The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-19

Tn weary. of the noise and hustle.
The smoke, the crowds, the ughness;
The grim necessity to hustle
Is irksome to me, confess;
L long to dwell in fine seclusion.
Free from inauisitive Intrusion,
My income liberal and sure.
I'm sick of daily scratching gravel
In search of dirt that seldom pays;
long to have the means to travel
| In strange and unfrequented ways;
All. well. the lane must have turning
Fond hope within me stiii is burning
| I. too. am working on play.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Handfcraft AS a Rest Cure.
Among the various arts and crafts
exhibits of the past year in New York
and elsewhere, a new art pottery
made its appearance called MARBLE
| head" 1t includes pots, vases and
bowls of various kinds. exceedingly
artistic as to modelingg, decoration,
and color, largely in rich art shades
of blue, green, olive, ana brown. The
pottery plant from which they come
sits squarely upon the water front of
| the harbor at Marblehead;~ as noted
for its beauty as the quaint little old
| town is for it's colonial architecture
and it's crooked streets The pottery
| plant is a little one, containing only
one kick wheel, turning lathe, and
| a six-burner kerosene kiln. The paid
| staff consists of only three designers.
decorator, a thrower. and kiln
i IIldI1s yet there is a weekly OUTPUT
| 200 pieces, worth $500.
The peculiar thing about the
MarbIehead pottery establishment is
that physician uses 1t as a sanitar-
patients. DR.. Herbert j. Hall. of Bos-
| ton, in his practice encountered many
| patients with nervous systems worn to
tatters by the strain and stress of
were in imperative need of rest,
| change and quiet, yet they were
| keyed up to such a high nervous pitch
that 1t was impossible for them to live
without some occupation, and they
knew no occupation which would give
them the three things of which they
| stood in need.
Three years ago DIR. Hall conceived
the totally new idea of establishing
certain hand industries for the benefit
| of these patients. His idea was to
| get them to working with their hands,
| always quieting and soothing thing
| necessary to give them a manual
occupation which would interest their
/ minds sufficiently to hold their atten-
| ton. Flowing or sweeping would not
| do. So he established what is known
| in Marblehead as the handicraft
shops, a group of industries compris-
ing weaving, wood carving, metal
| work, and pottery.
Teachers and designers of the very
highest ability are employed in each
| line, and nothing but the highest STAN
dard in design and workmanship is al
| lowed to pass muster. Here business
verge of nervous breakdown have
spent months working and been
| restored to health; and women with
overweight nerves have found that
as working with the hands.-New
York Press.
Wireless Talk by Windmill.
he oIc 1r;1
Dutch landscape there is nothing to ar
rest the attention in the fact that pos
sfbly one or more out of dozen wind
mills in sight are to all appearances
simply standing idle while the others
continue their never ending task
If one watches the sails of the idle
mills closely it may perhaps be noticed
that they move slightly from time to
time and then remain for a while at a
different angle.
If this is so, the miller is in all pro-
liability engaged in holding a converse
ton with the proprietor of the other
mill, which may be miles away; in fact,
possibly barely visible the horizon.
Quite recently the Dutch government
carried on series of experiments in
order to ascertain the value of windmill
signaling for military purposes and was
surprised to find that communication
could readily be established with far
distant centers and that CONFIDENTIAL
messages could be sent on from one
mill to the other and so forwarded
throughout the length and breadth of
Holland in an incredibly short time by
means of secret codes known only to
the millers themselves.
These codes have been handed down
from generation to generation and Jeal-
ously guarded from outsiders with all
the intense conservatism for which the
provincial Dutch are proverbial-
Apart, however. from these secret
codes, understood only by the millers
and local groups of mill owners, there
- Icier oIcy h
which every one of the inhabitants of
the country districts is familiar.
At times, for instance, mill may stop
working suddenly and the miller be
seen to come out and with the aid of
a long pole with an iron hook at the
end like a gigantic boathook, reach up
and drag down the descending sail until
the arms assume a certain position.
some accident has happened to the |
wooden machinery of the mill and that |
the services of the local carpenter are |
required.--Windsor Magazine.
Where Rio de Janerio Leads.
We consider ourselves tolerably up TO |
date and 1 suppose we are IN some |
things. but I had to admit. for the |
benefit of a man from Rio de Janeiro |
whom I met the other night at the |
Hoffman house. that his town hao |
something on New York in the matter
of police devices.
told me-, has just put up 500 call boxes
at prominent corners, all connected py
wire with the central office. Any cltl-
zen in good standing can have Key |
which will fit all of these boxes, and |
the keys are numbered and registered |
in such a manner that the police can |
always tell who has made use of them
1.-THE citizen who wants police help IN /
A hurry opens the box and adjusts the |
hand on an indicator at fire. riot,
ambulance or whatever he desires, |