The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1922, Page 27

mailed daily. dition td this payment. Open to all readers. ‘ OUT OF TOWN. “WATCH YOUR HAT AND COAT!” AVING FINISHED OUR LUNCHEON at the Hotel —, my friend and I walked out to get our hats anc coats. We were ap- proaching the check boy when my frier4 said: “All I have is @ quarter; got anything smaller?” I felt in my vest pocket ald drew out a half. “No,” I said, “but I have some change in my overcoa' * ¢ © I went to my brown coat, at the check boy's stand, and had my fingers in the change pocket when the boy grabbed my hand with . “What are you doing?” I told him I was looking for a tip for him. “Yes,” he said, “but whose coat is it? Where's your check?” “It’s my coat, I believe,” I replied, and then I realized that I had not sur- fendered the check for it and that I was a stranger to tho boy. I felt in my pockets for the check. Couldn't find it! The boy, it seemed to me, became more belligerent. “Show me your check,” he insisted. People gathered around, adding to my great embarrassment. Well, finally I found that check. How good it looked to me! I got my coat. I gave the young man his tip (he surely deserved it) and with a sigh of relief we departed.—H. C. Bugbird, Summit, N. J. DND MOTHER'S WAY OF LOOKING AT IT. I saw two little boys collide in front pf our house. One, a tiny little fellow ‘with shabby clothes, began ng as hi noted his muddy blouse. didn't go to knock you over,” said the other boy, a neatly dressed youngster; “you got in my way when I was chasing the ball.” yonn Ss, Hay nitteide Pt s ‘The emailer fellow blubbered: “But mail | JP A aves: Cliffside Park, Corn hit me with a stick when I get home becauso my blouse is muddy.” "Come ‘ on, then,” said the other boy, “I'll swap you. My mother never scolds us for get- ting our clothes muddy. She says we have to play to grow up healthy.” Im- Mediately he began to peel and in a mo- ment tho two boys had exchanged blouses. I recogni: the elder one as one of the five children in a family of working people, and J marvelled at the wisdom and patience of his mother. A I resolved to watch my own reception of torn trousers and mud-bespattered dresses in tho future.—Mrs. Sheldon Cheney, R. F. D. No. 2, Ossining, N. ¥. On Wednesday morning, when every Democrat was wearing a broad smile over Al Smith's signal victory, I en- tered a general store at Cornwall Land- ing. ‘here { saw the woman proprietor cut a pumpkin pie into three pieces, with which she treated three men who were standing at the counter, ‘This is Gov. Smith's pic,"” she smiled.—Mrs, BARRED. are many chicken farms In r this town and my five-year+ old d ter is familiar with the dif- ferent breeds of chickens. Yesterday I took her for her first visit to the ¢ and she was all of wonderment over riding in trains “down in the cellar,” but her greatest interest, naturally, was in the animals in the Zoo. When she came to the zebra she called to me, “Oh, mother, come look at the Plymouth Rock horse!"—Mrs, C. L. King, Toms River, N. J. There and ne THROUGH THE TUNNEL. On the West Shore train this morning the conductor as usual shouted: " windows down for the tunnel, pleas One passenger presently got up to ad- monish a man across the way to close his window. The second man declared his window was shut. And sure enough, it was. We have been so accustomed to dirty windows on this train that this spotless one had for all of us the appearance of — be Davie: vo. 90 0 At 99th Street and West End Avenue to-day my curiosity was aroused by the sight of a woman bending over in the exact centro of the street intersec- tion picking mething from the pavement. I feared for her life and I was about to cry out to her when she straightened up and came toward me. In her hand she c2rried several pieces of broken glass. Undoubtedly several motorists had been spared the discom- fort and expense of punctures | B® open.