The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
KANSAS COMNENT
LITTLE BOY AMI GIRJ. DAyS

LITTLE BOY AND GIRL DAYS.
you passed them in swarms on the
street the other day. Away from the
street, out on the country lanes were
omre Swarms, similarly destined. And
some were happy with the citation and
the excitement of new things, and
there was voluble chatter, and shrill
tone, and waving of hands And some
we're oppressed of responsibility and
fear of the unknown, and moved in
moody silence. And some were in grief
at the loss of cherished things. and
were in tears or in dumb melancholy.
And we all smiled in a superior way
at childish temperament, and smiling
passed on before a picture which was
a picture OF life and of ourselves, and
lot picture of childhood.
The call of responsibility rings early
ana OFTEN 1t brings some of us in
bounding happiness, at the anticipation
OF novelty. Some of US it brings grudg
lngly and in silence. because OF Sacri
fice of leisure. Some of us answer it
iE woe, for the things of the heart we
are leaving Behind.
So it will not do to laugh too much
at the actions of the schooI-going
crowd. Our own reflection in the mir
ror calls for more respect.
Men are only boys grown up, and
the anticipation of recess frol1c or of
r:rertt marks )r of competitive achieve
ment; or the tears that fall to the
memory of the swimming hole or the
small home teEdernesses now denied
these things merely change form in the
growth. The substance remains, and
the bell rings always, somewhere, for
the first day of school.-Ottawa Herald.
AS TO EGGS AND BUTTER.
Newspapers have recently been
publishing articles about the high
price of staple food products, with
special reference to butter. eggs and
poultry. These products have been
advancing in price year after year
and there seems to be no limit to
their consumption It has therefore
been cause for a good deal of won
derment with why it is that the
farmers of the country do not inter-
est themselves more largely in these
lines. 1t takes big farm and lots of
work to raise wheat, corn and pota-
toes, but an acre or two properly
tended is sufficiently large for the
successful raising of poultry and a
man and his family can do all the
work there is to be done. The farm
ers have to a certain extent neglected
their poultry in looking after larger
interests and have thus thrown away
each year several hundred dollars in
profits. Every farmer IN Douglas
county can and should raise more
poultry than he does. The market is
constant and sure and there is money
in it. Most of the farmers could also
keep more cows and this would again
add to their profits. Modern methods
of refrigeration have forever done
away with the days of cheap butter,
eggs and poultry.-Lawrence World.
ANOTHER SCHEME"
The bald heads are being cruelty |
victimized. An advertisement is ap- |
pearing in some of the papers, which |
tells of q remedy which will cover
bald heads with hair. man dis |
covered it in some far off country. At |
first, he thought he would keep the |
secret, but remembering how he once |
longed for hair himself (having been |
bald twenty years, before making his |
discovery, he took a wider view of |
the matter, and resolved to give his |
secret to the world. without cost, ex-
cept a simple prescription.
After securing a bottle of the rem
edy." vaguely says the advertiser, ''be
careful not to drop any of it where
you do not care to have hair grow, as
on your neck, or hands,
How does the advertiser get enough |
money out of his discovery to pay for
his advertising? In the prescription |
given, and which he says may be fill |
ed at any drug store, is mentioned a
medicine no pharmacist ever heard |
of before. The advertiser supplies
this medicine; and there's where he
makes his money.-Atchison Globe.