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Kansas University Weekly.
The Wrong Perpetrated by the Invention of Starched Linen.
Hereafter when experiencing the tribulations arising from the perverse nature of a high collar or a refractory pair of cuffs, I shall take grim delight in the thought that the woman who invented starched linen finally saw the error of her ways and lamented her folly on the scaffold. It is of small moment to me that the legal sanction for her death was found in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury: on moral grounds hanging is a just recompense for the amount of misery which this Mrs. Turner entailed upon the thousands who, since the time of Elizabeth, have worn the shackles of starched linen. While there may be doubt as to whether this woman invented starch or merely introduced it into England, from her own lips we have the confession that she did evil when she set the extravagant fashion of wearing bands and cuffs plastered with yellow starch. But her repentance and ignominious death did not check the spread of the fashion; neither did the magistrates have better success although they tried to bring yellow starched linen into disrepute by making it the regalia of the hangman. Daring spirits have ventured, from time to time, to change the color and shape of collars and cuffs, but nobody has yet had the courage to take the starch out of them. W. W. D.
Alumni Notes.
Andrew Atchison '77, is Professor of Modern Languages in Park College, Parkville, Mo.
Dr. D. E. Esterly '90, has just been made a member of the Topeka Academy of Medicine and Surgery.
Mrs. Mabel Hall Templin, '96, 201 Garfield Ave. Kansas City, Mo. is visiting her parents in Lawrence.
Cornelius Elting, Law '96, has recently moved from southern Missouri to Cado, Indian Territory, where he has established a partnership with S. J. Homer, general secretary of the Choctaw nation.
H. J. Withington '95, passed through Lawrence last week on his way to Chicago. Mr.
Withington has lately been doing engineering work tor the U. S. Government at the Rock Island Arsenal.
W. W. Reno, '98, left Lawrence a few days ago for Napoleon, Ohio, where he will engage in the newspaper business. With Frank R. Whitzel he has purchased a weekly paper at that place. Lately Mr. Reno has been engaged in getting out a Kansas Blue Book, containing cuts and biographies of the members of the Legislature, with other information about the state in general. This book is now out and distributed.
The Phi Beta Banquet of last Friday night, enjoyable in all respects, was especially so in that a number of the Alumni took advantage of it to renew their acquaintance with University people. J.A.Prescott'88,and W.E.Higgins '88,came up from Kansas City,W.L.Jenks'87 from Ottawa,L.M.Powell'85,and D.E Esterley'90,from Topeka. It is always a pleasure and a profit to hear from men who have been away from college for some time. Their contact with the world adds much to their ideas and opinions.
The serious illness of his mother has necessitated the return of Frank C. Bowker '95,
SPRING STYLES
SOFT AND STIFF
HATS. W.Bromelsick.