The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-19

ing WomaL prisoner. That Is the
Jail known as the ''Alimony Club" the
place where 1-5bands s-e sent for
contempt of court, when the contempt |
consists II neglecting to pay their |
alimony on the dot. Mrs. FaIlani !
Marleani has esta blished the fact that
a woman, too, can err in matrimonial |
affairs to the extent of landing in |
Ludlow street 1t wasn't too Ittle-at- |
tention to her own matrimonial bonds |
that got her there. tho. 1t was too |
much attention to other peoples. |
low country-woman quoted as explain
ing that Mr.. Benfante was her soul |
mate, it seemed time t, act. The |
Judge paid the accused siren the tri- |
butte of placing her bail at $1,000 on
the charge of alienation of affections.
Mr.. Benfante was willing to put up
his property security, but-irony!
Mrs. Benfante had a dover right in
it all and wouldn't let him. So there
is the alienator in Ludlow jail.
It's tree-leaves that make your mo-
tor run smoothly! That's ehe latest
edict and it comes from an authority.
J. z. Pennypacker, of this city. chief
economist of the United States bureau
of public roads and former secretary
of the American Highway association,
believes tha- motorists generally
should take more interest in the pub
lie roads movements selfish inter-
est, If nothing else, because good roads
mean direct Eaving of ga oline and i'll
upkeep as well as adding to the COM
fort of the motorist. And while he
Is advocating goOO roads," Mr.. Penny
packer says, the motorist should see
| that trees are planted alongside the
smooth asphalt of bituminous maca-
dam road. Motors run more smoothly
when there is plenty of oxygen in the
air. Where vegetation is profuse oxy-
| id iro eo6 1a=1 n
| the smoothness of the road and de-
| crease in tractive resistance, is re-
| sponsible for the picking up of the
/ motor and. the increased speed of the
| car. The theory of this picking up
! had been expounded for some time
| but 1t was only recent tests made by
| scientists that proved conclusively the
| real cause. Experiments made in To-
| calities of tree-lined roads and on
| roads thru treeless territory, showed
4 that tree-borGered roads actually do
make for economy in motor operation,
| when combined with asphalt or BIZ
| luminous maca dam
the same gifts and talents. after all.
| Maybe ''Woman's place. isn't neces-
sarily 'in the home" any more than
mans. Here we had a cooking con-
test in one of our schools the other
1 day. and the first prize went to the
mullins baked by Adolph~ Kramer,
aged eleven. Whether Adolph will
cherish his prize and point to it with
pride when he is seventeen remains
to be seen. We know that he will
when he is seventy.
j There is no step of the social lad
der which New York has not expert
enced recently. Right after the case
of the Prince de Bourbon. who turned
out to be an ex-restaurant cook. and
ever ex-er than that, a millhand.
with no royal blood anywhere in the
family-just ambition, then here
comes the Spanish. count. whose
claims seem sound, who has sbeen
posing as a plain working man and
working quietly in a local department
store. The most ambitious thing he
has tried-and he accomplished it
was to marry New Jersey school
teacher the other day. Flora Nelson
is now Countess de Jiminez and the
count continues to be a clerk. NO.
I don't want to go back to Spain. 1
like department stores he says. But
his name which sounds like n joke is
very real, say those who have inves-
| tigated.
They are playing football in Russia.
I don't know when ANYTHING has
: sounded more amazingly cheerful. We
had heard that the relief committee
working there was getting the famine
under control, but We hadn't sup
posed they had done anything so re-
| markable as getting people back at
games-and such a robust game as
football. DIR. Boris Bogen of New
York, who is over there making an
inspection tour for the American Jew
ish relief committee, writes back
from the Odessa district telling about
it. II was told that the football teams
were organized in 1916" he says,
but for the past three years starva-
ton has been too grim and invincible
had tal &c haa ~,
toll of deaths by thousands, Foot
ball was abandoned. In the past year.
tho, things have been changed decided
ly for the letter" He reports that
more than a million children and 500
900 adults are receiving meals daily
from the organization and urges a
continuation of the American relief
work, and expansion of it, so that the
salvation of the people, SO well be-
gun, may be carried out.
An italian modiste almost held up
traffic the other day when her liner
locked here. All because of a garter.
But such a garter! Pink and plushy.
mother-of-pearl. And 1t held the
| stocking just two and one-half inches
below the knee. More than that, 1t is
so much 1.-The thing on the other side
that we have her word for it. We've
got to adopt 1t here. Maybe II is just
as well that long skirts have arrived
definitely and at last.
1t is to be another season of mys-
terry plays. We are told. The theatrical
producers are just finding out what 1t
is that holds the American heart most
tensely, after all.
A fierce and unmistakabIe feud is
on in the motoring district surround
| ing Manhattan. Which side will wipe
out it's opponents remains to be seen.
+, Maybe it's because the cars pour oil
on the sweet clover along the high
ways and maybe not. But something
, has aroused a deadly hatred of all mo-
. florists in the breast of every bee in