The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-05
ADAM, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WAS
THE FIRST MAN.

I simply ask you to note the improve
ment in man. The ears have been pared
down and set on at new angle, the
nose has some shape to it, and the chin
has come up out of the neck to see what
it's all about. The back is a little too
bumped for manly beauty, and the toes
turn in too much for good football work,
but let US look at the face. Even If he
has killed Abel you can see so per cent
more of humanity. Cain felt that he
had a soul in him-that he was some
thing above the believing bulls and low
ing cows around him. We agree that il
wasn't exactly the square thing for him
to kill his brother, but we Will also agree
that he was the only man who could
travel on his shape up to that date.
My next picture represents man 90
years later than Cain. Nature had been
experimenting and learning wisdom.
She had reduced height and bulk again
and done some pairing down. In fact,
in this picture she has produced fairly
perfect man. We of today can find fault
with the length of the neck, the width
of the mouth and the hump in the mid
die of the nose, but there was no doubt
that he was called perfect in his day
and may have taken the prize at a
beauty show.
now call your attention to a series
of pictures bringing man down from the
Garden of Eden to the year of our Lord.
Nature progressed slowly but surely.
There was a heap of tinkering and
touching up, but she had patience and
deft hand Humanity was also get
ting in it's work, and mems faces 40
| longer looked like a pound of butter on
! platter Improvement did not stop at
| the wear one however. Nature has con-
tinued to improve and alter right along
to IS years ago, when she was satisfied
with her work and sat back IN ner
/ rocking-chair to rest
! Ladies and gentlemen, I now place
| on the easel the portrait of perfect
man. and 1 steD aside that all may see
/ it, Thanks. Thanks. Your applause
nize Q. Hope Jones. l do not wish TO
be charged with conceit or egotlsm, but
no man can help his looks.
On the one easel you behold Adam
on the other O. Hope. make TINS COM
parison that you may see the beginning
and the end-the crude sample and the
finished specimen Thanks some more.
/ Applause is always welcome when spon~
/ taneously given.
While my lecture may seem super
fetal to some, the thinkers viii dis
cover the moral lying beneath the sur
face and profit by it. 1t is with the
kindest feeling on my part that l say
to one and all of you, be honeSt-be
truthful-be upright. Don't wallop your
children or larrup your wives. 7 GU may
be tempted to lie forty times per day.
but don't do it. Other liars are sure 70
| catch you at it.
There are daily temptations to steal,
but keep your hands off other people
corn. BY stealing with Vigor and in
dustry you may get few dollars ahead
! of the game, but along comes the sher-
If some day and where are you? Don
loaf about. There is a delicious salts
faction in sitting down in the shade OF
a grocery and whiting a pine shingle
and trying to outlie everybody in the
crowd, but it don't buy potatoes for
| next winter.
Don't poison your neighbours web,
shoot his hogs, steal his wife or burn
his barn. Live at peace with all, and
let your motto be: Onward and Up
ward"
| This closes the regular lecture and
| if there is anything more to say ! will
say it after the hat has been passed
around and returned to me. 1 may
parenthetically and pathetically OBJ
serve shat the man who don't chip in
at least ten cents had better adopt the
motto of: Backward and Downward -
Copyright. 1903. by c. B. Lewis.)