Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — “DUDS” IN NATIONAL MUSEUM [ARTICLE]

“DUDS” IN NATIONAL MUSEUM

V , Kensington Palace Contains Variety of Togs, but Hae Nothing on Uncle Bam. Uncle Sam is getting along in every way. He has got to a point now where he is going to imitate .Europe in the gathering of the costumes of noted people. In London, at Kensington Palace, one may see the togs in which the late Queen Victoria spent her childhood, those in 4 ' which she was crowned, and also her marriage garments. In Paris, at the Cluny museum, may be seen the slipper, about four inches long, worn by the Princess Lamballe, and also those which covered the more generous extremities of the queen, Marie Antoinette. So in coming years at the National museum at Washington will be shown, the duds worn by Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and the first Mrs. James A. Garfletd. It was currently reported at Washington during the Roosevelt administration that the “first lady in the land” boasted that her annual expenditures for clothes came within S3OO. It is respectfully suggested that Dr. Mary Walker donate to the society the unmentionables which cover her nether limbs.

History of Each School Child. Every child in the elementary schools of the United States would be oard-eatalogued and a running history of his entire school career in the grades kept permanently on file under a plan formulated by Investigators whose report has just been Issued by the United States bureau of education. The plan has the approval of the National Education association, and some 300 cities already have began to keep the cards. Eventually, it Is anticipated, about 6,000,000 pupils will be thus tabulated. From the new card catalogue system definite and scientific answers can be made to a large number of questions, the solution to which now must be guessed. The committee of investigators also has drawn up a uniform method of reporting fiscal statistics for the computation of costs.