The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21
DON'T Want to Live i'm Town

The Stubs boys are perfectly natural
and perfectly sincere when they say.
Topeka. They don't want to live in
town. They've always lived in the
country even before Mr.. Stubbs bought
this country place on Windmill hill ov-
their herd of dogs to chase rabbits with,
and their horses : and their Thirty
Acres in Liberty and they don't want
to change schools nor cultivate a new
set of pals" Mr.. and Mrs. Stubs are
in hearty accord and sympathy with
them and listen seriously to their pro-
posals to remain in Lawrence with the
caretakers who will keep the house
when the rest of the family have gone
to Topeka. 1.-The town., says Mr..
Stubs, is no place for boys. They
must have room and freedom and
chance to grow. There isn't enough for
them to do in town 1 believe that
boys should work and play and the
country is the only place that will give
them a chance to do both under the
best conditions"
Lawrence the Oyster Bay.
Lawrence will probably be the Oyster
Bay of the next administration because
none of the Stubs family want to leave
their home and the house will be kept
open and ready for occupancy SO that
they can run down for weeks ends and
for the hot summer months. The best
feature of the house is the big outdoor
SIeeDlnR room on the second HOOT, ldISS
enough to accommodate two or three
families and where they all slept under
blankets every night" last summer, for
all the world like the mountain and
seaside resorts from which the summer
gadders send post cards to hot and
tired stay-at- homes.
The Stubs place is still unnamed in
spite or because of the many appropr1-
ate names which suggest themselves to
every visitor. If you are there in the
carly morning hours want to
plagiarize on Elbert Hubbard and call
the place "Sun-up" but if you are there
to see a typical Kansas sunset you in
sist that this nightly pageant of bril-
liant colors and wonderful cloud shapes
should receive recognition. Lawrence
people still call the place Windmill Hill,
because it is the site of the historic
Dutch windmill for years one of the
landmarks of the town dear to the
hearts of generations of K. u. spoon
ers," and which burned down few
wears ago. The surroundings are fulI
of suggestions for romantic names. The
view is one of the most beautiful in the
state On a clear day one can see
down the Kaw valley which spreads
itself out in picturesque and constant
ly varying panorama, for over 20 miles.
The university buildings and campus
are at ones very elbow. The lights OF
Lawrence star the darkness at ones
feet by night. The gray Kaw winds
sluggishly in the middle distance ana
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and woods and lanes and farm houses
of a picturesque and rural district ex-
tending to the hills which bound the
scene on the east and north and to the
lend of nowhere on the west and
south.
Inside the house is as CHEEKY and
satisfying as without. 1t is difficult to
get home atmosphere in house as
big according to Kansas standards, as
this one, especially if it is new but
the Stubs family have attained this
effect, principally perhaps, by living all
over it. The big old-fashioned fire
places in all the living rooms filled at
this season with blazing logs help a