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Show ffi DAYS M LIT OL' NT1 By JESSIE HENDERSON SBBM by Th.- Standard-i (K8t June 3 li h 'or !h' si' r.i,'.- X K.M) : Ml) has h-' hud his j Abb tike up his attention. MMUi iAi- prown i I tBelokcep track of your" ljHlurciK'k and her - trr-f up r' . r I h ' f i - - than llv tlothani-i Htiksure It nilht te M:i-1 M:i-1 'I he Goth- J BfctJ tltb in-T--t wliil jBlai' ,1 ,, JU5'-' (hopping tour H tile Plaza, waiting :o' IHfcjv-of thf young woman 1 IWJ ' fcltimt-time for '.he ship Mk'- on the do. k - 1 of Hjj-tpctd Instead JIM a the McCornn. I, off tho t H?iJ Earned with no ' K l Mathllde iu to Heek a way out I W-'J! vhich mol her of a June uecidlnr, 4 I Mn;ks are Mil. , ,r:"f, ' Me !;.;, , 'r . . W Torktr '3 "till looking In that direction ami listening hard ror any breath of rumor It all goes to prove once more whut a simple, child-like heart ihe average Now Yorker owns This child-like heart received tin awful shock the other day however and as one result of tne shock It demonstrated even more Child-like readinoKs to be amused. ?.lost of the water from the Ca.1-Sklllfl Ca.1-Sklllfl burst through n three-foot main one afternoon and went roaring in great waves down Broadway from j lOlghty-slxth street to Columbus Orel. Or-el. It was a little matter of flo million rushing rtallons. more water so lion ivants remarked than had. been seen on Broadway since the pro- hlbltlon amendment made H-U-0 thei rarest thing along thi great White Way. fvhen the shoek of the sight of so much water wj? over, New York wolce to the fact that for the first ' time in Its career, there fishing on Broadway. Just why fish should ' be part of the city water supply remains re-mains a mystery. But boys with buckets caught two or three "shiners" In the flood Grown folks they of the child-like heart sot so much fun from Watching the deluge as did the you ng.ster.s who waded thert-ln But It wasn't bo funny to learn a little later that any apartment above the I seventh floor must get Its water supply sup-ply In palls from some lower levels. Here, indeed, was a touch of baclt-I baclt-I woodB stuff In tho middle of man 3 civilization. In lUCh u topsy turvy town It Is not surprising to find a bit of grim, though unpremeditated humor, even In the Memorial duy observances Solemn Sol-emn beautiful and reverent though the services wen- at the monument unveiled In Brooklyn to the war he-iocs he-iocs of tho 19th assembly district, thev had their touch of a omlle. For Anthony Pentola. whose name was Inscribed among those of the S3 dead heroes, was among the spectators of tho ceremony. Through an extraordinary extraor-dinary chance of war, a letter addressed ad-dressed to Pentola had been found In the pocket of an unidentified aol-l dler. The monument hoel been in-J scribed and erected before Pentol.' learned that his name vyua on the llss of tho dead. George B. Lenox motored Into town 1 the other forenoon with his houxe trailing at the tull end of his car. Lenox likes lo travel So do his wife and daughter. They happen to be! on their way to Seattle now from Watertown. N. Y. Lenox said they, dldn t want to spend a lot of money stopping at hotels, so they Just rig-god rig-god up a hotel of their own Lenox Is n carpenter and hitc hed It on I behind The house has electric lights, screen doors and windows, as well as the merit of always being able t j commodate the Lenox family, no mat-tor mat-tor where night takes them. At pies-, ent they are camped on a vacant lot i rj i he Bronx. Firemen have no easy time In this' town. If it isn't a fire It may bo a summons t" establish peace w ithout j victory- Seeing clouds of smoke and hearing rlex fr help 'lie neighbors , , ( J :i 1 1 1 , . M 1 1 l i i ' I u l I , i - i I In ' ) 1 ' ,l l.l l Mi the other night. When two fire I trucks, an engine, the chief's wagon, and 10(Ki people had assembled, thel first fireman to dash up the stairs discovered that the sparks were whol-1 ly eibal. The .Murray were argu-l Ing the theory of evolution or the! nebular hypothesis or something I Anyway, they had become so Interested Inter-ested in the argument that they had forgotten the supper which, burned to a crisp, supplied the smoke Crime has been getting on as well as could be expected, or, Indeed much better than that. Two little flria aged 11 and 12. amazed detectives by confessing that for a year they had spent most of their time after school hours In picking pockets Another An-other of their little school playmates had taught them how to do It. ,uid n "'' awfully good fun There were also the two little boys, aged 14 and 16. who laseooed a sedate citizen ofJ Brooklyn ns he was sauntering down j Main street, the way they had seen lt done In the movies, threw him to tho ground, and emptied his pockets. But boys will be boys, and nowadays girls will be boys also; therefore, why should one be too critical ' |