Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Town Is Thoroughly Human,
Says Writer-Many Odd
Cases Appear in Courts
During Week
BY JESSE HENDERSON
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal)
(Copyright 1921 \

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medium this week for a display OF
that phenomenon known as woman
nature. Even the arrival and sub
! sequent collapse of Suzanne Leng1en
| of the agile knees or the pronounce
ment Of the department store edict
| against bobbed hair salesgirls has
| created less emotion to the square
| inch than, for example, that tomato.
1t was thoroughly ripe and
squashy affair, and when it landed
kersplash in the bit of yard next door
it's advent reused black wrath in the
heart Of the yards occupant and
owner. There's something awfully
personal about busted spread
around ones doorstep. The juicy
thud of the missile had scarcely died
| away before the spinster owner of
the yard started legal proceedings
against the woman whom she sus-
pected of tossing this vegeta1 epithet.
AS result, there is an enthusiastic
legal and 1ingua1 feud between a self
respecting spinster, and a no less
self-respecting brokers' wife, with
most of New York metaphorically
hanging on the back fence to hear
what happens next. And some peo-
pie think this town is not human.
Nor does it take anything SO tangt-
pie as tomato to start a fight
here. Look at Mrs. Phoebe Bushek
and the kiss which Emanuel Silver
gave her. Mrs. Bushek didn't want
the kiss. She said as much, and
more. But Emanuel, according to
her nnD1n11inf icrJ, Oh rryi+ n
1t and now she wants $4,000 to
erase the memory.
Wonan's Nature Changing
Woman nature, however, came even
more conspicuously to the fore in
the matter Of the diamond earring.
kind that made suffrage possible.
Most girls in the glad old days would
have fled from mouse as fin
deed, far more swiftly than if
satan were after them. Today they
act like Genevieye. Allen. When
district attorneys office, she gave
successful chase and caught the ro-
dent in firm, unterrified fingers.
There was, to be sure, an additional
circumstance which may have had
something to do with Miss Aliens
mouse had half-carat diamond ear
ring caught on it's tail.
Anyway you look at it, women are
getting so fearless that men don't
know what to expect next. For many
years the men have talked about put
tink Tammany out of power. Here
come the ladies with an out-and-out
antl-Tammany campaign committee.
1t is a protege of the Womens Ma
tional Republican club, it has opened
official headquarters that seethe
with activity, and it announces as
pose an aggressive crusade to "get"
Tammany. Tammany has retreated
to it's lair, growing. No man size
tiger likes to be potted by a lady
But political worries are not the
only kind with which modern ladies
still with u.s. Take the case Of the
Joseph Schimanskys. Joseph and
his wife started on nothing about
tWenty-siX years ago, and now they
have two wealthy sons-in-law, $751;
600 and a sumptuous home. 1t was
the sumptuous home which brought
about the crash. Joseph was not ac-
customed to splendor. More, he didn't
intend to get accustomed to it. Had
twenty-six years only to be told that
he couldn't come to his own dining
table in his own shirt sleeves?
SO Joseph retired to furnished
room sufficiently remote from the
sumptuousity and took his meals in
a man like that? 1t is a question
which Mrs. Joseph is asking the
courts to answer.
Money Matters Little
Mo Money, oddly enough, seems 20
habits of the truly simple-hearted.
A woman arrested for begging in
the subway had 1884 wrapped
around her waist. She explained
that she had been selling gum. The
the jaw-power of the New York
commuter
A firm jaw is a good thing in man
or woman, but there appears to be
no good reason in law why a lady's
Jaw sh 5I.l serve as a punching bag
sparring. May Lennon declined Mi
chael's invitation to take a walk
Michael knocked out two of her teeth.
Contrary to every rule of the popu-
lar novel, this virile attention did
not cause May to go mad with love
for Michael. May went mad, all
right, but she went straight to a
policeman and now Michael is get
ting explanations ready for the court
of special sessions.
Perhaps the only man in town who
thinks there may be something in
Michaeps side of the case is Stanley
Pesosly. Stanley says Mrs. Mary
Krowsky did him wrong in the mat
friendly drink. When he recovered
consciousness, he says that's all he
recovered. His money belt with ST.
500 is still missing.
But Mrs. Lena Peppino's home and
husband are both missing and she
cannot recall where she left them.
Mrs. Peppino came here from Naples
two months ago. The other evening
she started out with her four chill
dren to buy loaf of bread and she
she had never happened to notice
the name and number of her street,
she wandered till some one took the
mother and brood to the Crittenton
home. Mrs. PeppiEo is waiting there
until Mr.. Peppino notices that he
is out one wife and four bambini
Two Near-Drownings
Two near-droWningS marked the
week just when a lapse in the Tel
legen-Farrar proceedings threatened
ny Gates got his arm caught in a
hydrant while reaching after a penny
he had dropped.
Somehow the water was turned
on, and though the rescue squad, fire
truck six and two thousand specta-
tors came to Benny's aid, the lad was
two-thirds drowned before firemen
with acetylene torches burned away
the bolts and lifted the hydrant and
Benny out of harms way.
cue of Mary Costin. Mary went
boating in the park. When the ca
noe overturned, her escort seized the
frantic girl and with great difficulty
brought her to sho"s. Both were al
information, supplied by a ring Of
highly diverted onlookers, that the
lake was only three feet deep.
1t was the river, however, which
appealed to Joseph Rersog. Joseph
decided to jump off williamsburg
bridge, but instead of leaping from
the rail-an act which would have
inconvenienced only Joseph himself
he climbed to the tip of the tower
Arriving 365 feet above tn river, he
lost his nerve. Tive p2tTolmen, there
fore eallnned IN the long Ion OF