The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-23
THE MUSIC IN TILE PARIoR

When there isn't anybody in the whole
To sit dreamin. as you're snokin', with
| your wife beside your chair
ana your daughter in the parlor, gladly
singin something there.
There's heap of satisfaction when there
And you've got a little money laid up for
| the rainy day;
When there isn't any mortgage that'r
| soon be comm due
can blame his woes on you,
10 SIT back and take it easy, with your
And your daughter. in the parlor. singin'
Annie Laurie there.
mentioned heretofore.
| when YOU needn't worry over maxim
! When, you're wearin' easy slippers and
| the nights grow long and cool
ana glra 20 s gs5n ready to go off
To sit back and hear her gladly thrillin'
| out some sweet air
| To the well-to-do young fellow with her
In the parlor there.
Chicago Record Herald.
A "Cunjer Box That Paid.
! It was just a tiny tin bucket No
one would have suspected its magic
| powers from it's appearance as it sat
| unostentatiously on Judge Richard
yet two negro women looked. at it
with awe. One of them, old and wrink-
| led, was heard to whisper:
| Just let me away from that thing;
away from it. 1t maybe a bucket and
again it mayn't. Just let me stand
right around there on the other side"
Huh. What's the matter with
| torted. THAT amt cunjer box; it's
| just a bucket"
1t might have been only a bucket,
at that. But as coin producer it
probably holds the worlds tin pail
Judge Richardson how Alice James,
it's owner. had worked 1t as a paying
| investment.
"She came to my house with that
bucket Mrs. Ida Hastings said, land
offered to tell me great secret. She
borrowed $3.50 in silver coins, a bot
tie, and my left shoe. She rubbed the
bottom of the shoe with coins, tapped
the bottle on the pail, knelt in front of
the thing and prayed. Then she told
me 1 was not living with my husband.
That was true. I have been a widow
eight years. Then she ran out with the
shoe, the bucket and the money and
never came back
"She came to my house and said
there was $500 In gold buried in my
yard" Mrs Anna July said. "She told
me the bucket would find it. She bor-
rowed s2.25 in silver. buried 1t in a
hole and put the bucket over it. She
walked around the bucket three times
and prayed. She told me to dig, and
walked away with her bucket. When
dug couldn't even find the $2.25."
"At my house she said it was cum
jer box and 1 gave her IS before she
took 1T away" Mrs. Kate Franklin
declared.
D. V. Howell, assistant city attor-
ney, opened the mysterious bucket. In
pins, a small piece of leather, a lock
of hair and small bone.
Looks like a real confer box to
me-" Judge Richardson said. ANY
body who would carry 1t ought to be
fined. twenty-five dollars" - Kansas
City Star.
Fighting tuberculosis.
1t may be said that today the cura-
tive treatment of tuberculosis finds
itself little departed from the princi-
Piles of Hippocrates, who, 400 years
before Christ, advised patients to "go
into the hills and drink goats milk"
Modern methods with tuberculosis are
still largely advisory, and are regu-
lated by the four essentials: air, food,
rest control. Although this regimen is
filled out by certain measures tending
to alleviate and aid, without these
four essentials the physicians of today
are able to do little. The International
congress on tuberculosis, which meets
at Washington this fall, will have
nothing beyond to offer. The single
specific for tuberculosis is yet to be
found
OF course, NEW cures are being
evolved constantly. We have had the
vegetable juice cure, the 'stuffing'
treatment, and various 'inhala TONS"
But one and all prove, upon real trial,
to either be worthless or else of only
superficial value.
However, it must not be conjectured
that the curative treatment of tubercu-
losiS has not advanced. The principles
I,,A As~-
thoroughly applied and their effective
ness furthered. An unremitting study
is being made for better understand
ing and appreciation of the fresh air,
the proper food, the rest. the careful
supervision.
Fresh air maintains it's position first
among the requirements in the treat
ment of tuberculosis. That the fresh
air may be unimpeded and absolutely
incapable of contamination, the out
door pavilion is assuming the perfect
type. The tent is losing ground, not
even the most radical styles can be
fully ventilated at all hours of all sea-
sons with the precision of the mod
ernly constructed pavilion. The tent
is hotter than the pavilion, colder than
the pavilion, and damper than the pa
vilion. The pavilion is also being ac-
corded precedence over the cottage
plan.-American Review of Reviews.
An Unfortunate Fat Woman.
suffering from an overabundance
of superfluous adipose tissue"
This is the diagnosis of the Emer- |
gency hospital physician in the case
of Miss Mary Knox. A years old, 5 |
feet inches tall, weight $50 pounds |
The woman's case was brought to |
the attention of the police at No. sta |
ton late yesterday afternoon. 1t was |
said that she was helpless, penniless, |
and really a fit subject for the county |
home. The patrol wagon took Miss |
Knox to the Emergency hospital, /
where after a thorough examination. |
the foregoing diagnosis was agreed /
upon.
'It is an odd case" said DR.. w. L.
Gist. Miss Knox is too fat to walk
without assistance, as she would fall |
If she encountered the least obstruc-
ton. Then when she is down she can't