The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 31

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- dition to this payment. Open to all readers. : MANHATTAN. Um POLICEMAN GOODHEART. SAW A BIG, STOUT MAN arraigned in the West Side Court to-day before Magistrate Sweetser on the chargé of begging on the ~ streets, The arresting policeman swore that the défendant had Gipproached him and said: “Give us a few cents and help me out!” “Well, did he replied. “Then, the Magistrate asked the defendant. “No,” the man continued the court, “since HB didn’t he!p you out there, WIRE going to help you out, here. Sentence suspended!” The courtroom roared with laughter at the play on words and the de- tendant passed out iuto the street. Later I had occasion to tell the Judge that I had learned that the policeman, upon discovering that the defendant just discharged had been released from Kings County Hospital, and had been arrested tmmediately because tue policeman bad been the first person he solicited, had gone out and given the man a dollar bill to-get something to eat. His Honor turned on me with an expression that I can describe only by saying that it looked as if he wanted to say: “Well, what do you know about that!"—James Francis Fagan, Assistant Court Clerk, 7th District Magistrates Court. No. 314 West 54th Streot. THE END OF A STARLING'S TROUBLES. As I crossed the upper campus at Columbia to-day 1 saw Pete, the bob- tailed college cat, half hidden vehind a bush about which was walking a star: Ung. 1 tried to shoo the silly bird away, but he persisted in, walking round and round that bush until Pete, unable to bear tt any longer, sprang at him, picked him up in his Jaws and bounded away behind the gymnasium. Just then the college bell tolled and I almost’ wept as T thought of Cowper's line: “I heard the bell tolled on thy burial oa Hee Hiller, Columbia University ‘Teaphers’ College. . . “FRANKS.” On 116th Street near Second: Avenue I saw @ group of boys about a fran furter stand. One, evidently the leader, was hgnding each a frankfurter in a roll. Every one held his in his hand, waiting. When all were served the Jeader held up his frankfurter, ry one else did ‘ikewlse. Then the leader chanted, “Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark!" whereupon with a ‘“‘woot’’ ull the boys fell‘on the frankfirters, ~ And’ the odor of them wafted to me‘by the breeze was so compelling 1 hurried home for a nickel.—Mtnnie Cohen, No. £278 Becond Avenu APPLE IN TH’ BEAR'S MOUTH. On passing 4“ utcher shop on Cham- ay I saw four men car- he bear must have weighed and have been six feet long gehed out. There was a little 4 in bis mouth to prevent him, Ard a mother tell her five-yeai 4, from “biting good Uttle boys, A’ ert Millet, No. 151 Park Row. CAMERA-8HY. (Two otd men, one of them tn galt Anickers, were conversing animatedly yon the steps of Columbia University / Library. He of the knickers had a closed umbrefla and apparently was demonstra- (ng some points of the game. Address- ng the tmaginary ball, he mede a tre- , Mendgus swipe, and, shading his eyes with Ais hand, followed Its fight fo « ‘sonds. Then the umbrella became a ny Ale, a niblick and a putter. One ot © freshmen who were standing near BY Aed to focus his camera toi photo- ¥ aph the scene, but the elderly golfer vexed indignant and chased them away with the umbrella.—Aaron Salzberg, No. 504 West 112th Street. GOOD ALWAYS, Me om Eighth Avenue store win- dow to-day as I was riding uptown on @ surface car, 1 saw a Barnum & Railey Circus placard heralding performances that took place last » Maroh.—Ambrose Finger, No. 338 gist Street, Brooklyn. ENOGRAPHER'S YAR! At 10.30 A. M. and 2.80 P. M. wo have ten miwutes’ recess at my place of employment on the eleventh floor of No. 120 Broadway. To-day one of the siris was knitting on a sweater for a ony friend and had placed the bal) of: wool on the window ledge.” Anv‘her girl raised the sash and the wind carri-d the ball out. More than a score of gicis ran to windows to see Its fate, It fe'l to Broadway and,the wind ¢arried it toward Pine Street. Three of the siris starte. to pull fhe yard In hand over hand. Down on Broadway we saw a dog chase the fast-moving ball, and nearly lose his life beneath a tax! waten broke the yarn, Even with, what hed heen recovered by the three girls, there Was not enough wool left to comploce he sweater and the knitter sald tt coutd 100 net be