OCR Text |
Show BRAIN LEAKS I London liquor interests are said to have taken out insurance policies poli-cies against the possibility of the United States voting wet within the next year. Evidently these Londoners London-ers have been seriously reading the New York newspapers. Twelve New Jersey high school girls face expulsion for belonging to a secret society. If the girls can really keep a secret they ought to be rewarded, not expelled. General Andrews is back but so far has failed to state whether the stuff they sell over in England is any better than what they ship over here. It is said that women's skirts are going to be even shorter than ever this fall. If they get much shorter we will have to quit calling 'em skirts and refer to them as ruffles. It is said that 360 gun men have been killed in Chicago during the past four years, but this does not seem to have lowered the visible Lupply to any marked degree. An Illinios weather expert Is predicting pre-dicting ail early and cool fall. We trust this isn't the same fellow who predicted the summerless summer. M. Clemenceau tells us that France is not for sale. And it must not be forgotten that had it not for America there probably wouldn't would-n't be anything to sell anyhow. Some of the big corporations are now cutting melons and it ishoped this won't give anybody any financial finan-cial colic. European nations are now organizing organ-izing a great steel trust and so far we haven't heard any complaints from our own free traders who are, always so worried about American monopolies. We are told that the eggs of the condor are worth $2,000 apiece. This makes them, so expensive they couldn't be used any place except in primaries. ' One so-called economist saya that our greatest danger in America is too much prosperity. But that is a peril that 100,000.000 American heroes are willing to face. Isn't it about time for our old friend Abd-el-Krim to be showing up in Hollywood; or on the Kelth-Albte Kelth-Albte circuit? j Missouri is called the "Show-me" state and it must have been named after Senator Reed. It la Baid that in Germany they are patterning after Americans more and more all the time, and we notice where a crowd In Berlin beat up a couple of policemen the other day. Speaking of economy, one of the best ways to extend it would be to abolish the primary. |