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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
Spanking This Girrs Profession


Il took genius to discover that there
is place in this complex world for
professional spanker. The discovery is
a recent one, and the genius who is
prohting by her inspiration is Miss
Maude Kelly. an attractive, wen educat-
ed young woman, living in this city. She
sends out private circulars notifying
parents that she corrects children for a
reasonable consideration, and is ready
at all hours to visit homes where her
services are required.
Miss Kelly takes pride in her profess
sion, and talks about it as if it were
the most natural thing in the world.
Recently in an interview, she talked of
| her experience and her methods.
I was formerly a teacher" she said.
/ "One afternoon visited a friend of
mine. Seeing she was greatly worried,
asked her what was the matter, and
she told me her son Harry was incor-
rigible suggested whipping.
" Oh, couldn't manage it, she said.
Ask his father to do it. them I
I pursued.
He is away in New York she re-
piled, and will not be back for week
Evidently Harry deserved punish
ment, and the situation demanded that
| it be inflicted at once. I knew the fam
| lily very well, and I offered my services
as a friend. They were accepted. Harry
was a boy of eleven, but took him into
4 the nursery ana spanked MIN very
soundly.
After that Harry's mother came to
me frequently, and friends of hers got
/ to hear of my kindly offices and asked
me to act for them. My income was
small extra money would Be useful. and
I decided to make a business of juvenile
correction.
Il never punished boys over twelve.
Not that I am afraid of them. I guess
notl I thrashed a brother of mine when
he was fifteen, but the circumstances
were different. Rousseau's Confessions
illustrated the dangers of women chas-
I Using boys who are neither big nor lit
/ tie.
1T is my object to act always with
! propriety, and it is for that reason
have adopted an age limit. There is no
/ harm in a woman taking a child across
her knees. I am not undgiy severe, but
make my patients smart, even though
whip some of them through their
clothes
Miss Kelly's picture shows her to be
a young lady of determination and evil
dent vigor. Although some of her ideas
J are eccentric, her disposition is amiable,
and it is said that she has many friends,
and is highly respected among the chill
dren she has spanked.-Chicago Inter
/ Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
SANTA CLAUS.

What a wonderful old fellow he IS, TO
be sure! with his jingling sleigh and his
Henderson maybe he uses an auto
mobile in these Twentieth century days
and his pack of toys on his back.
what a familiar figure he is, although
we never saw himl More of US would
know him on first sight than would
recognize George Washington or Presi-
dent Roosevelt
How we all love him! Because, you
see he is always going around max
ing other people happy And how IA
niIiar we are with hint We call him
by his first name, and never think of
saying Mr.. S. Claus OF, the Hon. Mr..
Claus. 1t is just plain Santa!
Yet how mysterious he is! How can
he do such wonderful things? How does
he always know just what every little
boy and girl wants, and how fast he
must travel to get around to them all
in one night? Then, too, however does
he manage to get down the chimney,
especially when the chimney leads right
into base burner where there is a hot
fire? All, there are many mystical
things about Santa Cla--~i
When we grow older We learn about
some Of these things, sometimes with a
uUS 9hOCh 70 our IaiLhs Dut after we
study it and learn still more the shock
isn't so great after all. we believe in
Santa Claus just the same, and in some
ways he is still more wonderful than he
was in our childhood days. For his
kindness, his merriment, his love for
US all are sometimes as strange to the
grown-ups as how he accomplishes so
many wonderful feats is to the little
ones-this kindly, loving spirit in hui
mainly that we call Santa claus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
ne. Corey. and Sec. and sociaI Purity

