The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1922, Page 23

® MANHATTAN, DOWN OFF HIS HIGH HORSE. WENT into a 114th Street market to-day and selecting the fish I ] wanted handed it to the man in charge cud said, “Cut me four slices of this, please.” He did so, placed the slices in paper 4M without at any time making a visit to the scales and, handing me the parcel, said “Sixty cents.” The nerve of the man! “You haven't weighed it,” I said. “No,” he roared, “and what's more I won't weigh it! Sixty cents! Take it or leave it!” He was so terribly excitod about the matter that I determined not to be, but at the same time to insist upon my rights. “Look here, Mister Man,” I sald, “you will weigh that fish or you will be arrested for refusing to weigh it. I * My, but he He very slowly and He squinted at tho “Sixty Mary Kocher, No. 2012 Fifth Avenue. give you fair warning. Take your choice.” * * came down off his high horse! Yes sir, he did. deliberately placed the parcel on the scales, figure. He looked at the bundle and looked back again. cents,” he sald. And I paid. GON 1 saw a lady walk into an auction room on 42d Street, beween Sixth Avenue and Broadway, with an open umbrella, which the kept open while in the place. Pres- ently the auctioneer saw her and sald: “Lady, I had the roof repaired this Morning.” ‘The lady shut the umbrella, eo Tiesing, No. 288 Avenue A. RE WORE THE UNIFORM. MISSING FRIEND. Im the door window of Butler's store at Bleecker and Charles Streets on Sunday I saw a notice reading, “Lost—f female dog, old, black, blind in ome eye, hard of hedring. Strayed away from— Charles Street. Reward for ree turn’—Mra, A, Myles, No. 15 Van Nest Plaoe. grocery and a white turban, He was syrrounded | ¢ Eighth by @ small crowd, to whom he was say: ing: * upon the Shiek of Araby Then ho brought from the depths of coat a pack of fortune-telling car Byvery time ho sold a deck he murmured what passed for an incantation. To all he gave his business cards, which read Prof. Sait-Tout, State-Lake Building. fcago.""—Liane Phelonn, No. 706 Third ke $2.90, drawer; he was to in the cash Finally he top shelf stood on 3 ched down roll of bills. our money in unusual places n he noted my surpris Syrell, No. 674 St. Nicholas Avenue. COMMON . open surface car on which I was stopped at Broadway and, 23d and I felt a tug at my umbrella, whose ferrule rested on the floor and whose handle was in one of my hands. Turning quickly, I looked into the f. of @ man who was trying to wrest the umbrella from my grasp. He released his hold in a hurry and ran around th end of the car.—Mrs. W. A. Lowrle, No. 104 West 49th Street. ROPER ‘The riding Street THE MONSIGNOR REGISTERS. on Saturday 1m Rev, Mgr. Moon Heart Churc mobile. He is between so that he cannot walk assistance of two attendants had been registering so he ci good example.—Mrs. Robert J. No, 408 West Sist Street. THANKS TO MRS. BROWN. yet THE BATH. A woman about sixty years of age walked in and inquired for my moth- or yesterday afternoon when I an- swered a knock ot our When I told her my mother was out, she said, “She and I are good friends, and I told her [ would come up some 1 Friday on and Pittsf schedule of door. the id, M trolley between “A FORD A DAY.” Special Additional Daily Prize for Contributions to This Page Until November 1. OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorial Edition. Yesterday at noon in front ‘of the CONFIDE AL. Public Library on Fifth Avenue T saw] yesterday afternoon in a grocery store @ man 1 ¢ a Prince Albert cont Avenue and 140th Street I handed the clerk a $20 bill, out of which He fumbled about then held a whis pered consultation with another clerk. box and from the a tin labelled “Pineapple,” from which he extracted u “You see, we have to be mighty careful these days, so we hide he said ‘Madeline As I was passing a registration oMce ning I saw the Right Rector of Sacred » West