The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-31


She is very apt to scold;
69 Ut, her mind is daily burdened
For the thing she wants is some place
And she can't remember where.
New York Sun.
His Shirts a 'TMenagerie,"
Menagerie'' shirt is the latest thing
in mems haberdashery. Alderman
John ]. Coughlin, 1.-The Bath House."
is the originator of it.
He has been measured for dozen
OF the new creations. the cost of
which will be $500. A Paris shirt
maker in New York will make the
garments. One of the firms repre-
sentatives came all the way from New
York to Chicago to take the alder
mans measure.
Rtvaling the directoire effect of
the new garment will be a hand-em-
broidered menagerie symboIicaI OF the
alderman's amusement park at Colo
RADIO Springs. There are thirty or for
ty different kinds of animals at the
park, and each of these will be en-
bro1dered on some part of the shirt.
Another feature is that the bosoms
plaits.
Yes. I have ordered dozen
shirts" the alderman said, "but as
| am going to wear them myself
don't see that it is anybody's business
but my own. I originated the idea of
managerie shirt, and I expect it
THE Bath House" has not decided
the manner in which he will alternate
the wearing of the shirts. 1t was sug-
gested, however, that on certain days
ne mold annual receptions at his zoo.
and that for the monkey day he wear
the monkey shirt and in this fashion
proceed through the category.-Chi-
Dispatch to New York Times
HonoIuIu's Fete Day.
Honolulu has already begun pre-
pairing for the great annual floral pa !
rade which for number of years has
been distinguishing feature of the |
celebration of WaShington's birth |
day in the islands. In the last few
years the event has attracted more
than local attention. a large number
of tourists from the mainland and
from Europe having timed their visit
to the territory to coincide with that .
date. The celebration is in the ma
ture of fete, or festival, of which
the most conspicuous feature is the
great parade of automobiles and dec a,
GRATED vehicles which takes place dur |
ing the forenoon.
Hawaii'S flowers are luxuriant dur |
ing February. and as a consequence |
the floral decorations on the cars are /
always most magnificent AS a result |
of the interest taken in this event, |
Washington's birthday is celebrated in
Hawaii probably more deliberately |
than in any other part of the United !
States. and the day has come to be |
considered the most important holt
day of the year in the territory
Hawaiian Correspondence.
100000 Pupils Suffer.
DIR. William H. Maxwell, city super
intendent of schools, Monday repeated
the opinion expressed in his recent an
nuaI report, that the board of educa-
ton should have authority to compel
surgical and medical treatment of
pupils who need such care for
physical defects. He spoke espe-
cially for the prevalence of adenoid
was well known that a Elections
of this kind made children stupid
and i'll tempered and greatly retarded
their physical and mental development
II did not make the statement that
adenoids made criminals of children, as
was quoted in a newspaper" he said,
but it is we'll known that these
growths are very detrimental to chill
dren and should be removed.
There are something like one hum
dred thousand children in the schools of
this city suffering from some ailment
which makes them defective, and it
would be a great blessing to them and
to their parents and to society If there
were law giving some one the author
ity to have these defects removed. -
New York Herald.
Elected Constable in Joke.
William E. Green, son of Justice
Elmer Ewing Green. of the court of
errors and appeals, and the young
man who used to be captain of the
Princeton baseball team, is now a con-
stable in the Second ward, where he