Life — March 8, 1906 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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308 -LIFE: The Silk Hat in the Suburbs. Life’s Society for Its Suppression. ALL PERSONS WISHING TO JOIN TILIS ADMIRABLE CAUSE WILL PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH THIS OFFICE. TT! practice of young men, both married and single, wearing silk hats in the sub- urbs, is spreading to an alarming extent and some organized effort, should be made to check it. Re- ports from surrounding districts fol- low: Tarrytows, N. Y., March 3d.— Several young men have been seen in this vicinity lately with silk hats and frock coats. A meeting of the town council presided over by the shade of Washington Irving was held, and a system of fines inaugu- rated, », N. J., March 3d.—This morning a young mar- ried man was seen going down Main Street behind a baby carriage. He was wearing a silk hat and frock coat. An officer arrested him promptly and he is now in jail pending trial. The baby escaped. Montciatr, March yth.—As the first Presbyterian Church let out to-d, a mob surrounded three young bride- grooms, who wore silk hats, frock coats and gold-headed canes. Had it not been for the prompt intervention of the authorities, a tragedy would have oc- curred. Hereafter the following sys- tem of fines will prevail : Plain silk hat and overcoat, $10 Silk hat and frock ¢ $25 hat, frock coa led cane, carried together $50 Same, behind a baby car- ii $100 and thirty days in the county jail It is sincerely hoped that these severe measures will mitigate this evil in our God-fearing community. Fiusiinc, N. Y., March 3d.—The k hat law went into effect to-day. Several went to church in silk hats but they pleaded ignorance and were let off with a warning. Sunday was very quiet, public opinion not being fully aroused, It is hoped, however, that next Sun there will be no offenders, much disorder might prevail. Staten Istanp, March 3d.—Reports from the interior indicate a gr ing off in silk hats during y Sermons were preached in churches on passing the hat, and it is hope! that the new law will go into effect without bloodshed. PLAINFIELD, March 4th.— Much opposition to the silk hat law has developed here. A bridegroom club and dry goods association have been formed, the members insisting that they will still cling to the time-honored custom of silk hat and frock coat. A movement to exile them to Newark is in order. Ad Astra. “] HAVE found,” says Dr. H, W. Wiley, chief of the Chemistry Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, “that the foods we daily consume are $0 fraught with germ life of a harmful nature, that Iam almost afraid to go to the table,” A little more of patient research and Dr. Wiley will be, not almost, but quite afraid. A little more of faithful dissemination of bulletins of the Bureau of Chemistry, and the public at large will be, in a like manner, weaned from the fleshpots. And thereupon, at last, we shall rise to the simple frugality, without which true national greatness is impossible. Inasmuch as there is nothing real in life but its illusions, sensible people will be glad to know a great many things which are not so, and in this view of the case the belief is bound to spread that the scientists in the employ of the Government are worth all they cost. PROPOS of the distinction between an amateur and a professional, is a man a professional if he mar. ries for money? MS Magesry SATAN wismine ro CONFER A Lasy FAVOR, Accows You a tace mass ff THe worresy SNAPSHOTS IN HADES, ANRIVAL OP THR MAN WHO CONTINUALLY ACCRFTS FAVORS RUT NEVER RENDERS ANY HIMSELF comicbooks.com