Sist.Street, pain- fully making bis way to a waiting auto- seventy and elghty years of age, and is paralyzed save with ie 18 vote, A Boyd, saw some system exemplified last Adams 8. The ears run ona ) minutes, and the motor- THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922, EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BR IGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS in One Dollar is paid for item printed; the To. One Bolas i paid for every tom pratdy the pr ‘orld, Post Office Box 185, Hall Station, and interesting 5; pecial Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. 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 CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS MAILED DAILY. For the best stories each $28; SECOND CASH : SPECIAL PRIZ! IZE, $10; THI CASH PR A FORD CAR A DAY UNTIL NOVEMBER 1; FIRST CASH PRIZE, IZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for next best stories If you witness @ serious accident, the eutbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or knew of ary ether BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR ef The Evening Wo BRONX, ee “NOT A CHANCE!” Toon T was standing at the corner of 64th Street and Anreter- dam Avenue when a truck pulled up near the fire hydrant. The driver climbed down from his perch, reached into a box, Pulled out a great long tape measure, and began measuring the dis- tance between the front of the truck and the fire pump. A police- man was among the few who watched the performance, ‘I didn't know what to make of it, I think the cop though the man was “bugs.” The officer walked over, studied the show a minute and asked how come, “What's the large notion?” he says. “Well,” says the chauffeur, looking up at him with the tape in his hands, “I got a ticket last week for parking nine and a half feet from one of these pumps. So I went end bought me this measure, and if ever again I get caught within ten feet of one of these dinguses you can throw me and the truck In the river; what do you know about that?”—John H. Simon, No. 1439 Prospect Avenue, Bronx, SATURDAYS CHILD. My little brother 4s of choot age. Every mening I eee my mother bend over is bed and hear her eay: “Eddy, get up. It’s half past seven o'clock already.” Eddy Jawne and saya: “The clock must be fast.” Then he rolls over ané promptly falls asleep again, However, on Sate urday there 4s no echool and prompt ly at seven I see Eddy arise with a jump out of bed. Mother eave to him: “You can go to sleep again, Eddy. It’s only 7 o'clock.” “Oh,” saye Eddy driskiy, “our olook must be slow,” and he dresses with alacrity.—Dora Albert, No. 681 Hast 136th Street, Brona, FROM ONE WHO KNOWS. At midnight Tuesday I saw a car stalled at Webster Avenue and 190th treet, A man was tinkering with it I noticed it had @ short circuit. I re- marked about it to the man, but ho an- swered curtly he knew what he was d ing. I know wiring, so I told him again the machine had a short circuit This time told me to go mind my business. It hurt my feeling, so I drew off. In @ Iuttle while he got into the ar and I heard the whirr of the scif- starter, Instantly a blaze came froin the motor. The man screamed for help. Well, to make a long story short, {n spite of all [could do the machine was @ wreck, Even the Fire Department could do nothing. And this man was erying lke @ child who has lost his fa- vorite toy, His loss, he told me, was bout $2,500. Then I told him if ne would have taken som? advice he would not have lost it. He answered that hereafter he would take advice from anybody. He gave me $10 for my trouble and told me to come to his shop for @ job, “SO VERY TIRED.” On the Lexington Avenue Subway to- y I saw a girl who evidently was in sad need of sleep. Between Bist Street and 149th Street she yawned eleven |. Liberal awarde fer firat big news, JURE OF YOUR FACTS. OUT OF TOWN. FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP. Y