The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-29
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A WORD FOR COLLEGE CLOTHES.
The reason that the tailors at their
recent convention in Chicago saw fit to
Danish the fulsome styles in young
mems clothes was that the thing had
gotten away from them. These gar
ments were devised for the university
trade, the demand there being for
something nifty" and lots of it. But
the fashion escaped from the campus
and became national Authorization
the cutters point of view.
Now the tailors think that making
college clothes Is not an art. 1t isn't,
perhaps. even a respectable trade, for
blemishes can be covered over, insists
easily padded to the proper proper
tons and a general1gloss of distinction
shouting their falseness. What the
tailors want is the chance to show
their handicraft, not a substitute for
their skill.
However, there is much to say for
the swagger clothes. They carry such
about with them that it is no wonder
the college students were not permit
ted to enjoy monopoly of them.
They were the very things to intensity
the stubbiness of bulldog pipe. and
for that cause they have a right to be
proclaimed a wonderful discovery. The
fact that the trousers fail to make
adequate connection with the shoe
tops may incite contempt in the tailor
men, but it is a pleasant sight, never
theless, to behold band OF crimson
hosiery striding militarily up the
street.
Let the tailors drape the rest of us
in conservative designs" but the
world will lose fine, colorful effect If
the youngsters take up with the reac-
tionary styles.-Cleveland Leader.
SAFETY OF VENEZUELA.
A Washington dispatch says that
many we'll informed people will be
surprised If the government is not
forced to adopt summary measures to-
ward Venezuela and certain Central
American republics before election.
We are prepared to admit the pos
sibility of determined action against
any Latin-American country except
Venezuela. But that republic unques-
tionably bears charm. 1t has for
necessary to justify resort to force
by this and several other countries.
But the force is still unexerted. Presi-
dent Cfpriano Castro still takes his
ease in his inn.
1t is interesting to note the sharp
distinction between our treatment of
Venezuela and other Latin-American
countries. A disturbance arises in
Cuba, and We intervene in force to
establish a temporary government.
Panama presidential elections: we
rush marines to the scene. The little
republics of Central America threaten
to revert to their customary bellic d.
versions. Washington tells them fair
ly and firmly that IT will never do.
But Venezuela does what she wills
with American property interests,
turns a deaf ear to the persuasions and
threats of this government. and moth
ing is done.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
VESTED RIGHTS AND RABBITS.
In the year 1862 some persons i'm
ported into Australia pair of English
rabbits. for the same reason that
somebody about that same time i'm
ported cage of English sparrows in
this country. And as English sparrows
here have multiplied aud have become
great pest in the towns, so the
English rabbits have done in Austria
liza; only the rabbits are a hundred
fold more destructive. So great mas
the rabbit pest become in Australia
that the government has built a wire
fence across the entire continent, at
fort to confine them to the wild por-
lions of that country. A bounty is
also offered for them, and many per-
sons are engaged in killing them.
These men follow rabbit killing as
their regular occupation. and are call
ed rabbitters. There are several thou
sand of them, and they make a very
good living out of their business,
which has its regular trade organiza-
ton. This organization is now en-
gagged in an effort to prevent the gov
rabbit exterminator.-Augus Her
ala