The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-28
editorial PAGE Of Gle Cacoma Cimes


! Arthur Atherton, "a, known az
: the thinnest man in the world,
was married the other day to Miss
Blanche Burkley, in Chicago. Ath-
Ierton Is over five tall, but weighs
lonly 3s pounds. He is employed
lat Riverview Park. His bride
weighs about 100.
II the pure food commissioners
want really to earn their salaries.
they might begin by prosecuting
confectioners who sell green and
lavender candy to babies.
And now there's a fair yaude-
william who seeks a divorce from
her Chicago husband (whom she
married on a bet) because he is
shallow, and lacks mentality. OF
course, matrimony is a gamble,
but by marrying fellow on a bet
and then kicking because he hasn't
any brains seems as bad sports
manship as putting ones money
on sure thing and then brag-
lying.
| Mrs. Margaret Gregson of At
lantic City, N. j., was fined $40,
with the alternative of 60 days in
prison, for being common scold.
No this is not bit of Colonial
history, it's a news dispatch.
Senator Martin says that Wood
row Wilson is not democrat.
Maybe because he spells his de-
mocracy with little do"
If you believe that it's the
mail order houses who are asking
for a parcels post, send a petition
to Julius Rosenwald, president of
Sears Roebuck & Co., and see how
quickly he Will sign It NOT. Mail
order houses do their business by
freight.
Lake Erie drinking waters so
bad that Clevelanders daren't
battle in it.
Kaiser's got Morocco all right.
Established a beer depot at Aga
dir, and Moroceans never have to
cultivate an appetite for any
thing that's wet.
Bills vetoer wobbled a bit when
he decided against reciprocal soft
coal from Canada in that cotton
bill.
Mother letter from Teddy de-
Iclining to run in 1912. He's get
ting in fine shape to recommend
another dose of Taft, anyhow.
Being kicked out of a Spanish
Ieditorship in Cuba must be one of
the pleasures in life that we've
professionally missed.
Rockefeller is adding ten new
bedrooms to his Tarrytown pal
ace, to cost 100000 each. Bet
Johns going to make a society
splurge!
Letting the wire trust fellows
off with small fines and giving
the poultry trust fellows three
months in Jail sounds like foul
discrimination against freedom of
the hen.
Shrewd Des Moines police ar
rested a newsboy because he had
red hair, a farmer having been
robbed by a "brick-top."
President Zachery Taylor died
from filling up on ice water and
cherries.
"Open shop furnishes best pos
sible means of destroying the labor
organizations, says Clarence OAR
row.
French theatrical stars, in
spired by Sarah's big winnings
over here, are said to be learn
ing English so as to invade Amer
lea and get rich quick. Somebod'
better translate into French that
| old saying about "fooling all of
the people part or the time" etc.,
and forward same to those stars.
Total yearly pay of Typograph-
zeal union, oldest American labor
organization. is S50,000,000.
Those typos are certainly hust-
lers.
| ~
Farm and the farmer are to be
the chief topics of this years con-
servation congress. Pretty big
topics, too.
Magazine tells how a girl can
dress this fall for $50. Isn't that
nice of them? Some girls in New
York stores have to work eight
weeks to get that much. Wanted:
Directions for dressing on two
dollars a week less than nothing.
| III it isn't the ''biggest battle
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