father and I are paperhangers. To-day we were papering a room in a house at Laighton Avenue and River Street in Ret Bank, N. J., and when we saw with what difficulty the old paper came off, my Dad remarked that the man who put !t on “put it on to stay.” The paper was of a design that {s not made any more, and we knew the job must have dated back many years. I was on the last wall of that room when I uncovered some writing on the wall, It was my father's signature, with the date, Oct. 14, 1897—Hverett W. Bennett, Hatonville, N. J. ry | Terminal, My nearest neighbors were a young man and a young woman, They were very much taken with one another, I heard him say, “But I'm dying for just one kiss.” They buzz, buzz, buzzed for a few minutes and the girl sald “I have it!” She revealed her plan, whatever it was, in a low tone and presently I saw them dash for the nearest trafn track—not far from where they had been sitting and heard the young man say, “Hurry, Dot, you've got just one minute Then he got the kt °° © It was sort of “fare thee ONE MINUTE. a SAT on one of the benches of the lower level at Grand Centra: well, and {f forever still forever fare thee well” kiss. A parting kiss. © * © Then the young lady darted in for “her” train, and the young man walked to the opposite side of the terminal, In about three minutes she returned and joined him and they left the station together. I looked at the indicator referring to the train she had dashed for with “only one minute.” The notice said, “Brewster Local, 12.55." Then I looked at the Terminal clock. That fixed the time as 12.35.—Miss Betty White, No. 161 South Lexington Avenue, White QUESTION AND ANSWER. Just a moment before the train pulled into the Lesington Avenue subway station in which I wos standing to-day I eaw a fat man step on the foot of a much emaller man. Instead of apologteing the big I saw a little knot of workmes with stones fn their hands, wat on @ road near here. Just us I react the place I saw an old white-hatred la borer stoop, pick up the toad with both Regular CAPITAL PRIZES for the Best Stori DAILY Prize Winners Other Than Thoso to Whom the Ford Cars are Awarded: $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. some hing a big, fat toad that lad become mired in the tar dressing the men were placing I'm working thei hands, carry it to the side of th oud fay and take a both.” Realizing {man has a sub-schedule of hie own. | mes, She may have yawned more) ne taken alt the advicu I ‘offereeTames | 110 glared at tho ttle one and land eet it carefully down In some long that, only about # per cent. of the | When the crewa were changed at Cho- |and could’ hat ccnmt further--R. Har- | Comenzo, No. 845 E, 218th Street, Will-| %@4d! “Well, what are you going to | grass, Then he resumed his work. For people who live in our neighborhood | shir bacnrtulrh rretouul ie ae rls, No, 832 Whitlock Avenue, Bronx. |!@msbridge, Bronx. do about ttf” The little fellow an- | an instant the other laborers looked at have bath tubs in their homes, 1 [hand, took the tiller, It was bapa awered: “I wasn't going to do amy: him, then at one anotler, then they consented, and prepared the bath for | co! une hia soup course, At 108 He ON BROADWAY! A SHOP IN DELANCEY STRERT. thing, but now I think x wit,» |DFoke out with, “Hurrah for old John!” her, Mu" mother returned as the [had pot roast and vegetables. ACT} on priday, the 13th, as T was walking| Any one who knows New York knows| «hercupon he gave the fat man’a | 3J.,i Poulson, No, 69 Rubber Avenue, aged woman re-entered the room, o'clock he bad custard Dies ane eve [YP Broadway at theatre time I saw u|how cleverly interior decorators are @ Rearty punch on the nose and ran | NAUsAtuCK, Conn. i bathed, dressed and refreshed. They | followed fn ten minul At tore, our {82 Dill and # $1 bill lying on the side-|gulsing stores.) However, tle master-| into the train, which, fortunately