The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1922, Page 20

“A FORD A DAY.” Special Addition Daily Prize for Contributions to This Page for Four Wesks. OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorfal Edition. MANHATTAN INGING IS THE THING. When returning home in the wee sma’ hours, and at a time when such a usually turbulent block as 47th Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, is somewhat quiet, I heard @ yodel that brought up visions of a Tyrolean peasant dance, “Oo lee aye lee tee.” As the voice came nearer and nearer I noticed that the performer was serv- ing the yodel with variations, tagging onto the end of it a high-pitched “euckoo,” which he made “coo coo.” Then an old man turned the corner and called, “Morning papers! mor-ning pa-pers!” I bought a paper and asked him why the yodel. He said it was his trade-mark. Said he had adopted it as a signal for his customers. “And it kinda keeps a fellow happy,” he added, “and helps to pass away these long hours.” * * * As I turned out the light and stepped into bed I could hear faintly through my open window, “Oo lee aye lee 00, 00 lee REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRESS CAR For the best stories each $25; SECOND CASH If you wit A friend who had tried unsuccessfully to reach me by telephone gave it up and sent me a telegram instead. I learned that the mes- sage was in transit, but when it had not arrived at a late hour I placed a note at the door-bell to inform the world, and the messenger boys, that the bell was out of order and asking the kid to drop his telegram \into the letter box. Nor did I forget to leave a small tip handy. * © © This morning, I found the telegram all right and pinned to it the note I inclose. The note, in a boy's “fist,” reads: “To Joe Slagner, alright Joe, you are getting away with mtirder bécause the charge ts 15 cents anyway take it from me you got Brains from Mes- senger No. 28. P. 8. Please don't make a kick about what I wrote thanks.”)—Joseph J, Shagner, No. 125 South Munn Avenue, Newark, my paper and looked out of of trousers in’ the other. SALESMAN. Tam a hardware salesman and carry ® couple of grips about. Last week I entered a haberdashery on 125th Street *o buy «@ fresh collar, as the excessive heat had wilted mine, Two young men and a girl, all unoccupied, paid me no Geed after casting « glimpse at my grips. Losing my patience, I called out that I wanted a collar, and then there ‘wat a scramble to wait on mi T thought he was a salesman,” I heard the girl ‘say. ‘Well, isn't a salesman a man being, end is there any reason y his time should be wasted? I demanded. “I don't care to give what Uttle trade T have to a store whose peo- ple hold views Uke yours."—O. V. T., N.Y, City. THE CHILDREN WERE DOING WRONG. As T was sitting on my stoop some evenings ago I saw some children come out of a house vacated that afternoon. In their hands were an old hat, a flour bag and a few other useless articles. A neighbor who conducts a rooming house chased the children fay, but later that night If saw the same man enter the vacant house and emerge with some gallon-size bottles and « lot of electric light bulbs.—-Eugene J. Mc- Laughlin, 569 West 16ist Street. AFTER DUE CONSIDERATION, The cashier of a downtown restaurant handed an elderly man 40 cents change from a dollar bill as I was leaving the Avenue, Brooklyn. ROLLING ROLLS. very fond of rolls, dozen to take to her when I went a visit a few"days ago. FIVE WOMEN IN A BOAT. STORM BRUIN. To-day I boarded a crowded Broad- way car at 98th Street and clung te @ strap with one hand while holding the hand of my four-year-old son with the other, He glanced about, took im the situation and, much to my embarrassment, plucked at a gentleman’s sleeve and said, “Please get and give my mamma that It worked.—Mre. Bessie Ber- gen, No, 85 West 98th Street. THE WONDER OF THE WORLD, ‘The day the World's Series be; edged we Mother told mexto be quiet, as Dad was going to kill a bear, Looking through the window I saw Daddy walking steaithily to a clump of trees near the house. His revolver was held in his hand, We were con- sidering what we'd do with the skin tohen euddenly my father turned Ground and laughed. The bear wae my umbrella, which had blown off the stoop during the night and had been caught between two trees,— ~-Helen EH. Rossiter, Wycoff Avenue, Ramsey, pocketed it when I replied that I had Airedale and an Irish terrier. The dogs pioked up a couple of friends on the way. We left them on the shore and they looked ead looking after we. We threw out our bait and to our surprise ail four dogs, thinking evidently we wanted them to reprieve it, jumped into the wate: We pulled im the Atredale and ‘the Irish terrier, but the other two swam back to shore, The two, how- ever, through the shower bath they gave us spoiled our day, so we all went home.