The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1922, Page 16

DAILY PRIZES THIRD PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for ten BROOKLYN CHEATER, T was coming home from business this evening, accompanied by @ friend, when we noticed the pecullar behavior of a man who ap- peared to be watching some little girls sitting in a doorway playing jacks. Instantly the thought of kidnapping came to both of us and we decided to see the thing out at all costs, In order that he micht not take alarm we pretended to be very much Interested by the fall models In a nearby fur shop, but all the time we kept one eye apiece on the kidnapper. * * Well, Mr. Editor, in two minutes that man had vanished. * .* ‘The little girls still were playing jacks. * ° I walked up to a young mins of sixteen, who was watching the game, and cautioned her to be on the wateh for a Mysterious Man, telling her what we had observed. She laughed, “That was Mamie's father,” eho said. “He wanted to give her the slip and sneak away to the mories.”—Louis B. Schwartz, No. 160 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn. RUSHING THE SEASON, T was walking nlong Audnbon Aver vue with @ bathing sult bound for the heach when at 177th Street I saw A ight which almost made me shiver vith the mere thought of winter, Two ittle girls were being given a slide down a hill by two older children, who dragged « sled.—Charles Mester, No. 723 McDonough Btreet, Brooklyn, AND WHY NOT? EXERCISE, I saw @ woman with a doy about fen gears old try to walk down the moving. etaira at the South Ferry station of the B, R. T. to-day. Those stairs are for carrying passengers up to the neat, level, and of cow move only in an upward direction. After watching her efforta to walk down for about ten mymutes I de- While looking out my back window] otded she would take a couple of to-day T saw a man with his shirt] hours to, reach. the atrert.--Georpe sleeves rolled up and an apron ut} A. Barton, No, 44 Prospect Park, him hanging out the family wash.—Mrs.| Southwoat, Brooklyn. + * : Hazel Golst, No. 1561 Fulton Street, ame Brooklyn. PLEASE DESIST. I havea copy of The World dated Jan. 1, Y801, and in it I saw to-day in the To Let column advert!sements,.of TIME TO GET THE BENNY OUT. As I walked up the steps from the ‘strect in 1691, began to assume the char- e vhishfacter of a Jewelry district about 1840. | offer hin any ald, which he refused with Kingston Avenue eubway station I eg thin tara eoreeae Mya ed beds ee by ihe Maiden Lane Historical] gray thane wad slid down the post and sensed a subtie change for which I }heat ahd hot water, handsomely finish ? 1911. Donated by Edward Hol-| walked homeward with the alr of a ¢ could not account, Two rows of |ed, convenient to elevated statign, $16 | brook. Ls, 259 West a] queror.—Graham Levin, No. 615 W trees still formed an arch, but the | to $®8 per month." Another add offened | Street. 164th Street threastavge, light rooms in a well-kept house for $6.50 to §7 ard—tws weeks rent ‘fréo!"—M. M,..Wipter, No.4505, Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn.” leaves were Inas plentiful than a few days ago. Om the fruit stands the colors are not so gay. Inatead of red and oranga thera are purple” grapes and green pears. In a shop window I see school books and gayly colored pencils, to tempt re- CONFIDENCES | ‘This morning at Brighton Bench | was watching the bathers when a gentleman, stranger, approached me and He luctant childish fingers. The sky i# | “Excuse me, but will you take care of no longer blue but a deepening nun's |my money and cigarettes while 1 veiling gray, the pail the heavena | bathe?’ He received shis money and yer dying summer. * ¢ * a * Autumn is almost here.—Margaret O. Sullivan, No. £14 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn,” cigarettes when he finished his swim and I hope his faith in strangers con- tinues.