The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-04
SUMsfERTTMEs SONG

And ar the grass is SO sreenI am glad
The leaves are so thick and the trees are
There's hardly a thing that should fret US
The 80 sf BEST are so long and the nights are
With moonlight and stars and with pill
lows and rest
curled,
To live in this airy-day. merry1day world.
The air is SO fresh and the morning SO
would all your thoughts were as merry
as mine.
The clover's so sweet and so jeweled with
dew.
The dawn is SO bright am glad. aren't
The songs of the birds are 30 glad as they
play.
The woods are SO, cool and SO perfect the
Let's march on and and on with a banner
unfurled:
"Hurrah for this airy-day. merry-day
The turf is SO soft and the orchard so
With blossoms and buds. and our hearts
Our joys are so real and our troubles 50
Our plans are SO merry. I'm glad. aren't
you?
A blessing on life with its health and good
There's SO much that's good I am glad I
am here.
sun-splashed and aforementioned, sweet
blossomed dew-pearled,
Three cheers for this airy-day. merry-day
j. W. Foley in the New York Times.
Selling Baths in Paris.
There is plenty of water in Paris and
quantities of it are used on the streets
by men with lines of hose made in
metallic sections with flexible joints.
each section mounted on wheels. But
1t is almost impossible to get water
above the street level. and quite i'm
possible to get any quantity of it hot
under normal conditions. Only a few
of the very newest houses in Paris
have water above the street level. This
is true of hotels as we'll as of private
houses. A hotel keeper may send up
a quart of hot water to your room,
but filling a tub would probably be be-
yond the capacity of his establishment.
Many Parisians battle in big bath
houses. which line the Seine. In places
these houses occupy a greater part of
the river. But IL Partisan wants a
hot bath at home he turns to the peri
patetic bath tub. This originates in a
bathing establishment of which there
are many. The bath man, as he leaves
this establishment, has two straps over
his shoulders and he stands between
the shafts of two-wheeled cart. On
this cart is q tank surmounted by a
substantial bath tub, provided with
casters. In front Of the tank hang two
large metal buckets and yoke. The
bath man draws this apparatus
through the streets to your house.
one delivered at a time fixed. The bath
man comes around with his apparatus,
stops in front of your house, lifts the
tub from the top OF the tank, puts II
over his head like a hood and carries
it upstairs to your room. Returning
to the street he draws hot water in
the buckets, hangs them at each end
Of the yoke which he carries across his
shoulder and so conveys water to the
tub. When the tub is full he retlres
and you take your bath. Then he comes
upstairs, empties the tub by means It
buckets away. His passage through
the streets is an everyday sight to the
Parisian and arouses no COMMENT
Technical World.
Tinker Earned His Freedom.
George o'Rourke. a travelling
tinker, who was sent to the Tombs by
Magistrate Moss for vagrancy on
February 1, was released the other
day as the result Of his sending a
copper kettle. made from a single
cent, to Magistrate Moss.
When O'Rourke was arrafgned on
January 10 in the Harlem court,
Magistrate Moss gave him until
February 1 to prove that he could
support himself. O'Rourke had hard
luck, and when the time was up he
was sent for six months to the Tombs,
where he became boss of the car
penter shop.
Yesterday Magistrate Moss got a
letter from O'Rourke offering the tiny
do In off time as evidence
Of ability to earn his livelihood. It
is about half an inch high and well
rounded and has handle of very
thin wire-all in one piece and all
hammered out of a cent. The magis-
trate decided that the tinker had
proved his case and signed an order
for his release.-New York Sun.
Poker Players Hid in Collins.
So dead" game were twenty-five
players when a poker club was raided
last evening that they sought security
in caskets and coffin boxes. Others
hid in an attic. and when rounded up,
all dust and cobWeps, they were
Norwalk is a moral place. Gam
bling is tabooed. That a poker club
existed under the guise OF the Nor
hut that is what the state police,
Prosecuting Attorney Leo Davis. and
the local police found when they
swooped down upon the place at mid
night.
tables. but two jumped thirty feet
from window into a pilce of ashes and
escaped. Others broke through q
wooden partition to p. B. Cavanagh's
undertaking place and hid IN the
collins.
John H. Blake, the proprietor, was
fined 500 and sent to jail for six
months this morning. The others We're
fined $125 or $50 each and all PAID
up.-South Norwalk dispatch to New
York World.
Americas Biggest Man.
Calumet, Mich, claims to have the
biggest man in the United States. He
ts Louis Moilanen. and though but