The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1922, Page 14

sUDS, My small son at bathtime yesterday Poured a whole package of powdered Boap into the water, making « lather which nearly filled the tub, The aight Was too much for hix two litue sisters to resist. They had to be allowed to share his fun, so the three of them din- Ported themselves in the beautiful white @uds for half an hour; and it was as nice a way to spend part of a hot after Moon as I can think of.—M, W. 8., No. 614 Went 114th Street. 0 MATL ORDERS, NOTHING ©, 0. D., NO EXCHANGES. On Columbus Avenue to-day I saw ahead of me our provision dealer. it seemed to me he frowned os he glanced at the window of a rival who advertised “Sickie Pears, 25 cents « pound. He hurried on up the atreet and by the time I reached his shop he jas assiduously lettering a sign, which read: ‘Sickle Pears, 24 cents a pound.” Estelle Loomis, No, 250 West Sth etreet. MANHATTAN SPECIAL. ADDED PRIZE—A FORD TOURING CAR. . For the best story printed on this page this week The Evening World will give A FORD TOURING CAR. 8. WL A OK. I was standing at the corner of 15th Street and Eighth Avenue when @ young sirl came to the mall box, She took a letter from her bag, rubbered around to make sure that no one waa watching, placed the envelope to her Ups and (are you Hstening?) kissed it three times be- fore dropping {t into the box. Then she hurried away.—William Conw: No 258 West 16th Street, INTELLIGENT BUT OF LOW ‘TASTES. Thomas Bill 4s a remarkably én- telligent oat that Hves on Morton Btree He ia half Persian and half fire escape. To-day he had more to eat than he wanted. After Hoking Ma chops he darted out imto the Dack yard and returned with a bat- tle scarred hobo cat to fnteh his Dow! of milk for him. The samo thing happened only a week ago.— J., Jones Street. ALIAS “RHODE ISLAND RED.” j I left Jersey City (Communipaw) on a solid express train, which ' fer some reason or other came to a non-scheduled stop at Plainfield, N. J. trouble wi I followed the conductor up toward the engine to see what the and about half way along the length of the train he stopped and, pointing under one of the cars, said, Look!" There, roosting on the steam hose—which is hooked up at this time of the year and so makes a pretty firm foundation—was a big rooster. Tho railroad men figured it out that his highness had escaped from a crate at some station and, being without a home, had just naturally turned hobo.—C. T. Harrison, No. 712 West 180th Street. THE LITTLE HOUSE, On West 1234 Street, between Broad- way and Amsterdam Avenue, I saw a bit of God's country In the heart of the city. A little gambrel-roofed house, painted a warm, dark red, éurrounded by trees. A flagged walk leads up to the shaded doorway, Near the gate is an ominous sign, ‘Beware the Dog.” Back of the little garden plot are neat, red- painted chicken houses, In the yard I #aw a giant sunflower. I wonder what that little house thinks as it sits there #0 serenely, fnuked on one side by the huge rock and on the other by a tower- ing apartment house,—E. V. Leighton, No. 610 West 123d Street. POOR KID8! I lve between Dry Dock Street and the East River. Just now I took a walk around the corner to the gas house and the gas tanks. baby carriages there. have the whooping cough. Mothers be- Meve smelling the gas is good for the Httle invalids. Way some morning and see the line-up. Poor kids!—Sop¥le Shulman, No, East 1th Street. AND GIVE MOTHER A LITTLE REST. Every’ Monday night weather moving pictures the last showing carriages, arms in Joseph Giltrap, No. Btreet, “AM 1 THE ONLY WAN IN THIS TOWN THAT SELLS I dropped in at a ee mother, couldn't read the and took some of the “not to be When removed from the “On, wall, y ‘ork for me. Hast 63d Street. DUM AND TWEHEDLED said petulantly, make all the mo Doubleday, No. TWEED I saw a great battle. smoke screens we used to read about, There was great excitement, so much that one young woman, trying to. sec what was going on, tumbled overboard. A man pulled her back to the landing ‘Then a policeman had to come He called it a draw and ontered mechanical Two hundred persons had standing room at Harris, No. 98 again, Ong. the boys to remove their toys from tbe Central Park lake the ringside.