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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15


drunkard reforms before marriage, it
is one of those all too sudden things
that will not last after the novelty of
the situation has worn off.
And yet you see girls risking that sort
of thing every day. a girl will marry
a man who is known to be the most
dclkle Of his sex, and in her own SUI
preme conceit she imagines that she
has cured him forever and made him
over new. Then in about a year or
even less she wakes up to find, strange
and unexpected though it may seem,
that he is once more his natural self.
There's nothing to tiff you will
pardon a slang expression.
1 would like to eliminate by some
painless process the person who said
that a man is just what a woman
makes him. Tut, tut, my friend! You
can bend the tree, but you can't make
it over again. If a woman wants a
money maker for a husband don't let
her delude herself into thinking she
can grow one out of an idealist. The
money maker possesses earmarks from
boyhood. To him comes the lions
share of marbles, the largest piece of
cake, in other words, all the luck,
which word luck is simply another
term for good management. Your
money making man will never make the
error of having too many friends or of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THE SCIENTIFIC
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

XX XHEN physical education has as
Wv much attention given to it in
our country as is the case in
Japan the American people will be I'M
doubtedly the handsomest race in civf-
lization. All the world must at present
sit at the feet of the Japs in the mat
ter of bodily training. Happily,
though, American women are waking
up to our physical defects and to the
necessity for correcting these in them
selves and in their children
The teacher of physical education for
women and children is nearly as much
in demand as the instructor in music.
In truth, the demand is far greater
than the supply, and a refined, we'll
educated, athletic young woman with
her own living to earn could select no
better paying occupation than that of
gymnasium instructor. Last year at a
physical training school in Boston there
were twenty-five students in the grad
uating class for teachers, while the in
stitution had on file 125 applications for
such teachers. The applications came
from colleges attended by girl stu
dents.
The first thing for American women
to realize is that a child needs physical
education as much as it needs food.
The perfect body is one whose owner
has all its muscles under control and
developed to their highest working eff
hciency. The little Jap girls education
begins as soon as she has left infancy.
1t is also true, though, that a woman
whose physical education was neglected
in her childhood can remedy the err
ror at any age, just as one can at any
age learn to read and write.
There has been opened in connection
with Columbia university, in New
York, the most nearly perfect women's
gymnasium in the world. 1t is open
not only to women students, but to all
women who wish to make use of it's
unexcelled facilities for rendering the
feminine body strong, graceful and
supple. The building and equipments
cost 100000. Of this $4,000 was
paid for apparatus. There are four
handball courts, three bowling alleys. a
fencing room, a running track and a
large swimming pool. All capable in
structors agree that if any one physical
exercise is really the best, of those now
in fashion, that one is swimming. 1t
has the additional advantage of culti-
waiting cool headedness and steadiness
of nerve in a woman, thus striking at
the root of that silly cowardice and
physical timidity which have been for
so many centuries fostered in the wom-
an sex.
AS an all round exercise cycling is
about as good as swimming. Running.
| too, is one of the best of the general
exercises for women, and college girls
have long since exploded the supersti-
ton that a woman cannot run. In a
running race a college girl recently
beat a young man who was trained
athlete. But that girl was a trained
athlete too. Classical dancing is a
noble all round exercise too.
The faddists and fakirs who take up
the teaching of SO called physical Gull
ture as a means of getting money will
find themselves rapidly weeded out of
business by the really scientific and
educated physical educators. To be d
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
Wealth. Women Who
Work For Others
Work

