The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-24

lighting toys, and II went all right.
I have taken this work up seriously
ana l am going at it just as Strong as
ever went at an opponent in the prize
ring. like my lines Some of them
are splendid. but I've learned one thing
and that is that / can't go into a box
ing match with wig on without hav-
ing the wig knocked off. That villain
took his first swipe at the toupee on
Monday night, and away it went.
Il felt like man without a pair of
shoes on when that happened"
Two of the Savage comedians.
Charles E. Evans of 1.-The Shotgun
and Harry Bulger of woodland" are
spending their spare time in Boston
playing jokes on each other. One
evening last week, after a performance
of Woodland" Bulger sought Evans.
who had just finished a rehearsal of
the Ade-Luder's opera. and game
of billiards was proposed. The game
started shortly after II o. m, and
about 2o'clock in the morning Bulger
conf1ded TO Evans that he was without
funds.
You'll have to pay the check"
Bulger said.
The other comedian had consider
able money, but he couldn't resist the
temptation to play a joke on his
friend
We'll. we're up against it, said
Evans, with a twinkle in his eve st
haven't a cent, either"
what VIII we do" asked Bulger.
THE proprietor will surely holler for
the police and we will be arrested
you remain here while I go to my
hotel and get some money" said
Evans.
Bulger did as he was told. and
for Evans to return. Finally he was
so sleepy that he decided to confess
to the proprietor that he had no
money.
81 am waiting for my friend to
come back with some money! ex-
planned Bulger, when the proprietor
said it was necessary to close the place
at daylight.
Your friend paid the check when
he went out, two hours ago." said the
proprietor.
Writes Kate Masterson: "At last the
worm has found a defender, that poor
worm that joys in the severely decol-
lete gown like that which Nine.
Schumann-Heink wore at Asbury
Park, when her singing enchanted,
and Observation-Disclosures angered the
preachers No woman argues for ex-
treme decollete, except the dress
maker, and her argument is not
ethical. She merely whispers, 1T is
and. dear madame. it is
becoming and the worm wriggles into
the near waist dress, smiles guiltily
and is happy. But while she doesn't
defend the frank and sometimes
astounding revelations of the corsage
most low she continues to wear it. |
She belongs to the Secret League of
Women and Dresmakers against Hus- |
bands and Preachers.
The defender is George Grosmith, |
r., the English actor. Inferentially, |
he accepts as inevitable the minute |
waist, that is growing smaller and |
mailer until when it finally dfsap-
pears it won't be missed because |
here was so little of it. Mr.. Gro
'mith is of The city where the low |
.orSage cut is at it's deepest depths of |
lothingness, and endurance is a mat
err of education. The eye becomes |
accustomed to horrors, even the hor-
ors of angular shoulders and baggy
muscles and say-no-more regions. But
Ir. Grosmith has cast a fresh, far
eeing eye to New York. to which he
3 not Injured, and criticised American
men for their immodesty.
You wear your coats SO short
here he drawled, that you're in
ecent.''