The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12

in tho 1909 model hat, which has served
the twelvc-month IS iokc-smith so handi.
ly. Miss Cecilie Conway went out to
pick flowers on Dunwoodie s Heights
near YonlScrs, and, all of sudden,
something began to happen on her
head, whore she could neither sec it
nor reach it; Il tuggiDg and n pulling
and Il pecping, that started her shril'
lest cries, Enter Sergeant Cunningham
of tho Yonkers Blues-and. with his
Gently mistaken the pretty hcadgear rs
tho real thing in blooms and blossoms.
Practical Switzerland, whence came the
second item, shows herself less pleas
ingly poetic. She has decrced that
hats of thirty.one-inch diameter and
upwards are fifty classed as cart
wheels. and feminine travellers so
garbed will please ride in tho luggage
vans or leave their hats with the lug
gage guard, just as they would bi'
cycle.
II was "peach basket that caused
Michael Conlon Of New York to ruin
a spring suit and miss 4 Carnegie
medal in June He saw it slipping
along the muddy surface of the Har"
lem, Z bird Of gorgeous plumage on 1t,
and surely, thought he. drowning
maid beneath. In ho went to the res
cue, but tho hat was all ho found TO
bring ashore.
And Judge uumo of Chicago has
talked hats in court. Mr.. and Mrs
+. ID. Maher stood before him, and
tho testimony was brought out that
Mr.. Maher had bought Mrs. Mahcr
scycn specimens Of headgcar in Just
thirty days: that he had then, one
evening started to go out somewhere,
she disappearing, that she had grabbed
his one and only hat to make him stay
at home; that row had rcsultcd-and
there you are! ''It's not nominated in
any bond 7 know Of said his honor,
"what to do in snch a case, but n man
who buys his wife hats at the rate
of one every four days deserves all he
gets, no matter what, Djschargcd!'
Just Fate.
There fate was obviously at work
rs it was in August, when Beldcn
Woodring, stccpleiack of many lofty
climbs fell from a chair in his kitchen
and killed himself: and when Antonio
Aguillar, a Mexican murderer, suddenly
meeting the twin brother Of victim
on the streets of Zacatecas, fell on his
knees, made full confession of his
crime, and was led away TO trial and
execution.
Some sort OF Providence again may
have worked in hidden ways TO put
Jack Buns aboard the Inflated Gre
Portable berth at Cook Haven, Ireland,
but he got into an argument with a
fellow operator and knocked him out
in the resulting mix-up. Ergo: OFF TO
sea he was packed in punishment, as
signed 10 a ship destined 10 sink him
and his &C. O. D." wireless calls TO
rcnOwn.
Elements at Work.
The clements which conspired TO
make young Mr.. Binns have beon
anything but idle as month has fol.
lowed month. January turned to June,
with = heat record beating the figures
for thirty years and more, persuaded !
us at the start that we were TO be sur
priscd at nothing, so that the June
snow squalls which visited Montreal |
and Malone. y. y, and Johannesburg |
(siX inches disorganizing traffic \ and |
wire service in the last namcd), might |
almost have been called expected.
Lightning, freakiSh most oC the |
time. played its weirdcst pranlcs dur
ing the summer. II came into tho bath
room Of tho Sterling Smith home. at
Bloomsbury, Pa. cutting the rug in two !
rs smoothly as though by n knife. but |
doing nothing else: IL entered Nelson
Morris 9 house, at Norfolk, Conn, ex
a lighted lamp and setting |
the chimney on the floor, unbrol1cn;
and. near Martin Springs, Ga, it struck |
Il great tree beneath which group Of
children had taken refuge
from tho storm. All were left uncon-
scious Though all have since rccov-
ered) hut tho queer thing about the
event was that a photograph Of the
tree was left imprinted upon nine of
the sixteen little bodies.
As to Old Folks.
Each year comes word OF something |
unexpected achieved by those who have J
bcttcrcd the Psalmist's 8 three-scorc |
and. ten by another ten or two tackled |
onto il, and '09 has played the usual !
role with lhesc chronicllngs: