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Show SEVEN DAtfS WML' OL' NY. By JESSIE HENDERSON . 1 i t BY JESSIE HENDERSON Special ODireapondcnl of The Stnml- nnl- Examines. (Copyright, 1982, by The Standard-Exam Standard-Exam Iner.) NEW YORK. July 2S. As If It were not bad enough to have the tempera-! tempera-! tun hlGh. with humidity away abcrve, I normal, along comes an uptown eloi-igyraan eloi-igyraan with the suggestion that we j.snould all' get together und bang oal a really Splendid national antheiili. ' "America" and the "Star Spaim-b d Banner," are all well enough, according accord-ing to the Reverend Dr. Robert Wat-: Wat-: son of the Second Presbyterian church. I but we ought to have something nobler i than either of tli'-se. Settle down, therefore, on j Cake of be before an ' electric fun with a glass of Oh well, ; lemonade at your elbOw and cr;iah i forth into a reall insplntional thins j that shall guid- oui steps through war and peace You've no Idea how many people feel willing and able to indite a national na-tional anthem, and If yuu feel that most of the "indlters " ought to be lno.leted we shant pick any flj;ht with you. Somebody In Boston haj sent the Reverend Lr. '"atson a fow v'ersc i about balling our motherland "of Lrlle grace." It seems, a vorso or so further furth-er on that "love s tidal gates arc burst apart" but nevertheless tho U. S. A !s plum full of warmth of soul and splendid verve." This will be good news, too, among other things, the coal mlno strikers are the ex-soldlera seeking seek-ing Jobs. DOES HIS BIT An earnest New Yorker has done his i bit In rhyme to the vnd that we now hall our motherland because too long ! have wo aered Greed But what do you know'.' "Wugo slaver has got to i go" (cheers mingled with laughter; because tho reign of wealth Is breaking break-ing down," (loud and proloiiKed k roams from practically all of uh) "for money power dies." We'll say It does. lxok at what a dollar used to buy and now consider the darned thing. The reign of love is coming on" (Oh. oh) "and i 'tin there our future lies 1 And ono might add with not too great originality, origin-ality, lies and lies. Ono must bo grateful these smtry days to the energetic en-ergetic clergyman He has given uu .something to do with our saru it-ernoons. it-ernoons. If, however. & national anthem should express the true- spirit of a country', why not simply adopt one of our songs with an universal appeal which now exist? For example, the "Prohibition Blues?" or indeed, "Lookout, Here Comes the pp- 1 lice." But a trrjc to levity. A national I anthem Is nothing to Jest about. And neither is prohibition. Which brin us gracefully to the Information that deaths from alcohol in New York City huo Increused 27 per cent over thoso for 1921, and 88 per cent over those ji 192H. This lb nut due to laxity o. tho part of enforcement agents, a band of whom halted a hearso ovcn times the other day to search U for liquor and even followed It to the funeral fun-eral without getting anything more Illegal Il-legal than a black look from the mourners. DEATH TO UUXLru, Taking tho trip from Death to Health in one Jump, let us consider the prize winners in the Mulberry community house health tournament Mulberry Bend, contains everything tho young child should not " hava, crowded tenements, crowded streets, a foreign population more or less indifferent in-different to American standards of existence. ex-istence. Yet the health contest left tho authorities exactly where It found therm Ono . of the winners of tht-first tht-first prize a boy of five years subsists sub-sists principally on macaroni. The other first pnz2 winner lives on egga and milk, as a child should. One of the winners of the second prize alai eat scientifically but the other second sec-ond prize winner 'What she likes she eats andvwhat she don't she don't." All of which goes to show either that t I there Is something in science or ther ! Is not. NOW WADING Pnol. Meanwhile art has Joined science Ir. a det. rinlncd e(f,,n t.. make th.- Eat side youngster even healthier than be Is. The American Institute- of An In tects has already designed wading ' pools and It Is now engaged in trying to get the city to install them. Th? pools as designed are wide and shal low, with marble rims from which Ihc- youngsters l gs may easily dangle Into the water. ,Perhapg one cause of the simmering simmer-ing weather is the excitement roused hereabouts by tho BUlle Burke cablci I to husband Flo Zlegfeld and vice versa, as well as that little matter ol Irep. Ciistle's sjipvihirc ring Flo is In England, and Billle Is in Maine, ami Marilyn n Miller, who says Flo wonted wont-ed to give her a diamond the size ol jan egg. Is in the west, but New York ! nevertheless takes tho little domestic and dramatic flurry very much a( heart. Now that the Stlllman case li quiescent the Billie-Flo-Marilynn con-irovtTsy con-irovtTsy with its piquant assertions denials, and cablings comes in the1 nick of time to keep table chatter from languishing. IRENE'S RING. Irene Castle's ring yes and a bracelet brace-let also help the conversation along The ring, a llttlo thing or sapphires ;and emeralds, was given to a motion picture actor by Irene some weeks ago J,aii-)v the ring was taken from, the actor by customs' Inspectors, who ljke-wisfl ljke-wisfl helped themselves to an 80-dollar bracelet. The jewelry is said to have been brought Into the country last 'July. Some folks say Irene failed to ; declare the jewelD when she landed, I but Ireno says she didn't fall to declare de-clare ihetn and she ought to know. I It is impossible, though, even with these bits of excitement going the I rounds, to keep the Stlllmuns off the front page. Mrs. Stlllman and her (son "Bud"' or James, are at East j Hampton. L. I Tiny Int. nd d to shun 'publicity for the summer, but when la maid from u nearby cottage- began to drown. Bud rushed to the rescue and into the news columns He saved tho girl- It Is the send rc-seue of tho sort to his credit In the past throe ear. and therbv added to tho considerable con-siderable popularll which he attained attain-ed last winter as his mothers champ-Ion. |