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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
The Clerical Embargo on Kissing.

From the New York Press.
With the advent of the warm season II
appears from sundry items of news
throughout the country that the young
mans fancy brightly advances from mere.
thoughts Of love to overt acts of solid os-
culstion- kissing is now at a premium,
with a rising market.
"A Kentucky man." remarks the Cincin-
natl Tribune-and here we must remark
in addendum how they do lay off good
things Of all kinds on the brawny sciOns OF
old K~entucky-"was fined SIS last week for
kissing n girl once. About three months
back another man in the same state was
fired $40 for kissing another girl three
times. 1t will be interesting to watch these
osculatOry experiments. for by so doing
We may discover just how often it is nee
essary TO kiss a Kentucky girl without in
curing the displeasure Of the law"
To this we may reply before passing to
another phase of this burning question that
any man who wouldn't kiss a Kentucky
girl more than once or thrice ought to be
fined ten times $25 or be sent I'D for at
least nine months. But a more important
point raises itself in a dispatch from Bur
lington. Pa. 10 the Philadelphia Times.
The elders of the Presbyterian SUNDAY
school. which recently held its annual pic
mic in the Bustleton woods, put forth an
edict that no kissing games would be al
lowed at said picnic as heretofore. The
game particularly tabooed was Copenha-
gen, an invention for indiscriminate, Utah
an OSCILLATION which might have eheered
the soul of the melancholy Dane had it
been current in Hamlet's days. and saved
him from thoughts OF suicide. matricide
and a~vunculicide Other games. besides.
came under the clerical ban. such as post
office. which allows the rural swain to an
nource as many letters for his iadylovs
as he feels he has kisses In the warm
storage battery OF his agile. electric lips.
Question inevitably arises whether IL this
particular branch of the church universal
eNccmmunicatcs OSCILLATION as a picnic
recreation. young Presbyterians Of both
sexes may not be tempted TO enter other
religious denominations where kissing in
the open. instead OF au clair de Ia lune. is
officially Countenanced. And on the heels
Of this question merrily trips the sugges-
tinu whether. if girls and boys are not per-
mitted to expend their labial energies in
public. they may not be impelled to make
up in private for such Sunday school total
abstinence.
Clandestine kisses. unless all amatory
poets from Anacreon and Ovid down to
Byron and Swinburne be unconscionable
liars. are pre-eminently perilous. Buses
in secret have been known to railroad both
busser and bussee to perdition or matrf-
mony. Much painfully acquired modesty
Of opinion and a regrettabIe lack of re-
ligiCus data and clerical statistics prevent
US from Offering any ex cathedra ultima
tum on this phase of the matter. All we
feel safe in saying is that. from a calm
study of the facts all over our glorious
Union it is evident that the kiss crop OF
the United States is as large as ever-aye,
no failure in the harvest there
OF need be a~pprehended. Lips will have
their way.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
FOREIGN LANDS.

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands,
I saw the next door garden lie.
Adorned with flowers. before my eve
And many pleasant places more
That 1 had never seen before.
I saw the dimpling river pass
And be the sky's blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping into town.
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther / should see.
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the p~laythings come alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
OF BURIAL.

