The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
KANSAS CONNENT
TAKING BACHELORS.

Miss Tiera Farrow of Kansas City,
Kan, leads the strenuous life. She
is active in politics, and has held for
two years an important office to which
she seems likely to be reelected. She
is also interested in educational mat
tiers. sociological problems, and any
thing that happens to come along.
Miss Farrow has the courage of her
convictions, and she has plenty of con-
victions; and the Independent cast of
her mind is illustrated by her recent
utterance. to the effect that all bach
elors should be heavily taxed. She
naturally expects the bachelors to
vote for her, but rather than hide her
convictions under a bushel, she cheer
fully takes. the chances of losing their
support. Bachelors are naturally and
proverbially chivalrous, but it is a
question whether they will carry chiv-
airy to such an extreme as to vote for
a maiden who insists that they are
pursuing reasonable course, and
ought to be taxed for it.
1t might be argued that the girls
should be taxed if they persist in re-
naming unmarried; for their growing
habit of travelling in single harness
is responsible in a large measure for
the condition of thousands of bache-
Tors, who are weeping their young
lives away because the damsels they
would like to marry have discovered
Missions in Life, and turn down the
idea of matrimony. Since women be-
came lawyers and preachers and Of
flee holders they have developed a
distaste for orange blossoms and rice
and old shoes, and when they do con-
template matrimony, it's commercial
aspects are usually uppermost, and
love has little to do with tSe negotia-
tons The prospective bridegroom is
requested to demonstrate his earning
capacity, and if that is satisfactory,
the glad wedding bells may ring.
In order to simplify things, and
give the bachelors a chance, there
should be law requiring the girls
to do their full duty during leap year.
There is no doubt that their duty in
this regard is shamefu1ly neglected.
The marriages which result from pro-
posals made by women might be
counted on the fingers of one foot, so
to speak; and, if personalities are per-
| mitted, one might ask Miss Farrow
for information as to why she has
not lived up to the leap year posi-
bilities. Had she done so, there prob
ably would be one bachelor less. and
the necessity for the proposed tax
would seem less grievous.
1t is a condition that confronts the
bachelors, since the suggestion of Miss
Farrow has attracted wide attention
and is receiving much applause, and II
they desire to guard their secret
| rights, they will have to organize, and
| eSCdDllSH d literary bureau, IN OrQer &c
prove (Which most of them can DOB
| that their single condition is the re-
suit Of female indifference, heart
| lessness, or ambition.-Emporia Ga
zette.
LEAVE THE POLES ALONE.
What did Mr.. Shackleton, the Brit
| ish lieutenant, want with that south
pole, anyway? What would he dc
with it if he was lucky enough to find
| it, somewhere in those wide Southern
| waters? Would he mount a wireless
| telegraph station there, using it fol
a mast, to tell his people in Londor
it out by the root and take it home
with him?
This pole-discoveripg business ha:
| been quite a fad In srecent years, ir
| this big old world. 70 get to the ex.
| act spot, where it is said to be locat.
| ed, men have tried schemes, time an6
| time again, and the pole stands there
| according to the latest advices, JUS
| as it has stood since the days wher
| the world was made and hurled of
| into space.
| And long may it stand OF wave OIL
whatever pole is expected to do. The
| Kansas idea is that this particular po1t
| and the other one which has beer
chased for years, at the north end o.
| the universe, should remain where
! they are, and any attempt on the par
| of the British to capture them ant
| be looked on with suspicion and as
| violation Of the Monroe Doctrine
| Hutchinson News.