Commend me to many of the local
street car conductors and a few mem
bers of the police force for knowing
as little as is necessary for persons in
their respective callings. I recently
asked three officers of the law in suc
cession to direct me to a certain well
known hair-dresser's establishment in
the vicinity of Canal street, and was
finally compelled to appeal to an
every-day citizen for the required in
formation. The other morning I
boarded a Prytania car and as I
handed my fare to the conductor I
said to him: "When is your general
transfer system going into effect?"
"My WHICH?" he asked, looking at me
as if he thought I was out of my head.
"I want to know when the New Or
leans Railways Company is going to
issue general transfers among the car
lines," I repeated, with praiseworthy
exactness. "Oh, we ain't goin' to is
sue no transfers," he replied, "who
tol' you we wuz?" "Why, I saw it
in the papers!" said I. "Shucks!"he
responded in a relieved tone and
grinning with a large complacency,
"you mustn't believe all you see in
the newspapers!"
The cold wave that was due here
last Saturday evidently had stop-over
privileges and didn't arrive till this
mnrninc.
Between games at a bridge party
one afternoon last week I heard a trio
of women discussing the particular
trials they were compelled to endure
in their respective neighborhoods.
"Babies are our complaint," said a
rather handsome brunettp, wearily.
