Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — SUCH IS LIFE IN NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

SUCH IS LIFE IN NEW YORK

Only by Accident Did Residents of Apartment in Big City Discover Neighbor Is Old Friend. Two boisterous children romping in the halls of a large uptown apartment house in New York met a middle-aged man and forcibly dragged him into the library, where they proceeded to “play horse” with him by riding on his back while he galloped around the room on his hands and knees. They made so much noise that members of the family opened the door and looked tn. With the two children still dinging to his back with all their might —they wouldn’t let go—th© man stood up and bowed. “Pardon me,” he said. “You see, 1 live in the apartment opposite yours and your children are very old friends of mine. We play together on the Stairs. But I have not seen them for so long that this evening I ventured to renew acquaintance with them.” Then he w’ent back to his hands and knees and resumed his wild antics with the children. As it developed, he was a man the family had met abroad a year before. Not until the children used him as a horse did they discover he was their near neighbor. , Such is life In New York apartmenis.