-Mrs, G. Y, Holland, No. 1729 Caton Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn. IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW. Wo were travelling alone Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day, and when we MOVIE MARKET. At Seventh Avenue and 48th Street, Manhattan, there is @ ourb market for For the best stories each day; FIRST PRIZE, $25; SECOND PRIZE, $10; rw ea encanta tees Nr ane e ean NOE . next best stories. . EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS as follow FOURTH PRIZE, $10. REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS O make this news feature even more entert: One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. ing and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. izes are in addition. Send them to “What Did You See?” Editor, Evening WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. 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 © AREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS ARE MAILED DAILY. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Hf you witness @ e@rlous.acetdent, the outbreak of what threatens to be BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ack + for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World, Liberal awarde for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS, MANHATTAN. | NOTHING LIKE A COOLING RIDE ON A HOT NIGHT, A ereenish automobile stopped in front of our house and tho driver whistled and whistled and whistled until a husband and wife living oh the top floor popped their heads out the window. “Oh, pyleads!” sald the motorist, “get into your clothes and come for & tiie? * © © He waited twenty minutes and then, they into the car. * * * And then they all sat there gw minutes. The car wouldn't go. The driver coaxed, cranked, investigated, opened up various things and banged them shut again, but all in vain. No “mote.” * * * It was a little more than in hour by the clock when that automobile came to life agvin and they drove away. The lady upstairs was in the back of the, car, sound asleep.—Clara Valenti, No. 155 East 96th Street. A RCRAL PATH BESIDE A STREAM. smiling, Jumped twenty ALONE AND UNAIDED, In Maiien Lane, near Broadway, L] Y saw.« hoy to-day trying his ytmost copled the following from a bronze tab-| to reach a,lettor.box on upper Boadwsy Jet on building: “Mafden Lane callod | 60 he could mafi a letter, But the box Muagde Pastjen in the days of New|was too hich for’ him to reach. He Amsterdam, being © rural path beside | looked about uncertainly for a moment @ stream still marked by the curved] and then he ®scended the post until h line of the present street, Known during| was directly over the box. Here bh the early English period both as Green| leaned over dnd with a Httle twisting of Lane and Matlen Lane, Laid out as al} hia body he was able to insert the lette In the drop. Not until then did any or WITHOUT A CALL. My two boys sleep so soundly in the morning that the slam- banging of milk cans, the antics of two alarm clocks and the lusty evying of three babies never disturb them. Last night I said, “To- morrow, boys, we'll go deep-sea fishing, but don't forget that that means getting up at 6 o'clock sharp.” They love to fish and joy was rogistered on both faces. I set the alarm for 5:45. * * * Some- thing disturbed me this morning at 5.30. I awoke to find both lads standing beside my bed. “Come on, Dad,” said the older fellow, “make it snappy, or we'll be missing the jolly old boat!”—D. J. ,Ceorse, No, 150 Lenox Ayenue. ty a AS BRAVE AS THE AIRMEN OF | ONE QUESTION LEADS TO AN- TO-DAY, OTHER. ‘¥Fiftéén miles above Newburgh ts a] At Grand Concourse and 184th Street last night I saw what locked to me lke tre broc with a white and cole School time {s approaching, day I see school supplies on display in the windows of stationery stores. In ‘ BRONX. “DISENGAGED.”* In a Sixth Avenue “L” train this evening T sat across the aisle from a young woman who had a pretty doll-like face, for all that she was built along baby elephant lines. She weighed at least 225 pounds. Apparently I was no more jnterested in her than she was in me.” Imagine my surprise when’ finally she walked over and flopped beside me. “Dearie,” she says, “I hope you won't think me hold. I been watching you, and do you know you have features like mine, I gotta swell chance to go in the movies if I can team up with some one like you. In the beginning of the story I’m an invalid, but as the action goes along I recuperate and get stout. We could Ret away with it like robbin’ one of these fur places."' * * * I welgh only 97 pounds, to be true, but I had to tell the dear girl that my inclinations are all toward business life—Minnle Braun, No. 2013 Bryant Avenue, Bronx, =~ THEATRICAL. 