Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-30
Princess Buys 100000
Casket-MayoraIty Cam
didate Urges Ten Years
Free Rent-4-Hour Day
By JESSIE HENDERSON
Ieased Wire Service to The Journal.)
lCnnurirhf 1901


Copyright, 1929
NEW YORK, August 27.-There
seems no good reason why Mrs. ia
cob .Winger should not be the hap
piest woman in town. Not only
have the courts ordered her husband
to pay the alimony which she de-
mands; but the doctors have also
ordered her husband, because of his
nervous state, not to talk back to
his wife. Put UP and shut up, to
twist the lamentable vulgarism, APP
pears to be Mr.. Winger's lot.
Quite otherwise the lot Of the av-
chon is elected mayor. Mr.. Michon,
whose campaign badge is a heart
and chapiet, calls himself Liberal
Socialist. Landlords and restau-
rateurs are among those standing
ready to tell the world that he is
liberal, at any rate. The M1chon
platform includes free rent for :, ten
four-hour day, and general morato-
rum.
Nor does this by any means ex-
hauSt the weeks merry-go-round OF
surprises. How did Mrs. Frank
Clappers 210 jars of preserves get
from her Riverside Drive apartment
to an apartment nearby. Of their own
volition and without the impetus OF
human hands, so far as the janitor-
under $1,000 bail-can deduce? How,
indeed, did Mrs. Frank Clapper get
210 jars. of anything into any River
these have had their need Of con-
sideration, there remain as claim
ants for notice the bandit bird that
stole the ring, the princess and the
100000 coffin, the carrier pigeon in
Columbus Circle with a tale Of woe
from Wyoming, the scrubwomen's
country had gone dry, and half
dozen other oddities jumbled pell-
nell from the freakish hand of fate.
It has been seven days of incredt-
bilities.
Has Bandit Dove
For example, who except credu-
lous New Yorker would believe the
authentic story of the bandit dove?
This bird flew to the Lexington ave-
nue. window sill on which Miss Re
becca Bernstein had left a diamond
ring fastened to a ribbon, snatched
ribbon and ring, and scared defiantly
heavenward. But if this challenges
belief, how about the fact that a
policeman pursued the bird from
roof to roof, found it's nest on top of
a fire escape and actually recovered
the jewel? 1t is the last assertion,
by the bye, which brings an unbe-
lieving smile to Gotham lips.
Equally extraordinary was the &C
ton of a carrier pigeon in fluttering
to Columbus Circle among the troll
leys and motors, bearing on its leg
hotel in the vicinity, message an
nouncing that Edmund Heller. the
naturalist, was lost in Yellowstone
Park. Heller has wired saying he
was never lost and never started the
bird on it's way. The police now say
a crime has been committed, but
they don't know just what sort of
crime.
Nor is a 100000 coffin thing to
which the average New Yorker looks
forward. Not even a prince is usu-
ally privileged to lay, his bones in
Princess de Bragan and Duchess
Of Oporto took the half ton Of
bronze and silver aboard an Italian
steamship and will place her hus-
bands body in it when she arrives
at Naples. The coffin is the cost
States, which ought to be some COM
fort, if only to the manufacturers.
scrubwornen Form Union
There are exactly as many scrub
women in the country as dollars in
the bill for the Braganza coffin, and
Of these scrubwomen, over 5000
clean the floors Of New York. House
keepers and office building heads ut
tered piteous means this week when
the 5000 made themselves into
union which promises to enlist the
rest Of the hundred thousand The
woman with the mop was already
getting from SIS to $25 a week, and
the question employers are asking
is. now will she strike for scented
soap or silver mounted brushes?
Meanwhile something is dreadful
ly wrong somewhere. The Spanish
consulate posted up notice invit-
ing men to join the Foreign Legion
at 80 cents a day for service against
the Moors in Africa. Three days
later more than 200 Americans had
applied, many Of them veterans of
the A. E. F., some with decorations
on their breasts and all with the ex-
PLANTATION that they needed a job
It was q sight to fill the eyes with
tears, unless futile indignation dried
them.
Peace, however, is on. the mind of
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. Not for
long while has this president of
the National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation reused such varied emotions
as by her denunciation Of Alice Rob-
ertson. representative to congress
from Oklahoma. Miss Robertson op-
posed the appointment Of any woman
to the conference on disarmament
on the ground that no woman is
qualified-a nasty whack, this, at
Miss Robertson's previous record
but that any disarmament conference
ought to number a woman among it's
speakers and that this one ought to