The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-20

Angel. founded this paper. and for
/ forty years has been its editor.
Animal Sunday will be day
when once year at least sermon
! viii be preached from every pulpit
on the duty OF man toward his dunn
/ brothers.
Meantime. the S. P. c. A and the
Humane associations ought to work
! for a law which will make it a fin
able offense for any owner of an ami
nal to leave it uncared for To
reach the mind and heart of many
people it is necessary first to reach
| their pockets.
Every year we remain late at our
seaShOre home. and the beauty of
( the October days is marred for US by
the sight of deserted cats left by
summer cottagers, who have adopted
a kitten in the early summer, be
cause our children so love pets" and
who have heartlessly gone back to
their town houses at the beginning
of the school season and left the pet
ted animal to become a homeless
tramp
It would be tenfoId more merciful
to take such a pet to the nearest
veterinary to be chlOrofOrmed-
To find a home for a cat or dog
is often possible if any one cares
enough about the animal to make the
effort.
Would such people be taught the
law of cause and effect, which is
named '.Karma;" and learn the fact
that as they sow they must reap:
and as they misuse, iIItreat or neg
Ieet any living thing, so they must
suffer from i'll use and neglect in later
incarnations, it would help along the
REFORM
But while they are waiting for
these results, the poem cats and dogs.
are suffering; and all we can do
about it is to keep agitating the sub
ject, until perhaps between the law,
and the clergy and the newspa pers,
the day may arrive when there is no
respecting man or woman who
viii abuse Through commission of
cruelty or omission of care) the dumb
creatures given into charge of human
beings.
Humane education is creeping into
the schools: and that will do much
toward making children merciful.
You who read this article, can do
your part by setting an example of
mercy and thoughtfuIness toward
animals, and in talking it to others.
Not only are you helping the ami
mails, but you are helping make the
human beings of the earth nearer
the divine standard.
The Girls Guild of the First Meth
odist church will have a picnic to-
morrow at Vinewood.
Mr. and Mrs. c. J. Dschuden gave a
family dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs.
Dschuden's sister. Mrs. George Bruck-
Iacher OF Ell Paso, Texas. and their
daughter, Miss Isabel Dschuden, who
left today for Chautauqua Lake, n. Y.
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Notes AID Personal Mention.
Miss Dolly Curtis returned from
| Washington today to spend the rest
of the summer in Topeka Miss Per-
melia Curtis who has been travelling
in the east for a few months is now.
with Miss Elizabeth Gordon in Sioux
city IA, and is expected home the
first of August
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll B. Merriam
and Mr.. Armin Fassler arrived in
Buffalo today after their lake trip
from Chicago They meet Mr..
FassIers touring car in Buffalo and
start for Albany tomorrow.
Mr.. Paul Walker has returned from
a trip to Colorado He visited the
marble quarries at Marble and was
in Denver and Colorado Springs
Mr. and Mrs z. D. 3IcKeever and
son Archibald. left last night for St.
Louis and New York
Mr. Charles Magaw viii take
vacation trip to Seattle, Portland and
California next month.
Mr.. T A Ferlet of San Antonio.
Tex. is visiting his sister, Miss Rosa
Ferlet
Nj. Hale Ellis. who went to san
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Mrs 4. H Ellis. to meet LIEUTENANT
Ward Ellis, L. 5. n. and his bride
who had just arrived from the
Philippines returned to Topeka yes
terday. Mrs Ellis is still in Cal
ifornia and will remain there until
cool weather.
Afr. and Mrs Harvey Parsons and
their daughter spent the weekend
with relatives at Eskridge-
Misses MabIe Ridenour and VerIa
Phinuey who have been on the Pa
cfffc coast after d concert tour of the
Santa Fe employees reading rooms.
viii return to Topeka tonight
children left yesterday for Logans-
summer on the farm where Mr..
Switzer lived in boyhood and which
he still owns Mr. Swftzer Will Join
them later fer a few weeks
Hiss Vera Brady of Lawrence and
Miss Beulah Alice WiukIer Of Ken
lucky are expected later in the week
to visit Mrs. John T Price at her
bungalow in WaverIy Place.
Mr. Lee SamueIs and Mr.. Harold
Newman have gone 10 Denver TO
spend a few weeks
Mr. Herman BoV-les viii go 70
Colorado Springs this evening % visit
two week..
Mr.. J. ". Pobinscn Is IN Chicago for
a few DAYS
Don MuIvane, Mrs. N J. Jenner, Mrs.
Baker ard Miss Nay Reddick
went to St Narys IN the Mulvane tour