The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
KANSAS COHAENT
THE REAL JOY PRODUCER.

Hail to the winter underwear, most
blessed of life's real pleasures and
most satisfying of life's real neces-
sites. The high standing of this
humble garment in the scheme OF
human existence is not fully realized
until this time of year rolls around,
and then there are none so skeptical
VINO Will refuse to pay due homage.
months of balmy days and gauze COW
er1ng OF your shape1y limbs with teeth
chattering and shanks blue with cold
because of the frosty north wind
pouring in your window, out of which
you nave hung your perspiring head
during weeks of steaming nights, and
1t is then that your thoughts turn to
this Jewel of the dressing room, this
endless delight of icicle times, and
peace and content give warmth to
your anxious soul. There are, of
course, some vexatious moments be-
fore your blissful feelings come, and
some domestic asperities are likely to
echo through the household atmos-
phere, for shelves and drawers and
old moth ball scented trunks must be
overhauled before your thin blooded
frame can be safely housed within the
protecting recesses of this winter
friend. But after the haste of your
agonfz1ng night gown search through
the frosty air, and your thin blood
begins to bask in the genial warmth
of this modest, retiring garment. then
the world takes on a rosy hue, and
joy supreme fills the universe for you.
Hail to winter underwear, mans clos
est and dearest friend.-Chanute Tri-
bune.
THE PASSING OF THE TURKEY.
The ever growing scarcer Thanks
giving turkey is an evidence of denser
and denser population in Kansas. The
middle aged were eye witnesses OF
herds of thanks dinners that once
chased grasshoppers and bugs over
Kansas prairie. The prairie has be-
come fields and gardens and these
birds are seen no more in herds. The
growth of population has brought
about human occupation Of the ranges
The result is that 1910 Thanksgiving is
dawning almost turkeyless. Kansas
will have few turkeys to spare. 1t will
do we'll or "better than had been ex-
pected'' if it can supply groans for its
own tables. Big grain crops and big
livestock have attracted the attention
of the agriculturist and livestock
raiser from fowl raising. The pin mon
ey which chickens, turkeys, butter and
eggs once brought in is, by the new
standard of measuring value in Kan
sas, too small to devote time to. The
produce money, which once kept the
grocer and butcher enjoying prosper
ity, wouldn't buy the gasoline for the
farmers automobile today. OF butter
and eggs and fowls he aims to pro-
duce for the requirements of his own
table and little further. The alarmed
seeker after a Thanksgiving turkey
might well extend his excited interro-
cation. He might ask: Is country
butter to become extinct, also? and are
we soon to have no more chickens, vel
low legged and tender from the farm
The outlook would Justify these queS-
tions.-Wichita Beacon.
A DRESS CENSOR.
The big institutions are the real re-
formers. The railroads have done
more to check intemperance and fail
ure to pay bills than any other in
Huence in the world and now a big
dry goods firm, Marshall Fields, Chi
cago, has established a dress censor
The censor will see to 1t that no girl
clerk wears pompadour or heels toe
high; a dress neck too low; too many
puffs and rats and curls; too much
jewelry: peek-a-boo waists that are
too peaky; the collars must not be toe
high or too low; the skirts too long
or too short, and the same censorship
is exercised over the sleeves.
But are girl clerks the only ones
needing dress censorship? In every
store in every town on every street
there are girls and women whose at
tire is such an exaggeration it is q
violation of good breeding and taste
Appoint a dress censor for a town II
need be-, and If that is impossible
every woman should look over her
attire, and do a little censoring OF
her own.-Atchison Globe.