The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1922, Page 20

am MANHATTAN, “REGIST USTLING ALONG MY ROUTE with the usual heavy morning mail I had to slacken my speed a bit as I approached a tene- ment house on Amsterdam Avenue, near 122d Street, for I had a registered letter to deliver rear. and harsh talking from within. A o'clock to-night to pay your rent, the bell and the door was opened b; face who held a baby in her arm: Her troubles were over, at least temporarily. She knew brightened. the handwriting almost before she the envelope she extracted a couple of yellow-backs and immediately passed one of them over to her ugly caller—Harry W. Michelson, P. 0. Station J, New York City. i : es a s i i cbt , 0 of the Village when little black-and-white stable door. He began toward me with a distinctly expression and I side-stepped y to let hin pass. He stopped for @ moment (I'll swear he chuckled), i oul # u t A GOOD P. 0. PEN! ' SAW A MAN come into the Post Office Station at 69th Street and way, pull a posteard out of one of his pockets and begin to He had barely started when in came one, two, three carrying a parcel. They plunked their packages down two on one side of the man and one on the other. They Office pens, none of which was satisfactory. In their another they pulled blotters and everything else that was from in front of the man. Then they decided they would the pen HE was using. They stood as close as pousible “Only one pen in the place.” card.” “So inconsiderate.” “Must live her: time the man was pretty nervous. and when ne pulled it out a splash of the fluid what he had written on the card. — Hi i : i iH : F talked. i By this into the ink i i up the card, tore it in four PUT THE PEN IN HIS POCKET © © © They just stood there, looking after him, for fully « minute.— James J. Barnes, No. 888 Bast 23d Street. OUT OF R. B. F. D. At 4.30 o'clock this morning I was e@wakened by the ringing of the fire bells. ‘The fire was very near, I could hear the crackling of burning wood. I looked from my window and saw the bavk part of/a restaurant just around the corner @ mass of flames. It was like a roaring furnace. The fire started in the kitchen and—ended there, for the fire depart- ment arrived promptly and had {t under complete control. The Red Bank Fire Department is volunteer and small, but the boys are fast workers,—Mre. Luella M. Cole, No, 33 Wallace Street, Red Bank, N. J. my watch had stopped during the night, T asked her what time it was, Sho said she thought it was “almost 11 o'clock.” 1 asked her what time 4 was by the clock. She looked at clock with a horrited 1 had ‘my prayer book !"—Loutea 0. Tewes, No. 39 Manhattan Avenue, Jersey City. THIS WILL PLEASE THE CALLED) “OLD-TIMER.* I went to Manhattan Beach last Sat urday, which was quite chilly, to take my bathing outfit home. In the surf, all by hhinself, apparently enjoying to the Umit his icy dip, I saw an elderly man whose hair was snow white, but who ‘was the picture of health. In the little oMfice back of the beach I saw a group of young men, some wearing overcoats, trying to keep warm before @ roarin, open fire.—Lorens Relnkild, No. 116 Park Avenue, Baldwin, L. 1. NO LONGER A LUXURY T saw to-day what a boon the small motor car is to the laboring man. ‘There's a schoo being erected near my home and every day seven of the work- d from their jobs in black, shiny machin But the machines mean more to them than merely aiding them to get to and from work. Every evening as they start for home all these men load up their cars with blocks of ‘wood, and one can see by the expres- sions in their faces that they're not Worrying at all about the high price of coal.—Asthur Arnold, No. 637 Willow Avenue, Woed Ridge, N. J. HE CROSSED COLORADO AT wo to the ground at that point, obstructing A young lady called my atten- 2 dog running toward the wire. unsuccessful in heading him off, when he stepped on the wire he rose feet straight in the air, then started ARMAS 6 oR ey 1 00 * © © Ags I neared the door of the apartment I heard loud sr sree © DOLLARS will be paid for each item printed on this mailed daily. The weekly special awards, announced on Saturdays, are in , dition to this payment. Open to all readers. ERED.” to a tenant on the ground floor, man said: “I'll give you until 6 or out you go!” * * © I rang y a little woman with tear-stained When she saw me her face took the letter, Hastily opening A friend offered to take me home in bis auto, which he had left standing at Broadway, near Spring Street, and we were almost where it was parked when my friend grabbed my arm and Pulled me into an office building. I faw @ cop at guard over his tanding .