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Show j SEVEN DAYS IN LIT GT N.y7 By JESSIE HENDERSON I (Copyright 1 92 2, by The Standard-1 Examiner.) I NEW YORK. Sept. : . It has de-j ,cldedly been ladles' week. In utilities, util-ities, crime, romance nnd general dare-deviltry, the nu n as compared with the women have made no more noise than a canary compared with a boiler factory. First came the nine drl athletes who had represented the U nited States at the first women's international athletic ath-letic tournament In Prance. Gaily and exultantly they returned on the S'ax-lonia, S'ax-lonia, pointing with pride to various ,medals and to 19-year-old Camclla :Sablo of Newark, amella ran 100 yards. Jumping hurdles two and one-I one-I half feet high, In 14 2-6 seconds, and If you think that's easy just try It yourself. She proved her tiny feet '" I bo the fastest women's feet in the I world and she made herself otherw in. famous by one dazzllnv: remark. "French women wear such queer clothes. ' Shades of the Rue de La Palx! I N ! Well and then came along Gertrude Edorle. Tills 1 5-v .ur-..ld member of the women's swimming association of New York entered a 546-yard rac against some other girls who had broken records Gertrude swam th- distance In 7 minutes 22 and 1-6 seconds sec-onds and incidentally broke five world's records for speed and set a seventh. She's a bobbed-halr. d blonde person with an engaging grin and y" utterly lacking In :iny smarty-'nt gioating ov.r her achievement that one begins to have a lot of hope fo; the younger generation. I You'll have to admit that in th- matter of speed of limb, the ladles showed the gentlemen a clean pair of heels. But. ah. wait till you heai about the ladles in the little matter "jof beauty. After anguish perplexity and heartburnings, such as are al- , ways represented In New York City In the beauty carnival at Atlantic City The four girls, left town in a seaplane, sea-plane, and as they leaned over the sl.b to say good-bye to admiring thousands, thous-ands, the whole of Manhattan went absolutely cock-eyed trying to ta 1 i and compare the various phases of attractiveness at-tractiveness poascssed by vac h and all Another such contest, and another 'such send off. and this village will be even more a total wreck than the rall- ' road, coal and clothing strikes haw I left It. ! But passing lightly over speed and beauty, consider womanhood this .week In relation to science and war. . The decoration of office of public Instruction In-struction no, neither do we. but it must be something pretty nifty, because be-cause it comes from Paris is to be b towed by the French ambassador upon .ir- Robert G Mead of Nei rrk for her war work and for her aid In purchasing the famous gram of radium for Madame Curie. Mrs Mead directed the Y. M C. A. women In Fran..' during the war and thoroughly thor-oughly earned this public international internation-al decoration whatever It may be. And If It comes to romance, consider the ladies once more. You simply can't count on 'em at all. For Instance, Halller escaped from Ward's island and what was the Mrs! thing he did' Telephoned his wife find Invited her to dinner. The first thing the wife did was to accept the Invitation and the se nnd was to telephone the police. Soup had barely been consumed when in walked th detectives and the dinner din-ner party was distinctly off. Moreover. If you arc charged with killing the lady whom you charge with breaking up your home, you can still get alimony front your husband even while you are In Jail. This Is. at least, what Mrs. John J. Relsler has found to be the rase. It Is only a few w. eks since Mrs. Relsler was arrested on the charge of shooting her own sister, sis-ter, and while Hhc g in Raymond treel Jail awaiting trial, her husband Is in danger of Ludlow street jail unless un-less he comes across with $60 a week alimony and sundry arrears Thn. tor., th.r. was a killing an 'entirely different sort credited to Katherlne Dickey of Atlanta Ga , who 'was persuaded to tell about it when Bhe arrived on the Mauretanla. She killed lloyal Etiquette as dead as a door nail at Dcauvillc a fortnight ago. King Alfonso of Spain was dancing l With Miss Dickey when she suddenly 'left him flat, rushed up to another man and kissed the newcomer with EOSt The other man happened to be I her fat her j And what do you know about the attack on the Episcopal ban against j remarriage after divorce, the attack I made by the Rev Dr. Percy Stlckney Grant f the Church of The Ascension Ascen-sion ' It may be that the year-old ru- i mor of a betrothal between Dr. Grant and Mrs L-ydlg Hoyt has nothing nt !all te. do with the clergyman's views. But you can't deny that where there's a divorce there's a woman, bo wo- 1 men may fairly take the credit for a I big share In this latest agitation. Keep your fingers crossed when you 1 s. . Miss Ingeborg N'lelson on the horizon hor-izon this is another bit of excitement which the week produced. Miss N'ell-s-n Is a blonde assistant to the Danish Dan-ish police and she is here as a dele-I dele-I gate to the world conference of police hiefa, the world conference being yet i another of those sclntlllant Ideas with which the brain of Police Commissioner Commis-sioner Enrlght fairly sizzles. Miss ; Nielsen is one of the world's greatest great-est finger print experts and unless you keep your hands in your pockets pock-ets or otherwise engaged, she will whisk out her Implements and have you finger-printed classified nnd coded before you can say "help." i The classifying Is good, but the coding cod-ing is better. The Danish police, among whom Mlos Nielsen Is Included, Includ-ed, have reduced finger printing to such xlmple terms that If you leave a slight smooch on a busted window In New York they will merely wire "245" or ".9876r.i" to Valparaiso or to Yokohama and you come back, neatly handcuffed on the next steamer. steam-er. There were two other impressions made by the past seven high strung days In the mlndj of Manhattan. One was the deluge. t arrived with the holiday and smashed every week end plan Into a soggy top hat, though what was the beach's loss was the movies' gain. You couldn't cram a muddy toe Into any movie house by 3 o'clock Labor day afternoon; the places were full of resentful baseball fans seeking to forget their rain checks. The other Impression was made by hny. The state department of farms and markets has announced that the largest crop of New Y'ork state Is hay and that New York City Is the largest hay consuming market in the country. Go on. you rural dwellers, have a good laugh on us. |
