Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

And here comes the four-slit skirt. '***• a • » 1 o , .• --- - I mmmmmrnrn mm The trouser skirt Is the only on* that needs police protection. The price of lobsters has gone up, bat this is no excuse for being one. It wouldn’t seem fair to tax bachelors and let the young widowers escape. r : -- ; r;-vy; —-a.. ■— i The “bungalow" hat is the latest for women. (Can it be bought on the installment plan? ______ • It was Queen Elisabeth who said a tie is an intellectual method of meeting a difficulty. The population of India is 315,000,000, an increase of 20,500,000 since 1001. No race suicide there. Absolute Independence consists, iSajs one writer. In eating onions and not giving a-darn who knows It. "Convicts are not the worst men," •ays a Chicago preacher. Still, there •re a lot of good men out of prison. S&ndow. the strong man, is trying to build King George up to his own standard as against coronation week. " 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 In Rome. One father has committed suicide because his daughters wore them. Prof. Perrier, a French astronomer, tells us emphatically that there is no life on Venus or Mara When astronomers disagree, etc. An aeroplane carried thirteen men In a flight in France the other day, hut 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 name that fits his calling. Wherever It has appeared the harem skirt seems to have caused a riot It Is going to be hard on the timid to be fashionable this spring.

V A Boston clergyman says women have lost the art of blushing, and this may be why some are wearing the bobble 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 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. 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 iiner wnieh recently arrived in New York with a big cargo of Paris finery would have filled Diogenes with surprise and delight, for everybody on board was honest. “Daisy Cornucopja 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. One woman, unmarried, is of the opinion that if women were allowed to do the courting and proposing there would be more happy marriages. It might be worth while tc try it, anyway. Two dinosaur footprints won the finder’s way through college, and he has sold another pair for a fancy price. If it turns out that he has 6truck the 1 trail made by a dinosaur after a hard night there will be a new millionaire in Colorado: A Pennsylvania judge has decided that it is no part of a woman's household work to milk cows. But where was his consistency when he also decided that she might collect the eggs and feed the chickens? New York authorities threaten to place a ban on “cuss words" on the stage. This will be a heavy blow»to the deep’ dyed villyun. Can you imagine a respectable villyun muttering •’fudge" or “fiddlesticks?” A health lecturer arises people who wish to live long to eat sauerkraut, as it contains the longevity germ. Efbt perhaps the desire to live long might be somewhat checked by a steady diet of sauerkraut. Fighting duels by proxy is the latest pastime in Paris. Possibly the game was Invented by a man with a sense of humor who feared that personal participation in a duel might causa him to laugh himself to death.