The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-27


more civilized-curls it and puffs it
and wear it. Queer freak of fashion.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
A consignment of the new Paris
skirt has reached New York. It is
really somewhat bifurcated, it must
be admitted, but please do not call
it or them trousers, plead the dress
makers
A Frenchman has proposed law
taxing all the cats in Paris. We
would like to know, however how
he proposes to collect the tax from
those that appear only after midnight?
Dayton News.
If the Baltimore papers are right, a
lady pickpocket is doing business in
that city They should encourage her
to marry the gentlemanly burglar and
begin life anew.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The st. Louis Times has discovered
the first yiolator of the pure food law
Yankee Doodle" who stuck a
feather in his cap and called it mac
aroni' Perhaps yiolator of the
game law also. What kind of a
feather was it?-Los Angeles Herald.
Pearson Hobson will give us a story
for boys. Certainly his speeches were
largely fiction, but the old boys would
not read and he may now pass them
down. Albuquerque Journal
According to the census, there is
to every square mile in Nevada only
seven-tenths Of a man. To find the
rest of him you must just step over
into the next square mile.-Memphis
News-Scimitar
The report that 100000 tobacco
growers will raise no tobacco this
year will, we presume, have no eff
feet on the cigarette industry st.
Louis Times.
To enliven the libretto Of The Girl
of the Golden West, it's performers
should interpolate that great Italio-
American classic, My Greata Biga
Brother Sylvest. Chicago Journal.
The e'jimswinger,' which has been
designated the official dress coat of
| Oklahoma, is described by the COVER
nor of that state as ANY old thing
whose tails will flap in the breeze. ;"
This seems to promise new lease
of life for the old-fashioned night
shirt Cleveland Leader.
'Helen pink" is new shade nam
| IF tho nTnCi0nnf
Miss Helen Taft. We know some
girls who are real fetching in other
colors. but who look like Helen pink.
Tampa Tribune.
A young man in Wyoming seated
himself over a hundredweight of dyna-
mite and then exploded it. And the
energetic coroners of four Wyoming
counties, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, held separate inquests with
the usual fees-Albuquerque Journal
If the good die young, must we
suppose the bad become Oldest in
Ehabitants and lie about their ages,
the weather and sundry other things?
Havana Post.
The statement of Kew York soci-
ologist that with forty feet of ground
and a goat he could easily keep the
wolf from the door indicates that the
wolf has discriminating sense OF
smell.-Louisville Courieer-Journal
Two walters of twenty years ago
in the Congress hotel at Chicago now
own a controlling interest in this val
liable property. Perhaps this is an
other exemplification of the force OF
the adage that everything comes to
those who wait. But you've got to
keep hustling while you're waiting
Topeka Journal.
The poor women have been handed
another lemon. The laundrymen re-
fuse to do the peek-a-boo waists ny
the pound. Pensacola Journal.
Peary mas given his medals to the
nation, but the removal Of the duty
on hides probably prevents Doctor
Cook from doing se.-York Dis
patch.
Half of Chicagos Sunday mail is
said to consist of love letters. The
customary holding hands Saturday
night seems to leave an unsatisied
longing Gainesville Sun.
An accomplished contributor to
the Worlds Work discusses the cost
Of living under the heading, Making
Both Ends Meet. But only miracle
worker could make one end meet
without the other-Louisville Courier
Journal
The excitement concerning what Is
called the new "harem" skirt seems tc
be unwarranted. 1t is nothing more
than the divided skirt which a few
sensible American women have been
wearing for nearly twenty years II
order to enable them to ride safely
and comfortably in the saddle.-Ho
chester IN. W Herald.
1T has leaked out that King Man
uel was playing bridge when he lost
his crown and kingdom" says the
Richmond Times-Nispatch. Not a few
bridge players fare even worse than
that and lose their heads.-DanVille