The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-20

her listeners even in death dealing heat
Mrs Lease was brought up on But
ler's Lives Of the Saints" and Chalon-
er's fluctuations for Every Day in the
Year" Mrs. Leases mother was OF
the most strict sort, and young gentle
men who called on the four daughters
were promptly informed at 8 o'clock
that 1t was time to leave, as the family
then retired.
NEVER BEEN TO A THEATER.
Mrs. Lease has never been to thea
ter Yet she is arriving at the ldet
that she missed her avocation and
ought to have gone on the stage: she
IS only seven years old to the pubic
She had never been into political
meeting and simply slipped into one
chapeFoned by the protecting presence
of two newspaper women, just to get
out of a rainstorm. She made a speech
the first of her life, that day, and from
that time on she has been talking
7 went up Ike rocket Perhaps
III come down like one" she added
I'm not in politics I'm IN morals. 1
never plan. I work for principle"
I asked her if she thought she was
doing right in making ineendiary and
inf1ammatory speeches
The tigress, the fighting Scotch Muir
ray and Irish Clyen blood leaped into
the big vein on her left brow.
She turned on me, an angry woman.
How dare you say I make incen-
diary speeches? Point to one sentence
if you can that is incendiary And that
one woman to charge another with
such crime" Sadness, then a fresh
burst Of anger How dare you? Can
you tell me of one incendiary thing I
have ever said? No, you won't, for I
have never in my life said So
could have told her of dozens If the
papers quote her correctly, but abso-
lutely, Mrs Lease, I am satisfied, does
not believe they are dangerous.
Z make people think I tell them to
settle things by the ballot
And Mrs Lease sincerely believes
that.
I do my best and intend to work,
so that l can say I've done my share.
Now go do yours said she.
So. MORALS NOT POLITICS.
Results-ResuIts don't make and diff
ference to Mrs. Lease. She lives above
results in a rarefied atmosphere. She
said So Results-they are not even
considered. 1t is morals she's after,
not politics or results.
Thousands of people wonder what
Mrs Lease is working for; what one or
two specific objects she wants to ac-
cOmplish.
The only end I could find she has in
mind is mere work. She works for the
love of it rather than results. But when
Mrs Lease arrives at her goal she will
build a home for children-litt1e chill
dren-Where she can work out her ideas
and theories of how children can be
made into responsible citizens and vo-
tiers.
nave had her confession on that
point
1t will cost lots of money. but I'll
have it some time. There isn't a door
that can stay closed to me- and Mrs
Lease raised her tall figure to its fullest
stature and closed her Jaws like a til
gress on it's prey. mo. a door that 1
desire to pass through can stay shut.
expect, know sometimes I can see
that the money is coming to me for it.
I, oh, can feel many things and hear
many voices-yes, I am, they tell me,
clairvOyant''
Isn't Mrs. Lease a study?
And in five minutes she was entranc-
ed in the effect Of a stunning black
an old family jewel, a small emerald
she wears at her throat. that has lust
been valued by a New York jeweler at
81, 100.