Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Now It's the cold storage cure for hay fever. Almost any candidate la a promising candidate. ga&Kk-ft '' „ <? The air continues to be a poor place In which to do fancy work. Our Idea of nothing to feel sad about is losing a job as aviator. The excursion girl now sweetly changes into the matinee maid. It will be Thanksgiving day for Italy if she finally saws a limb off Turkey. Tight-skirted women hobbling to catch a car are as funny as a sack race. The slaughter of an aviator now and then has almost ceased to be a matter of news. Soon the lover of lake sports will wish to exchange his bathing suit for a pair of skates. Bohemia has a woman member of parliament. Showing the true Bohemian spirit, as it were. *— —--- -

Do you suppose the government will get any nearer the telephone trust than a long-distance call ? Canada sold 50,000,000 lobsters last ■winter New York will have to hustle to live up to its reputation. The girl with the coat of seashore tan now looks sympathetically at her pale-faced/ stay-at-home sisters. A python in the New York zoo eats but one meal a year. This reduces houskeeping costs to a minimuru. If It were not for the old warships ■what would" the young warships have to shoot at in target practice? Lemons are becoming more expensive, but it is probable that many of them will still be handed around. Antiquarians have discovered another Venus, doubtless without first getting the consent of their wives. Tobacco is how grown in Kansas, and several new brands of Havana cigars will soon be put on the market London telegraph company is hiring girls to replace messenger boys. Leave it to a girl to carry messages. Baltimore policemen must not play dominoes on Sunday. Probably it is the one game that they don’t play at all A New York man is to have borrowed $3,500 from his laundress. If she had it it is quite possible. Any movement to restrain the activities of the genius who designs freak shoes for men will deserve public approbation.

Among all the adjectives that have been applied to the costumes that the girls are wearing now we haven’t noticed “modest" An artist who painted $lO bills has been arrested. Painting $lO bills does not seem to be any more profitable than gilding lilies. In Philadelphia all women under thirty are “girls.” Philadelphia, the chivalrous and altruistic, is proving Itself the City of Brotherly Love to the lone sisters. An TCnglish actor who wore a corset has died as the result of tight lacing. Evidently the manager declined to give him a fat part While a Kansas woman was trying to kiss a bulldog the animal bit her lip. It seems difficult for some Kansas bulldogs to acquire good manners. - Playing cards has been traced back 10 the year 800 A. D. It is safe to presume that the police of those days gathered in their graft just as merrily as now. A Kansas City man who went to bed one night leaving $1,700 in his trousers pocket has registered a vow that he will not be so careless again. He is trying to accumulate another SL7OO. Fluffy skirts saved a woman from drowning in the Chicago river. The moral Is that women who feel that they must wear tight skirts should avoid falling into that historic stream. ■ ■ There were fourteen billion telephone calls in the United States last year- Do you wonder that the lines were sometimes busy? Sound proof floors in apartment buildings are a grand institution, but until the sound proof baby is invented somebody is sure to complain. Now it appears that the English beauty who planned to see the United States in two days is an actress Score another point for the alert press