The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-18
JOY DISTURBED.

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A book to read, and then
Tuoulo De happy everywhere
Ihere's Joy supreme, for men,
BUT when get a good cigar,
Sit in my easy chair
And take my book they veil for Pa
And must climb the STAIR
Or else the wife has chores for me,
Inc furnace may be low;
or something am called to see,
"A oraln pipe may not flow.
1 never yet have had my book,
-Clgar or easy chair
But what I have been called to look
AT some disturbance there.
some men there are who smoke and read
All undisturbed and still:
but they're unmarried men, indeed
Or else their wives are ILL.,
Detroit Free Press
The Country's Wheat Consumption.
In 1902 the growers of the United
states had 100000 acres planted
to wheat. The acreage in 1867 was
5000, 900, and statistics fail to show
that the newer wheat countries have
made up the loss. There has been
a constant decrease in the acreage
oevoted to wheat in all of the eastern
and lake states for the last ten wears.
In the Missouri valley states there has
peen an increase of nearly so per cent
IN the wheat growing area since 1880.
while in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Indiana and Illinois, states that were
once heavy producers of wheat, the
land mas been turned to other pur-
poses, leaving the total wheat area,
Wnlch Is now confined almost exclu-
sively to the Missouri valley states.
put little larger than it was twenty
five years ago.
experts estimate that the popuIa-
ton of the United States will be at
tn
time this country will require for
nome consumption every bushel of
wheat raised, unless there is a mark
ed and unexpected expansion of the
wheat area of the nation or produc-
ton of wheat substitutes. It is es-
demand for home needs a wheat crop
of at least 700,000,000 bushels, or an
increase of about 20 per cent over the
crop of 1907. The food supply is,
therefore, likely to touch this country
more nearly in the Immediate future
than people generally realize.-Oma-
ha Bee.
The Detachable Sinking Room.
A Persian diplomat, seated on the
white beach at Orrnond, famed his
moist brow with a Panama.
The February sun is hot he said.
1T recalls family to me the heat Of
Persia But you have no need of sink
ing rooms here"
Sinking rooms?" said the girl in
white. 1--WE heard of~sinking funds,
but"
You use them in Persia-if you're
rich enough-in the great heats he in
sink down into the vitreous blue depths
of Lake Niris. Nfris, the most beautiful
of Persian lakes, is almost crowded
with sinking rooms during the hot
weather.
They're very pleasant. You furnish
them sumptuously-rugs and pale silk
hangings, ivory carvings and mother
o'-pearl-and you take down with you
singing girls and dancing girls, and
girls to serve the sherbet and to fill the
hookahs."
He sighed.
"All this" he said, 'is very pleasant,
but I would gladly exchange the glare
roar of these high-powered motor cars,
for Lake Niris' cool depths, the vitreous
blue light, and the clear laughter of
the Circassian serving girls. "-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Telling the Fortunes of Monkeys.
Monkey palmistry is a profession
ogist of London. He finds remark
able specific variations displayed by
the fine raised lines in the tactile sur
faces of the hands and feet of apes,
monkeys and lemurs. The extreme
completely of type presented in this
respect by the lemurs is especially
notable. The ridges in the palm at
tain their full and typical develop
ment only in men, apes, monkeys,
and lemurs, but the degree of special
ization does not by any means &C
cord with the relative grade of these
animals in the geological scale. The
simple pattern is characterization OF
the higher forms, and the complex
pattern is characteristic Of the lower
forms. The complex ridges of the
lemur DR.. Kidd associates with this
animals need for facility in main
tanning the bodily equilibrium in
creatures of purely nocturnal habits.
veloped for helping to do this.-Chi-
cago Tribune
Son Gave Mr.. Taft Stage Fright.
Robert Alphonso Taft, son of Secre-
tary Taft, heard his father speak in
Music hall here.
Young Mr.. Taft is a sophomore in
Yale, and he went to the banquet of
the Young Mems Republican club at
the invitation of member.
When Secretary Taft rose to speak
he caught his sons gaze as the young
man proudly but anxiously watched
and listened. Secretary Taft said af-
terward to a friend:
"It was the first time the boy had
heard me make a speech. He looked
so fearful that his father might break
down that for a few moments I was
quite embarrassed by his glances. -
New Haven dispatch to New York
Herald.
Mr.. Shaw's Little Joke.
The presidents affection for men,
bers of the old Rough Rider regiment
and the preference he has shown them
in making federal appointments have
been the basis for many a Joke. Leslie
M Shaw, while secretary of the treas
ury went to a cabinet meeting with a
newspaper In his hand, and, while the
president was waiting for one or two