The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10

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Scold your wife.
II your hat has gone astray.
Scold your wife;
II you're late upon the way
Scold your wife:
II the day brings any loss
II you fail to please. the boss,
Journey homeward feeling cross
Scold your wife.
Never mind what Ills she bears
Scold your wife;
Add your own to all her cares
Scold your wife:
Thats the way to get along;
Sne Is weak and you are strong;
Every tune a thing goes wrong,
Chinese Whistling Pigeons.
one of the most curious expressions
or emotional life Is the application of
Whistles to flock of pigeons. These
whistles. very light, Weighing but
Few grams. are attached to the tails
OF young pigeons soon after their
birth by means of fine copper wire so
that when the birds fly the wind
blowing through the whistles sets
them vibrating and thus produces an
open-air concert, for the instruments
In one and the same flock are all
tuned differently. On a serene day
In Picking, where these instruments
are manufactured with great clever
ness and ingenuity, 1t is possible to
enjoy this aerial music while sitting
| in ones room.
There are two distinct types of
| whistles-those consisting of bamboo
tubes placed side by side, and a type
based on the principle of tubes at
| tached to gourd body or wind-chest.
They are lacquered in yellow, brown.
| red and black, to protect the material
from the destructive influences of
the atmosphere. The tube whistles
have either two, three or five tubes
In soma Snprirnano 70 fxo trh
| made of oxhorn instead of bamboo.
The gourd-whiStles are furnished with
a mouthpfece and small apertures to
the number of two, three, SIX ten,
them have, besides number of
bamboo tubes. some on the principal
mouthpiece, some arranged around
it. These varieties are distinguished
by different names. Thus, a whistle
with one mouthpiece and ten tubes is
| called 1.-The eleven-eyed one
| The explanation of the practice of
this quaint custom which the Chinese
offer is not very satisfactory. Accord
| ing to them, these whistles are in
tended to keep the flock together and
TO protect the pigeons from attacks
of birds of prey. There seems, how
ever. little reason to believe that a
hungry hawk could be induced by
| this innocent music to keep aloof
| from satisfying his appetite; and this
| which comes up long after the in
| PRODUCTION of this usage, through the
attempt to give rational and prac-
teal Interpretation of something that
has no rational origin whatever, for
| 1t is not the pigeon that profits from
this practice. but merely the human
| ear, which feasts on the wind-blown
| tubes and derives esthetic pleasure
| from this misunderstanding Amerf-
| can.
Mothers Strange DelusiOn.
The head nurse in the pyscopathic
ward at Bellevue said last night that
| the case of Mrs. Collar and the latter's
daughter, Mrs. Goodsell, who were
taken there on Thursday night suffer-
Mrs. Goodsell's 6-year-old son George
| is the Messiah of the Jews, is one of
| the strangest cases ever received in
Bellevue. The women rave about the
| child being the son of God. crying out
| that he has come into the world to
redeem it a second time.
The boy is now in Bellevue recover
| ing from the effects of severe burnings
to which his mother subjected him in
attempting to brand the word Mes
siah" on his forehead and neck. Only
the arrival of the police at the Good
sell fiat, on Thursday night, saved the
boy from being further tortured by his
distracted mother and grandmother.
lnCTe was evidence tndC the boy ndQ
been tortured on occasions prior to
last night, as indicated by several
scars of burns on his forehead and
neck. The branding had been done
with curling iron.
This child" Mrs. Goodsell told the
police. sis the long looked for Messiah
of the Jews. and I am branding him
so that he shall be known of all men.
He must be known, distinct. and
marked for life, so that those who are
~ II
With her mother, Mrs. Mary Collar,
the woman moved into the East Sixty
sixth street house three days ago. 1t
was through the kindness of some per-
son who took the little boy to Roose-
welt hospital to have the old burns on
his head and neck dressed that the
police learned what had been going
on in the Goodsell fat. The boy had
burns on his head and neck and a
black eye. He had evidently been
refused to tell how he had been
| burned. Late Thursday afternoon,
however. in answer to persistent ques-
tioning by DR.. Mills. one of the hos
was his own mother who had inflicted
his injuries.
The doctors say the boy will recov-
err. but that he will carry the marks
of his mothers mad cruelty to the
grave.-New York Times.
Hottest Place on Earth.
Bahrein Island, In the Persian Gulf.
IS said to be the hottest place on the
globe. far hotter than Tophet. The
average temperature is about 141 de-
grees. On the coast, where the people
live, there is no fresh water. but here
and there in the harbors bottom are
strong free-flowing springs of purest
water. rivaling that which flows down
the sides of the mountains of Lebanon.
favored by the sap of healthy cedars.
Drivers equip themselves with bags
made of skins and descend to the
springs, where they fill the inverted
receptacles with aqua pura. This wa
ter is cold enough to drink without the
aid of ice of which the islanders know