| auto which had been parked more than two hours, “No summons for me,’ said my friend, yolng Into @ telephone booth. He called up police head- quarter “Ba; he yelled in pre- tended exciterment. ‘Some one stole my car. I left It at Bleecker Street and it Broadway and it's gone. He gave & detatled description, engine number, &c. The policem: meantime, had reported that he wi guarding a car, also giving description. Headquarters then told my — friend where he could find his car way I saw him claim bis car and get it without a summons.—Mrs. B. Coher No. 204 West 1)ith Street, Manhattan. “Take all day to “Nerve.” He jabbed the He sald “dashgonett!" pieces, threw them on the floor, and dashed out Into the street, TOWN. 1B HATES TO MISS ONE WORD oF THE SERMON. Last night at 7.30 as IY made a call on © friend in Yorkville I found her ready to leave the house. She sald sho was going to a mission service at a church in 96th Street and was i early 80 she could get a eoat. I accompanied her and found that already the crowd Was overflowing. We managed finally to obtain a couple of seats, The service started at 8 o'clock, by which time the bullding was crowded, with persons standing. Suddenly a woman appeared in the centre alsle, late but fully pre- pared to be comfortable, In one hand she & camp stool and in the other a cushion, She placed them in & good position and sat down to reap the benefits of her foresight.—Anna Ryan, No. 76 Henry Street, Winfeld, NOT CHARLIE'S WIFE, While standing with my baby daugh- ter on the platform of the Central Rail. road Station at Plainfleld, Saturday, I saw an old man, painly a farmer, step from the train and look around. Soon he spied us and, waking toward us with @ broad smile, eciaimed ‘Well, well!" leaned over and kissed my daughter. Somehow I thought nothing more of his action than that he had taken @ fancy to the baby, but when he tried to kisi me also I demurred. He looked at m in bewilderment, and asked: ain't you my grandson Charit I told him emphatically I wasn Just then a lady carrying & up to the old man and cried "Grandpa! —Mrs, Ethel Cornelia, No, 951 Willlam Street, ElizabetM, N. J. A ROCKLAND COUNTY FAMILY. 1 saw to-day one of the nicest gathe ings of people I ever saw, It was a fam: Four generations there—old people smiling and happy, then middle-aged ones and still younger ones with bables In their arms, all happy to be there. There must have been 200 of them, and I thought that !f Jnole Sam could peek in he would say, ‘Thank God for the Carloughs. No race suicide among them!"--Raymond R. Hopper, New City, N. ¥. WHAT SHE WANTED THE ROPE FOR, To-day while waiting on « little old lady in the hardware store where I am clerk I was much surprised to hear her ask for some heavy rope, stroms enough to hold her weight. Immédinte- I visions of her hanging herself, as if to confirm my suspicions she asked for a hitching ring strong enough to hold her weight. I got them for her and she went away. This eve- ning I passed her house and looked at it with some trepidation, but I was re- Neved to see her at a window from which hung the rope. She was fixing {t for use ev a fire escape, since there have been three fires in this vicinity re- cently and she wanted to be sure she Pett tanec oe A LITTLE WOOLLEN MITTEN AND which hung from kid shoe, Attached to the exhibit was eater” hair standing before a drug store ing his hair, all right and started to walk away. but assure himself.