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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
A MOTHERS BUSINESS.

In a recent letter to Theodore Dreis-
er, editor of The Delineator, moth
er asked this question: eff am COM
| PEELED to send my children to school,
how can 1 compel the school authori-
| ties to have a clean school and keep
diseases out %
1t is a question that should bring
every mother up standing, says the
editor, and we urge that before enroll
ing her children in school, every
mother shall answer to her own salts
faction the following questions:
Have sufficient precautions been
taken to prevent development of con-
tagious diseases in the school? Are all
children examined by a physician be-
fore being admitted? Are children
with colds, coughs, sore Threats, tu-
berculosis, pediculosis, scabies, sore eyes,
etc, excluded? Has the schoolhouse
been thoroughly cleaned, aired, warm
ed and disinfected? Is there Their
mometer in each room, and are two
opposite windows always raised? Is
the room cleaned every day? Is dry
cleaning permitted? Are individual
towels and individual drinking cups
insisted upon? Has the plumbing been
inspected; are the toilets kept in san
itary condition? Can every child read
normal print at his desk without eye
strain? Are highly calendered text
books or shiny blackboards that strain
the eyes permitted? Is too much
"close range work given to young
children? Are the windows clean, or
so clouded that they dim the light?
Are the desks adjustable to the height
of each child? Is there regular in
struction in personal hygiene and in
the sanitation of school and home ?
Do teachers receive such instruction?
Do children have defects of eyesight,
hearing, lungs. bones or teeth that
make school work injurious? Are
study periods too long? Are recess
and recreation taken in the fresh air?
Do all children have a substantial hot
lunch? Is the walk to school longer
than a child should take? Is too much
home study given?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
Monkey on a Big Stick.

Maggie, an untamed monkey exhib-
tied in museum on Fourteenth
street, broke away from her trainer.
Don Giovanni, yesterday and started
out to emulate the feats of Cook and
Peary by discovering the pole. Her
discovery was attended with specta-
cular features, and for two hours she
entertained a crowd that blocked
Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue,
watching her climb up and down the
45-foot Flagstaff on the roof of the
German american Bank building.
Maggie was finally rescued by
SteepIejack Walter Weaver, of Cam
den, N. j. Weaver saw the monkey
on her perch and offered to bring her
down for So. He climbed up, and af-
ter short tussel, caught the ape and
climbed down with her. The monkey
resisted capture by scratching and Bit
ing at her captor.
The capture was the windup of an
allnfght spree INDUCED in by Maggie.
She broke away Wednesday night
from the platform where she had
been performing and hid in the attic
of the building. About noon yester-
day she got out on the roof of the
museum building, which adjoins the
bank, and climbed over the picket
fence that separates the buildings from
the roof of the bank. From there it
was one jump to the pole.-New York
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

down. When society becomes affected
seriously by liquor selling and drink
ing, as is always the case when it is
freely INDUCED in, it's duty to itself de-
mands that the thorn which is pricking
at its vitals be blunted. That's the ex-
cuse for prohibition. That's the neces-
sity of it. That's why Kansas has it
and that is why Kansas is a better
place to live in because of it.
If all those who are fond of liquor
would conduct themselves as does the
German race of which DR.. Hexamer is
a distinguished member, there posi-
bly, would not be SO much need for a
strict prohibition of the sale of alco-
holic beverages, especially of beer. AS
a general thing the Germans do not a.
low their desire for beer to degenerate
into intemperance, as DR.. Hexamer
points out. But, unfortunately for the
Germans in this regard, they do not
come near making up the bulk of the
citizenship of any of the states in this
nation. No other class of people which
make UP the population are quite as
sensible or temperate in their drinking
as are the Germans. Most of them, or
those who are inclined to drink, have a
habit of indulging to excess. The crimes
they commit as a result of their disor-
dered brains, produced by liquor, the
misery and suffering that their drink
ing causes. make it mandatory that the
traffic in liquor be suppressed or re-
duced to a minimum; that the in
iquitous saloon be driven out of ex-
so that there shall be the
greatest good for the greatest number. |
And that is why the prohibition move |
ment is marching on by leaps and |
bounds in every portion of the country. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

