A PYJAMA STORY. An American tells a story of the late Colonel McClure aibout the Spanish, war. There was a regiment recruited from Pennsylvania, and the ladies of the towns got together after the regiment's departure 'and made a quantity of pyjamas. Pyjamas were a new thing in those days —very smart, exclusive, and so forth; the ordinairy man wore «. nightshirt. Well, these' pyjamas, in big packingcase.' went diiiy Cuba-ward, but no ■word of their arrival ever came back. The ladies about a month. Then they wired the colonel, a genial, whole-souled gentleman:—"Anxious to know if you got the pyjamas last month." The Colonel had never iheard of pyjamas. He wired back: "Story is a lie. Probably fabricated by enemies to ruin me politically. Admit lam not a total abstainer, but never 'had pyjamas last month or any other time."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 10
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140Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 10
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