— Miss Frances epee THE EVENIN $985 Special Awards For $100 best, $25; five next in merit, $5 each. School and college contributors MUST name their schools. mind the question: “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY?" last summer. What did YOU to-day? your address carefully. Ai BRONX, JULIUS 18 A BUTCHER. HILD PASSING 163d Street and Bergen Avenue this morn- Wis I observed a group of butchers, who are employed by a big packing house in the vicinity. There were seven or eight of them, one a young newcomer whom I immediately stamped as a novice because of the “new” look of his white coat and long white apron. They were spotless, in decided contrast to the garb of his older associates, He looked to be about eighteen. * * * This, It appears, was his first day on the job and he was being taught the Topes—or whatever it is the new butcher must learn, I saw them march him around the corner of Brook Avenue and onto a platform, Near at hand were sides of beef, on a rack. One of the instructors lifted a side of beef from a hook and threw it over his own shoulder, He walked a few paces and then returned and hung {t up again. Then the “kid” tried it. It flattened him out on the platform. There were roars of laughter. They made him angry. He took that side of beef again, wriggled under it, lifted it to his shoulders and, exerting every ounce of strength, put ft on the hook. This time the yells were of applause, He was a hero, There were yells of “Hooray for Julius’ He was now one of them.—Bill Seidel, No, 303 East 164th Street, Bronx. , “APRIL FOOL!» A TINY WHITE KID SHOE. @ fruit store at No. 16 Bast Ford- chain a chil woollen mitten and a tiny white three doors down. paper bag bearing the ins ‘Lost and Found Department H, B. Linfield, No, 2785 Sedgwick Ave- nue, Bronx. across the street, ADMIRATION. ‘Talk about the vanity of girls! Y. terday I saw a boy of fifteen with “cake spot and waited for a “sucker.” took from !t $89, four rings, window on Tremont Avenue and sleek- | O00 Sen cn of keyal Once he thought it was his findings.—George Walker, he returned and took another look to e1a8d Binest, Deco: Gold- 8 Hast 176th Street. SEA. 0 LIFE IN TH BIG crry. Bunday morning on Featherbed Lane it looked aa if the Fire De- partment had gone on vacation and @ bucket brigade had been formed, for one after another a long line of men and doys entered a candy store carrying kettles, pots and pails, and presently emerged with the contain- era filled with water. The eqotte- mont was caused by the water be- ing turned off in a dig apartment Duilding next door. The water was not to quench a fire but for the breakfast cooking.—Mrs. J. J. Doo- ley, No. 1505 Jerome Avenue, Brona. TELL INTERSTING STORIDS IN AN INTERESTING WAY, While reading the “What Did You See?’ page I noticed that Btll Seidel of No, 303 East 164th Street, Bronx, was again a prize winner, while I, who perhaps have tried equally hard, have not as yet had the joy of seeing my name printed.—H. Malbrown, No. 923 Barretto Street, Bronx, PRESIDENT BRUCKNER ENTER- TAINS, T came out of the Untveraity Building at Washington Square at 10 o'clock in the morning and noticed the members of the sophomore class congregated about the entrance, I walted to see what would happen. Presently with a whoop they descended on a lone fresh- man wearing the prescribed cap, He was Henry Bruckner jr., son of Bor- ough President Bruckner of the Bronx, President of the freshman class. They seized him bodily and put him in an automobile, which sped away. Later 1 learned he entertained the undergradu- ates of Stevens College at Hoboken with songs and dances.—Leon Alpert, No. 1226 Boston Road, Bronx. FIRST AID. noticed an ant struggling. larger than Itself, creature's vain struggles to walk, nue, Bronx. LAT® FOR sCHOOL, 2 Near my school are many stable For several mornings I have noticed front ® large van to which are harnessed two shaggy horses ‘ Each morning @ little fellow has been talking real confidentially to one of the horses, This morning I decided to eavesdrop, and this is wi yesterday? I'm to-day will be against the boy.—Rosalie 8. Fasola, No. 2301 Creston Avenue, Bronx. WOOL-GATHERING, In our history class at the Theodore Roosevelt High Schoo! to-day the teach- er called op & girl to give the names of two products on which a lower tarift rate was placed in the Wilson-Gorman act of 1892, They were copper and wool, but the girl could remember only A boy across the room, intend- her out, pointed at his head, would understand that his * However, the = girl “wood.” There wi ® great laugh, every one in the room, including the cher, saw the prompter, who turned ull colors of the rainbow in his embar- rassment.—H E. Denacher, No, 223 @, Anp’s Avenue, Bronx, answer paper from Havana, Cuba 2 A PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED FOR READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD BY READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD New Program of Awards and Special Prizes DURANT TOURING CAR FOR THE BEST STORY OF THE WEEK. 1 for the Second in Merit.’ $50 for the Third. $25 for the Fourth. TEN stories adjudged Next in Merit, $5 Each. Competition open to all readers. will be divided weekly among high school pupils contributing to the “What Did You See To- Day?” page. For the best letter of each week sent in by a high school student, $50; second Special Awards For University and College Students 100 will be divided weekly among university and college students contributing to the page. For the $ best letter of the week, $50; second best letter, $25; five letters next in merit, $5 each. Wait for the worth whi Not what somebody Contributors to the page should write of subjects with which they Facohacbal!l Le Choose, preferably, things that happen in your own neigh- ood. your story, i t . State youl reudrsss't dbrose seer lertae to's What Did Veo See To-Day?” Evening World, P. ©. Box Nex 485, City Hall Station, New Verte At lunch hour Monday I was sitting outside Hearns’ carpenter shop at No. 18 West 1%th Street when I saw a large pocketbook lying on the sidewalk I made a dash for {t, but, Just as I was about to pick it up I saw two young ladies laughing and thought I was about to be made the goat of a joke. So I kicked {t to @ more conspicuous In a few minutes a young man appeared, picked up the pocketbook, opened It, a bracelet I tas unable even to stutter as he walked off with No. 216 After a long walk Sunday I eat on a rock in Bedford Park. At my feet I Apparently it had been hurt by my shoe. Along came another ant, carrying something Beeing it's oer it dropped its load, picked up the injured insect fn its strong mandibles and, des- visto sus Ojos ayere To the Editor of The Evening World: O-DAY my Spanish teacher in school gave me a Spanish news- was a “What Did You See? seems, soon will be an internation 31 Tiemann Place, New York City. etenetineemnsiidiehtenemeanmenetenemnteemsesetineteeeeteeete eee G WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1922, T $109 in Cash High School Students cident. Do not try to write every day. Sear in saw, not what you heard and not something that happened ERE the incident took place. Write your name in full. Write RICHMOND. “TUBBSY” GOES FOR A RIDE, FTER SCHOOL this afternoon I delivered a fairly large-sized A basket of newly washed clothes, the top plece being a sort of red plaid kitchen tablecloth. I had quite a little walk and I thought the basket unusually heavy, but did not guess the reason until I reached Mrs. B——'s, When she turned aside the tablecloth, to admire the neatness with which the work was done, she jumped away from it as ff it had a third rail or something, Our cat was in the wash! * * * Of course I apologized to Mrs. B.— and I sug- gested bringing the top layer of things back with me, but no harm had been done and the lady would not listen to it. So I took “Tubbsy” under my arm and came home.—Margeret B, O'Connor, No. 43 Fourth Street, West Brighton, Staten Island OUT OF TOWN. “Lost.” A nurse stepped from @ big sedan car that had stopped across the street from the window In which I was sittin: yesterday and entered the house. The chauffeur also alighted, settled himself on the running board and was reading ® paper when the nurse emerged from the house. She looked in the car, missed the chauffeur and evidently concluded he was taking a little walk. Several minutes later, as I was about to raise my window and call to them, he became excited over something he had read and sprang to his feet. He and the nurse spied one another at the same {nstant.—Mlsa Antoinette Santoro, No. 110 Virginia Avenue, Rosebank, 8. I. THE TRAP. While returning from a hunting trip with my son I heard @ dog whining and barking. I investigated and found that & hound had been caught by his foreleg in a fox trap. We released him, gave him first afd and took him home, where we treated him more properly. This morning I got my rifle Just to see if the dog retained any of his enthusiasm for hunting, and the faithful anfmal was right on the Job, starting ahead of me, but Mmping painfully, I called him back, and now the boy and myself are noping nobody claims him.