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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
HOUSE FURNISHING. n
The Dining Room in a Small Apart
ment.
HOW IT MAY BIZ SUPPLIED WITH
Tasteful and Snrviceable Fiaments {
ComDaratIveIyLit Color
Effects in " e0dWOPk. =

AS the revival of taste in furniture
has at last reached the large manufac-
turers and dealers it has become possible
to advise persons Of average means how
to furnish a small apartment in a taste
ful and yet inexpensive manner. 1t is
true that much Of what is to be found
ready made is still of a sort to be avoid
ed. The manufacturers, who are not to
be blamed, as they are evidently only
responding to popular demand, put on
the market quantities of work in which
the rich and elaborate French styles of
Louis XIV and XVI are badly initiated in
poor material and without that delicacy
of workmanship which charms one in
authentic specimens. Nothing is to be
gained by buying cheap limitations of
styles which from their nature require
much costly work. And even the real
thing designed for palaces would be out
of place in an unpretentious, modern
fat. But it is now as easy to obtain such
simple and tasteful furniture as that re-
Gently illustrated by The Art Amateur,
which is appropriate to our present
ways Of living, well made, inexpensive
and serviceabie.
The dining room, the subject of the
illustration alluded to, receives the first
attention. It is the important room in
fiat and is of the ordinary size, which
allows no room for the massive furni-
ture sometimes affected by admirers of
the modern cheap Gothic and the still
more wretched copies of early renais-
sance furniture. A clumsy sideboard, of
which the bulky frame and projecting
carvings, too commonly false and glued
on, occupy frequently as much space as
is available for its proper purpose, is
entirely out of place in such room.
But the furniture here shown, while
elegant in form, takes up as little space
as possible
AS to the color scheme Of such din
ing room, it should depend upon the
furniture. That illustrated is of mahog-
any inlaid with box or other light yell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
For the Little Folk.

New York children are now dressed
in a delightfully."- quaint manner. Ac-
cording to The Herald, cloaks and hats
and bonnets are made to match, often
of the same materials. and both light
and medium colors are fashionable
Dark shades are for the time being de
cidedly "out. Both bonnets and hats
are very large, shirred and fluted brims
projecting far over the little face, and
tied beneath the chin, with a double
bowknot of ribbon. The long cloaks
and coats are the most popular for little
children, and they are made up in elab-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

ONE of the important questions with
which which the incoming congress will
have to deal is the Pacific railroads
debt. Some of the bonds for which the
government is security fall due in Janu-
AIRY and the Indebtedness will mature
rapidly from that time forward 1t is
limited that Mr Cleveland in his message
will recommend the foreclosure of the
governments lien. Since it is evident
that the people must pay the first mort
gage in any event they may as well own
the road and have something to show
for their money which they will be
called upon to pay in the future if they
don't get anything for what these roads
have sest them in the past. This course
wsuld seem to be making the best of q
bad bargain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

crate styles, with capes and collars
edged with fur or lace. Ribbed silks,
bengalines, poplins and smooth cloths
are all used, and the shades of color are
so delicate it seems as though they
must soon lose their dainty freshness.
The materials are never heavy, the de-
sired warmth being given by the quilted
Innings, which are both warm and light.
A lace ruche should be put under the
hat brim to make it becoming. These
ruches are to be bought ready made aS
almost all the shops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
Fashions In Jewelry

Gold and pearl jewelry is exceedingly
popular.
Gold and silver sleeve links, with col
ored enameled centers. are quite new.
AS to brooches, fashion favors the so
called round pins" of which there is
an immense assortment. Jewellers
Circular.
Finger rings are legion, and are worn
on both hands in unrestricted numbers.
In gem jewelry a very desirable tone
Of green is constituted by tiny olivines.
Diamonds, now as always the most
opular Of gems. are advancing in price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
MUSIC TEACHING POINTS.
H1axims That Apply to Teachers In All
Departments of Music.

