Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — Pulse of the Press [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pulse of the Press

Spiritual affinities are all very well, but can they cook? —New York American. When you see a woman having a good time out in the rain it’s her ewn complexion.—New York Sun. The “Automobile Polka” is the latest dance. We presume it is simply killing.—Washington Herald. A new angle on the mother-in-law wheeze will be to refer to her as “on my affinity’s side.”—New York Mail. Probably Wellman has left word to be called when the wind shifts and blows toward the Pole.—Philadelphia Press. If the ocean rate war keeps up, crossing the Atlantic will soon be cheaper than staying at home.—New York Tribune. Now that fashion’s decree calls for “curve-less women,” there may be less nature faking done by the fair sex for a while. —Washington Post. Just pow the man who came over-ln the Lusitania takes precedence of the one whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower.—Philadelphia Inquirer. .T An an ocean curiosity the Lusitania is as big a success as the sea serpent, 4md- lnvolves no risk of harsh words to nature fakers.—Washington Star. “Nd curves for women,” is fashion’s latest edict, and there is now a chance that we can safely regard them as the “straight goods.”—Washington Post.

There is one consolation the baseball fans all have —if their favorite club didn’t win this year it is going to win next year.—Philadelphia Press. San Francisco is sending so many high officials to prison that pretty soon a distinguished man at liberty there will be a curiosity.—Atlanta Constitution. Sir James Crichton-Browne has said that what alls England is that the people do not eat enough. His remedy is at least plesant to take. —New York World.’ ‘ Wheat and corp still. keep getting higher, but pig iron has fallen in price $1.50, Thank goodness, there is one thing the family can lay in cheap.— Pittsburg Press. Emma Goldman, so it is stated, intends to inaugurate “a reign of terror” in this country. As to that matter, Em is a terror at all times. —Montgomery Advertiser. A Southern editor expresses the opinion that Kermit Roosevelt inherited his modesty from his mother. Quite likely, since the father seems to have all his yet.—Washington Post. In the German army, too,(the automobile threatens to become a destructive _weapon; but whether it be destructive of the enemy is another question.—Philadelphia Record. Was the strike in the Teddy bear factory fostered by the enemies of those animals who regard them as destructive of the “maternal instinct” in little children? —New York Tribune. Statisticians say that in a family of average wealth it costs $25,000 to raise a boy and $37,000 to raise a girl. This answers a lot of the President’s antirace suicide arguments.—Duluth TribQpe. An order has been issued in Chicago to the effect that telephone operators are not to say “Please” in answering a call. It is precisely the kind of order that might be expected from Chicago.—Buffalo Commercial. Mr. Walter Wellman must expect to live a long time if he is to wait for good weather before attempting to reach ’the North Pole. As far back as the oldest Inhabitant can remember, the weather always has been something of a drawback to Arctic exploration. —Kansas City Star.