Show LIGHTS OF NE YORK JL WALTER by r TRUMBULL A club in new york was holding lla its annual meeting the see sec rotary said 1 I am going to ask you to rise and stand while I 1 read the list ot of our ment mem bers who have been taken from us by death during the past year the indies rose to their feet but scarcely had tho the secretary begun to read when a wave of intense ogata tion ran through the room 1 I saw her only yesterday cried one woman waman in ina a startled voice my heavens I 1 almost shrieked another she took dinner with me last night it developed that tile the secretary had made a mistake she was waa reading the list of those who had for one reason and another nn other resigned from tho the club hut tile the members white rel relieved leveal are still suf buffering from nerves norman beasley told mo me tile the story of tile contest held by it a state garden club for cooking recipes when these were sent in they were turned over to a hotel chef and the food prepared by his department it was then sampled and the prizes were awarded 0 on n merit ench each night a dinner consisting of these dishes was wag served one evening it was waa a vegetable vege tabla dinner and a prize was awarded for carrot soup the winner was waa highly elated she sent the tha recipe to a wholesale soup con coll corn saying that it had won the prize and asking ashing whether they wished visited to purchase it the concern wrote back bach that it had tried the recipe but could make nothing out of it fit for customers appetites palts ap much concerned the woman went to the manager ot of the hotel and told her story lie sent for tho the diet chef oil oh that thail I 1 exclaimed the chef it was not good so eo I 1 used an old recipe of nuy my mothers she made beautiful soup there Is a publication devoted to tile doings of taxi drivers in now new york and ench issue ims has it Us news of holdups one bandit finally was ar rested who confessed that lie preyed only upon drivers of taxicabs ile he had robbed 25 taxi men in the space of a few days A taxi driver told roe me that some men hailed balled hlin him whose appearance he like they stopped him on it a busy portion of broadway and told him to drive them to an address far uptown it was wai at night and ho be know that at that hour tho the inart art of the city to which they demanded to be driven would be dark and lonely ile iio let them get in the cub cab started and then pulled out the choke the engine sputtered and topped stopped sorry he s said aid im out of gas have to take another cab they climbed out grumbling to this day he know whether or not they were bandits but that was quick thinking arthur S vernay many of whoso choso trophies troph loa are in tho the museum of natural history was telling the other day of his journey to the malay states in search of a one horned rhinoceros lie he traveled miles find and spent a good many months in tho the undertaking when lie he arrived he got just two shots before lie he came homo home again but with one of those shots he got his rhinoceros D 1932 dell syndicate service |