The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-27
FROM OTHER PENS

SHALL SMILING BE MANDATORY
Is there no peace in the world for
! the man of serious mien? MUST one
SMILE smile, smile from morning I'LL
night whether one feels like IL or not :
F'addists say the dinner-table joke
| is the best aid to digestion. and pro-
! notes domestic peace. When dull care
| intrudes, laugh it away. If your nelgh-
Dor flies to wrath because your cocker
SPANIEL chases his fowls, dissolve his
| anger with a smile. In short, keep on
smiling.
And now comes a new social dis
ease which this panacean smile IS
guaranteed to cure. AS if man had
not already crystallized his FEATURES
into a perpetual grin. he is now ad-
vised to smile to prevent his commit
ting suicide! This new doctrine Is ad-
vanced by a writer in medical pub
LEGATION. play. smile and don't XIII
YOURSELF is the slogan in brief.
Let us harbor still kind thought
for the man who refuses to smile at
societys behest. Not that anyone
would discourage smiling; merely let
! US not make the rule mandatory. At
least, permit the poor fellow some lit
tie option as to when and how much
he shall smile.-Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
FOR FASHIONS MADE HERE.
The smart hat of the coming sea-
son, it is said, will cover milady right
ear and may even put her right eye
out of the general view. 1t is style
which smacks of piracy. We think
inyoluntarily of a low, rakish craft
and decks cleared for action. For the
Immediate peace of our minds, now
ever, we are told that the ringing note
along the lines of the American fash
ion this winter is to be NOT Tor the
freebooter, but for the independent
designer. We are no longer either to
steal the ideas of effete Europe or be
abjeetly servile before foreign lead
ers in fads and frivolities of the ward
robe.
OF course, this is as it should be. 1t
is all in the way of waking up the
national art instinct Has it not been
the condemnation of our painters for
loi these many years that they were
impeding their own progress by copy
ing Old World masters instead of
Welding to New World inspirations?
The criticism is hardly less pertinent
as applied to artists in gowns and mil
linery who look to Paris, Vienna or
London for the bases of their "crea-
tions'' America" says a current ex-
hibitor "is the country of lovely fig
ures." What further inspiration than
native loneliness is needed to develop
native genius for draperies New
York World.
PEOPLE JUDGE BEST.
One of the latest objections to direct
nominations CndC nave OCCuAAOO ~ NAAN
opposition is thus expressed: The man
who is momentarily and sensationaIy
in the eye of the public at about TIE
time the direct primaries are in opera
ton is the one who is likely TO receive
direct primary nomination
The case of General Bingham is cited
as an illustration. 1t is suggested that
Immediately after his removal from OF
fee as police commissioner of New York
direct primary probably would have
nominated him for mayor.
The illustration is not apt. Probably
General Bingham would make a mu..h
better mayor than anybody the poll
ticians are likely to select. And it can
readily be believed that good many
other equally desirable men would he
swept into office under direct primaries
on the strength of popularity which
might be more or less sudden But the
popular intelligence. readily d1scrImi-
mates between the man who has dore
something to deserve popularity and
the mere demagogue and self-adver-