The sunlight sways the summer sky.
Quivers with breath each qu!cken'6
blade.
The birds with one another vie
To move to mir;h the grove and glade
While yonder solemn cavalcade
Winds DER the Glebe in gloom august.
Chanting a dead mans serenade.
Ashes to ashes. dust 10 dust.
a smile is mated 10 a sigh.
One flashes ere the other fade,
Farce sarm-in-arm with tragedy,
So struts the motley masquerade.
Youth deems for joy the world is made.
Till disappointment deals disgust.
Disease dchles the last decade,
Ashes to ashes. dust TO dust.
Within the grave our earnest eye
Beholds a brothers body laid.
us sOmber hirelings ply
The u%nctuous usage of their trade.
Beneath the hedgerow laughs a maid,
Held in a lovers arm robust;
One day for her it shall be said,
Ashes TO ashes, dust to dust.
ENVOI.
Life. dost thou still possess the shade
OF him in earth so rudely thrust?
Canst thou the sentence yet evade,
Ashes to ashes. dust to dust?
-Cotsford Dick,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
JcMish /.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
In the United States and in Great Brit
ain the Jew now suffers under no religious,
civic or political prescription A Jew may
be. and has been. prime minister of Great
Britain. lord mayor Of London. or Judge Of
the high court of judicature. In the United
States Jews have been generals of armies,
senator's and representatives In congress,
governors of states. mayors Of cities. judges
of courts of high jurisdiction. Among the
English-speaking nations the happy result
of neither Jew nor gentle. bond nor free. 4"
has been attained; but to each man is Civ
en- the right and power TO do the best that
he can for himself. according to the meas
ure of his abilities. whether his abilities be
military, commercial, political. literary or
artistic.
This wide measure of freedom has pro-
duced its natural result. The English
speaking Jew has ceased to sigh for the
reincarnation of a Davidian king or to
dream of n new exodus from all lands
toward Jerusalem. He is n citizen IF his
adopted country. In the United States he
is an American of the Americans. He is a
Jew by descent. as one is an Englishman.
one a Scotchu an. one a Pole. one al Ital-
ian. one an Irishman and one a negro. but
in company with them all he is an Amer
lean. native or naturalized. as the case
may be. He recognizes the greater power
for coed that belongs to the citizen of a
nation than to the member Of n tribe.
Thus the convention of Reform raobis.
recently in session at Montreal, passed 2
strong resolution -condennatory Of the
project of establishing an independent coll
ony of Jews i'm Palestine. The argument
chiefly used was that the time OF Je Eish
isolation has passed: that the Jew has a
part to play in the moral. social. indus
trial and political drama, and that he
cannot play il in Palestine as well as in
the English speaking countries Of the world
and especially in the United States of
n.r.nn
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
KANSAS TOPICS.

-
Unless w. L. Brown. chairman of the
state board of charities. lied most scandal
orsly last fall he is now in search of a
new name for himself. In a public speech
he declared that If the Republicans did
not issue bonds within six months after
election he would change his own name.
So far the only suggestions made are
Pitcher Bill' and willie Scallahoot."
An Ottawa paper says an old lady died
down there the other day with a LOOK
of peace. joy and satisfaction upon her
countenance." There may have been MOTH
ing more significant than a coincidence in
the next following sentence. which was
this: She had lived more than sixty years
with the same man."
The Pop Osborne County News declares
that 10 respectable and responsible person
has ever accused Lewelling of being dis
honest. This would appear TO be p~articu-
larry tough on Warden Lands, John Breid-
enthal, Superintendent Stryker. Senator
Titus and Secretary of State Bush.
81
The glorious Fourth was not celebrated
on a very large scale at Larned." saws the
Eagle-Optic. with the exception of about
fifty kegs of beer the celebration was a
very tame affair
The Topeka Capital asserts that the man
who drinks beer in hot weather drinks
more water than the man who does not
drink beer. All of which shows that the
Topeka Capital doesn't know enough abont
drinking beer to blow the foam off the
glass.
People who visited the Kansas state
house during the Morrill, administration
will pleasantly remember Captain w. r
Hiliman. who served as state house guild.
He was found dead in his chair at his
home in Sedan the other day.
That irrepressible colored man. E. p. Nc
Csbe. who was auditor Of Kansas in $50
{. has been appointed deputy auditor in
Oklahoma with a fighting chance for the
first place after October /. He was an
original Barnes man.
During President Cleveland's first admin
Riley Z. Holloway. Of Parsons.
was removed without cause from the posi-
tior OF railway mail clerk. Through the
offices Of Senator Lucien Baker he has
just been reinstated.
on July 2 DR.. William II. Warner Of
Girard. was gathered 10 his fathers. In
the early days OF Kansas DR.. Warner was
a prominent figure in politics. The in
cisive way in which he edited the Girard
Press during the COS is still fresh in mem |
DRY. He was the hardest fighter Southern
ever knew.
Extract from Pop history OF the Tinted
made by Victor Murdoch: AT this
time Grant was elected president. He was
an accomplice i'm the crime Of IS73 and
for his services. New York city. which i
owned by England. recently erected a mon
ument to him. Grant was succeeded by
who. etc"
A remarkable piece OF dialect work has
just been performed by a reporter for the
Wichita Eagle. He makes a Dutchmsn
speak the broadest of broken Swede.
Carl Swensson- Of Salina. is writing some
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
whnt Provision o ChiIdren.