1 On the Brighton Beach subway trafn PRIZE BREAD, T bought a loaf of rye bread to-day for 9 cents, I had taken my first bite typleal cowboy. He was tall, dark-| from a slice of it when suddenly I bit complextoned and wore fancy high} {to something hard. This proved to brown boots, brown and white striped}be 4a re: honest-to-goodness «time.— ors, a pink shirt with a rhinestone] Mrs, J. §. Rosenberg, No, 119 West h of square design, a wide blie| Kingsbridge Road, Bronx. searf and a large black felt sombrero ed headed band BRONX IS FAMOUS FOR THEM. He got off at Prospe@t Park and whw This morning my neighbor called to the y Island Express passed by at} me, crying: “Come here, I want you to tlm avenue that vivid pink shirt flashed) .o4 nj. wonderful peach.” Tt was a Rae Behrman, No. 30 Brad- hurst Avenue, Bronx. onderfil peach, thé largest I have ever seen—a beautiful yellow, marked f00D % NING, TEACHES, almost perfectly with deep red and Lassa ahs without a blemish. Tt measured .12 Evers] inches ia clremference and welghed 15 jounces, And {t was grown right here in the Bronx—on old Mount Hope bill at 178th Street and Anthony Avenue, in ‘motion ploture films. I saw hundreds] reached Atlantic Avenue my brother, | high railroad bridge onthe west bank) @ young man alighted from @ ooupe front ot abe are/chilaren of ait eee RHOTERRIN Chom tacniinee naa teavtivad of small exhibitors in neighborhood) who was at the wheel, made a Wrong lof the Hudsdn. Under this bridge ts} which carried a Connecticut lMcense Looby Li es Fernand corpus, |ere for more than forty years.—Annte houses there to-day compare notes oniturn, The trame cop motioned to ni) lanchored the replica of the Hendrik] plate and asked me the way to No. 1 aga Stain SESE Users ley WHEN e Purgold, No. 211 East 179th Street, Boater section: ietent ee Satine Soe Lanteonun teonece Mle} Hudson, which was used in the Hudson:| Kast 20th Street. I knew that was the| tho wee a “bargain.” Sometimes they | ”™* _ chase, Films rented and sometimes| warning card and his owner's and op-|Fulton celebration, It 1s easily seen} address of The Little Church Around] snitt with scorn at the price of a cer- 50-50. pold for ax ttle as a fow dollars, It ts erator's Mcenses, But to our surprise | trom pasaing excursion boats, but tt ts the Corner, and when I asked him] tain article and tell each “other POW, In North Jamaica, L, I., to-day I one of the’ sights of the city: to vee the} the. oop not even ask for them.) nati and so Inconspicious there un-| {f thdt was where he wanted to go he| much cheaper they can buy It at another] sai q@ woman about fifty years of trowd and its bargaining.—Samuel Fish'|* © * We bought two and proceeded} Tet ti. “Writne that few people are] anid yea Inside the oar was a younk| store. ‘The Mttle boys are bargainy oo isis ment and helping her man, No: 545 Hopkinson Avenue Brook-|on our way.—Irving Lerner, No, 226) 000 oe ie cxistence, and when one| Woman.—Arthur A, Hirsch, No. 501] hunters, just the same as the girls,— fH bs doa esis BE ae: reds Brooxiya: sees It and notes {ts small size he 1s im-] Weet 178th Street, Dora Albert, No. 521 E. 185th Street,| Muahand to la a sidewalk around NEVER ARAN! pressed forcibly with the bravery of (0) cugy po NoT HONOR each! O"* =e Arthur Avenue, Bronz, On Sunday I took my little daughter to Bronx Park. Leaving al Hendrik Jludson.—J. H, Perlmutter, OTHER'S CHECKS. LIKE IN A PLAY. 7 y y 1 the cubway train, a local, I founda woman's handbag, I went stnaight to the office and was telling about my find when a woman rushed in greatly exqited, cried: “That's mine!” snatched the bag out of my hands and, as she approached the door, began inspecting the con- No. ‘903 Est Fourth Street, Next door to my house is a Chinese laundry, the owner of which is named A TRAVELLER FROM NEW Lee Wah., On the next block is another Chinese laundry operated by a man ZEALAND. a ellie named Wah Lee.