The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-10

A laugh that's filled with witching grace,
| That's maiden's way:
Or else shy look on her face,
| A simple word that makes men try
To scale the mountain. sail the sky,
Or stick a dragon in the eye.
| That's a maidens way.
A word of sympathy and love.
That's maiden's way:
| When skies are darkened up above,
That's a maiden's way:
Companionship when fate's amiss.
| A cheering word-simple kiss.
That's a maiden's way.
| Runs Swimming School.
Coney Island naturalists are greatly
| interested in Harvey Bowen's big gray
cat Fanny. So far as the island zool-
agists know Fanny is the only men,
Der of the cat tribe in or about Coney
Island that takes a daily dip in the
surf of her own volition. Cats have
been known to swim when thrown into
| the water-or, at any rate, to struggle
! to shore-but Fanny goes in willingly.
She has not mastered the art of swim
ming, but jumps in, paddles about for
| while, and when she has enjoyed
herself long jumps out and wallows
| about in the warm sand of the beach
to her hearts content.
What is even more interesting to
Mr.. Bowen and his friends is the fact
| that Fanny not only likes the water
| herself but is conducting a school of
| instruction in surf bathing for mem
! bers Of her immediate family. She has
| two pupils.
Saturday Fanny apparently deter
mined her children should be taught
to like the surf as well as herself.
First she coaxed them down to where
| the water was tapping gently up on
| the smooth beach. Then, as the first
rolled close up to her, stuck one paw
| into it and then, lifting it up, appear
| ed to be showing 1t to the kittens as
an evidence there was nothing TO fear.
Her next object lesson, while the kit
| tens watched with staring eyes, was to
lump into the water, make her way
to the steps, shake herself and meow
to her children as if she was ordering
them to follow her example.
The kittens were too young and
fearful, however. Fanny apparently
saw heroic measri es were necessary.
Once more she jumped into the water,
made her way back to the kittens, and
gave them in cat language good
scolding. Then, to the amusement OF
the hotel guests, she took one kitten
by the neck, carried it down to the
water and held it there until the surf
had wetted the neowing youngster:
Then she dumped it on the dry sand
and repeated the lesson with the other
kitten. The first lesson of the cat
swimming school being ended. Fanny
sought her favorite basking spot and
rolled about with the kittens.-New
York Press.
A Famous Statue.
Charles Champoiseau, who has died
at nearly 80 years of age, owed MS
fame to the finding of a single statue
but one of the two or three most beau
tiful in the world. It was he who, in
1859, discovered the "Victory of Sa-
n1othrace," which rivals the venus oil
Milo" as the jewel of the Louvre sculp-
ture galleries: M: Champoiseau was
French consul in the Levant when he
was sent to excayate in the. Isle. OF
Samotflrace. The wonderful wfnged
figure and the gallery PROV on which
she is poised were found in 10 rag
ments-not at once, but bit by bit. The
excavations lasted several years and
the pieces were brought In different
lots to France. The reconstruction or
the fragments was a long task, which
was admirably done. The head. the
arms, and a great part OF the wings
are missing, and there Is no nope now
| of recovering them, but the movement
| of the incomplete figure is marvel
and championships find ranks with the
greatest antiques extant.-Paris Letter
| to the London Telegraph.
No Free Lunches in Detroit.
Officially. the death-knell Of the free
lunch in saloons was sounded when the
| Warner-Cramton law went irto effect.
| But there's still shining rey of hope
| for the grieved ones who fear that the
beloved rye bread, bean soup, and rost
beef have vanished from the free lunch
counter forever.
In many saloons, some in the down.
town district, only one cent will sepa-
rate the sandwich from being in the
| free lunch class. No less than so sa-
| loonkeepers armed themselves win
restaurant licenses yesterday, in prepa-
| ration for their battle for the right to
| dish out eatables for the smallest pos
sible amount of money.
| The abolition of the free lunch will
nAfv oil nlrnn l.
| mated sum of s., 100000 each year. With
| 1900 saloons, practically all serving
| lunches, an average of SIS each working
| day was spent by each salconist for
lunches from which they derived no
direct profit.-Detroit Free Press.
British and German Physique
Ten millions of our people inhabit
dwelling inferior to the kennels pro-
vided for the hounds in well-man-
aged hunt. The results Of living in
| dwellings unfit for human habitation
and the prevalence of a dietary scale
from which English meat, bread, and
milk are excluded are fatal to success
full rivalry with a virile and healthy
race where agriculture is fostered for
strategic reasons.
Having spent hours in watching the
arrival of the early morning trains in
Berlin and Hamburg, I am appalled,
with the contrast between the vigorous
and well-et-up. broad-chested and
healthy looking clerks, brawny shop
men, and stalwart laborers on the 9TH
err side of the North Sea. and the
champagne shouldered, cow.hocked:
men of the same classes landed at
Liverpool street, Victoria, and Charing
cross-Arnold White, in the London
World.
Mother Still Goodies Doll.
Although Mrs. Catherine Adams,
who looks as if she were IT, is the
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