The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-24

me Drother's hand in wrath against
his brother will be raised.
And each will call the other down
And say he is amazed
Sons ffguratively will reach
To grasp their fathers throat.
ana each will strive to neutralize
The other fellows vote.
Oh; We are thankful for the peace
That sits around this fall.
Wnen no one argues in the street
Nor tries to hire a hall;
When no one calls us fools and worse
because We are inclined
Against his judgment and his wish
10 rise and vote our mind.
Nashville American.
The COED.
Those who read the college publica-
lions are not slow to realize that their
EDITORS are unfriendly to coeducatfon,
In the institutions where that system
exists, says the New York Sun. Even
In some cases in which the girls have a
representation on the editorial board
Things are written and published that
are not kind.
The heads Of the institutions go to
some length to declare at times that
coeducatfon is success and that the
male students really like it, but they
are not borne out by the facts, appar-
entity. The girls in some of the middle
western universities which are coedu-
catfonal realize keenly this feeling
against them.
They take their part in college ac-
tivitfes and on occasion help out the
annette associations. They are made
TO feeI sometimes, as one Michigan girl
expressed it, that the men want to
know them only when they are after
their money.
There was a lot of applause for some
girls In Wisconsin last spring when
they raised money to help to send the
crews to Poughkeepsie for the regatta.
but apparently that has been forgot
ten, to Judge by some of the things
that the Wisconsin girls complain Of
Few of the eastern universities have
coeducat1on and most of the men in
them are ungallant enough to say that
they are glad of 1t. 1t would take a
deep psychologist to explain why there
Is that opposition to education of the
two sexes together.
AS one man who went to a mans
college In the east says I'll bet ten
good looking girls could do more for
coeducation than a ream of arguments
by professors Yet it is safe bet
that there are many good looking girls
In the western colleges.
They appear to be resigned out there
but they do not appear to relish CO.
education.
Where Brooms Come From
Illinois furnishes the aristocratic
brooms for the world, the highest grade
OF brushes being grown in our state"
said Valentine w. Kenger. a manufac-
v
Herald.
Kansas produces the cheaper brush
and most of it is shipped in bales to
Illinois to be manufactured in the
numerous broom factories The broom
corn district in Illinois is confined prin-
cipally to the central section, the coun-
ties of Douglas, Coles and Moultrie pro-
ducing nine-tenths of the total crop. It
is estimated that the crop in the United
States this season will aggregate 5O,-
000 of fr1I1
600.
ITO move this great product would
require 200 trains of over so cars each,
aggregating 100 miles of brooms. The
broom corn harvest has just ended in
central Illinois and material for 15,000.-
900 to 100000 brooms was cut there
this season. The brooms grown and
manufactured in Illinois are the fancy
kind. that retail for from rs to 40 cents.
Down in Oklahoma they raise a
coarser grade of brush, sufficient to
manufacture about $4,000, 900 brooms to
its credit, and there is some brush
grown in Missouri, Tennessee and Ar
kansas. Kansas favors a dwarf variety
of broom corn, which is preferable for
whiskbrooms. In fact. Kansas raises
material for nearly all the whiskbrooms
used in the United States.
Nearly all the high grade brooms
ports being generally of the cheaper
quality. The people of Europe in most
instances stick to the old style brooms
of twigs. They look askance at the
modern American broom"
A Newspaper Bible.
Did any one ever suspect the fact
that a Bible is almost a necessity in a
office? For months it will
not be used, and then comes a day
when one Of the reporters wants it,
and wants it badly.
About a week ago there was call
for the Dispatch family Bible. 1t had
1t was an old Bfble-a
very seedy-looking volume, with many
of it's leaves loose and torn, and the
rest all trying to get loose.
The office was turned upside down
even the artist and the photographers
were accused of having purloined 1t. 1t
was finally touchdown in the back OF
the composing room. How it got there
on one knew, but it had evidently seen
more hard treatment, and the most OF
those leaves which had been trying to
get loose accomplished their purpose
IT'S a homely looking old book-the |
Disnatch Bible-but it's as chuck full
of good things as real spick and span |
one right out of book store, and there |
was real rejoicing among the heather
reporters when 1t was found again