The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-02-17
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New York. The subway Is NO
place for a skunk. That not unhand-
some animal is all quite well adapted
to the collar of seal coat or band
ing Of a velvet frock. But au natural
and at large, he is definitely de trop.
Especially in the subway. It's too
crowded an dthere are so many jolt.
ing cars that annoy him. This one
got in, however; probably communited
from Jersey, because it was between
the Pennsylvania station and Times
Square that he first made himself evil
dent. From then on, theer was no
installing his being in our midst, and
no one seemed able to think of a way
to remove him thence. He just made
his way up and down between and
in front of the trains, while motor
men resigned and passengers Won
dered If it were one more effort to get
an increased fare.
He was the most truly elegant ap-
pearing person on the avenue. His
top hat and his pearl gray trousers
and his froct coat were all exactly
right and exceedingly dressy. Moth
ing less than a wedding could have
been up to them. seemed almost
condescension for him to get on the
bus. But as he swung on he grasped
the hand of the conductor. Hello,
Sarge! Great to see you again" There
was real friendship in the conductors
grin. Hello, Buddy! almost didn't
know you with your fact so clean"
The cry of Equal rights for Brook
lyn' won victory the other day when
Mrs. r. NJ Chapman Of that borough
was elected president of the New York
City Federation of Women's Clubs,
over Miss Mary Wood, of Manhattan.
But some of the members declared
that the result indicated that the fed
Grafton wanted to keep out of politics.
Miss Wood is an active worker in the
Republican party and a city office
holder. Her friends smile when this is
given as reason for the vote, and COM
ment on Mrs. Chapman's membership
in the Women Voters League, which
has been almost more dynamic, and
dynamite, politically than teh aver
age woman in either regular party,
and has declared itself opposed to
both the Republican Governor Of the
state and the Republican senior L. S.
Senator.
When a Jersey City policeman falls
from grace hereafter he will be pun
ished by being forced to listen to a
lecture on morals by the police de-
partments chaplain. The ruling has
Just been made.
Sen. James Hamilton Lewis, of Ill
inois, better known as ]. Ham,, al
lows no trivialties to stand in the way
of his natural, spontaneous, sociabil-
ity and JOY in seeing his friends. He
has been in town for a few days, stop
ping at the Biltmore, where also is
Mary Garden. The other morning, the
Senator was just emerging from his
bath when he heard those unmistak-
able trills in the corridor outside his
suite. That's Mary Garden!" ex-
claimed he to himself. 1t was; she
was singing on her way to a morning
musical. And before she had taken
ten steps more there was CAD "Yoo-
hoo!" behind her and there was James
Hamilton Lewis, securely and modest
ly wrapped in bathrobe and bath
slippers, with the bath spoons still In
his hand. Othere along the corridor
had heard the singing and the "yoo-
hoo!" and we're interested lookers-on
at the shaking and Fluctuations,
with interpretations of apologies for his
appearance from the Senator.
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1t has been long, lang time since
1.-THE Winters Tale" has been produc-
ed in New York, or probably anywhere
else in the country. And when 1t was
given at the Little Theater the other
day. II was done as a performance for
young people. 1t hardly seemed like
the best of Shakespeares for a very
youthful audience. and wondered If
New York children we're supposed to
be so sophisticated that the jealousy
and oil the rest of it we're accepted as
entirely appropriate for them. | dis
covered, however, that just like chill
dren anywhere else they are so UN-
sophisticated that everything inappro-
pirate to their age passed safely over
their heads.