departments of Music.
The following points set forth for the
guidance of music teachers may not be
new, but they are worthy Of careful
consideration
The key to success in music teaching
is to do instead of to theorize; written
or oral explanations have their uses, but
practical demonstration is better, Hav-
ing a general idea of piece of music.
play it to the pupil-your performance
is worth all the explanations that were
ever spoken or written.
Translate your verbal theory into
practice; show how a scherzo differs
from an adagio, how an emotion of joy
differs from an emotion of pain. To
bestow correct expression, not merely
the pianos and fortes, rallentandos and
accelerandos, but phrasing, rhythmical
feeling and accen tuation have to be no.
ticed, and need all the care of both exec
utant and teacher. The art Of accom-
panying soloists is very difficult, and
many otherwise fine musicians of tai
ent and good standing come to grief
through it. Good practice in accompa-
nying is secured by the teacher playing
solo in different styles; the accompa-
nists will then be prepared to fall in
with any conception felt by the soloist,
should they be called upon to accompa-
ny stranger.
Before placing piece Of music before
band the teacher should study it thor
oughly, make mental Cor better still a
penciD note of points where the pupils
are likely to come to grief, and SO be
prepared to show them how to get over
their difficulties.
No two pupils can be treated absolute
ly alike, either in a purely technical or
musical sense. The teacher has to think
out the artistic path for each pupil and
lead him or show him the way through
it. This requires thought and the ex-
penditure of nervous and physical ener-
gy. Teaching is nerve wearing. A vast
amount Of vital energy is constantly
being expended, not only during teach
ing hours, but in the hours of private
study and thought, which muet daily
be done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
College women Do Not MARY Younx.

The college woman marries later. The
most rapid increase in the rate, in the
figures just given for college women, is
between the ages of % and 80, showing
marriage most frequent at this period,
while for women in general it is most
frequent between 90 and 25. The census
shows 81 per cent Of all girls between
Is and 20 married, an age at which vir-
tually no college women ever marry.
1.-THE Marriage Rate of College Wom-
an" by Milicent ". Shinn, in Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
GRAINED Oxsters.

Put in the chatting dish tablespoonfuls
of butter, half a pint of milk or cream,
a saltspocnful of salt and little pep
per; also a sprinkle Of mace. When it
boils up, add half cupful of cracker
crumbs, and add pint of oysters. Serve
Is soon as the oysters look plump.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

RENO is the banner corn county of the
state this year with crop of more than
100000 bushels. The counties besides
this producing in excess of 100000
bushels are sedgwick, POMawatomie,
Usage and Nemaha.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

TIE mist is gradually rolling away.
The New York World has been doing
some figuring and finds that the cause of
the Democratic defeat in the Empire
state was the fact that $4,000 Demo-
Gratis stayed at home who voted at the
last state election, while only $4,000 Re-
publicans absented themselves from the
POLLS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

Mr.. BRICE, who was Democrat in
Ohio, may be a Republican in Washing
ton and q mugwump in Rhode island
but he can be depended upon to be a
Brice man all the time and in all places.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

IT appears now that there is nothing
in the way of the people of Edwards
county hanging the murderers of Kins-
ley's mayor if they want to do SO. We
shall see what they will do since the
responsibility has been shifted from the
governor to themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

THE strike on the Great Northern has
gone TO join the great majority of its
predecessors. 1t ended in the absolute
and unconditional surrender of the
strikers,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
strikers.

JOHN J. INGALLS, scored on J. Ra lph
Burton in the recent election when
Atchison county gave j COED round Re
publican majority while Dickinson
county was Populist by 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
Daily Average 1884.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR-
NAL has ever been able to mako for period OF
any six months in its history.
This is greater figure than was reached by
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894.
The American Newspaper Directory, issued In
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894. gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only s7+4- These
figures were furnished by the publishers Of Tho
Capital. to the Directory. and are guaranteed to
be correct By a forfeit of 500. which will be
paid to any one disproving their correctness
The following figures substantiated by sworn
statements in detail giving every issue for the
first six months in 1898. 1894 and 1895. shows tbs
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

Clean brass with hot water, rubbing
then with soft cloth and lemon juice,
rinsing in hot water and polishing with
chamois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

WHEN the Reed and Allison booms
come together Mckinley is likely to be
swept out of sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

CHICAGO. Nov. 10. - For Kansas:
Rain today; rain in east portion tonight;
fair Thursday; colder winds, shifting to
northwest,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than al other Topeka daiiies
combined. only proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATE JOvRNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead CT the combined circulation OF
all the other Topeka dai.ies.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
, JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large, as the evening trains In
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the first aid latest Associated
Press and state news OF the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13

II you want ALL the news subscribe
fer the JOURNAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

BY its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown TO
have circulation. during the first six months
as stated of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-13
Wonderful Growth.

