The Topeka state journal., 1908-01-23
IS STILL GROWING
IidWinter Attendance C0ntin-
ues to Break Records.
Nearly Eight Thousand Have
Already Seen the Show.
DAY FOR CHILDREN.
Matinee Saturday Expected to
Be Big Event.
The Industrial School Children
Are Entertained.

. Still growing. Remember Jack and
the Beanstalk story, Of course you do.
Well the bean stalk Is the Midwinter
exposition and Jack, we'll Jack is Ralph
Brigham. Only Brigham doesn't follow
! the footsteps Of Jack and climb; he
! leaves that to the bean stalk.
| The way the attendance is climbing
| by the way, is something marvellous.
| Last year the total attendance for the
! three days was 3,465, less than one-half
| of the total for 1908
The twenty boys who came over from
| the reform school yesterday afternoon
upon the invitation Of Mr.. Brigham
voted the show bully" They sampled
| the hot cakes which the pretty girls at
| the booth piled out; they picked up
those little rabbits foot souvenirs that
q shoe company is giving away and en-
1oyed themselves thoroughly. Other
squads will visit under the espionage of
q supervisor during the remaining days.
/ Then. too come the visitors from the
Orphans home, Ingleside and the CRIT
tenton home, all of whom have been
extended an invitation
And on Saturday. That's going to-
be a great day for the children. the
merry prattle of the childish voices Is
going to sweep everything before It'll
The care-takers and the attendants at
the booths will be specially prepared
{ to look after the little folks. This
of children get together 1t repre-
sents activity of about 10000 horse
power.
one very prominent club woman
of Topeka certainly gained by her visit
to the pure food booth maintained by
the state board Of health. After look
ing over all the big bottles and the
little bottles and asking this ques-
tion ana the other she innocently
said, "Does it hurt to put a preserva-
tive in milk?'' You know what they
put in?" queried John Kleinhans,
state pure food inspector: Yes"
answered the club woman, "formalde-
hyde"
John Kleinhans didn't say anything.
He Just reached down and pulled out
a bottle with a big poison label on 1T
and the old skull and cross bones
over in one corner with the word
''formaldehyde'' written on it by the
druggist The club woman gasped.
Kieinhans had to smile. 81 think she
will remember about rormaldehyde
now" said he with some conviction
speaking about it afterward.
The coffees and teas that are stand
ing around labeled would put to shame
many an exhibit of a spice house. There
are 100 samples of coffees and the same
number Of teas at the booth. From over
the earth and the isles of the sea. Glass
TASKS show some of the authorizations
InaL are pTdCllCeu III IIO SolAo VI
There are the usual stones, pebbles,
sand and all that rubbish that is put
in to help weigh out pound. And
then there are imitation coffee beans,
a kind of stepbrother to the real thing.
They look so natural that you couldn't
tell that they weren't blood kin. They
have the exact form of the real bean
with the color and even the little worm
holes that are found in such beans
They are pressed into form and made
out of dirt and other stuff of a similar
nature and then mixed into the real
goods to help out in the profits. That's
what they used to do until the pure
food law started into operation.