—B. L. in Hayer- Street, unusual action of this woman, who per-| Straw, N. Y haps had learned that car owners - should beware of the upkeep.—Myra M. MILADY Haas, No. 206 Watchung Avenue, air, N. J. Mont-| On Pa Street, girls, 1ECE cold ¥ were nll We looking piece of other nizht as we rode down Riversido| about eight inches long and f Drive atop a bus. Suddenly, « string a little longer. She was buay passed tho statue of Joan of Ar tying the string to the fur so it would voice burst out in the stillness make a sort of neckpiece which would the words: “Friends, Romans, country-] be secure. When she had it finished men, lend me your car Every one] she threw it over the younger child's was astounded. The voice, # contralto,| shoulders, and then picking up. so: came from the statue. W strained] pac! s behind her, whic to see, and I spied a cmall boy sitting] twine the two ma down on the shoulders of the statue.—Ger- | street a: as if t ore gstbl trude I. Gilhuly, No. 810 Washington|—M % Broad Btreat, Hoboken, N. J. Street, Carlotadt, 1 MANHATTAN. “CARE KEEPS HIS WATCH IN EVERY OLD MAN'S EYE.” AST EVEN ABOUT TWELVE I was returning to my home on 121st Street, when I heard apartment on the way. sounds of revelry in a first-floor Some students i, Picno, hilarity, laughter. WO DOLLARS will be paid for each item printed on this page. The weekly special awards, announced‘on Saturdays, are in ad- Checks are 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 DODGE TOURING CAR FOR THE BEST STORY OF THE WEEK. $100 in Cash 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. Special Awards For High School Students will be divided weekly among high school pupils contributing to the “What Did You See To- Day?” page. For the bet ian of each week sent in by a high school student, $50; second best, $25; five next in merit, $5 each. Special Awards For University and College Students yn will be divided weekly among university and college students contributing to the page. Vor the $ 1 00 best letter of the week, $50; second best letter, $25; five letters next in merit, $5 cach, ii School and college contributors MUST name their schools, Wait for the worth while incident. Do not try to write every day. Bear tn mind the question: “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY?” Not what somebody else saw, not what you heard and not something that happ last summer. What did YOU see to-day? . ' Contributors to the page should crite of subjects ‘with which they are familiar. Choose, preforably, things that happen in Matin tsagtirs A borhood. Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 words. State WHERE the incident took place. Ma Pall eatleneneee vale your address carefully. Address your fetter to “What Did You see To-Day?” Evening World, P. O. Box No. 185, City Hall Station, New $990 BROOKLYN. : “MANUALIS” ONE OBJECTION. T saw the greatest scholastic event of tha season qwhen I caw 1 Erasmus football gamo at Ebbet T saw our Johnny Boynton score a touchdown. 1 saw every one rooting to beat the band. I saw the clever triple pass which the Erasmus men made. I saw Manual Training “buried in eMfay.” And, oh, best of all! T saw Erasmus Hall win by the score of 18 to 0, ‘Then next day I saw Manual's Principal.come and talk to us. What did he say? Why, that he was pleased with everything at BRONX. RICHMOND. THE DOG, THE SIX-FOOTER AND MR. AND MRS. THE BURGLAR. WAS ON MY WAY to Manhattan this afternoon, entered tho ferry- Sunday night’ while Iwas Ae ee eas ce ig: ; house down stairs, where the automobiles go in, and saw among alone I became engrossed in Poe's stories. Then in a rather unusual state of excitement my hearing grew unpleas- Suddenly I heard a dull scraping on the fre escape. Led by the assumption that burglars are inclined to be cowardly I tramped across the floor with the heavy steps of a genuine six- the cars