lErOm the AtCn1SOn GlObe.I
Experience doesn't do some people any
good.
When the men of town fight for
nothing except the postoff1ce and the
county offices, it's too bad.
A big, ugly, cross-Iooking man, with
a pretty wife, arrived IN Atchison last
week, and it is already being predicted
that he will shoot somebody.
Look at the onion. How tight and
smooth it wears each layer, That,
Sisters dear. is to be the fashionable
way of doing the hair this winter.
AS a rule. a man is a fool so long
that people do not believe he can ever
get over it, and when he does ACQUIRE
a little sense. his wisdom is not taken
seriously.
An Atchison woman of AZ, who was
engaged four times, and married twice,
is having what she claims is her first
serious heart affair: her son has fallen
in love, and the girl doesn't suit her.
The years, which have a fattening
and growing effect on woman, seem
to shrink a man: At so she looks like
"a toy balloon blown up, and he looks
like a flannel shirt that has been in
the wash all winter.
The female form divine is becoming
more pIzzling every day. One woman
has her waist under her arm pits, and
beside her there walks a woman with
her waist around her knees. The man
in love who follows the waist line with
lis arm must have a hard time Of it.
An Atchison woman married wild
over, and in few weeks he spoke
cross, and neglected to kiss her when
he went to work. "And then, Dear Sis
ters," she said in telling her expert
ence, II began to feel just like his
first wife's grave: all covered with
weeds, and with a sort of sunk-in
feeling
So far as known. no fireman ever
helped a young woman out of a burn
ing building at night, and Cell in love
with her, and married her. Even the
writer's of romance realize that we men
and you women. in our night1eS look
like the very Old Scratch. And a wo-
man looks worse than man because
she has taken all her hair off her head.
Lysander John Appleton recently had
an increase in salary I'VE will have to
celebrate your good luck said his
wife, "by giving you treat So she
took Daysey Wayne to the millinery
stores. and when they returned. Ly-
sander John was treated to the sight
of his daughter wearing che very larg-
est hat that could be bought in the
town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
Santos Dumont First F1ier.

Pan-America rejoices that our
gallant premier aviator, Santos Du-
mont, again strides the blast to the
tune of So miles the hour. He is a
rara avis; indeed, the first who flew
in public and showed an astounded
world the miracle of a mans flight
He is whole world prodigy, and his
name should be fastened to a star or
bestowed upon the first convenient
coming comet Brazil may cut the
name Dumont in letter so feet high
across the face of the peak of the
Sugar Loaf Mountain at the entrance
to the harbor of Rio de Janeiro as a
monument of Miltonic majesty to the
Brazilian eagle. His father, old man
Dumont, Frenchman, was the pien-
eer coffee man in the big Santos dis
tr1ct of Brazil. He sold out his plan
tatfon number of years ago to a
syndicate Two brothers are quiet
bankers in the city of Sac Paulo, Bra
I'll. Santos was believed for a long
time to be mere nutty spendthrift.
New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
DOES ANYBODY KNOW?

Some things, perhaps, are no concern
OF either yours or mine,
But none the less we sometimes yearn
All secrets to divine.
These problems very many are
What makes a baby cry7
Why is a girl particular?
Why does your shoe unite?
What puts the piggy's tail in curl?
Who needs a baseball fan?
Why does a hat become girl,
A boy become a man?
How do you get beside yourself?
What makes d doctor slow?
Who lays a man upon a shelf?
Where does your money go?
Does Mr.. Rockefeller yearn
To pick the dairy plum?
Is Jersey butter hard to churn
From crude petroleum.
OF these and other things as well,
We wonder every day.
The reason why we cannot tell
And yet some time we may.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
FROM OTHER PENS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

one OF the amendments of the inter-
state commerce act urged by President
Taft is aimed at Overcapitalization. He
would not permit any railroad enga ged
in Interstate commerce to issue addi-
t.onal stocks or bonds except with the
approval of the commission.
There have been heavy investments
of foreign capital-English, German and
DTtch-in American railroads since the
era of railroad building began. But for
that capital MUCK slower progress would
have been made. In some instances the
investors Jared badly, but as rule they
made money, though they made their
investments at time when there was
no federal and little if any state con-
troll. At this time. when there is con-
siderable regulation of one kind and
another, and when railroad manage
ment is as rule more conservative
than ever before. foreign capital should
not hold aloOf.
If it does, then the cause of that at
titude should be removed if possible.
1t is most desirable that the vast ac-
cumulations of European capital
should be at the command of Ameri-
can railways and other American en-
terprises. If the men who control that
capital would like to see the cap
italization of our railroads kedged
about by federal legislation SO that a
purchaser of stock would be assured
of getting what he paid for it is
no more than American investors
would like to see. Their protection
WOuIQ De q SuLI1ClGnL reason LOT put
ting a stop to railroad stack water
ing.-Chicago Tribune.
AEROPLANE AND THE ARMY.
The killing of an officer of the
French army, while experimenting
with an aeroplane, recalls the death
of Lieutenant Selfridge in like cir
cumstances. 1t seems a pity. to risk
the lives. or even take the time, of
army men in such practice; pending
a demonstration by the professional
promoters of aviation that their con-
trivances can be put to some kind of
military service. The signal corps of
the United States army now possesses
one of these machines, purchased of
the Wrights at a price which may be
called fancy. The country does not
complain of the purpose to encourage
an American industry which has con-
international competition of consid- |
cradle popular interest. Nevertheless, |
the flying machine is not yet taken |
seriously, even by experts like the |
Wrights or Mr.. Curtiss, except as a |
money-maker for exhibition purposes. |
1t is not yet assured of a place in the |
province of sport, while its applica- |
ton to any material purpose is not |
likely to be shown at an early date. |
There is plenty of work for the SOL |
diers of modern armies without as
signing them to freak duties--Provi-l
dence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
HUMOR or THE Day

