Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Bathing suits are made to fit the occasion. • ‘ Mark the returned vacationer. By tala tan ye shall know him. Some people go on picnics and othI era get their shower baths at home. Old General Humidity is once more tin supreme command of all the forces. Air pockets continue to cause trouble, but nobody ever tries to pick them. , , The tides ebb and flow in political battles, but the fly gets swatted all 'the time. Another way to avoid sunstroke lfl to let somebody else do the political ■Wrangling. - - Airship or aeroplane. They can both become engines of death when the unforeseen happens. In Germany; too, the birth rate is declining. Is the whole human race going co commit suicide? New York has again given evidence of its dislike of dead oneß by averting the hearse drivej-s’ strike. Not until his wife goes away on a vacation does a man fully realize the Joys of poker as a summer sport. Conflicting emotions sway the girl who is a delight to the eye in a bathing suit but who freckles in the sun! A historian claims that the liberty bell Is a myth, but our English brethren have reason to suspect otherwise. Perhaps if the weather bureau will take an interlude in its prediction of ehowers, the perverse skies might favor us. A London suffragette who donned male attire had her shins kicked by a mob. Even the hobble skirt has Its advantages. A suit brought in 1826 has just been settled. There must have been some of the law’s delays in the good old times, too. Why bother to water the plants while wifle is away? It’s much easier to buy her a new set just before she is expected home. We Are becoming a spry and sprightly people, science finds. A reflex, no doubt, of the agility acquired in dodging automobiles. One pleasurable form of summer vacation is to spend two weeks on one of those scout cruisers now engaged in hunting icebergs, A French town has proposed a grad* uated tax on fat residents, those under 135 pounds being tax free. The weight of opinion is against it Is the large Increase in business shown by the Indianapolis postofflce for the fiscal year evidence of the industry of Indiana’s authors? An Austrian count has gone into bankruptcy with assets of $7.20. It looks as if some American heiress might get a bargain there. When a small boy can go around all day attired in nothing but a cotton bathing suit the amenities of civilization do not greatly bother him. Over in New York an alimony claim for $28,445 was sold at auction for SIOO. This does not sound like A sporting proposition. It looks more like a donation. There are nearly 12,000 lawyers in active practice in New York city. No wonder some of the people there prefer to settle their disputes on the streets with revolvers. A Pennsylvania farmer says he haa a flock of hens that can run the musical scale, but what we want 4n our hens is less artistic temperament and mere egg laying ability. A New Jersey man has been fined for allowing mosquitoes to breed on his land. But how can a man disperse a flock of Jersey skeeters unless he be armed with a gatling gun? A denizen of a Detroit boarding house demands that his room rent be returned because he has been forced to kill 28,000 bedbugs. If he does not have a care he will be arrested for hunting without a license. Students of the University of Chicago have been forbidden to use toothpicks in public. If this sort of thing keeps up, Chicago will soon be deprived of all its distinguishing charae teristlcs. T~~7 • - . ‘ , , It is said that girl scouts must learn to bake bread, waßh and iron, do simple cooking, build a coal fire, darn socks and take care of babies. But what’s the use? Girls who can do all of those things don’t have to do any scouting. Pecple who complained of the heat during the past few days should have their attention and memory directed to the records of a year ago. Having recalled the temperatures of that torrid interval they will be duly than!* ful that they are alive this ywsr.