The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-02-23
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Letter. 4. IN
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New York. Another man comes
forward to swear to the fundamental
integrity of New York City. This time
it's laundryman, assuredly a prac-
tical person given to stern realities.
His regular patrons, hurrying by in
the morning, just tuck the bundles in
around the door sill, and sometimes
they are piled pretty well UP and pro-
trude several inches into the sidewalk
But are they ever stolen? Never"
swears the laundryamn. I've been
running this laundry five years and
the bundle have been dropped for that
same time in that same trusting way
And never once has the trust of one Of
customers in his fellow men been mis-
placed or betrayed"
Lima Vavalilieri famed for her
beauty, her beauti recipes, her mar
riage to Robert Chanler, and inciden-
tally her voice, has arrived back upon
our shore from Europe. She is book
ed to sing with Mary Garden and she
is still to claim the much argued title
of "the most beautiful woman in the
world"
The biggest boys club in existence
oh in history-has reached men,
bership of over 1000. it was an
nounced the other day. This is the
Boys Club of the City of New York,
and 1t was started one night when a
group Of small boys threw stone
through the windo wof girls club in
Avenue A. f. II. Hartman was at the
club at the time and he conceived the
great idea. 81 know what's the matter
with those boys" he said. "They want
a club of their own. Let's start one"
That started it and todaw seven
story building with a thousand boys
using 1t nightly is the result.
Every once in a while the rotund
women of the country hear cheering
rumor that Hips are coming in
again" or "the new styles are all for
the plump" The humore always peter
out though, in these recent years, and
plumpness continues unappreciated by
fashion. This season the reports
cropped up again. But not for long.
Whatever wan hopes had been cher
ished b ythe lovers of sweets and
loathers of exercise were swept away
during the firt ten minutes of the re-
cent Spring Fashion show. Gymnasium
classes have taken new popularity
since that day, and so has every other
aid to slimness One New York ply
stefan, DR.. R. Newman, 2S6 Fifth ave-
nue., who devotes a great part of his
practice to reducing the too, too solid
flesh without even making its owners
exercise or give up their chocolates,
explains that his experience has been
the same following every fashion
show within the past five years. "A
good many of my patients tell me that
they want to reduce only because 1t
improves their health" DR.. Newman
said, "And of course, if they are defi-
nitely fat that is sufficient reason. But
l always notice that fashion shows
and windows filled with new clothes
stimulate their interest in reduction
more than anything else. And that's a
perfectly natural and worthy motive
too, would say"
Its the war;" murmured the public,
when it read the divorce figures OF
1919. "The girls haven't recovered
from the blow of seeing, many of them
for the first time-their husbands in
civilian clothes and without the gla-
NOR of the uniform. They just nat
urally are upset" But 1920 laughed
at that after-the-war year and raced
away past it in divorces here in New
York city, one of the most difficult
spots in the country to get a divorce,
too, by the way. In 1919, 1908 divorces
were granted in this city; and last
year, 2166.
Laurette Taylor is back in "Peg O.
My Heart" and the audiences are TAX
ing her to their hearts as happily as
they did in its first season. This story
on the world-old- Gin
derella theme appeals to a larger
group of people, undoubtedly, than
does any of the ultra-modern dramas
of suicide and despair.
! Queen lines are drawn in peoples
minds between the limits of honesty
and dishonesty. Three men have writ
ten to New York papers asking if they
had to report in the income tax return,
profits made from "boot-legging