Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21

York women to give public utterance to
ejaculatloIs that old-fashioned folks call
swear words. 1t has long been esteemed dis
tinetly chic for women in New York
society to give expression to swear
words and 1t Is from the society
crowd that the unfeminine and jarrgng
practice has trickled until now II would
seem that every other woman has favorite
swear word ready for all of the little mis-
chances of existence. Maybe. too, the Toll
stoy plays have something to do with IL.
that, on the first night. was simply packed
with powerful cuss words Tor some of the
women players. but the thing was pruned
and trimmed in that respect afterward.
Women Stirs Up the Police.
A New York woman prominently identi-
fed with the womens club movement
started the police machinery of all this
town and contiguous territory a-moving the
other afternoon. kept it humming for about
six hours, and then stopped 1t with a jerk
She reported at police headquarters to
which she was driven In a state of frenzy
and In a cab. that her diamonds aggre-
eating many thousands of dollars In value.
mad been distracted from her chain chate-
iaine bag: The headquarters detectives.
VINO are just now struggling to make q
record with Commissioner Greene. imme-
dfately got busy. They obtained from the
woman an elaborate list of her movements
since she had left her home that day.
with the diamonds in her possession, and
men were sent flying in all directions All
OF thezpolice stations in Greater New York
were notified of the loss, and detectives
hustled to the prominent ferries and to the
railroad stations to see that no known
Jewelry thief got out of town. The "moll-
buZZers''-pickpockets who make spe-
specially Of stealing from the persons OF
women-were rounded UP in bunch and
put under the gun by half a dozen de-
tectives who knew their haunts. All Of the
'moll-buZzers'' swore themselves black in
the face that they didn't know anything
about the club woman's gems. The whole
strength OF the detective force was still
tearing around trying to find out something
about the woman's jewelry when the chief.
at 10 o'clock at night. received telephone
message from the woman. stating that she
had found the diamonds.
She found them she was retiring tor
the night. She had forgotten that before
going out that morning she had tucked
the diamonds In her corsets-that Is all
hashlight picture of the countenanceS
of those detectives when they heard this
would show some wounded and dropping
expressions. The police of New York have
been declaring for years that four out OF
five loss or larceny complaints made to
them by women are quite unfounded. and
some of the old-timers have fallen Into the
habit OF waiting for a day or so before
they begin to investigate the women's COM
paints in order to give the women time for
their 'afterthoughts."
Return Of the Song Birds.
A paragraph was noticed IN Inc star inc
other day to the effect that the song birds.
especially the robins. are beginning to return
to the Washington parks. after years OF
Punishment by the pugnacious Eng ish spar
rows. The same thing is being observed
over here. The sparrows appear to have
quite lost their grip in Central Park, for the
park is musical this spring with the notes
of innumerable robins. cat birds. wrens and
finches. Nobody observed where the song
birds came from. They are just there, and
that is all there Is about IL, and there Is
every evidence that they intend to hold the
fort. Park employees say that the English
sparrows have been gradually losing their
fighting tendencies during late years per-
haps owing to the ca Sc with which they llck
up their livings. and Ii may be that the song
birds in some my sterious way learned about
the development of a peaceable disposition
the part of the sparrows and therefore
decided to give urban life another trial. AT
any rate, the strollcrs in New York's lovely.
park, whose ears have for many years been
RECALLED with no more soothing wood notes
than the somewhat strident chirping of the
sparrows. are now listening delightedly to
the serenades of song birds for the first
time since the English sparrow gained his
destructive ascendency in the United
States. Z. L. e.