Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — No More Official Garments for Ohio Judiciary [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

No More Official Garments for Ohio Judiciary

CINCINNATI, O. —Periwigs and official garments of clergymen are counted out No more shall they adorn the judiciary. Rather, as Ohio’s newest and most modish law has it, "All officials shall have engraved thereon the coatrOf-aTms of the state.” There is no restriction as to where the adornment shall be placed. Many are the plans. One learned jurist for instance, may have a landscape gardener assist him, and in a sunken aperture on his left cheek have the whiskers trained to grow tn variegated colors to bring out the design. Others, more foppish, will go one better than the faddists who wear

watches buckled on their wrists, and display the coat-of-arms of the great state of Ohio. Old sailors, who, on sojourns to the orient, learned the secret of tattooing, are certain to be in demand. Tattooing will be one of the most common forms of the new decoration. Probate and common pleas judges are expected to adopt this form.* Supreme court officials my decide upon a distinguishing and uniform method of having the coat-of-arms engraved upon them. City authorities are said to be displaying considerable jealousy at not being included in the new court order. It Is, of course,, possible that some 111-natured person, who dislikes things beautiful, may insist that the law is entirely unintentional. In fact, it has already been rumored that the word “seals’* should be inserted between the words “officials” and "shall,” which would make the measure read. "All officials’ seals shall have, engraved thereon the coat of arms of the state.”