lined up there waiting for the boat a great blg moving yan. A woman sat on the seat with the driver. Suddenly a taxi pulled up alongside and a man got out of it and climbed up alongside the woman on the moving van. They had » red-hot argument, but both of them had sense enough to keep the soft pedal on and not advertise their troubles. I walked up to the taxicab and asked the taxi driver antly acute. footer. TI stopped about two feet from what the row was about. * * * “According to what HE says,” said Re a a Oe Pg fm the window (to one side, however) and] the taxi man, “they been scrapping a long time because she wanted | street, Sa ratst a a roared in as masculine a bellow as I could muster: “Who the devil is out on that fire escape?” To cap this brave fent 1 imitated the barking of a dog. (I fancied it sounded like the barking of a ferocious bulldog. At least, I hoped it to move away from Staten Island. He gets home carly this afternoon, has a hunch or something, and finds the joint bare of furniture. Then he called me.” * * * J walked over alongside the truck. They were still arguing, but she was erying—and winning. The boat camo in, the vehicular traffic moved forward, and along with the rest went “ALL OUT AT NEWKIRK AVENUE A band of schoolboys entered, show tng, into a Brighton Line train to-day when I was comfortable and deoply en- grossed in a book. Tho train, I noticed, was unusually crowded for the hour. did.) There was a dull thud as the} truck, man, wife and furniture.—Josoph Powers, No. 1207 Castleton | Suddenly nen cue te “AML out, intruder dropped to the ground. In a last stop!” Naturally there was # few moments the door bell rang. My} Avenue, West Brighton, Staten Island. hasty movement for the doors, and brother staggered, convulsed _ with most of the passengers rushed to the laughter. “It was me! he choked, platform. However, I looked out the “Who the dev—' ha, woof'—ha, window and noticed we were only at ha—I forgot. my o're some Newkirk Avenue, ro I kept my seat army i” not yet re= Then came the sound of a megaphon ed.—Margaret No. 918 voico whieh called, '‘Wateh the doors | Morris Avenue, Bron The doors shut and the train, almost empty now, proceeded on its usual way And ‘all the schoolboys, one of whom had been responsible for the trick, were seated comfortably and laughing heart!- ly. A. Rothgesser, No, 1755 ast 18th Street, Brooklyn, THE TINKER AND THE BOYS. T saw an old Yslian sitting on the stoop of No. § Centre Market Place to- day repairing an old tin tea kettle. Alongside him was a tall, narrow box which contained some soldering lead, oldering frons, charcoal and small pleees of wood. A few feet from the box was a handmade charcoal furnace BY RADIO. turday afternoon I saw my brother, his head-set on, in on “AT HALY THE PRICE, DEAR.” Two pretty girls, regular passcn- gers om the 2.15 P, M. train from FROM THE OLD WORLD. T saw @ passenger ship arrive to- Buch hustle and bustle. Cus- sting of a large tin box and part) Staplcton to St. George, had @ foto toms and immigrant ofictals every- |the reports of the Princeton-Yarvard stovepipe, in which there was a] ménutes to wait for the train to-day, where, Loved,ones mecting again— | football game, Suddenly he Tose from MN hole through which he inserted] @ad one stepped on the weighing sons kissing mothers and fathere— | 1l8 chatr and stood Cel as i a ay the fron’ Several boys came up to 5 wives returning Ucautifully gowned—— Tired of sitt asked. Berea oN era) eo? machine, holding a@ dime and a pen- ihe ‘i ie Flo\gniy. shone Nik aaa; then. taking’ tease the old man, but he took it all two brothers falling on cach other fo good-naturedly that soon all were] "¥ «Sher hand. Scarccly had she de- affrctionately-—then, from a dig- | part of his head-set, 1 heard the scurrying round trying to find chips| posited a coin when she exclaimed, tance, the third class pasacnge ard band playing. th Natlone! Ane of wood for him. He repaired several] “On, I dropped in the dime!? The bound for Bilis Island before they i. a ar Lae HM tin bs tea kettles and a wash boil- could greet their loved ones, But shots in commemoration 1 put n spout on u coffee pot. For] ade of the machinc turned to 120 circling about the ehip were tuva | of o ier dead.