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...Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
...loafing summer strike, with none of the strife and bitterness of the cold weather conflicts in the coal industry. At the Lester strip mine all is quiet. Then one day strangers begin to appear in the town. They come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine guards begin to patrol the highways. They search passersby, they frighten women, they boast and are hardboiled, as professional scabs and company detectives...
...Hasty Pudding Club will hold a dance in the Club House on March 16. All the dancers will wear rustic costumes, and Bert Lowe will furnish the music. The patronesses for the dance are: Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. E. S. Webster, Mrs. George E. Dempsey, Mrs. Joseph Seabury, Mrs. W. R. Flint, and Mrs. B. H. Cogan...
...state, and minutely describing the sort of garments appropriate for public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories of the "ole swim in' hole" will pass with other discarded antiquities. In France and England, even the women athletes wear the convenient "shorts" condemned for everyone in Arkansas; such brazen people would probably be guillotined here. The next legislature will no doubt design evening dresses. In Utah, Kansas, and South Dakota, smoking is unlawful. What could be more inconsistent than raising cigarette funds to help "win the war", and then stamping...
...asked to the White House, or to attend any other state occasion, I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm. If my constituents wish me to do so, I shall go to the extreme of donning overalls...