F men give most of the money for
helpful public enterprises it is GER
tain that women do most of the
n work therein. And many a time
women give the money and do the
work too.
Miss Margaret Astor Chanler of New
York is one who both gives and Ia
bors. A direct descendant of old John
jacob Aston the first, who founded the
great millionaire family in America,
Miss Chanler has in her own right an
income of $4,000 a year. But Miss
Chanler has both heart and brain. a
brain large enough to grasp the OPP
portunity that a rich woman has to
help the race. She seemed to know in
stinctively that wealth is trust to be
administered for the real good of all
First the general public came to
know of her when, at the commence
ment of the Spanish-American. war,
Margaret Astor Chanler took a course
of instruction at a Red Cross training
school and then offered her services to
the government. She went to Porto
Rico with a number of Red Cross
nurses. In Ponce Miss Chanler hired a
large house as a hospital for sick and
wounded soldiers. She herself was su-
perintendent and matron of the hos
pita1- General Miles asked her to join
the regular corps of United States army
nurses, which would bring her in closer
relation with the military authorities
and give her more power of action
She did this. The hospital was en-
larged till it included two more houses
Miss Chanler presiding over them all
The expense of the whole establish
ment was paid by Miss Chanler and a
few Of her interested friends.
Miss Chanler might have done all she
did for soldiers in the Spanish war and
not much would have been said of it
had she not been a millionaire and a
member of New York's fashionable set.
But perhaps because it is unusual for
= fashionable rich woman to do broadly
useful things, comment was excited by
Miss Chanler's work. In January, 1899,
congress passed a resolution bestow-
ing on her a gold medal "in recognition
OF her work for ill and wounded SOL
diers in Porto Rico" The New York
legislature, in a beautifully engrossed
resolution, likewise thanked the lady
for her patriotism and humanity.
Thus the Spanish-American war in
cident In Miss CHAMBERS life closed, but
st marked the beginning of her public
usefulness. Some patriotic public
spirited women in New York had form
ed the Woman's Municipal league, a
body organized for civic betterment in
many directions. Miss Chanler a
stanch advocate of progress and of
rights for her own sex, including the
right to vote, Joined the league and be-
same one of it's officers and most active
members.
For the past two years she has shown
he way in a charity in which her ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
WHERE WOMEN ARE SCARCE.

males than females. In Ontario with
large areas being opened up for set
tlement,z there are about 10000 more
males than females. Manitoba is 49,
900 females short. British Columbia
is $4,000 short, while in the inorganic
ed territories the females are outnum-
bered by two to one. All this goes to
show that it is in the pioneer districts
that the men predominant.
However, in spite of the balance of
numbers against the women, there are
in Canada 1,564,011 unmarried females
of various ages. All things considered,
it is unlikely that immigration as q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

think of it, for women with brains and
education are sadly needed in the mat
rimonial field.
Among the seasons dress novelties
may be mentioned sampler belts"
These are merely strips of canvas
worked with the old fashioned sampler
stitch into a conventional design.
The Greek key pattern is an ideal
one for a belt, and6L have seen it most
charmingly carried out in blue and
green. One of the latest collar and belt
sets is of wide silk mohair braid. The
tie of the stock is run through two
gold eyelets, while the belt is finished
with gold eXelets and a gilt buckle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Have you tried to make any of the
new eyelet embroidery, which is so
fashionable? A garment decorated with
this is sure to bring a large price, so
it pays to try it yourself, particularly
as it is very simple. The pattern usual
~ consists of seven oblong holes around
a small center one. The space between
these is filed in with single perfora-
lions. Sometimes stems are worked in
between to make the pattern look like
blossoms and their leaves. The work is
done with linen thread or fine marking
cotton. The design is first drawn and
the outline covered with a fine even
darning or running stitch. Then a slit
is made through the center of each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
TOR

ample might well be followed by the
thousands of rich women who board
UP the doors and windows of their
sumptuous city homes every spring
and leave them empty and useless till
winter returns. Miss Chanler's town
house is a spacious marble mansion on
Riverside drive, overlooking the Hud-
son river in upper New York city. Each
summer the philanthropist owner re-
moves the furniture from the two
lower floors of her home and turns them
into hospital for sick children of the
poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

of resorting to drugs, which often do
mischief. they should try a remedy dis
covered by a Russian physician, which
is said to be perfectly successful even
in the worst cases of NAL de mer.
The cure consists of taking deep in
spirations. About twenty breaths
should be taken in a minute, each as
deep as possible. After thirty or forty
inspirations the feeling of nausea will
lessen, and in a few minutes will pass
off entirely If, later on, the feeling Of
sickness should recur, deep breathing
should again be resorted to in1nedi-
ately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
A WARNING AS TO WHITE CATS

