The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14

A yellow light began to flare;
For some another golden day
VI glaoness sped upon its way.
Charles Hanson Towne.
Relative Size of Brains.
Probably no one has made as ex-
| hauStive study of the comparative
| size of mems and women's brains as
| Or. Roese of Berlin, who has taken the
racial and skull measurements of
| 10000 persons, including $4,000
school boys and girls. In his observa-
| tons were included Germans, Swedes,
| Danes, Dutch, Bohemians and Swiss.
| He has written a report of his de-
| auctions for German popular health
publication in which he gives the adj
vantage to men and boys from every
point of view. Boys have bigger brain
| capacity than girls, he says, in a de-
| gree which can not be accounted for
| on the general ground of better phys
| zeal developme mt. In fact, he confirms
| conclusions reached by other students,
| that from the ninth year to the close
| of school age, girls on the average are
| better nourished and developed than
| boys. The brains of well grown girls,
however, remain inferior in size to
those of physically backward boys. In
| the full grown woman, the skull and
! the brain remain on a childish plane
| of development.
| The fact that school girls often seem
| to reach better results than boys, that
| their actual accom- plishments seem
| greater, he accounts for by the fact
that they reach maturity, the degree
| of perfection of which they are capa-
| BILE, sooner than boys. But the girl
| stops there, while the boy goes on for
years developing and acquiring and
! only reaches his full power of utiliza-
| ton years later. When he does so,
however, he has far surpassed the level
to which the girl attained. In other
words. his mental growth scompared
with the woman'S is not unlike the
development of his physical strength.
nr
deductions apply only to normal or
average cases. He thinks the differ
ence in the sexes is due to the TACT
that the principal duty of woman is
motherhood, and nature can not afford
to waste on her either physical or
mental powers which are not essential
to that function.-New York Sum-
Wearing of Trousers Irreligious.
1t will assuredly seem more than
strange that within the past hundred
years the wearing of trousers has
been regarded even as irreligious.
The fact that in october. 1912. an
order was made by st. Johns and
Trinity colleges that every young man
who appeared in hall or chapel in
pantaloons or trousers should be con-
sidered as absent, is startling enough;
but it would appear that eight years
later the founders of a Bethel chapel
at Sheffield inserted a clause in the
trust deed ordaining that under no |
circumstances Whatever SNAIL any |
preacher be allowed to occupy the |
pulpit who wears trousers"
This is striking, but it is even more |
impressive to find that the Rev. Hugh |
the Primitive Methodist Connection, !
said of his co-founder, THAT trousers
wearing, beer drinking Cloves will |
never get to heaven And it would
RihIe" to say precisely when this as
sumed connection between theology
and trousers began and where the de-
parture from it will end-New York
Sun. "
A Bet on a Private Still.
An inexperienced excise inspector,
having been sent to the Blue Grass
state from headquarters in Washing
ton, stopped at a tumble-down hotel
in jerkwater village. He strolled
into the barroom, and, seeing a few of
the village worthless loafing around,
ordered a drink all around; Being
filled with ambition and totally unac-
quainted with the surrounding coun-
try, he offered IS to any one who
would lead him to an Illicit still, or
that part of the state. A grizzled old
woodsman stepped to the fore and
preferred his services. Having re-
ceived his fee, he led the inspector a
lively chase over hill and dale, ford
ing streams and tracking through
swamps After about five miles
tramp they came upon a dingy old
ga bin, with no life visible except a
man working in the garden. The
guide then said:
DO you see that MANI
The inspector said he did.
well" said the guide, that man is
ny son-in-law. He is an army man.
He has been in the army for twenty
years. He ought to be an officer by
his time but he isn't. He's a private
still. "-Judge's Library.
Painless Operations.
He was a mortal who was much to
De pitied. For several days he had
a martyrdom from toothache,
md now he had delivered himself into ,
he hands of a dentist who largely ad-
-ertised the "painlessnesS' of his
operations. 4
After a busy five minutes the Of i
ending molar was drawn, and the !
-ictim was trying to ascertain the ex- :
ent of the damage to his jaw. :
''Is that what you call painless?' he
sked. y
"Certainly," smiled the wielder of !
he forceps; cit was entirely painless :
o me-" +
"Oh, was it? Well, this is what I :
all a painless punch" said the victim. :
And letting his clenched hand dwell
or a moment on the operators nasal c
Ryan. he walked out of the house, :
Weekly, !
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