The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1922, Page 31

oarely visible behind a row of bags of hooked.""—Arthur Nelson, No, 2183 Partment bands, then the Tigor himee! nen, all wearing top hats, except M. | °iFc Clemenceau, who wore a gray soft felt) 4701 fat. When he doffed it I saw an alto- oz tether bald bead. He waved a pink carnation at the cheering crowds. His} tne face was cast in a noble mold. His] ¢, eyes were expressive of the enthustaen be must have felt at the greeting given ir, =Then foliow more automobl fa w movie theair Ai» & dition to this payment. Open to all readers. ° MANHATTAN, AND THAT'S WHAT THE BURGLARS SAID. AM THE MANAGER of a butcher store at No. 1455 Amsterdam ] Avenue. When I opened up this morning I discovered that bur- glars had paid us a visit during the night, forcing their way into the cellar, cutting out a hole in the floor and thus getting the run of the premises. They took the safe out of the cashier's office, rolled Mt to the back of the store, drilled it open and rifled it. * * * But what I wanted to tell you is that our store is under the protection of & private detective organization, One of their watchmen certainly visited the places on his list lust night, for when I began looking about for clues 1 found the card he slipped under the door, reading “Bverything O. K."—Edward Hertzel, No. 1455 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. OITY BOYS GO NUTTING COLONIAL HisTORY. ™ Dey Street in front of a nut st At 37th Street and Park Avenue saw the head of a messenger boy! to-day I saw an inscription on a nuts piled high on the curb, I looke!} "Ck relating how one Mra. Murray i m@ the row and saw several other| Of Revolutionary fame royally en- conga a close iegehte ae | tertained Lord Howe of the British e he helped them and himee! to bandarul of nuts from a hole tn] Abted sheath Aa eld de evases pne of the bags. Each was rapidly fill-| : t Avenuo and 4 mg his cap with the good.os while | Street on the wall of Swift & Oo., I ther was lying “chicky” for the er saw a tablet stating that it wae ind they were all delighted at the pros.| ‘here Nathan Halo met hte sad fate. best of their fenst until a clerk splea| {8710 @ Revolutionary cannon at | Third Avenue and 51t Street.— | b whereupon t! . Aes ping thetr spolle as they went and not] Thomas MeCatrey, No. 188 Bost caping, it seemed to the amused on Bookers, until they had lost all they had FOOTBALL AT 62.50, Is Avenue, Bronx, blowing loudly ing at 10 o'clock. They informed | that Georges © wenceau, Tiger of had arriy . on the Paris at ler A, the Batters, so I hurried out t what I could sr, First, 1 saw more r disappoin acore of newspaper photog- | #tood outside. non the police told us to nbd rhevis then ecurrel nove on, whic » did good-naturedly 5 men scurrying to} 2 | antage points. Then came the mount-| Some left, but most of us finally got Into} 4 policemen, looking splendid fice Department and Street Clea he Po-| ine and pald the p ag polite murmurings of regret, and | wondered v A aN open automobile with four other et CLE HARRY. bush since charge of w u nd @ long lin po thereon is a dilapidated, weatherbeaten nd pedestriane. And as I turned pldated, eee ar Ae ghana cerend| barn on Maple Street,’ near Flatbush te ies ate Rete Ore venus even that’ bullding ta now Amertea.—Lucille Gro Pederson, No. be own. Friday night T saw Se iors, anest ol le Harry close the doors and LET WE ENOUG T saw some RI RET PE ESE PRR VLAN NT WO DOLLARS will be paid for each item printed on this page. Checks are mailed daily. The weekly special awards, announced on Saturdays, are in ad- ber of boys who were receiving instruc- tion fn the game from a teacher, sailed through the air from the bridie path of Riverside Drive near 109th Street this! to eat something FREW, Into every lap the young man tosses a neatly ia front of the Myitth Avente fas o2| wrapped confection, at the same time assuring ono and all that the | Ghedientiy tie lad removed hia Jacket which I was riding. The brakes were innards of the confection are peanut butter and its outards chocolate. Frank Phillips, No. 67 Dahill applied to save