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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-04-03
SUPREME KNIGHT
ENDORSES CAMPAIGN
Head Of Knights Of Columbus Urges
People to Give To Jewish Relief
Work In Europe
Salvation Army Leader Also Calls
Upon People Of All Faiths To Help
In The Worthy Cause

One Of the splendid features of the
American Jewish Relief Committees
nationwide appeal for $14,OOO,OOO for
the relief of starving and destitute
Jewish orphans and men, women and
children in Europe Is the hearty en-
dorsement given by the people of
other faiths.
In q letter to David A Brown, Chair.
man Of the national appeal, James A.
Flaherty, Supreme Knight of the Su.
preme Council Of the Knights of Co.
lumbus, writes:
81 can asure you that the Knights Of
Columbus everywhere are in sympathy
with the object Of your Committee to
raise funds for the suffering Jewish
people Of Europe. American Chris.
tlans have reason to be grateful for
the generous support given to num-
erous Christian charities by our Jew
ish citizens. In ordinary fairness. to
say nothing Of the intrinsic merit Of
the appeal you are making. Christians
should welcome this opportunity to
reciprocate."
Col. William F. Jenkins, National
Secretary Of the Salvation Army, in
the absence Of Commander Evange-
line Booth abroad, wrote Mr.. Brown
expressing the hope that the effort
will be most successful, ito alleviate
human suffering In the stricken zones
Of Europe where helpless women, chill.
dren and old men particularly, victims
Of postwar conditions there, hang on
the verge Of starvation or worse" In
Kentucky the Committee is raising
s15OOO0 and al subscriptions, whether
from Jews or non-Jews will be CRATE
fully received.
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they began trying to get divorced.
They are still trying. Mr.. Meeker now
lives in Plainfleld, N. j.. one of our
most popular surburbs. and Mrs.
Meeker, in Riverdale, another attrac-
tive communting stop out Of New York
They never have quite achieved the
decree. although efforts have been
made almost alternately by both sides
either for divorce or legal separation.
Tho palm Of partial victory has gone
first to one and then other but they
still are man and wife. Vice-Chancel-
lors have lisened to the case, consider
ed It and been removed from this
worlds strife before they got 1t set
tied However, neither partner in mat
rimony has given up as yeti.
Ny
When Herman Weinberg, a beggar,
was searched in elmer street station,
Brooklyn. the other day, Just 1874
pennies were found on his person. He
said they had all been given to him in
one day and he considered It fairly
good" haul.
Ny
Within a month two alert young
New York girls have leaped from the
typewriter to the footlights. The first
was Ruth Berser, who stayed with the
same organization during the leap
She was secretary in A. II. Woods
publicity department and some one
told him he was wasting beauty and
talent there. Hhe tried her in his
Lawful Larceny" and she is now a
permanent part OF the cast. The in
teresting thing is that except for mat
inee afternoons, she Is still secretary
ing at his publicity daytimes. Freda
Inescort Is the other. Until 1.-THE Truth
About Bladys" opened she was secre-
tary to the British CONSUL, post
which sounds far removed from the
stage. She plays tthe part Of Septima
Bladys Conway. the young daughter in
the play.
Ny
There we're cs1,345 rent actions in
this city last year. IT certainly made
work for the judges when tibet leglsla-
ture decided that landlords couldn't
have absolutely free reign in charging
PEOPLE what they liked for a place to
sleep and place to eat.
NY
The Rev Mebane Ramsay, pastor OF
a Staten Island Presbyterian church,
does not intend to let the fivolous side
O. the world get ahead of the serious.
lie sympathizes with the young people
of his church who are staying away
from service Sunday evenings in order
to be entertained with radio concerts !;
son instead Of lecturing them on their
failings, he has arranged to have ser
mons, sacred music, and educational
lectures Of a high order be broadcast
ed on Sundays. II the young men and
women won't come 20 church to hear
them, thety shall hear them in their
homes.
A divorce evidencefactory Is the lat
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-04-03

