Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The fcky -man la the man ot the century. Aviation is, after all, less dangerous than football. ■ t : The freak hat is doomed, we are told. Ah, but which freak hat? Don't keep your mouth open when looking at airships. It is a bad habit. Ballooning is somewhat like tobogganing, but the walk back is more fatiguing. It is just as fatal to be killed in a football game as in an aeroplane catastrophe. Perhaps the hobble skirt is the cause for the new fashion of large pedal extremities. The man-bird should not attempt at this stage of the game too many shines in the air. When a man lives in a boarding house he lets Bomebody else worry about.the price of coal. Aerial wonders top one another until the general public is beginning to be surprised by nothing. According to reports, the government will soon have to set aside reservations to prevent the Yankees from becoming extinct The Chinese may adopt a compromise. When they stop pinching the feet of their girls they may put on them hobble skirts.

A German banker spent eight months In America and did not marry. He is rich, so there must be some other reason. Dunning by postal card has been forbidden by the post 'office department. Hereafter the dunners must use two-cent stamps. A Russian military balloon went up over 20,000 feet the other day. That Is enough to get out of range of any ordinary Japanese fleet. We have grown as a people this year 5,275,000,000 bushels of corn, oats, wheat, barley and potatoes, and no one should go hungry. One woman of the "400” paid sll,000 In duties on her gowns recently. The ‘400” has ceased to practise smuggling except at odd times. Everything seems to Indicate that It will be several years yet before the science of aviating can be considered entirely out of Its Infancy. One of Yale’s jprofessors is afraid America is soon to become a monarchy. He probably has nothing else at this time to be afraid of. A trick horse that had been stolen shook hands with the rightful owner, to the undoing of the thief. We defy a trick automobile to do that. The prune supply at a New York hospital was short and boarding house guests will be surprised to hear there is quite a fuss about it.

The police have discovered a man leaning against a corner building who had been dead three hours. “All things come to him who waits.” As to the consequences, there does not seem to be much to choose between a woman automobilist turning thief and her machine turning turtle. People hooted at a woman in Columbus, Ga., because she wore a hobble skirt in the streets. Can it be possible that the age of southern chivalry is past? j Six billion cigarettes were consumed In the United States last year; yet there are in this country a good many young men whose fingers are not stained. In Cranford, N. J., a thief stole a SIOO gold watch from the pocket of a police sergeant while that official dosed in the police station. What that policeman needs is a chaperon. The life of the city boy is indeed hard. No more Fourth of July, no more Hallowe’en and an increase in the number of vacation schools is only matched by a condemnation of moving picture shows.

Aviation is becoming extremely profitable—if not for the country, certainly for the aviators. But the cash inducements to risk life and limb cause the science of airship building to get a move on. Wireless lighting is now announced by a Danish inventor. Nature’s lighting has always been wireless, and here mere man only imitates. In 8t Louis there is a robber who is known as “the candy kid.” He probably got the .name owing to his possession of sticky fingers. A western scientist claims to have discovered a chemical which is death and destruction to germs. Is this century approaching the climax of a dig easeloss world?