THE AMBIGUOUS PYJAMA.

Shannon News, 31 October 1924, Page 2

THE AMBIGUOUS PYJAMA.

COMEDIES OF ERRORS IN BELGRADE. A feature of Belgrade lutitatic asylum (writes a correspondent), is that the inmates wear pyjamas as tne normal and regular attire. There is, perhaps, nothing- more than economj in this, but it will be understood that as in the popular mind pyjamas have become associated with lunacy, the 3 period oi: introduction ot them into Belgrade, as the "modern inghtweav gives me to certain misunderSt i™l S 'vouth who, on a hot" summer nisht' 'incautiously walked from his ourden a distance down the road to listen to a distant orchestra arretted by a policeman as a lunatic (as he" had no passport in his pyj"""* 'pocket), and spe'at the mght m the. cells. Not wishing- to be recognised by'passers-by the next morning lie. beg-ged for a waste-paper basket to cover his head, and the police, careful with their lunatics, gave him one. He was a merry sight marehin* between bayonets in pyjamas and "4. more serious confusion has nowoccurred. A Belgrade burgher found a burglar in his house, and chased him (in pvjamas) down the road till they found a policeman. He gave the burglar in charge, but the burgrlai demanded rescue from a madman. Both were taken to the station, but the burglar was believed and freed, while the other spent the night in gaol.