the ball from the bus's} @ # #* ‘The most interesting thing about the innovation is the re | Brooklyn. wheels, and the plgskin was unharmed. “Ata boy! Ata gentleman!” shouted the} action of the passenger. Those under the age of fourtecn grab boys, while the teacher hurried over to} eagerly. High school girls giggle. Boys grin. I saw a sober young | thank the driver,—Marie C. Finch, No. 2626 Grand Concourse, Bronx. Admission to the bleachera at the Polo at RG jrounds for football games has been M. CLEMENCEAU, 31, but when hundreds of fans expect- ng to pay this price got there a Gatur- we were confronted with signs tes announcing the price to be No statement had been made r to the game, and, rath- ‘ad and ‘bewildered, we| MUST HAVE BREN IN UNIFORM. Each morning between $ and 10 | o'clock one of those! “horn pests” stops | about in front of an apartment house opposite} © concentrated on the candy in a puzzled way and finally, having salved ours and, being too indolent to. walk Sey he just alee the sek minke cra} man in knickers, who got off at Forest Hills, with a shiny packet pecp- hon‘ts until those within hearing nearly ing out of his case, let the little packet of candy slip from his knee go crazy. To my delight this morning T saw a window go up with ce. There were only nat @ baseball! or boxing »wd would have done under similar s.—Alexander Heitout, No. t Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn. time I warn you!" The honking ceased. Marie C. Finch, No. 2626 Grand Con- course, Bronx. le Harry, a Negro, has been fn the ploy of the Lefferts family in Flat- ¢ was a boy and has had at now remains of the old : ‘arm. ‘The only building left . Yeh ne vata ude Ald Lael 3 ‘The clang of fire engines early thiat Were changing at Jamaica, | morning made me hop out of bed and] Queens. [from a rear window L saw @ woman j hurriedly thrusting out upon a@ fire- escape first a lot of bedding, then a fu: |coat and lastly what was probably the most prized of her possessions—a large picture of an old Indy, evidently her | mother, Presently | heard the engin Jretiring and was glad the fire wa put the padlock on as he has consclen- done for more than sixty years. J, Kimpton, No, 63 Beekman 1H URSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1922. 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 DORT 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 best letter 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 : will be divided weekly among university and college students contributing to the page. For the $1 00 best letter of the week, $50; second best letter, $25; five letters next in merit, 35 each. f School and college contributors MUST name their schuols. Wait for the worth while incident. Do not try to writs every day. Boar ] mind the question: “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY?” Not what somebody else saw, not what you heard and not something that happene: last summer. What did YOU seo to-day? isin Contributors to the page should write of subjects vith which they are familiar. Choose, preforably, things that happen in your own Lr borhood. Tell your dtory, if possible, in not more than 125 words, State WHERE the Incident took place. Write your namo in full. Write your address carefully. Address your letter to ‘What Did You See To- Day?” Evening World, P. 0. Box No. 185, City Hall Station, New Yor $960 BRONX. | QUEENS. eee i “COURTESY.” INTRODUCING A NEW CONFECTION. | Do As YOURS aps A football, kicked by one of a num-! | A boy of twelve who was attting in chop up his shouts into words you find that he fs tnviting you ently knew nothing. proached and said, FISH PULL father tuck his into an overcoat pocket, to be ready for the invariable | stear “What you bring me, Daddy?” in the eveningw One elegant lady paid Rl pcied coBALN. tal taeqioetl no attention to the white bit which fell into her silken lap. It had re- {line a good hal posed there a minute or two, or three, when she raised @ lorgnette, and hoc her dignity, ate the candy like any ordinary mortal. * * * The |lyn COrFER FOR A PENNY. as if it were a caterpillar, It rolled tn front of a very small and very youthful member of the proletariat, who picked ‘it up and put it away like a robin at a breakfast worm. The lady across the way, admiring his execution, gave him hers. I added mine. His mother, who ap- parently never bothered her head with Dr. Holt’s or any body else's Abked, and: he: eHowed) mee Bt j | bang. A | som fdeas about babfes, smiled approval, * * * And by this time we 5 wis coff | | leaned out and shouted, “Hey, Shut up! For the first and last a) . URE. RAND ESS Ore Katherine Burton, Box 14, Forest Hills, | hich for 4 siver p! odd-lookt RUN TO FARTH. 