—Mrs. George 8. Bruah the men I would reward them. I “Tam lucky to-day." Just then I saw ® quarter roosting on his whod. “T think you are picking up your own coin,” I said, “See if there is a hole In your pocket.” He turned the pocket Inside out, disclosed a hole id re- marked disgustedly, “I'm a damn fool. ~—Edward J. Fogarty, No. 100 William Street. as cabaret performers during the in to start.—Ors. 52, for their t Witt, No. Brooklyn. TAG COLLECTORS. GUARD NO. 14,614, ote radio set Sa he had attachea iP. was calling off the play aa they were made, picking the information out of air. The crowd sd wala Wit, ‘his his fret riple,—Thomas Q. Smith, No. 1 ve 0. 194 Ninth I saw the return yesterday of @ lost cuff button about the disappearance of which a neighbor of mine was much mystified. He had missed ft July 4. He and his wife searched all through their house, in every crack and cranny, cupboard, drawer, clothes pockets, u: stairs and downstairs, and then out on he lawn, but they did not find it. They gave It up as lost and’ tried, since it was yaluable, not to feel too badly about {té loss, Yesterday thelr fceman ould not change @ §2 bill. Just then a neighbor's daughter stepped in and, vol- unteering to change the bill, emptled the contents of the purse on the table. There was the missing cuff link. She aid she had found it the day before on the strip of ground between the lawn and the sidewalk. She was rewarded with a 5-pound box. of candy.—H, Hauser, No. 100 Pearsall Avenue, Fre port, N. ¥. WHY SOME TL POSTPONED. I saw a small boy start fishing with his pole and line, His dog followed closely at his heels, The boy tried to chase the dog-back, but to no avail. Finally he struck at the dog with his pole, The hook caught in the dog's Eric Symp de anlroal ‘eterted lickety-split around the house, dragging the line and pole out of the boy’ hands and spilling the lad on the ground, ‘The hook came loose when the dog circled a grape arbor, but the line got tangled in the vines, the boy’: worms were spilled, his (emper was ruined, the dog's friendship was lost and the fishing trip forgotten,— Willis Dexter, Matamoras, Pa. by calling out, where Cook Street is? A passenger had asked him and, instead of growling out “whaderyzx$/&()!" he exerted him- self to find out. A man furnished the information.H. Goldstein, No, 162 Seventh Avenue. SO NEAR AND YET SO Far. To-night I saw one of the most horrible, gruesome and revolting sights these eyes ever have gazed upon, * * * You ask us to tell sgn the sulne happens, and I don’t mind tell In the Lexing- hed Theatre. * * One week ago I asked the Dearest Girl in New ‘ork to hear Sir Harry Lauder with me. She agreed, and with joy in my heart I made reservations for to-night. And when the usher {indicated our two seats I saw IT. © © © There it lay, between our seats, several feet of green-carpeted aisle.—Lowell Wael oat well M. Limpus, No. 3 tags, stealing a ride on a fast North Fourth Street, Brooklyn, I was seated at my desk tic Avenue, near St. James picture of disappointment. better of it and came back in the long ones. gimme the onect over, HELEN KELLER, * Ingghe Bronx Zoo the other day I saw Helen Keller, the biind, deaf and dumb “wonder woman,” having her picture taken holding the hand of a huge brown ape, Miss Keller's “eyes” for thm day was a ten-year-old girl, who was telling her all about what was going on by means of Httle taps with @ finger in the palm of her hand. She understood all that was going on and seemed to enjoy it, with the ape—his expression was really quite human.