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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Mrs. Martha Bushnell Conine, mem
Der of the Colorado state legislature,
has published answers to three of the
objections most frequently heard to wo-
man suffrage. The answers are as fol-
lows:
mo. 1. Men would lose their respect
for women A woman running for Of
flee would be liable to assaults upon her
character, and campaign would neceS-
state her coming into contact with dis
agreeable and degrading conditions
Answer: My own observation and eX-
perience do not in the least sustain this
objection. The men with whom we
came in contact treated US in precisely
the same manner which prevails when
men and women meet in society, IN
church or elsewhere. There were the
names of SO women candidates on the
ballot of our last election, but, notWith-
standing the fact that this has been the
most exciting campaign in the history
of our state, not one word deroSatory
to the dignity of any one of those Wo-
men appeared, so far as know, in any
newspaper in the state
"ObjectiOn No 2. Women would lose
her love for domestic avOcations, her
children would be neglected, and home
would be no longer attractive to parents
and children Answer: A true woman's
home is to her the first consideration on
earth. Very little else should be requir-
ed of the mother of young children than
their proper care and training. But the
mother OF young children is by no
means the only woman NOT one OF the
women elected in Colorado this year has
young children, and these women will
probably enjoy as much of the society
of their families as is usual in the aver
age home where the aVocations OF the
different members separate them
through the day.
CORRECTIONS No g. Women of i'm
moral character would be particularly
active in politics, and women who are
now self-respecting would be cOntarni-
mated by politics and become as corrupt
as the gang element among the men
Answer: The women Of the demimOnde
in Denver declined to register, but were
compelled to do SO, also to vote, by the
gang Their action shows that if left
to themselves they would take no part
in the election. The most cultured, most
intelligent women of the state are the
ones most deeply interested and most
active in politics.
The women, realizing their ignor-
ance of political subjects, went to work
at once to inform themselves, and in
their endeavor to grasp the subject
aroused new interest in the minds of
their men friends, and 1 am positive that
there is a better understanding Of pOlit-
zeal methods ond of desirable reforms
among the men in our state, particular
ly in our cities, than ever existed be-
fore outside the circle of the profession
al politicians. 1t would be very strange
indeed, if the women had made no mis-
takes, but, comparing their progress in
two years with the results in the pre-
vious 100 years of disfranchisement they
may we'll be proud of their record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
JEER MISSOURI AWHILE.

The eastern newspapers seem to be
neglecting their business in not calling
attention in long winded editorials and
scare head articles to the crank Mis-
souri, legislature. Missouri is a western
state. Can't they spare enough time
from berating Kansas to give Missouri
a round. In the way of a text, atten-
ton is called to the fact that a bill has
been introduced into the legislature of
the state making faithlessness to his
wife on the part of a married man, I'M
der any circumstances punishable by i'm
prisonment for five years. This must
be regarded as crankism gone mad by
New York. Another refOrmer has in
troduced bill making flirting on rail-
road trains punishable by a fine of $25.
This would clearly come under the head
of a restriction of personal liberty. in
the mind of Senator Hill. Only yester-
day the senator made an appeal on the
floor of the United States senate for
the retention of the saloon in the ma
tional capitol Surely, the metropolitan
journals should be able to spare a little
time and space to Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
FAMILIAR KANSAS NAMES.

Ed Hoch dug wells before he went into
the newspaper business.
Abe Steinberger. late of the Middle-of-
the-roaders has joined the Republicans
and is working with the party in Craw-
ford county
c. S. Jobes of Attica, who mixes up a
little politics with a good deal of stock
business, recently shipped single car of
hogs from northwest Texas, which con-
tanned 394 They were Arkansas razor
ba cks with noses eighteen inches long. In
two months he will be selling them for
Chester Whites and Poland Chinas
professor Dyche missed several North
Pole lectures On account of the cold
weather His audiences probably got hot
about it.
Columbus Borin's brother Frank, who
lives in Stockton is the father of thir-
teen children, all alive and we'll Frank
is all right, and 'Lum is redeeming him
self among the boys since he is putting
some good, hard work on his Oberlin Eye
w Y. Morgan's first newspaper work
was reporting for the Lawrence Journal
while attending the university.
Ewing Herbert was asked at the edf-
+o~fal association if the Halstead-Pren-
t;ssN Rurdefte combination didn't make a
Great newspaper trio. and he replied that
Fl ala bIIf If they only had another good
man, him and Bill White could beat it.
Charles Morea1 HargeF says boldly that
most of the poetry written ia Kansas is
rot and doggerel-
Judge T. F. Carver hastens % deny mai
he would like to be dean of the scno0l
of the state university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
SUSAN B. ALL RIGHT.