matched,—Helen Coles, No. W. 92d Street. LOOK ABOUT THE AND WHITE, I am a teacher in Wadleigh High School. ‘To-day_I saw a girl with shin- Ing eyes enter my class room. waving a check from the-Evening World: The excited girls crowded around ber and then, I saw the boards filled by girls all eager to write what they had seen. The Evening World has given my pupils an impulse to valtie their own expert- as literary material—an impulse my fondest efforts could never approximate! I wish the Evening World could see, as T have seen, what it has done for high schoo! pupils, even though it may never. hear from all of ther Miss Harrtet G. Martin, Wadleigh High ‘School, 114th Street near 7th Avenue. GOOD ‘ONLY ON BUS FOR eS CHINATOWN. ‘The conductor of car No, 1209, north- bound on Fourth Avenue at 5.25 last evening, had collected many transfers at 14th Street, as the car was crowded. As 1 was about to pay my fare he shouted, rho gave me a laundry ticket for a transf * "7 did,” shrilled a woman's voice from the front of the car, and the woman forced her way through the crowd and effected an ex- change.—Anna Yeager, No. 489 B. 17th Street. A LITTLE SNACK TO TIDE HIM OVER, Some people call Manhattan the Isle of Dyspepties, but listen to what I saw lst nfght while having supper in a restaurant at No, 211 Seventh Avenu A man entered and ordered a bowl of soup, four fried eggs, a tenderloin steak, a beef stew, a cup of coffee,’ a e of apple pie and a dish of ri . And L saw him eat ALL of things! As-he was leaving he “1 feel pr dd now MeConnon, No. 328 W. 19th wets POLLY WANTS A ROOF. UR BBLL started ringing é see what all the bother w landing, flames shot upward from veturngd and every one in the hou bells and smoke had warned all woman on the third floor; althongh ¢ at 9.30 this morning jangling so persistently that my motber rushed downstairs to se (for by that time the and continued about. 'As sh the vestibule, ched the' first ae immediately engine started fof the root. A eatly -eXcited, was determined + so tenants) to save her parrot, sO~ske grabbed the cage and ran up the stairs, only to discover when she reached the roof that she held the upper part. of the cage. was extinguished, she saw Polly und looking mighty forlorn at, be confusion.—A. 12 entine, No. 172 Bast 89th Returning to her apartment later, when the thre sitting on the bottom of the cage 1% left alone in the smoke and Street. RICHMOND. YoU HAVE TO KNOW THE COM BINATION, On my way to school this morning | saw some chittren clamber aboard a nile Wagon in front of their hoyse. Im mediately horse started off, ‘I children's mother ran out, grabbed thi by the tall with the Jiorse one hand waved the other hand frant ing as the horse “whoa! Whoaf you stop hin 198 ran down the street My goodness! How do —Margaret Sheehan, No. Elm Street, New Brighton, 8. 1. CENE FROM LIKE A “OUK MUTUAL FRIEND, y afternoon 1 saw the bod: floating t the water between city piers Nos, 6 und 7, Tomy Before 1 could Ket a rope lighter captain had secured hi ‘and went to notify the police. The vody, L learn had been under water about ten The jothes were muddy nd ther sa hol the beck of the ‘i olked ‘ if It had been mad bullet. Later the body wee t sYigholas G. Do Joy. > mith Streat Rosebants, 5. 1. BOOTLRGGER, As 1 was ‘wailting down my street in West, Brighton to-day. saw a boy on 1 bieyele run into’ a baby carriage plished ms urned | sb thn F. Clark, No, {4 our asthma clinic to-day began to ” . sedeapen 1 be " actage: turned Jexander Avenve, Bronx, ane fidget. Getting both feet on the rung ven with: @ corsa) andathen J. wap eae of an unoccupied chair he slid It slowly | \‘to see the man running up the] Like A FRIGHTENED RABBIT. k und forth, back and forth, its thing the carriage ‘ahead of] pie morning on East Fordham Road |ubber-capped feet making a peculiar Vand leaving What seemed to be an ree motor truck suddenly burat Into] Tythmle, wheesing sound, I heard the nfapt on the pavement. But: wheninames and In a few minut ‘as com. | bUSY headedoctor in the adjoining roon 1 went ever to see, T found it was on] pictely Tandon. | say to his tant: “T've stool it as] aybreakable dali, smd around the dolllOy people gathered. In a nuinutes «| 10h as Tcan, Even ff it isn't his turn, a broken glass which hed}erient red automobile flying a red flag | Set @ hypodermio ready for that poor been bottles and ‘a. puddle of} aid marked ‘Explosives came into| fellow ‘having an attack out, 1 which ied aleohol.