The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-22
KANSAS C0AMENT
THE BABY AND THE COW


That was an interesting item in Sun
days Eagle, the burden of which was
that the story Of an incubator baby IN
Wichita, told by the Eagle, reached the
tender susceptibihties OF western
ranchman. and so set the cookies Of HIS
heart ringling, if cookies can tingle,
that he forthwith presented the naoy
with a COW, the milk from which is 10
be given the baby. the remainder to be
sold and the money received therefor
deposited, on interest. for the Child.
There are several great fundamental
truths involved in the matter. we
can't get along without babies. That IL
cosn1ic. We can't get along without
cows. That is dietetic, and of all things
earthly. the most powerful is compound
interest
The first statement is seIf-evident
and every one who has ever been
baby knows it, The second, that we
can't get along without cows, is not
sef-evident. But for the good Of tie
world, it ought to be. More milk, the
fluid itself, and things of which is a
part would make better, happier and
more healthfu1 world. The heavy
meats, the sodden cakes, the stringy
vegetables introduced in the stomach,
not for digestion's sake. but to tickle
pampered palates, could be cut OFT, and
bread and milk, potato soup and other
tactical combinations substituted with
out taking one iota of the worlds vigor
away.
Nov on the score Of compound in
terest, every mature man knows what
it will do. 1t will work while you sleep.
1t will work also in all seasons, in all
weathers and in ali soils. 1t simply
grows. Men may come and men may
go, and even a brock may dry up, but
&C mpound interest goes on forever. 1t
feeds upon itseIf-and incidentally on
the rest of the community. Me- KITS
may climb and collapse, dynastics rear
he INIT n
gathers interest to itself through the
years, keeps smile that not only does
not come off, but betokens both salts
faction with what it has gobbled up
and an insatiate appetite for more.
The name of the donating ranchman
is not given. Whoever he is. he's a
wise one.-Wichita Eagle.
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BOY BANDITS AND OTHERS
The recent stories of boy bandits,
the latest coming from peaceful, Law
renee, may impress people with the
idea that boys are a bad lot. The bad
boy always did receive more attention
| than the great army of good boys but
since that rule applies in way to
grown folks. the boys needed't feel so
bad about it. For it is a fact that
| there are more good boys than bad.
Why not show the good boys more at
tention, and talk less of the bad boys?
Being human, the boys would very
tlhely appreciate II. Inere may De
something in the theory that boys are
as hard to understand as women.
There isn't always a theory of cause
and effect that will apply, either to
good boys or bad. The boy carefully
raised in a good home sometimes goes
hot-footing to the devil, while the boy
of the street becomes a useful man.
But, since the general run Of boys do
pretty we'll, even while no one treats
them as well as their sisters, it is pos
sible that little more consideration
might raise the average higher
Atchison Globe.
CHINAsS WAY.
China is not SO mentally dense af-
ter all. She knows how to protect her
self. Her new natura lization law is a
concession to foreigners, but still it is
far from being as supplicatory as the
American law. TO become a subject
of China, one must live there ten
years, be more than 20 years old, be
of good moral character, and also be
| helpful to China" A naturalized per-
son must live there 20 years to be eli
gible to the grand council, imperial
| household department. the provision
al council or the parliament that is
some day expected to arrive The
American, who under these con-
ditions, becomes Chinese isn't after
| all, much of a loss to his country
Independence Reporter.