all the large political and sporting bets were once made. ‘The shop is known as Schumm & Snyder.— H. M. La Sauce, No. 8 8, Elliott Place, eat On Poplar Street, in Bridgeport, 1 ena’) pulleds and) (nally) Sach Brooklyn. saw several children, lou MAE ci one crawled up a blade of b} lightedly, emerge from a tent, and |* Sometimes: some would fall a TESTING GROUND. I decided to investigate. 1 found |''™e or two, but each from his perch On 12th Avenue between 47th and oth} that two brothers, eleven and twelve | 1PSlly hopped off into the air. But, b Streets is the track where automobilists | years old, were proprivtors of a etr- |! they had all got away a toad ap- are taught to drive and where canili- cus, and the attractions which so ‘od Each his tongue darted dates for drivers’ Ucencea In Manhattan| amused their patrons were: A dog | out there was winged ant to are given examinations, Every day] that never barks—a wooden dog; a |make the fleht ver, in a half there, from early tn the morning tl woman's tongue that never talks hour all y gone. The red worker late at night, the air resounds with rau-| fhe tongue of a woman's shor Mt hack (nto thelr nesta and the to cous shouts of "Step on It!” “Keep her] wingless bat—a baarhall hat; ter hopped hack into the shrut AS out of the river, you mut!" "Don't) enat cannot bite—/alse teeth, which No. 69 Church Street, Mi strip your geara!"’ and the lke. Kldal| ghey admtteed to. me belonged to Coon. nD who once used this space for thelr base-| thoir father, “who only wears them : ball games look upon the with resentment.—Samuel Fishman, 545 Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn. HOME OF A SON OF OLD DART-| ong customEns ALWAYS RIGHT,| "Or, {2 * Wakon. He shovelled for MOUTH. ubont ten gninutes and. thee” started if ; 4 I saw an example of Oriental th Pea HE aces To-day I saw a house painted | oughness. A friend of mine who had ven all the tinre f PEE Su freon and white, surrounded by @ [Gust returned from China was showin | he eae fence painted green and white. |ine some beautiful silk shirts. ‘They Helle Harbor, Li. I BER ASEORK Along the Jence rune a green hedge | were perfectly new, bit ench hil @ sini and in the large green lawn i @ | patch about an inch square on eich MANY Pry RETU twell—painted green and white. On [PUL tecve near the elim, “While tl oT went eo ant Rerun 8 the lawn too is a green Bush bear- | way trying to fathom this mystery he| was my birthday, and when ft wens ing white flowers. And this picture |jaugningly explained that the pattern] home at 2 a'vlock T went inte the dine of green and white is in the Acart of | shire he had left with the Chinese tatlel ine room lookin Ca eee it, the ain: Brooklyn, on Sixth Avenue, Between | ory had such a little patch on the sieove,| { anw toa table with 1p plates a weet 15th and 16th Streeta.—Ireno Me- | ana since he had. given. tis tove,| {enw ta table with 4 plates, a cake Cabo, No. $84 Sixth Street, Brooklyn. | Copy that shirt exactly they had made| wha yelled “ounce he tee eS bees: the Iittle patch in an effort to “please"' | w ai <Helen Mosko- CALL A FERRY BOAT! him.—Franels J. Med nibledeays Ny NS ued a a We were dismayed at reaching tho ferry station at Greendale, N. ¥., to see THE BBY, the ferry boat already on its way to We asked when {t would re- skill. turn, seeing a long walt ahead of us, and to our joy learned that {t would ‘one We were taught to open a shutter which displayed a red ball as a signal to the boat and watched her come cross the Hudson whenever any wanted It, eee nee oes MacMillan, No. 6605] When I saw some distance ahead of me a girl friend who was wheeling Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. a baby carriage. I turned my head for an instant, and when I looked again she and the carriage and tue baby had disappeared qui . é ae ba E sa quite as if the RICHMOND. ground had opened and swallowed them, I thought how strange it oLp HOME oF A MARRYING] was! * * * “Put the candy in your own room, Marion,” my mother PARSON. said, “where it will be safe." * * * Topened the d T passed No, 111 Second Avenue, q PORN ARG Deiat Manhattan, to-day and saw the house known as New York's Years ago it was oc- cupied by an aged minister to whom which was once Gretna Green, hundreds of couples went to be married. He livedt here thirty-five years.