The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
KANSAS COMNENT
THE COLONY PRoPosITION.

THE COLONY PROPOSITION.
IN Kansas City number of disgust
eo housewives have closed that part
of their house pertaining to culinary
matters and have established a colony
system, in common dining room,
WITHIN easy walking distance of all the
families.
After weeks experimenting, it is
pronounced a success. But this is
what will happen:
The second week Mrs. Jones will
must take them soft and unturned,
whereas she likes them as hard as
nrfckbats. Mrs. Smith will chew on
the frizzled end of beef, though she
preters 1t rare and JUICY. Mrs. Mills
VIII nave hard work to keep her hus-
oand satisfied with bakers bread.
while his whole soul yearns for hot
biscuit. Mrs. Simpson either has to
though she does not care for it until
she Is through-or drink it iukewarm.
Mrs. Nellfs, who is a crank about hav-
ing warm plates for the hot dishes,
has to take her broiled steak on a
plate which congeals the grease in
stantly.
The third week the housekeeDer will
nave the same trouble with the help
that they all had themselves before the
colony scheme presented itself. and
will regale them with it, until each
woman keenly realizes what her own
husband has had to undergo in the
past, and it inclines her heart mercifully
toward him. Finally after the scheme
drags along dolefuily for a week or
two more, the colony breaks up, and
each family faces contentedly the old
vexations and worries at home, thank
full that they can have what they want
to eat, and when they want it, If the
manner whereby it is gained is hard
ship.-Mrs. FARRELL in the Holton
Signal.
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The Journal has a good deal of
sympathy with the Ottawa ministers
who fought charging an admission fee
on Sunday for the ChautauQua. How
camp meetings there Sunday was the
only day when an admission fee was
charged. But we are getting too slack
in the observance of Sunday. Men are
disregarding it more each year. 1t
used to be a neighborhood scandal for
a man to work on Sunday. 1t is com
mon now, so common as to cause little
comment We know of one neigh bor-
hood, a mighty good one, where one
family used to cut wheat on Sunday.
They explained the blame of the year
that it was necessary. Now more than
half the families work every Sunday.
One man who prayed the loudest then
has no religion at all now. Still we
say the world is getting better. How?
In this way, people are Saner in their
religion but they are less reverent:
They have gone more to the heart OF
things but they have lost their rever-
ence. We need a revival of Sunday
servance-Lawrence Journal.
ADVICE TO THE GIRLS.
The young men whose pockets are
filed with cigarette wrappers, NOUS
tache combs. finger nail cleaners,
miniature curling irons, looking glass, |
etc, and have their mothers crease
their pants every day, are not the ones
who will make promising husbands.
The pockets of those who are helping
TO make the country bloom and Caus- |
ing two blades of grass to grow where |
God planted but one. will be found |
filed with barbedr wire sta pies, and |
different sizes of nails and screws. They |
are the boys the girls had better look |
Hin New Era.