Show THE SQUIRREL AND THOMAS RIORDAN By Mattie Sheridan The south side of Ninetythird street and the norh side of Ninetysecond street of the blocks ranging from Central Cen-tral park to Golunibus avenue In New York city are lined with handsome private pri-vate residences Between these rows for the entire length lies a beautiful unbroken sweep of yards and gardens Great rivalry exists among the residents resi-dents to outdo each other in their landscape gardenings tiny as the yards are and many of them are as pretty and picturesque as Is the beautiful beauti-ful rose garden In Mr Sotherns play The loveliness quiet and exclusiveness I I exclusive-ness of some pretty gardens up town i appeal particularly to a fine giay squirrel I squir-rel whose proper house Is In Central park Every day this cunning little animal an-imal makes a round of visits regularly regu-larly skipping some houses and Just as regularly calling at others He Is a splendid fellow with a big bushy tall flowing In the air a tall any squirrel 01 any furrier might envy He has the cunnlns knowlngest of faces and a pair of shrewd twinkling eyes Everybody Every-body along his route knows him and everybody calls him by name some name for he has as many aliases as a professional criminal His favorite stopping place Is midway of the block where beautiful plants high stonevases flowering trees and Comfortable green benches under blossoming blos-soming shrubs make an Ideal garden But It Is not these that attract Master Squirrel He comes to make a dally visit to Mr Thomas RIordan Mr Rlor dan Is a solemn pompous purseproud creature very much puffed by the sense of his own Importance because be-cause of the praises he constantly I hears He sits majestically on his lit will snatch at thjs tawny tall of Toms and pull and Jerk much to the cats grief and Indignation but the latter is so impressed with the sense of hospitality hospi-tality that he feels he must not resent these familiarities In his ovri liouse and so he bears them resignedly The squirrel Is In I disgrace Just now bemuse be-muse he ate up uninvited most of ft big Thanksgiving pumpkin but in spite of that he has had countless invitatIons in-vitatIons to spend the winter In many of the houjcs he visits and till the frJendly neighbors ure Waiting to ja whom he will honor with his cholco |