The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08


Catches every sheep that tumbles-nevers
/. INJURED but one, they say.
That's how Pop is nicknamed Strongarm
sheep that drop three hundred feet
Amt no easy thing to handle, so Pops
What's that? Castin' doubts upon it?
Stranger. that's rude surprise.
Denver Republican
DIR. Mary Delighted.
Clapping her gloved hands and with
smile lighting her face, DIR. Mary
Walker expressed her delight at the
news from Paris that fashion had
decreed trousers for women.
IT'S vfndicationl" cried the doc
tor. knew it would come. and
knew I would live to see it."
DR.. Walker came to town from her
home at Bunker Hill arrayed in the
habiliments of man, which she has aft
fected for fifty-five years. Her trous-
ers were almost hidden by a great
coat. Around her shoulders was a
fur cape, and topping her head a fur
cap Now that fashions decree has
been issued the doctor wants to en-
list in the cause and make addresses
| before New York women in advo-
cacy of the proposed change. But
she opposes most emphaticaIly tight
trousers and correct coats for men,
declaring that men are namby PANTY
enough now.
81 have tried every sort of STYLE
said DR.. Walker, land at one time had
twelve suits, all of a different cut
and length. I had them of silk and
tarimmed with all kinds of decora-.
tions. The result OF my experiments
convinced me that the only proper
kind was the same as men wear, and
all women have got to come to this
style of dress.
I want them loose around the waist
because I don't believe in corsets,
which are abominable, and If worn
with trousers the whole effect would
be spoiled.
81 have worked years and years
trying to get women to dress sensibly,
and at last think my work has not
been done in vain. Educated women
years ago were ready to adopt my
style of dress, but they were afraid
OF the laughter of the men.
when a woman desires to enjoy
an evening entertainment, instead of
putting on one of those low necked,
fieecy things she should dress like
do-wear evening clothes identical
them more comfortable, and instead
of holding her skirts with one hand,
both will be Free
When asked about picture hats, DIR.
Walker said:
"They are perfectly unbearable.
and wear the conventional cap. To
wear trousers and have long hair
would be inconsistent =Oswego dis
patch to. the New York Herald. -
Laugh Now on Canada.
One good joke deserves another, and
Canada is now doing its best to give
US ecause for merriment equal to that
US cause for merriment equal to that
pense over our housekeeping accounts
at Washington. When the recently
published accounts of the secretary of
our senate were published our edito-
rial brethren in the Dominion found
them juicy picking for their pen
points They strung such items as
sofa pillows peroxide, fashion maya
zines, castor oil, bromo seller sheets,
apollinaris, lemons, and others through
their columns In pitiless detail, and
marveled that Washington needed such
a list of first aids to rate regulators
and trust busters.
Now it is our turn. but far be it
from us to gloat over the distress of
our Canadian cousins as their investi-
gators drag out the excuses for spend
ing the public money by the caretak-
ers for the needs of their parliament.
Rather it is with unfeigned admira-
ton, albeit it tinged with other senti-
mentS as well, that we remark the
scheme of purchasing public supplies
through a corporation whose stock was
owned by the fright" people. who
seem not to be altogether righteous.
One firm in this city, according to
evidence, supplied $133,000 worth of
articles.
This is interesting, but pales into
dullness beside the sparkling liveliness
of the purchase of $4,000 corkscrews
for the government printing bureau.
Down at Washington they do not need
SO many corkscrews, and are virtuous
enough to drink their cold tea from
cups. We blush for Capadt-, and We
shall blush again if it pretends that
the corkscrews were needed to draw
corks from ink bottles. Are there no
typewriters in Canada and even if
there are none, how many bottles of
ink are allowed to the honorables at
Ottawa? New York Times.
Patch Torn Spinal Cord.
During a delicate operation per-
formed in the Mount Vernon hospital,
the spinal cord of Policeman Pasquale1
j. Ruffato, of the Mount Vernon de-
partment, who was shot week ago
while trying to arrest two Italians, was
exposed to view. It was found that
two-thirds of the spinal cord had been
shot away and that only about one
third remained. The envelope contain
ing the cord was thoroughly cleaned
under the direction of DR.. Erdman, of
Manhattan; DIR. George C. Weiss, DR..
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