—Bilza- t travelling we Fordham Rond | The assistant came out with ti t Ke Ne Jewett Avenue, | ino crowd gasped and scores ran. But | Phernalia, took in the situatlo: ghton, L. I ‘ aay Ging famonaliy acroen | ported! au a chair, doctor f he fire, and 3 the i d the doctar, “give It o t NO SOONDA SAID THAN DONE, |/10" ee Bae a Se eae me se Oe cate At @ rummage salq-lorday in Great litte ref-truck back fa side stroct | Claflin Avenue, Bronx, | Killa, the goods were all marked in}in short y jumps for all the word e plein figures. 1 saw an umbrella priced a 8 bya Tabet Helen ‘Sulll- MAKING BELIEVE 50 PresenUy I heard two woinenftyan, No. 2515 Concourse, Bronx. Iam a pupil of Morris Hig talking. One mentioned the rain out+ = ; Atl Gaekia enna LAGE Biraat 5 and sald; “Oh, I'd give a dollar for A MUCH DISCUSSED FILM PLAY. | foreground tx a large pl ;ax umbrellat’ 1 ught of the recent 1 oard advertisement] to-day 1 saw 4 small t wnbr in ne place ar turn ja f a Nation.” It] years ¢ age playing ther ' ” t 4 The salesiady as cha ” picture yhou'd | busketbal! T asked } ing tag to read $1. In @ little whi York when there| doing there and he answer I saw the woman who wanted an u { talk of the K. K. K.--| everybody to think I go to his breila pay that for {t,-Ella A. Conley, | c , L. Gate » Vaet --Sadle Grilles, No, 1960 Fe No.,153 Beach Street,. New Dorp, 8 i ' 1 Bronx. ix * i EVENING WORLD pays liberally in cash for FIRST news of really impor tant happenings—FIRST news of BIG news. Call Beekman 4000, Ask, f6e* the CITY EDITOR of the Evening World. Every reader a reporter. 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 FOR THE BEST STORY OF THE WEEK: $5¢ for the Second in Marit. Third. TEN stories adjudged’ Next in Merit, $5 Each. This competition is 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 best letter of the week, $50; second best letter, $25; five letters next in merit, $5 each, School and coll-ge contributors MUST name thelr-echoole, Walt for the worth while incident. Do not try to write every day. Bear in mind the question: “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY?” Net what somebody else saw, and’ not what you heard and not something that hai * $100 +. $100 $100 last summi » What did YOU see Contributors to the page should write of eubjecte with which they are famillar. Choose, preferably. things that happen in your .wn neigh- borhood. Tell your story if possible, in not more than 125 words, State WHERE the incident took olacé. Write your name sn ful address carefully. Address yous tetter te “What Did You See Te-Day?" Evening World, P. O. Box No. 185, City Hall Station, New York, to-day? BRONX. BARK WORSE THAN HIS TE, EVERAL OF US were waiting impatiently for a White Plains car at Melrose Avenue and 16lst Street, but one man was partio- ularly impatient. but no one spoke except a little w baby In her arms. erted. “I'd shake hands with you, If for me.” child in his arms, pressing his face its cheek. He didn’t offer to shake hi the child even after we had all board A CELEBRATED OASE, While working on the inside of a newly erected building at 140th Street and Southern Boulevard, 1 saw some men digging in a vacant lot under the direction of several other men, On quitting work I was ‘told they were digging for some stolen automobile parts, but tho, next day I saw that they had found there the body of a murdered woman.—Kaymond A, Hunt, No 602 East 183d Street, Bronx, LITTLE OLD BLIND MAN, gloomy. Every day in gvery things were getting worse and and worse. Here J am, I thought h a college education, years of post graduate work and still holding down a job which Just permits me to meet my bligations with buteher and er ant ndlord. What had I to be thankful ior? 1 thought. | viewed the boliday- sread of me with depression, and it a2 co tha Kingsbridj tepping his 1 got Road, ofthe train at In front of me, tap o his home—the In: with, a st le us tC he were way- had much to be thankful, for, And in tlipse two blocks I got something from htm that made me enter my home full of joy and happiness and thankfulness at being allve.