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Show Rooklpos o-tomobile driving la to be elip-'naied. And now will not the Pullman company com-pany reduce the porter's tips? Don't mln j the pessimistic weather prophet's prediction of a long winter. flat-wheeled trolley cars and all auto horns are to be regulated in New York. The center of population, unlike most of the sons of Indiana, remains Is that state. The United States army wants aeroplanes. aero-planes. They will probably be manned by the flying divisions. Winter may be trying to keep it up until March. It began early and it has been cold throughout. Siam is to have an aviation week, and so the march of up-to-date civilisation civili-sation goes or rather flies merrily on. The new census of Berlin and its suburbs shows a population of 3,400,-000. 3,400,-000. It is camping on New York's trail.' Overstudy killed a promising youth In Baltimore, but there is no danger of this malady ever becoming an epidemic. epi-demic. A German has invented a noiseless telephone booth. A noiseless telephone tele-phone party line would be a greater blessing. The agitation to make the upper berth lower continues; but no matter It what figure they fix the price it will till be high. A St Louis man made his wife cut bis hair. Barbering, however, will Dever be included in any domestic clence course. There is a woman wireless operator. oper-ator. The old saw must be amended to read: "What man has done, a wom- an can and will do." Fashionable women in the national capital climb the Washington monument monu-ment to reduce their flesh. Thus does the uplift reach society. A St. Louis woman, asked why she ihot her husband, said she did it "just for fun." And yet they say women have no sense of humor. A woman of ninety-one in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts wants to go up in a balloon. Another example of how people are as young in these times as they want to be. An eastern man says he will soon put lobsters on the market at three cents each. If he'd only turn his attention at-tention to bacon what a gay world this would become. Now we understand why certain things are as they are. During the present year the people of New York have eaten three million pounds of bad eggs In their pastry. Philadelphia society women protest against posing in bare feet on the plea that their underpinning is too unsightly unsight-ly to be exposed, unadorned, to the rulgar gaze. Thus are the women of Chicago deprived of their birthright. A man in New Jersey wrote a rebuke to the kaiser for riding a horse with a docked tail. It is not feared that international in-ternational complications will result, or that a German phantom fleet will bombard our defenseless seacoast ports. A fashionable New York hotel now permits women to smoke In its dining din-ing rooms, corridors, or any other old place. If this smoking stunt keeps on growing among the fair sex we may soon be confronted with divorce suits over the custody of the "mak-In's." "mak-In's." Two men propose to Journey around the g'obe on stilts. It is not clear why they should be permitted to do bo, as tecessarily they would have to traverse I territory where more or less prejudice against vagrant tramps has found expression ex-pression in. statutory restraints, and ven In rock piles. Frequent seismic manifestations of late had prepared the world for news of some such upheaval as that which Is reported off the coast of Salvador, accompanied by the sinking of a small Island. This has Involved a lamentable loss of life, and illustrates anew the peril of making homes in the earthquake-ridden sections of the earth, for several similar catastrophes bave occurred In that quarter. |