Good prices are often paid for white
cats on account of their beautiful ap-
pearance. Never purchase one, how
ever, unless you have satisfied yourself
that its hearing is all right for white
cats are frequently stone deaf, es-
pecialIy the ones with blue eyes, which
are most sought after. A deaf cat is
a great nuisance in a house. because
it has no idea of moderating its voice,
which Becomes positively distraeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

that which prom
ised to be the
cheapest is by
far the most eX-
pensive item in
your wardrobe.
Lucky, you. if
it doesn't look
made over too!
1t is the same
way with made
over dispositions.
They are not
reliable. I al
ways feel sorry
for the girl who
tries to reform
a drunkard by
marrying him.
1 can't help
knowing that,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

refuse you, no
m a tier how
straitened they
are themselves.
'You can al
wa VS. tell a
schoolteacher at
first glance aft
er she has been
teaching school
for a year." was
a re mark 1
heard the other
day. and 1 re-
scented it be-
cause 1 have sew
eral friends who
are schoolma-
ans, and I love
them very dear
". However
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

purely matrimonial venture would be
justified. In the early days of Canada's
history, when shfploads of damsels
were brought from France to espouse
the kings soldiers. the experiment was
scarcely a SUCCESS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

~ HE woman who buys many
things in one season is GER
tainly foolish for nowadays
the styles change with be-
wildering rapidity and one cannot al
ways match materials the following
season.
Anyway, am not much of a believer
in made-overs. You spend your time
and your money on them and, behold,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
CHECKED AND FIGURED voILEs

None of the new dress fabrics has
made more of an impression than the
checked and figured voiles. These beau
tiful fabrics are made up into street
and house gowns in all kinds of sim
pie and elaborate models. They are
not made into shirt waist suits to any
great extent, but show quite 3 degree
OF elegance in their style
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
A CURE FOR. sEAsickNEss.

, During the holiday season a large
number of people will doubtless be in
need of some sort of preventive of sea-
sickness, for many people cannot go
even for the shortest steamer trip with
out feeling more or less upset. Instead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
cH,Lp,s EMPIRE FRock.

The pretty frock pictured is in en-
pire style. The material used is white
spotted batiste. The skirt at the bot
tom has a ruffie of wide valenciennes
lace headed with insertion, row Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

after a discussion of the subject I must
say there is something in it. Why do
-schoolteachers maintain out of school
that little dictatoriaI air, that way of
apparently ordering the lives of every
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

lending his hard earned dollars. No.
he will reinvest them where they will
pay or more per cent, and he will not
trust to the sacred name of friendship
for their return, rather doubtful pro-
ceeding by the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

pin tucks and another band of lace.
Insertion and diagonal tucks simulate
a belt. The frock at the neck is slight
ly rounded and outlined with lace in
sertion. A fall of lace forms the square
collar. The bow is of blue ribbon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
Dress Novelties.

Crochet buckles are something new.
They are used mainly for white cos
tunes. As the name indicates, they are
made with the old fashioned crochet
stitch over a well shaped featherbone
foundation.
Some of the ultra chic linen costumes
this summer are rather impractical.
They have collars and cuffs of pongee
embroidered in contrasting shades.
This is very pretty, but the unfortunate
owner has to take the bits of silk out
and haste them in every time the gar
ment goes to the wash, which is apt to
be very often if the suit is white.
Another impractical thing this year
is the vogue of suede shoes, especially
in black. These do not wear long
enough to make one forget the cost.
The minute the toes become shiny
they must be laid away, for nothing
can restore them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

I the
pudated
in
ngushd today and that is Prince Victor
Even that nothing
the United
a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

w YHEN physical education has as
Wv much attention given to it in
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
A Gentle Knock.