Jor ens : were strangers. “f must have made Jstopped at a water plump. wbere fT} walk, Hundreds of people wera pass-|plece has been achieved I beileve in De-| him, arrived at that moment. SANDY GV'ES A LASSI WARN : a inistake, said our visitor, ‘it must | skipper washed his coffee bot i snips |{2S) but none was paying any attention |lancey Street, where I saw to-day al Yiola B, Mulford, No. 189 is A four-year-old boy, one of a family 7 be the woman upstairs who is my | ing with cold water, to be taken in nIPS |i them, I picked them up and walked | Japanese facade with pagoda roof. In} Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. recently arrived from Scotland—grani. i friend.” But if her hopes for my we proceed And his angie on. Before I had gone fifty fect I felt] the window of this Nipponese example . beeen east mother, parents and children—was call- . Galfare come to fruition, her grati: |operutiona all wero accomplished while|s tap on ihe aheuider and oxpected tae aroiitecture, set among tasscia, nope He AUER E het aE ene i tude will not have tine to grow cool | we were travelling at thirty-nve miles |eome one to claim the money. Instead|vases, statues and flowers, were the 2 sup my ‘ F recently when I was there, | My ‘i before 1 am a@ millionaire.—Jack |an hour!—Joseph J. Levy, No. 683 West} man was smiling at tae and holding|very latest thing in shoes.—Anna| To-day I saw Gene Sarazen, the golf | brother's family have grown very. fond faracl, No. 33 Market Street, 158th Street, out another $1 bill. “You dropped this] Beckengteen, No. 796 East 175th Btreet,| champion, recuperating from his opera- | of the little fellow, because of his quaint ‘ too, madam," he said, pushing the bill | Bronx. tion for appendicitis at St. John’s Hos-| ways and sayings. After lunch of BLIND. Into my hand and disappearing into the —_—— Litera Rparrele I had gone eter | my nephews offered ine a cigarette ‘ AAR ‘ uF 7 saF crowd before I could say a word.— INVITATION. visit the doctors and nurses who had| Sandy's eyea were glued upon tne s Heuer ate eaqeegens of ASW EL age been holding tee bis Smith, No. 1037 Ogden Avenue,| In an uptown Lexington Avenue sub-|8ttended me @ year ago and Dr. Gold- | lighted ie thentne Fala tog Tekan * and House Furnishing Exposition in the First Regiment Armory Bronx. way train to-day I saw a young man|farb permitted me to visit Gene. He] your granny'll gle you the stick if she t and, as an attendant at the booth of one of the exhibitors, T WEDL) a0 nid ONG! maid with a suitcase, apparently a salesman, | Was feelloke tie end ae paid shat catches you?"'—Mrs. Jeannette Wood, saadne ey cae VELL, JUST NCE, PERILANS.| enter my car, drop his case, take a wal-|he suggested to Dr. Goldfarb that they] Washington Strect, Nyack, N. Y. . have been studying one of the saddest and yet one of the most won T overheard an argument. to-day sec lat erent bik matca dimes, since the jent had nes derful phases of life. Across the aisle from me ts the exhibit of the |rarding the method followed by you in| tents, which consisted of several checks| three on the table, Dr. Goldfarb had NOTHING DOING. © New Jersey Commission for the Blind. Here is shown the handt- [reading “What Did You See To-Day?") and some falr-sized bills. Then he put} one. I added one to Gene's number and WAlte I was going to work tn my . i ‘ Oh ¢ [letters A claimed all letters received the wallet back into his left hip pocket. | in a fow minutes of exciting see-sawing | automobile this morning in (lon work of our unfortunate brothers and sisters who are deprived o! were not read. B clatmed that all let-]No wonder there are pickpockets in the|Gene won all the money. It seemed] Ridye I saw a boy standing im tho sight. One would expect to see them depressed and discouraged but pee received Py tag yk read wey oar care when they can get such a line on|to please him as muchas winning aclose| road with his hand upraised as $f ‘ : 4 they were recelved. To convince doubt- | shes as easily as this.