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Show ! SEVEN DAYS IN UI' 01' N. Y. By JESSIE HENDERSON i i Copyright. 1922, by the Standard-j Standard-j Examiner. ) NEW YORK- April 15. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has got us all excited about our ectoplasm, which it seems , everyone owns, like fingernails or adenoids ade-noids The ectoplasm is "matter bat-. bat-. n up v.lth ether" the kind of ether ; that holds the Itars together or apart, not th'- kind they give you at the hospital hos-pital And everybody's ectoplasan is i an exact replica of the body, even to i tho pores of the skin, leaving It i "pleasantly and painlessly'" at death and hanging around thereafter it a , traneo medium's elbow, all ready to ' materialize at the proper signal. I In one way. those lectures which the 1 author of Sherlock Holmes Is giving about the proof of life ufter death ;on-atltute ;on-atltute a great comfort. In another way. its not so good For example. tlrv ectoplastir Sherlock Holmes, sleuthing around tho next world, must be glad that when a body becomes a spirit ir retains even its skin pores; it makes al celestial bertilllon system so much easier. "Ghostly fingers on the pans."' may, you sec. be classified and filed for future reference. But in another way. Those of us who use many pounds of beauty cream because we are not i pleased with our pores can't get Jubilant over the prospect Of having to mas-, sage our ectophastie features through all eternity. Conan Doyle, however, Is absolutely serious ubout the whole matter. Very tall, florid, and blessed with a humorous hu-morous twinkle, he doesn't look as you'd expect him to look. Dut then, few people do. Meanwhile. "New York women arc growing more emancipated every hour Thoy are usurping men's privileges so fast men have to think quickly In or-, dor to keop on privilege ahead of them. The latest fit of emancipation by the new woman was that of kidnaping kid-naping a gentleman and holding him prisoner for three days. This Is what a down-town broker complains to the court that an actress did to him; and refused to let him go home in spite of his prayers and his family. So far as can be ascertained thjs Is the first instance of a woman charged charg-ed with kidnaping a man, but If only Police Commissioner Enright's crime i learlng house were already established establish-ed other cases might crop up among its file. It h Enright's Idea, and In It he Is enthusiastically backed by such organizations as the Republican Women's committee of one hundred, the United States should have a national na-tional police bureau and perhaps an international one, at which crime could bo reported, from which tips on criminals could be sent broadcast, and through which a rood deal of crime might be prevented. This cit, pending the opening of such h bureau, is doing its best to afford juill. lal staUsll. s. The police commissioner recently said that the town was as site at niyht an In tho day time, and the proper retort, given with an ironic lift of the eyebrows seems to be "just about correct." Many of the holdups. Including the removal of $ 80.000 in gems from a Jeweler in the subway, have occurred in daylight. day-light. Another Jeweler was bound, gagged and his shop robbed of S25.0U0 In stones at 9 o'clock In the evening, fifty feet from the traffic officer at Times square. The down town league, an organization organiza-tion of some of the most eminent business bus-iness men in the city has offered tho aerrleea of 10d of Its members as special patrolmen. If you happen to hear two detectives dickering with each other over ten million dollai tor the country club the downtown j league volunteer are the answer. A charing house for Ellis island gratters wouldn't bo sucli a bad Idea either. Commissioner of Immigration Immigra-tion Todd is paying detectives out of his own pocket to trace the immigration immigra-tion Inspectors who extort money from Immigrants and their friends, and so far the commissioner has expended three times his own yearly salary of, $63,000. Yet In spite of holdups of one kind and another there is balm In Gilead. One proof of it occurred In Chlldrens' court the other day when Justice Boyla after committing an 11 -year-Old homeless home-less boy to an orphans' refuge, paused to ask why tears stood In the young-i. young-i. i s eyes. "Hags" replied the waif, 'I'll miSS him somethlnK terrible. Maybe hell die sluco they ain't no one to look out for him." "Rags" proved to bo a forlorn terrier The Judge made out commitment papers for the canine orphan also. And there was Chinatown Gortlo. ' whose funeral proved ono of most extraordinary functions Now York has ever seen. Gertie is a proof of the f'onan Doyle, theory that criminals can get into heaven, A drunk and a pickpocket, pick-pocket, Gertie reformed some years ago and became a worker at a rescue mission. When she died, tho pickpockets pick-pockets and drunks whom she had bo-, friended and helped to reform went to say good-bye. In thieves' slang they told of their love for "Sister Gertie." of tho times they had seen her drunk, of the way she had pulled them from the gutter and made them go Straight. It was thieves' sbtng hi 'a bleak mission hall, but as acceptable I to the ear of a listening diety as an? golden phrases floating upward fron I .the solemn magnificence of a cathed |