The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-15
BY LUCY JEANNE PRICE.

Michael Thorry For instance, there
has been a. slump in the bootlegging
business for some inexp1icable reason.
And that happens to be MichaePS oc-
cupation. So when he was arraigned
in police court the other day for fail
ure to support his wife and children,
he just explained matters to the judge,
frankly. Il make my living by trad
ing in liquor said he. Business has
been SO poor lately that haven't been
able to do the right thing at home
He added that he would make good Oh
his family obligations .as soon as
bootlegging picks up" The judge was
pretty unsympathetic. in spite of the
commendable honesty of the plea.
! There are a good many kinds of
charity, ranging from the woman who
prides herself on giving the starving
of the CITY as much as she pays for
two theater tickets, up to the scrub
woman who does the homework for
her sick. neigabor when her own days
work is finished and she is tagged out
in every muscle. Solomon Schoen-
baum knows the real kind of charity,
believe. Mr.. Schoenbaum is a pros
porous manufacturer in the upper end
of this city, and when he sailed for his
native town of Czernowitz, in Gal
licia, several months ago, he took a
large amount of money with him.
When he discovered the restitution
there, he began to unload his letters
of credit. He bought clothing for four
hundred people; then for one hundred
more. By this time, he was so nearly
broke that he was able to Scrape up
just enough money for second class
passage home. But he looked happy
when he landed in New York. Next
year. he is going back to Gallicia with
more money.
The sophisticated show scorn of
those of US who make the weather
topic of conversation. And yet, after
all, what is more important, as al
influence on the drift of our lives?
1 was talking to a girl of the Broad
way type the other day-the blase.
town bred, type that thinks life has to
be. a dizzy whirl in order to be worth
while. what do you think am do
ing tonight?" she exclaimed 81 am
going rowing in Central park! Can
you imagine snything so juvenile and
rural? A new man asked me and
was so surprised at the idea that i
accepted, and honestly, I'm looking
like the simple pleasures after all,
if I gave myself a chance at them"
1 agreed with her and was glad some
man had come along who suggested
rowing in Central park instead of
jazzing in Central Palace. The next
day 1 ran into her again. 'How's
the lake?" I asked. 'Lakei Say,
how could I go on any lake in that
downpour. No, we had to change our
plans and go to a cabaret, instead.
1 guess I'll stick to Broadway. Then
you don't have to worry about the
weather.
We look upon the days of the wild
west when men wore firearms and
were ready to shoot on a moments no
tice, as belonging to the hazardous
days of old Well, how peaceful and
effete does this sound? In the en-
virons of greater New York, we are
having to build an armor plated truck,
equipped with rifle loopholes and
pipes for spreading tear gas, for the
protection OF banks and other institu-
lions which ship large sums of money.
That seems to go back even farther
than frontier days
A new Fred Stone piece will follow
Good Morning, Dearie," when thai
musical comedy finally looses its hold
on the Globe theater, and Elsie Janis,
in ''The Bunch and Judy" another
Anne Caldwell-Jerome Kern musical
comedy is another production soon to
So far, those are the only new pro-
auctions forecast for presentation
earlier than August, but IN that
month, we are promised a new deluge
of them, and of all kinds.
William K Vanderbilt has given
the use of a camp on his estate at
Great Neck, Long Island, to the Jacob
A. Riis Neighborhood House. Two
hundred and fifty children will visit it
during the summer.
All old adages to the contrary, there
is at least one group of New Workers
who make their hay while the rain
pourS and thus save up for sunny
day-and pi2ture shows. They are
the boys who rush to the subway ex-
its when the drops begin to fall. laden
with umbrellas, which they will rent
you for whatever your gratitude sug-
gests your paying-escorting you to
with their equipment to grab another
person fraid-of-the-rain. They crowd
around every exit at the homecoming
hours and gather in a good days in
come. This past month was such
deluge time, that the enterprising ones
invested in raincoats in addition to
umbrellas and found an appreciative
and generous-paying clientele among
the women who had gone out in their
summer clothes, certain that sit
couldn't possibly rain, again this
week"
Spend forty cents and six hours and
get two weeks worth of TAM That's
the economical vacation a lot of us
are taking this year. Men and girls
both By selecting the longest ride
you can spend SIX hours on top of one
of our buses. with the sun and wind
both getting unflindered whack at you.
for forty cents in fares. riding about
forty miles, and that uninterrupted
session gives one as deep a tan as
days spent on hotel verandas. Our
friends never suspect where it came
from.
Annie Oakley is back in New York.
The one-t.n1e intrepid shooter with
the wild west shows has retired now
from public life and is taking out her
trusty rifle only to help along a char
ity show down on Long Island She
still carries the gun that Buffalo Bill
gave her many years ago, and her
husband still travels along to be shot
at For forty years, she has been
shooting at him within the ring and
never has he been hurt. Her hair is
IL .ac.-- LII