The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-28
By MEL FREEMAN SHAPIRO

Dear Folks:
 What with the Salvation Army Drive and the sojers a-eoming home every day, and tenants a-bellowing their anathemas upon the rent profiteers. and the hard boiled cocktail-there I've said it-there' < plenty doing In the big city just at pres ent But yes, I guess that hard-b boiled affair is claiming paramount interest, in view of the impending July 1st, the exact effect of which still wavers, but which nevertheless inspires awe in the heart of New York.
 It was sprung at a dinner in Brooklyn the other night-the cocktail It was T wineless dinner. but after the first taste of some innocent-looSing little pattes which were served to the guests, the air became pretty festive, I'm told. The host. who is well known physician, invented the thrilling cocktail all by himself, and nary a word will he say as to what it contains, outside of the kick, which he admits. My own picture of it is some thing like this solid alcohol which the manufacturers claim will serve in place of coal range, if need be. The doctor won't say whether his hard-boied cock tall contains alcohol, even to the much mooted 2.7 per cent But his friends, who tasted, are like the optimistic 'Arry, in that they ave 'opes that the goodly nor sel may stay here after John Barleycorn has long departed.
 The Salvation Army drive has occa- stoned great enthusiasm in New York War is q strange thing. It changes ev- erything. Though I think everyone has always appreciated the good work of the Salvation Army, still there was that you know nf a nc al xyb. we stopped and listened to them in the streets. But now-weil. they're just on a, n$re dignified footing somehow. There S fellowship. They just came out on top over there, and it has put them on top over here. It is, though, n rather strange spectacle to see society girls out on the streets with their blue paper S. A. bon nets, a-jingling the tambourine-and Cor nelius Vanderbilt in the role of Saliva tion Army chairman-well, all I can say is, who'd a-thought it?'
 Though summer time is still hesitating, Luna park has opened it's arms There are lots of new thrills in the scintillating and be-towered city, and at Coney, as everywhere else, though the armistice has been signed, the wars the thing. The opening of Luna was signalized by "The Last Shot, panoramic pyrotechnic spectacle of war doings. There's a new
 
 anyone who missed the war can come up to Coney any old time this summer and enjoy a series of tanky bumps all the way across two whole acres of Argonne forest, la Coney. And there's the sub marine r, which was entirely too ominous looking for me to tackle this early in the season, but chances are that 1t has all the thrills of the undersea boats.
 New York is always there to please. The tired business man of old is her special charge. She provides well-known frolics for his midnight ennui, and in countless other ways ministers to his poor over worked soul. The manager of a chain of well known hotels, however, has them all beat I think, in having planned for the establishment of a perfectly good country club for hotel guests in the big city, who grow aweary during their stay. The club will be open to guests of all hotels, and to New Workers as well. It is to be located at Rye, N. Y., on 6oo- acre estate. Work will be begun imme- dhtely and Bftmore Country club, as it is to be called, will probably be iopen within year. There will be splendid golf course, and almost every outdoor recreation will be provided for. Even in winter, there will be plenty doing, such as skiing, skating and the like. The club will have all the facilities of first-class