Show whittling sticks the things that one finds in the shops of the great cities are very strange A writer in the new york sun recently cited an instance will which I 1 oil h vouches for as true but which reads more like ithe a figment of 0 the imagination than anything else on the counter ol of a stationery store beside the lead cad pencil box bos he wrote 1 I saw a bunch of 0 six inch lengths ot of plain wood lo ir whittling sticks that I 1 asked the stationer replied that the wood was just what the sign said it was sticks to whittle on to whittle la Is natural for a boy said tile the stationer it keeps him out ort ot of a lot ot of worse but city streets afford mighty poor pickings in the way ot of whittling wood A boy might nose around here all day and not find a sliver silver of wood nood fit to whittle on A friend from the country sends me a bunch ot of sticks every week and I 1 sell them three ahree ts slicks eks or a cent sells them three for a cent and thata now new york no more picayune bus business liess like that tor for me next week I 1 ligpit out tor for a country where a boy can whittle down a whole tree and nobody stops him |