The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-24
In HOTEL CORRIDORS.

/ In q very dluerent light IGudrAeu tuT
man whose chair was tilted back and
whose feet were at the proper height for
the easy flow of idle thoughts. 1T may
be that people have not changed, but
remain the same, and it may be thaI
the man who writes about them tells
tales which could not be authenticated.
/ was reading piece today, which. II
true, proves that the present generation
is of a different breed altogether from
the people / knew in the days OF my
youth. The piece was to the erect that
young people, who were poeticaliy m
clined did not take a volume of Lucille
with them to the woods to be read TO
small but appreciative audience, but IN
stead, took the more inspiring ana SYM
pathetic volume-the Browning Love
Letters. Now may be altogether wrong
but imagine that loving couple read
ing the Browning Love Letters In the
woods would be as hard to find as
clean bill of health in a pest mousse In
my day and generation when the first
thrill of love chased my spinal column
/ began to read Lucille, and, as soon as
the weather would permit, 1nveigied
the maiden of my callow but feverish
choice out to the woods and read to her
from that volume, just as many youths
have done since and others did before.
The maiden fair also read a few chap
tiers to me, and I'll bet more young
hearts have beat double time to the tune
of Lucille as the music fell from lips
made sweet by the first blush of love,
than from all other volumes combined.
If the young people of today have put
aside Lucille and taken up with some
thing more inspiring and sympathetic,
it is because people have changed. To
my mind Lucille is as essential in the
first stage of calf love as milk is for
baby. The baby may be brought up on
a patent food and calf love may run its
course on the Browning Love Letters;
but the baby would smile only in the
cuts advertising the food, and the youth
and maiden who were afflicted with
their first love, would go through life
minus several hundred thrills that they
had a right to expect. I am inclined to
think that the man who wrote the piece
lived in Boston and I can not believe
that love sick youth have given up 'Lu-
cile' for more up-to-date stimulant. I
cannot imagine WooerS in the woods
reading anything except the old favor
lite and hope the man was wrong-but
it's hard to tell how modern methods of
education will effect the youthful
mind
s"rhere are more impostors in the
medical profession than in all other pro-
fessions combined, and there are more
incompetent men in that profession
than in any other,' said a man who
sells physicians supplies. 1.-THE doctors
themselves know this and if you will get
well acquainted with a member of that
profession, that is, become intimate
with him, you will find that he will
agree with that statement In any 9TH
er profession a mans work shows for it
self, but in the practice of medicine it
is different. The death of a patient can
not be laid at the doctors door, and by
the same token, neither can the recov-
cry. All the doctor does is to assist ma
ture if he can. If he cannot he says he
can and no one is the wiser. The field
offers every inducement to quacks and
they do not hesitate to take advantage
of it. The people are more interested
in the maintaining of a high standard
in the medical profession than in any
other, because to members of the pro-
f0SS1On thew iiUQG- faI1f he
people use very poor judgment in help
ing to maintain that standard The
country is filed with medical schools
which graduate students who are not
fitted for the profession and the people
have passed but few laws regarding il
and do not enforce the laws passed.
There should be a medical examining
board in every state that really is an
examining board, and this board should
stand between the epOple and the
quacks and incompetent doctors The
board should be given power to enforce
their decisions. One of their duties
should be the close inspection of medical
colleges, in order that the fakes might
be closed out, and another should be
the examination of students graduated
at regular colleges. The people at large |
would then know that a standard was
fixed and that the man VINO calls him
self doctor is required by law to be
what he processes to be, and that when |
they trust their lives and the lives of |
their families to such man, they have
really learned in the science of medi- |
cine. The ignorant quack is not the |
worst fake in the medical profession, it |
is the we'll educated but unprincipIed |
character who should be guarded |
against, and the only way that can be |
done is by stringent laws and an exam
lining board with power to act. When |
man sends for a physician, he should |
to get what he thinks he is getting, the |
services of an educated and competent |
physician
1.-THE first trip that 1 made to Ell Paso
was about ten years ago and l will |
never forget it, said a man who has |
been travelling in the west for years. 1T |
went down there from albuquerque with |
the intention of taking the Texas Pacific |
to a little town east and had to lay over |
some time / looked at a time card to |
see when the train left and thought no |
more of it until I looked at my watch |
and found that it was almost train time. |
I walked down to the depot and found |
the train had left. I was surprised as I |
owned a watch that I considered one of |
the best time keepers made, and accord |
ing to that I had almost an hour The |
agent, after hearing my complaint about |
the watch, said: May be you have |
mountain time. This road runs on CEN |
trail time which is an hour earlier That |
explained it, I had set my watch on |
mountain time at Albuquerque. but I |
was inclined to say warm things about |
a road that would run that far west ON |
central time. was obliged to lay over !
n hours anu White uOlLiS my DeSl 10 Kill |
the time / met an old friend. a conductor |
on the Southern Pacific, who asked me |
to come over to his house for supper at |
o'clock. I accepted the invitation and |
when O'Clock came / went over. I |
went over on central time because I /
had forgotten to ask If my friends |
watch was running on central or noun
tain, and I was afraid If I waited until |
o'clock mountain time would cause
them to wait an hour on me- When I /
got there found my friend on the porch |
ON y o1-4x, ont
so early; we will have a longer time for i
talking over old times I explained that /
1 had got a little mixed on account of /
finding two times in the town and had |
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