The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-06

some day
We would take our plunge in the nup,
But the years sped on and the path fork
And the. storms broke loose with their
riffs of light
There ts naught but dreams in the fading
night :
Oh. my sweetheart fair of the days gone
OF the days lock-stepped from Eternity.
Let f, me dream of thee as the Dhantoms
And the Ehostly forms of the seasons
For the rose was sweet and the sky was
And the brook swung fair in the mystic
In The dear, dead days of the boyish cheer
| Wnen loved you true-in the long ago!
Byron Williams.
Salaries of Singers.
! The report of the French minister
OF beaux arts shows that Alvarez. the
leading tenor at the opera in Paris,
receives only $1,000 a month; Nine.
Breval, leading soprano of the same
institution. $500. Miss Mary Gar
$500. ' ie'eiseu
1T is true" said Oscar Hammer
stein, that singers in Europe receive
very much less than they do here,
a
less money than they receive here for
one performance. But their engage.
ment there is for the whole year,
whereas If they come to America it
I'VE months. Few singers who sing
here find employment during the rest
of the year."
Several of the French singers i'll
very large salaries. Maurice Renaud
Is said to be the highest priced BARI
tone in the world; Mr.. Dalmores Is an
expensive tenor, and it is well known
performance in New York goes into
four figures.
Miss Garden said in discussing the
comiaue in eis t is given ven at the
expensive seats. 1t is impossible to
take in more than 9O00f. there at one
performance. Naturally, the director
can not pay enormous salaries. But
living is very much cheaper in Paris,
and an artists engagement is steady
one. lasting year in and year out.
In New York you do not want
singers until they have received the
opera house. 1t is. therefore, a good
thing for one to sing In Paris until
one has gained fame. 1t is true that
tb eUo IN I rnfyd iS very large salary
with eight performances a month
about 5000 a performance. But liv-
Ing is so much cheaper there that !
could do as we'll with that as could
there are absolutely no expenses |
Even ones costumes are furnished by
the opera house management."-Ne |
York Times.
Portable Society Coat.
The swallow tail coat. the low vest, |
and the small bow tie are used for all |
public occasions. presentations, we'd |
n Two ~ lie -.
general is this in Belgium, for example, |
that it is quite a Commonplace event |
to have the ordinary morning coat SO |
made that 1t can be readily altered into
a dress coat and back again to its orig
Inal form when circumstances make the |
desirable. The fronts
Of the skirts are turned in, being spec
Ially cut in the first place to enable this
to be done, and a different collar with
long roll is put on. OF course this
production is not always a thing of
beauty, the lack OF 1apels and the
straightness of the skirts detracting
from what the west end
tailor would deem the current lines Of
,edingote, is also frequently made to
10 duty for dress wear, but this is not
altered, like the morning coat, and Is
by the regulation low vest
he English tourist need not unduly
worry about this sartorial detail. If 1t
s the custom to dress for dinner, the
heater, etc., at home, he will be well
advised to do the came abroad; for
re-prandial celebrations it is not gen
orally thought necessary to follow the
native habit.-London Telegraph.
Apprehension of Personality.
Self-consciousness must not be mis-
AIKEN for self-knowledge. Common ex-
teaches this well enough, yet
he empirical FEASIBILITY of the self
conscious state constitutes formidable
,asis. A Napoleon's cool consciousness
s bound to seem to him fair measure
# himself. But the real measure can
,e given only in the historical portrait
;ot by scientifically deducing the acci-
Tents due to environment and so show
ng what of the worlds addition went
o hfa making. Doubtless, Napoleon's
ontained self-perception was to him a
rue token 1t actually designated
cal and capable self. Yet it was not
of that self It's function
vas locally dynamic: to impel to the
on1dent career. But even so 1t was
of a condition or power N
he world, Napoleonhood, which when !
rom his making the worlds share is
Japo1eonic self.-December Journal of
american Society for Physical Re-
earch. -
Ravages of Coyotes.
At the meeting of the Oregon Wool
irowers' association at Tho Dalles this
7eek President Burgess, speaking Of
he ravages among hocks of sheep, said
here had been more coyotes recently
han ever before In eastern Oregon. |
A conservative estimate he said, "of
he loss Of sheep by these animals In J
astern Dragon during the last year is
{ least $3.50 goo. which does not include
he loss of colts, calves and poultry
7hfch will aggregate nearly as much
lore. Some mode of DISCRIMINATING
hem should be agreed upon Then we