—E, A. Fulton Street. FOR GASOLINE. In the dining room of a steamer for elderly aut Providence to-day 1 saw an couple, evidently returning from a to the city, sitting at the next tah They had just finished their dinner, « the walter, having preseuted thy che oking for the tip, There was a long line of All the babies Take « walk around this 739 in pleasant have been shown in Chelsea Park at 28th Street and Tenth Avenue, admission free. At I saw two girls of about fourteen come along pushing baby They parked the cars at the fron railing outside, took the babies in thelr arms and went In to the show. For nearly an hour and a half those two kide held the Mtver kids in their er that they—the senlors— might enjoy an evening's entertainment, 838 West 19th tionery store to choose a birthday card for my grand- The storekveper pointed casu- ally at a stock of cards submerged at the bottom of a deep glass case, As I cards I reached down n out of the boxes. No sooner had I done so than the mer- chant let me know that the cards were cage.” 1 told him 1 could not possibly read the cards at suct® a distance, he ou Just Aloe Two battle: ships came together broadside in mid- stream, firing their guns at one another and leaving « trail of smoke like the 1 saw him pick THIRTY DAYS; CALL CASE. A young couple got on the Long Island tram at Ozone Park, She was pretty and he good looking, a naturally, they attracted a little at- tention, Suddenly to’ the amase- ment and delight of everybody ‘around them he kissed her fervently and then, as if thinking Ale unusual behavior in public demanded some explanation, he dlushingly said: “She just promised to marry me. Rose Fergesa, No, 615 Woat 144th Street, THE NEXT ACTORS MUST LIVE. While having my lunch in a 42d Street cafeteria the other day 1 saw the famous Lowell Sherman having lunch Just lke mine, And me only a “poor wolkin’ goll!"—Miss G. W., East 23d Street. SLEEPING PORCH. On the corner of our street is @ seven- story apartment house. Last night 1 was looking toward this house when 1 was attracted by the sight of cur- taing all around the fire escape on the top floor. 1 wondered why they were there. It had been threatening rain and suddenly it started, giving me an ex- planation of the curtains, I saw two nightgowned figures quickly taking down the curtains, One climbed through the window and the other be- gan hurling to the other bedclothing, pillows and mattresses.—Mae Schrader, No. $62 Third Avenu LURE OF THE HOT DOG. On Rivington Street near Essex, there are many peddlers selling frankfurtera at three and five cents each, One has a sign on hia cart announcing that the person who holds the greatest number of tickets will be given @ prige on a cor- tain date. Tic! are given with pur- chases of hot dogs, and the hot dog business with him booming.—Nathan Zucker, No. 101 Avenue D. “PANTNERS AGAIN. ‘This is what I saw to-day—a sign in the window of a dairy at No, $22 1, 83d Street reading: ! FREE! Tuesday—a loaf of brend with cuch quart of milk."'—May O'Connor, No. 329 Bast 38d Street. ‘ SELECTIONS, When I got off the elevated at Cham- bers Street to-day 1 noticed a news dealer with such a great array of maga- zines that I counted them. 1 found he sold 141 magazines of various types, five comic maguzinen and 29 papers dealing with race horses and tracks.—Herman A, Kirschbaum, No. 10 Essex Street, GIRLS, From my window on the fourteenth floor L can see the roof of the Mason & Hamlin Building on Fifth Avenu n 82d Street. On the roof during the lunch hour one can see a number of girle Spending the latter part of their lunch hour dancing, chatting, strolling ubout and taking pletures.