Evening star., 1924-09-28
TIRED OF LUXURY,
PAIR TOGO TO WORK
Scion of Wealthy Family and
Wife Take Up Practical
Philanthropy.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

| special Dispa ten TO The Star.
LEXINGTON. KY. September 27-
| firing of constant social activity,
| George Otis Draper, jr., scion of the
millionaire Milford and Hopedale.
Mass, Draper family, and his young
wife have decided to work. Young
| Draper has adopted a plan for prac-
tical philanthropic work among un-
| fortunate young men and women of
Kentucky. His wife, who was Miss
| Maude McClintock. society girl of
! TINS city, today announced she will
| become teacher in the Lexington
public school kindergarten depart
| ment
George Draper recently was
awarded court judgment in a suit
against his mother. Mrs Lily Dun
| can Draper of Lexington and Santa
Barbara Calf, by which it is stated
young Draper receives about 100000
He had been at work here practically
| ever since he married Miss McCIin-
took, over three years ago, but when
money was paid over to him he took
a few weeks vacation.
To Aid Poor Youth
Now he has returned here and an
nouncad that he expects to work
Young Draper has become vice presi-
dent of business college here and
told the correspondent that it was his
intention to see that every poverty
ha1nE'ered boy and girl in the State
who desired a business education
should have one free of charge; that
with his money he expected to make
such an offer. and that any youth of
either sex really desiring to obtain
commercial training would be edu-
Gated free of all charge by young
Draper.
~
money away, and that if any of the
young people he aided desired to paw
hIm back when they secured a foot
hold in commercial lines, he would
accept such settlement. but that
there would not be conditions nor terms
to be met by his offer to those who
desired TO get such training
Mrs. Draper the young wife. for
two or three years had been a teacher
in the Lexington public school kin
oergartenS. Then, after the suit was
won, she turned to the work she
likes-writing children's stories But
with the opening OF the Autumn
school term, she said the urge 10
teach the Riddles" again proved too
strong and she decided to ask her oil
place back
Tired of Just Playing.
Il cannot sit around. doing notn-
ing, She SdlC- Il love to hear the
little things recite their lessons, and
see their bright little faces when
they are trying TO learn. / get tired
playing, just drifting along, and !
shall be very glad to have my kim
dergarten work to do. OF course, my
afternoons will be free for any social
activities, but my mornings will be
Well taken up with the work of teach
ing in the kindergarten"
The Drapers, of course, have the
entree to fashionable circles of the
East, and it was thought for a time
they would make their home at Bos-
ton or New York, but George Draper
announced that he expects to live
here, Mrs. Diapers residence all her
life, and to take an active part in
business affairs
No other man has ever advanced
such a proposal as has young Mr.
Draper toward combating iIliteracy
and at the same time putting such
work on a practical basis The only
requirement of applicants under Mr..
Draper's plan is that they must ac-
tually need such help and be without
money to pay for it.