Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
POPPLES REMIND GOTHAM
OF LATE WORLD WAR
BY JESSIE HENDERSON
neased Wire Service to The Journal.

| NEW YORK, May est is poppy
week and the Flanders blossom
| flames a. every corner in memory of
| the men who died overseas and in aid
of the orphans of France. The war
| has been wildly in the minds of the
| town the past few days. President
| Harding came last Monday to pay
| tribute to the SLIP soldier dead new
~ arrived on the Hoboken pier. There
has been also the solemn comment
Qratlve pageant. enacted at the Tween
| ty-second Regiment armory before
| 500 gold star mothers and 500 wound
| ed soldiers.
There has been, likewise, Joan
with her thirteen small comrades.
Perhaps nothing could make the war
fourteen babies from England, some
! of them orphans, all of them war
sufferers, seeking a home and par
ents. With an eagerness surpris-
| ing even to the committee which
brought the babies over hundreds of
men and women Immediately begged
| for the privilege of adopting a child.
Joan was largely the cause of this
enthusiasm - Joan. so sunny-tem-
pered. so prettily shy, SO full of joy
of either at her dimpled hands.
| With the president, whose visit
/ inaugurated the week, came Mrs.
! Harding. Many striking incidents
| S1gnallZed her stay, such as the
thrusting of rose into her hands
! by an old woman who had waited
hours for the opportunity. But the
most striking thing. from a feminine
viewpoint, was that Mrs Harding had
to change her gowns twice on the
few hours of her visit. Gray and
brown tweed made her trinity correct
| for the yacht Mayf1ower voyage; mid
night blue charmeuse and a wide
| feathered hat gave dignity and charm
| for ride through town by the presi-
dents side; and an iridescent even
ing frock added the regal touch de-
manded by an elaborate reception at
night.
1t has been rather a nice week, too,
for high school pupils. The school
authorities have adjudged Ruth Sem
fel, of Brooklyn, sixteen years, a
perfect physical specimen; something
rubies pale. Moreover, David Koch,
a seventeen-year-old pupil at the
High School of Commerce, got a gold
| medal and two prizes totaling $3.50.
He deserved 'em, for he wrote an es-
Smith in The Wealth of Nations
and Present-day Economic Condi-
| tions," and what. if anything, do you
| know about that?
The best that New York seems able
to dc in the way of deep sea stuff
| bathing suits at Coney. If the alder
| men have their righteous way, Coney
| Island will look like the landing of
| the Pilgrims, with the human knee
| as scarce as the clam in a chowder
Events ashore have not been with
| out certain excitement. A seven
year-old boy ran across a roof and
| off the edge; on his way down from
| the fifth story he grasped clothes
line at the third floor: it broke. but
he chung to it, swung clear across
| the courtyard, banged against a third
floor window, dropped to the ground
and escaped with broken leg. The
New York Medical society announced
| that there's nothing so conducive 20
diphtheria immunity as frequent rides
in rush hour subway trains, though
lot of people prefer diphtheria. Two
guns and cigarettes and started west
to fight Indians, but were overtaken
at Fort Hamilton Parkway by the
Children's Aid society.
Mrs. Julia Warshoff. a middle aged
Russian. arrested for threatening an
optician, achieved the most spectac-
ular attempt at suicide which New
York has 10 teiy seen when she shot
herself while seated in a motor car
that halted moment in the traffic
at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street
in full view of many thousands of
passersby.
The three big cases in which wom-
en- figure so prominently are boiling
nicely; the Reid case has located all
it's mysterious blondes; the Stokes
case resumes next week; the Stillman
case has arrived at the out, out, brief
scandal stage where private set
tlement appears likely and a 100000
offer from the movies is dangled be-
fore Mrs. Stillman simultaneously
with a $4,000 a year separation in
come. Once it was the woman who
collapsed under a divorce grilling.
Times have changed. w. E. D.
Stokes and James K. Stillman have
both been too i'll to attend the hear