Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-08-15
PASSENGERS ALL PEEP
GIRL sATHERs DO NAUGHTY
DANCE AS TRAIN PASSES.
Occupants Of Smoking Car Nearly
Fall Out Of the Windows in Their
Attempt to View the
Weird Spectacle.

Kansas City, Mo.--Clad in Gertrude
Hoffman style, but without the beads,
Nellie Large and Grace Dalton, both
of this city, danced naughty dances
and waved their hands merrily on the
bank of a swimming pool. Overhead,
numbering along a culvert, was q
burlington passenger train, and from
its many windows heads of men and
women alike protruded. 1t was an en-
tirely new and weird spectacle They
looked and were duly shocked
The conductor, noticing that only
the back seams on the coats of all the
passengers in the smoker were visible,
nearly fell over with amazement when
he, too, peeped. When his train ar.
rived at Kansas City he promptly no.
titled Earl Dawson of the Harlem po-
lice department, who lost no time in
arrest1ng the women. They were still
in their chilly dishabille when the Of
hcer arrived at the pool and pro-
fessed not to understand the where
fore of his action.
They were given hearing on
charge of disturbing the peace before
M. Grouse, justice of the peace of
Harlem. They pleaded mot guilty"
The justice fined them S25 and S1l
costs each. Two men paid their fines.
Miss Large, who is nineteen years
old, declared she and Miss Dalton.
twenty-one, were Just bathing like
ladies when that old cove of a police
officer came along and pinched US On
the square, the dance was little
classical thing we had been practicin'
at home and nothin' bad at all Why
people want to be stuck up about such
a ieetle thing can't understand" she
concluded, with a scornful look at the
policeman.
The news of the arrest drew a large
crowd of farmers to the little justice
court room. There were so many
some had to stand outside and look
over the shoulders of the rest. How.
ever, nothing sensational developed
during the proceedings, except the dis
play as evidence of a couple of-but
why tell? Even the girls blushed
little when the justice, who is near.
sighted, put on his glasses In order to
decide as to their efficiency IN screen.
ing the nymphlike forms of the bath
ers.
Converts BattIeship Into House.
Mr.. Smelter Trust Stokes (the
name is coagulated under stress of
space) is building a house in Connec"
ticut, and 1t is going to be real old
fashioned. Most of it was built from
our battleship Wellington, which Mr..
Stokes bought for $200600. Now he
has bought Suffolk manor house OF
the Tudor period. Half Of it is there
in the spring. The combination
should be striking when Mr. Smelter
Stokes has completed his freak house.
One of these days we may wake up to
find Westminster Abbey missing. And
to rediscover it as the dining room
with the Hippodrome close at hand
as the drawing room-in the splendid
home of another Mr.. Trust Shelter
If that is his COMPOUNDED name.-Lon.
don Chronicle.
Highest Point of Interest.
A man who was a passenger on an
excursion steamer which returned a
few days ago from Panama and Costa
Rica, told New York Tribune report
er that all the tourists were deeply
interested in what they saw in Pana-
ma and along the line Of the canal
in the four days which they spent
there. ''The monster dredges, the
great walls Of concrete, the locks and
other wonders Of the canal construc-
tion," he said, naturally came first
in order for our attention; then the
cheapness Of the duck suits which
we had to buy, the independence of
the merchants who would not send
them to you and the hospitality of
the American club will be remem-
bered, but the most wonderful thing
we saw was the real Panama souvenir
in the form of a deck Of playing cards
bearing Panama scenes, and the cards
are made in nkin"
Counting the Stars.
STARS or less size tnan the fourteenth
magnitude are found in millions in the
milky way, and the work of counting
them from Photographic plates can
best be described as similar to count
ing blood corpuscles under a micro.
scope. Professor Kapteyn places the
total at S42,00OOO0 stars, the average
being 20,40O stars to the square de-
gree Of the heavens. He has further
calculated that the total light emanat.
ing from all the stars is equal to 1884
times the luminosity of a star of the
srst magnitude. According to the Dutch
scientist, the boundaries of the uni
verse, SO far as human science has
been able to penetrate, extend to $40.
600 light years.
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