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Show , tempt tr compass "winnerwursL" No matter how It may sound on alien lips, this nocturnal food still finds a ready sale In Cincinnati among such as are. j goluc horn at unholy hours. ' Richmond streets are still the market mar-ket for' fri-d chicken, yellow-legged chicken on a slab of pone, no less yellow. yel-low. The purchaser of this refreshment refresh-ment may wonder how he may gt so much at a price so small. He may estimate that the two levies with which he pays the ancient darky can scarcely cover the cost of manufacture; manufac-ture; the cost of material Is unaccounted unac-counted for. Far better leave it unaccountable, unac-countable, save that the chicken was cheaply acquired in tho natural way, for no gentleman would cast a cloud on the title of the chicken for which . his mouth is watering. I Happy these and the other cooimun Itles where a man who hungers may , find his sustenance awaiting him at the curb and may gr his way eating j and rejoicing in the moral support and approval of the citizenry. New York Sun. FOODS AL FRESCO. Sidewalk restaurants nnd street venders of comestibles play no such conspicuous part In the life of the public ways as once they did, and that not so long ago. Perhaps the city has grown more dignified, more regardful of appearances. No matter what the reason, no longer do folks walk abroad In civic righteousness, munching the bright red apple or making mak-ing themselves perfectly ridiculous with an ear of corn, each in Its eeasoD. The critical historian will probably associate the decadence of highway meals to the enactment of the ordinance curbing the cltizen'H rights In the disposition of banana peels. Yet not altogether finished are these open air meald. In the financial district the Juvenile operators on the curb make hearty luncheons from an assortment of tias, "hot dog" th-? staple, dark red frftdkf urters In a split roll, food fur an open countenance. counten-ance. The Initial block of Ann street In tho noon hour provides a variety of refreshment for a noisy horde of young gentlemen who are in business while not yet out of their knickerbockers. knicker-bockers. With the first gentle breath of coming sprlne tho newsboys on the Row will expend their hard winnings 1 at craps in the chill delights of hoky- poky. Thse are but Juvenile survival surviv-al from a bygon period when the ciders thought nj hnme to patronize the waffle baker en the corrcr. Other cities yet rt-tain the pristine simplicity. Hunger U not to bo criblr-id. cabined and coined by structural walls, nor w..l It regulate J itself by the dro;plr.g of any time ' mall. Their are st'U towns where th humrry man may eat and le not jMTed of eating on the crowded highway. I 0.111 tYancIfco ttill hns Its tamale. I .Fire and the loud cKtter of ruin may hav fallen with equal destruction upon up-on Barbary Coaft and Nt-b Hill alike but the retailer of chicken tamale? 8till sells his war upon the itrer-t by nipht and the wayfarer welcome' ! the viand. Scoffer mny sjzgp.n that ! seaiil li the prlrcHil component of the pepperj' fctfll-.bitlon of meat and cmn m.'nl and th unalterable prloo t cf thT-.'f Tr two bits 'en's col .r to the asi rplurv. Th- ta'cale Is none thc ' less a ulUfylng m?al, a meal of th itre-cts. net a th nc for knife and fori , and da'aty nap.T. ;' Cincinnati Mill heir ef lat ven lags the plaintive err of " ianewh." i It demands tho re? irceu i f ;.U!cd. gy :. to dUcwvtr that it U Lul ncro at |