in PH Rsn girls e SSS gft 6ss do Rs Tse
plain girls don't make SO many mistakes,
but nobody kicks about the plumbers the
pretty girls make. kansas City Journal.
wasn't Colonel Awkins' decision to be
operated on for appendicitis rather sud.
den and unpreIneditated?" Yes; he said
he couldn't afford to keep an automobile.
display Of some sort."-Chicago Tribune.
band?S they asked the woman with the
yellow hair. He was one of the sort OF
men, she replied, who would say to you:
chief New York Press.
How much are these shoes?'' asked
the lady. who had the reputation of being
SALE, replied the salesman. who had
shoe fac sas5 at $50 -5udse every pA'f
,"Yaas. indeedy: She e.x has sixteen fam
Dat woman nan 4P 0 git hen maTTed She
Washington Herald.
ct can't see how so many men stand
it to eat in a cheap and noisy and untidy
restaurant" II suppose the explanation. alton
Craving for food. "-Cieveland Plain
Dealer.
quite T0C0HLlf d WdTSulp VI the Atl6AltlC
squadron found It necessary to call for a
few hours at a military port on the coast
full-bearded Irish tar in the street a
couple of hours later. said: Pat. when
are you going to place your whiskers on
tongue on the civil list" was the Irish
sailors reply.-Tit-Bits.
Cheer up, old man. Somebody will loan
you the money to lift the mortgage" I'm
afreed not. Life amt no melodrama."-
PittSburg Post.
IT tried art. but the critics said lacked
What was your line
playing the coruet?'-Cleveland Leader.
Abou Ben Adhem set forth his claim. ct
never lied about what a good time had
on my vacation" he cried. And 10, etc.
New York Sun.
What disposition Is made of the chill
dren of the coupler ''They will spend
six months with the servants of each par
Nell-Aiss Antique says all men are
alike. Believes; L suppose all men do
look alike to Miss Antique.-Philadelphia
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
Revival of the Guideboara.

In many towns and counties now a
white-painted stone post gives in
clear black letters at every fork in
the roads list of towns hardly less
formidable than those on the train
bulletins of a railroad terminal At a
glance the traveller may see his way
along for SO miles. Sometimes the
automobile associations ure them
selves responsible for information dis
seminating guideboards of different
construction, but equally useful. The
necessity of providing a new class of
travellers with a new sort of facts has
been back Of the movement for guide
board rehabilitation. The contrast in
this respect makes it easy to distin-
guish the regions of horse-drawn We
h1cles content with the next-town d.
rectfons, and those places which have
left the era of the autobomile. A les
son in local geography is carried in
every such guideboard. Perhaps this
revival of the guideboard is but a re-
turn to conditions that prevailed be-
fore the days of the railroad.-Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
Cat Kills an Alligator.

Lakeland has an educated cat,
which evidently must be able either
to read or to understand the talk of
the folks about her. 1t seems that the
feline must have heard that the Flor
ida legislature had made it lawful to
kill alligators, and forthwith she went
tor Hetherington, of the Lakeland
News, has to say on the subject: "Mr.
Brown Griffin reports that when his
family arose one morning they found
the house cat standing triumphant
it was evident she had struggled with
and dispatched. The gator had wan
dered from some lake or pond and
came near the house, with the result
that pussy met and put it out BUSH
ness. "-Florida Times-Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

have proven fatal. But the chances
are that corsets are responsible for
the fatal injuring of one hundred
women where they save the life of
one. Still, it must be confessed, that
a corset is handy thing for woman
to have on If there is any possibility
of bullets being tossed her way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

lFrom the New York Pressl
Selfishness is habit; generosity, acct
dent.
Once in a while a man is good be-
cause he doesn't know any better.
A woman's deception is more natural
than a mans sincerity.
You can tell when a girl isn't in earn
est with a man by the way she acts as
if she were.
The Thing that makes a dose of medi-
cine easy. to take is when it is instead
of a moral lecture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Two girls now hold a record of
writing on a typewriter for quite a
continued period at the rate of IS
words a minute. A more interesting
record would be the number of words
that a girl can talk minute. Prob
ably no effort will ever be made to get
such record because it would be i'm
possible to find persons who would be
willing to serve as referees in the
necessary contest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Spain evidently thinks that 100000
600 is as much money as it is possible
to get at any one time and for any
one thing. That's the sum she received
from the United States for the Philip
mines and it is also the amount she
wants the Moors to pay in the way of
an iudernnifv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Crown Prince Frederick of Germany
took a trip in a Wright aeroplane the
other day. But being up IN the air
can not be much of a novelty to him
of late because it was not so many
days ago that his royal spouse pre-
manted him with a third son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

