The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
No Servant Problem.

There is no servant problem at the
Theosophical Brotherhood at Point
Iona. Cal. Ray Stannard Baker
brings out the point of the Brother
hood in the American Magazine for
January.
! so there are no servants heress
asked Mr.. Baker.
Why, no-and yes. But we haven't
any servant problem; you see we are
all servants The only men on the
place that I know of who receive pay
are two Japanese boys and some car
penters who are working on one Of the
new buildings
After that I took great pleasure in
| tracing the truly remarkable condi-
tions which resulted from such an ex-
| traordinary system-a system which
completely overturns all of our settled
and customary conceptions of life.
Some hidden incentive. some singular
faith has here apparently set up an en-
tirely new standard Of life! One of
the writer's for the weekly journal
published at Point Iona is also en-
ployed part of his time in cleaning the
lamps in the main building. The law
yer of the institution, an able southern
gentleman, diversifies his legal work
by experimenting the vegetable gar
den, a task which he especially enjoys.
His wife is the chief cook in the kitch-
en- of the institution. AT a concert in
the evening / was much impressed by
the leader of the orch estra, a young
fellow of evident ability and power.
The next morning he was on watch at
the gate and opened it for me as ap-
preached. When I had gone down the
road little way heard the strains of
violin. My eader-gate-tender was
practicing in the little watchman's
boxl
Apparently people come to this in
stitution convicted of uselessness and
of the unhappiness of uselessness. One
a Of -
llSh family-a name known to every
American-had been admitted as
resident in the community.
1t seems to me I never have done
one useful thing in my life' she said,
and I want to begin now"
King LeopoId's Erratic Habits.
In 1.-THE Blood Money of the Con-
CO." in the January Everybody's, Rob-
ert E. Park writes:
These silent fittings of the king, to
which he is greatly given, have at
times been found inconvenient by his
ministers, who havo supposed their
sovereign hard at work in his study
until his whereabout were reported in
some remote corner of the world. 1t
is told that once, when his ministers
had found themselves unable to gain
access to him, they were suddenly as
founded by reading a press account of
the arrival in the Mediterranean of the
royal yacht. with the king and his
three daughters on board. Glowing de-
scriptions followed of their public re-
ception at the various ports at which
they touched AS the three princesses
were at home in the palaces at the
time. the affair. in the light of the
kings well known proclivities for I'M
conventional amusements, took on a
sufficiently lurid hue. To prevent scan
dial more than usually fragrant, the
princesses shut themselves up in the
palace. where they remained until
their father saw fit to appear again as
vanished. The daughters in the case
were three actresses whose names
were bywords on the bouievards of
Paris"
King Leopold Is Superstitious.
pold's personality in The Blood
| Money Of the Congo" in the January
Everybody's, says:
Few people know that this hard
hearted man of many businesses is
| troubled by a superstition. He and
his daughters have a superstitious
| dread of the last two weeks in Janu-
airy. During that period nearly all the
| misfortunes of his life, by an odd CO
! incidence. have overtaken him. While
still Duke of Brabant, before his &C
cession to Belgium's throne, he lost
his only son, who died after a mys-
/
Prince Rudolph of Austria. the kings
! son-in-law, met his violent and mys-
/ FERROUS death in the hunting lodge at
Meyerling, in the latter part of the
1890, the palace at Laeken burned,
and Princess Clementine, who barely
escaped with her life, was so over
wrought by the sight of her governess
perishing in the flames that for many
months it was feared she would lose
| her reason In precisely the same man
ner in which Leopold's only sister, the
ex-Empress Carlotta, lost hers The
| latter's definite insanity also, curiously
enough, dates from January"
| All in the Way She Was Trained.
DR.. Russell H. Conwell, the famous
pastor of the Baptist Temple in Phila-
delphia in a lecture delivered in New
full progress in rapid-transit facilities
| in the near future, and at the same
time deprecated the slowness of pres
ent railroad travel. To illustrate this
point DIR. Conwell told an amusing
story of a woman who was travelling
with her child. The train was delayed
! bv many tiresome and seemingly I'M
necessary stops, and when the con-
ductor was collecting fares the woman
refused to pay for her little girl.
That child Is old enough to have
her fare paid" said the conductor.
very sternly-
well, perhaps she Is old enough
now replied the woman, but she
wasn't when the train started.''-Har-
per's weekly.
Chicago Raillery.
Representative Mann, of Illinois,
never loses an opportunity to expatiate
upon. the glories and material prosper
/ ity of Chicago.
| One day he was holding forth in his
usual strain, when he touched upon
the part played by the railroads in that
prosperity. Statistics show" declared
| the member from Illinois, that 1850
traina arrive in Chicago daily. These