Mr.. Corey. and Steel. and Social Purity
from the Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
It is positively announced from Pitts
burg that William Ellis Corey will be
reelected to the presidency of the Uni
ted States Steel corporation and be Civ
en- vote of thanks besides.
The explanation Of this is as simple
as it win doubtless be satisfactory to
the preferred and common shareholders
throughout the country. 1t appears that
Mr.. Frick and some of the other Girec-
tors of the corporation felt for a time
that Mr.. Corey'S social position, by rea-
son of his separation from his wife and
his relations with an ornament TO the
American stage, was IN a measure in
compatible with the high and response
Bile Office to which he had been promoted
in place of Mr.. Schwab, who had pre-
viously been dropped because of his
failure to meet certain social require
ments.
It also appears that Mr.. Corey, hav-
ing had his attention directed to social
matters, has been devoting some atten-
ton to the social standing of Mr.
F'rick and the other angry" directors,
and that in the course of his studies he
has discovered that, by comparison, his
social position is, if anything, consider
ably less assailable than was that of
those who would overthrow him as
steel magnate on purely social or-shalI
we say moral grounds.
Friends and enemies according to
the dispatch, say that the change of the
attitude of Mr.. Frick and the other
angry directors toward Mr. Corey
lis a result of the threat of Mr.. Corey
to take a hand in the mud singing him
self if the game progressed any further.
They say that Corey's bluff has made
good and that the erstwhile angry di-
rectOrs of the company have subsidized
This will be cheering news to every
body who is anxious to see the great
commercial and industrial enterprises
of the country raised to the very high
est social and-shan we say, mora1?-
plane. The fact that the president of
the steel trust is in a position to show
that the angry directors are tarred
with the same stick that has soiIed his
fair fame, and that the tar on the for
mer is blacker in spots. should of
course, go far toward restoring conf
dence in the management of the United
States Steel corporation and lead to the
declaration of larger dividends than ever
at an early day.
In the meantime socia1-and moral
Pittsburg breathes easier For a time
it looked as if its most conspicuous citf-
zen, Mr.. Corey, might have to be ostra-
cized by the angry directors. but since
he is said to be able to prove that the
angry directors are more soiled than
he IS. and that in comparison with some
Of them he actually looks clean, there is
nothing to be done now except to go on
with the dance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Senator Bailey, OF Texas, Drought up
the Burton question in the United
States senate, but the discussion of the
matter resulted in little more than a
lot of hot air that makes most painful
reading to all Kansans. AS we under
stand it, if Burton is expelled, it will
not be so much on account of the st.
Louis esca pade as other more glaring
CRAFTS that are topics of common dis
cussion in Washington, and which are
of greater magnitude than that of
which he has twice been found guilty.
Senator Bailey told Burton at the last
session that if he attempted to vote on
a certain pending measure that he
would himself make the motion for his
xpulsion.-BurIinga Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The Jefferson club, the Democratic
organization of Topeka, has endorsed
r. W. Blair for governor. No Demo-
crat could make a better race for gov
ernor, and no man would make a bet
ter governor AS the party in Mr..
Blair's home town has launched his
boom, the indication is that he is will
ing to run for the nomination. If that
is so, he will have strong support from
his friends in Jackson county, which is
his old stamping ground.-Holton Sig
no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
DIFFERENT

Governor Hoch declares he would
resign before he would sign a woman s
death warrant. This calls to mind
the remark of a county attorney of
one of the so-called liberal counties,
that he would resign before he would
prosecute a man for selling beer,
whereat the defenders of prohibition
roasted that county attorney to a
beautiful brown. AS Uncle Bill Wood
yard used on occasions to remark,
there is a whole lot of difference be-
tween to and from. ''-Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Mr.. Hartman is doubtless willing Mr..
Ryan should get all the fun there is out
ef being philanthropist. if Mr.. Ryan
will reciprocate by letting him have
some Of the profits to be made out of
handling the Equitable policy holders
nnnav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
A COOD PTRp0cr

We don't know that there is any legal
authority for a policeman's confscat-
ing the cents and nickels in an inter
rupted game of craps and tossing them
into a Salvation army aims kettle; but
we must regard that as an uncommon
" good way to dispose of them.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
PASSES

The anti-pass question is getting to
be a big one in Kansas, with all of
the people so far heard from lining up
on one side. It takes some time to
arouse the people, but when they do
awaken they do something, very often
the wrong thing. But if this awaken
ing abolishes passes and makes all peo-
thing. let alone the political blessings
that will be accomplished.-Bur
game Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press

EF'rom the New York Press.
It's no fun to be right; the fun is to
prove the other fellow wrong
good way to keep from becoming
poor is not to try to get rich too fast.
Christmas comes but once q year:
but the wedding presents go on all the
time.
A wedding is like going up in a ball
loon-it is best not to think what is
come down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Mack Gretchen. of the sedgwick Pan
tograph, says if he had John d. Rookie
feller's income Just for one day he
would make somebody a present of his
newspaper office. But he couldn't keen
out Of the business. He would be run
ming a Kansas newspaper again inside
Of six months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The beef consumers will pay for
thirty-fve lawyers who will represent
lhe packers in their trial at Chicago.
What does the beef trust care for ex-
Penses as long as the consumers are
putting up the coin?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

A considerable number of the Demo-
cratic minority in congress refuse to be
led by Leader John Sharpe williams. If
you have ever tried to lead three or four
calves when they persisted in pulling
back on the rope or going of in some
other direction, you know something
Of the troubles John Sharpe Williams
has in leading 1877 Democrats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Senator Bailey seems to think there
ire too many cheap jokes made "on''
The United States senate. But they are
al the senate is worth. What's the use
0f wasting a lot of high-priced jokes. on
that kind of material2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

country who, with few exceptions. wear
shoes, and we export some besides Are
not the figures given about one hundred
million too few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
FROM OTHER PENS
OF COURSE NOT.