—Molly Lind, No. eich eeita ye he received the sum| pounds, “There, 120 pounds for 10 and motorboats with loved ones | 261 57th Street, Brooklyn. : 2 : a rm 4 iboard shouting names, waving = of five cents.-Edward C. Moran, No.} cents!” she exclaimed, and her ¢ pes 9 4 Sea i217 Moe Avenue, Bronx Wiseg vatoriea) ieula Berpheapiat handkerchicfs, calling out toords of UP To THE Mo: i ° love and cheer—welcomo to the U. On Norwood Avenue, near Fulton ra Ale ; ‘7 half thy price.’—F. A; Taverner, A.!—Arthur Polard, No. 69 Co- Street, to-day I saw a house which “WHAT DO YOU SAYt > r . 1 was in a hurry to buy some gro-| No. 48 Amity Place, Mariners Har- lumbus Avenue, Stapleton, 8, I, had been newly painted, Across the sy ton munneh: ead tuned’ te'e More lt Mor! ArT — a front stoop was a long strip of wood carles {or aunpely eo: JTuRned 10 9B Ate » BI 4 oh N QUARREL. barring the way with a sign at- Poe ea, RACH THedly T clamped WHAT RUSKIN SAYS. T saw a woman in this neighborhood| tached. But instead of the usua throwing bricks and hard words at so boys she claimed had hit her son, that is of espe-| o| “Wet Paint” aign I read, “Deto vho| with an arrow underneath pointing to the side entrance of the housr.— rear axle and dashing by a brake on the store own the hastened into the I caw to-day in by Ruskin, a ctus Needle,” passag! Sonlnig the doom “AaiT just as full of mischief as any of the child who was opening the door sat a {clal interest to writers for the “Whatlothere. Her alm not very good and| Mra, F. Kohler, No. 4134 miaried eelecting my groceries T felt ap erat nie paxe. Mere it is: the] te kids were amused at her efforts.| scy Avenue, Brooklyn, La chia ge RvR nar a Yesterday the mother of one of the boys basic around and saw the child who had held | greatest thing a human soul ever does ee vet her and gave her a pleasant NATURE GETS A 8: PT BACK, Fj open the door. He about four}in this world is to see something and] sfiernoon.’ “T didn't think you'd §; On Thurman ae « felend and were having a celebration. Inthe shadow of the building a young |years old. “What do vou say" he] tell what it saw in a plain way. Hun [094 said a companion who a Flatbush Avenue cur were disc in evening vials y tons) » ’ >. sked. AC first I was puzzles hen a} dreds of people can talk tor one who] viking with her, whereupon the o the fai M Avusan ae tha yepng see clothes was gently tossing pebbles at » window pane. [fare tien ime. "Thank you,’ T {thinks but thowoands can think Tor on Toon GHA reRIIAd Se GAN Lon eas (086) | TAPER HGR REE Aes A girl came to the window. The young man promptly began burles- eaid. 1 felt really humiliated that a] who n see. To seo clearly is poetry] to tot h things bother me. No doubt] with an armful of beautiful flowers quing Romeo. “It is m’ lady,” he quoted, “it is m’ love, the fair Juliet!” nild should have to remind me of my repneny aie Bay thi ell dione inks she could bring up my bg Immediately my frie dT exclaimed ie ners, an walked home more Xwell, lied ‘ard 62, § tow ch better than au, ane “ - ae oni ara he Sbe giggled. I stepped into a doorway, the bettér to observe this re delaide, Brats, | Howpltal, West New Brighton, 8, 1. {Mun pertar than I ease end 2 Fccns| Re Had Mee seen Any Nowers eA Deauli: youthful prankishness. The young man quoted on: “Oh, that I were betier than docs, We mothers are} our surprise the woman who had thein a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!” * ® © And 2 LEAGUE OF REMEMBRANCE. CHESS ON THE FERRYBOAT. y much alll A. Norton: No. /angrily remarked dain, these tlow . ; g oo an employees of the Veterans'} On tho Municipal Ferry to-day I sat] 242) Benz Avenue, New Brighton | ory are artifielal, but il have you know then it came, All of a sudden like. From one of the upper windows. Bureau at Lexington Avenue and 46th] alongside two men playing eh Staten I they cost more than the natural one A bucket of cold water. I name no names, but one of the te: Street, we were anticipati an ay-| pocket-size chessboard, which Mary C. Costigan, 0. 