The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-25
FROM OTHER PENS
JOY OF LIFE.

The joy OF life IS the joy of work
we'll done. Husbands love their wives,
but oh, their work. Wives, notable
for housekeeping. for wise mother
hood. for the particular kind of So
ciaf helpfulness in which women SO
shine, burn incense of affection to
their lords yet have constant delight in
their duties
Many fortunate men fall into work
from the start which gets the warmth
of their heart as much as their
strength of muscle and activity Of
brain. But there are far too many
who snatch at any employment and
sweat and groan and so add to their
unhappfness. They butt their heads
against stone walls and then wonder
at the bruises.
Let's preach bit. If the work is
not to ones first liking try to make it
so. Complaining will do no good;
sulking embitters. Put the best that's
in you in the job, and it's dollars to
doughnuts that the job will pay you
back. 1t will grow easier and more
agreeable. In time a genuine liking
for it may be developed. And then
will come the best of happiness
Cleveland Leader.
AVOIDING THE BOGS.
Governor Harmon is fully familiar
with political history. He does not
purpose undergoing the process by
which the early candidate is doomed,
then joked about and-when the dele
gates meet-forgotten and ignored.
When the state conventions begin
their jockeying and touting in the
spring of 1912 it may be another mat
ter with the governor.
Though Mr.. Harmon may be so
unlucky as to possess friends who
sing his praises prematurely, we still
think there are chances of his getting
the Democratic nomination. For he
was not among those in the list pre-
scented so frantically by Harper's
Weekly last year as available substi-
tutes for william Jennings Bryan.
The Springfield Republican has never
called attention to the fact that Gov
ernor Harmon would do to carry
through that overshadowing issue of
anti-imperialism.. Nor has the New
York world chosen to proclaim him
conqueror and deliverer.
If Mr.. Harmon can succeed in
avoiding these pitfalls for three years,
If he can suppress his inconsiderate
sure that his name will be among the
foremost at the Democratic National
convention Of 1912.-Toledo Blade.
THE PERIL IN GAMES.
Nearly every game or sport that has
1t the clement OIL hcSh
and strenuous, muscular exertion has
also the element of personal peril to
the participants. The Cornell Sun says
that more persons are killed playing
baseball than perish playing football.
That assertion is made by a college
publication in defense of the gridiron.
We do not know where it got its fig
ures, but cur Ithaca contemporary says
in five years lis persons have been kill
ed by baseball and IS by football. So
1t would seem that the barred field is
a safer place than the diamond.
To be sure, a great many more boys
and men play baseball than engage in
football This may account for the
larger number of fatalities Football is
essentially a college or preparatory
school game. Baseball f1ourishes in ev-
cry hamlet in America and thrives on
every suburban lot in a big city.
Baseball looks to be quite harmless.
and yet there is deadly peril in that
horsehide sphere that comes whizzing
from the bat of a Collins. Cobb or a
Wagner. On the contrary. football ap
pears to the spectator like a fearfully
hazardous sport-much more SO, of
course, than it really is.-Philadelphia
Press. ~