—Mrs. BE, S. Ryno, No. 79 Buntley Street, Tot- tenville, Staten Island. GRATOITY MAND OR CLAIM.” 1 saw The Evening World editorial on “tipping” and thought I would write and tell you about the boy T saw in the morning When I came up the steps into He was about sixteen years old and he had taken my (<1 nd Central Station. hax from my hands before T quite un- our, AND ALL, FOR WH derstood his tntentions, “I'll carry 1G] wotte ashin kat te brent Lowatehed 1 y feild Gerstnod Bis intention tT ee hea i hing to-day from the break ched a spider to-day apin its but T let him earry it for me as far as RSE AD NS, on ‘i nen | Sey Re i web. First she fashioned the supporting the tleket window. When T banded him | enermen) 0th tt eee en the twas divided Inte ewentesane » dime he sald pomesn iar ie Very ie burnt match before teasing I into the] Darts, She made five encircling parts ane Me aaa vent cnough, keep the} Water. ‘Thinking I might be on the} and me near the centre, She thon sald, a ntokel ts'M then was not at all(tfail of something new in superstitions, | started at the outer part, and, moving Sire ines ite comes out. boldly. I] J, made bold to ask him about it. ¢ © ¢} in 9 counter-clorkwise direction, fin- Indictinet, | He comm ne sald, "Oh, do] “Did I do that?" he sald, laughing.) (shed it. With hor forelogs she held you?” sald I. ‘I did't know there was. No, there's no superstition about it.]each enoircling part already made and nh fixed. price.’ ‘That's MY pri with her right hind leg she guided the ies Se ean, Saweut, Pyoung| most of my smoking has been done in| substance ag it came from her body Ha ee seiy got all you'll ever| the woods, where the fear of fire breeds) und fugtoned it on ench radiating line, ket from me," and he walked aw: mumbling.—Mrs. H. W. Harkness, No. Filmore Street, New Staten Island, HIS FIRST THOUGHT IN THE MORNING. White waiting for a car in front of Rorough Hall 1 saw qn elderly man run- ning at his top speed toward the ferry. I suppose breakfast had been late or he had overslept, but he was by no means ‘ormettul 61 oe eae, for while he| my #urprise, a big cat Jumped out with [spend the week-en@ with me and when forgetful of his aPreare ttle mirror he| two kittens in her mouth, almost bowl-|she opened her purse she produced a ran he looked into te left hand and| ink over the clerk. ‘The proprietor | nightie, a tooth brush, tooth paste, a tlh fia tight hand. was curling his| apologized and scolded the clerk for|comb, tollet water, her keys, powder ene ent an Moerlins, No s{reachigg into the wrong basket and|puff, rouge box, lip stick and quite » moustache.— Anne “Mapleton, Staten] dist’ ‘ing the cat.—Henry Mazzott, No. |sum_ of money.~-Dorothy Leftingwell, au 1150 smulevard, Bayonne, N. J No, 40) Chestunt Stroet, Westfield, N, 2. sland. 4 ‘ “"EEKLY PRIZES follows: FIRST PRIZE, $100; SECOND PRIZE, $50; THIRD PRIZE, $25; proceedings ‘GIVEN WITHOUT DE- +] I'm a lumberman, a: y Brighton, stories of week distributed among daily prize winners | OUT OF TOWN. VUE ARTEUL DODGER. HIVERY MUSIC, PROFISSOR. At First Avenue and Lith et to- w ten figures dressed in white ¥ 4 hoy of whout ten edied suapt- | deminoes and hoods marching silently, coal) nept tues atid T clone amore | igi fic, along Beach 117th street, 's more] Rockaway Point, last night about 10 ely fo nly handbag. He passed} o'clock, My heart gave a jump, Could vend and overtook a young woman | |t he that the drend Ku Kiux Klan was +4 nice handbag swinging from] here? Suddenly they turned into onc ife opened it, but 1 suppose the houses on the street and bit no money in it for he drew] when the light fell on thetn I saw that afd sald, “Lady, your bag is}each had a partner dressed in black open She thanked him and he went | They were the guests at a masquerade. away grinning.