The man who tried to convince Kan
sans of their moral sin was tarred and
feathered. Whatever else may be the
matter with Kansas, she will never al
low her morals to be questioned
Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

President Roosevelt's friends should
take precautionary measures and
quarantine against the stampede.
Here Dowie and Webster Davies have
both come out in favor Of another
term for Teddy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Count Vitte complained last summer
because he had to fight mosquitoes at
Portsmouth. but he would probably be
glad now to take a whole cargo of mos
Huitoes in exchange for a few revolu-
efODiets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
INTRODUCING A BILL.

Your congressman doubtless told you
he would Introduce a BILL This con-
gress IS but two weeks old and eight
thousand bills have been introduced.
Evan an Arkansaw congressman can
Introduce a bill" All that is required
to Introduce a bill' into congress is a
sheet of paper, a typewriter and a few
minutes time.-E1 Dorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
KANSAS cOMMENT
NOT IL ~ W..

Topeka. paper says that Fred Du-
mont Smith has many warm friends
and sympathizers among the state Of
hcers in the state house. OF course
he has. Men of that class generally
Aave a fellow-feeling for each other.
1t is fortunate for Fred Dumont's
friends in the state house that they
are amenable to the state rather than
the federal uthorities-Holton Re-
cOrder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

A seat on the New York stock ex-
change sold recently for $4,000. Any
furniture store In Topeka would have
sold as comfortable a seat as one could
wish for far less than that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
TILE WORST SIAM Yet.

Senator r Dumont Smith, Of Kins-
ley has been indicted by the federal
grand jury for fraudulent practices in
connection with public lands in Kan
sas. He is getting right in line with
some of the U. S. senators.-Pratt Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Now that Senator Long has thorough
~ made up his mind in favor Of the
Roosevelt brand of railroad regulation,
he will probably take off his coat and
work for it as hard as anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

What the car really needs is a press
agent With the right kind of a press
agent he could do wonders. The car
still has several things to learn about
running a country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
A SERMON FOR TODAY

And the angel said unto them, Fear not:
Tor behold I bring you good tidings Of
great JOY, which shall be to all people
6or unto you is born this day, in the
Guy OF David. a Saviour, which is Christ
the LOrd.-Lulze 2:1O-1l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
WORK FOR THEM.

About "a 900, 600 pairs of shoes are
made annually in this country, and
even that number is less than is need
ed to accomplish the amount of kick
ing that has to be done.-Chicago
News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
ANOTHER ONE NAILED.

the Esch Townsend bill would prove
unconstitutional. That at least does
away with the charge that Senator
Foraker doesn't think.-Los Angeles
Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Pittsburg is indicating her reputa-
ton as the home of refined luxury Two
marriage scandals among her wealth.
lest in one day show how she is getting
on.-New York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The statement is made by an exchange
that about 100000 pairs Of shoes are
made annually in this country. Is not
This wide Of the marlz2 The average
crown person wears out two pairs a
year and the average boy does much
more. There are q, 100000 people In the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

It is quite likely that the policy hold
ers viii make a mental reservation of
the insurance presidents when they re-
peat, Good will toward men"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
HARRIMAN.s AMBITI0N.

spirited desire on the part of Mr.. IIar-
rirnan to get in on the ground floor
when it came to the important BUSH
ness of averting a Danic.-Indianapo
lis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
10 HELP FROM MARS.

