The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
KANSAS CONNENT
UNLUCKY PASTORS.

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A preacher at Lawrence has quit
| eXpounding the Word and has accept
| ed lucrative position as conductor
OF one of the new street cars which
nave made such hit in the town. In
! the course of a few remarks to a
newspaper man he stated that he
could not support his family as di-
vine and his tone of voice indicated
that he had grievance against the
world, the flesh and the devil as rep
resemble by society. He felt that he
had been badly used.
In another Kansas town a minister
recently preached farewell sermon
which was distinguished for bitter
ness. The wretched income he receiv-
ed was insufficient to feed and clothe
his family and he was compelled to
go forth to the hedges and highways
and earn his living by hard knocks.
And SO he treated his meager congre-
cation to an old-fashioned roast that
must have made some hair curl.
IL is possible even probable that
these ministers and many others who
complain of the treatment they re-
ceiye have good grounds for their pro-
tests but it is equally possible that
they failed because they did not de-
liver the goods. In these stirring
the worth of their money in the sane
tuary as well as in the grocery or tho
meat market, The doctor who wants
to enjoy the confidence of his patients
and the public must study and keep
in touch with medical progress; the
lawyer who would succeed must know
more of law than the average con-
stable; the editor who would be read
must take his work seriously and
strive to excel
The fact is that mediocrity is at a
discount in all professions and lines
of business and the ministry is not
barred. A man who would hold the
attention of an Intelligent modern au-
he 1t o.
worth saying and If he fails of gaining
or holding that attention the blame
usually rests upon himself. The
preacher who does not make good has
no greater claim to consideration or
sympathy than the clerk or mechanic
who falls down.-Emporia Gazette.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
WAIST LINE.
Time was when woman had a, waist
line and that was all there was about
1t. There was fixity and purpose to
her equator and there was no thought
of its gallivanting up and down her
MAJOR axis like ring on a fakirs
cane at county fair. There was no
now-you-see-it-a now you don't
business at all. If woman was Dress
ed for company there was a general
scheme about her clothes that indi-
sated very plainly where the zero line
in latitude lay.
II you surprised her in the morning
hours robed in her mother hubbard
and minus her waist line she was as
much embarrassed as If she had mis-
laid her switch or had been caught
without her false teeth.
In those good old days the feminine
form was disguised with hoop skirts,
and later by hustle that took as
much room to turn in as a hook and
ladder truck. But there was no trif1-
ing with the waist line.
But after the dressmakers had Jug
gled with lovely swoman's outlines by
increasing the diameter and making
her first the center of a circle and
then the focus of ellipse, the happy |
idea occurred to Worth or Paquia
that, by scooting the waist line up and |
down, another startling effect could |
be produced. ~
Therefore, the mid circumference |
was hoisted up under the wearer's
arms until it nearly lifted her off her |
feet and just now has been dropped |
to her knees where it bangles like the |
ring about tight-wire performer. |
But the edict now has gone forth |
that the waist line is to be slipped |
back into place, and it won't be very |
long, tbs said, until a woman can |
stoop to pick up pin without crack |
ing all the varnish off $40 gown. |
and crinkling it up like an elbow of |
a stove pipe.-Ottawa Republic