The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-25

st may always be poor but don't
want to be poor and married L
believe that have no vocation for mat
rimony. I am not one of the women
who wear aprons and make puddings.
I would rather make poor poems than
good buildings. / am not IN the ieast
like my mother, and all my gTandmoth-
ers would disown me-"
IF 1 had a son who wrote
verses at ten would spank him.
"Corinna sent me q copy of her new
poems. / forget whether the title Is
Musings From Dreamland or DreamlngS
From Museland. Her portrait forms the
frontispiece."
TRY to forget that you ever taught
art and if there is q nice, detached
man there make the most of your op=
portunities. / am giving advice which
I don't intend to follow. l think snail
continue to play solitaire. In respect
of itself it is a good life. IN
respect that it is solitary, like IL Wen.
No, I don't. ] am lonely IL IS unnat-
ural and wrong for a good-loolSing wo-
man OF twenty-six to live in this way
I wish I had money and position L
want carriage and creations-not SIM
ply good gowns. / want to be coddled
and petted and made much Of want
to shine in society. Why don't marry
whom, Iysander Billings? His idea of
a social function is an agricultural falr
or a church tea where Corinna reads
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight and re-
cites one Of her own poems as an encore
Do want to go to a pink tea as Mrs.
Lysander Billings? I'd rather shiver in
my hall bedroom. should
wish myself back in New York living
on hope and grapenuts-
'sShe said she thought calendars and
little books of quotations are so helpful
and she mentioned Bits From Brown
ing Yes I said and asked her if she
had ever seen 'Grits From Goethe
Rants From Ruskin' and 'Cheeps From
CARLYLE It was very cheap wit, | ad-
init, but you know my weakness Tor
ALTERATION. You know the kind of lit
tie books I NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., my
brother calls them. People don't cut
pictures to pieces. Why should they
chop uD literature p
True, he uses perfumery. but one
could break him of that; he seems
tractable- But can you imagine me
marrying a man who says 'poetess?' He
speaks of me as an authoress. I'd rath-
er be called an authOreen. Still, he is
rich. Put money in thy purse He said
he will give up smoking if like
would rather he gave up perfumery-'
THE brother is one of those sissy men
who collect things and potter about the
mousse He does most OF the cooking
and once in a while, Philippa says she
thinks he dusts. His name is Augustus, !
so perhaps he is not to blame for what
he is"
If Theodore. didn't talk so much
manifestly proud of possessing it, what |
ever it may be. and if she didn't make |
such a show oH her not so astounding |
erudition she'd be a pretty good fellow. |
Well. she's that, anyway, and she writes
a bully good letter.
1.-THE true public treasure is the popu- |
lar conscience, is the public spirit, the /
result of many traditions and of the ed |
ucation of character" says the Rev. I
Charles Wagner. author of the Simple /
Life in his latest book of addresses, On |
Lies Threshold described as Talks to |
Young People on Character and Con-
duet 1t sounds a little like the Golden /
Treasury of Youth and Manual For the \
Young. of which, before enlightenment |
and Inspiration came to the writer's and /
publishers Of children's books, largely
made up the juvenile libraries, but there
are some mighty good things in it. and
{ is pity that young people have
such prejudice against sermonizing
literature that they are not likely to /
read IT. Copybook sentences and all the 4
stereotyped good advice which the