—Isadore Rothman, ‘This afternoon on the Fulton Street No. 233 Mutison Str te Here 1s a story of a good landlord, One of the first tenants to move into the new house at 173d Street and Bryant Avenue became the mother of a baby COMPLETE IN ONE INSTALMENT. While rummaging through the desk preparatory to another school year 1 came upon the ous fi ie lived th Friend “story"’ written a year ’ aw aman who had a the first day she lved there, Friend} io, ny my eight un Goaner ‘ dn't stolen anything. My, but I was vexed! | Subway station T saw a man who had a ow dope Oey ale here ago by my elght-year-old brother. You rata deste Deda St ete, aati bisgeoir puzzled look on hia face, He -fnally QUEEN oF THE waTpr. landlord om hearing the news 4 Pade Rin ati al asaa aed Touching her arm I reminded her, “Madam, haven't you forgotten [oaine over to me and sald he was from! pye heavy Labor Day rains had tect] the baby with two si) ant one § ne ne iors han . 0 New Zen d was anxious to know af ‘ pleces. And the landlord's name is Sel-} may think the ‘plot’? worth while to Uaabiciek: _ Bhs were meicne Non nee complained, “I loft. {t, mp New Zorae dno with. the earth, taken | lirge puddles of water in the gutter on| wyn, of theatrical fam tella i ¢¢ * A woman has a terrifying the car; did you find it?” “No,” I replied as quietly as I could,” it Jor in the subway excavations, I could| yest 108th Street and a crowd of ur-| No. 954 East 1734 Street, Bronx, flow into my hand The next million handbags I see left hehind in subway trains will remain undisturbed far as I. am conterned.— Loaleo Garrison, No. 1642 Madison Street, Brooklyn, Waghingtbti Avenue, not tell him,—Gregory C. Hynt, No. 1829 chins were sailing makeshift boats in the miniature lakes. Suddenly from one of the adjacent shops appeared an SAVED! I saw a little boy brushing off a girl's dream tn which she is devoured by a lion, When she sessed of a come true, awakens she 18 pos- fear that the dream will although she liyes on the HOW THE WAR BEGAN. ‘ayfully he slapped her on the| eleventh floor of an apartment house in 1 egw a Mlackenatred girt and a rea-[aged man hearing a handsome toy boat, | dress. Playfully he slapped her on the /Cortra park West. She dies from : aes red-}Reatly painted and fully rigged, while] back, She started to ery, Her brother] Gory. ‘Then her only child. dies. of halréd gitl-eome into a barber shop. The) poside him danced two happy little boys. | punched the little boy in the face. ‘The| starvation.—Dora Albert, No. 621 East binck-fglred’ girl was pleading with the/-The old man carefully placed the boat} two mothers of the children rushed Into | 135th Street, Bronx, red-haired one not to have her gorgeous| in the pond. Twenty pairs of eyes|the street. Each grabbed her son and _ halr bobbed. But the red-haired girl] Were wide with admiration as the tiny | called the other names, Those famill KEEPING HIM SSING, sails stirred in the breeze. ‘As if by] now don't speak to each other. 7T When I returned home from work my was Geternitned: t Into a Keaty onaent all the other “boats” were with-| fathers would like to fight each other.| nine-year-old son met me and cried: Rr eat te re ie | drawn. The old skipper trimmed the|1 wonder if In years to come thelr chil-]"Oh, papa, mamma has had her hatr which fell to her watst giinting like) cutis a pit, and then the lone vessel|dren hate each other, and if so whether! bobbed!" Well, on arriving at the door, burpiahed copper Agi ee teh? | skimmed majestically across the water| they would if th new ho there was wifey, all dolled up, bobbed Se ae eae bie, oe Me rel] hile the onlookers applaided.—An- | started.—Miss Ida Seldel, No hitr and all that goes with it, For « QUEENS. hatred one set her lips. ‘Then the bar- NDRED IN RICHMOND ONE 4 ‘RITHME CIC, LING STAGE EFFECT or two regarding the one rful eas m ath 4 ys d added his entreaties This took place in a candy and soda] White waiting at St. George for the| shook his head and u . ntore at the corner of Hoyt and Second . s mot-to*have ft cut. Still the red-haired train to start I noticed that. the ‘eyes of everybody appeared to be directed toward an old man with red hair whiskers, who wore an old yellow rain- Avenues, Astoria. Two little girls, one about nine and the other fourteen, with the usual @ifference of size between them, entered the store and made straight for the weighing scale. Both and stood on the scale at the same time} coat but carried no umbrella. ‘The rain and each dropped a penny in the slot. EAH MAY: ‘The reault was that the hand marked %8* falling in bucketsful. “Look out, 190 pounds. The elder girl (much the] Pop." one fellow called to him, “you'll taller) promptly began figuring, “Well get wet’ “1 should worry,” replied she summed up gravely, “we each} ihe oj vith ag nd when h weigh pinety-five pounds” The other id man, with a grin, and when he nodded ‘They walked out eerenely.