—A. M. P., We field, N. J. ONCE IN A YEAR, I was only nine-tenths of a mile from home, but I felt Hke @ stranger in @ strange land, 1 had to work late last Saturday night, It was the first evening 1 had been away from my wife since our marriage nearly a year ago. J felt utterly foreign to ny surroundings, and when at 10 o'clock I got in sight of my home the Mghts in the windows never looked brighter, and all I could think of as I quickened my step and hastened forward was how soon I could get to the welcome I knew awaited me—V., Patchogue, L. L. |G DEMAND FOR WOODEN BOXES When I finished giving my order in @ krocery store to-day I asked that the goods be delivered in a wooden box, The clerk said they had none left, add- {ng that for the past month or two all Customers were requesting that goods delivered in wooden boxes. The store was pugzled until one day a woman cus- tomer explained that since e coal strike she was collecting all the wood she could to guard against # fuel short- rs, A. G. Selater, No. 18 North s Avenue, Port Washington, L. 1 ET AGENTS GKOW RUSTY, I left my commutation ticket on the train to-day and after my shopping trip found myself 28 cents short of enough money to pay for # ticket. The ticke' seller obligingly gave me the ticket and I promised to pay Monday. When I did so, he sald: “You're an exception, madam. So few people remember to come back and pay us when we a comynodate them. I don't suppose they meah to be dishonest, but—well, I sup- pose they're #0 busy catching trains they can’t remember these small debts. Yet they're always mighty obliged to us when we help ‘em out."—Ruth Leigh, No. 18 North Baylly Avenue, Port Washington, L. I. AFTER MANY YEARS, While waiting for a friend ne University Avenut wanted a certain plece of work They could nat be made to unde nd the foreman, his head and saii back memories of the time when a boy. My dad brought me a wooden men to play with and them. I commenced to cry mother said: ‘Don't cry, sonny, find them some day.’ Bedad, I've found them!"—Arechibald M. Noi $1; Vornilysa: Avehuer Brons PWAYERS, - _ 4 friend whom J was visiting Iaat _ fvening in Brooklyn wus having trouble convincing her three-year- old aon that it swoas time for ¢ fandman. Ie had exhausted all the customary “stalls” practised by chil- dren to put off the evil hour of go- ing to bed, auch as kisses all around, drinks of water, declarations of un- dying love, dc., and hie mother fin~ ally had unwillingly to get out the razor strop—whose meaning hd ap- peared to know. “Muvver, I foryot- ted my pwayers,” he suggested soft- ly. There was no resisting that, of course, and he spun out that prayer to wnusual length, winding up with, “God bless muvver, God bless Dad, God bless auntic, and (prolonyed pause and a glance at the strop), God dices the razor stwop!” And with a final “God Diesa” he was asleep om his mother's shoulder.— Mrs. Myrtle Dunham, No. 206 West 106th Street, ~ SOME OF THE OLDER MEMBERS MAY KNOW WHAT A ABOUT, On my way to work this morning T counted eleven “dead soldiers" on Broadway between 624 and 49th Streets. They bore such labels as “Haig & Haig.” “Gregan Rive rstulrs, “Canadian Club" and “Mountain Dew. John D. Appleby was quoted in The Evening World as saying at the Amer- lean Bankers’ Association convention that the only good whiskey in New York City is in the Customs ware- houses. I don't belleve it.—S. A. Wal- do, No, 874, Bigth Avenue, OUT OF TOWN. THE NICE DOGIE MAN. Watlo 1 ‘was watking along the atreat in Jersey City with my little four-year-old daughter, I suddenly heard @ Uttle boy shout ‘ewcitedly: “Here comes the boogie man!” and he and is sister ran into the house and slammed the door, I looked around and saw @ man with a lony beard. He sharpens. knives and saws for a living and earri: kit om hie back. He had really kin face, and my little girl, who has never deen frightened with threate of a “boogie man,” looked up at him as he passe by. His Jace lighted with a smile, and my Uttle girl said, “Mother, isn't he a nice man!’’-—Mrs, Julian 8, Scholl, Grandview Terra Tenafty, N. J. ONIONS AND CANDY, A \Ay carrying a large’ bag caine I WASTE, On Sunday my motheny had just @ressed for church. She had on # nice White waist. Thinking she'd like a little talcum powder, she took « box ook It down her She had used my black cleaner. Her waist was white no r—Lillian A, Hayden, No, 436 ‘West 36th Street. Yesterday’s Special Prizes Ford Car EDWARD A. WILSON, No. 161 Ninth Avenue (Winner: please report immediately to City Editor, Evening Wo jeation.) ‘ First Cash Prize, $25 JAMES F, MeGUIRE, No. 341 East 143d Street, Bronx. Second Cash Prize, $10 JAMES BOND, Box 67, Luke Como, N. J. Third Cash Prize, $5 SARA GREENBLATT, No. 119 Westerveit