The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01


The milliners must have their eirT plumber It
Though it be tall or big or flat
But while they get what they are after
Which IS a dig at hubby's dough-
DO 9, hats cost more, or less, with laughter?
That's what the menfolk want to know
Chicago News.
Another Lie Nailed.
What can you expect of a man who
wears a celluloid collar?'
This inquiry has succeeded the
Iowa fdea' of a tariff as the question
of the hour in the Hawkeye state.
The man asking it is B. F. Keltz,
who resigned from the state pharmacy
board after a sharp tilt with Governor
b. f: Carroll. In the Madison Demo-
crat Keltz was credited with attacking
the governors record by making the
inquiry, which has gone broadcast over
the state.
Members of the state house force,
who are personal friends of the COVER
nor, gave an indignant denial to the
report
There is nothing in it," said State
Treasurer Morrow, who is one of the
executive council and thinks he ought
to know. THE governor always wears
a linen collar"
When the governor returned Thurs
day from Burlington, where he has
been attending the state meeting of
the A. o. =. W., he was the center of
interest, and his collar was examined
critically. 1t was found to be pure
linen, moderately high, and fashionably
cut.
$50 far as I know there has never
been a state official who wore a cell
luloid collar, except Tim McCurdy, the
ex-custodian." said another state house
governor is cruel.''-Des Moines dis
patch to New York World.
Shock to Pittsburs.
The fine arts committee of Carne-
gle Institute tonight announced that
1t mad bought the painting ''The Judg-
ment of Paris" for $4,000, to hang
nthe permanent Carnegie collection
here. Pittsburg, which turned moral
somersaults two years ago when 1.-THE
Bath took the first prize in the In
ternationa1 Art Exhibit and which re-
Gently had spasms when 1.-THE Bridal
Morning" took second prize, simply
screeched when this announcement
was made Friday. Pittsburg thinks
If there Is one woman with less cloth
ing than the Lady of the Bath or
the maiden of 1.-The Bridal Morning.
it is the woman painted by Emile
Reno Menart, of Paris, in his "The
Judgment of Paris and there is now
real trouble ahead for that fine arts
committee.
To be sure. Pittsburg people don't
yet know much about the picture, but
they have been told that it represents
a woman of form divine clothed in
a smile who is receiving an apple
from a man who has even less cloth
ing. He appears to have hastily grab
to cover himself. The man in the
picture is supposed to be Paris. The
fine arts committee says that 1.-THE
Judgment of Paris is the finest pic
ture exhibited in the recent interna
tional show, and that it came near
taking first money.-Pittsburg Dis
patch to the New York Press.
Dog Pays His Own License.
Max, a black and tan dog owned
by Charles c. Fitzhugh. a pharmacist.
has raised a dollar to pay his annual
license. Max earned all this money
himself. In the rear of the store
where his owner works, Max, who is
a trick dog, has box half-filled with
excelsior, in which he hides pennies
an nickles earned by doing tricks. Fri
day the animals owner sent the dog
to the box time after time until he had
brought dollar in pennies and nick
els. Placing the cash in an envelope,
the owner started for the office of the
city clerk, the dog carrying the en-
veIope in his mouth.-Flint (Mich.)
dispatch to the New York Herald.
Where "Uncle Tom" Was Written.
The old Kentucky homestead at
COV1nSIOn III WHICH oCtCllCl
stowe wrote the first chapters of
Uncle Toms Cabin is to be torn
own.
The house was built in 1887. with
loop holes and lookouts. The heavy
oak doors and window shutters still
bear heavy indentations made by tom
ahawks and dozens of arrow heads
are still imbedded in hewn log sides.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The white robin which has been
living in the park surrounding the
Rand estate here has aroused renew
ed interest in her affairs by providing
three small white eggs for the nest
which she and her mate, a sprightly
robin of ordinary plumage, have built
in a hemlock tree near the center of
the lawn.
AS a robins eggs are usually blue,
it is anticipated that the forthcoming
birds from the three eggs in the nest
will be albinos like the mother. The
color scheme of the nest is also white.
Feathers and strips of cloth of that
color have been used in 1T, and float
ing from the sticks that surround the
edge are little white streamers of
muslin and lace.-Montclair IN. Y.)
dispatch to the New York Press.
'Water Sheep
A business communication in Ar
able recently reached a Manchester
firm, and when translated by a Syrian
interpreter, proved to contain re-
quest for the price of coppering two
awater sheep" of certain given dimen-
sions. The translator was confident
of his version, but admitted that he
did not know what water sheep"
could be- For the moment even the
heads of the firm were puzzled. I'M
til it struck some one that this was
the nearest synonym in the vocabu-
larry of q, pastoral people for "hydrau-
lie rams"-Mancheste Guardian.
Wouldn't Fight for Canada.
Gin case of emergency Great Brit
ain wouldn't spend SIS to hold Canada
and Australia as her colonies said
Dean I. W. Russell, of the University