The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-28
By JESSE HENDERSON Special Correspondent of The Age-Herald (Coryright, 1921. by The Age-Hernld)


 New York, August 27.-(Special.)- There seems no good reason why Mrs. Jacob Winger should not be the hap piest woman in town. Not only have the courts ordered her husband to ray the alimony which she demanos, put the doctors have ordered her nus band, because of his nervous stase not to talk back" to his wife. Put up and shut up. to twist the lamentable vulgarism, appears to be MT. Wing er's lot.
 Quite otherwise the lot of the av- craze New Yorker if Abraham Mich on whose badge is heart and chaplet, calls himself liberal social ist. Landlords and restaurateurs are among those standing ready to sell the world that he Is liberal, at any rate. The Michon platform includes free rent for 10 years, three meals day to all, four-hour day, and a general moratorium.
 Nor does this by any means ex- haust the weeks merry o-round or surprises. How did Mrs. Frank Clapper's 2l0 jars of preserves get from her Riverside Drive apartment nearby of their own volition and
 without the impetus of human hands, so far as the janitor-under $l.0o0 bail--can deduce? How. indeed, did
 Mrs. Frank Clapper get 210 jars Of | anything into any Riverside Drive apartment? And when these have | had their need of consideration, there
 remain as claimants for notice the
 bandit bird that stole the ring, the Princess and the $100,000 coffin, ihe carrier pigeon in Columbus Circle, with a tale of woe from Wyoming, | for m, a n who didn't know the country had
 gone dry. and half dozen other odd ities jumbled pell-mell from the freakish hand of fate. It has been a seven days of incredibilities.
 For example who. except crelu- 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 diamond ring fastened to ribbon, snatched ribbon and ring, and scared desfantiy heavenward. But if this, challenges belief, how about the fact that a policeman pursued the bird from roof
 fire escape and actually recovered the jewel? It is the last assertion, by the by. which brings an unbeliev- | ing smile to Gotham lips.
 Equally extraordinary was the ac- tion of a carrier pigeon in fluttaring to Columbus Circle, among the troll leys and motors, bearing a message addressed to a guest at hotel In
 the vicinity. a message announcing
 that Edmund Heller the naturalist,
 was lost in Yellowstone park Hell Ter has wired. saying he was never lost and never started the bird on it's
 way. The police now say crime has
 been committed. but they don't know just what sort of a crime.
 Nor is a s100.0o0 coffin thing to
 which the average New Yorker looks forward. Not even prince is usnal- ly privileged to lay his bones in so magnificent a casket.s Yet the Prin-
 cess De Bragarza and Duchess of Oporto, took the half ton of bronze and silver aboard an Italian steam ship, and will place her husbands s body in it when she arrives at Ma pies. The coffin is the costliest over
 shipped from the United States.
 which ought to be some comfort, if
 only to the manufacturers.
 There are exactly as many scrub
 women in the country as dollars in ! the bill for the Braganza coffin. and
 of these scrub women over 5000 clean 1 the floors of New York. Housekeep- CTS and office building heads uttered pitous moans this week when the
 5000 made themselves into union
 which promises to enlist the rest of I the 100000. The woman with the mop 1 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 dread
 fully wrong somewhere. The Spanish l consulate pasted up notice inviting
 men to join the foreign legion at % cents . day against the Moors in