The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18

bred dollar medal has been offered by
| the Order of Owls to the New Yorker
VINO Berforms the most notable act of
kindness toward his neighbOrs during
the next three months. Any New
Yorker is eligible. am willing to
predict, in behalf of my city, that il
New Workers. acts of kindness really
get reported in to the Order of Owls,
they will find as many of them in
proportion to our population as you
could uncover in any community or
the country, however small and
neighborly.
Here is one act that don't think
will be put into that kindly category
by a considerable number among U.S.
Assemblyman Steinbert, of this city,
has introduced into the state leglsla-
ture a bill forbidding young mon
or older ones-from driving an auto
mobile while one arm is around girl $
waist He says he is trying to prevent.
not love aking. but auto accidents
and it is just one more thing to DEM
onstrate tha- all these modern fac
tors of civilization are not the I'M
alleged benefits they may have been
thought at first.
There is 10 doubt but what fhe traf-
fic cops at our busiest corners have
more feminine wiles praeticed upon
them than any other group of men IN
the city, motion picture producers not
excepted. Every woman VINO tIAeS ~
cross the street against the traffic
seems to believe that the idea of sTnil-
ing at the officer so he won't order
her back to the sidewalk is an idea
entirely original with herself. But II
doesn't work. They have grown
adamant.
School <or two-year-oldsi That Is
the latest step in educational system
as they are being developed in New
York city. Down in Twelfth street is
one of these infants schools, where
eight babies are starting on the long
road to disciplined learning. They
are not day nurseries; they are really
schools. To be sure the babes don't
learn the three RS; they learn to play,
together and by themselves, to take
maps at regular hours and without
protest. and to begin adjusting them
selves to the rules of society. But it
is school gust the same.
From Cloak MoCel to TrHekman,"
is the title of one of Manhattan's own
true stories about two OF her daugh-
ters Charles H. Woodruff, head of
an old New York trucking business.
had two daughters. whose beauty had
adapted them inevitably to the jobs
of cloak models. Last month Mr.
woodruff died. The two young girlsi
Immediately gave up their mannequin
jobs and betook themselves TO the
ciudery little-office down close to an
arch OF the Brooklyn DrldSe and
started in to run the trucking bust
ness. At first it was a bit difficult.
They were such an innovation down in
that district that rival truck drivers
and the small boys of the region got
considerable amusement out of them.
But Ethel and Charlotte Woodruff
have stuck to it and declare they are
going to make it 60 81 think after
awhile people viii stop calling Baby
after u.s." said Ethel, and then Wen
be happy"
At the Garrick theater, the custom
has been adopted of serving coffee
in the lounge between the acts.
Franz Emanuel weinberg arrived
back in town the other day at the
completion of walk around the
world. Yes. completely around. he
insists, walking all the way except
when the interference of the oceans
demanded ship travel. 1t took him !