The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-23

For the long dark nights and the snow.
But GOD is God. my faithful,
OF night as well as of day,
ana we feel and know that we can go
Wherever he leads the way.
Ay, 900 of night, my darling,
OF the night Of death so grim;
And the gate that from life leads out,
Is the gate that leads to Him.
Rembrandt Peale.
Recipe for Chop Suey.
They are telling guileless, un-
suspecting Englishman how chop
suey is made.
First" they informed him. "The
Chinese restaurant man catches a
very young chicken"
Ah-indeedi"
"And he locks that chicken up in
a pasteurized coop"
You don't say?"
And he sets a trusty dog to watch
over that COOP"
"How Interestingly"
And he feeds the chicken on milk,
infant mushrooms. iced tea, and sweet
pickles."
80, say-how very curious!"
"And presently the chickens wings
begin to sprout'
"And the Chinaman cautions the
yes
And the dog goes to sleep"
'Indeedip
"And the chicken pecks hole in
the pasteurized coop and flies away"
20, dear mel
"And the Chinaman appears, sees
what has happened, flies into a ter
rifle rage, grabs the dog, makes
micemeat out of him. and serves it to
his customers as chop suey, and starts
all over again with another very
young chicken
But, say-doesn't sn't-didn't-"
He could get no satisfaction
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Sense in Marriage
Human mating. based on good sense
rather than on beguiHng sentiment
alone. would add much. indeed, to the
enduring fiber of the human race
In an address before a large audi
ance, composed chiefly of physicians,
n the auditorium of the Museum of
Natural History. DR.. Joseph D. Bryant,
physician to the late Grover Cleveland
and professor of surgery in Bellevue
Medical college, argued in the above
words for care in marriage selection as
measure of preventing the increase of
Surgical tuberculosis said DR..
Bryant, especially of bones and joints,
S grave and far-reachfng form of in
iiction, one which appeals to the sur
seon, the pathologist and the layman.
n no uncertain manner. The surgeon
ealizes the danger, the difficulty, and
he delay in the acquiring of a function
Il cure; the pathologist comprehends
he gravity of the morbid processes of
initial and of later character. the lay
nan views with profound sentiment
md with economic concern the disab-
Ing hindrances which keep step with
he frequency and the severity of this
IiSease.
Tn %l,A
S based on past experience and on
Prospective outcome. causes each alike
o wonder whether or not the freedom
4 action which personal liberty in
ures should much longer be needed in
he social instances which so often
reed vulnerability to morbid process
es and transmit them to subsequent
s."-New York Herald.
The Inefficient College Man.
That hopeless mediocrity which,
is some men of science have alleged, |
s more and more a characteristic of
he American man, becomes, in those
fractions of the male population
which pass through our universities,
downright inefficiency, assuming the
of the latest arguments ad-
on the subject in the Popular
science Monthly by DR.. James P. |
Munroe. Somewhat the same con-
Illusions was reached some time ago
~ that brilliant psychologist, DR.. |
who thinks that we tend
n America to produce second-rate |
'otanists. second rate physicists, sec |
chemists, and second raters |
generally. But DR.. Scripture at
ributed the evil to the American in
apacity for detail, whereas Dr. Mum |
oe suspects that the trouble Is due |
o over-specialization in the colleges. |
What can be expected of the rank
md file of the modern world, asks
1s,e,A
EN-, when the leaders of American |
lfe, men in the professions and in |
hose higher institutions which pre-
ARE for the professions, have SEEM
ngly gone mad upon the question
# specialization % Higher education
n our land is made out, in this train
# reasoning, to be scheme for the
evelopment of extremes of in
ficiency.-Current Literature.
Shocks Pilgrim Mothers.
THE average American is so at
ached to his business that he is leav-
ng it to the unattached female to write
he history of the present" declared
1rs. Carrie Chapman Gait at the
1ncheon of the "Pilgrim Mothers's in
he Hotel Astor Tuesday.
The intelligent woman Of leisure has
ONE to stay in the strife for the bet
erment of the race. The Pilgrim moth
r of New England was too much at
ached to her home to have made any
ecords on the pages of history. 1t was
er unattached husband who achieved.
low the situation Is reversed, and as
he Pilgrim mother was confined to the
our walls of her cabin, the American
IAN is confined to the four walls of his
usiness, and woman has the oppor-
unity of achieving the things worth
Thile."
Mrs. Gait created a tense and frigid
tmosphere during the early part of her
by saying:
During my peregrinations through
he United States 1 have met tens of
of people whose ancestors
anne over ON the MaVflOMer. con-