From the New York World.
In the current North American Review
Elizabeth BisIand discusses In a very clever
and suggestive manner the rather startling
question. Are American Parents Selfish -
Such q question naturally raises a vision
OF the hard working fathers and mothers
who actually make slaves of themselves
TO give their children advantages which
they did not enjoy in their youth. This
type and this experience are common every
where in this country. The query like
wise brings to mind the rich men who
actually invite and promote the ruin OF
their boys by extravagant allowances and a
support in luxury that a prince might envy.
But the Review writer explains at the
outset that eff Indulgence invariably i'm
plies selhshness the American would have
nothing with which TO reprOaCh himself in
his relations with his children The error
has rather been on the side Of too much
fond g~entieness" and too great liberty.
but Miss Disland's point is that having
reared his children the average American
parent turns them out upon the world very
much as i mother bird pushes her fedg-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

wage a vigorous and continuous campaign
of education.
The case is by no means hopeless. 1t
was shown last fall that a large majority
Of the people have not hearkened to the
-demagogues nor regarded with favor their
doctrines OF socialism and revolution.
When hard times wholly disappear and
prosperity again smiles on the nation the
teachings Of these pessimistic preachers
will be estimated at their true value and
will influence only the mentally weak and
visionary. That time will be here before
the century expires.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
YEA, SPRING Is HEREr,

Yea, Spring is here. with all his ancient
fires.
Quick with old dreams, and thrilled with
new desires:
Vowed to repent. yet sure to sin again
Oh. leave repentance TO your withered
sires,
Omar Khsyyam lie Gallienne).
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

lings from the nest. This. she contends. is
all very well in a world where flies and
cherries are free 10 all, but America is fast
~ceasing to be a happy. uncrowded orchard
IN which the young find more than enough
room and food for the taking And she
says:
TO the European parent this seems a
most Migrant abandonment of duty. There
the anxious care for the offspring reaches
out 10 the third and fourth generation, and
every safeguard which law or custom can
devise Is thrown around the child From
the moment Of Its birth the parent of Con-
tlnental Europe begins TO save. not only
tor the education and u~pbringing but for
the whole future existence Of the child. 1t
Is not alone the daughter who is lowered.
put the son also has provision made for his
married life, when. as his parents keeniy
realize the greatest strain will be made
upon his resources and capabilities.
In America IL is the usual custom for par
ents OF moderate means and even with con-
siderable incomes to spend upon the
Injuries and pleasures of the family life
their whole income. The children are ac-
customed TO comforts and Injuries until
they are grown. and are then too generally
expected 10 SHIFT for themselves-the
daughters through a prudent" marriage.
the sons through ''hustling" for them
selves.
Is this "selfsh?' Ought our daughters TO
be lowered and our sons 10 be provided
for. or ut least given a start on the plane
they have been brought up on? What
think the World readers?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
weather Forecast for "wednesday.

Washington. July 1S.-For oklahoma and
Indian Territory-Fair. warmer. southerly
winds.
For Missouri-Fair warmer. winds be-
coming %southerly.
For Kansas-Fair. warmer in eastern
portion; southerly winds.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
He Explains.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Wife-"John. what's the matter with you
tonight? Here I've been talking TO you
for half an hour. and all you've done was
grunt and occasionally nod your headr'
Husband-"WcII. I've found il possible to
do that without interrupting you"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
Good From Evil.