Prof. Lowell decIares That the canals
on Mars are artificial and not the result
of any natural process. He is unable,
however, to say whether they are sea
level or lock affairs, thus leaving the
Panama partisans right where they
were Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Senator Warner has five thousand
letters to answer but it viii be hard to
make the man believe it who has to
write two letters q month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The Baleys seem to have something
laid up against Senator Burton-the
governor was against him and now the
Texas senator is also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
GA COTRSE IN D0ES-

1t must make Speaker Cannon tired
to hear members of the house talking
about passing bills when they have
nothing to do with it-BaItimore sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Conner Davies thinks that state treas
ury report ought to be fixed up tC
satisfy all concerned by this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Chicago is now joyful because It has
9o-cent gas in sight, How would Chi
cago feel as If she heard real bona hde
dyed-in-the-wool 25-cent gas like To-
peka has2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

There are too many small towns, too
many small colleges, and too much
small politics in Iowa.-Des Moines
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Odeu says the president is trying to
wreck the party. That is the way it
always looks to the man who gets
licked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The Kansas papers are saying NOR
about the Fred Smith case than they
did about the Burton case even.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
GAVE TAMMANY A JOLT.

AS presidential timber, MI. Hearst
may be a trif1e shy, but when it comes
to tiger-hunting he is q wonder
Louisville Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
TWO TRUTHS.

men character nor make them honest
or decent by preamble. resolution or
enactment" Neither can you make a
CRATER honest by electing him to Of
hce.-El Dorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The Hutchinson Gazette refers to the
Seventh district congressman as Red"
Murdoch. Isn't that bordering on Iese
Yuaiesfv2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The Star says Senator Long came
into the presidents rate regulation
camp 4on tiptoe." Very likely the
senator did not wish to disturb the
meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

The world His cradle is
The stars His worshipers
His peace on earth the mothers kiss
On lips now pressed to hers;
For she alone to Him
In perfect light appears
The one horizon never dim
With penitentfal tears.
John B. Tabb in the December Atlantic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Now Games der bltziesd week in der
year, ven Mamma ISIS bitzy cleaning
oop der frackments uf tops ind candy,
ind Papa ISIS mighty bitzy lodging COLI
lecterss ind wearing oudt a Ieadbencil
drying to discofer a way to come clear
pefore der negst Won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
THE CARS URGENT NEED.

Car Nicholas is negotiating with
American shipbuilders. Nicholas, this
is a waste of time. What you need is
a flying machine.-San Francisco Bull
letin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
TALK

The United States senate put IN its
first week in talk. talk. talk. How
acteristic!=Helena Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
some canned gore ad a Chikago sIigh.
terhaus und gif i'd to dem fer Xmas.

Some beoples." sayss Gus Gobble-
steinhauser, "haf Iods Ut sense aboudf
gazing Christmas presendts. Lasd dime,
I knows a oldt blind laty vot got q
folume uf Ia Aeezrubbles'' und q
looking glass;
VEIL, NOD so YOU COULD MOTIFS
ID.
Oh Sandy Clawss. kids patron salndt
vich prings
Der Christmas trees und monkey-doo.
die tings,
Would you renig und turn me down
Uf I shouldt orter tinand rings?
Also, uf some poor kid nit frozen feet
Should ask fer shoes, ind somedins
goot to eadt
Und ditn'dt hat a blooming cendt,
Would you come in und desc relzvire.
mendts meet?
No, Sandy Claws. you wouldn't keen
der date,
Fer afder ali, you're nod arbitcr u
Fate,
IND vile you glatly pring der junk
lbs oop to Mortalss, yet, to bay del
freight!
HANS ZUPP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Recent events only emphasize the
old saying that honesty is the best
policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

IF der Fltz-Obrion mill vas pulled a
month sooner off, dere would hae poem
more money loosed on Speckled Fitz.
Mosd uf hiss adhesionisds vas picked
clean by Chris mas shopping pefors
der scrap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Won uf der besd tings aboudt Chris
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

dondt egspect to ind anything but
some holes in my stockings in der
morgening, ind holdings but some keys
ind a bunch uf Trash air in my pog-
gets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Thanks! Same to you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Kansasafenoo would look besser Ut
der snow could be hired fer a ali-vinteF
Engagement. Der von-nigft stands
make id look worse as efer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

1 opserf dot Bill Chennings BryaH
makes a refoosilism to except der hos.
pitality uf der brass coallars ad Men.
ely. pecaus he might want to wrote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Snow ISIS mighty bad fer der Chris
mas shopping vot some peoples do. Id
ISIS liaple to leaf a skimptom uf tracks
aroundt der neighbours hen shack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

blesteinhauser, ''vfch hat got Cassie
Chadwick oudt-Chadvicked She hat
quarrelsomed nit her slkixdeen sveed-
hearts so dot each Ut dem will puy her
eggselendt pressendt to make opp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

Der Moscowvites ISIS yelling fer
blood. Der Ka-zar should burchasa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

VEIL, NOD so you COULD NOT
ID.