235 Oce above is a clergyman, a nervous man és iim ante nouncement that Armistice Day would|Itke a wallet. They seemed engrossed . pa] Parkway, Brooklyn. dhcidiee 7 man, & te a 4 sometimes sleepless. be a holiday. We were disappointed] in the game, and in a moment I beeany Whilir hour to-day Ia the Lucile Burtoa, No, 501 West 121st Street, Manhattan when we received the following notice] #0, too, in observing *them. — Bertha] Stapleton Court during wait OUR DEAD. on Saturday; “Lo commemorate the} Kennweg, No. 264 Westervelt Avenue,| ior an appointment I saw a prison Tithe Auten toes ap tone OREGULAR? Low. A LALYDERED Furry, dend in the great war and to promote] New Brighton, S. vaigned for buying a bottle of booze Pie M ook pope eee lines teers Bven in the crush of the eubwa; Ling when the landiorg | the cause of the world’s peace, a League —-- fi hootlegmer and saw him start | array Oe ings of the. bell at train on Armistion Dey we ad h let canaies rine, emembrance has been formed to THE FACTS. f Wa Reine SRL ee ours | tha CAanle desk. AN business ier I az t ent I recalled with a the annual simultan nd SAI 2 h ed guilt left the eou h * : Nols } thatgwautiful littic fellow of / 4 of fright that the 850 Bilt universal cbservance of Armietice This morning at 7.3 motorboat | 1 ay tracts: was ap-| stepped and all persons rose from t four years saw with h h ; A ries ites allence.’ In Great) fired Slongelde Pler 20, Clitton, Her | & ootleeKer, who offered | seats and stood for two minutes with ; Dune Bad cen mie Annet ny | by the ibwe minu ee ane pat ae | engine was running and her, lights were petit An Vinkins of « bargnin | heads uncovered, It certhinly was an Wttle motte ‘ nudish aor i and apy apron hud | Britain. Ireland and UR Antlee ne ea i £] 20; but no one was In sight, A crowd S Alta thyeueh mr head on LT] impressive thing to eve all these per he was tryiay ty h wit ‘ “t eatin loo See ee eaten oe PMAnered: end Mated on what had] oi” cpproaching the polweman {ons who & moment before hid been pe <a 0; Abi aneita celia Fe aeaan vutgenanlallence Ba \ ihe wfforta now] Happened, One suggested her captain] yy eee rated the cutprit, in t{apparently so heedless pay thts sllent A lar ie the Loague of Remem: | h@@ fallen overboard, another that, #h Lee ene® ieone Tchanwed to} tribute to the Nation's dead.—Harry del ta sal C ! fost no time in AT ee eae S beat | had got into trouble with the “dry Pe aiad’ Gall’ (¢ so 1{ Rannow, O41-A Qu Street, ao ! ify the hor t this beau ‘ i ed cell : oy net Lo . | us and to U ty will be adopted in all} M8YY: "Jt finally developed that th: trolley it] Brooklyn, “His daddy, ton ra proved of y ‘ $50 vilt Mhet and west. It is my sin | PO&t had broken from {ts mooring and serine con talking heat alee him ? cred tot and clean «i desire that the ‘two min- {bad drifted down the bay.—Albert | (1) tle The t A NEWS sto ake ine i re ate veriod be observed by every | Muntaner, No, 125 Osgood Avenue, sta-1y inthis conneetion was what I was in Wanamaker's Saturday at spay 4 i hab ea UL n this office at 11 o'clock to-g Pleton, 8, stake I had nearly made an 00! g the commemoration ser come flowers syn Filcst | WHAT 1? THERE SHOULDNT BE Avenue, Bronx “USE THE DOORS!" Charles A. I 45 Decker Ave-] jgvening World and telephoned in the aiyht of them, but 7 still think of ANY SNOW! As I was leaving a Richmond car at Port Richmond, 8. 