—Frances Mayers, No, 308 Fifth Avenue, FAITE During @ recent storm I saw a@ little rir) just after a threatening flash of ehtning run to the edge of the pave- ment near my home, kneel in the pour- ing rain and pray.—George J. Falke, No 345 Eust 120th Street PLENTY OF TIME. I saw our landlord amile to-day charmingly when mother asked bh redecorate our flat. He suid THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 19292 as follows: EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS T° 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 addition. Send them to “What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. 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MORE TROUBLE FOR THE GOVERNMENT, A POINT OF INFORMATION. scoor. j I saw a number of persons standing around in front of the viliage | 1 Was present at the teachers’ meeting] | This morning my hurband, a phiyel Post Office, which by no stretch of the imagination could be called a in i a Igh High School called for @) brenicrast, after a successful vigil at the new building. I went over and saw that a young Woman was taking |. tne one if the Pen we peenee ay tar eaicier MASAO ve letters out of the wall of the building at a place where one of the | the Principal was ready to adjourn the|cnvelose with. the. following. Inclosure bourds bad fallen or had been taken off. She took out about ten let- | Wwstink he uw that one of the teachers} “A SECOND JACK DPMISEY wie ters, Some of them looked as if they had been there a long, long time. “Did you have a question, Miss Sept. 7 at M. He weighs 8% * * © 1 saw that further up the side of the building, directly ever | To the surprise and amusement of all] pounds und says he can lick anybody in this spot, 1s an opening which strangers might mistakenly suppose to |now, if It in'in order, how mane tore [God blog ties eee The happy | THE REUE 18 DeING EXPoRCKD. rah ohcoupalcai dea letter box. Judging by the nest of old mail, this 1s what had hap- [of coal we have in the eM. ge{ father, on. tie announcement of Picture theatre lo-day a dime Tor | Now Yerkes rater cape an€ ie coceity pened. The young woman had made exactly that mistake, but her let- | '4+ No: 1082 Simps aa Seen anment | UNding seats for my wife and myselt.| van unown for tte bawe Aeehtaled ter was not found. It was addressed, she said, to her sweetheart. Sho |wno Rewemnens tHe ¥onT|* three hours the Joyous news was) aie, nerve It amilingly, saying? “Itt } sad gone at daybreak for m morning's said it was up to the Government to take down the side of the building, THAT WAS MADE AGAINST speeding 6 18 Way tees ee Jorg [found other employees only too willing. fishing and, after a fair degree of sue if necessary, to get her letter—William Mackie, Sears Avenue, Elms- THE PARCEL vost? Ney ag asa a aia I deduced, therefore, that this chap} cess we tied up the rented boat and set ford, N. Y. When th nll rang this: morning I = rae be a new addition who has taken | out to find the owner and pay @ do went to the door and saw the postman, | CAN'T HEAR A WORD YOU SAY! NO. 1, MR. LYONS VISITS GOOD GROUND.| Ile handed me a parcel and { noted I witnessed a bit of Alexander On a Providence street car this morn- On a bridge east of Good Ground tha return address was that of my| Graham Bell ingenuity. Two amalt Ing I saw a young man on the back] / sate an automobile with a strange apndehy in ee i Laid the box] boys, putting up a “telemfone” from peat ; license plate. It had a silver col- saw nderful display of the most} the window sill of one house to the Malte leh es ate Bansensers | ord backsround. In the middte of | beautiful cultivated flowers, wrapped in| qoindow sill of «nather, across th ductor told ine that the young man] tf Wer a gold Coloved seal of the | Wet medicinal cotton. ‘They were as] street, Cord acted ax a substitu had just become the father of a boune.| Stale of New York flanked, by the | fresh as if they had been plucked the| for wire and oatmeal bores were the ing baby boy, welght 8% pounds, and he} efters N and Y, also Solon gold minute: be and every one has mar-| receivers. Up to the hour of swrit was just starting to celebrate.