—Kugene I", Rus- | match would.—Herman 1, Wanderman,| he wanted to atop the cur. 1 asked as I study them they seem to be not merely contented but happy. Jing ehontasea I am writing this note at|sel, No. 303 Kast 140th Street, Broux. | No. 95 Warburton Avenue, Yonk lig ehatihe aeanian aud ho vreniied = They chat and laugh to:ether as they do the things they have beon [7.45 P. M. Saturday and ft ought to be ; he wanted to go to the yolf club to RSet hacen 4 : delivered to you Monday A. M., Oct. 16. b D; ak useful a her g | ‘01 A old him was oO} , one of them is k za veaving at a hand-loo: still another, a girl of eighteen, who recently lost her hearing and then her sight, is pounding away at a typewriter and making excellent speed. Whenever in the future I am tempted to find fault with my condition Iam going to think of what I saw here.—D. J. Loudenslager, No. 1640 University Avenue. RICHMOND, IY, BORDEN, HOW ABOUT THOSF THE AGE OW INNOCENCE, brother cried far some of them, and in order to persuade Robert to part smaller boy on the ¢ steps away was taking at! nother PATIENCE (8 \ VIRTUR, nearby pile of garbag Murphy, No. Brighton, 8. 1, snd move 1 to do so, ‘The © store but failed Then he got on the ved d th r eould whereriy drove ear ¢ 1 And the point io th ory ix that th DELIVERIN E Goons. saw our Chinese laundryman riding proudly along Bay Street to- motorinal never one \ nse] day in a new Ford sedan.—Minnie patience. —Olin A Machey, No. 19 1 Griler, No. 66 Grant Street, Tomp- pect Place, New Dorp, > kinsville, Staten Istand. ‘A FORD DUTTONS? My oldest son, now five years old, yetarton a) milk driver, returning | returned from his second day in kinder- ay from serving his custom= ‘ ers, gave my vounn son Rabert |Sarten and, standing in the doorway, some buttons which advertised “Bor- | Proudly announced: "Got my tonsils den's Fern Butter.” His smaller out to-d: Hts tonsils were removed 4 year ago and I wanted to know what he was talking about, After question- toith a few, 1 told him Borden would | ing him I learned that u nurse had exc bring him more on the morrow. This | amined his thr ind must have said poring when 1 arose at 6 o'clock |*You have your tonsils out.” Then, jo give the baby his bottle, I found | childlike, he came home thinking the Robert wissing from his crib, 1 | nurse had removed them.—Louise Camp- seaiched the house and then the | bell, No. 165 Wright Street, Stapleton, ward. 1 found him sitting on the |S, 1. front porch in his night clothes awaits d, for ‘Borden FUN IN A PHOTOGRAPH ERY. bstine buttous.—Mrs. De In a vacant lot on York Avenue, } borah itath, N Contre Street, | Brighton, to-day 1 saw five boys hol New D el ing a goat while two other lads held a A few youngster exierday at & Hill on, the snapshots of the group, saying mond trolley line, L saw n-large|@s he did so: ‘Whoa, Billy! “Look ack t of a sto but] Pleasant, everybody and “Aw, can't 1 directly in the path of | You keep quite I noticed ‘also. that A e ri ny nan sounded] the camera was an old flashlight which ie ‘cain asa signal} £ome one probably had thrown frito the -Mrs. Catherine 146 Winter Avenue, New a prize should you publish this letter, as it Is merely written to dispense doubtful thoughts regarding a discu sion overheard to-day.—John EB. Mar- row, No. 974 Freeman Street, Bronx. THE SCHOOL PIANO, While registering !n the school near my home the other day I noticed an old- fashioned grand plano. I found ! in a shocking condition—ivory gone from the keys, dust covered and filled with pea- nut shells. But the tone was still good I asked a polleeman why such a hand- some piano should have been allowed to come to so sad an end, and he replied he didn't know “unless it wae to let kids bang on it." I love a piano and !t made me sorry to see the wreck of. what was once a beautiful instrument. Far better it would have been to teach the] children to love it than to have per- mitted them ta abuse it.