OCR Text |
Show i get a chance to go fishing ... A tottery old man, walking with the aid of a cane, threading his way through traffic at Forty-second street rather than wait for the light to change . . . and despite his handicaps, handi-caps, reaching the other curb in safety . . . Wonder what he'll do with that minute he saved ... A smart miss with a hat decorated with what looks like celery stalks . . . Can't get excited any more about women's hats . . . I've become be-come numb. m . Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON A huge truck loaded with pasteboard paste-board boxes stopping in 'front of a wholesale dress establishment on Thirty-eighth street . . . Wonder what the garment center would do if there were no more pasteboard ... A young man shifting a big bundle from his right to his left shoulder . . . and thus exposing to those who care to look the fact that he is carrying a dozen women's dresses . . . Those windows filled with button displays still interest me . . . Hard to believe there could be so many different styles, sizes ajid shapes . . . and my tailor couldn't match the one I lost off my coat sleeve the other day. A red-headed lass of 10 or so slapping slap-ping the face of a big boy who joggled jog-gled her elbow as she was about to bite into an ice-cream cone . . . and the lad sneaking away with face more fiery than the girl's hair . . . At Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street, a song sheet peddler attracting attract-ing attention by playing bits of popular popu-lar airs on a harmonica ... A bearded ancient leaning against a building front, filling his pipe and then scratching a match on his wooden leg . . . Which reminds me that on that recent trip to Littleton, N. H., I noted that some New Eng-landers Eng-landers still strike matches on their trousers. xne wmaoworani!ngnrn avenue pawnshop filled with fishing tackle that looks as if it had been used ... I still have a trout rod Hubert M. Long of the Grand Rapids Press gave me in Traverse City years and years ago . . . and though it has seen a lot of use, it still brings them to the creel . . . That is, when |