—John Later 1 learned tt was the Machine velled thelr beauty ant fragrance ing I have heard no complaint about Magner, No. 3 Larch Street, Pawtucket,| of (ie Svcretary of State of New | Jenny Glaser, No. 964 Tiffany Street,| ¢ ery —Hannah Rlumenfeid, RI York,—Walter C, Robinson, Quogue, | Bronx. No. 1500 Brook Avenue, Bronz. Let “WHAT HIT ME We were in an automobile just approaching Williamsburg Bridge. Immediately ahead of us was a big motor truck, apparently with no load. Suddenly two little boys darted ahead of our car and made for the back of the truck. iach of them carried a pair of roller skates. Thus burdened, the climb was too much for them, They decided to MIRRORS OF SEVENTH AVENUR, At Seventh Avenue and 38th Street 1 noticed a frankfurter and lemonade cart which had two automobile mirrors ad-| a justed on either side so that they might be turned in any direction. T asked the|as though you were wed man what they were for and he told| ding.” And w do tie me that he had put them on to help “EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT Now?” I bumped into a friend of mine—Jus kid rday in Perth A 0! “Well,” { said, “you're all dressed uy yert ne to a out saying av putehis band in his podket ena sowed himself keep a lookout for pollcemen.—| me at Heonse.—dutian Potlay,| hrow their skates into the truck and follow after. Over went one Herman Rutz, No, 319 Bergenline Ay-| No. + Street. New Brunswick, | skate. Over went another skate. The second boy threw his pair fas« enue, Union Hill, N. J. Neds tened together. * * * And then up popped a smaller boy, who had been lying flat at the back of the truck with some bags around him. i as rubbing his head. He looked if he didn’t know whether to lxugh or ery, but like a good fellow he leaned over the end and ex- tended a hand to give the other boys a lift. The commotion attracted the attention of the truck driver. He laughed.—Miss Henrietta Mac- Donald, No, 414 East 178th Street, Bronx. THE OLD SOAK, Not being a candidate for office, I am prepared to announce my | position on the subject of light wines and beer. But in at least one respect the Prohibitionists have fuiled to deliver. They told us that when we knocked John Barleycorn for a long “gool” the Man of the House would leave the shop at 5.30 P. M. and promptly at 6 stick his legs under the mahogany and ask, “Whatcha got for supper, old UEENS woman?” And what has happened? Well, to-nizht I saw a woman, g the mother of several children, going from one ice cream parlor to VACATION ENDS IN A BLAZE OF SAY NOT SO. auother on Central Avenue, in the district around South § , ask- GLORY, - What I saw was my good aunt mak- ing if anything had been seen of her husband. And finally Not being entirely built up, Astoria he found ing meat balls over at her hone in Capital prizes for best’ stories of week distributed among daily prize winners SPECIAL PRIZE—A Ford Touring Car; Other Prize: $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. him, wrapping himself around a nut sundae. Whadd: still Zias quite a few vacant lots which you know about Glendale. When they were formed she that?--Charles Blumenshefd, No. 522 Morgan Street, Union Hill, N, J, | 0° ‘Re Playarounds of the children at} piuced them neatly on a platter and all times of the year, but particularly | went to the closet to get some cracker {n the summer. It is a great hobby of} meal, 1 went with her. While we the children to build “houses” out off were absent—for only a. minute—my old cardboard and pieces of wood. One} ittie cousin carefully sprinkled the of these structures was puc up on the lot baek of our house, This was a |Meat balls with Babbitt’s cleanser. house of #ome size, Schooldays draw- Se Did my little cousin get a ing near, this morning the child set | 2pnking?