II Frank FARRELL goes after the
Democratic nomination for congress in
the First district, it does not take the
seventh son of the seventh son of a
prophet to foreten that the next rep
resentative of this territory in congress
will he a neWspaper editor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Another ten-strike will have to be
credited to Governor Stubs because
he is willing to put half of his emer-
gency fund, $4,000, in the hands of DR..
Crumbine for the purpose of the war
that is to be waged against infantile
paraIUaia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Federal department heads are get
ting back to Washington in droves
these days as their vacations have end
ed. 1t would appear that many of
them are unnecessary as the govern
ment seems to have been running
along pretty we'll during their absence
among the mountains and along the
shores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

DIR. Cook has scored again. He is
perfectly willing to have the records
of his trip to the North Pole inspected
and passed upon first by the geograph-
ic societies of this country if the Uni
versity of Copenhagen is willing to
waive this honor. Evidently the only
thing that Peary is doing these days
is nursing his crouch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Secretary Bal1inger must go"
shouts Senator La Toilette. But then
the distinguished Wisconsin is not now
In a position to remake presidential
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Presumably that door which was set
aside in a Portland hotel for the ex-
elusive use of President Taft was one
of large dimensions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

That brief summary of the activi-
ties of the Commercial club since it
was rejuvenated merits the acclaim,
''Well done, thou good and faithful
servant Keep up the good work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

High class rubber is now said to be
worth its weight in silver. Why
wouldn't it be a good plan then to use
it for money? Any such coin which
might be thrown away would have a
tendency to bounce back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Dispatches from New York state
that money is in great demand these
days. Surely there is nothing unusual
in such a condition of affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Most folks who believe in omens,
and few do not, are straining their
ears these days for that harbinger of
frosts and frigid spells, the call Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

The Oklahoma woman who was lost
in Chicago for two days has not much
to brag over. Many women go to Chi
cago and are never again heard from.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Bar Harbor. Maine, will proceed in
short order to the very rear seat. The
highest Maine court has upheld as con-
stitutiona1 a Bar Harbor ordinance
which absolutely excludes automobiles
from that towns streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

These are wondrous times. indeed.
The federal governments deficit is
growing less.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Apparently. Tom McNeaI would like
to occupy a strong position on both
sides of the increased state tax con-
troVersy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Some distressing news is to be found
in the fact that there are still many
parts of the earth to be explored.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE Elk
PECvTED2

One of the newspapers in "dear old
Lunnon" honors Kansas by devoting
six inches of space to cartoon and
jibe at prohibition under the caption,
Good of the Order" bewhiskered
male human, in frock coat, high-wa-
ter pants, battered silk tie and idiotic
face, is shown walking along with a
Bible under his arm, wings extending
from his shoulders and hands held
before him in a sanctimoniou man
ner. The text reads: "Kansas is now
as dry as law can make it, which
means that the new Prohibition law
has gone into effect. This law even
stops the sale of liquor by druggists.
Even soda fountains and ice cream
parlors' are cut off from the sale of
alleged Notwithstanding drinks" In
a country where the building up of
great brewery is considered reason
for elevating the owner to the peer
age, there is naturally slight appre-
citation of a law that ankles such
one an outlaw.-Iola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05

Again has the corset been vindi-
Gated. A St. Louis man took a shot
at his wife and her form-moulder de-
Aected q bullet that would otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
WE'RE FOR THE HEN.


sas hen and rejoice in her activities
which add SO much to the wealth of
the state. There is nothing that gives
our enthusiastic and earnest Secretary
Coburn more real joy than to sing the
praises of the Kansas hen and he can
convince the most skeptical that his
song is always fully warranted and
justified by the returns. We are sorry
to note. however, that in the eyes of
the law of this state the cur dog is re-
garded as more valuable than the
hen; in fact she is given no more pro-
lection than vagrant and if in her
industrious search for her daily bread
she gets into the neighbours yard her
life may be forfeited and there is no
recourse for her owner. On the other
hand the said neighbours cur dog may
come into your yard and paw up the
dirt around the various shrubs that
adorn your premises and even devour
your hen but the law will not uphold
you If you should fill his pesky hide
full of buckshot. States just as in
dividuals very frequently do not have
a proper appreciation of the relative
value of things and this fact is fur
ther emphasized by a recent report of
the secretary Of agriculture wherein
it was shown that Kansas raises
more dogs than sheep.-Leavenwort
Times.