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Show ! SEVEN DAYS IN LiT OL N. Y. By JESSIE HENDERSON , By JESSIE HENDERSON special to The Standard-Examiner. I (Copyright. 1H-2. by The Standard-Examlner.) Standard-Examlner.) NEW YORK. Aug. 12. Of course the weather is awiully hot, with dally I thundershQwers, but it is exactly the sort of weather In which the white, grub thrives. This Is fortunate, for a 'goodly portion of New York's populace lis engaged these days in stealing upon I the white grub, pouncing on Its neck and conveying it in triumph to the duck-billed platypus from Australia. Let it not be supposed that the pop-I pop-I ula.ee does this f ruin either love of sport or the rare bird-f ish-anlmal 'waiting hungrily ut the Bronx ZOO The I populace haa gone into the white yi ub I bunt with ull the enthusiasm which an Offer of 120 per 20U Krubs is calculated calculat-ed to arouse. But what would you? Platy must live. And this Australian ntter is the only one of Its kind In all tho Americas, so when George W 1'la-typUS 1'la-typUS began to sulk because of his Igrubleef diet, the volunteer corps of grub catchers was hastily organized. you'vt) got to hand It to nature haven't you'.' both animal and human hu-man not only does the platypus have a bill like a duck, and fur like a beaver, beav-er, and eggs like a hen. but Is also can tell at a glance the .salient points of tho difference betwei D a white grub and ii gray one. or one- tinged a deep cream, merconury grub catchers who seek to slip a brown caterpillar or a handful of capsules Into tho platypus' diet arc merely wasting their time. Wliile the ordinary citizen has been i I ling the White grub, over moor and farm the motorcycle police Ol ihlM.md adjoining towns have lii . n hunting the Zlegfeld deer over wood and wold. Flo Zlegfeld, who figures prominently in the news every now and again, has a lummer home up the Hudson. There Is a deer park on the place. A young doe in frlaky mood, led the motorcylce squad tho other night ucross front lawns, down lanes, tend over stone walla In the general direction of Broadway. At last it jumped Into a motorcar and out again and vanished Into the blue distance like the Prince Lou I Henry I e Chart. n u i ... Bus-signy Bus-signy de Bourbon. Th' prim e was something else again Accompanied by an ex-sallor. a princess, princ-ess, a monkey, an Italian wolfhound, a sword and a uniform gaudy enough to break otf an eye, his highness established estab-lished himself in an apartment up town. When arrested on a charg oi disorderly conduct he . Ud he was the rightful nelr to the throne of France. Some one, however, asked If he wasn't a native of New Britain, Conn , with the accent somewhat on the "con" and Whether he had ever worked In u New Britain munitions factory. Without a word, Ids highness stalked stalk-ed irom the court and kept on .stalking till he had achieved a visibility' sufficiently suffi-ciently low so that the ex-sallor has been unable to see him long enough to return tho wolfhound and the monkey, or to ask how about tnat $60 which his highness borrowed Tho princess melted away at about the same moment. mo-ment. There's a moral of some sort in all this. ir the weather weren't too warm for digging It out. Perhaps it has something to do with not putting your trust in princes. M LA While, Commissioner EnrlgM Is awfully Indignant bscausi a 'ederai attorney wants t,, '.mow what became of 66 out of lt0 cases of Scotch which the police s' i.c on a motorboat fhe 100 eases were to have Deen held as proof against the rum-runners But sometime oetween the moment when the police boat nosed alongside the bootlegging motorboat and the mo-m-nt u nen the proof was turned over to federal authorities, an even 6i cases oi . , i iii nt s', otcfa Just up and vanished vanish-ed It Is all very mysterious and 1'Jn-ilght 1'Jn-ilght Is considerably vexed over the tai t that some one said maybe his cops know more about it than they were letting on to know. ' ESnrlght lntlmat.es that his po, icemen ice-men aie too busy to take a chance or a drink This may be so. At any rate his merry men are mighty busy at this moment arresting motorists who have neglected to equip themselves with warning ards " 3 oj must carry this Official curd, which bears a picture of 'yourself, and which bristles with all sorts of official adages, comim nts and i regulations. Every time a traffl ui- flcei warns you about this and that, he notes ine fact on your card, and altogether tne thing adds to the complicity com-plicity and vexation of life In a big city. Btil and all, the high cost of living has gone down in New York You can get board, lodging clothes and other knicknacks rive-tenths of one per cent heaper than they cost you a month ago |