This is what Miss Susan B. Anthony
says to reporter for the Chicago Tri-
bune. says the Buffalo Times:
''Newspa pers? oh, L love them, and
I read them faithfully. They are my
recreation and amusement, as well as
my education
Miss Anthony has spent a lifetime
ahead of her fellows, but this remark
shows that she is in perfect sympathy
with the spirit Of the age and knows a
good thing when she sees it. In her
opinion of the newspapers she is right.
Newspapers hold the mirror up to hui
mainly In them are faithfully re-
fected the faults and foibles, the graces
and virtues of the human heart. To the
student of any department of human
affairs they afford an almost unlimited
field of observation. They widen the
horizon of mans vision. They are to
all men what the telescope is to the as
tronomer. He might have some knoWl-
edge of the stars without that instru-
ment, but such knowledge would be
crude indeed compared with the Won
ders revealed to him by its use.
So we say, all honor to Miss Anthony.
She is a woman of rare sense and judg-
ment.
Now is the time to subscribe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
CHILDREN A BLESSING.
IBill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.

tBill Arp in Atlanta constitutional
But with all the cares, anxieties and
foreboding, children are our greatest
blessing and the family the greatest
bulwark of good society and good gov
eminent 1t is the law of our being
that man and woman should mate and
marry and rear children, and there is
no substitute for the marriage relation.
l hardly knew the value of a child I'M
til a few weeks ago a dear little grand
child got sick-Very sick, and for days
and nights was very near the gate of
heaven. She suffered and we watched
and suffered with her. Her little lips
and throat were swollen and inf1amed
with diphteheretic sores. Her lungs rat
tied with pneumonia. How she plead
ed with US for help-for relief-pleaded
with eyes and hands, and we could do
nothing but careSs her and weep. I
would have given a million dollars yes
ten million, if L had had it to relieve
that child and save her from suffering.
Prayers or medicine or good nursing or
something saved her, and we are all
grateful. What is the value of a child
anyhow? If one was up at auction
what would the mother give? How in
significant is property or gold or silver
when compared with it. What are we
all working for but children, their hap
plness and prosperity. Daniel Webster
the greatest man this country has ever
produced, said: "A good father will
Shrink from no toll, no sacrifice to raise
his children to better condition than
his own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
MoDJEsKA's MOUNTAIN HOME.
[From the Chicago Times-Herald.l

IFrom the Chicago Times Herald
Modjeska and her husband, the Count
BOzenta, are both conn OiSSeurS of art
and lovers of nature. Some years since
they CHANGED upon a wild and beautiful
spot in the mountains of the coast range
about fifty miles southeast of Los AM
geles. 1t so suited their fancy that
they were not satified until they had
established home there. A writer in
the Land of Sunshine states that this
home of the great artist is far away
from hurry and hustle. UP in canon
is nestled the unpretentious white frame
villa, Arden" named in honor of
Shakespeare's Forest of Arden" In
this summer home Nine. MOdjeska
spends as much of her time as her busy
life will permit.
The entrance to the Modjeska canon
widens into a magnificent park. By
buying up different Claims from old
mountaineers they have now about 1000
acres of land The tillable part has
been planted with orchards of oranges
olives, walnuts and deciduous fruits
and a considerable vineyard. The noun
tain sides afford abundant grazing for
the f1OckS and herds. Two miles or
more from the entrance is the house.
situated whiting a crescent of the
mountain, which rises behind it in a
terraced greenery. In front of the
house is an old fashioned stone curbed
we'll.
Beyond the house the scene becomes
more wild and rugged; the mountains
crouch closer together, leaving only
room for the road and the stream to
wind about and in and OUT until the
road disappears and nature is left in
undisturbed sublimity. Count Bozenta,
with the aid of Ralph MNdjeska's en-
gineering SKILL has conducted water
from these mountain solitudes for do
nestle purposes and for irrigating his
orchards. In the improvements that
have been made there has been an eff
fort to supplement the natural beau
ties but to leave nature as undisturbed
as possible, and the result is most pleas
ing.
The house is quaint and attractive in
it's appearance, charming in its arrange
ment and interesting throughout. But
the room about which the rest of the
house seems to cluster is a large one
which serves as studio, library and
music room combined. The walls are
lined with bookcases containing valu-
able libraries in Polish, French and
English. A fireplace of medieval de-
sign, built of hewn stone, with a high
narrow shelf, is ornamental; the cool
evenings and mornings are made more
comfortable by its open fire. Couches
in coy corners, an organ and a con-
cert grand piano combine with pictures
and art treasures picked up in all lands
to make this room most quaint and at
tractive The light comes through a
stained glass window high up in the
north gable.
ProIxen edpa collars made smooth by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
LONDON AND NEW YORK so.
CIETY

