The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-11
State JourndISMew York Letter
BY LUCY JEANNE PRICE

, City, a woman has sued her husband
for divorce because he didn't stay at
home on Saturday afternoons Why,
here in Manhattan, if a husband ever
should come home on Saturday after
| she'd think he was suspicious of her.
Anna Mccoy Krug, of Jersey City,
was young, however, and had only
been married to John Krug a few
/ weeks. John was young, too, and
likes to step out for a game of Kelly
pool occasionally. So Anna sued for
/ intolerable cruelty. Even the Jersey
City chancellor was surprised to learn
| the cruelty consisted of absenting
! himself on those Saturday after
moons and occasionally on Sunday af-
ternoons and once in a great while on
a Monday evening. He suggested
patching things up.
Another historic piano is on its way
to New York This one, the most IA
nous of all 1t is the piano presented
of Bavaria, and upon which most of
the Ring music was composed The
priced possession of the great COM
poser was discovered by an American
soldier, Robert H ProSser, of New
York, who was with the American
Army of Occupation in Germany. He
came upon it in tiny drawing room
of Berlin, the property of an aged
AAluSAC lGdCAHIF 1DtODOiu IuGAlAltIp ~
whom it was presented half a century
ago.
THE Springtime of Youth" at the
Broadhurst theater, is one of the most
delightful musical shows of the sea-
son. It really gives one "springtime'
and youth" The voices of the prin-
cipals and choruses are unusually
good and the music is lovely-of a
better standard than we look for in
the average musical comedy-or at
least, better than we did look for up
to a season or so ago 1t is lasting
melody without being trite or too
light.
The photographers shops down
around Fourteenth street, patronized
largely by our foreign population are
as interesting as any places in New
York, think. We are accustomed to
thinking of men as having a consti-
tutional dislike of being photo
graphed. Evidently, that is only an
American trait. There are Italians, Y
found, who drop in every week or two
to have a new picture taken, and the
HungarianS are not far behind. 1t is
a serious part of life with those for
eigners, and they go at it with will.
One photographer explains that many
of the men never will accept a photo
graph unless all five fingers show.
and if only three fingers are in evil
dence, their families are afraid they
have met with an accident Their
must always be photographed
full length, too, so that the old folks
back home will know they are not
No longer can Americans be ac-
cused of materialism- They are be- |
artistic, thoroly and COM
pleteIy says Frank Away Parsons. di- |
rector of the New York School of Fine /
and Applied Arts. Their food, their |
shelter, and their clothes are now all |
submitted to artistic dictates, he tells |
us. They used to eat, he says, because |
they were hungry; live in houses be-
cause of Indictment weather; and buy /
new clothes because their old ones !
were shabby. Recently. however, |
the great middle class. that makes up
the backbone of the nation de-
,lares Mr.. Parsons. has awakened to
4 new craving. 1t has been seeking !
TO give expression to->that instinct
which leads the savage to decorate
he vessel from which he eats.
Americans now want their houses and
clothes and everything about them to
pc beautiful"
'fPurring'' may be, after all, one of
most advisable occupations. /
It is credited with getting Miss Jeanne
Sonar, a Russian immigrant, past the
Ellis Island barriers. One immigra-
ion official said of Miss Bonar. who
s called "the loveliest stowaway who
sver landed in the United States,
We're only human and she just seems
o purr her way thru" i