The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-22

that every now and then he took up
some work that appealed to him,
hoping that he could see his way to
make it a. permanent connection. This
so impressed the organization, that
their work was so engrossing as to
acquire man who didn't have to
work, that they accepted him imme-
diately. He then pointed out to them
that SO valuable an inducement to
other men to go into their line of
work was not without value, and that
they should pay him a retainer. Since
he looked the part, and promised to
keep up the show of one satiated with
this worlds goods and yet working for
the love o. it, they agreed to give him
fifty dollars a week for looking as If
he didn't need to work.
Walking thru lower Seventh avenue,
I was struck byMa perky ballet girl,
cut from wood +and serving as an
advertising sign in the window of a
little shop. I stopped to see whether
it was a custumeur's or a cigaret
makers. On the glass below in black
and gold letters were the words,
Church furnishings and equipment
Seventeen dogs are too many for
apartment house neighbors to find
soothing. They are much too apt to
zip in concert, and their barks don't
always harmonic, and-well, alto
gether. seventeen are too many. So
the neighbors of Mrs. Pauline Dan
reuther, 345 Prospect avenue, COM
planned, and the judge upheld their
point of view. There was no malice
in their compIaint-just nerves. Mrs
Meta Hetzel, for instance, who lives
in the next apartment, explained that
she herself had a dog and loved them
in small quantities. But what shall
reuther. Give some of them away"
ordered Judge Eilperin. ITO whom?'
she asked. Instantly there was a
rush forward of courtroom visitors.
One policeman, three reporters, d
court attendant, and interested on
lockers answered the query. Within
three minutes nine of the dogs were
given into friendly arms and Mrs.
Danreuther and her neighbors de-
parted in peace and satisfaction.
People get pretty big damages
sometimes 1J- the loss of an eye or
limb. But never before. so far as
know. has anyone's imagination and
of asking $4,000 for the loss of a
tooth. Seymour P. Danzig, filed an
action the other day for just that
amount against a dentist who pulled a
perfectly good tooth by mistake. Mr..
Danzig doesn't explain any particular
sentimental attachment he had for
that special tooth which would lead to
it's high valuation. So far as the
complaint goes, that is the regular
rated price OF each one of his thirty
two teeeth-if thirty-two is the cor
rect number.
If one can't check ones baby at a
restaurant, where can one? 1t
seemed a logical place for a child to
Mrs. Kittie Wagner of West Twenty
second street. She wanted to go to
the theater the other evening and as
the baby is only six months old, it
didn't seem Just right to take her
along. So she asked a waitress in
Brooklyn restaurant to take care of
her. When the mother failed to re-
turn after the play, the waitress
turned the baby over to the police,
who took it to the Kings county hos
pital. Mrs. Wagner was naturally in
dignant when she learned about that
the next day
Greenwich Village is going to have
a centenary all its own Plans are
well under way for a historical pag-
cant the week of October 9. to cele-
brate the hundredeth anniversary of the
first real boom of that district which
has changed from a country village
into our downtown Latin Quarter
Just 100 years ago, hundreds OF peo-
pie, during an epidemic of cholera and
yellow fever came from what was
then upper Manhattan" two miles
away, to seek refuge in the village
Prospective Tenant: like the rooms.
but the view from the front windows
is rather monotonous-
Janitor: Well. of course, mum, this
is a flat not one of them Sight-Seeiu'