Mr.. Henry Labouchere of London in the
last issue of his Truth takes occasion
to pass some criticism on New York So
ciety in general and the participants in
the Seeley dinner in particular. Clearly
the sayings common in America re
garding people who live in glass
houses and the pot calling the ket-
tie black are not familiar to Mr.. La
bouchere or he has failed to appreciate
their import.
New York upper crust society is
doubtless bad, very bad, decaying, If
he will, but when compared with SINH
lar circles in London it must appear as
immaculate as the snow. New York
may have her 100000 violators of their
marriage vows, her $4,000 men under
bonds to support their families. and her
Seeley dinners. but what are such things
when compared with the conditions
brought to light almost weekly in the
London divorce courts?
What has ever been known of New
York that could compare with the Sir
Charles Dixie affair and hundreds of
others in which the so-called nobility
have been shown up in light with
which anything in the history of the
orgies of ancient Rome, which Mr. La
bouchere refers to must pale into insig-
nifcance Hasn't London her Oscar
Wilde, and have the facts brought out
on the trial which sent him to prison
been so soon forgotten.
The Cleveland street scandal also
might be recalled. The editor of Truth
accuses New Workers of aping Euro
pean society, but the accusation can
hardly be said to be well-founded- If
there are any Sir Charles Dilkes or
Oscar WiIdes in New York society, they
have so far failed of detection. They
have at least refrained from Haunting
their disgusting sensualism in the face
of the public.
Mr.. Labouchere shold remove the
beam from his own eye before calling
attention to the mote in the eye of his
fellow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS



Jesse Bartlett Davis hopes and be-
lieves that opera in the English langu-
age will steadily grow in favor and so
strongly that in America at least there
will be no home for operate produc-
lions in a foreign tongue. For my
part excIaims Miss Davis, q would
very much like to see a revival of the
old romantic operas, produced after the
sumptuous fashion of the comic operas
of the present day. Selections from them
never fail to stir an audience, and re-
vived in their entirety under favora BILE
auspices they could not fail to score.
The public really yearps, I believe, for
some librettist to rise up and free these
librettos in which they lie enchanted.
have noticed the success of these songs
so many times that 1 am sure success
would attend the efforts of the man
who would undertake their resurrec-
ton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM

The New York Journals comment on
criticisms made of its new policy says:
The Journal has been so strongly i'm
pressed by the lofty attitude of moral
lty and Indignation toward the new
Journalism assumed by the Sun and its
contemporaneous old journalists that it
has overlooked the fact thus pungently
stated by Truth, of this city:
For some years the Sun has been
loud in its protests against the new
journalism with its sensational fea-
lures and general vileness, and yet the
most circumStantial and sensa tional re-
port of a recent police trial appeared in
it's columns. This leads Truth to be-
lieve the morality of the Sun is like
that of the man described by Dryden.
He thought himself virtuous because he
piously refrained from all expensive
sins. When sensational news can be
secured cheaply and without too much
effort, it appears to be as welcome in
the Sun office as in any other office on
Printing House square"
That is the fact. The reason the old
journalism doesn't like the Journal is
that the Journal gets the news, no mat
ter what it costs. The Sun and its kind
cannot afford to spend money since the
Journal has taken their readers away
from them, and the proba bility is they
would not do so if they could afford it.
They are still living in the Silurian age.
BEECHAMS PILLS for Stomach and
Liver ills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
lola ON THE ACADEMY.

(From the Denver Republican.
When Emile lola heard that he got
only four votes this time in the election
of members for the French academy,
instead of eight the last time, he said:
What 1 have really four. am sur
prised, for l never expected it, having
taken no part in the poll. The election
was arranged before hand, and there
fore it was useless to pay any at
tention to it. To tell the truth, these
academic elections have no effect on
me. confine myself to putting up for
every seat vacant, and then 1 wait to
hear the result without the slightest
emotion. OF course, shall continue a
candidate, but no longer pay the ira
ditional visits. 1 paid them once, and
that is enough. 1 am again a candidate
for the seat of Jules Simon. AS regards
that of NJ Challemel Lacour, the Gus
tomary period of mourning has only
just expired. and I shall wait a few
days more before coming forward for
his seat. And I shall continue to go on
in this way. Where it will lead me to,
goodness only knows"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
ONE VIEW OF LIBEL.