1 story. I did not find my story on th ie easat Lelaie” Gnd: of ha OQ. East Broadway to-day I saw a OWE, THE PHOP St. George to-day I saw a policeman holes “What Did You sec Page iKaiets pe aieciee AS. son load of freshly” painted The customary trafic guardian | push a young man aboard and say NEW YORK. but on page three my eye was attracted melliftcld Boulevard, Titins, | P&: Yelow and black, Old people who} was missing from his post at | ‘What are doors put in cars for?” It te me on the Stiften 1 4 coluinn about the day in New he WB ra, ni passed looked at them and, it seemed] Bleecker end Lafayette Streete last | developed he had seen the young fellow | bo morning were four men York and thore T saw my Item incor to nie, smiled in reminiscence ef fun in] night during the busy home-going | Jump from a window as the car stopped hg & newspance printed in wu regular news article, 1 ' s wi Koue while the ehildren, look hour und crossing was dangerous [and had made him come back and langue Onn wa r had ‘always wanted that phins BOW EH eae | p fom their play, laughed and| for pedestriaas, for the automobiles | alight properly.—Agnea S, Jessup, N Italian, the third ¥ McGinn, No. 211% Binet Broekiyn “Won't a bu; el sabled) shouted with delight in antieipation of | kept bowling along constantly, At 16 Davis Avenue, West New Brighton. » Ru Alvina service men) i ‘ou bus 1 in wintors to,come,--Her A.| last a man, tin @ uf waiting, anid to |S. 1. Otis A Grant City 1 BE GIRLS HAVE A PARTY one, plone ! retested the words amd) Kirshbagm, No. 70) Kagex Strect the crowd of otievs seckiny to cross inde Re ceca cae the’ cual ginilea ¥ jt face of a} the street: “When I count three ail meanest on the sth Pesta which burly old fellow, who looked me through | HORSE-LAUC start walking; Vl lead the way. banitig “of. tha 28 Mm 4 lank stare* anc 1 ; says, “Lo, children are an heritage with a blank stare’ an Ls ps ‘ On Park Row at noon to-day 1 The plan worked perfectly, all the the 14. 2 saw my little Lorella had smile » often in the Rialto lobby leat ' trafic stopping as if a policema’ r ‘ . fs H Imets 2 taxi bump into w light touring Pas ana ihe aie aged three, entertaining her two grand RTs te ll te plate gloss (rant of 4 | 1 kame manner the bumper of tho taxi| Aad Asld mp Nia hand, and the walle E of the little girls in my class prought to school to-day the $} mothers and her two great-grandmoth Gepurtinent store. One the theas| ea and ae & Teste teatte oasetter| safety. —Theodore Kaslaw, No, sj O “What Did You Seo To-Day?” pase of The Evening Worlt 3] erm at tea, 1 saw them all holding dolls tre oor 8 ened and a We tired, old in | ay Ths atrive of the care| Hust 165th Street, Bron. We happened to have s¢ on the program for the ¢ tiny toy tl ahan: U aas epoat Eainet said’ m “Hey Petter treat ry jar barns WASH UX Usually, the children take turns ¢ tories while they rennamothe ‘ ; ho walked str ne Fla spotted bo in thy heh day, instead of the usual st te ents from yor ian Anerott Band a paper in which th ters] 1 his he and ke no nd had them re it pleasant ch hale te 1 showe crowd Inughed and ( ‘ ap of a Cor I saw at and had them read to the el she 7 4 they i if their complaint pping sud-| Avenu ni Reid 4 and the children were highl hat to ide ane n A : “Yes, 1 ' gefore. when a the horse] Cream Com truck abl Fiteme the: lads’ who earied an alat ) nder the imprenat : knowing what I war r ighed his Kept up until the Jam|were fighting the flames a 9 ‘ ang iets 4 i b ee ; i % yt was released, but somehow it seemed] crowd hid collected that o that what she had was a praye tary Ee McEnroe, P. nla tthe, tart an epaere And Weiehten to speed up the efforts in freeing it.—| to detour—which, by the way No, 828 West 18th Street, Manhattan. Bi sper Yee uve apne Senet tt the turmoil of the street.