The fy. that on the Sabbath morn
Comes TO the sleeper all forlorn.
And prods him as he lies asleep.
Until he swears both loud and deep.
Doth make his mar arise from there.
In time to reach the house OF prayer.
indianapolis Journal.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
offered n

From the Chicago Post.
do you think it's true that every man
has his price?" asked the heiress.
Tn sure 1 don't know" he nswered
thoughtfully, but If you want a bargain
you needn't look any farther"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
Declined with Thanks.

From the indianapolis Journal.
Il have proposed to seven girls this sum-
mer already said Timmins. land 1
haven't been able to get accepted once.
Dinged If I am not beginning to feel ike
one of my poems"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
Coincidence.

From the New York Press.
A p~etrihed tongue two feet long has been
found at Kansas City. Our sympathies are
with Mr.. Lease; we had not heard of his
bereavement.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14
The GiIIet system of Marriage.

~ ave bttH DTOuSnL UP OU w nat
think the World readers?
The GiIIet System of Marriage.
From the Chicago News.
Again We are compelled 20 lift our hat and
bow the knee TO . Kansas woman. Mrs.
Anna B. Zimmerman Gillet of name and a
hnancier by nature. choice and education.
Befores he married Judge GilIet. Mrs.
Gtllet was Mrs. Anna Il. Zimmerman, and.
Ike all widows. pretty as a picture. The
judge saw and loved her. but did not win
her until certain stipulations, provisions
and conditions set forth by the widow were
duly complied with. These were that the
Judge should have his life insured for So
600. payable to Mrs. Anna b. Zimmerman
Gillet when the death OF the judge should
be July established to the entire satisfac-
ton Of the insurance company. Fulfilling
these conditions. Judge Gillet and Mrs. An
ma B. Zimmerman were duly pronounced
husband and wife.
The judge and husband died. just as all
men must die some time or another. leav-
ing on this side of the vale Mrs. Anna 3.
zimmerman Gillet and several liabilities.
one or the creditors, a bank. sued the es-
tate and sought by injunction to prevent
the widow from getting the insurance. To
the court the widow told how she had bar
gained for her husband. that the policy
had been written before the marriage and
that, therefore. the insurance policy was
not part Of the late judges assets. And
the judge said so. too. in his decision against
the insurance company.
We have never championed the theory
that marriage was a business venture, TO
be entered into as one would a contract
for building a home. Being idealists. we
hold that love. soda water and matinee
tickets are conditions which should mark
every courtship. Still, $1,000 clear and
above funeral expenses Is a balm which
VIII go a long way toward allaying the
pains of the heart, particularly after five
years of financial and industrial depression.
1t is for her forethought in providing for
a cloud-burst that we lift out hat to Mrs.
Anna B. Zimmerman Gillet.
For other reasons we must condemn her
course. Think of love making being re-
duced to the level of the wheat pit. Imag-
inc such announcements as these in the
daily papers:
The wedding of Mr.. AIgerum Cyrus |
Jinkins and Miss Laurel Sweet was cele- !
last evening at the brides home. |
The affair should have taken place two
months ago. but Mr.. Jinkins was shy two
insurance policies. thus necessitating a
po-stponement."
MI. c. Watson Handmedown paid in full
premium on MS S0.VU lie insurance i
Yesterday and Miss Jessica Wait has or
1ered her trousseau.
The young bride carried a bunch
orange blossoms and a tontine policy.
The happy couple will spend their honey
noon I'm Idaho. as the groom is suffering
n the last stages of consumption"
If the example set by Mrs. Anna 3. ZIm-
herman Gillet becomes a general habit II
: oniy a question of time when marriages
will be listed on change.
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The journal Company, Publishers.
nuiIdInG. Ninth and Grand Ave.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

copied from someone else Is. to all intents
and purposes, a liar. and that the Harvard
code does not tolerate liars. Dean Briggs
is right. The sooner college students learn
that they live in the same world as other
people the better for the colleges and
for the world.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

a remarkable piece OF dialect work has
just been performed by a reporter for the
Eagle. He makes a Dutchmsn
speak the broadest of broken Swede.
Carl Swensson OF Salina. is writing some
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