—Maurtce Miller, No, 2688 splashing muddy water at each other tle parent, a kid getting walloped, ur then pneumnon 1 advised the ‘it one to t and change hts clothes before his saw him, He] y fughed and with all the scorn of an| gy, eqeety’ ‘ oward a dull pupi he sald, “My mother’s dead!” I hum: bly apologized and them disap ting with glee { cost me a dime to nto a nearby house She seemed tired. we sat until she came. erator put on a little speed an’ n aged to get us all to church in timc He walked up amd down the curb whistling and fidgeting, and then, when the car did come and speed by without stopping, he shook his fist and swore. All of us agreed with him, oman who held a big sleeping “Good for you, old man,” she some one would hold my baby Immediately the old man came over and tenderly took the against the infant’s and kissing ands, but he did more. He held led the car, and until the woman got off at 229th Street, by which time she seemed rested—M. H. Lockwood, No. 862 East 231st Street, = Bronx. BULLYBUMPS. Tam a young fellow, only a Uttle past three score and ten, and yos- terday I had a fine timo on 166th Street between Boston Road and Franklin Avenuo watching the boys and, girls. just out of school taking “belly wappers” on their eleds. There's a big hilt there. One young- ster would Ue flat om the sled while another pushed wntil ew fflotent speed was attained and then he, sometimes 4t waa she, would plop down right ontop of him—or her— and ‘away they'd scoot, screaming and yelling happily, just as we used to do, Later I saw thetr fathers and mothers and older brothers and sisters coming home from work. They seemed out of sorts because they had to plod and slip dowon the hill, seeming to forget {hat it takes all kinds of weather as well as peo- ple to make up this life.—Maurice M. Harnett, No, 1067 Boston Road, Bronz. BECKER'S BED. tute re—the 1-1 Becker, who {8 charged with the advand t_ Kingsbrids< | murder of his wife, was a furniture in- old blind Wily Gia stalliment customer of ours. Several Was feclim his way carctully througn| Months ago he told us he intended to } rowd, hunuin# to himself, Ms face] break up housekeeping because his wite d left him” and that a neighbor of an ukfal Tam alive on} bls would pay the balance of the ac- ¢ I helped Wim |count.: We agreed and the neighbor Creston Avenues,| Paid each week. Our collector to-day ret from him, He had|made his usual call, and the neighbor © birth, He had never| Was crying as she paid hin. “Oh, uwn anything but public institutions] mister,” she sobhed, “I can’t sleep at fu» “homes.” He went alone to work|uight; T am sleeping in the same bed cach day—yet he was happy; he felt hc | a8 Becker slept in!""—Edward Cohn, No 404 Audubon Avenue, Bronx. MES. CROWLEY GOES TO CHURCH. 1 live in one ‘of those little out of the jay corners of the Bronx. We have Ores ten: AX@R\E, BLAM: Just one car on our line and we have - Gubbed It the “Toonerville trolley.” 5 AIG ee eae Barly this morning, just before 6 o'clock, On 140th Street, near Alexander Ave-| the car was quite full of people going nue, to-day, I Baw two youngsters to mass, Suddenly the operator stopped the car. A Mttle boy stepped aboard with a stick. One was about seven and} and asked. the motorman-conductor, If the other about five years of age. They| he would “please wait for Mra. Crow- were a mess. I had visions of a fran- She was not tn sight, but there Then the ‘an D, Hunt, ronx. fo, 1863 Cedar Avenu ALL THE 8YMPTOMS A small boy waiting for his mother 25 for the ened Write your OUT OF TOWN. ‘ BABIES WHOSE DADDIES HAVE GONE AWAY, AST NIGHT our manager (of Childs), bead-waitr several iL: other waitresses and I were called upon to serve at the annual dinner and bazzar of the Florence Crittenton Home, at No. 6 Ogden Street, Newark. Later we were shown through the playroom and other quarters: of the little children. We saw scores of little shoes all standing in a fow, little garments neatly folded and, finally, the little babies, all two and three years of age, sleeping so quietly and innocently in their snowy beds. How my heart ached for these Ittle ones who are denied the joy and protection of a father’s t»ve This worthy institution, where mother and child share the comforts of home, {s planniny a Christmas appeul for dolls and toys. 1 wonder if there are not among the countless readers of the “What Did You See To-Day?” page many people who have discarded dolls and toys which they could send to the Florence Crittenton Home ani bring joy to the hearts of these little ones at Christmas time—lIrene Hutch- inson, No. 158 Market Street, Newark | horn hens seems to be moulting more slowly than the others and had revealed so many evidences that she feels cold that this morning | brought her