—Jullette Mill- er, No. 2909 Valentine Avenue, Bronx. TO MARKET, TO MARKET. On Broadway to-dey I saw a lady wheeling what at first I thought was a specially built baby carriage, but on closer inspection I saw it was a tall cylindrical basket on wheels, and in It she had groceries and vexetables.—Olea Missall, No. 2416 Webb Avenue, Bronx, (Winners of Ford ning World, for tdentific MKS. J. M'KENNA, No. 111 First HELEN M'CORMICK Ten Cash Prizes W. J. JONES, No. 254 Manhattan BLANCHE BRUZI MPS. M. WARING JOSEPH MOORE, MRS. CHARLES C. STEINERT, nue, Corona, L. 1 JAMES T. M'CUSKER, No. 461 M, WILLIAMSON, No. 4025 Gunt CRA) FRANK DB LEON, No. 8685 17tt ANNA 8. MORE, Piermont, N. ¥. GOING FAST, BUT NOT GETTING ANY WHERE, On 23d Street yesterday I saw a great rowd of men grinning at a man trying to start his automobile. The man wa. at the wheel, and although his motor was going and he was shifting gears mightily, the car would not budge, The crowd was now laughing heartily, 1 walked around the car and then I saw the Joke myself. The driver, who had evidently Just changed tires, had for- gotten to teke the jack from under the ar ax nd hia wheels were moving in the air.—Seymour Levy, No. 443 St Ann's Avenue, Bronx, Read to-day’s stories. Pick t'! Winners will be announced in th. » No. GOL West 139th Street. No, 65 47th Stree No. 411 West 48th HIRSCh, No. 847 Hunts Point Avenue, Bronx (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow. my way to do me bricklaying and if he wanted to come along and “oaddy” he was welcome. The Proposition didn't appeal to him.— Albert Holliday, No. 811 Boulevard, Bayonne, N. J. BLACK BIRDS. Hundreds of grackles settled in the trees back of our house, cackling and cawing and screaming to each other. Suddenly they lef®the trees and alighted below. Across the meadow a living wave of blick. Crick ’ + H ets, grasshopper a 1 othe visible Yesterday’s Special Prizes VE A ae who managed to outdistance the ds, hopped to the roa but th Brackles Ford Car. found them there a kly fnishea GERTRUDE MATHEWS SHELBY, No. 1 West 67th Street them, Then they rose axnin to the trees Pee : and departed for parts unknown. After is report Immediately te Oup Halter, Ave they had gone I was unable to find a beatlon, ; single insect, althouch there hod been First Cash Prize, $25. countless numbers before the grackles ase: Mrackives came.—D, 0., Cos Cob, Cnn Second Cash Prize, $10. A Horse. A cit ‘ North Pallsade Avenue, Bergenfield, N. J. of the city buildings which are just Third Cash Prize, $5. aerons from my home here, and yester- JOHN FOSTBR NEVIUS, No. 957 Cauldwell Avenue, Bronx. Ae raters of $2 Each, and whut the door. In the turning to his room to dr Bid the man Avenue. was first apprised that the room w A shared by another, He discovered t! Corona, L. f. horse. It required some cooxing to get reet, No. 87 West Fillmore Ave- the animal from its com! ters to the police station.k Chaffer, No. 15 Park Place Long Island, able quar mond EB Long Beach. East 158th Street, Bronx. her Avenue, Broax. SHE'S SPRY but | h Avenue, Brooklyn elghty-four years of a My nefghbor who lives ‘next door ts pry for her years. However, I was surprised this afternoon, when she went out to water her flowers, to see her straddle a he ones you think are best. fence and ellmb over tt so she could evening's Night Pictorial reach the flowers on the other side her Inwn.