Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-16
PRISON BOARD ANSWERS
CRITICS OF STATE FARM
CUPID HAS HECTIC
NEW YORK SEASON
BY JESSE HENDERSON
Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1929

NlRaSoQ wire service TO Inc JOuTUdl.)
Copyright, 1921
NEW YORK, Aug. 13-There is
not a more reasonable man in town
than Frank De Santes, but what fell
low wouldn't get angry when his
wife refused to do the simplest lit
tie thing he asked of her? Frank
and Mrs. Frank were making up
after quarrel and all Frank asked
was that his wife would shoot him.
He even handed her the revolver.
She wouldn't do it, so, of course,
Frank shot her. That is why Mrs.
Frank is in a hospital and Frank in
a Jail and the quarrel still is in
statu quo.
The incident is typical of the
hard season which Cupid has spent.
Not that so many people are getting
married, but so many married people,
tired of their bargains, are so
vengefully hotfoot on, Cupids trail
that the rosy cooling is only a jump
or so ahead of them. Painting from
a chase in which the angry Stillmans
had run him ragged, marked with
contusions and abrasions received at
Cupid scarcely paused to mop his
perspiring brow when out the cor
ner of his eye he beheld Geraldine
Farrer and Lou Tellegen with as
sorted brickbats as weapons and
himself as target.
New Workers, meantime, are grow
ing cross-eyed in the effort to fix
their gaze simultaneously on Mrs.
Stillman in her gypsy-red bandanna
and Geraldine in her sumptuous
pearls. Half-glutted with dramatics,
though they be by the Stillman
trial, most citizens gaze forward with
ill-concealed anticipation toward the
Farrar hearings. They look toward
the event as toward a mixture of
the first act in Carmen" the second
in "Tosca" and the seasons big event
in gowns and millinery.
Cupid, however, is gasping for
breath. But he has had one flash of
consolation as he leaped this week
from snag to snag. The Rev. Percy
Stickney Grant has become engaged
to Mrs. Philip Lydig. The canons of
riage to a divorce except under GER
tain strict conditions. Mrs. Lydig
has twice obtained divorce, the
first one, by the by, from w. E. D.
Stokes. And the 61-year-old bache-
lor-cleric says he is going to marry
her anyway.
Self possession, apropos of heart
tangles, is a precious gift. When
former admirer shot down Mrs. M.
Kruer in front of her fashionable
Riverside apartment, did she say
something banal?: Banal about How
could he do it?' Or call my hus-
band?" She did not. She went right
to the vital phase of the matter.
She said: will this wound on my
cheek leave a permanent SCARF"
Such sangfroid was equaled by
that of olivia Stone, though under
somewhat different circumstances.
Miss Stone, a nurse. killed Ellis Kin
infatuation. Not content with kill
ing him, Miss Stone has retained
Kinkead as her spirit attorney and
expects him to defend her when she
stands trial for the shooting.
1t is, however, the open season for
legal twists. Whether Minnie, the
cat, committed suicide or was urged
into the great beyond by the janitor's
fist was a question before one magis-
trate. The janitor said that Min
ME, after clawing his ear, had soar
ed from the fifth story window as
hand. The scarcity of suicides
among cats weighed against the JAM
tor. Minnie's demise was considered
equal to two days in the workhouse,
and for the workhouse the janitor
departed, declaring truculently::
We'll, twas worth it, anyhow,
yowlful nights, has not shared the
janitor's emotion?
Two disclosures have agitated the
town. AS usual the lesser caused
the greater agitation. The lesser
was the discovery among the cary
ings on wealthy st. Thomas church
street of twelve Fifth avenue types
Of bon vivants grinning amid the
wooden saints and cherubs; of a dol
lar sign balancing love knot over
the brides door, and of three money
bags with ]. P. Morgan's initials
scroll work. The church is by no
means a new edi1ce, and why the
carven jests inserted by the architect
have not been noticed earlier is a
question touching the city's powers
Of observation and sense of humor.
Some there be who affect to see
many other initials in the scroll
work, while others peer at the chan
eel rail without deserving even the
y. P. M" Most of the millionaire
vestrymen remark with a show of
nonchalance that European churches
are bedeviled with gargoyles, so why
cavil at a few Fifth avenue types on
the arches of st. Thomas? But even
as they nonchalantly explain, the city
gathers round Fifty-third street and
Fifth avenue, and gapes, and eager
ly scans the edifice for new horrors.
A greater thing was the shaving
Of prices in one hotel. Tired of
profiteering, the manager cut his
$1.10 breakfasts to 40 cents, his So
dinners to 81 and then published the
wholesale market prices to prove
that every other hotel could do the
same. The other hotel-keepers are
trying to think up an adequate re-
ply-and the low-price man is MAX
ing hay while the sun shines.
It has been decided in court that
you can drink yourself dizzy with
impunity twelve miles off shore. and
that New York is the worlds best ex-
ample of what Volstead has done to
the liquor trade. There have been
$12,000000 worth of liquor seized
here since April 4th, and 1856 ar