Brighton, 8. I. Ten Cash Prizes of $2 Each MRS. CHESTER A, MORRIS, No, 1050 Jackson Avenue, Bronx. MRS. ELIZABETH GUNTHER, No. 63 Overlook Avenue, Dongan Hills, 8. I. A. J. SODICK, No, 518 West 151st Street. MARGARET V. WALTHALL, No. 126 Washington Place. LITTLE LORD LUCK, From my desk in an office on 25th Street IT can see the armory where during the World's Serles they showed the baseball returns for a fee of 26 cents. Boys and even men hung from the iron bars that surround the small windows. Guards and a policeman chased them away, but for two days one small boy stood on a railing that ounds an open door and saw the gamé replayed, unseen by any one be- low.—H. N. Klein, No. 353 Garden Ave- nue, Mount Vernon, N. ¥. * BRIGUTENING THE CORNERS, ‘= -#= « varge bunch of sweet pc 1 boarded a University Avenue ci Road. The conductor admired them and asked for two or three. I gave him a handful. He walked for- ward and put a sizeable bouquet in the ‘gotorman’s buttonhole then resurned “The motorman thanks you much." I was well repald —M W. Hotehk Avenue, New very Amy iss, No. 2411 Grand Ave-|into Harrison & Dalley's department — MRS, ADELE LE BIHAN, S0th Street and Columbus Avenue store In Nyack and stopped at the| 7 oe as Caray wus ee Ne a Jem bles Avent, Astoria: : ciehaee: vening te enter ; 3 N KIRK, No. allace Street, Rei PASSES. notion mr, lad evidently was}tained a few irlends, and we enjoyed Bank, NL do. by rion . ‘Two of the men in our office wanted| heavy and she lift t to set it on al music until about 10 o'clock, when the aoe gud J HEURIG, No. 2 go to the World's Series game one| chair. bottom fell out and ubout}iandiont rang the bell and said it bid Sebi JOHN H » No, 246 North High Street, Mount i last week. No tickets were to be|ten quarts of smal! white onions tum-|*time to sleep.” He being the land- Pe sa Ae i neu DAS 4 Gloom, deep and solemn. ‘Tele-| bled to the floor and rolled in every] tord, the suggestion put an end to our F R. SOLOMONS, No, 1725 Cornclia Street, Brooklyn. Bla, bla, bla, bla. Gloom di A customer had direction. The five girls who work at PRA No. the counter rushed to her assistance. Two hours later, when all was cleaned up, I saw the lady at the counter again, This time she was passing around a box in the office? COULD] of candy. Lillian Sutgerland, El- Manhattan, len Street, Upper Nyack, N, ¥. FORD A DAY,” J. SMITH, 441 ast 134th Street. party. This morning I was awakened by a constant hammering, between 6 and 7 o'clock, I got out of bed to see what it was, There was our landlord repairing the fence. He bem nd- mg the lord, I said nothing.—J. W., Paterson you think best. Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pic- torial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to- morrow, ri THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. izes are in addition. Send them to “What Did You See?” Editor, Evening RITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD, TELL YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE, IN NOT MORE THAN 125 WORDS. STATE WHERE THE THING WRITTEN ABOUT, “ULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS MAILED oaks’ : SPECIAL PRIZE, A‘ FORD CAR A DAY FOR FOUR WEEKS; FIRST CASH PRIZE, RIZE, $10; THIRD CASH PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for next best a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or knew of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask fer the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news, BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. aye lee allee oo!"—Frank L. Penney, No. 114 West 47th Street. OUT OF TOWN. BROOKLYN COUNTING ON A “DELIVERY” CHARGE, AFTER HOURS, “DRAW. Early yesterday morning while on my way td, work the Myrtle Avenue train came to a sudden stop at Tompkins Avenue Station. , Being nearly thrown over the seat in front of me I lifted my eyes from opposite I saw a woman, holding a roll of bills in one hand and a pair She disposed of the bilis somehow and with her right hand went back into the pants for mofe. In’ the alcove next to the parlor lay her husband, in deep slumber, littfe dreaming of the scene of domestic larceny that was being enacted so near. proceeded to Manhattan I tried to figure out whether the roll came from the series, the ponies, or the national game. cided !t must have been “draw.”