New York. - Capitalists here are
much interested in the new mining
ventures, headed by Harry Payne
Whitney, Bulkcley Wells and Charles
NJ. Schwab, In The old Comstock lode,
which made Nevada at one time the
greatest gold producing state In the
Union. Generations ago more than
500. 900 worth OF gold and silver
was taken out of the ground there and
such fortunes as the Mackay, Fair,
Flood and Mills may truly be said to
have started there. Now New Workers
are spending more than 100000 In
preparation for mining the millions OF
tons of low grade ores remaining In
the Comstock. Virginia City, Dayton.
Silver City and other camps made
famous by Bret Harte and Mark
Twain, from being deserted villages
have become thriving towns where 1t
is almost impossible to obtain bed and
board. One OF THE most interesting
developments Is that OF the Carson
River bed where Government experts
say close to ;SO0,OOO,OoO in gold and
silver was lost through THE crude re-
duction methods Of the seven mills
working there. w. c. Ralston, former
Senator and Assistant Treasur OF the
u. S In San Francisco, is in charge OF
this work and has associated with him
n number Of prominent New Workers.
Ny
Members OF the New York police
automobile squad say that sixty per
cent OF the autos stolen in this city
are stolen" with their owners con-
sent and best wishes.
Ny
Thcthirty years war has a rival;
one which equals It's record OF length,
In 1888. Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Meek
\ er were married. Six months later
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BASKETT WITH HUSTLERS.

Winchester, Ky, April 1. Tom
! lskett, who left Winchester two
weeks ago for tryout with the st
'etersburg. Fla, baseball team, has
returned to play ball in tho Bluegrass
League and may occupy tho position
cf third base with the Winchester
Iustlere, ~
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Ledger Service-flf1ciency.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-04-03
L.. ! Can't be Beat in Price
XEEu ~TEQ 'ITIEx and Quality.
000 y W.T. NJ c. RUSSELL co.

est money-making scheme to be I'M
earther in this city Of myriads Of such
devious devices of making living.
One Jack Berkowitz, an apparently
honest truckman in working hours.
has been charged with carrying on q
regular business of framing" evil
dence for men and women seeking d.
vorce and not being able to get the
necessary evidence.
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concur in the senate action--substi-
tuition of the Norris racing bill for the
Hall anti-track gambling billiard the
Maryland racing situation will be un-
changed two more years.
Under existing law there may not
be more than 100 days of racing in the
state in year.
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JOBLESS SOLDIERS.

OF thte 100000 men who volunteer
ed or were selected for service against
Germany, more than 100000 are out
of work, according to American
Legion figures. Scores Of the 1000
posts of the Legion have been forced
to provide lodgings and meals for
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Thcthirty years war has a rival;
one which equals It's record OF length.
In 1888. Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Meek
er were married. Six months later
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
By LUCY CALHOUN

The dice come in tiny little box of their own
and the round counters are also provided with
their own wee receptacle
Imagine game which is combination Of
rhummy, dominocs, poker and child's builder
toy and you may have some little idea of what
MahJongg is like. Vast sums may be won and
lost IN the game, as it is possible to score 25,-
600 points in one hand. The Chinese, however,
have courteously placed 300-point scoring
limit on their game. and beyond that point the
truly polite will not venture to collect And,
of course, you do not have to play for anything
except points.
Uncle Peter drew the trays out of the box
and emptied the contents on the table before
The pieces are made of bamboo with
white ivory or bone faces elaborately carved
and colored with Chinese designs.
"Piao, tung, wan," said Uncle Peter, in
structively pointing to the different types OF
pieces.
He explained that there are thrty-four diff
ferent kinds in the game, first the three suits
designated by the Chinese words, which are
translated "banboos, circles and characters
These are numbered from ! to Q, In addi
ton there the winds, cast, north, south
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