—| turned I saw that he carried én hia Mra. W. D. Richardson, No. 251 Law-| back a big advertisement for ‘The Fence Gtrest, Astoris, Ii, I. Storm," at the town theatre, There DESERTED VILLAGE, Was w great chorus of jaughter but the Leaving my train. thia evening 1] i416 Weeh't on the old man ie nensed a strange stilln which was} sianicton, Staten I RIS! AY ET WE almost oppressing. | Its source was ploton, Btates Inland. traced easily. I had forgotten tempo- = rarily that with Labor Day the "sea- ROY JONES AND OTHERS. son''sended. J missed, actually misaed,] While at work on Pier 20 for ‘the the nosy children and their cautioning} Nippon Yeisen Kiastl Company, 1 saw mothers. The phonographs, with their|a fire t k out on the nor side of shrieky, high-ultohed tones, were still. }the dock. Quick work on the pur Streets and beaches, which only yeater-|of Chief Eng ROM gehen GUsonh day teemed with humanity, are com-} inspectors, watehmen vnd al! hands had puratively deserted. Only a few “in-]the blaze extinguished before the ar habitants” remain. On the majority of] gval of men and machines from the the houses doors and windows have] fire Department. A mighty lucky stop. heen “boarded up." The general aspect) too, for on the next aection of the pier is that of a deserted village. Rockaway. here wore 4.000 canes cf wood o before and after Labor Day, im well] yy Nore 1 0t ae nl ain worth seeing. —Sam Werble, No. 179] Rivnolma G. tie Je Smith ‘Stree Beach 84th Street, Rockaway Beach,| Rosebank, Staten Isiand. ae ee Ws HALE. SAFE. On Westervelt Avenue in a neighborhood I saw th man patnting double house olice s 6 to buy Police A policeman saked i 7 Two familles live in it FQ Day tickets to-day at Kenmare nette H, Freema ‘0, 880 Fifth Avenue, ber, who had been standing off a step girl Wa determined, She ordered It out atvonce. Another barber came up and lrged her not to have It dona ‘Then| another and another until nally the whole shop was about her chalr talling armuing, gesticulating, beeing her te leave her hair as It was. Suddenly the dir laughed. She thanked then all, got but of the chalr, twisted her wonderful halr back onto her head and went out.— M, McDougal, No, 61 West 16th Street. PRARS FOR REMEMBRANCE On the corner of Third Avenue and 18th ‘Street fa a tablet upon whieh fr inscribed the following: ‘On this cornor row Petrus Stuyvesant’s pear tree, Re 145th Street, Yesterday’s Special Prizes First Prize, $25 Bronx. moment I didn't know whether I had Leen married twenty years or only one. Gosh, the wife sure did look fine! Time passes, and last night when'I returned home there seemed to be a strange woman cooking tn the kitchen. But she was the wife. She had bobbed hair |when [left in the morning, but this evening {t was piled on her head in the old way. She told me ehe had made her cuttings {nto & switch, Now one day she had hobbed hatr and the t day long hair. & “I'm being kept guess~ ing to whom I'm married, but {t's inter- and delixhtful.—Joseph Bueb, Bast 18sth Street, Bronx NEAT BUT NOT GAUDY, Near Edgewater Camp I saw a novel garage. Some one had removed the body of a Inrge truck and set it beside, his house. It now served to house a’ Hed to in 1664, on hie, small tritck, which fitted snugly Into tt SALE oA aa OF cece anil pag MISS C. GALVIN, No, 1719 Madison Street, Ridgewood, ST AIIGGRA. OF the lanes’ trunk (body Me his memorial, ‘hy whi sald Brooklyn served as a runway.—Ralph J. Mer my name may b eremenmbered,” The _ jr, No, 717 ast 22tst Street, Bronx, peat tree flourished and hore. frutt for Second Prize, $10 ag aes Over 200 years, This tablet ts placed R. LUCAS, $25 North James Street, Peekskill invit i here by the Holland Society of New \ I boatded a Park Row train on the York, Sept. 1800.""