—Julius Reinike, No. 1483 De Kalb My sister, ving in New Rochelle, is and I bought three At the 180th Street subway station the bottom tore out of the bag as I stepped on the plat- form and all the rolls were spilled out. In @ second conductors and, passengers paners ace. coped 9 . Ho said t that 4f every lit- THE KIND or CHAP TO Go ovT| tow Fo a igh ri bps roe Four of us went crabbing the other When I awoke this morning 1 {were chasing tho runaway rolis and} 0% Baer mobe wana relied i ‘with. : He asked if I had dropped it and day and wo were followed by an found the family greatly excited. |every one was brought to me. 5 told] 6% coat should do the same.—Mre, big pot of coffee from the lunchroom and we all sat down and ate the rolls and drank coffee from peper cups. Sev- eral of the conductors sang and danced which ended only when a gong sounded Gast Elghth Gtreet, s afternoon while walking through my way through a crowd on| Guard No. 14,614 0n a Rid; op, it, No. st OC Street, Pats vlad ‘ man ‘ igewood “1/ meet aGUmen, . ATCOess | ae BUTTON, BUTTON. Bedford Avenue I saw three small boys, 1th “Avenue, saw ae with alear yesterday chogue, L. 1 all of them wearing “Don't Get Hur motor truck.—John J, Corcoran, No. 125 HIS OTHER ONES. boy came in, approached in the most businesslike way imaginable, and asked if there wasn't a job here for him. that there was no vacancy at present and for a minute he was the that’s only because me mother is washing out me long ones. you think I’m too young, just because I got THE: You'll see! * —kK. E. Barry, No. 12 St. Charles Place, Brooklyn, ear an apartment house under construction in 1 saw an Irish fore- man try to explain to his men how he perplexed, seratched Yop fellows bring and GIVEN AWAY FREE FOR-FO 1922. Regular CAPITAL PR DAILY Prize Winner READERS- stories the window. In one of the flats directly As we T've about de- DOING HIS BIT, Many of my neighbors collect wood for the winter from the beach, near which we ali tive. I told my little fon that if he got some wood too 4 would help, Yesterday he came home with his hands ail black, It developed that the lady next door had had some coal put in and there were some pieces the coal men had overlooked. My boy had picked them up fot gota] Grace Mooney No. 1465 Bath Ave- nue, Bath Beach, Brooklyn, THE GOLD PIECE. feast, Mary|ment. The salesman, an American, looked at the coin, turned It over, pushed It back, saying, still refused to take it. for the customer.—G. I, Helfert, 2308 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. going this morning in a book bindery on Atlan- Place, when an unusually bright looking I was obliged to tell him He had turned to go when he thought to say: “I'm fn short pants to-day, but Maybe on? I look great T'll come back to-morrow and you can * And I believe he will keep his word, BRONX THREE TIMES, somewhat rudely curtailed by a saxo- phone, slowly, carefully, haltingly pla: ing “Three o'Clock in the Morning. We went to dine with ffiends in Bush- wick, done. rstand us there with the same tune. In the T was}afternoon we went to Far Rockaway lot offand there at the other extreme of New 1 lost my ou think Nicol, York Cit our ears O'Clock,” tingly by Bowles, No, 1644 + as we walked on the beach were greeted with e slowly, carefully, s@xophone.—F. C. elson Avenue, Bronx. rendered a |VERSTEIN OPENS, 8 My wife was away and I brought some friends to the house for a game of poker. While we played . gg on the door ac which break friends, thinking it was a raid, ducke’ IT spread a cloth over the cards and chips and opened the door. Outside stood my next door neighbor and two policemen, She had called them up, knowing my wife was away, and told them there was a burglar in the house! —Abe Silverstein, No, 3472 Seabury ‘Avenue, Bronx. ‘ WATCH THE DOORS AND YOUR STEP; DON'T GET HURT. This afternoon I saw a taxi from tohich the driver was absent stand- ing in front of No. 1570 Washington Avenue. On. the swindshield was pasted a triangular sign reading: “Don't Get Hurt—Safe.y Week, Oct. 5-14.” Four small boys jumped into the madhine and suddenly it started rolling down the hill. I jumped for- ward just in time to stop it and avoid what would have been a sert- ous accident, for at the bottom of the hill crosstown trafic was in mo- tion and the oar would have passed the school croasing at Washington Avertuc and Claremont Parkway. John .F, A. Nevins, No. 493 East 168th Street, Brona. FURTHER