The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-23


sweeping season for balloons.
Charles w. McDonough was a per-
fectly amiable and adjustable hus-
band, he insists. He always tried to
accept his wife's point Of view so long
as he could make his ideas nimble
enough to keep pace with hers. But
o nher eighth change of religion, he
gave out. ut was all right for her to
change her faith az often as she felt
like It," he explained to the Judge the
other day, when he decided he would
nave to get a divorce in order to feel
settled once more '"But decided 1t
was too much to demand that | change
with her every time 1t seemed kind
of tough on me- too, when she became
a Numerologist. That was her last
change. She asked me to pay wo-
man 500 to teach her the intricacies
Of It and when she had got her 500
worth of teaching, she said she had
learned by means OF it that she was
married to the wrong man. | ask you,
Judge, If that wasn't sad way for me
to have lost my $1OO?" During the ten
years retounted in Mr.. McDonoughs
petition, his wife has been follower
of these cults Economics, Mesmer-
lists, Mind Readers, New Scientists
Theosophists. New Thought, Angel
Dancers, and Numerologists q.
what sort of books do the blind
read most" visitor asked the Librar-
ian in that section of the New York
Library the other day. She answered
him politely, and then turned to me
with a sigh. "What kind of books does
anyone suppose they like?" She asked.
almost petulantly. 81 suppose that
man was shocked because | told him
that Hell fer Sartain' was the one
most taken out by them last month.
They like 'thrillers just as other peo-
pie do. Love stories and adventures,
and those things. People seem to
| think that because person is blind,
he is concerned only with spiritual
values or new thought or something.
Sometimes these questioners irritate
mere" There were 5000 blind persons
in New York at the time of the last
census, but this figures was increased,
of course by the war. The library
tries to keep on hand books enough for
all of them-"thrillers, too.
Elenora Rouden, an artist, and
Helena Zielinska, linguist, finding
business a bit dull in New York, have
decided it's a good time to take few
weeks off for a little wwalking trip.
Consequently they have started for
San Francisco. Eyes, we're going to
walk every step of the way" declared
Miss Rouden. 81 am going to draw
pictures and sell them as we go along
and Miss Zielinska will give lectures
in the foreign settlements of cities we
pass through When asked If they
had made any special plan about
crossing the pesert or the mountains
which intrude themselves between
here and the coast. Miss Rouden hest
tated lust a minute and then replied:
"N-no. but" cheerfully, I'VE are go
ing TO walk every stey, no matter
what kind Of scenery we are. walking
over" .
With the shops showing velvet, fur
trimmed bathing suits, and with 10
women out of every hundred buying
long, Jade earrings, husbands and
fathers are breathing a sigh of thanks
giving that the style in straw hats
flor menD has changed but little
since last season, and every hat-clean-
ing place in town is working overtime.
II was natural, perhaps that the
biggest reaction that F. W. Kellogg,
business manager of the Los Angeles
Express, got from his recent trip to
Europe, had to do with the price OF
newsprint. l was little disappointed
when he made this plain to me when
he got back to New York on the Aqui-
tania. 1 had hoped for some red-hot,
inside stuff that the managing editors
serve would be tempted to kill out
of my column and use on page one,
with the brightest head the copy desk
could produce. Come to think about
it. I guess that Mr.. Kellogg after all
give me a good story when he said
that the biggest news he ran into on
the other side was that the available
supply of newsprint in Norway, Swe-
den, Finland and Germany is greatly
oyerestimated, and that 10000 tons
represents all of the paper they have
for export, "The impression that there
was a limitless supply over there is
probably due to the fact that at least
10 brokers in America are trying to
sci this same $4,000 TONS" Mr.. KEEL
logg said.
Brooklyn las welcomed and chal-