—Mrs, Grove Strect, White Plains, N. Y. f Rose Freedman, No, i! WEEKLY PRIZES. of the Week to Be Distributed Among FIRST, BROOKLY. “FIRST ONE UP 18 THE BEST ORESSED.” HEY are about fifteen and sixteen years old and you could tell F ata glance that they are sisters. They approached from oppo- site directions and met on Avenue U, between East 14th and East 15th Streets. There was a mix-up the minute they met, om accusing the other of wearing her best silk petticoat. “And you can take it off right now,” she said. “I mean business,” declared this older girl, stepping directly in front of the other, “and you're not going to take another step until I have what belongs to me.” The younger girl went through a few sleight-of-hand now-you-see-it-and- now-you-don’t movements and stepped out of a flimsy, silky, green circle on the sidewalk. Then she walked away and never once looked back. Quicker than it takes to tell it, the other girl picked up the garment, tucked {t under her arm, cried “And you wait till you get home!" at her sister, and walked along. I saw the encounter from™ my corner tn the store, It brought back memories of my younger days and my own sisters at home.—David A. Taxter, No. 2063 Mast 14th Street, Brooklyn. MATTER OF OPINION, At Pifth Avenue and 424) Street this morning T passed an oddly assorted was modishly but conser- ONE MAN'S WATCH POCKET. As we neared Borough Hall station op the subway this afternoon, one ef two men who sat next to me asked vatively dressed, Bestde her and holding | h!s friend the time, The other removed fast to her arm with one hand was a hat, took his watch from the inside man much in need of two haircuts, one | >and, consulted ft, replaced it tn thag for ‘ve mane that fluttered in the breege, ]O44 “pocket” and put his hat back om since he had no hat, and the other for|M!# head.—Miss Marion Porthouse, Noy a beard of which any Bolshevist might Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. well be proud. For footgear he had sandals. As he walked he indulged tn the antics of a frisky ehild, skipping and gesticulating and talking in a loud couple, She ‘ IN THE RAIN, My sister, who lives on Dean Street near Kingston Avenue, has @ baby bora tone.—-Mrs. Helen Jacobs, No, 280 Kings | within a few days of my own baby. Highway, Brooklyn, My mother gave us baby carriages — ‘ exactly alike, One Sunday all of up © “He sURE AND wrrnk.y went for a walk, after supper at my ‘To-day in Manhattan T % three] sister's house. We stopped in an fee friends, each of whom had received a}cream parlor and, as it was raining $1 check for contributions to the “What Did You 8 id I showed them my che in this mo ing’s mal are for a Ford anyway," we tried to convince one an- other (Oh, nol) However, each of us vowed as we parted at Clinton and Delancey Streets that we would write and write to win that Ford.--Mre. R. Frank, No. 102 Rutledge Street, Brook- lyn when we left the place, wo pulled down the shade and windshield on the cary. riage and hurried along tho twelve blocks to our home To our dismay, ag ~ we reached the door, we found we ha the wrong carriage! My husband starts ed right back and met my sister's hua- band bent on the samo errand. Neither saw any joke in the sttuation. as they were drenched,—Mre, Norma Segal, Now 110 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, : QUEENS. “MIND THE PAINT!" A neighbor was painting the tron fence in front of bts house to-day and hung & sign on the fence reading: “pant.” ‘Thinking his orthography had slip) \ cow, I told him he had left out something on his sign “Oh, yes,” sald he. “IU make another. A while later t ed from my lawn that the neighbor no longer was visible, but that passers- by laughed as they saw his sign, It had rected to read: “Wet Panta, the sign was right, after all, because he had put most as inuch paint on his trousers as on the fence, and maybe he| fim yoodby when the bell rang at had temporarily abandoned the unfin- 4 o'clock, I saw tears overflowing {shed Job to step inside and change.—| ter eyes because she had to leave Frederick A. Brown, No. 1731 Grove] him. Age withers some things, but Street, Ridgewood. never @ aes Kromer, SHE'S A NICE TEACHER, Lveryree T saw to-day on my mother’s face a look that made mo happy. It twa visiting day for parents at Public School No, 7, and my mother came to the classroom and talked awhile with my teacher, Miss Milne, [am only nme years old, but I have good eves, and I could tell from ¢ ex: pression on my mother's face that the teacher had said something nice about me.