—Milton Levy, No Culver Line and found myself in the 11th Street, RUTH DE.MARRAIS, P. O. sades Park, NJ Box oLp noy T ytsited my He js eighty-th' Ween © pipe smokers! youth {nee he had lost so many teeth wine nele at Rive tat M. MBISSNPR, No. 2 contemplating giving Up smoking a pi MARGARET © 682 Woon could not hold tt in} HUR W. BOTHMANN, NO. mwuth ily, ‘Then one of the old NO, Bley EROadway: man'a wrandaons, SUR sted he try a On, Se aaa sonat Xead erect did so, and now It seems ; ~Mrs. D. Bohan, venue trhudsnurg, Pa. DILLON, N clgare Columbus A Third Prize, $5 ‘ Ten Prizes of $2 Each oT Woodbine THEODORE WOLPP, No, 2119 67th Street, Brooklyn. 108 Bartholdi Avenue, Jersey City midst of « trainload of boys from 6 to 16 years old. The minute T stepped in I heard some one say, "Boys, a lady, and I squeezed through to find BEVERY BODY offering me his seat. We became quite friendly, They were newsboys for Git pnasale Wtorald’ and on Lubor “Day given an outing at Coney » little bey opened a big box kisses and passed then) it was a most enjoyable expe- Fredericka Diamant, No, 1822 Bathgata Avenue, Bronx. 494, Central Boulevard, Po Street, Brooklyn t Avenue, Brooklyn. aw Street, Jamaica every year Island. 3 v SAUGHTY, BAD BOYS, as painting only. on MRS, Os: MITH, Peapack, N. J. NAUG : Street and the Bowery. I asked him it tang Pian evidently. he Mtl FOR BADE RUTH, H. D. MILDEN, No. 1208 Boulevard, Bayonne, N, J While walking down Horgen Avenue he would accept a check. He looked} io: intend to paint the other slde, for| A Lexington Avenue druggist has just wad seein Sean amon nitting on a ralling rea ne rather doubtful. Then I showed him | when he came to a five-inch post in the|inatalled an verything for the Baby" . fe iaekinis ee. beat a newep per out twa. Dae the $2 prize check The Evening World | middie of the porch, ho carefully mens,| window display. Under a large si Read to-day's stories. Pick the ones yo , pout leven wed un behind hu sent eee week jane and Be jos ured to the centre: of nd painted | reading ‘aby Naasial ay! ty v Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial Og le te # © He couldn't cate? ehange “Sure,” he said, * lonly to that line ry Adel ish, | other thin ae wt and hewspape © that."-—-Haydn W. Barrows, No. 4816'No. 26 Nassau Stroct, New Bright i ieee No. 1708 Thivd (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow. theme toseph Martinis, No, 784 Foreat Beaufort Avenue, Morris Park, Li 6. L "| Avenue. = Avenue, Bronx. WEEKLY PRIZES Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners FIRST PRIZE, $100; SECOND PRIZE, $50; ' THIRD PRIZE, $25; OUT OF TOWN. OFFICER PUT-AND-TAKE, While sitting at my aunt's win- dow, Covert Street and Evergreen Avenue, Brooklyn, we noticed a po- liceman who put on and took off his white gloves about fifty times in a half hour.—Robert @, Hudson, East Northport, L. HOW ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS? There {8 no drug store in Teaneck, but the residents of that town take thelr pills, powders and potions just the same. Twice a week a filvver, stocked with patent medicines and tollet Preparations, travels the streets and stops at houses. Howev: Mt fills no prescriptions.—B. A., No. 818 Hickory Street, Bogota, N. J. NEW USE FOR A RADIATOR. On the Lincoln Highway, between Metuchen and New Brunswick, I asked @ truck driver for a ride. Ho stopped and I climbed Into the big bulldog Mack and we began chinning together. After while he opened the radiator and re- moved the water screen, in which he had boiled an egg for his midday lunch- ¢on.