—Edna Mills, No. Second et, Unlon Course, tL. 1 RICHMOND. THERE'S A LIMIT. For two months I have been work- to the house. They were watching the blaze in high glee when some oM- clous passerby who saw no fun in the fire "kind turned in an alarm, Sev- eral engines came, and we even saw the Fire Chief, The fire did not amount HENS WALK UP AND DOWN STAIRS, 1 Friends of mine at Tallman'a, N. MR. JAMES RICALTON, saw oan interccting man to-day among his rare collection of curios, eol- Y., have the laying quarters of sixty | lected by himself in travels over the|t® Shucks, but the youngsters enjoyed _ hens in the upper part of their barn. | whole ees He is Mr. s Teealton, [CNCY. Minute of the excitement. There (ny for a firm dealing in sporting 5 i ¢ Ma Mire dames Hiealton.! was no need for the alarm, which, | wm] goods. The boss is known to every- Promptly at $ o'clock to-day 1 saw |of Maplewood, N. J., crvdited with hav- : ‘ th a-thapaoor leading too (ine travelled more miles than any orhor |(o' > Cort oe cy at leeat, 6800. — ar Uody in the place as “F. B.” His jor Ra By OTer |G. olllon ‘0. z Ave- ” oN en See pe whe. tiving man on many expeditions in the| ° Pollion jr, No. 690 Fourth Ave-} son is calied “Chester.” No one platform outside the varn about Jinicrosts uf svictor, trade and nets Bow | nue: Astoria, Ly I ever speaks of the assistant man- ayer except as “Dick.” The store twelve feet above ground, From this platform a cleated board ex- boys would thrill to see his trophies of lephant hunts, and to hear him tell of IF THEY DID THEY DOWT ANSWER tended to ther platforms and ld | elephant charge and then later off A871 sat In a Grand Street (Brooklyn) | manager to known as “Von,” his Gradually. fo the yround. The mo- |tlephant steaks cooked by the natives! } street car T wow a commercial automo} qssistant as “Loomis” and the ie I saw many ful treasures from far] bile pulled up in of @ Gran i “« see the trapdoor was opened the SAcinaine deanna eno fre ae er electrical shop opposite the Maspeth] b089’s brother aa “Mf. J. , Rhode Island Keds, came out |r a sou a! Ilis lust trip wan| depot and observed that the owners of| But J have yet to hear the janitor ane by one and made their way 12 Tthere. One of Mnplewood's schools tn ar hud painted thetr tetephowe | addressed in any other way than no crowding, but an ordeviy, dig: pare, Ne Ries an seneel $n Mone ot ae Ate Lelie Sal Blan reoaiy Mr. Jornegan,”"—Margaret Quayle, ¢ “A this man, who was 4 teacher there many| “Four Ate One chard resting 2 so Wied, even stately, procession, At | venrg axo,--Lilliun V. Higeln, No, 686| Kieln, No. 17 Division Avenue, Him- 0, 280 13th Street, Midland Beach, dusk ‘they made their ascent in a [¥Onts Ako Ul Wat | lewoud, N. 4 similar fashion. i wus told it took plewood, N. J only three days to truin the hens to do this.—Warren Vioctor, Fords, Node CONDUCTOR DAN. At Stone Avenue last night I entered a Richmond car and discovered what I think must be the Perfect Conductor. IN THE COUNTRY, While driving along the Jericho turn He not yelling ep to the pike to-day, 1 saw at least six farin i hia tae LEE hie KONE, houses in which apparently the wome pear of dete Stay ve folk have given much thought to bea had smiles for every patror iy ng the home place, and probab “Ww a woman pulling her cape up M n or, as if she were cold, he have had the help of the men folk | around her, as 1 h on te 1 xaw beda of flowers fou stepped up and closed the window back feet wide akiritng the rond along th of her. NAM right, now, mua?" entire length of each of these farms.~ aid ls te Bld eu ore heh ‘ The re 8 nil seeme 0 kno! ieee ge ‘It was "Hello, Dan," and od P ve yt felt like YOU OUGHT TO HPAR WHAT T > ’ =n . evening, Danny," until 1 r Vow CUS RED GUL, SAID. Saturday Ss Special Prizes stranger.—H, Clark, Bay Street, Tom At Mt, Tremper this morning I saw Laue Baten telaad: a middle-aged Indy armed with a ty awatter gently swatting flies that set- tled on the back of a small calf. Her arm was kept fairly busy,—Nat Head, Mt, Tremper, N. ¥. MUDLARKS, In the pouring rain last night I saw four young men walking along Castle- ton Street with their trousers rolled up to their knees, They were carrying thelr shoes {n thelr hands. There was no way for me tu find out the Big Idea and so 1 don’t know whether they were safeguarding eight new shoes or merely taking an excursion back to boyhood, but certainly they all appeared to be having mgood time.