—Jamea Buokley, No. 9$ Woolsey Avenue, Astoria, MOTHER. A white haired woman who tater told me she was seventy-three yeare of age, wame to Ward No. 806, Wyckoff Heights Hospital, on ote- (tora’ day, carrying half a dosen nowspapera wnder her arm.. Her face was lighted with @ amile that warmed one’s heart. Bhe went to tho bed of her aon, a man of thirty- sin, adjusted glasses on his eyes, amd held the papers, one at a time, so ho could read, Sho fondled him, amoothed hia hair, patted his cheeks, and when she fondly kissed No. THH SLEEPING PORCH, Lust evening a8 I passed through Add Street, between Columbus Aven and Central Park West, 1 saw a di carded bed standing on the sidewall. About 9.30, as I was returning home & saw the same bed, set up, and sevens boys sleeping soundly on it. Thedgep coats were serving as pillows and newse papers as blankets.—Mrs. H. Mendé son, No. 2922 Franklin Avenue Far Rovkaway. . AN APPEAL TO PARENTS, Tam a private chauffeur. This morn- ing, after taking iny employer tu his place of business in Brooklyn, T wax returning to Janiatea when, as [ turned frou Atlantic Avenue into Albany Ave- nurj a girl of nine separated herself froth a group of children and stepped direetly In front of the car. I swerved quickly and stopped, but I was chewing on my heart. It was a narrow squeak, even though I was driving slowly. And PERSONALLY CONDUCTED, T was seated in a movie theatre om Flushing Avenue last evening when % side door near me opened slowly and, one a time, all crawling on. thelr, little tummies, ten or a dozen childrew stealthily entered the place. They found seats by crawling beneath une occupi{] seats until they thought they were safe. They were enjoying the picture on the screen when an usher who had seen thelr entrance, went what did that child do but place her|quietly from one to another and led hands on her hing, look me squarely in] them out. They were a disappointed the eyes and calmly remark, “Oh, I bes] jot.—Mrs. Elsie Kenny, No. 834 1ith your pardon!’ I would like to appeal] Avenue, Steinway. to mothers and fathers, for thelr own suke, for the children’s sake, and for] A GENTLEMAN IN THE SUBWAY, the sake of drivers who try to avold ac-| | saw a man's back struck by the cidents, to help put a stop to such fool-| closing door of a subway car at 14th hardines#.—Joeph A. Angrisant, No. 14] Street during the ening crush, and Prospect Street fc: after the door had been reopened and igain closed the guard inquired sdlicite DINNER Ts SERVED, ously if he had been injured, ™ other On the bottom stringplece of the Belle] Passengers gasped, and one said, “That Hncbur Yaont ‘clue ne SE eee | ts no guard! ‘That's Chesterfield, ret Jatialca May yesterday, iying fiat oni carats Rudolph hell, No. 368 rer stony L saw a large red cat fish-[ Steinway Avenue, Astoria, ing. Yes, sir, She would wait until a Killie swam on the surface within reach GIN MILLS NO MORE. of her agile paw, and bombo! the claws] A large number of knitting mills he would be out, the paw would give one] sprung up in Ridgewood during the pest swift sure swoop, and the transfixed|few years, and to-day I noticed thas killle would be making part of the fish|fully 75 per cent, of such mills now oc- yurse of ‘Tabby's dinner.—Fred: cupy premises that formerly were used Bell, No, 110-184 Washington Avenue,}as saloons.—Mrs. C. Anderson, No, 171% Rockaway Park, Madison Street, Ridgewood, PAY NO MONEY! SEND NO MONEY! There's no caarge of any kind for taking part In The Evening World's “What Did You See To-day?” competition. Send no money with your letters, Pay no money to any one under any circum. stances. PERSONAL calls are made on Ford winners ONLY. 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