The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-01
State journals New York Letter
BY LUCY JEANNE PRICE

wakened him. Then he made him
a terrible thing to do" exclaimed his
| half-frantic mother when he was
! taken home, How could you ~ ''Aw.
don't mind. 1t wasn't a very good
picture anyway" said Ralph.
1t cost over $1,000 900 a day to run
| our city last year. and it will cost
more next year It's probably worth
| sixteen cents a day per each of us,
to keep us IN order and out of the
way of motor trucks; but just off
hand il seems as if it might be just as
well not to try to govern US much and
see what would happen.
They are putting lightning rods on
trees now. Tree enthusiasts have
largest tree in New York City and
state. Long Island has produced both.
The largest tree in New York state is
a white oak. on the estate of J. H.
Hoffman at Douglaston, Long Island.
1t is fifteen feet and eight inches in
diameter. five feet above the ground.
Its age, is computed at several hundred;
years /and it seems to have been a
favorite meeting place for the Indians.
as a number of their skulls have been
dug up near by. Investigation de-
veloped the fact that the tree was
completely hollow, but had entirely
SIOWn over ILL llS WOunNit~- 1N6dllZ1uS
that it was a gigantic shell that might
collapse. its owner decided to save it
as a historic relic and sent for the
Dewey Tree Expert company, whose
men are now engaged in repairing the
forest giant, so that it will probably
last forever Lightning is the only un-
foreseen Obstructive agency that might
harm the great oak and to provide
against this, the Davey men have
equipped the tree with lightning rods
of a fUnp PSnPRi1llW ada 9nfPd n This
purpose.
'I just like to come here to hear
you talk" explained Thomas Harvey,
after Judge Boote asked him why he
had come to the court room intoxi-
Gated and had gone to sleep on a
bench. The advice you give to the
prisoners meets with my approval"
The idea of our girls marrying titles
is accepted as quite commonplace, but
it is more unusual for one of our
plain men to marry into the nobility.
Samuel Cowan Disbrow will do that
late this month when he becomes the
husband of a most charming girl with
the impressive title of Baroness Olga
Sonia Serbodin.
BrookIynites are determined not to
have ManhattaniteS regard them as
provincial The latest plan across the
river is the organization of the Brook
to the Theater Guild.
Aclerk in a Broadway haberdash-
cry was rather dashed the other day
at an order he was asked to fill. A
woman came in and asked for a shirt
for her husband. what size % was
the natural query Just a minute"
she said, ana then proudly produced
photograph Here is my husband
picture. I want the shirt to fit him.
Turning the necessities of life into |
an opportunity for the art of life
seemed a desirable motive to Antony |
Cicero, twelve years old, of East |
Twenty-ninth street. He didn't count |
on taking quite so much discomfort |
along with it. He is still trying to |
thaw himself out after a half hour on |
ice. He wanted to go to the motion |
pictures. and Furthermore to take his |
girl with him. which was generous |
and laudable so far. Unfortunately, |
he found himself, as we all do oc- |
casionally, without the necessary mon |
ey to carry out his impulse. So he |
broke into \ Second avenue butcher |
shop with the idea that meat was a |
good saldAble article and Rhat he |
could exchange some of it for the |
price of two tickets. But the refriger- |
ator lock sprang with him inside it. /
and by the time he was rescued by /
the police, he had lost all interest in /
pictures and meat both. and equally /
in ever attracting the illwiu of those
officers of the law who had restored /
him to a warmer cline