and stands ready for sale. When Weed piloted
me through it | X pit looking under the benches
for price marks and asking him how much was
this and that until he got peeved and retired
to the house. For any one with garden mega
lomana ! think The Japs' idea of reducing
everything in scale is much better. Then you
can have bridges and trees and houses and all,
for a centerpiece on the dining room table.
The garden magazines will be found al1 occa-
Sonal article about the kind of garden we
really get. These descriptions are often in the
form of letters from subscribers, printed in
very fine typo, as BELTS their lowly station. But
there is something pathetic and appealing
about them Through them speaks the real
voice Of the soil. the humble, human clod
which, breaking It's way through the economic
crust, vaantly seeks the light. | have often
thought that | should like to put into words
the history Of our garden, IT is typical, no
doubt, of many. But great difficulty is that
it keeps changing on us. II will never stay
what il was intended to be- Our. property-~or
backyard, if YOU will-~slants back sharply like
q morons forehead. Our first idea was gar
den on two levels. We were inspired by an
essay which seemed neither too ambitious nor
too abject which said in part: "Where the
ground slopes a garden has often to be formed
on two levels, the upper one being retained by
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
deluer, Whe trun phantly culls the blossoms

arc repeated with = mrrorlikc Gdelity."
estate 127 Myrtle Avenue Flushing, NJ W,
the only possible vista is interrupted at the
deadly distance Of twenty feet by our neigh
bor's garage. which is built right plumb on the
lot line, and the only water fea ture available
is the garden hose that snake-in- -the-grass hv
W'nch | get stung twice daily, weather per
mlttlng. My wife, who has an aesthetic soul
recently suggested to neghbor Gillette that it
would be nice if he would paint the back of
ms garage a pale gray" something between
sand and putty | think she said I'm not
very good on the decorator shades, but. any
way, the idea was that the garage would fade
into the landscape. Gillette, who is reason
able soul. said he would be delighted to obligc
Z we would agree to paint the back Of our
house light blue that it would disappear
against the sky, and thus the matter stands AT
present, But it oil shows how we long in our
hearts for the grandose, the great gesture
Occasionally we sec ambitious but restricted
amateurs planning garden enormous in plan
and idea but tiny in actual area. A case in
point is my friend Weed, who has charming
property 00ox180 feet) on Ivy Lane, the sec
ond street beyond the frehouse, in Nutev. N
j. Weed has soaring soul, and he doesn't
propose to let little thing like limited space
cramp his style. He has simply gone the limit.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

tato. But woman is more than this. She is all
blossoming things-thc rose. the lily or pansy
according to her type. 1t is by no accident
that lovely woman is SO often described in
terms of flowers. but who ever heard man
so hgured? Would it he a true description to
say that eX-President Taft was like red red
rose or that ex-Presdent Wilson was like Il
lily pale? No. the idea is too far fetched
Men fall naturally into the humble classfca-
ton of vegetables II is of men that we say
that they have beet noses, carroty hair and
cauifower ears.
Thus, in actuaity, we see man taking q
place in the background of garden. He be-
comes the humble digger and deliver, while
woman triunphantly culs the blossoms of
which she is the lovely rival.
Gardens may be accurately divided into
two classes--the kind we should like to have
and the kind get. Skillful pubicsts know
this. If you will turn to the pages of any ono
of the beautiful magazines devoted to this
subject you will find 90 per cent of the illus
trative matter deals with vast Landscape az
rangements, which are. indeed, gardens for
the few, but which must remain dreams for
the many
We take a keen vicarous joy in these ex~
quisite creations. That is why they are made
so predominant in the magazines contents.
There is not the faintest hope that we shall
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

and west, and honor pieces known as red,
green and white dragons. The American resi-
dents in China, who are furously playing
mahjongg, have corrupted these poetic names
into "the pink lady for the red dragon, the
bunch Of spinach for the green and variously
for the white "the cake of soap the "tomb-
stone" and saturday night
The formaties Of the game then went for
ward. Very elaborate and precise they are.
Uncle Peter explained that the Chinese do not
believe in taking any chances. Everything is
arranged to prevent the possibility of the deal
er giving himself too good hand. East
wind" is always the dealer
Taking seats as the four winds of
heaven, Adam, Claire, Uncle Peter and I start
cd to build the Great Wall Of China, which is
the Chinese way Of shuffling efficiently. Each
player selected from the pile of blocks thirty
four pieces for his part of the wall. These
were arranged one on top of the other IN a
row seventeen blocks long. The four walls
were then pushed toward the center Of the
table. where they formed hollow square
Il is in the middle of this that the dice are
thrown. In throwing the dice east wind"
has first chance Adam, who held that posi-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

