Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-16
Favorite Songs

FaVorite Songs
Board of Works meadow reclaimers
Renting on the Old Damp Ground. q"
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over in New York playwright
has wagered $1,000 that fellow
elubman cannot find a four footed
animal with blue and white stripes
two inches wide That two-inch
stipulation, we surmise, must have
been put in just to make 1t harder
It's quite the thing now in Newport,
we understand, for maidens to wan
der about dangling from the fingers
wicker bird cages in which their
favorite songsters trill merrily
away. The desire to do something
different" is as usual at the bottom
of the new and delightful fad. May
be, in some distant day, those who
endeavor to achieve reputation along
this line Win discover that if they
break bread with no monkeys,
carrying no twittering cockatoos and
cease striving to create sensations
they will then be really different"
from the rest
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1t is easy enough to discuss the
war in an intelligent and forceful
manner. The only requirements are
An intimate knowledge of the geog-
raphy of every backyard in Europe
from Petrograd to Paris.
Acquaintance with the Russian,
Czech, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Croa-
tian, Montenegrin. French, Gaelic,
Italian, Polish, German, San Mari
moan. Turkish, Roumanian, Greek,
Galician, Austrian and English
tongues so that Przasnyz and Pre-
mysl ripple off the tongue as easily
as Secaucus.
Complete mastery of all the details
of military strategy and tactics.
Absolute neutrality.
knowledge of when to use the
mouth in argument and when the
fists.
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Followers of the sport of kings
there fare who can pick a winner
nine times out of ten; members of the
Fraternity of Four Corners Fixtures
flourish who can pick out a pippin
two blocks away with her back
a;f viet xxy1,a
can pick a jewel of a cook from
roomful of applicants; mothers
aplenty can pick their own infants
after the tags have been mixed in
the department store checking-room,
but the commuter never existed,
male or female, who can twice pick
the spot where the end of a car will
land during the evening congestion
on the station platforms.
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Give Us the Hospitable wood-Pussies
Every Time.
Beautiful animals of wood-cats, dogs
and monkeys-for keeping the door
Hospitality open during the summer
months, are $5-Shopping column note
II
Odd, isn't 1t, but out of all these
cigarette companies that have been
shipping millions of their products to
the front, not one of them has as yet
advertised its brand as the smoke
of battle"
s.
The radical straight lines that have
been predominating in the figures of
the fair sex in accordance with the
dictum Of fashion are to go into the
discard, and curves from the waist
down will be accentuated, according
to the milliner's scoop that has just
come to light. Hip, hip, hooray!
II
Added to the list of advantages
that the jitney has over the trolley
car Is the falling-off of the end-seat
hog evil. Instead of fifteen end-seat
hogs, the jitney has but four, and of
these the chauffeur is one.
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The same Jamaica magistrate who
Tuleu tildt d Hidh Hhdy get III uilh oiiS0
| a year now says a wife may keep
her husbands clothes if he is
abusive. There are places, though,
where this ruling might be ineffec-
tive, to wit, those tropical islands
where the costume of the male of the
species is a string of beads and a
smile A husband could get as
abusive as he wanted to, and then
when his life partner removed his
clothes with an upper-cut, he could
Just grin himself another suit,