into the house and put her in a box. 1 opened the box at noon to give her a drink and after quenching her thirst, she flew to the baby's high chatr, whereon the family Thomas was sleeping. Instead of being frightened at sight of the cat, the hen nestled down beside him, and what does Tom do, after sniffing at Miss Chick, but proceed to give her a bath with his tongue. The bath has , THOMAS AND THE CHICKEN. SAW the beginning of a strange friendship. One of my white leg-: been completed and as I write they are both asleep in the high chair. Anna —Mrs. Purcell, No. 461 Atlantie Avenue. Long Branch, N J HOMN. “OBEDIENCE TO LAW 1S The Chamber of Commerce of this RTY town recently offered a large prise After the victory of our high school's to the local igh school student |footbalh team last week the pupil» toriting the best Méstory of Toms | planned they would celebrate the victors . J Nooked 90 oksireceria of | by having @ holiday the following day then an old block house stood | classes convened, tho corridors rane where the A, and I’. store nowis,and | with tha school song and cheers, Sud- of tha progress of the locality up to |denly the door of my classroom swung date, I not only learned a tot of in yen and a snake line passed through, teresting things about my home athering length from my own pupils town, but won the priss. Wo ‘study wustaira it wer 1 after another the history of the United States and | demonstration outside {t made a dash of Greeco and Rome, but few peo the Superinter in the ple ever learn the intimate. history niall, “We w of their own towns (es,—-ATina ted over ‘ Muriel kim 207 Broad & ythrn ‘ oma River, N. J hem cordially. He they had called and glad they hed te “COCK-A-DOODLE-DO! «© townspeople know they were alive Our French teacher was discussing in] Thetrs hud been a glorious victory on cluss to-day the diilicuities experienced day before, but there was work to- by foreigners in learning English. She} day for every on heir desks. “Go Wrots Oi: wo back,” he said, ‘Your Princtpal will pronunciation but utterly different] admft you, No questions will be asked meaninge euch as ‘herd’ and “heard, d this afternoon we shall have an aa- and explained that the Eng lan-| sembly. That will be our celebration” guage sounds just as absurd to forelgn-| The beginning of the second pertod ors ae foreign languages to Americans. ‘ In hie classroom. in ‘Then up spoke one bright pupil, shout. ndent oame ing ‘Well, even if Engl! dificult ot a whisper was WE can -master It.'—Gec P, Maglu-| yeard as he went down the line with our son, Nanuet, Rockian . N. 4 | boys, rehearsing yesterday's plays. He (Box 176). nade them all fee! that he was behind —— sory play eve 1y. Then the cheer READY FOR THE “ZAMINATION.” | agers came. We sane Peat My father took my younger brother] ind our schoo! and was hap- and me to a Newar \ to-day and, | py. Thun did I see e to-day be because L am a lady of f ¢] ome schoc Woyrauch let_ mo be examin : 1 brother was much Inter t tempt to read the various six rs) Pe TIMP Is OUT OF JOINT, on the ocullst's card that hung on the] ag 1 got off train at. Kockville opponite ' ptre last ek In front of some diMculty in reading t I tyr fead 6.40. “Alary + | though? tn the last few lin: evidently de 1 ita ahead of clded not to be caught that way him f iat the thought 1w the Long |them, He wanted to ter perfect I saw a clock when his turn Hun I pulled out ter, No, 119 Laurel Avenue, Arlington, 3 6.05, Then 1 lan gy was twenty-five a 1 train ten min EARLY AND sPoPDWELI 11 T. Cole I was returning fre Vt f Avenue, Rockvil noon when | saw tw oe a ; t APPLES AND STRAWBPRETE: they hed been 1 und] When I 1 in ‘The Evening World however, A plant, 1 ; } w }| carriage, attr L other met | ¥ ’ j desiring that w wt scowling. —A ’ AN ylumbia Mireet, Morr J Y BROOKLYN. REBECCA TAKES THE WITNESS STAND. LSIE had been absent from school, and to-day when I saw her come in | asked her why 8) Elsie repited. the room. Rebecca cried. “IT saw Elsie in the park! he had been away. “I was -#ibk,” Instantly I saw a hand pop up in the bask of It belonged to Rebecca. “Mis’ Huey! Misa“ Hiféyt” That's the why she didn’t was!"