The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
State journals Mew York Letter
By LUCY JEANNE PRICE

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human curiosity the other day which
it will never forget. Incidentally it
made itself liable to arrest for tying
up traffic. The members of the COM
mission wanted some actual photo
graphs of rush hour subway crowds.
So they strung some mercury lights in
corridors of the Times Square sub
way station and posted motion picture
camera and operators about. Expect
ing that a few inquisitive persons
might hang around the camera men,
they had pu- six special policemen
on the job. Within four minutes after
the lights were switched on, at 5
O'Clock, the special policemen were en-
quilted and Junk without a trace. Hun
dreds. thousands, it seemed. of men
| women and children packed the cor
ridor so densely that persons trying
TO get into or out of the station de-
cided there had been a bomb raid and
gave up all thought ever of taking a
subway train again.
Charlie George. from Abyssinia. is
] shocked at our lack of clothes and
! our Informal manners. He registers
| this shock only as a means of de-
Tending his own land from calumnia-
| tors. and not to be impolite. Mr..
/ George. who runs an employment
| agency down on West street. and is
one of the seven only real Abyssinians
| in this country, read in some paper
| the other day a treatise on the ram
pant barbarism in H. country and a
| declaration that gangs of wretched
slaves chained together may be seen
there by any traveller. So he rose to
protest Not only are his people high
/ " civilized, he says. but "Ohl If Abyss
sinian girl take off clothes like Amer
lean girl-no goodt"'
Perivi..- &c ana .n.nosa are the new
and popular colors for spring and
summer That was made plain at the
annual meeting here OF the Textile
Color Card association of the United
StatesH Periwinkle is that new laven-
| dairy blue. and mimosa is an exceed
ingly dainty yellow.
New York artists who particularly
love Manhattan Island-the real New
York-are moving over to Brooklyn,
lust because they do so love Manhat-
tan Led by Joseph Penneh, group
of the serious artists of the city are
taking apartments high up from the
street over in Brooklyn Heights, one
of the closest points to this livelier
borough For from their windows
there they can see our sky line and
our buildings and even our streets as
would be impossible from any other
point So windows in Brooklyn facing
toward Manhattan have become the
desired goal of our art colony
New Workers are the greatest meat
eaters in the world, according to John
Doheny of the United States bureau
of markets. who insists that We com
pIetely Guido tho "Beef-eating Brit |
ish." The per capita consumption |
of meat in Greater New York is esti- |
mated at three-fifths of a pound a
day. or 215 pounds year. as con-
trasted with one-half pound a day /
for the rest of the country" said Mr. |
Doheny. In one week, New Workers |
eat 10000 cattle, $4,000 sheep and !
lambs. $4,000 calves, besides vast
quantities of pork and pork products
A BARNARD college girl had her bair
bobbed while her mother was IN Eu- /
rome. When mother and daughter met
at the steamship pier. they gaZed at
each other for full minute; thenm
your HART Your beautiful hair!
screamed the mother what will
YOUR grandmother say when she sees
Won with bobbco hair?" The girl re-
NAMED completely calm under the
attack and retorted. And what VIII
she say when she sees your skirtsE
Was Kipling right about the female
of the species? I was chatting with
the woman detective in one OF our
large and gaver hotels the other day
when she left me abruptly and dls-
appeared into the crowd saw
two girls whom I thought We're trying
10 speak to two men they didn't
know" she explained upon her re-
turn. And if you saw a man trying
to speak to a girl in the same un-in-
troduced way would you get equally
martial about it?'' 1 asked. on,
approve of that either, but it isn't
SO bad because the girls know enough
to look out for themselves and the
men don'ti'
Gloria Caruso. the two-year-old
daughter of Enrico Caruso, has shown
such marked appreciation and mem
ory of music that her mother INTENDS
1T ne o.
as she has reached the age OF four
She has definite hopes that Gloria may
became as great a singer as her
father, the Incompatible.
We are going to be reminded every
time we go down around the city hall
district of the rigorous path before
one who would be an honest citizen
The statue of Civic Virtue has been
by Frederick Macmonnies,
the sculptor. md will soon be in place
in City Hall park It is a figure OF
youth carryinS a huge club, and ne
is being besieged by two sirens against
whom he remains adamantly vlrtuous
and civic. He will face toward the
city hall itself
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney, New
Y orks society-sculptress who is I
real artist and not merely patron {
Of the arts or dabbler in them has {
received a commission to execute ]
mortal will be erected by the state OF |
Wyoming at Cody, in that state, just
at the entrance to the Yellowstone i
park where Buffalo Bill lived from {
1898 until the time of his death.
The triumph Of the theatrical sea- {
son undoubtedly goes to the theater {
guild for its production of Bernard I
Shaw's Back to Methuseiah." which /
has just opened at the Garrick the \
ater. The courage. the imagination G
and the creative skill in making the {
first dramatization ever attempted OF \
his remarkable book all are worthy I
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