--Lily Kleawetter, No. 464 First Prize, $25 STEWART, No. Boynton Avenue, Bronx. Second Prize, $10 No, $50 52d Street, Brooklyn. Third Prize, $5 439 Hillview Avenue, Ten Prizes of $2 Each No, 641 Mechanic Street, Peekskill, MRS. C. O. A. BINNING A MARKET FOR MOTORISTS. Tho farmers at Nan’ New City and Pearl River, N. Yo thelr fruits put and vegetables in baskets and ect them ANNA BOOTH, No. Yonkers, hy the rond-side to be sold to passing automobile parties. The persons who buy here certainly Ket fresh vegetables W. A. BORCHER Up @ penny and gaze With a puwsled cx : we A pression at his patrons. ‘in this here] Walgm 8 #o0n we J repair the root. for me, sir?” he asked, The old mao] yor ande pea aia A he sho leoked at it form moment, “Well, /Zct- Madeline Jacobs, No, 417 Hast Goth well,” he sald, “My mistake, Jest 4 : minute." Carefully he took out a email, worn purse, He opened it slow] yy , My son, seventeen years old, was ly and painstakingly took from It four} graduated from high school thie’ aum- more pennies which he handed to the new thunderetruck waiter, paid the old mun Pauline Alien, Btreet. “Ther No. 641 Wi THE BEAR, On top of the subway entrance at 9th Street and Broadway I saw a big “Now we're settled. it 179th mer and after looking in yain for u po- sition in the city he answered an ad for a bus boy In a summer hotel, He got the Job and held it. He came home to-day, I expected to ace a tired nok- nig boy, wor out by his work, but instead I saw a self-possessed, healthy, energetic young man ready to start mt once on his college course brown Teddy Bear standing upright on] And not the least or the summe the glass roof. It was there for two] fenefits were his earnings and. tips, days, and 1 wondered why some ambl-] which supplied him with enough funda tious kid didn't scramble up for ft--|1o start him on his career. N é —” Dwight Conn, No. 601 West 113th Strect. Sternfels, No. 606 West 179th Sgreut. : id \ and fruits, since the farmers pick them C.D. MeLEAN, Red Bank, N. J. Cary Avenue, West New Brighton, every morning before sunrise.—Mae ALICE L. ROTH, No, 112 Carlton Avenue, Jersey City. Staten Island. Lynch, No. 16 Remsen Street, Nyack, ARAH WACH No, 878 Macon Street, Brooklyn, — N.Y. W. P. MINO! No, 65 Talman Street, Brooklyn., CAMOUFLAGE, HERBERT 8. WALSH, No. 677 West 204th Street. I saw two young men come into the GUNGHA DIN, WILLIAM BROI ICK, No, 336 East 30th Street. Palace Theatre at Port Richmond who ‘To-day on Main Street in Nyack I saw a woman pushing 4 carriage with a baby In it, and the baby was sucking milk from’ a Gordon Gin bottle.—Mra, E. R. Schneider, Nyack, N. ¥. PHILIP B, DOONE MRS. E. J. KE Cc. CLAYTON, Landing, L, 2K, No, 288 East 88th Street. AN, No, 805 Fast 200th Street, Bronx. 4 to enjoy the pictures. Promptly a young Grove Street and Larsen Avenue, Glenwood woman ushor stepped up and told them of the rule of the house which calls for removed their coats before altting down PE the wearing of coats, One Cx e boys ameretrrs rf or ytly put his coat of The other ane on poreh In Montelotr, In For best stories of last week and names of Capital Prize ie reeh MA own RAD! eeur (Ono LR ed riety eee winner, se0 Page 11, Winners of to-day's Special Prizes will shoulder and bis companton's cap over COS he Boaka art Praelar ia rat be announced in this evening’s Night Pictorial (GreenSheet) the other. From the rear he appeared of. Arthur C. Willlane dry No. 564 edition and in i Fi : to be wearing a cout. ‘The usher ly Upp, Manele SYsuue. Weyer’: ante 1 ative sdiU ous Seamer am not trouble him.