—Mrs. H. W. Huey, P. S. No. 147 (1-B), Bushwick Aventé"and Seige! Street, Brooklyn. HEADS Pt From a window in my home to-day I saw @ traMfle policeman at Floyd Street and Marcy Avenue. I watched him, for that ts not @ crossing at which a tragic cop ordinarily {s stationed. Three auto- moblies and two wason. passed tim, «and he stopped each one and nanded the driver a ticket, Investigating, I learned that during certain hours of the day Floyd Street ts closed to tra M: anid used &s a playground for children, The drivers who had been summoned to court had disregarded the “closed” sign. 8. Rofsky, No. 635 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn. TURKISH TROPHY. In the lecture hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music this afternoon Mrs. Louise Vairin showed an Oriental rug which had 600 knots of wool to the inch. Probably some person spent a lifetime making It.—A. BE Sileox, No 404 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, QUEENS. PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL In my class in P, 8. No. 89 two pupils had brought spa signed by their parents authorizing the use of @ diphtheria preventitive, recently introduced, but applied only upon presentation of toritten permission by parents. Yesterday the teacher asked those who are taking the test to step forward. Only one girl re- + aponded, and the teacher reminded one of the boys that his father wished HIM to take the test. The Dov. looked in amazement at the teacher. He had given her the note from his father in the morning, but had no knowledge of ita contents.—-Lor- raine Collins, No. #8) £6th Street, Elmhurst. COAL! COAL! WE WANT COAL! We lve in a two-family house Through no fault of our landlady there is no coal in the cellar. Yesterday the ‘andiady visited the Health Department » Jamaica, four coat yards In this and nearby’ towns, and the police station She asked, pleaded, coaxed and threat- vned; then, having talked until her voice vag husky. she came home. To-day a representative from the Health Depart- ment called upon her, also a policeman vith @ notebook, and two other individ Is, ‘Then, wonderful vision! I saw coal cart coming up the streot. [t sned the door! Later’ she received a lephone message from her own foal lealer, conveying the news that a con! sar was passing through—Altoona, Pa.— "rank Dunn, No, 181 Cherry Avenue, lushing. ASLEEP STANDING UP. Yesterday afternoon 1 made every sffort to eliminate my two-year-old laughter’s nap, as 1 wanted her to retire arly and go right to sleep She became very sleepy about 3.30, so I proposed hat she go to our back yard and watch he chickens, which she adores. In- tantly she was wide awale and dan ng with glee, ‘Ten minutes later I was tightened when a neighbor knocked at ny kitehen window with a stick to at tract my attention’ Vistons of all kind f things happening to my daughter s ny heart beating Ike sixty as I ran o the window. From it I saw little Wleanor, Her Uttle bare legs were rosed and she was standing with ony Ibow leaning on a corner of the hic} oop, fast asleep.—Mra, Betty Ehrlich No, 4112 Jerome Avenue, Richmond Hil IMAGINATION, My sister gave a party and, not hay vg anything "wet" In the house, made ‘emonade and added a few botties of crape juice. She called {t punch, and yuite a number of the guests thought there wan a “stick” in it, I was dancing with one of the guests, when he re marked:,"T can't keep my feet straicht cueas it/must be the ‘hooch’.” I asked q and he re there's plenty of It on dining room table.” What a lot o} imagination will do when {t rune wild! Florence Clark, No. 4@ Hyatt Avenue Winfield. AND THEN IT SNOWED. Looktng out of a window In the Penu sylvania Station to-day I saw that ot was unnecessary for the up-to-dat to walt for snow in order to Ko si riding. Uslng boards for sleds, a t of kids were silding downhill. Che ‘ni..' was formed by the steps of the Post Office on Eighth Avenue. turn to the top of the “hill was mad with the “sleds” held on top of the!r heads.—T. D, Hoffman, No. 61 sixth Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, THERE WAS A PLACE IN CHILD. HOOD THAT | REMEMBER WELL.” Aa I read the “What Did You See?’ page of my paper to-ni ome of the first things I saw was prise letter written by an old ac intance of mine at Pate ind as If read his contriby i saw between the lines an old a small front yard bef one-story house on @ et straight to the Great South And I saw the alluringly sim country life im that home, Also | » the beach and its tide d—the playground | when 1 was @ care-free sev e i And then I saw th iny of th ! farm, now Margaret Hawkins, oitan Avenue, f the | sims. 3 Standing with @ friend fn the arcade the Hudson Terminal Bullding, my attention wars drawn to @ tall, dts Ungulshed gentlemny ‘> ¢tviiian clothes, whose features and \ bite beard were vaguely familiar, ‘There's “Admiral. Sims," 1 sald to my friend, Iitending merely to call attention to the, dikencas, But just then the etranger claimed his sultease from the pare checking stand, and on it were tne Initials “W. 8. 