THE AMBIGUOUS PYJAMA

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6543, 13 November 1924, Page 2

THE AMBIGUOUS PYJAMA

COMEDIES OF ERRORS IN BELGRADE A feature of Belgrade lunatic asylum (writes a correspondent) is. that x the inmates wear pyjamas as the normal and regular attire. There is, perhaps, nothing more than economy in this, but it WiH be understood that as in the popular mind pyjamas have become associated with lunacy, the present period of introduction of them into Belgrade as a “modern” nightwear gives rise to certain misunderstandings. Thus a youth who, on a hot summer night incautiously walked from his garden a distance down the road to listen to a distant orchestra was arrested by ; a policeman as a lunatic (as he had no passport in his pyjama pocket), and spent the night in the cells. Not wishing to be recognised by passers-by the next morning he begged for a waste-paper basket to cover his head, and the police, careful with their lunatics, gave him one. He was a merry sight marching between bayonets in pyjamas and basket.

A more serious confusion has now occurred. A Belgrade burgher found a burglar in his house and chased him (in pyjamas) down the road till they found a policeman. He gave the burglar in charge, but the burglar demanded rescue from a madman. Both were taken to the station, but the burglar was believed and freed, white; the other spent the night in gaol, 'tl