—Mrs. A. Lyvere, Cialis Mads 2 G84 Bay Street Stapleton, Ss, 1, WEEKLY PRIZES FIRST, BROOKLYN. “WHERE AM I AT?" At 5 o'clock Sunday morning my mother heard the front door open with a bang, which was followed almost immediately by another noise which sounded as if the clothes rack had tumbled over. One minute more and she was sure the telephone had left its place on a table to find a resting place on the floor. Then followed heartrending groans, « © * My uncle and I slept peacefully until mother aroused us, Thon, pistols in our hands, we crept noiselessly downstairs, to find @ man, with the drunk of the century, sleeping on a couch In the dining room. Flashlights and the guns disturbed his slumbers a little, but his conversation appeared to be limited to “Howinthehell did I get ta thish joint?” * * * Patrolmen Long and Olson of the 70th Pte cinet took him away, after collecting his clothing in the street. [He came to us wearing only a nightshirt.) Twelve hours later he ree turned, properly dressed and in his right mind, to apologize profusely and thank us for our consideration,—W. S. Marsden, No. 8674 19th Ave- manager's instruction too literally This tool to heart or hasn't yet been t le. Soom UL to the nearby vill pped off] Harmer's Mills, * * * On the busine his “buddies A. H. Green, No. corner of the hamlet is a general store 289 Union Street, Rrooklyn. and tn front of this—almost in the path cee of our car—a journeyman barber waa WORKING SHOES. plying his trade in the open while his In one of those fix-'em-up-while-you-] pa reclined more or less at ease Wait shoe shops to-day I noticed that/on an anclent verandah rocker. Lined all the en of the place were]up on the store stoop were three other wearing she re badly In need waiting thelr turn—B. J. of repairs. Russell, No. 458 E. No. 1414 President Street, 49th Street, Brooklyn. Brookiyn, MEMORIES, AND SOME FOLKS CALL IT “NOT! In my humbie home to-day I see an] When this Js printed, perhaps, old arm-chair, while on the wall oppo-| Schools will have reopened; 1 write in’ hn portrait of my mother, | the last week of vacation. All summer » passed away, They bring | Jong this block has been singularly quiet, ld pictures to me, 1 see the| Ut to-day the children are home trom mbers of a bright fire glowing in an|*hore and country and 1 have seen and Hime. ‘avepine My. Rtay-haired | 2eard them and revelled in thelr Joyous- mother sits in this same chair, and sey th RAR RU aia eG kneeling about her cre my sinters and! Joutre ite" “Star Kin’ move @ niche brothers Iatening to her enthralling| for q cone?’ “O, Mary! come here! I bedt stories, Now my hair Is] got a new doll!” ‘Kick {t here, Jimmy. streaked with gray and T an sitting In] “gadie! Oo hoo! Let's play jacks,’* my smothers chair; and as the sunset] “come on, there, throw the ball, you and twilight approach T guther my twol "lh 'uGheese it, the copt" * © © Tt Geshe Boys in LAA ene ts pete has warmed the cockles of my heart and has served to help me forget for a time the cares and worrtes of this grown- up world.—Maude Russell, No. 458 East 49th Street, Brooklyn, HE LOVES THE LADIES. To-day In Best & Co.'s I saw a young mother leading by the hand a handsome baby. THe child evidently was accustomed to be noticed. Me greeted the salesladies with a smiling “Good mornin, He com- mentcoa enthusiastically, in wonderfully distinct baby language, on everything that attracted him. I marvelled at the vocabulary of one so young. Leaving his mother, he walked over to a beautifully dressed tummy. Looking up into its face he said, “How do, lady?” Getting no :esponse, he gently touched the lovely gown and sald, “Pitty dcss!” Mystified by the unchanging countenance of his new friend, the child looked up wonderingly and asked, “Lady doesn't love Johnnie?” Then ho walled away, waving a chubby hand and saying, “Goodby, lady!” * * * Tasked his mother his age and she said nineteen months,— Mrs. M. C. Tobin. No. 369 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. to me just as I now am talking to them —Bvelyn Hall, No. 82 Seeley Street, Brooklyn. STRAIGHT TO HEADQUARTERS, 1 visited my sister. I saw my THE MAN HIGHER UP. On Surf Avenue in front of Heme nephew two and a half, But before derson's at Coney Island to-day, T saw him 1 heard him. “1m going saw one who I think is the tallest to tell my mother,” he was saying. trafic cop in the world, He atood And then he burst the room and there majestically, head and shoul- made a terrible kwk, “Mra, Wind- ders above the tallest in the multt- hewn," he complained, “Daddy tude who pdssed him. His blue cap could be seen even above the tops of automobiles, He is the only giant at Coney Island it costs nothing te sec.