The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-03
THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES.


The New England Magazine for Sep
TENDER has as its leading article the
third of a series whats the Matter
with New England" entitled ..Ver-
mont, State.'' AS the title indicates,
the article, unlike its predecessors, is
highly commendatory, and will cause
its readers from the Green Mountain
state to glow with pride. The pic
lures are unusually fine, and the ar
ticles will please and interest readers
the country over, as well as Vermont
erS.
This subject of crossing the legs,
which some foreigner has brought to
the front by criticising American
women for the practice, is discussed
in this months Delineator. "A most
injurious habit" it says, common
alike to men and women, is that of
sitting with one leg swung over the
feet, varicose veins, ulcers, and many
other discomforts attendant on an inn
perfect circulation of the blood are
directly traceable to this habit
When the right leg is swung over the
left knee the whole weight is sus-
tanned by this knee placing all the
pressure against the under part of the
right leg between the calf and the
knee-cap. At this very place are a
great number of large veins, arteries
crowds all the tissues together and
materially fnterferes with the circu-
Iatlon of the blood, and the disturb
anee OF natures processes manifests
istelf in many bodily evils and incon-
veniences Many who would not be
guilty of crossing the legs in public
OFTEN surrender to the temporary
comfort of the position in the Sc
clusion of their own rooms. 1t is
wrong and Injuries because it def1es
nature whose laws are more impera-
tive than those of society,"
Casper Whitney's viewpoint" in
the September Outing, is given up to
a discussion of the truly true animal
stories, which gives the view" of one
of the principals in the recent contro-
versy between the Rev. Mr.. Long on
the one side and President Roosevelt,
Mr.. John Burroughs, and Mr.. Whitney
on the other. Among other things Mr..
says: rs it not an outrage
that good animal stories should be ira
duced into manufacturing natural his
tory which intelligent folks reject with
oerision? Is 1T not a positive and a re-
gretful loss to juvenile literature that
where the artistic quality is so geneI
ously bestowed the genuine fairy or
fable like character of these stories
should be denied in a venal endeavor to
spirit them from off the nursery book
shelf where they belong with Grimm,
into the schoolroom where they have no
place! This then Is my grievance-that
the best of animal stories should be lost
for indefensibly distorted natural his
tory; that sham science should seek to
disturb our enjoyment of delightful
fiction; that the author whom We wish
20 tremenber with gratitude and. re-
spect for the genuine pleasure he has |
given US, should make it SO difficult for
as to do so by proclaiming the fable to |
De fact. We go to him for entertain |
nent, not for fact, and it is unffatter-
ng to our intelligence that he SO un-
1ereStimateS it. Facts as facts are not
what the reading public buys for enter |
ainment; fable masquerading as fact is
Improbable business; and the reason !
he animal stories of these gifted auth
1rs of the new school have sold largely |
s because of their fairy-like nature |
which so strongly appeals to the readers |
is developed with such IT. |
charm. The reader does not |
want natural history; he does not ask |
,r care if the story is true, he wants |
merely to be entertained, and Of this |
patent fact all the members of the new |
school of animal story tellers save only |
he Rev. w. ]. Long, appear now to be
aware"
Several of the short stories, of which |
The Bohemian for September is full, |
deserve special attention. AT Ye
Ladye's Inn is the story of woman !
burglars shrewd getaway. Jimmie |
Duncan of the Herald is a love story /
# a new mould. THE Patricians' is |
delightful story of the days of Column
Jus, and 1.-The Ingrate' is the story of |
he street Arab a well-meaning lady, |
md her attempts to reform him.
Perhaps the most significant con-
ribution to Success Magazine for Sep
ember is the article will Roosevelt |
2un?" by David Graham Phillips, Mr.. /
Phillips believes that the Importance of
he work which the president has be-
,un and the belief of the people in its
Iecessity will compel him to accept an
ther nomination and election. This
lumber contains the concluding IN
tallment of Josiah F1ynts striking
autobiography. This important work
vas brought to an untimely end by Mr..
rlynt's death in January.