INFORMATION, I saw in the “What Did You & ‘To-Day?” pi that H. A. story of the “Man in the Black Bag’ won a $10 prize. Gerald M. P. Fitzgibbons of No. 431 E. Street; that il stunt artist, an ex-A. cross-country champion, a well U n0W! A University Avenue, Bronx ~ Other Than Thoso to Whom tl $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10, EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS A foreigner, entered a cigar store on Flatbush Avenue while I was standing by the counter, purchased a package of cigarettes and tendered a coin in pay- and ‘We take only American money here; that’s no good.” Having spent five years in Europe, I stepped closer, looked at the coin and told the clerk It was a $2.50 gold. piece. He nevexhad heard of such a thing and made change ‘On Sunday my morning snooze was Brooklyn, and a sax entertalned aE a A AA te EP et Phe Bi ental en I have learned that the performer of the handcuff feat is he is famed as a UR WEEKS WEEKLY PRIZES. IZES for the Best Stories of the Week to Be Distributed Among Ford Cars are Awarded: FIRST, QUEENS. THE DEAD MAN. My husband {fs an undertaker and I am inclined to think that an- less their interest can somehow be diverted our two little boys will be choosing to follow the same line. You know what imitators children are. Well, to-day they were playing out in front of the house, as usual, and when I went to call them in for a little luncheon I found Georgie, four years old, just beginning to nail a cover onto a box. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, “Playing dead man.” ‘“AVhere is Jackie?” I asked. “Jackie’s the dead man!” ex- plained George, “He's in the box. I pulled the cover off that box in less than no time and there I saw Jackie, two and a half years old; curled up and making believe he was the‘dead man, I have. made their daddy put out of sight every box and everything else of the kind around this house.—Mrs, George M. Conway, No. 47 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City. AN BIG BROTHER. On Jamaica Avenue yesterday a of three and her two brothers, aged fou? and six years, all plentifully begrimed from pleying in the mud, were gasing fongingly into @ bakery window, © spoke to them when I saw the oldest boy counting over four pennies, and he said If he had one more penny he could buy two buns for a nickel. I gave it to sed two buns. One zeve to his sister. The other he broke tn two, giving half to his brother, ‘Why did you give a whole bun to your ster?” I asked. ‘Ladies first, efr,’* he replied, touching his cap.—J. Js O'Connor, No. 107 Clinton Avenue, Ja- matca, NCIDENT IN THE ‘UNDEL- WORLD, I saw @ young man drop two coins in one of the I. R. T. subway gates to- day, and the girl who was. with him passed through the gate but it stuck when the man tried to go through. He indignantly called an employee and sald he had deposited two. nickels and wanted action. The guard tinkered with the door of the money box, poked in his fingers and extracted a penny. “You can't ride for ore cent,” said h “put In a nickel and you'll get through. —George W. Akerly, No. 760 Third ‘Avenue, College Point. TWO GENTLEMEN. As I passed a retail candy shop fn the Hudson Terminal Building I saw a cou- ple of boys ask a woman for the cou- pons she got with her purchase, She looked at them coldly and deliberately tore the coupons and threw the pleces * Into the street. Just then a young man aceldentally bumped into her. package of candy fell to the floor, burt open and scattered ‘the contents all about. The bo: instead of laughing, sympathetically stooped and helped her pick up her candy.—James Neal, No. 10936 Lambert Street, Glen Morris, L. I. IN THE SOUP. A huge green turtle attracted the attention of many pedestrians yester- day, waving Its flippers as It lay on its back in the window of a restaurant at Broadway and Howard Street. While I watched the turtle, a restaurant em- ployee grabbed one of tts flippers and dragged It to an elevator leading to the basement. I had heard that green turtle soup was very fine, so, allowing time for the turtle to make his adieux to this world and some time for cook Ing, I returned to the restaurant. I'll ray {t tasted better than the turtle looked.