caily average for first six
months Of 1928. 10000.
Daily average for Arst siz
months Ct 1884.
Daily average for arst six
months Of 1s95........
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12

and loll on the cushioned chairs pro- vided along the promenades at will. Omnibuses and underground trains are rarely without representatives from the class, and in the best of restaurants they are constantly in evidence, ire quently without male escort and pulp licly desirous of obtaining one. There is scarcely a London stree1-note except ing the exclusively fashionable West end residence thoroughfares, whose sidewalks are not on their regular beats, and they make not the slightest effort to conceal their trade.
 The London policeman is powerless to interfere with them so long as they create no disturbance, unless they stand more than five consecutive min utes in one place (and he may order any citizen to move along" in similar eircumstancesl, or unless they become so offensive in their demonstrations as to force some man to the humiiating process of making formal complaint and appearing against them at the police station and afterward in court They are permitted to rent quarters and live wherever they can secure ae- commodations, and they cannot be dis turbed by neighbors unless they prove to be such noisy and generally disorder ly tenants as to interfere with the quiet and salubrious occupation of ad- joining houses. In other words, there is a wrongdoing which is not recognized officially as being in existence, and they receive precisely the same official consideration-no more, no less, no better, no worse-in the daily and nightly life of London that every one else receives.
 It is the law here that every public house and all restaurants (except few which have been specially licensed for the convenience of newspaper en- ployes, eabmen and other night work ers) must close at half-past twelve o'clock on every weekday night ex- cept Saturday, when business must cease at midnight promptly. This law is enforced with a whole-souled impar- tiality not less than stunning to an American. and this is so thoroughly un- derstood ny everyone that no one even so much as tries to violate it. But the women of the town have found q way of evading it through the medium of supper clubs, regularly incorporated as clubs and entirely legal There are more than a hundred of these clubs in London, drawing their male member ship from all classes and their female membership from but the one. In their rooms, often beautifully fitted up, dancing and drinking may go on ad libitum, provided that the revelry stops with these two amusements. Extension !. of it beyond these lines invariably means raid.
 am assured by the police that this class in London is recruited in way
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different from that obtaining in New York or elsewhere. The woman here are more rarely the casual unfortunates familiar to American cities, where q single false step taken through igno- rance or passion or sheer inability to make living by other means drives so many girls to evil ways. Here, he says, many of the recruits come from homes where they have been reared with abso- lutely nothing else in view They are designed for it by their parents, whose poverty is so great that no other future can possibly await their girls. Thus, looking forward to no other prospect, they enter the life with no feeling of regret for better things left behind, and without shame. Surely the entirely in different attitude of English law seems unlikely to ch..1ge this situation.
 And the sentiment of London is un- occasionally thoroughly favorable to
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for weeks some fashionable West end house was plundered. In each case the tear marks the burglar left behind were the same, and the police became convinced that they were all committed bv me man. who worked without an accomplice. and who worked with the most carefully devised and expert tools. A peculiarity of his work was his splen- did iudoment of valuables. He never in any circumstance carried off bit oI plate. He took only solid silver and only of the finest sort. He was never greedy. It was evident that he did not care to risk the chance of de- lection which too much plunder would brinr about. Of two solid teapots he invariably chose the one of most artistic design. 1t is a matter of tradition that he distinguished between diamonds and paste with the same unerr- inc accuracy. He robbed the house of a noble dame one night after dinner party. She had four diamond hairpins of which she was very fond. But she wanted eight, and finally had four pins made of paste, gold mounted, as were the real stones, and so exactly like the genuine jewels that she frankly admitted that it was only after the most minute examination that she could herself distinguish between the false and the true. When she retired a careless maid left the eight pins lying together on a dressing table. The
 Fl, ig,c gi iT1lT n the real diamonds were missing. The four paste pins were undisturbed. The i house bore the marks of the Solitary Cracl1sman'sa work
 Another of his achievements was to rob a house on Grosvenor place of about half of it's silver. 1t was evi- dent that he had not cared to burden himself with the remainder After this robbery, on the theory that light ming never strikes twice in the same place" neither the police nor the in mates of the house expected second visit, and valuables were not more carefully guarded than before. The second night following the Solitary Cracl1sman" called and carried off the silver he had previously left.
 When he was finally captured it was found that his success had been in a large measure due to his disguise. He always dressed like a simple work. man, going around London with dim ner pail in one hand-which contained his carefully made tools-and with the straw basket which carpenters carry there to hold their implements--in which he placed his plunder. 4 man of that appearance would attract no attention anywhere in London. He committed more than one hundred burglaries be fore he was finally locked up.
