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Show France is flying well to the front. Fashion is willing to he hobbled but not haremed. The harem-scarem skirt has certainly certain-ly been well advertised. "Man wants but little here below." The poet didn't mention women. There are 411,322 federal offices and still not enough to go around. "It has been found that radium will kill a cat." But drowning is cheaper. The harem skirt may be sometnlng to wear besides being something to talk about. New York's 52-story building Is carrying car-rying the elevator business to a limit and almost to the stars. These government statistics will convince even the farmers before long that agriculture is profitable. Our idea of no place to start an umbrella um-brella factory is on Mars. Prof. Lowell Low-ell says it never rains there. "Don't eat when you're tired," 6ays a magazine writer. That's the kind of advice that makes us tired. And if they put pockets in the pantaloon pan-taloon skirt it's our bet that she'll stand with her hands in 'em, too. That Chicago lawgiver who wants to legislate against the harem skirt must never have tripped over a fair woman's train. Now that a high-browed professor has escertained that colds cost only 144.34 this spring, look out for a bargain-counter rush. Profanity is not to be legislated from the New York stage. In other words, in some of the plays all of the Jokes are not to be cut out. Are there not small, rocky islands where powder mills might go away by themselves and explode without interfering in-terfering with the neighbors? The proposed law to prevent loveless love-less marriages recalls the ancient question: "What is love?" Likewise, how can it be made permanent? Twenty-one professors at the University Uni-versity of Moscow have been forced to resign by striking students. Russia must be a gladsome place for a student stu-dent American heiresses are waiting for an advance list of King George's appointments ap-pointments of 500 new radical peers. Some of them will be laborites, no doubt. An eastern savant tells us fat men rarely are criminals. Julius Caesar had the same idea at least according to Shakespeare, or Bacon, or whoever it was. A skeleton found in England Is said to be 100,000 years old. This may be remarkable, but is there any limit to the age that a skeleton may eventually eventu-ally attain? The Chicago girl who got Into print on the assumption that she wanted to tnarry an Indian has gone on the vaudeville stage. Might have known it from the start. If the day of the harem skirt has arrived it will come in regardless of jeers and friendly or unfriendly legislation. legis-lation. If it has not come then all the advanced women in the world cannot force it. A New Jersey dog catcher proposes to get 'era with an aeroplane. Then to the other triumphs of aeronautics will be added that of a bark sailing through the air. The coronation of King George will Introduce special styles in hats, says an exchange, which is tough luck for the man who was planning to wear last year's straw again. A woman who was described by her artist husband as a "modern Venus" has just been awarded $25 a month alimony. Well, all Venuses are supposed sup-posed to be more or less broke. A Massachusetts chief of police wants the ducking-stool revived for feminine scolds. He will want It still more when the tongues he would thus restrain have finished their assaults upon him. A Chicago matron avers that a breach of promise suit against her husband merely amuses her. However, How-ever, that form of amusement Is not likely to become generally popular among the matrons. |