—M. J. Blutstein, No, 621 New Jersey Avenue, Brooklyn, !"—Leo Markun, No. 801 Brooklyn. spanked n Ocean Parkway ON THE GREBN CARPET, There is at least one gentieman in mond Hill who is not annoyed by ( morning call of the lawn mo R this FAKER, man's spacious lawn at the corne: of 85th Aventic und 109th Street we Entering the subway at 424. Street two sheep consiantly on the Job. The! sr nnattan, 1 aaw a beggar soliciting grass never grows fast enough for therm Maybe they would take flowers and} alms. 1 was In the act of dropping 6 shrubbery too, but our resourceful] few pennies into his hat when J looked neighbor’ has these things carefully | @oWn and saw his coat, the pockets of which sagred open, lying on the floor, In a pocket T caught aight of the red package of Imported clmarett I ber my pennies. Edwin Gerst, No. aii fekford Street, Brooklyn, BUT PIE IS 20 CENTS A “HUNK, | “Get your big Juicy steak right hi cents This astounding et hed my ears to-day on the Bowe! wired,—Ashley Westrott, No. 308 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn. THE BATTLE IN THE Att, ¥ my rear window I saw my neighbor's boys to-day in the yard next door stretching som cord from on+ fence to another. One of the boys was coating the line with mucilage while} the other put sand on it, They told me] ° they were doing this because they were] itt Coney Island. 1 walked with the kolng “kite fighting’ against the boys] feméinder of the curious mob and saw in the next street. On returning home| * 2ealous ‘barker spleling about ham- burger sandwiches, which, I saw, were sisain selling at the timé-honored price fa nickel, 5 cents, half a dime.—M, J. Dlutsteln, No, 621 New Jersey Ave- nue, Brooklyn, from work this afternoon late I saw a number of boys flying kites in a lot my neighbor's boys among them, By skilful manipulation of his kite I saw one of the latter get his kite across the cord of the kite belonging to another, hoy. The friction of his sand covered cord soon cut his rival's, so that the} In YACHTS. Prospect Park near the lake J kite was loosed. Thus was I introduced] ame upon a@ circular shaped house to the game of kite fighting.—George| Which TI found to be the workshop and H. Hall, No, 8! Seeley Street, Brooklyn.] Storeroom of a coterie of yacht-model bullders and satlors. Inside I saw men and boy enthusiasts in Us sport, Some were business men who looked prosper-| ous, but they were Just as keen about the boats as the boys, They were pre- paring for a regatta and they had many, models of famous boats, all accurate in| every detall.—George H. Hall, No, 82 Seeley Street, Brooklyn, WHEELS OF FORTUNE Shades of Dick Canfield! To-day 1 saw about six miniature roulette wheels in operation on Fourth Place in Clinton Street. All were operated by children who were doing a land office business in selling l-cent chances and giving prizes on certain numbers. Among the prizes were small celluloid dolls, rubber dolla, tin toys, campsign buttons and the like. The ch winning were slim because there were many blanks on this wheel of chance. And it was J on almost under the noses Catherine Banta, No. 161 Brooklyn. IN PEARL STREET, I saw to-day the brick building, ne & warehouse, at No. 255 Pearl St Manhattan, where New York's re power plant began operation just forty yeurs ago.—Morris Marcus, “No. 486 Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn, of the police ‘Nelson Stree