Miscellany: Prize

In Bloomsburg, Pa., for a firemen’s convention, John Sukaloski soiled his only suit, sent it to be cleaned, forgot the cleaner’s name. Garbed in his landlady’s clothing, he went in search of his suit, followed a gay convention parade, was astonished to win a $5 prize as the best female impersonator.

Pajamas

In Atlanta, Georgia’s State Supreme Court ruled that C. D. Sanders, country school principal who had set fire to his pajamas while grading examination papers, had not been “injured in the regular course of his employment.”

Club

In Manhattan because impostors have been invading the thriving advertising testimonial business of true nobility in the U. S., Castilian Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuovo and French Count Joseph Monneret de Villard formed a Noble-men’s Club of America. Said Baron Castelnuovo: “For those of the 700 or 800 persons in New York qualified to claim noble titles we shall provide a dignified medium for commercial contacts.”

Roses

In Portland, Ore., “The Rose City,” clubwomen pinned yellow roses on delegates to the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police, innocently aroused a full-sized rumpus among a contingent of visiting Mexicans. Explained their interpreter: In Mexico a yellow rose is worn to announce a broken engagement.

Snakebite

In Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed.

Pigtail

In Bloomingdale, N. J., police jailed Eng Wing Koon, 27, Manhattan laundryman who proposed to earn his way to Hollywood by tying his three-foot pigtail on roadside trees, swinging painfully for five minutes, collecting fees from interested passersby.

Frogs

In New Orleans, U. S. deputy marshals arrested Albert Broel, 46, his friend and fellow Frog-Fancier Sylvester Schutt, charged them with advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace would return a profit of $360,420,000,000.

Playful

In East Hampton, Conn., when Mrs. Henry Schleidt tried to tuck Henry Schleidt Jr., 3, into bed, he playfully kicked up his feet, fractured her jaw in three places.