—Caspgr Cantazaro, No. 29 Globe Avenue, Jamaica. “PAPER TALK. ‘I saw an old gentleman reading his paper of a S4th Street ferryboat * HATS OFF! @ few mornings ago. Two young During the dedication of a memorial] women, in passing through the monument .for the boys from Morris] cabin, grected him with, “Good Park, Duriton, Glén Morris and Rich mond Hill who made the supreme sacri fice dix the gVorld War, a member of the American. Legion who was in the pa- rade. passing through uroh Street suddenly brought his-riffe to his shoul- der and pointed it at a young man who had fatled to salute the pacsing golors. No hat ever was refhoved more swiftly than that young man then removed his. —Charles L. Smith, No, 8558 114th Street, Richmond Hill. morning; it’s a nice day.” And then that literal old gentleman replied, “I see it is by the paper.” Some people can belicve a thing only if they see it im Black and white.— Mrs. Fred Schmitz jr., No. 900 Theodore Street, Steinway, L. I. ‘THERE NEVER rs REASON FOR IT. Two women were ahead of me last evening on the stairs leading to the L station at Franklin and Lexington Ave- nues. The younger woman, about thirty, was hurrying to catch a train that was just pulling into the station and she was calling, “Hurry up, mother, hurry up!” Mother was out of breath and unable to make haste, Neverthe- 4eas, when they reached the platform and found the tram had gone, tho daughter berated and scolded her mother for being so slow. Those trains run every four or five minutes and the loss of five minutes appeared to me a very small reason for scolding one’s mother. the unusual sicht.—Blanche Rosenbaum, |—Gustavus Felleman, No. 12319 Hillside No. 9434: 96th Street, Woodhven, Avenue, Richmond Hill. RICHMOND. LOOKING, FOR “TROUBLE.” While making a tour of inspection of some Shipping Board vessels in Staten Island Sound I noticed two safl- ors who were spraying ofl over a ship's metal sides to prevent rust. They were using a hand force pump and a length of hose. Suddenly there was a stop~ page in the hose and the man who was holding it was invéstigating when the trouble was overcome and he was drenehed from head to foot with olf. His shipmate nearly fell overboard tm his paroxysm of laughter.—H. W. Helier, care S, S, Livingstone, Chelsea, Staten Island. A PUBLIC BATH, T had no sooner started to water my garden with a hose one day last K, when things were so dry it seemed as if they would all turn to dust and blow way, then a sparrow parked himself rectly in the spray, ruffled his feath- ‘'s and enjoyed a free bath. Another and another joined him, until there must! bave been fifty’ sporting them- selves almost at my fget. Not one of the birds disp! d any’ fear of me or of n number of children who. paused to see Cc. LER & SON, Charlie was seated outside his laundry on Bay Street this eve- ning as I was on my way home. In his arms was the first Chinese baby born on Staten Island, and the proud father was crooning lullabys in Chinese.—Nicholas G. De Joy, No, 6 Smith Street, Rogedank, 8. I. Lee OPPORTUNITY FOR AN ARTIST. Ata South Ferry cabstand this morn- Ing I saw a chauffeur sitting up on the box of an old-fashioned sea-going-horse, drawn cab and chatting with eabby who was seated by his side,—W Linder, St. Mark's Place, ‘w Brigh- WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY, Not a child was in sight yesterday on Richmond Avenue when a band 8 ICE WAGON. walking on Van Duzen Street, While on, I saw & woman with a dish-| struck up a tune. Instantly, from no- allini mister!’ to a man} body could tell where, children com- an ic wagon. She reached his menced to flock toward the band. They cume singly, in couples and in droves, dragging carts and pushing baby car- Some tots were carrying still wagon all out of breath and gasped t she wanted 15 cents’ worth of tc man answered: ‘Sorry, ma'am, Poe fea ALGO 8 en Sostan eas tots to hear the music, and all hrm Nov S) enjoyed it keenly.—Mrs, George Geer, No. 30 Bowles Avenue, Port Richmond, EITHER SHALL THEY LEARN | Staten Island, WAR ANY MORE,” On either end of a porch on Virginia Avenue there Is hanging flowerpot of ferns. On close Micra veh once the pots are steel helmets, such as used by our.-soldiers overseas, turned up- ward.—Antoinette Santon, No, 110 Vir- ginjayAvenue, Rosebank, 8. I. TOMBOY. This morning as I was passing the corner of" St. Paul's Avenue and Grant Street, this place, I saw a pretty little blond girl of nine years perched on the very top of an unusually high corner, ign post. 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