8 c [small one. The picture was 6a! here this m and u otis rat. we ey | A CHAMPION OF LAW AND ORDER Ohek, A. Deuecaer, Wo. 388 BL Wad @ little’ cok headed fled to remove air ) t Bridle Path at 66th Street {n| Ann's Avenue, Bronx. e ‘cars of age who was than eaked them if the k to-day [ 6 veral Llttle | -~ idewalk. He ed no of th pL yeroned by a girl of seven, “NICE TIGER. | thougi « targe man wa t ef F UREA ane te | even Why, window en | Gauittay. 1 SAH HER CONDUCTOR, | WELL, THAT'S DONT.” Na dened: wenieitreant 4 { the 5, bu | op! | Don’ title died ear tere hed i hree children got sboard the Port iv mber 6 r ha Va neh as para rancdtate A ‘ sign?” She| wonderful reception accorded France's Wastes Tulittedey aparanestiel <a. % wumber of mon standing {had found th by pla h {t Muff-d out as n r the wooden sign with {ts | great statesman. The Tiger didn't roar! conanctor ve y and ne tekets| day at Van Wyck and IAderty rely asked x Beds loav or a r horseback | ridera: “Go| or display any fangs. He wecepted the | one of ere Little maid off Avenue toalting for the bus, F sao | Ve and the Ind, for a rep svorae pre: ar i the Little party pro- | Publicity cheerfully, smiling his appre- 3 : ph: ies Laka : 16 ite Goldberle. cab. 1431 50 funeral pace.—T. P, B., No, | ciation for the great good will ex-| tom, refus Sti lat ee aeee standleg) bw -sodten sully i art would brea enokisa, ect pressed by the acclaiming multitudes. Rion re nal’| Presently every one got aboard tho ntly to tell who I have never seon camera men eo bold Big ‘ beat bus and several men turned to wave Ived. Finally, with noth RIC ‘i | One Jumped upon the running board of 1 aka ue Lopeegacdle ol Maan ‘ ee re ip, the truant oMeor e RICHMOND, Uclentemmtta: cee gual eenun stone | tara gr aay baate welled | atl thavedesl: NON Goaared thal ene meee Sertiee “THE PIANO TUNER.” at a distance of leas than two feet. It pik ie mes ae ipttcos tl on Ww | tatla happily, and when the 1 \ook him, I presum: = : ata 6 sa great day for binding closer the aaa a presen an rolled off, turnad and walked in Leonard LEFT WORD st o Stapleton musio store that "I wan my piano | friendship of France and America, and el Oe , OL ferent directions as (f thetr di Ave A ahh thie nannies : ‘ - \t promised that America never will for- | NOMMINE. | ae ny | seeing thetr masters safely off was ff = i tuned and this morning; there was 6 you an at my door Who | cet thoso great days of the World War ee th a done.—Mre, Anna Poten, No. 10627 | BROOKLYN'S EVENING WORLD, said, “I have come to tune your plano,” When I told him that I | !8 which the ‘Tiger played so consptcu haha Kins ck | 126th Street, Richmond Hill, Queena. hen 1 opened my Evenin h o oart——Law! A c J sd he way home'l saw the new B } \ ae j ous part.—-Lawrence Elgg, Noe the cites: : i oe ‘ me T saw t expected bi rday he smiled and said: “I am dreadfully sorry, yee Avenue, Bronx. Othe others und sald: “I told you MY | a MOTORMAN WAS COUNTING | Section and sald: "We ra 3 Blt k gonje don't know} GE y ne cartoon expressed but on week days I ain a student at the School for the Blind, tn Man- i that other man!"—Mra. M. PB, Der | CHANGE, tas ‘ Sena he hater? * © 6 | Watched while 1 A CREDIT TO HIS TEACHER, No, 422 Amity t, Flushing, Queens | I saw on Briday morning the thi nes. SBR Tay ier! at @ re- In the evenings I instruct a class of ¥ laccident I have witnessed due to eae dit gerne Wes mov, the nt all over the keys, the | foreigners {n English, Since the What] ROOTS GROW THROUGH WATER tched one-man car system. W: NO AEE strings and 5 * * * When he bad e Did You Dage has been running rir |pulling up the little hill out of the ¢ inane t “ } drepect Laan aE World I have been us-! In the yard of Publ! 66} at Broadway, near Cre ONm BLOC pe tuning he told me there nt repair work to be done on the | ing it es @ tical reader for my pu-| to-day I saw several mon g up| Street, Astoria, na a one-man car v BE BLAOR TUBB EE Sea keyboard. I saw him u everal It which he handled with | pils one have shoeureged Eisen 9 write] the ground. If asked th ing down Broadway, It wa Pete eh ee I : : {Items for tt, Imagine my eurprime then! of then ; Mn lthan Baila Blo when we saw a number of 6 and skill i ‘then, when he finished his m he gat jof them told me the fi nin half a block away wer r aeirer ¢ Bone oN) ee *e i or At down n thib evening in glancing over the} the echoool was poor ar y try-|the curb, and for @ moment 1 d more and played a selection from “E M » 82 Maple | page I saw an item by one of my pu-l ing to locate a leak. Su ‘ f}wateh tt, as the motorman had ar parka and, at the Avenue, Rosebe Staten Island Ho 1s a factory worker and has} the men, who had been tapptr [time to atop while wo w t Peeps SLSR es | been tn this country only nine months.—| pipe with a crowbar, sald. “This |down the thorouxhfare. But {t apr in and Butter Avaniies STEALING Foon FROM CIILDREN. ONE BANJO STRING. Manure! Gelles, No. 1420 Prospect Ave-| doesn't sound right.” So, piercing {he wes counting change, as his dut We tee unceees bank oo Yesterday whilo walking through af] 1 was in a musto shop om Jerecy Bronx. pipe, we discovered that the root uire, and when I looked again a col-| nich were overflowine tn the a od y home I saw a sparrow} Street to-day gett Fs sates tree had grown all the way through It. {if was unavoidable. The m . slated cokblek cr baal em pear my home alte getting some Victor AND MOREOVER HE RECEIVED | Then another declared; That's aw the danger at the same insta 1 betapl arn eet acy single Maori | robbing some young Juncows, or am cords when I noticed @ man trying THE #100 AWARD, thing now wo all Atscos red jamped on hin brake. ‘The cnr tam Milder O88 older onen were wi f their food, The mother of th many records, whtatlin, o 0 b ol 0, 850 A t.Jinto the aide of our heavy Pa ka itnaat z irda, of their £ 9 a8 they My cousin, who weighs £80 pounda, | rie A yi one nig a Ps 1 Brook! Yate brood would fetch a worm or emall{ were played, Finally he asked tho opened hts Evening World today as ick, swerved and came to a rest side- | iM to t mouth | shopkeeper if he had a bam: we waited for a train at the East big a ways across the street.—Louls Cohen | me OARRIES A WALLET AND A fnsect and drop tt into the open mou anconernes ti he Dong Rae Pe) 149th Street Station, and turning to THE GROUND WAS SOFT. Yio. $58 Broadway, Long taland Cit IRIRA 1A. WATENT ef one of her your Thon the sparrow] no Victrola but that he Aad @ good the “What Did You Seet” page, T enw a group of telephone com- if f Realdlstick its bill down it ird's | pcan “4 jek Mee pave a whoop, jumped into the air, pany employece D new pos | ANOTHER Rt ORT OF THE SAME) FT jaw a very old man enter the Artor throat, drav » the} 1 he Intended to play tho tunes and clicking hia heels together a ta Hid asi at Kev ona t ACCIDENT, Eofey, APL SAW fae Foor ie Phi th 1 rat Rooney, ho lost Ate balawor, and nemen we nap on y to business Fr the , red @ pen and food, wipe | rds he had tried when Pat K qh t , Me y isiness . o Rees pees ware or] 1 home. Whatever the Ais enormous bulk was deposited NEN seas dein i Astoria ne I saw \ ; ‘ » th h infu on the conorete subway 10 guy wires f 1 t Ugh r ‘s 2 4 course To cha n | per m ave thought of the ing t “ watke els obliged to alight fro: ie 2 : David Welss, Rickm Turn: | x methods ho kept to him Many aympathizera clus- alee, | Tha 1 wa era blocks to araeea nies Ab esinomticeilc 51 | self a@ Kenneweg, No. £8) but clutching his pa man to wnloose ‘that guy Hh Lt lapel a ped 1 ite, Ee subs dunnie,| Naw Beckie ved out of tho station he ground man mistaken wn @ 4 the stre I ! pews , where he broke the one of the guy wires holdin Y heardia mantine DEFRAUDING THIS GAS COMPANY. | ast he had had a con partiouls pole im hap , To-day I sqw how 1 TUANAND SPINS Ms iad. ite Reak Get soc pull of the + ning wi hw MR. CITYMAN GORS A-HUNTING HUS § s IPE fT ; pry ie an aldo r of min 1ced 1 1 “) pei 8 GooD filte copica of The Eve- the pole to tu a = er ee f 1 month by a new 1 4 ° I | ming World to the folks back hon the two lin rd at Broadwa ser t the aske . r r « Muntetpal Periberger, No. 687 Bast Howover, tho ground t, Aa the cars. on that eS Dlocks, I w ! r for r ferry be invited me to rido } ob BAMA neither was hurt.