—Ed Murphy, Glenham, N. Y. THREE MEN IN A BOAT. Sunday afternoon at Great Kills . Segoe Beach I saw illustrated the fact that WOMEN 12 BUSIEE SS: three men in a boat could at the same To-day T saw two young ladies going | time be in a pickle and up a tree. The about this village trying to sell accident! tide was low. ‘The boat was stuck Insurance polictes, Later at the rairoad ‘ i One young man removed his shoes and stockings and waded through the mud to the shore. He refused to help his friends, but a clam-digger who saw their plight ferried the others on his back, one at a time, then dragged the boat to the beach and returned to his clamming.—Mrs. W. A, Keepers, No. 5715 Amboy Road, Great Kills, 8. 1. station an automobile was wrecked by a train, and no sooner were the occu- pants of the machine taken away for treatment than the young ladies got busy, speaking to every one there and trying to impress them with the destr- ability of owning accident insurance policles.—Miss D, J. Wright, Medford, Li CAPT. WILBUR. Near our country home I saw old man shuffling along with thi two old sticks, He looked like "Fi Time,” with his long white beard and stooping posture, but he refused the lift we offered, saying he was near home, Later we learned his name, Capt. Wil- bur; that he {s ninety-five years old, the father of one of our neighbors, that he lives alone, does his own cooking and housekeeping and works a garden a mile from the house, He was one of the |" 49ers" and has been around the Horn nt | thr His mind ts as clear as sun- shine and altogether he {s a wonderful old man.—Mrs, C. Cox, No, 29A Hi ton Avenue, New Brighton, 8, I. GIVE IT A GOOD HOME, To-day I handed my grocer a $8 DI in payment of a purchase and suddenly ho began to laugh. I was rather embarrassed, thinking he was laughing at me, whereupon he hold up the bill for me to look at, On was written: “This is my last two bucks; treat é well, Mrs. H, Suss- Rockdale Avenues, New y AFTER A SUBWAY JAM. I was In a jam to-day tn the sub but I thought nothing of ft until I we to pay for my meal at # strange lunch room on Fulton Street. I found I had not acent, My pockets had been picked in the subway crush. I explained to the waitress, who in turn explained to the manager, The latter like a good fellow told me to “bring it tn to-mor- row.” It was the contrast In two men I have now in mind—one who was so mean as to pick my pocket and another who had never lald eyes on me before who should be so good as to trust mo.— Bernard Klein, No. 188 Hawthorne Ave- nue, Yonkers. que han‘) “NEVER BR WRECKED ON LAKE AMPLAIN, 80 LONG YOU STAY BY DE SHORE.” We were being towed on Monday along the Sound in the boat command- ed by my husband, after having deliv- ered a load of coal at Bridgeport, Conn, At a point opposite Black Rock Lighthouse it became so rough that the tug Captain suddenly decided to make for harbor. The tug turned us sharply and we crashel against a scow. The shock broke a lot of things In the cabin and five planks were stove in our side, ‘rough which water bubbled. Us for the drydock, thankful we are not dec- crating the bottom of the Sound.—Mrs, C, Roscktoff, Tottenville, 8. I. » BUT NOT EXACTLY PUUT OUT. A deputy sheriff who was handcuffed to a prisoner boarded a trolley car on which I was riding from Richmond to St. George and the two occupied a cross seat, the officer on the aisle end, Some women entered the car and the deputy sheriff, apparently forgetting the handcuffs, immediately arose, gdragging the prisoner with him as he did so. ‘The latter seemed much embarrassed. Joseph T. Hurley, No, 31 Winter Av: nue, New Brighton, Staten Island, BETWEEN THE LINES. To-night I saw my sister, who was sented across the library table from me, writing industriously on a paper that . 1 to be already 1 matter I ask what she was doing. t was a new idea! She had r Ie r from an Intimate friend double spaced typewriting vas answering it paragraph by para- graph by writing in between the lines, —Margaret V. Walthall, Curtis High New Brighton, 6, k and The part that especially pl} written and she HE EVENING WORLD pays liberally in cash for FIRST news of really impor- tant happenings—FIRST news of BIG news. Call Beekman 4000. Ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Every reader a reporter. SROOKLYN. MAN FROM I Haven and Hartford time table. through the first two rounds. Street, Brooklyn. JOKER, I bought some tomatoes at a shop near my home to-day at 10 cents a pound. The deeler, when he had the tomatoes welghed, sald the cost of them really amounted to 18 cents, but that wince 13 js an unlucky number he would charge me only 12 cents for them. — Helena C, McLellan, No, 949 Park Place, Brooklyn. SPRAYING THE PAINT. On Brighton Beach boardwalk to-day I saw @ man painting a bungalow by electricity, using no bru: he paint came through a spray he was holding and the old white paint was neatly covered with a new gray one. It was @ good Job.—Mrs. J. Willlamson, No. 19 Wellington Court, Brooklyn. THE PINK CARD A boy was carrying a plece of cocoa- nut pie to a table in the Commercial High School lunchroom to-day when another boy humped into him, and the pie was wrecked on the floor. An im- mediate investigation by the teacher in charge of the room followed by his production of a pink card—that terrible enemy of the student, which remains filed against a boy as long as he re- maine in the school, As the card wa being filled out the boy pleaded, “Please, sir, give me another chance. I have never had a pink card, and this one would spoil my record,”” and the teacher’s heart softened. — Arthur Hirschberg, No. 305 Nostrand Avenue AS ONE WITH AUTHORITY, I had my shoes shingd while being shaved in a barber shop on Lexington Avenue near the Grand Central Palace to-day, and noticed that the bootblack, instead of awaiting the pleasure of the barber, moved his stool, ordered the barber to move the chuir for the con- venience of the bootblack. Presently @ man entered and seeing that all the barbers were busy, he started to walk out, when he was halted by a cry from the bootblack, who told him to wait, that there was a barber in the rear I said to'my barber: “This boot- black seems to be running the place “Well, he ought to," replied the barber. “The | bootblack the boss."—A. J. Campbell, No, 989 East 40th Street, Brooklyn OUTLAW. I was sent to-day to make a colle: tlon of a shoemaker on Fifth Avenui Brooklyn, from a large wholesale house in Manhattan. The shoe dealer told me he could not meet the bill just now. 1 asked him why, and nally he told me he had spent $200 on grapes from which to make wine, adding: “As soon as the wine is made I'll have plenty of money to pay the bill."—Arnold C. Pickett, No. 781 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. I She talked with the “other” little naughty girl.” I am not naughty.” mother in a B. R. T. subway No. 840 70th Street, Brooklyn. ON THE WAY TO THE BALL. A blushing Cinderella stood in the middle of the platform us I alighted last evening from a subway train at Grand Street, Astoria. One foot was tucked under her. A slipper, kicked off in her struggles to disentangle herself from the crowd of detraining passengers, lay some 15 feet from her. A young Prince Charming retrieved {t for her and she smiled her thanks.—Mary Dunstadter, Warburton Avenue, Bayside. MOTH BALA Oh Latayette Street near Astor Place I saw @ mun sniff at his fingers, smile, thrust his hands into his overcoat pockets, draw them out and throw away some moth balls, Two little boys scrambled for them, drew a circle on the sidewalk and soon were playing —William Wilshaw, _ No. Richmond Hill. LAZY MARY. All summer I've had trouble with the socks of my six-year-old, It mattered not whether I paid 10 centa or much more, they were bound to come apart at the up-and-down seam, This morn- ing I happened upon my daughter as she pulling a thread from her sock to add to a little pile at her side plained when they were put on w side out they looked all right if all those long threads were pulled out, and then she qldn't have to bother to cama) Z, 26th Street, Blmhuret. WENT TO A FIGHT at the Garden. There was nothing unusual about that, but the steats were “ringside.” They belonged to a well-to-do friend who invited me to be his guest when some pal of his own years and station backed out, at the last minute, on account of “important busines: bouts began I enjoyed looking about me and sizing up the folks who appeared to be at home in these better seats. left caught my attention because of his interest in a New York, New If he looked at that time table once he looked at it twenty times. After each inspection it went back into an inside pocket. Once I saw him marking it. the star bout came on I heard some laughing in that direction. I glanced over and saw that the old boy was taking a nap. He slept Then I forgot him. When we were on our way out I took another rubber at him. and was studying the time table—George Plunkett, No. 351 Decatur TWO GOOD GIRLS. WATCHED a little girl of about four years, who sat beside her {n @ novel, the child in her own reflection in the train window. “You can’t come in here.” “You are, too.” appeared to have convinced herself that there might be something in all these suggestions, so she turned to her mother and pleadingly asked: “Ain't I a good girl, mother?’ nothing at all about the conflict which had been raging, and absorbed in her book, lovingly agreed. This brought satisfaction and content, and the girl turned again to her reflection in the glass, “There,” she said, “I am a good girl; my mother said so!”—Mrs. Valeska MeWhood, QUEENS. j STAMFORD. That WAS unusual, * Before the An elderly man on my * * © Just before He had his glases on WONDER WHAT: BECAME OF THE OLD-FASHIONED AUTOMOBILE THIEVES One of your contributors whe wrote several weeks ago that he lost his garage key and left his machine at the curb thinking since he had never seen. ® cop in his block it would be all right, only to be awakened by a policeman an hour later, should lve In THIS block. A five passenger Studebaker stood in front of thia house for three days and two nights. None of the tenants knew Finally one of them went the traffic policeman at Eastern to Parkway and Bedford Avenue and re- ported it. The officer looked into his little book and sure enough there it was on his list of stolen cars.—Mra, Hanna Berkowitz, Street, Brooklyn., THE STUFF THAT CHEERS BUT NEVER INEBRIATES, On a@ bulletin board in Erasmus High School to-day 1 saw a sign reading: “Buy the Erasmus Spirit.” I know that Brasmus has a generat store, but Iam in doubt as to what kind of spirit it puts out.—James J. Murphy, No, 199 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, SARCASM, Tam In clasa 6B, School No. 134, and to-day we had a substitute teacher who gave us for home work tasks in his- tory, arithmetic, grammar and spelling. So much work was unusu id one boy rather sarcastically remarked: ‘‘Teacher, you forgot geography.” So she added that! And we didn’t @o a thing to him! —Malcolm Weill, No. 756 E. Ninth Street, Brooklyn. ROCKY ROAD IN BROOKLYN, & ¢ For the first time in several years 1 saw a car on Marcy Avenue yesterday while I chanced to be walking there ant wondering why the trolley tracks were not used. There was a Fulton Street sign on the front of the car and & March Avenue It was @ one-man car and it bumped up and down as if it were running over an old Virginia corduroy road.—Jennis H. Kennedy, No. 399 Madison Street, Brooklyn. FREE BEEF STEW. ‘On the door of a Myrtle Avenue saloon to-day, as I was riding home from school, I saw a large sign reading: “Free Beet Stew To-da: Does that mean that the old days are coming back with this election, or that the saloonkeeper was inviting the poor to have a square meal on him?—Gertrude Turner, No. 5 Kister Court, Coney Island, train, The mother was interested girl she saw there. “You are a “You stay outside.” “No, And soon. * * * Finally she see The mother, knowing HE WINS AND HE LOSKS, My boss, a jewelry box manufacturer, (rled unsuccessfully for a week to secure delivery of a shipment of goods from Germany that had been in this country @ fortnight, This morning ng phoned the express company and offered to bet ® box of cigars with the man who an- swered that the goods would not bo delivered in another week. Three hours later the delivery was made and the xpressman was claiming the cigars. he boss sald tt was well worth lis while to have lost that bet.—Mrs. Selm+ Edwards, No. 18 Dutch Kills Street, Long Island City, THE BUTCHER'S BRIDE. I saw a woman who was a Kving advertisoment on a Corona subway train, which she boarded to-day Bridge Plaza, She was so edtr: ly stout that ehe occupied two seat In her hand was a complimentary shopping bag on which was printed, “Oh, Mama! Look! —— Meat Co., — Second Avenue. Three pounds chopped meat for 25 cente.”—Mise F, Twomey, No. 14 Hast 11th Street, Whitestone, THE GOLD BUG, I found a real gold bug on @ flower in my ®arden yesterday, of pure gold ¥ but when It gets in motion the colors of the rainbow are shown one at « time,— Fred Hoffer, No, 158 High Street, Cebu lege Point, jo No. 1092 President $$ ff ¢