The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-15

DAY EvENIN0. JULY Is,
THE GRIEvING REFORMER.
I have tried to show the peoplpe where
have shown the bane within the comic
I have told them how to wear simple sarb
and lengthy. hair
If they want to live a life that's good and
long.
But they don't and they won't and they
1 sometimes wonder il they ever will
Ihough stamp around and storm
None OF them can reform,
For they won't and they don't and they
I have written screeds to show them how
to write,
have urged them not to read by candle
light.
Rave told them how t? think. what to
But they keep the sarna old habits just
for spite.
And I sometimes wonder where we've
When tell them how to chew
Every bite, it makes me blue,
For they don't and they won't be uplifted
have told them how to work and how to
How to put the proper tone in what they
say,
have shown them how to spell words
But they simply shrug and spell the
same old way.
And they don't and they won't and they
I somstimes wonder II they ever will
Sh the how resi- sPlsndiS Son;d i I. TSgd ;,pa be
But they don't and they won't and they
never will.
! Chicago Post.
| Sunburn and Health.
Again are many young men and
| maidens, with not a few Of their eld-
| ers. walking, running, and variously
riding about the country with heads
spite many incidental discomforts and
a decided diminution of such personal
charms as they may possess, from a
notion that such exposure somehow
| moment think of any belief that has
less of fact for foundation than this
one. since 1t has none at all.
On the contrary, for white man or
| woman to go bareheaded under the
tropic sun of an American summer is
distinctly and seriously injurious. a
statement that can not be doubted by
| anybody who will give a little intelli-
gent consideration to the known ef-
fects of fervid sunlight on lightly pig
how the more successful and brainy
| races living in hot countries dress
themselves.
The Arab, though a swarthy fellow.
| wraps himself closely, head and all.
in the voluminous folds of a heavy
| woolen garment before he ventures on
a desert journey. while all through the
hot parts of the east men of the higher
and ruling classes, instead of going
| with bare heads, wear enormous
In neither case probably is the cos
tune conscious adaptation to cli-
matte necessities, but the men who
through the centuries have thus pro-
prospered. while those who did not dc
it have either died out or sunk to the
level of commonest laborers. stupid
and hopeless.
This is the lesson of universal ex-
perience. but it is unheeded by our
bareheaded brigade. who cling to the
delusion that anybody who is deeply
tanned" must inevitably be in rugged
health. AS a matter of fact, tan has
nothing to do with health. except as II
is a protection from sunburn, and as
1t usually goes with an outdoor life
and the inhalation Of much fresh air.
Instinct, the infallible guide. prompts
everybody except negroes to keep in
bright; 1t is only fallacious reasoning
from inadequate and misunderstood
| data that leads foolish white folks to
discard their hats in summer.-New
| York Times.
| New Use for Gum.
4 A member of the firm of Romandka
Bros. received an order one day last
week that he could not fill.
A woman came into his place of bus
} mess and handed him card, on which
} was a chewing gum model.
} ct have lost the key to my trunk,
she said, land I pushed that gum into
} the lock and got a model of it. 1 sup
pose you can make me key that vii
unlock my trunk with that model to &C
by, can you not?"
Mr.. Romadka owned that he could
not The gum was in a rather pliable
condition, he told the customer. from
the heat, and he would fit key by an
other method. The woman was salts.
fed and Mr. Romadka dispatched {
man with a bunch Of trunk keys to try
the lock till he found one which fitted
Free Press.
Japanese Are Sentimental
, "It would seem that we are adopt
| ing some japanese ideas as readily a.
the little brown people take up with
| James v. Campbell, a charming
woman from the south, who is stop
ping with her husband at the New
Howard.
"The Japanese, while apparentl.
stoical, have as much sentiment a
any nation on the globe. All thei
ideas in regard to affairs of the hear
!. least one American woman ha
realized this-the talented writer