The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-24
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slaesman's plan of talk fast and get
away with IT," only she put the bur-
den on her companion. The two at
tractive girls were sitting in the hotel
lounge. Now when father comes"
said the nervous one, you talk to
him hard. Maybe then he won't notice
how short my dress is or that l have
mt spots on" Her friend agreed. But
WHY do you wear lace stockings
when you have cold already?' she
queried. Only shrug answered this
The father arrived. The loyal friend
talked as volubly as possible and as
Interestingly. Father listened politely.
But as they started toward the dining
room he said to his daughter, well,
see you are wearing the summer
screens"
Some people may have sufficiently
unkind and vindictive minds to get
some enjoyment out of the story of
the man who has made his specially
the robbing of taxi chauffeurs. Mich
ael McDonough is the name he COVE
when he was finally arrested and he
is a most polished looking person. He
was refined and nice in his work, too.
He always wore evening clothes and
after driving to a quiet part Of the
city, asked the chauffeurs to step into
a hallway to be paid. Then, with
gun, he relieved them of their wealth,
smiled at she meter and let them
drive on.
Another theatrical comeback. Be-
ginning early next month. Grace
George will do several plays for mat
inees at the Playhouse. The first will
be "The New Morality" by Harold
Chaplin, a young Englishman who was
killed in the war. In resuming her
activities as actress-manager, Miss
George is carrying on the repertory
project she established with her Play
house Company. The second play will
be from the French.
II Capt. Earl T. Daab, of Jersey
City, doesn't believe in charmed lives,
he is an unappreciative creature.
Having come safely through the Span
ish and the World War may not be so
much of a feat. Others accomplished
that. too. But after the armistice was
signed and Captain Daab was securely
home again, last summer, he broke
his neck. In three places! The atlas
bone and the avis bone and another
comparatively unimportant one were
all fractured. And Capt. Daab, who Is
so years old, has had the braces taken
off and is quite fully recovered, thank
you.
There is a whole town in one New
York building; school house U. S.
Postoffice, clubs, theater, express Of
fee, general store, everything. 1t
could be sealed I'D tight and its inhab-
itants 20 on with a comfortable nor
NAL life. The Seamen's Institute, 1t is
called, down on South street and Co.
entities Slip. The only qualification
for residence in the town" is that one
must be an active merchant seaman.
Artists are not necessarily so aes-
thetic that they lack Drawn. One of
the best known painters of pictures in
New York was moving into a new
home in the suburbs the other day.
Two plano movers were trying to get
his grand piano into place. But it was
too much. They told him they would
have to have to go after another man
to help them. When they returned, the
artist was Just easing the piano down
from of his back onto the spot where
1t belonged. Then he fired them; and
they out up no argument at all.
Little green tickets, once worth a
total estimated in hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, have been burned in
New York since the first Of the year
Their burning marked the end Of the
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