—Chaunc i e mn OF fe 13 to-day w tor on Hi Ing along piste ter, Devon P Kew age Ig ess Fs - I Before ndmittings hin ' t 1 her sand drove | yucens, \© van to move that tr Aer an it S ; paving blocks fror th r | f 1 and repeatedly | SAFE NDS. | ne v men ga sevice with ¢ilend: © nd after he left sb t p. He only laughed, | While crossing 1th Street at Fourth | THE P. §. ¢ The people pay for ser hl hie’ hloed & ‘Thon ¥ {sfled sion king about fifteen, | Avenue about 5 o'clock Friday evening, Since moving {nto our to Ket it!-—F. C, Marshall, No ! Then c f compart r 1 wi previous | dear r Lut as we neared saw a man stoop near where | several weeks ago, I have t and Aven Astorta. wa ‘act and larger bili, Sk 4 been only fourteen | W velt Avenue my friend saw tramMe officer stood and pick upliy and persistently to perat | - buried rd in t months in tl t ta « {r © 4 warned her hus-! about §20 in bills. He called to some} company to Install the tma r MAYBE, the rift t ugh to defr the 8 comr | i he's looking for some who had just crossed the street, pipes, but witt A plereing shrick rose fr te ’ ‘ I Towever, T ta those } | to hand a ticket to, the other party was lost in the} notly, In desperats t platform at the & 2 E Mil rook! porks, not wishing to tus jer , a Hub The “poor | crowd, #0 the finder handed the bills to| Servicn Commiesion and 17 T. station, Ja nck euch petty lar Bush F. MeG | suck nd Hubby himself, He] the policeman, The latter counted itleveryone I knew sald I woul ght and from the opposit t |) THE NEW BOARDWALK AD CONEY are Clover Farm T 2 ane | b cket and later was fined | then walked to the southeast corner and| answer, the C iestas wR Woman holding a tt At yi ton I in for having traveled handed the money to a patrolman who} ceeded in getting th \ i screaming 1 r ton wot iy-ning miles an hour.—Mrs. Ed-{was directing pedestrian trae on the | to-day when I returned | ye Oe Carrar. kke Kad Suet 1 CRISS-CROSS ai 184 Beechwood Ave-| sidewalk, The patrolman, whose badge | she ieter aa train, | tow t I was among the ¢ nue Ww mn aten Island, | number was 10001 and precinct nw [the best thing I've seon in before 1 could dist who were Interested : é arefully made note of the traiilc| ali that time I have. br word unique samo tatet OBSERVANT MR, KLAWSKY name, which I think was Clark, | juggle two burners on cn nt book; I haven't a 1 two b on a I not each afternoon that custom-| and his number, 1800, Squad A. In that! cook for a hungry fami) T r r a from St. George to Port Rich rs who ¢ into my news store simple manner a quick record was mace | it was ifying for 1 run di t windows 1 1 y Street to buy an Byvening World the occurrence, 80 that the owner) New York can. bo: : escaped by the b de j nvariably open it at once to the “\What| could claim his money. I hope he « ‘ F ion vy ¥ ' gnarks thereln by thetr fore= | Did F to rend the 1 this so he may know where he lost it}a c se nat fingers across t! 1 neer ond Borough and that {t fell into honest hands.—|to celebrate with a real te could have t i eld, No, 1611 f ' Y 4 Jersey t, New, Harry Plutzer, No. 608 Tinton Avenuo, | Miller, Chestnut. Strect cy Hreger, No. Ade nue, Wit o Chr I mond, & I m, Staten laland. Bronx. Aventie, Queens. « Vgeid. No. 1995 44th Avenue, Brooklyn HE EVENING WURLD pays liberally in cash for FIRST news of really tant happenings—FIRST news of BIG news. Call Beekman 4000. Ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Every reader a reporter. HEY ARB WORKING A NEW STUNT on the Pennsy nowadays. front of me in Loew's Metropolitan Theatre yesterday had hung his over- Into the train comes the candy boy, with basket. When you SORE Cron the brocs pall Betore CAL an infraction of rules of which he appar- An usher ap- ‘Take your coat off.” the best joke of that day in The Pye- ning World? It was not on the maga- thon of the Brie to-day I heard whad zine page and not among the ‘comic: hut in a@ news article. Describing the] inetead I saw an automoible on the Chamber of Commerce dinner at which] rails, My ftret thought was thad Irving T. Bush and Job Hedzes were] some one wae recklessly driving, speakers, Mr. Jordan sald: “The flowers id 5 Hedges. South First Street, Mount Verno: Road, IN BACKWARD. While fishing last night from | lyn at Scallop Ridge, off | e man pull fm an fathom above sinke s had formed a “jam knot" fish's tall, and all its st Hkles did not avall to release {t.—W Brookes, No. 3044 Ocean Avenue, Brook. An aged man who looked too old to work stoppe& me and asked for a penny with which to get something to eat, as { was walking along Centre Street front of the Tombs Prison. “How you get anything to eat for that?” stand on the corner at nny a cup of coffee ts I gave the old man some change Manked me and went to that aurant for his dinner, F. Cahill, No. 473 81st Street, Brook This evening I saw my wife teach our| side.—R N. Lawrence, R. F. D. No, Lowla Avenue at Kosctucko Street |Reighbor's ittle «irl how to knit. The] Peekskill, N. Y. was In a state of excitement as T pr They were not very hop mother had never been able to learn, !the rear of the fire hall. This is « but with infinite patience my wife py to £ OUT OF TOWN. “WHERE’S THE FIRE?” HAD JUST FINISHED READING my own contribution to the , “What Did You" See Today?” page when rrrrrrrazzzzz! went the fire whistle. A reporter's life is no cinch, even if his paper is only ~ the “What See” page. We hurried into coats, jumped into the car, which happened to be standin; im front of the house, and off we started. But talk about your luck. We happened to get inta line directly back of one of the fire trucks and had trailed it for about one mile when the truck stopped. The water was low in its radiator. * © * Finally we got started for a second time. We drove ‘and drove and drove. We asked one another where we were. (We had lost sight of the fire). We kept on driving, directly behind that fire ‘ruck, * * © After a while things began to look familiar. And no wonder! We were back within a mile of our starting place! We were still trailing that fire truck, but we were in the heart of Bull's Head, Suddenly the truck stopped again, and we heard the driver addressing us. “Say,” he said, “whereabouts {s that blame fire, any how?" * * © Well, it was in one of the cattle barns on the B. H. Hutton estate, at Brookville, It was almost out when we got there, Fire companies from Locust Valley, Oyster Bay, Glenwood Landing, Rosiyn and Westbury did mighty good work.—Mrs. A. Van De Grick, Box 102, Glenwood Landing, L. I. ONE OF “JOB” JORDAN'S. Did you aee what T maw on Friday. AUTOMOBILE RUNS ON RAILROAD PAace. While waiting at the Tuxedo Sta- "| 1 thought was my train coming, but oratory spread from Bush to Led ad hogennrsedila atten —Joseph S. Haight, No. 2i0| Kke a train, Five men were in the N.¥.] car, and im a moment they had presi passed. It looked like a first clase AS HONEST AS THE DAY IS LONG. machine, and it was the first I ever This morning on my way to Yon- saw.—Mildred F, Jones, Tumedo kers I purchased a paper from @ Park, Nz J. boy at Broadway and 1th Street, —_—- handing him a quarter. He had no JUST LIKE A MAN. change and asked me to wait until We have three sheep—William, the ho got it. I waited nearly ten min- | father; Anna, the mother, and little utes, and no boy appearing I put i¢ | lame Felix, their lamb. Ordinarily they down as a loss and proceeded on my |are a happy family, but they have journey. This evening as I was re- |squabbles, usually about Felix. Anna turning on the subway I saw this |acolds loudly and William perches on same Iittle chap board the train at |@ rock, looking very dignified, indeed, 1td Stroet. When he saw mo hie | and muttering unincelligibly. This morn- jaw dropped and his eyes nearly | ine he proved himself @ true father. A popped from his head. “Gee, mta- | Oise on the porch brought me down ter,” he exclaimed, “why didn’t you |! & hurry to discover him enjoying wait for your change?” Then he proceeded to count 22 cents, T thanked him and bought another tine tray, head down. However, @ sec- papor.