South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-29

/ the local Woman's Franchise league
If II continues TO exist.
villa has broken ont again and
massacred a garrison. Villa is prob
ably the head Of the I. w. w. OF
Mexico.
Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt posed in d
tableau the other day representing
the "DestitutiOn OF Belgium" The
| picture shows that she had on a $40
pair Of high-heeled shoes and We
will bet her petticoat cost not less
than s64.9S. That's restitution for
you. isn't il?
If La Toilette, Reed and Gronna
were in the reichstag they would
not be able 10 serve the kaiser much
better.
You can't always judge the dis
position OF the girl who is always
smiling. IL she has beautiful teeth.
worth S55 I'm a three-pound cat
fish. We have never seen any rea-
son why the pearl bearing catfish Of
this state should not long ago have
assumed the important position they
are entitled to in the piscatorial
world.
The averape man will he truthful
enough in matters of business, and
you are not interested in his poll
teal or fishing experience. anyway.
mother is sure that all other
mothers know in their hearts that
her baby is prettier and brighter
than theirs. even if they don't say
so.
A woman who has been operated
on merely for tonsilitis or bone
felon can't bear TO swap experience
with a cancer or appendicitis hero
inc, but she can fiaunt her superior
ity over a non-operated-on sister
with remarkable vigor.
The man who thinks an hour and
talks five minutes is very apt TO be
safer counsellor than the chump
who talks an hour and never thinks
at all.
The Oklahoma governor wore
Sc Palm Beach suit when he met the
Belgian mission at Tulsa. We should
think on such an important occasion
an Oklahoman would don his "jims-
winger," even in July
you let my clothes alone" writes
a fair reader of Mishawaka But
the fair lady forgets that we have
never seen her clothes, if she really
has any.
In response to Hoover's advice for
everybody TO eat fish, Art Schelling-
er is assiduously cultivating Matt
Lang's river. The lonesome bass he
carried home the other evening can
testify as TO Arts voracious appe-
tite in that direction.
When the matrimonial bug be-
gins to buzz in a mans ears. the
healthy tan that the summer sun
adds to a girls complexion counts
more than six cans of rouge.
A Kansas City husband of %
wants a divorce because his wife of
50 smothers him with kisses. He is
a chump. When a man of % mar
ries woman of 90 1t is a sign he is
such a fool that he needs the at
tention of a mOtherly person.
In Kansas the war brides" are |
to retain their positions as teachers
in the public schools. Yes. indeed. |
and the girl who marries would be |
wise TO freeze TO her job even as /
an invalid kitten freezes to a warm
brick
Mishawaka mothers are sending
their boys to the front. Mothers of
this character impart TO the nation
the security it enjoys against decay. /
desolation and invasion.
We haven't had an opportunity to
read the food control bill as the /
senate passed IL, but a five weeks
debate in the United States senate
would destroy the vital features of
the plan OF salvation.
Col Ned Green is now safely mar
ried and on his honeymoon tour.
which is all right. But when he says
he expects 70 remain the boss, we
simply wave him a fare-you-well
and say. Goodbye, Ned. take keer
OF yerself."
Lincoln Way r.. Colloquy.
we are not getting as much meat
at our house as we used to-"
Neither are we; ever since I
preached war economy the cook
orders only enough for herself"
The quid the kaiser bit of three
vears ago has been swelling so that
II is about 20 spring his jawbones