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Show And here comes the four-slit skirt. The trouser skirt is the only one that needs police protection. The price of lobsters has gone up, but this is no excuse for being one. It wouldn't seem fair to tax bachelors bach-elors and let the young widowers escape. es-cape. The "bungalow" hat is the latest for women. Can it be bought on the installment in-stallment plan? It was Queen Elizabeth who said a lie Is an intellectual method of meeting meet-ing a difficulty. The population of India Is 315,000,-000, 315,000,-000, an increase of 20,500,000 since 1901. No race suicide there. Absolute independence consists, says one writer, in eating onions and not giving a-darn who knows it. "Convicts are not the. worst men," says a Chicago preacher. Still, there are a lot of good men out of prison. A Chicago minister says that some marriages are planned by Satan, and we thought they were all made In heaven. The harem skirt is being taken seriously se-riously in Rome. One father has committed com-mitted suicide because his daughters wore them. Prof. Perrler, a French astronomer, tells us emphatically that there is no life on Venus or Mars. When astronomers astrono-mers disagree, etc. An aeroplane carried thirteen men in a flight in France the other day, but the average citizen still prefers to cling to mother earth. A new aviator whose name Is Mars has dawned on the world. For once a birdman has been found who has a Dame that fits his calling. Wherever it has appeared the harem har-em skirt seems to have caused a riot. It is going to be hard on the timid to be fashionable this spring. A Boston clergyman says women have lost the art of blushing, and this may be why some are wearing the hobble and some the harem skirt Pride goeth before a fall. When an automobile tries to knock a freight train off the track the pedestrian is tempted to chortle within his sleeve. We move that the New Yorker who Is running an agency to dispose of titled foreigners to American heiresses heir-esses be thrown into jail for peddling gold bricks. A church about to disband In New York has a membership worth about $750,000,000. The task of getting that treasure laid up in heaven seems to be a difficult one. f A Philadelphia public man thinks the harem skirt will uplift the race. It seems to have more the tendency to upset it, as far as practical results can be relied on for judgment. A transatlantic liner wnich recently arrived in New York with a big cargo , of Paris finery would have filled Diog enes with surprise and delight, for everybody on board was honest "Daisy Cornucopia Pauline" is the name of the cow that has established a new world's record by producing 34 pounds of butter In seven days. The cow with the crumpled horn of plenty, as it were. A young woman In a Michigan city, who wanted to wear a harem skirt in public, got a police permit, including police protection, before she ventured. The harem skirt fills a long-felt want with those who can do nothing to win fame and are anxious for notoriety. While handling bills amounting to $10,000 a New Jersey man contracted blood poisoning from Borne of the dirty bills. But many would be willing to take the chances of Infection from dirty money In blocks of $10,000 at a time. London property owners are offering windows from which Americans may look at the king for $1,200 per look. Far be It from us to cast any aspersions asper-sions on George, but we labor under the Impression that he isn't worth $1,200 per look. A Wisconsin legislator says that a spinster is an unmarried woman between be-tween thirty and forty, and an old maid is one who's past forty. Move to amend, by making it read, that an old maid Is one who admits that she Is past forty. |