8,’ And, as If to complete the identification of the famous war leader, a man bur ried up to him and suld; “Admiral, the Congressional Limited leaves at 3 P.M." ~-Genevieve M. Young, No. 262 New York Avenue, Brooklyn. GO TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS. We consider ourselves forts in living in 8 Delghborhood whert @ have 4 school, model in name and. tibdel in merit. Our eix-year-old boy ts & proud pupil in the 1A grade and b-day he told me he knew the “‘one-times’ table, reaning 1 plus 1 equals 1 plus 2 equals 3, &c, After he repeated the table his daddy asked him, “If you had one apple and one pear, what ould that make?” I saw the child's eyes sparkle and quick as @ flash came the response, ‘fwo pieces of truft.”—~ Alice W./ Hinman, No, 110 Rogers Ave- nue, Brooklyn, + é AND LOOK AT THE CALENDAR! I have been told there ts luck in odd numbers. Is it true? Yesterday I be- came fifteen years of age, and the first thing I saw on my way to school was the number 15 on a wagon. On Madi- son Street I saw @ sign painter just completing the painting of number 15 on a door. A block from echool fifteen boys were playing, tropa our Returning school in the afternoon I saw. in parlor fifteen girls with fifteen presents. In my alster's office. where this la being written, there are fifteen girls, And this Is letter No. 15 that I have sent to the “What Did You See?’ page— Edith Rogers, No 1064 Putnam Are nue, Brooklyn. . “a WATCHMAN IN THE RAIS, During the rain to-day I saw'a watoh- man bulld a little fire on Wilson Avenue near Halsey Street, in front of @ tool box owned by the contractor» who is repaving the street. After he succeeded In getting the Diage started, he took off his cotton gloves and held them before the fire to dry. 1 cannot understand why he wanted his gloves dry when all the rest of bis clothing was dripping wet. Neither ean | understand why bis employer should not be compelled to furnish ‘him shelter against the ele- ments.—Henry P Eberling, NO, 679 Evergreen Avenue Brooklyn. AS NICE AS PIB, Yesterday one of the men in the place where I am employed was given an apple. He placed it on a steam radiator while preparing to go home, and forgot all about It. To-day when he remem- bered the Incident he found he had a baked apple, cooked to perfection.— Richard Munro, No. 389 St, John’s Place, Brooklyn, oan, FAINT HEART. A big, good natured friend of mine at beside me this morning In a Fifth Avenue train as It left Atlantic Avenue. Io pulling from his pocket @ matchbox he wished to show me he dropped a arter which rolled until {t came to st beneath the skirt of a girl seated vpposit The skirt was high; the girl high-strung and mighty + pretty. Clearly he couldn't go after bis coln, but could only await developments. The and her friend were about to leave the car at Adams Street when her purse cought tn the seat and some silver fell to the floor. She gathered It all up and was starting for the door when the other «trl called, “Here's @ quarter you missed.” She picked up my friend's juarter and they left the ear. My friend dabbled weakly that dt wasn't he loss of the. money. that bothered so much as the evidence of a bash 8 complex.—Efston 1. Hawpon, No, Washington Street, Brooklyn. Yor A MATTER OF GEOGRAPHY. I read on the “What Did You Seer” re ccount by A taxi driver of how 4a mere “Thank you” for the iderable trouble he took to re- to an out of town woman-® bagtul papers he found tm his car very ec her to her hotel $o much ar >wn woman, Here's the New York lady acknowledges a le thoughtful act: I found a bag tn 1 took it to the # later I store in Brooklyn ost and found desk, received’ card’ of vner’s_apprecta- ying it wai’ gift of handkerchiefs. New more reciative than other citles.—Mrs, ML. Pine St 1A of 4 MATTER OF RECORD, on Saturdays I as- nd in his music de- custamer last f we had and being with the popu- ted her to the nt on the seo- very sftunge,”* inca when dopartment records ??’— 5\16 Pourt® Occasionaliy husb My ash a hat ung oods 4 selling graph G. Levinson, No. nue, Brookiy, \ 1 oMrs it phon. } | | —as =