—Marshall Allen, Metuchen, N. J. : GosHt! On East Avenue, Pawtucket, 1 aaw a lady turn a button switch on the handle of an unusually large baby carriage, which contained two cati- dren, Immediately the carriage be- gan to move, while she simply had to steor it. Between the front wheels was a small electric motor driven by @ small storage battery connected underneath the body of the carriage. —John F, Magner, Providence, R. I. DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT? T have been camping in the moun- tains for some weeks and have been buying my eggs at a neighboring farm house, There are several children in the family. Upon calling for a dozen eggs this morning I found the basket in which they were left for me on the porch all right, but it had no oggs in It I saw the children a distance away bus- fly engaged In making mudpies. I saw several broken eggshells gon the ground near them. "Say ald, “what did you kide do with my eggs?" Mary, aged five, looked at me seriously. make mud pies,’ she replies. make ples without eggs.""—Baird Broom- hall, Intervale, N. H. MAY HER TRIBE INCREASE! On 42d Street at noon I saw a woman tinkering with the engine of an auto- mobile. Her hands were black and she was adjusting some part. I looked more closely at the machine and saw It was a taxi, and then, looking again at the woman, I saw she wore a@ taxi driver's license plate on her coat.— Penelope A, Lyons, No. 12 Acorn Street, Elmhurst, L. I. A CRUEL WORLD. While walking up a brook yesterw day I came across a mother hem standing on the bank of the stream looking in utter despair in the watur. I looked to sea the cause ef her anguish. I found that some mean, low-down person had deceived her into bringing into the world @ brood of ducklings, and they, fol- lowing nature, had straightway sought water. I could almost hear this distressed hen say, “There ought to be a law agin’ it?’—Ry Groner jr, Wingdale, N.Y. Jumped from hix bed, stood erect and at attention throughout the number and, after it was finished, remained awake and alert throughout the day. J. Kramer, No. 131 West 30th Street. Bayonne, N. J. THE FLOUR OF HER HEART. IT saw an empty baby carriage oute side one of the chain grocery stores in Tarrytown. Presently a woman came out carrying « bag of flour. She placed it In the carriage, drew up a pretty embroidered carriage cover, adjusted the top as one would to keep the eyes of a baby shaded and went on her way, —Mrs. A. L, Smith, No. 7 Cantinental Street, North Tarrytown, N, Y. t 3) READY TO BUILD. To-day I had the pleasure to «ee what for years has been the goal of my dreams—the first view of our own home. For fifteen yenra ma part of every month's salary has been put away re- ligiously. The demands of life were often far beyond the reach of a school teacher's pay, but we held on to our dreams with tenacity and on April 10, last, we had the thrill that comes once in a Ifetime—the signing of the con- tract for one's self-planned house. Bust- ness called us away. Contractor No, 1 absconded. Contractor No, 2 went bankrupt. So to-day I returned and looked on our home for the first time— a plot of ground adorned with a semi- finished basement, and all the lumber, hardware, plastering, plumbing, glass and fixtures of a cottage-to-be lying bout in the sunshine of a perfect Sep= mber day.—Uranla Matz Haller, No, 708 Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, N, ¥. “NOTHING IS SAFE THESE DAYS,” SHE SAYS. I help my father with his plumbing. To-day we took out an old sink In a house on Belmont Avenue. nipples, such as are given to teething babies. Behind the sink we found three I was holding them in my hands, and making some alleged funny cracks to Dad, when the woman of the apartment appeared suddenly and, rushing up to me, took the three old nipples out of my hand. I heard her telling about it to some one in the next room. plumbers!” she sald, “You gotta watch ‘em every minute Then she left us. “Them Alfred Meier, No, 711 S, 17th Street, Newark, N. J. WHAT THEY DID TO WEPOWAU Midway between Bridgeport and New Haven I saw the little village of Milford on Long Island Soun@. The town, which is 283 years old, was purchased from the Indians, headed by Chief Wepowaug, for a few knives, mirrors and beads. A mill, erected on the river, gave the vil- lage its name. It has 600 residents, and the inhabitants are largely descended from the old Puritans, a quiet, dignified people, who live to a ripe old ag About a half mile from shore lies Charles Island, a deserted village; which at low tide may be reached by foot over the sand bars, Houses, erected on this isi- and some time ago, were atruck by light~ ning and nothing has seemed to flourts) there. Tradition has {t that Capt. Kidd" treasure 1a buried in its depths.