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MEET THE WIFE-A satirical domestic farce on the trouser-wearing wife...
Probably the most singular novelty of the season was the appearance of rubber trousers ? worn by Army, Pittsburgh and West Virginia players on rainy playing fields. Comparatively light in weight and slippery as an eel's hips, the player thus equipped has his opponents at a considerable disadvantage. It is probable that the Rules Committee will afford the rubber trouser legislative recognition...
...Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery...
...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...
...might be, and as we believe it soon will be if present tendencies continue. Unfortunately the plane from which it has to start is lower than most people know or like to think about. While it is true that the College has advanced far from the old corduroy- trouser-dirty-sweatshirt days much of the old indifference to matters not essentially material remains; and it is against this that The Arts is forced to contend. It is to the lasting credit of the few brave souls who have kept up the fight in the past few years, even though discouragingly...