Those who are in the habit of ar
irving home In the early hours and
finding their doors and windows lock-
ed and their folks" asleep beyond the
power of the door-bell to awaken them.
will find comfort in a new recipe for
their relief offered by the New York
Evening Post
A man who had banged the front
door and ratified the knob for nearly
an hour appealed to a policeman to
help him break pane of glass or open
a window.
1T isn't necessary" said the police
man. I'll wake up your family"
He walked up the street to a pile of
building material and brought back a
piece Of board about five feet long.
This he slammed flat-sided against the
side Of the house with 8 tremendous
whang.
Il guess that'll rouse 'em," he said.
"You see, that sort of blow sets the
whole house to vibrating, and makes
the folks inside dream of dynamite
explosions"
He had hardly uttered the words
wher front window opened and q
head appeared.
80 officer" gasped a woman's voice,
what in goodness name was that aw-
full noise?"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26

On Nov. 2, 1885, a law came into
force In England for the regulation
Of meals and continued to have a place
on the statute book until 1857. 1t
was designed to check the evils re-
sulting from an excessive use of cost
ly meats and enacted that no one
should partake at any place or time
except on specified festivals and holi-
days to the number OF sixteen days a
year, OF more than two courses, each
not consisting of more than two sorts
Of victuals, either flesh or fish, with
the common sorts of pottage, and mex
pensive sauce. On named feast days
three courses were allowed.
This law was an extension of an or
dinance issued by Edward II. in 1916
regulating the meals Of his mobiles, the
greater Of whom were allowed In ad-
dition to two courses Of two kinds of
meat a side dish of one sort.
An act Of 1868 enacts that servants,
artisans and laborers "shall be served
to eat and drink once day of flesh
or fish and remnant Of other yictuals
rs Of butter, milk and cheese, accord
ing to their station in london
Telegraph.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
No Girls on Family Tree.

A remarkable condition in the family
Of Captain Roesch, master Of the bark
entine Wrestler, is reported to exist.
Female children are absolutely IN
known to the men Of the family, SAYS
the Hawaiian Star.
According to story told while Cap
tain Roesch was here with his vessel
discharging lumber, for generations
back every child born to the family
has been a male.
Captain Roesch, Of the Wrestler, is
one Of our brothers. He has three chill
dren, and all of them are boys. One
Of his brothers had fourteen children
and another had nine children. All of
them were boys. These boys have also
married and have families. but in
every instance the children have been
males.
In no recent instance has q femals
child been born to the men Of the
Roesch line. Captain Roesch says that
this remarkable phenomenon has ex-
listed for generations in his family. He
says that it had come to a family
tradition that girl child il never
born to the name of Roesch
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
steam and EIectrto rdne..

Herr Reichel, a German engineer
has just completed an extensive series
OF experiments touching on the cost
Of steam and electric traction on rail,
ways. The experiments were made on
the line between Marienfelde and Eos,
sen, and the result is that the cost of
working the two forces has been al.
most equal. There is a difference Of
u cent for each 100 kilometers in IA
vor Of electricity.
The calculations have been made
with a train of five carriages, with
seating accommodations for 16S pas
sengers. drawn by a steam locomotive
Of 1,4O0 horse power The electric
train consisted of four carriages, with
the accommodation of $50 passengers,
drawn by an electric motor Of 1000
horse power.
After series of careful calculations
Herr Reichel has found that il costs
13 cents to carry a passenger 100 kilo-
meters by steam and y cents for the
same distance by electricity. 1t is
stated that this result has caused much
surprise to German engineers, who
have hitherto held the opinion that
electricity was by far the cheapest
motive power for railway passenger
traffic
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
GROWING CARROTS.