 But burglary is by no means a popu- lar crime in London. The laws gov erning property rights are very severe. A man may be sent to prison for from
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here similar to Dun's and Bradstreat's. A representative of R. c. Dun &s Co. is now in London, but he has probably learned fas have that if such an agency is organized it will almost cer- tainly be in the government hands. A man who knows estimates that at least e2,0o0,000 has been stolen through long firm swindling in London during the last twelve months.
 London is not without it's clever burglars. Few burglaries occur there. comparatively speaking, but the vast stores of plate and jewels which some London houses contain, especially dur ing the season, make tempting bait. The cleverest burglar who operated in London since Jimmy" Pease was q chap was captured toward the end of last years season. Every second nicbt
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seven to fourteen years for theft amounting to fourpence ha'penny; while it is possible for him to escape with a three months sentence for man slaughter London is so well policed that burglary is a most hazardous pro- fession. It is well known, however. that burglary is rife in the suburbs and country places which make up the fringe and the environs of the metropo- lis, and that the perpetrators of these crimes go out from London to commit them and come back to London to spend their booty Thousands of what America calls fences" = receivers, shops" in London-are scattered over the city, and occasionally one is raided. when elaborate appliances for melting down gold and silver-such as the fur naces and crucible in the Black museum are discovered. About three years ago one of these melting-down estab- hshments was unearthed in strange way. One of the biggest jewelry man. ufacturing concerns in London aroused the hatred of its rivals by underselling them. war of prices resulted, and this firm cut it's rates away below the intrinsic value of the precious metals used in the articles on sale. This aroused suspicion, and the rival firms began an investigation with the help of certain clever detectives. In 2 short time 1t was discovered that the hrn was and had been for years rnak- ing its jeWelry out of stolen metal which 1t bought of thieves at much less than it's weight value.
 The pickpoeket in London is omni- present and expert. He is of all kinds and sizes-to resort to an Irish bull-he Is often woman. The great field for London picl1pockets is now almost gone. In the old days the omnibuses were provided with long seats. known as knife boards" 4 pentlemanl,, Iooklng operator on one of these knife board seats, where, as is often the case there was good bit of erowding and Jostling, had easy access to the pockets ot men on both sides of him. When the omnibus companies began to chance the style of seats the number of pick pocket cases began to fall off immedi- ately. -'i' iii'''-
 But there are enough of them left to make that man wise who carries his purse in an inside pocket. The most Puzzllng of the lot are the little boys modern Oliver Twists. Boy thieves arc known L,I as ''gonophs" or s"gunniffs ; lhey swarm in crowded places. such as oneatef exits, procession mobs, or the. coneourses cone, that gather about outdoor meetings, such as those of the men. ployed on Tower hill and at Trafalgar square. They work on regular sys. oeins' cunningly devised. For instance d, mob may consist of four fin, thieves. They will pretend to be bav. Ing game of romp through the cro1aa ,1a
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A BEET weighing eight and one-hali pounds was recently grown on a Ne vada farm.
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leaving things precisely as they are. When, recently, Mrs. Ormiston Chant and her followers fought out their cru sade against granting license for the sale of liquor in the Empire Music hall, and the closing of the promenade, be- cause it was frequented by these wom- en, the county council had to pass through a baptism of fire before it suc= ceeded in granting the demands of the reformers. Many of the important newspapers declared unhesitatingly in favor of the license, and a popular vote on the question would undoubtedly have carried the Empires soiled ban ner through by four to one. Even now, after the license has been re- fused and the promenade nominally closed, it is at once apparent that noth- ing has been gained on the side of pub lie deeency The women still throng the Empires corridors, and, while drinks may not be ordered from the seats or boxes, the thirsty man or wom- an can purchase as much liquor as he or she may please, at the bar. To all the other music haIIs-and there are many of them-the old license was granted without restriction this year as heretofore.
 The British public regards all this with the same indifference with which the British law regards it. Indeed, it sometimes seems as if the feeling leans bit the other way, and becomes abso- lute complacency. Noone complains of the presence of the women, and the plying of their trade in the street or in the cars and omnibuses or other public places; their supper clubs are apparent ly looked upon as being entirely legiti- mate, and their brazen exhibition at the music halls by no means keeps either the virtuous British matron or any of her family away from those pop
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ular places of amusement. This is a strange city.
 The school board laws, which have done so much to clear the city's streets of baby criminals, have reacted in a strange way. Ut is a good thing which does not have a boomerang con- cealed about it's person. is a remark that some one ought to make without delay It might help him toward the accumulation of reputation The school board laws, while they have taught some ignorant people that it is easier to make an honest living than it is to steal ones way, have also edu- cated many criminals up to clever tricks. They have, Chief Superinten- dent Shore thinks, increased the num- Der of so-called business swindles by more than half One form of this