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Show SEVEN DAYS IN 111' OL N Y. By JESSIE HENDERSON .A. T 'Copyright. by The Ptandard- txaminpr. t SEW YORK. Jul I This is the , time of year when cveryi New York boy wishes his parents bad sen enough In move into Squedunk or T.ill Ti. nber Corners. 'I o bo sure, .there ai en's so many ; holdups in Squedunk. The fire department de-partment isn't so brass and carmine, j nor does Its siren scream so horrifl-I horrifl-I cally while the chief's car dahe:: , down the street. Ami the movies are no) open on Sunday. Bui tlll and all. you know, the 1 Fourth's the Fourth. ain't it" Or ain'i It The answer, lamentably, "is no. it ain't. Not in New York. And j the night before the Fourth simply j doesn't exist for the youth of Man-i Man-i ha itan What's the use. therefore, of living I in the biggest town in the world when I a nosey paternal municipal govern -. meni puts Its heel down on even a ! measly little sputtering fire cracker? When the mayor 'n the aldermen, 'u : everybody fall in a faint at tho mere thought of a rousing old ami on j cracker When the cops on the co - ner chase you if they catch sight of ' you with a pin-wheel In your fiat. i Aw. gee pretty tough As a result of the safe and sane program sanctioned as usual this year ; by the city government the Fourth ! is likely to be the quietest day of all t lie ;;6". on .Manhattan iland. Tho ! law forbidding fireworks has a couple cou-ple of loopholes, hut the difficulty lJ to pet any fireworks through these j loopholes Into town one may. it l , true, set off a certain amount of py-j py-j rotechnlc matter on the national hollr j day If one can get it io set off. But there is a atrict ordinance against bringing explosives of any sort Into the, city limits. So there you are. I .Municipal fireworks, duly authnr-' authnr-' (zed and duly policed, will spangle J the evening heavens with Bhoweri o ( golden -jjars. But the thrill that comes from losing an mi or a thumb in a Utile private fireworks display! j outing In tho back yard Is a Jov for-1 bidden to tho New York child. Other joys he has as compensation., ; He may, for example, be kidnaped.! There is an epldemie of kidnaping hereabouts. Not only the children of the rich are inveigled Into motor .cars by affable, strangers and heldl 'for lordly ransoms, but the children ui Jion-iieji are also piCKea up , for this purpose. In the caso of t h I Chrlatinl bov no ranEom was asked1 or apparently sought It seemt to j have occurred to a neighbor that to i ChrlstlnJ boy would make a nice pi I mate for his own little, son. So when I she and her son went, by munlclp bus, to a beach hospital for Impet i-nious i-nious convalescence. lJ -year-old . . gelo Christlni went along without ari one mentioning the fact to his as urally distracted mother. It has been excessively hot the past few days and a general thought wavi ' seemed to turn In the direction o. Juicy red wa-termelons. Tho though. wave, struck an uptown peddler amid-shlps. amid-shlps. He loaded his pushcart with j watermelons and startod forth to cry his wares A man who bought a par-i tlcularly rosy half-moon of the fruit drew back after his first mouthful looked earnestly at the fruit and' then, retracing his .steps, looked even more, earnestly at the fruit peddler In police court the customer declared trat he sa.w the vendor Belecl anemic spe-clmena of the watermelon and' paint them with red ink 'till thej t- ! sumed the ruddy hue of honlth. Isn't this an indication o fw gressive mind of the New York vendor" ven-dor" Such simple thought n i currcd to Luther Uurbank SpeaJcing of ths Fourth, freedom has packed up and departed from' some spots 1n tills vicinity Mev ! Yorker, who pass days or summi at Coney, found this out recently! when they naw a policeman dashing I down the street two Jumps behind 1 pair of girls in bathing suits. The policeman's face betokened shook Af-ler Af-ler he invaded tho boarding house to which the girls scampered, brought the girls oul and started to march them toward the police station, he 1 explained to an Interested crowd of j several thousands that the gir.'B had their stockings rolled a good--oh. oh, a much too good e: Inches neiow ) the knee, that their bath.nje tights ; were short, and their skirts -nothing i to speak of." though he spoke of thcfn . B I some leuRt h Regrettably enough, the crowd ( several thousand hooted the representative repre-sentative of law and modesty. It : hooted all the way lo the police station sta-tion and stood (u s,,0 hootinx White i the officer1 made his complaint I'erhaps roused by thi. flippant altitude al-titude on the part of the clliz. nry. i the police who recently warned bally-hoomen bally-hoomen not to yell outside Coney Inland side show-, w.-nt later from porch to porch uf th summer colony and asked the men thereon assembled I U they weren't ash- fned to I. loll-I loll-I ing around In bathing salts right on I the front veranda. A number of the men said "So." I Whereupon the poli?.? rounded up 50 i of them and gave them an earnest j talk on the value of ea- muffs While I bathing or some allied topic. With ballyhoo artists unable to boo , and bathing girls forbidden - hike I' a dimpled knee, one marvels why 500.000 people visit Conev Island every Sunday anyway. Meanwhile. Annie Oakley he-self is in town (o take p., in "the bene-fli bene-fli circus at Mineola, which Fred Smi"' held today In aid of injur vl soldiers at the occupation therapy hospital. Annie Oaklev - iiajr )fl ij most white now. instead of yellow but she (;ilres tlir gun which Buffalo Buf-falo MM pae her and she ran stm shoot a pretty pattern in a card held as far away from her keen eves as these h,.t days -near beer J from the authoritative fluid |