Last spring more for the reason
that we might have a complete gar
den than for any desire for carrots we
sowed row five yards long. The
seed was the variety Chantenay and
came from the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington. Being accus-
toned to the long slender rooted car
rot we sowed the seed very thick and
about two inches wide. in the row.
The soil was sandy loan; the Guilt
vation consisted Of an occasional
hoeing. Upon pulling the roots we
found that this variety has blunt
truncated form, much superior in size
to the long slender roots. Though
sown altogether too thick--about
twenty carrots to the foot of rowan
occasional root weighed pound; we
are told chat when properly thinned
they grow much larger. The carrots
with no thinning Averaged about four
pounds of roots to each foot of row,
while mangel-wurzels on the same
ground six inches apart in the row
sSAo6So 90 PonoS As VI %
pounds to the foot. According to
chemical analysis, carrots carry a lit
tie less protein than mangeE, but de-
cidedly more nitrogen free extract
and ether extract In the economic
tests of the Holsteil FrIsian Ass0cia-
ton, carrots are valued at 81 per ton
and mangels at 81 per ton; at this
difference we know from experience
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
CARE OF HONEY

A cellar is one of the very worst
places that can be found for storing
honey. There are few cellars in
which the air is not somewhat damp,
and, as honey readily attracts mois-
ture, the drier and warmer the store
house the better. In a damp cellar
extract honey becomes thin and will
often ferment, and with comb honey
the case is still worse, for the appear
ance as well as the quality is changed,
writes A Glenwood, in Epitomist
The beautiful white surface becomes
watery and darkened; drops of water
gather on the cappings and run over
the surface. Instead of keeping honey
In a damp cellar, keep it dry and
warm; in fact, almost hot. 1t will lot
be too warm with the temperature at
loo degrees. Where salt will keep
dry honey is safe. If one Is fortunate
enough to have a warm, dry garnet,
next the roof, no better place for
money can be found. If honey is
kept for any great length of time,
especially during cold weather, it is
apt to change from its original liquid
transparency to a white semi-granular
condition; it is then called "granuIa
ted" or ''candied" honey; the flavor is
somewhat changed; though some pre-
fer it in this form, the average per.
son prefers money in it's natural state
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
PARCHED SWEET CORN.

Large grained varieties of sweet
corn are best for parching. 1t Iuust
be dried on the cob, just the same as
pop corn. Shell an ear or two into a
pan and proceed to parcb it in the
usual manner, being careful not to
scorch. l always stir the corn with a
spoon until it begins to brown, then
cover and shake over the fire until
each grain is pulled up nearly round
and has a rich brown color. Now turn
the corn into a bowl, add a good lump
of butter and little salt; mix well
with spoon and let stand till cold
If desired, the corn may be coated
with maple sugar or molasses thick
ened with sugar. However, we all
prefer the butter and salt. am GER
tain If the boys and girls try this,
they will have patch of sweet corn
next season, even if the pop corn has
to go. Be sure to plant the large
grained sorts and have it some dis
lance from other kinds of corn, be-
cause it is not nice when mixed-An-
ma Galliher in the Epitomist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-26
MANURAL VALUE.

Where fertilizers or manures have
to be relied upon lies the manural
value of feeding stuff. This is the
nitrogen in the protein and the phos-
phoric acid and potash in the ash.
Wheat bran and cottonseed meal have
high manural value, but that of corn
meal is low. By keeping the manure.
a large proportion of the fertilizing
constituents of the feed is recovered
in the manure and can be used to en-
rich the land. By growing and feed.
ing more leguminous crops the amount
OF grain is diminished, the value of the
manure is increased and the soil is
enriched in fertility. Leguminous
crops derive the largest part of this
nitrogen from the atmosphere during
their growth. requiring little applica-
ton of heterogeneous manures. They
enrich the soil ration in nitrogen
wnlcn they derive from the atmos-
phere without cost to the farmer, be-
sides improving the mechanical and
physical condition of the soil.-Otto
Irwin in the Epitomist.