The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-31
By JESSE HENDERsoN

Special Correspondent to The Age Herald
 Copyright, 1891, by The Ase-Herald)
 New York, July 30-(Special.) )- Nothing, not even the arrival of the mirror hat, can disguise the fright fitness of weather so hot that eggs would not fry on the pavement. They'd shrivel to cinders. The mir TOT hat, however, is at least a dis traction. If it does not serve tc make you forget how hot you feel it can at least show you how hot you look.
 The mirror hat came to light in an open air restaurant the other evening when the languid breeze had dropped from the temperature 6 mol en lava to that of hot chocolate. With lazy gesture the lady removed her hat, set it on her knee, and un- snapped a flap which formed part of the starboard decoration. Be- hold! Mirror and powder puff and tiny gold lip stick ready to hand. Fortune awaits the inventor, these days, of hat with a chunk of ice beneath each flap.
 At any rate the sultry week has helped to make the firemen more popular than ever. Nobody realizes more clearly the efficacy of water directed against an overheated sur E. long enjoyed by the youngsters, has by order of Chief Kenlon, been ex- tended to grown ups. From to ID o'clock each night the grownups may don their bathing suits and step from the red hot pavement to the cool wetness of the spray. There are 600 sprays in operation throughout the city and the sultry are clamcr- ing for hundreds more.
 An engine house down Greenwich Village way has gone even farther with it's anti-heat movement Fire men raised $500 and built wooden portable swimming tank. There are steps and slides to carry the young sters. shrieking with glee. into the blessed pool The rolling of this tank beneath the shower at the cor ner Is the signal for universal rush of whooping juveniles.
 Zborowski ought to have tried one of the shower baths. Zborowsky is a baker who decided 1t was far too hot to work. Perhaps 1t was. but his three children decided 1t was too hot to starve. When the baker re- fnsed to hunt for job somebody told about his neglected family It may be hot in a bakery. but its not ter in the workhouse," said the court and sent him there. It will be tc- tober and chillier when he returns.
 Heat waves, however, have little effect on Lady Marjorie Dalrymple. She is here to establish branch shop for a London concern, and estapiish she will in spite of boiling ther mometers. Lady Marjorie IS one or the few titled English women to launch her business career In thus country, but she served as nurse 90 in the shade or even a depressed market can daunt her.
 The rise of the hottest day was the Battle of the Pink Silk Nipple. An alert policeman at Coney observed q motor van in which men and wom r. en entered in civilian clothes and from which they emerged in natty bathing togs. Deeply shocked, the patrolmen drove the truck to the po- lice station where it was put under arrest despite the dramatic appeals of the chauffeur who modestly pointed out the two separate and dis tinct dressing rooms formed inside the van by two tacks and a curtain.
 Soon there appeared 10 wet bath CTS, demanding in tones of ill-con- cealed fury where were their clothes and where their bathhouse. The police gave the bathers permi s. sion to dress in the station. And in the women's dressing room they left a bundle of clothing salvaged from the motor truck. The difference be- tween dressing in a police station and in motor truck seems to be the difference between propriety and dis orderly conduct. That's the way the police look at it.
 Anon a feminine voice floated through the station, inquiring the whereabouts of certain pink silk yippie. Joan, it appeared, had ap- propriated said yippie. claimed it as her own, and reused to divest her self thereof Eloise was angry. You can imagine yourself with yippies of pink silk the price they are to- day-when the station house began to crack under the strain the police lieutenant ordered his feminine guests back into their motor van, post-haste, with muttered adjuration about "may the best woman win.' It took the persuasions of most of the reserves ito get the ladies into the van and the pink silk yippie was sadly warped in the process. But how can tempers keep cool when everything else is at frying point?
 There was assuredly nothing cool about the temperature, as the crowd was jammed across the room till several people tainted. There were 260 rent cases up for hearing, and