—) C. R. Change, No. 8 Maple Street, Mil ford, Conn. TWICE CAREFUL. A band of gypsies were camping fr ‘Two of their women had 6 to town apparently to do some I saw them looking into the the village cor shopping. was standing when suddenly I saw the foung lady In charge of the store close the door, The gypsies tried to open It, but the young lady had {t locked. She would not let them In. Tl Bypsies went on and then the girl told she never waits on gypsies when alone, singe once she sold them a scarf and when they had left missed a sweater. Jean Stern, N 120 Broadway, Saranac Lake, N. Y STOP! The best thing I sie to-day was an announcenent in the local paper advertising a full quart bottle of Hunter for 78 cents, P. S.—The pa- per is dated March 19, 1912.—3it dred Rottmann, No. 409 Sixth Street, Weat New York, N. J NOT FAR FROM NEW BRUNSWICis In Millstone, N. J., 1 saw an eleven- room house advertised for rental at $11 ‘a month.—J. Pollak, No, 339 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ FREAK OF NATURE, ‘We have @ horse-chestnut tree infour front yard and early in August Its leaves died and fell to the ground. ts full of buds and new appearing every day: Kind of tree is growing, planted when ours was planted. The leaves of these other trees are dead but are hanging to the trees and no new buds have appeared. I have discussed the matter with several tree doctors but they can- hot account for this freak of nature, —C. D, McLean, Red Bank, N, J, the woods about a mile and a halt =| window of a knit goods store where | To-day it leaves are In the front yard of every house on the block the same THE PANTS WERE TOO BIG, T was sitting sewing when my som, a lad of eleven, came home from swimming. Heswas all excited. He had found a sailor's jacket and wanted me to make st over for him. Soon he wont out to play, and in about half an hour a bareheaded, jacketleas young man came to the door to ask if my boy had brought home a jacket. It appeared that the sailor boy had gone in for a swim, lvaving his clothing at the roadatde, When the boys cama along my f low selected the jacket, another tha cap and a third the’ neckercRings All the boys were glad to giva tha things up to the right man and the right man was glad to get them.— Mrs, D, Erickson, No, &15 Wood- ward Street, Jersey City. SILLY OLD TREE. On my way to work this morning, vte the Lehizh Valley Railroad, I noticed Just east of Aldene, N. J., a walnut tre coming out in leaf quite as if this were the spring of the year.—W. 8. Biikery Box 112, South Plainfleld, N. J. FROM THE TOP OF A BOX CAR, , As 1 was standing on top of a bom enr in the ratlroad yards of the Weat Shore Ratlroad at Weehawken, switch= ing a string of cars, I saw on another track a car of nut coal, It was raining ents and dogs, but on,top of that car of nut coal, the only “coal car in the yard s0 far as I could see, were a num- ber of boys. Every boy had a big cee ment bag With him and all were stuffing the bags with coal, When a watchmen came in sight they hopped off and went. up the side of the Palisades.—Fred Core vinus, 591 21st Street, West New York, N. J BETTER THAN A-FEATHER FROM ‘THE BROOM. Every night when local train No, 7% pulls in at West Haverstraw I notice that the engineer gets off and looks over his engine. When this is done he takes out his pine, turna on & steam valve of the engine and cleans the pipe out,—Charles J. Jones §r., No. 38 Dey Street, Garnerville, N.Y GORGEOUS. Riding along the State Road betweer Cold Spring and Peekskill 1 saw half an acre of sunflowers in full bloom.—Olivs Y, Traver, No. 12 Halcyon Place, Yone kers, FAMILY TRADE, Right off Main Street I passed « thriving litile grocery which is identi by Its sign as "Me Store." B. F, Livingston, Gloyersyille, N. ¥ HoW To GET THEM UP IN TES MORNING. ‘ ‘What I saw this morning assured m@ that patriotism in children fs a real thing. My sister had planned to start early with her family on an all-day outing. However, she could not awaken her four-year-old son an hour earlier than usual. Just then the youngster next door, who takes violin lesso started playing “The Star Spangled Banner." Instantly our four-year-old