At one in the morning the arching
fights of the roof gardens have disap
peared. Who ! hall say that after that
the roof sleepers always have the worst
of It There ae hot rooms fn the best
houses and best hotels in New York.
Who shall say that the occupants of
certain high-priced rooms on certain
nights in this season would not choose,
if the choice were open to them, to sleep
an the roof? It is to ie remembered
that occasionally someone rolls off a
roof. It would make a great sensation.
would it not, if someone on Fifth avenue
were to turn over in the night and drop
Into, the streot:
..n Impolite Book.
HE book of the
Frenchman, M.
.iules Huret, de
scribing his visit
to America, is mak
ing a great deal of
talk. A few ex
/ racts have been
printed, but one
must look over the
s colume to find
what a peculiar
b ook this French
.nan's book is.
,Toreigners have
written about us o .er since there was
anything to write about. They have
flattered, ridiculed, sneered, prophe
sied as they have pleased, and we have
always read what they have had to say
with a great deal of interest. Foreign
ers pretend to be amazed at the avidity
with which we read such things. But
this latest analysis, praisful as it is, for
the most prat-abounding in glorifica
tions of the American girl, and all that
-has brought up a. new question, or one
that teems new in Its present form.
