Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — PULSE OF THE PRES [ARTICLE]

PULSE OF THE PRES

New Shirt-Waist Man. The shirt-waist man is cool without his coat and vest, of course, but bow he must miss his pockets'—Boston Globe. The new shirt-waist man, when he sees a mouse, is said to scream like a hot locomotive at a grade crossing.—Minneapo- ' Ils Journal. A symposium of feminine, opinion aa to the appropriation,of the shirt waist by men would be interesting reading.—Milwaukee Journal. The Chinese question may be first in importance, but whether a man shall be permitted to wear a shirt waist is a close second.—lndianapolis News. The ladies may capture our collars, coats, vests, cravats and hats, but they can never induce us to retaliate by entering into a shirt-waist competition.—Baltimore Herald. The shirt-waist man has come to grief in New York, swell restaurants refusing to serve him. They evidently have not caught up with fashion in Gotham.— Boston Traveler. The shirt waist is the coming summer garb for men. It is the only fashion devised for women that the male mind regards as “sensible” and fit for the sterner sex. —Newark Advertiser. The shirt waist seems too juvenile for old men, too truth-telling for fat one* and too generally discordant with the habits of civilization to l>e the very beet form of hot weather costume possible.— New York Sun. Common sense in dress is so rare an article that it is hard to find it, bat when the ladies themselves have won the fight for the shirt waist they should permit their brothers to enjoy the victory with tbepi,—Atlanta Constitution. Hoot, Mon, IVYe Pla' Goff? Yes, the women are playing great golf this season. The ball ia getting to be their sphere.—Boston Herald. It is generally supposed that golf does not aid much in muscular development, but this must be a mistake, as the players all seem stuck on their own “form.”— Boaton Advertiser. Golf euthusiMta may point with pride to the fact that no church has felt called upon to question the morality of the game, tn bpite of the temptation to play it on Sunday.—Washington Star.