Lyndon Remark: A couple of Topeka
fellows have sued the State Journal for
$40, 900 damage each on account of artic-
les published in that paper stating that
they had been expelled from an o. NJ.
B. We presume there are people of so
fine feeling and sensibilities they would
take offense at being kicked out of the
internal regions. Coarse-grained people
like we'uns down here would get mad
and sue paper quicker for telling that
we belong to an o. NJ. B.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
eek RAYs.n

The big ''bead indian has been ban
ished from the Kansas City union depot.
just cross the avenue.-Ottawa Republi-
can.
a matrimonial trust by marrying sixteen
wives is now in jail, meditating over the
problem, rs marriage failure '-Arkan-
sas City Traveller.
Nobody is to be blamed for the ground
ing Of the Brooklyn, of course. The great
and costly ships of the navy go stumbling
into all kinds of clumsy situations dam
aging themselves in Immense amounts
and nobody is ever to blame.-Leaven-
worth Times
We have not heard of any Kansas edi-
tors that have received an invitation to
Tribune.
The Topeka husbands whose wives have
been experimenting on them with the
Pure Food show receipts are now recon-
ciled to drug store whisky.-Newton Kan
san.
A number of Kansas Republicans are
getting their pictures in the papers, none
of them are cabinet SiZe.-Council Grove
Republican.
There are times in the long dark night
when Mckinley must be subject to the
depressing realization that he was boys
together'' with a COMPOUNDED large num-
Der of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Eagle.
If the grounding is to have anything to
say about spring weather, it is time to lay
in a supply of garden seeds for early
planting.-Fort Scott Monitor.
The new secretary of agriculture is the
Oldest of fourteen children. 1t is no won
der that he has developed hustling quail
ties.-Lawrence Journal.
u
J. P Bixler was telling US Saturday of
an energetic and industrious hen that
Matched brood of chickens last week.
That hen is doubtless regretting that she
did not consult our weather clerk before
assuming the responsibilities of q family
with the mercury below zero and the coal
bin empty.-Augusta Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05

The new STATE JOURNAL home Is
one of the neatest and most unique
buildings In the state model
newspaper structure. Its fast web
press and It's Iinotypes are on the
the ground floor, behind plate glass,
affording never ceasing attraction
TO the rasserby ON the sidewalk.
The public can see and time the
printed papers and know that over
ten thousand are issued daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05

When you are a fool don't pretend to be
a sage.
A fat man is all right so long as he is
not in his own way
The complaint known as grip is as i'm
pressing as unrequfted love-
There are few men who can look i'm
pressed when their wives talk about
economy.
When some. people find that, they can't
afford anything else. they decide that
they can afford more medicine.
If you can't sing, or recite, or play the
plane give thanks you 70 , escape more
A boy never expresses the love he feels
for his mother. and seldom feels the love
he expresses for other women.
When q man tells woman his troubles.
and she says that there is something
about her that, induces all the men l., to .
confide in her. he receives lesson that
ought to do him good
The story comes from St. Joe that a
teacher there recently whipped boy
very severely Every time a friend called
to sympathize with the mother, she sent
her boy out in the yard to get stick of
the size that was used in whipping him,
to show to the Sympath1zer- Inc boy
brought in a larger stick every time, and
finally began to carry in logs of such
enormous size that he one day over-eX-
erted his strength, burst a blood vessel,
and died.
To make work little easier, the fol-
lowing form will be kept standing at this
office to be used by women who give
parties: THE card party given by Mrs.
- was unusually elegant There We're
- tables, and the head prize, a lovely
-, was won by The re-
freshments were unusually elegant. They
consisted of -, -, and -. Misses
- and - had charge of the -
table while Misses - and - dis
pensed the -. The party was in honor
of - who was becomingly attired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05

There are no secrets about
the STATE JOURNALS
circulation. A detailed
statement, signed and
sworn to, is issued annu-
ally, showing the circu-
Iation for each day i'm
the year. The statement
is sent to directories and
furnished advertisers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05

The American Newspaper Directory
each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL a guaranteed cir
cuiation. The directory for 1896
guarantees that the circulation
was larger than that OF any other
Topeka daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05

Tho STATE JOURNAL. has forty
three regular route carriers i'm To-
peka and suburbs. These carriers
alone are paid over $4,000 a year
for circulating the paper In this
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-05
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