satisfying. II sounds like a great humping
cussword, and | it frequently, with the
comforting knowledge that I am not really
saying anything bad Ordinarily ] call
spade spade, but when it hits stone or an
abnormally tough piece of turf I call it
"helichrysum spade" and get immediate re-
lief
The other half Of our garden where we
had 2, few hardy flowers, was more or less
neglected during my labors on the new gen
eral plan. Many people like what they call
a wild garden" and that is what our hardy
section has developed into. 1t is wilder than
the mountain scenery The sandbox is COM
pIetely smothered in golden glow (Which |
loathe) and some of it is actually coming up
through the sand and between the boards of
the bottom Another corner of the yard is
developing into rock garden. | simply can't
help it, The rocks grow there.
Why is it, I wonder, that things we love in
garden fail and pine away, and things
detest will grow through bluestone driveways
and cement walks-why is it that-but what
is the use of mere man asking questions
about gardens? Woman is the priestess man
the slave.
The only garden a man knows how to cul-
tivate properly is a roof garden Of course
his wife isn't supposed to know anything
about that!
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ton, learned later to his sorrow that east
wind is not always kind. He lost and had to
pay double. If east wind wins however, he
collects doubly. Thus is Chinese justice vim
dicated.
The first throw of the dice is to determine
whose wall is to be opened. This is decided by
counting in a counter-clockwise direction, Be
ginning with the dealer as 1. The highest
number up to - denotes the breaking of the
wall We then determine with more mathe-
matical precision the spot in the wall from
which the first tiles to be drawn. From
that opening the winds then lift their "hands"
and the game starts. 1t proceeds from that
time much as rhummy, glorifed and elabo-
rated
''Threes of kind" in Mahjongg are treated
rather differently from similar groups in
poker, and players Of both games should be
careful to avoid the distress of Uncle Peters
friend, who became little mixed. He had
been playing Mahjongg for weeks, when
night he was invited to poker party. Now,
in Mahjongg, when wind picks up block
from the discard and gets three of kind he
"pungs," and is obliged an honest gentle
man to lay the three face up on the table.
Uncle Peters poker playing friend forgot
He held three aces in his hand, and lost about
1000 for himself by laying the three face up
on the table with loud, triumphant "Pung"!
Two things are still left to be decided about
Mahjongg. The first is whether Confucius
actually played it and how good he was. And.
second whether there is any real reason for
the second "g the end of the name. The
only reasonable excuse which has been found
here is that the sage inventors stenograph phcr
suffered with her typewriter and that nobody
has ever had the courage TO correct it.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

T"4ERE is something very delightful
about uncles particularly seafaring
unces. Have you never longed for
seafaring uncle? One of those charm
ing persons whose mission it is to turn up
every three years or so with trunks full of
gifts from strange places, gifts smelling of
sandalwood and spices and filled with the lure
Of the Orient?
Claire has seafarng uncle who arrived in
New York the other day from three years
cruise Of the seven seas. He brought with
him mysterious brass bound trunk and from
that trunk, along with jade and porcelain, old
mandarin robes and plated hats. he drew
Mahjongg We have scarcely slept since.
Mahjongg is not food. Neither is one to drink
it sing it. Mahjongg is game, the most
fascinating beautiful, poetic and sporting
game that ever came out Of the Orient or any
other place. Twenty centuries ago it almost
caused the Emperor Shi- Hwang-t to forget
about the progress of the Great Wall. This
year it has swept through the foreign colony
of north China, where for the first time the
pieces have been available in Arabic numerals.
The has begun in California, and we
learn that New York department stores
are receiving requests for Mahjongg sets.
Bridge, they say, will soon be entirely sup
planted by the new game.
Having explained all this, Uncle Peter Of
fered to give us lesson. Clear the decks
said he nautically, and we prepared for action
The Mahjongg box gives you your first
thrill. Ours is made of sandalwood brass
trimmed. 1t is about eight by ten by twelve
inches and is built like jewel case, with a
number of little drawers out of which come the
Mahjongg blocks and the lone bone counters.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