— H. E. Kessler, No. 1479 Greene Avenue,}late at school,—L F. Berman, No, Bath Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklyo. » No, 808 West 98d Strect. Brooklyn, 1935 Grand Concourse, Bronx. a) a a 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. QUEENS. BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE. N THE NEIGHBORHOOD of Fifteenth Street and Seventh Avenue, Whitestono, this morning, I saw a dainty miss of about thirteen come out of a house carrying a kettle of hot water. Her white apron and cap to match were spotless. She had, from all appearances, left “the dishes” in abeyance. She walked straight out onto the Asphalt road and headed toward Fourteenth Street, sprinkling the water from tke kettle as she went along. * * * Tho young folks roller-skate on this roadway almost every evening, and I came closer I saw that the girl was obliterating chalk writings o* the “Mary loves Johnny” variety, I stopped to study some of the “poetry” and Miss Thirteen saw me, reddened a bit and beat a hasty retreat for home, only to be confronted on the front porch by her mother, * @ © I was too far away to hear the mother’s voice, but I saw the girl quickly put the kettle behird her, pace backward a few steps and then turn and run for the rear entrance.—Angelo C. Anderson, No, 24 West Fourteenth Street, Whitestone, L. I. (Queens.) A “THANK YOu" Jon, _,To-day I saw at Bergen and Fulton Streets, Jamaica,’ chauffeur called to help out a strange man who was driving a Rolls Royce and who wanted a new “HELLO, FOLKS!” A blast, long and loud, from a boat on Long Island Sound awakened me Sunday morning in the home of a friend tire put ons Ww 18 job was) Thom iy eniire tamily were visiting. finished the man drote away Without] My tather also heard it and was equally saying anything» to the chauffeur,| puzzled. At breakfast our hostess ex- What's tho matter, Jim?" asked the owner of the accessories shop, noting a look of disgust on the chauffeur's face. “That guy is just Mke the ‘birdies in the air," replied Jim. “Cheep, cheep, cheep!"-—Gertrude T, Steinert, No, 87 West Fillmore Avenue, Corona, Queens, plained: “That was my U: Paul. He's Captain of Red Star thee thin tows scows across the Sound, and al- though he lives in the next village, Port Jefferson, ho never has time to visit me, so ho always blows a greeting to lot me know when he {s in port,'t== Miss L. Nesbitt, Bellaire Gardens, SPEECHLESS. A man camo to my door this morning and offered to chop’ wood at $2 a day. It seemed a bargain price and I set him at work, He disappeared at noon with: out pay. ‘This evening I told my hus- band of the incident and down. cellar he went lickety-clip to Investigate, ‘TN say that fellow was well paid,” said he when he returned. “It cost us Just $24 for a little pile of wood to be chopped. He took with him our last two bottles of whiskey, for which I pald $12 a bottle and which you had hidden behind My husband invariably reads The Evening World when he reaches home in the evening while waiting for dinnes This evening as he picked up the paper he turned to me and eaid rather sharp- ly: “What did you cut out of page 18?" “Something that would not be Proper for you to see,’ Y answered. He demanded I give it to him and I refused, whereupon he went out of the room, Im old newspapers.” For the first time ina few minutes I saw he had left the my life T had nothing to say.—Mrs.| house. He ret hour Wilbert H. Brunner, No. 9039 Howard Serer Wao with another copy of the paper, which he opened immediately at page 18. Ha grunted. Then he was silent. He hasn't sald a word since, for the item I had cut out was one of the recipes printed fu Tho Evening World under the head- Ing: + “Feed the Brute."—Hlizabeth Gordon Gray, No, 15 Washington Street, Flushing, Queens. Avenue, Jamatea, DID NOT GO TO WASTE. While waiting for a Gates Avenue car at Broadway, Brooklyn, yesterday, I heard some coins drop, and turning, saw a man pick up some change. J noticed a dime he apparently had overs looked and called his attention to it, but he counted his change and sald it was not his. I started to get {t but SHERMAN TO THE RESCUB. As darkness was falling Sunday eve another man beat me to it.