The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-04-24


preferring to use these birds for TIN
interchange of letters instead of tn,
regular mails. Altogether the cit,
seems to have been seized with a de
sire to live in the air as much al
possible, and it only remains for som,
one to discover way of living on i
| as we'll
The pilfering of a full set of per
fectly good-natured patriarchal whisk
ers-the first crime of it's kind evel
recorded here, according to police
court records-has just led to all sorts
of complications. The man who tool
them is in Jail and the man from
whom they We're taken in without g
home. The loser of the hirsute
adornments is particularly sad be.
cause of the fact that he had worn
| them for 40 years. Recently he en-
tered an east side barber shop and
| having given careful instructions that
| his Whiskers be trimmed, took ad.
vantage of the opportunity to nap
On awakening he was Mortified to
find that the barber instead of a
shave. To add to his trouble his wife
who like himself is a believer in the
Hebrew faith, refused to admit him
on his return home, holding that the
scriptures forbade his being shaved.
He was hooted in the street and fin
ally took his troubles to magis-
trate. The barber was finally found
and lodged in Jail, but no solution of
the problem has yet been discovered.
only nature can restore the Whiskers
and the barber does not appear guilty
of any crime yet tabulated. The only
resource of the whiskerless and home
less patriarch, say the lawyers, is in
suit to recover damages, in which
event a commercial value in boards
will be established here for the first
time.
What is in many respects the most
curious club on record has just been
organized in this city. 1t is composed
of women-in which there is nothing
odd. The novel feature, however, is
due to the requirement of admission
to membership under which an ap-
prove that she is at least 80 years of
age. While such a declaration is con-
trary to the general practice of the
weaker sex, according to popular
opinion, the club has already a mem
bership of 40 with applications on
file from nearly 100 additional per-
sons. The total age of the 40 women
who now compose the club member
ship is 1874 years, or an average of
a traction less than 95 years each.
No other club in the country, it is
believed can come anywhere near
reaching this record. The president
of the organization acknowledges to
lis years and is still able to be about.
Her nearest competitor is seven years
younger while the three next are aged
1O7 years, LOG years and 1O5 years re-
spectively. The youngest member is
a mere girl of only 81 years, who will
have to wait nine years before being
able to sit on the board of directors,
the requirement for eligibility to that
office being full century of life.
This city has a millionaires' Jail. l.
kind in the country Is the Ludlow
street Jail, known more generally as
Alimony Inn, where the wealthy new
bers Of the anti-alimony club who use
1t as headquarters enjoy themselves in
luxury, at the expense Of the city in
preference to paying alimony to their
divorced wives. At present this club
II members, the length of
whose visits will vary from one to
six months. To look after their wants
the city employs a staff Of "a per-
sons, a much larger proportion than
is to be found in any hotel however
exclusive. The Ludlow street Jail is
only for persons who Of
fend the civil not the criminal laws.
If the wealthy man who is much bet
ter acquainted with the divorce law
yer than the stork fails to pay the
he can either migrate to New Jersey
at a cost of cents if he goes by
ferry-or cents if he goes by tunnel, |
or he can enjoy six months in the |
Ludlow street Jail free of cost and in |
the company of his kind. From 10 |
o'clock in the morning until o'clock |
in the Afternoon visitors are received. |
In the evenings card parties playing |
either bridge or poker are the custom,
and at all times any desired luxury
s available. In the yard at the rear
If the building outdoor exercise may
De taken. To afford this entertain
nent, which is furnished free of
'harge to the prisoners, the city is
at present s123 a month for
Zach member of the wealthy and ex-
elusive COLONY which enjoys its hos
oitality. The latest member to join
his club did so rather than pay SIPS
| month alimony. Like the others
When he is released his obligation will
,e discharged. Altogether this curious
Institution furnishes a cheap and easy
way of evading the financial obliga-
ions imposed by the divorce courts
md many wealthy men are glad to
esort to it since it involves practi-
ally no interruption in their ordinary
node of life. OF course it is expen-
i've for the city but nobody appears
o bother about that.
The city is soon to acquire the
most remarkable clock in the world,
md this in spite of the famous time
ieces in European cathedrals which
in oil nc oF |