He has all the known features of bio, formal
garden, and each one is as near lifesize as he
could make it and not crowd something else off
the lot. You step from a four-foot trrace and
almost tall into the pool, in the center of which
Is the sun-dial, which, by the way, is all off
now that daylight saving has gone into opera
ton, The edges of the plan are cluttcred up
with gates and wire arches and seats and
things. and across the back GA feet 6 inches)
IS massive porgola. The general effect is
that of an outdoor auction room into which the
collection If rich anatcu. has been dumped
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

a wall. In such case the treatment shown
above is most successful" The picture was
perfectly beautiful. "Plants can be grown in
abundance over the wall, and among them
Snow in Summer seen on the right, makes a
fine display with its mass of small white flow
crs.'
We cut out the picture and, fired by nov
ices zeal and spurred on by sharp cries from
my wife who occasionally shook an encour-
aging dust cloth at me from the second story
window, | flew at my degenerate hillside with
pick, mattock, spade and enthusiasm. 1t was
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

TT is significant fact that man started
lite In garden. Genesis is somewhat
Il vague as to particulars. Apparently il
was cross between an orchard and q 700
"u' u was sure enough garden all right,
HcIept PARADISE and situated at the charming
Suouro OF Eden on the Euphrates, which was
,he 'h'ro station on the old Chaldean camel
Hne as YOU won't north. 1t is Of record that
IN TINS lovely spot Mr.. and Mrs. Adam commit
tea the entirely original sin Of picking an apple
from tree tnat was definitely taboo. find
1t dlihcult not to envy Adam and their ORC
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

ever be able to achieve the tenth mart If
terrace, but, in imagination, we amble mag
hhcently across the shaded levels of Mr. Her
man Dinglebender's lawn at Overoaks, Wa
heeta fark, Clnc1Nnatl, and we feel 1.-THE of
the glory that is his Our eyes leap ioyously
down the vista Of cypress trees which arc re-
H'c'cd IN the marble Tipped pool of the cs-
tate OF N.Y. Lanbeer, the go-gctting yeast
baron.
Nothing is more satisfying to the eyes
'aah we'll proport]oned vista, terminated by
W9.or feature in which the dark trees
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

carly spring. The air
was cool. The days
were long. At the end
Of a week | had made
n fearful scar in the
nubbly slope. And then
warm weather came
on. | had A severe at
tack Of spring fever.
thought | was going to
die Of it.
The season for plant
ing was upon us. My
wife rushed despairing-
ly about with tuftcd
masses of green stuff
with long, hairy roots
which it would be "ab-
solutoly too late to
plant Tomorrow SO
we finally called it q
year. so far as the gar
den on two levels was
concerned. and stuck
the things into the
great gaping wound
which | had inflicted.
My wife says the
flowers are to be heau~
tifuI. She reads the cat
alogue, fairly slavering
with JOY over the
great purple bell-like
blossoms" and "the
sturdy helichrysums,"
etc. ] don't know much
about the Latin names
of flowers, but "heli-
chrysum' is to me very
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

'naIlty, and yet why
should they be given
credit for it, Every.
thing they did was
bound to be original.
whether they intended
1t SO or not.
In any case Adam, As
q punishment. was
thrust out Of the gar
don.
/ have often pohderod
over this mysterious
action. Why was he
chuckod OUT The log
ical thing would have
been to keep him right
there in the garden and
make him work it, in
stead Of which he was
told tersely by the an
gel with the flaming
sword "You'rc out
How much cnvicd he
must be by many a man
today to whom his
wife, the angel with the
flaming spade, say,
y cure in"
The garden is indeed
woman's peculiar prov
ince, her playground
and her mans master.
In the garden Of ljfc
woman is the flower,
man the vegetable. A
poet has humbly said
Man is a potato.
Woman is q SWeet no