—Edward ning we were closing for the season our Dittman, No, 1136 Canal st. Wood-|iittie camp on Flushing Bay where we Raven, 1 spent many pleasant week-ends ee ing the summer, and where wo had “is MY HA’ N STRAIGHT? just passed interesting day. We My neighbor owns a duck of which ho is very fond, talking to it every morning as affectionately as if it child. The loud were to have a last concert by candle- light and were making the preparations when some one screamed. The baby, three, had leaned too far over the cand flame and her light curls were were a duck's quacking this morning attracted my |ublaze. “Daddy! Mother!” crled the attention and T found her standing | children they ecampered ebout im before a largo mirror her owner had | fright. Before the older ones could col stood against the fence, Sho waa | lect thelr wits little seven-year-old Sher- gazing at her image in evident satis- | ‘an brushed the others aside and with faction, preening her feathers and his bare hands rubbed out the flames quacking her unqualified approvat | that enctreled the head of his {dollzed of what sho saw in tho glass,— |elster before serious damage had been Edward Wisoman, 139 Hayes 'dewe.—Mrs, C. H, Park, Boulevard and Avenue, Corona, Lwierne Place, College Point. THE SEAT THAT WAS. IRST, THIS IS ABOUT WHAL 1 SAW, and then about what I F didn’t see. * what you think abov it. * * * Tieft Queens to-day for Manhattan, carrying the baby, who is no lightweight, and when I entered a Seventh Avenue oxpress train at the Atlante Avenue station a dapper little men across the car from tu. motioned me to come over and take his seat. The man started for the ear ahead just as T advanced. * * * 1 swear I did not take my eyes off that very welcome vacant space, except for the flash it required to nod my thanks, yet by some imperceptible movement of the two stout men on either side of it the gap disappeared like a hole in the water after a stone has been thrown in. * * * There were five stout men in a row, and if I were put under oath I could not say where the vacancy had existed. by the same sort of blindness. One man had the grace to blush—just a little, The others stood pat, or is it “sat pretty’? * * * I staggere back to the doorway (the baby was asleep) and clung on until a little stenographer with unimpaired eyesight saw my plight and gave me her place.—Mrs, Elizabeth A. Brown, No. 9010 Pleasant Street, Queens, es ONE OF OURS. WERE PREPARING TO CLOSE THE SHOP at midnight on Sunday at the when the Last Customer dropped in, seated himself soda fountain and called for a glass of plain soda. When his order wus placed before him I was impressed by his pecullar hand went around to a hip pocket I gathered receipts and, as quietly as [ could, stepped from behind the fountain with the intention of darting for the door, only a few feet distant. * * My fight was stopped when I saw the poor fellow pull a razor, slash fiercely at his own right wrist and topple from the stool to the floor. A neighbor came, in answer to my cries, und while I telephoned to the police and notified St. John’s Hospital, my neighbor made a tourniquet for the stranger's wrist. * * * Upon al of the police we learned that the young man is an ex-soldier J in Franes with the tanks, was gassed and came home a beeged not to be taken to a hospital. Said be was “sick of hospital wanted to die, “You'll see a swell funeral,” he said, “Oh, you'll see a grand funeral!” * * * The ambulance came en@ he was removed to St. John’s Hospital.—Miss H. F. Walsh, No, 888 Grand Avenue, Astoria, L. 1. , rervyousress and whea bi up the day the ar reck and No help came from any of them. All had been stricken /