The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
KANSAS cOMMENT
WOMAN AND POLITICs

| 49,, FO4h<AN AND POLITICS.
| Inc average woman knows nothing
ABOUT the 1ntricacies of politics, and
| cares less. L refer, not to the High
| Plo"SQ, VINO understand everything
11oin aesels philosophy down to First
Rules in English and can discuss any
tnlng, from the Monroe Doctrine to
Mike Hallonan's saloon. Neither do /
mean mat the average woman is be-
AZ requires as much brain to master
the ntrlcac1es of housekeeping and
nome making as it does to understand
an the ms and outs of politics and
Many women, by stress of circum-
stances, are forced into a working
knoWleoge of both business and poll
tics, but l insist that the average wo-
average woman--does not have a bow
Ing acquaintance with politics and IS
not sure that she wants to, being par
tlcular as to the company she keeps,
ana pollcs being the synonym of SO
much that is impure and corrupt.
l do not believe in limiting won1ans
sphere to the kitchen, nor her ac-
compartments to bread making. But
woman herself has drawn the line at
politics-the average woman. remem-
Der, not the suffragist-and is as little
interested, when her John discusses the
tariff, as he is, when she converses on
bias ruff1es and the best method Of
Kidding the pantry of ants.
If she is wise, and she generally is,
she will pretend an interest, just as
she does when John Jr. tells he knock
kins, and then got famed. She mas
no more idea what three Dagger is
than she has of the language en-
ployed on Mars. but smiles indulgentiy
and says she is proud of him. In her
heart of hearts she may wonder If he
got all "het" up and had to be
famed to cool off, but she is too
smooth to ask questions. Her son and
he ,1I1 nit haT
spicacity and each one secretly thinks
that mother is an awfully smart wo-
man.-Holton Signal.
UP TO DATE.
Surely Kansas farmers are favored
by the gods. Not only do they have
rural mail and telephone service, but
over at Junction City a thousand of
weather reports redhot from where
they make them. This will be accom-
plished by means of the Wareham-
Dewey Telephone company. which ev--
cry day at noon will transmit to III
it's patrons over the wires the latest
report of meteorological conditions and
prospects. Those people will never
need to worry, they can eat their mid
day meal in peace, and then go to the
phone and find out whether 1T Is going
to rain so that they will not have 10
hitch up and go to work in the fields
Lindsborg Record.
TOO MUCH PROSPERITY.
There are more ways than one to
kill dog" is exemplified in the death
of Dandy Jim," a New York spaniel
whose mistress has left him a legacy
of $4,000. In trying to live 1t up he
became so fat through overlooking that
he smothered to death. 1t is not likely |
that this method of killing dogs will |
ever become very popular. though it
should be recommended by the HI |
name society.-Wichita Beacon.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
A new milking machine has been il !
vented, in which the operator does the !
work with his foot. In the old way of /
milking, the foot power was exerted |
by the cOW.-Wichita Beacon.
ALWAYS WORKING.
The American railroads killed and |
wounded twice as many people last year
as were killed on the British side dur
ing the Boer war. We do not often
have a war but We have the railroads
all the tin1e.-Jewell Republican.