—Lar Shino, No. 558 Jersey | ong wallop act him thinking, and after Avenue, Jeracy City, N. J. a stunned moment he proceeded to the tree where his innocent spouse was tled and butted her soundly in the was soundly walloped with a stick, bi RIGHT.” child is not yet five years old and my —_- wife held her in her lap and with her| pUT NOT EXACTLY A FAIS own hands guided the hands of the Uttle ALARM. through the process—once, twice,! Wednesday evening at 8.90 o'clock the | thrice, again und again. The mother} stanhasset Fire Dopar t whistle 4 father of the litt one grinned. | sounded loud and long. Central told ma i because the} the fire was in a blacksmith shop in hickly settled business section, so L ered. Finally the Httle girl stabbed | hurried down to eee what 1 could soe. the big knitting needle through the} gut Instead of firemen fighting a ff loop, caught the wool on it and pulled] {| gaw all the boys ussembled before = through, large table In the fire house. The table It was, and was loaded with sandwiches, cake and at her face wh he heard 8 « botler filled with coffee. One of the had done It right. Now her father und] fremen had just been married and he | mothersare pleased and L J was giving his mates a treat. He had on | too, and unutte pro fe.| sounded the fire whistle to get them Morria A. Frisch, No. tgomery| together.—Mrs. R.A. Allen, No. IT Jersey Cy, N. Third Street, Manhasset, L. T. THE GOAT. AYVILLE now has two moving picture establishments. One of S them, the Novelty, has been with us for years and 1s under the ' management of Mr. G—. Not long ago, Mr. S—, proprietor of @ retail clothing store, leased the Opera House and announced that o, 15 he too would show pictures. In the beginning his prices were some- what lower. Ho showed good pictures. * * * The crowd began coming, prices went up and Mr. S— tntroduced the “Country Store” idea. Every Wednesday night he gave away coats, sults, dresses, rugs, furs, eto, This brought immense crowds. * * * Well, the enterprising manager of the Novelty wasn't going to be left behind, and he began giving us the “Country Store” also on Wednesday nights. This week his offerings included a live goat, two live geese, a barrel of flour, a ton of coal, and the like of that. © * © All well and good. Wednesday night came. I was at the Novelty. There was a big crowd. A boy won the goat. © % © Thursday morning I went to the village and saw Mr. Goat in the show window of Mr. 8-~'s clothing store! Mr. 8— had bought the goac from the lucky boy. There was nothing else in the window except the announcement pasted om the glass, “I Got G——'s Goat.” * * © More later— Ethel M. Vitoch, P. O. Box 596, Sayville, L. I SWEET LIZZIE. HEN L TOOK MY CAR Into a local garage for some slight re- W pairs I saw three men hard at work with scouring powder and scrubbing brushes on a certain small car which needs no more ng. Until I saw this exhibition I was sure that nothing that e cars would surprise me, * * * This was most unusual nature. I asked questions and the men answered them, plecemeal. * * * The taxi driver had been called to a house four miles back on the ridge. He stopped on the way for gas and sent his helper to the “general store” for oil. The rekeeper was bustling with the Sunday papers and the taxi driver’s assistant was told to help himself. He di * © © Somebody else will have to explain “how,” but they managed to reach the ridge bee fore the engine stalled, Inquiry, investigation, probe and quis revealed that what the driver's helper got at the general store or “oll was really molasses, In the dim light of the storeroom he had gone to the wrong barrel. So what I saw tn the garage was ® Wort of molasses candy pull—-L. A. H. Whst Redding, Cona. ‘ 2 adverti happened to one of the engine trouble—of a an overturned basket of apples. Heé © summoning his courage, he returned €o"”