Nikola Tesla has three invitations for the
summer-one to spend IT in Newport. an
other to pass 1t IN the Yellowstone region
and the third to while 1t away in the Yo-
semitic valley. He has declined all. Strange
TO say" he remarked the other day. II pre-
fer my laboratory. where labor sw fats in
corduroy His laboratory is at No. 80 East
Houston street. New York. where he sits
well within the rotating magnetic field Of
his own discovery and keeps cool with the
electrical vibrations OF his oscillators.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

The professor OF mechanics at an En-
glish college once a a lecture upon the
locomotive and was particularly struck by
the absorption of one Juvenile listener. He
spoke TO the student after the lecture and
asked him: well. I suppose you under
stand all about the locomotive now?'
was the reply. "all but one thing
And what is that?" said the professor,
kindly. 81 can't make out what makes the
move without horses"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

A London publisher Is about to bring out
"a collection OF speeches delivered in En-
gland by American ambassadors or minis
tiers on occasions when persons of the two
nationalities were met to honor a person.
aIity belonging to both" The address de-
Iivered in Westminster Abbey by Colonel
John Hay at the unwilling Of the bust OF
Sir Walter Scott is a case in point. Many
such were made BY Mr.. Lowell. Mr.. Phelps
and Mr.. Bayard.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

at the Postofice at Kansas City,
No. as Second Glass Mail Matter.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

c. S. Sanders. a missionary in Turkey.
contradicts In the Springfield Republican
the report that Edhem Pasha was respon-
sible for or approved of the Armenian
massacres. Mr.. Sanders compliments Ed
hem Pasha highly and says: He Is the
one Moslem official OF high rank about
whom no Christian in these regions has
uttered. as far as 1 can ascertain, one rim
gle word ether than praise"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

Extract from Pop history OF the Unite,
States made by Victor Murdoch: AT thi,
time Grant was elected president. He wa.
an accomplice in the crime of 1873. and
for his services. New York city. which {,
owned by England. recently erected a mon.
ument to him. Grant was succeeded b,
Hayes. who. etc
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14

Money lenders in france have Just re-
ceived a sharp lesson. Two men and a
woman were charged with having lent
money to the amount OF $4,000 to an an
tiquary named Pepper on usurfous terms.
with the result that the borrower was
forced into fraudulent bankruptcy. The
court found the charge proved and SEN
fenced the two men. with fines. to six
months imprisonment each. The woman
was sentenced to three months imprison-
ment with the benefit of the first offenders
act, and a fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-18

Eents of hunting-the guns, rifles, Shells
etc.-that the real extent of the revolution
in game shooting strikes one. hunter of
twenty years ago would be all at sea in an
cnd-of-the-centGry gun room without some
sportsman cicerOne to instruct him.
One most notable change is the cheap
ress of the guns. The weapon which
used 10 cost $50 and more can be pur-
chased nowadays for from SO to $40. And
yet the grade of gun has not by any means
deteriorated AS matter of fact it has
improved all along the line. England still
beats US with the fowling piece. She turns
of time we may produce guns quite
good. AS regards rife and revolver, how
ever England cannot approach US.
Guns and smokeless Powder.
THE repeating magazine shotgun is
everywhere taking the place of the old
double-barrei among sportsmen. In re-
gard to powder the revolution has been
complete Riack powder is all but obso-
lee, while nitro or smokeless powder holds
the fort. The chief advantage of the
Kew shooting medium IL, Of course, its
snlokelesS character. But it's comparative
lack of danger is also a strong point in
its favor Black powder blows up with a
bang; nitro powder burns quietly, ard does
little damage in fire. Nevertheless the
velocity impaired by the smokeless powder
is far and away greater than that given
by the cd variety.
Il hofe," said DIR. KnowltOn in conclu-
sion, ito see Il great association of all the
gun clubs started within the next few
Years, and working hand in hand with the
game commissioners Of the different states.
That would serve to place the United
States among the finest shooting countries
III The world. Nature has endowed us with
the most favorable conditions for game
rearing, and only our own reckless de-
effectiveness or careless want of thought
nave hitherto stood III the way"