—Mrs. Kate La I te Walhalla, N, ¥. 12. W. Pruden, No. 47 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, L. 1. GOLDEN DAYS, 1 saw a little oirl wheeling a large doll to-day in a wheelbarrow in the yard of her home, After she pave dolly a ride sho played with it other- wise for a while and then gave ét another ride, appearing all the while as happy as tf she were pushing a gilded dol carriage.—A. J. Hotch- Kiss, No. 69 Church Strect, Middle- town, Conn. TRAIN HEUD UP ON THE PENNS I am the mother of & four-year-old on, and every day I leaye him with y mother the way to work in a ctory, I haye to cross a railroad sing on the way to my mother’s, and this morning, when my boy waa riding ais veloclpede, T saw a long frelght train about to start as wo approached this crossing. It meant a wait of ten minutes at least, and T could not afford ss to lose that time, It might have meaat MARVELLOUS. my position. My heart sank as 1 At a carnival in our village 1 saw a|hitstened on with my son at my side woman telling fortunes, She would hand [Suddenly a policeman, stationed there, one a plece of paper upon which to]ealled out to the engineer: ‘Hey, Bill, write his name, and then she would | Walt a iminute."” T hurriedly carried place the paper fn a ginss tube, After | my boy across, while a gentleman car passing her hands over the tube for a}ried his wheel, It took only @ secod moment she would take the paper out}and saved perhaps days looking for an id uu would And your fortune W ther job—and all due to the perception written out for you K. 1 Downs, ond kindness ¢ that policeman,—Mre. Islip, N. Y¥ Louisa Halpin, Matamoras, Pa, HIGHBOY. ¥ T saw to-day in the window of the Red Bank Register a bdteycle that is at least fifty years old. The front wheel is larger and taller than the wheel of an old-time buggy, while the rear wheel is not much bigger than taose you see on a smull boy's express wagon, The bike has no chain. Wooden pedals are attached to the front wheel. It has wooden spokes and an iron rim. It is in good condition and has been ridden by several Red Banke To ride it you must sit upright; lean over the handle-bars and you will be thrown over the front wheel. —C. D. McLean, Red Bank, N. J, GooD PROVIL id females for their At first the bread thi 2th Street, Paterson, N Ue eng winged ones could fr wings, but the workers “PIN, PIN, POP! LABOR Lost, laborer this morning shovel- lng sand from the beach at Belle Har on Stinday, when he's dressed up —Mrs.. Robert Campbell, No, 1426 Fatrfeld Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn This was the morning of my birthday, and mother sent me to . Newark for some candy, “Hurry back,’ she satd, “for I want to take you to the very best 6f movie houses, and we will hear some nice music." * * * TI burried, and at 2.30 o’clock left the Jitney bus at a corner four blocks from the house. * * * I sad walked one block troop of friends jumped up at me from behind the door, the bed, the chairs and the dresser. “Surprise!” they screamed. “Surprise! Sur- prise!” * * * We had a dandy party. * * The girl with the baby carriage was a “spy,” to let them know T was coming.—Marion Cheston, No. 1271 Miriam Place, Hillside, N. J. 1 for thirty years caution." —William Griffin, Platts- Then when it was finished she returned burg, N. ¥. to the centre of the web and seemed = fo fold her eight legs under her body WRONG NUMBER, us if to rest.—Mrs, B. Pruden, No. # This morning in the window of a] @nd Avenue, Baldwin, L, 1, grocery store at 50th t and Broad ~ — way, Savon . 1 saw a sign announcing | 4, FASHION NOTE for sale within strictly fresh laid eggs, ne style in wallets for ladies cer for ne com our own chickens.” I'was|tunly has changed. A few yeara ago in nead of eggs, so 1 went in to buy|the atyle was a purse just large enough | some of those advertised. ‘The clerk [to hold 30 conts in change and @ powder seashell his hand into # basket and, to| Puff. ‘To-day a friend of mine came to