The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-30
CRY OF THE LITTLE BRorHERs.

-oo DOdSt OF your mental progress, OF
D.. your libraries, schools, and halls;
out we who are dumb denounce you, az
we crouch beneath their walls.
lou sit in your tinseled playhouse and
weep DER a mimic wrong.
Our woes are the woes of the voiceless;
w.. our griefs are unheeded in song.
you say that the same God made US
When before his throne you come
Shall you clear yourselves in His presence
on the plea that He made US dumb?
starving kittens cries?
Or too gay for the patient pleading in a
dog s beSeech1ng eyes?
Behold us, your little MISUNDERSTANDING,
beaten, oppressed
Stretch out hand to help us that we
may nave food and rest.
100 long have we roamed neglected. toe
long nave we sickened with fear.
me mercy you hope and pray for. you
e b. Barry in Our Dumb Animals.
Not So Many Dying.
Manufacturers of collins, caskets.
and other funeral goods have felt the
hard times as much as anybody" said
Mr.. G. T. Baird, representative Of an
important Cincinnati house, at the
Belvedere.
when a financial slump comes,
people practice economy even in the
disposition Of their departed loved
ones. and there is falling off in the
demand for the most expensive burial
apparatus. This tendency does not
find an outlet in the adoption Of
cremation. which is. after all, the
cheapest mode of disposing of the
dead, but rather in the purchase of
less costly style of coffin. Cincin-
natl has one of the best cremation
plants ever built, and yet its increase
of patronage from year to year is
small. perhaps not over 100 cases in
that period. In flush times well-to-do
people think nothing of purchasing a
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$4,000, which is the best thing yet
discovered as final resting place Of
the dead, for it is practically in
destructible. The great weight of the
bronze casket and also of the cast
iron kind. is the principal objection to
weigh about 500 pounds and are ex-
ceedingly difficult to handle. Next
best is a capper-lined affair which is
not nearly so heavy but which if used
in connection with costly woods like
mahogany, may cost well up into the
hundreds A mahogany coffin with
elaborate hand carving and lining of
copper is easily worth $1,000.
Cautiously enough, the manufac-
turers have been affected by another
factor that has no connection with
bad times, and that is reduced death
people are dying now, relatively
speaking, as did few years ago. In
New York city the decrease has been
extraordinary. 1t must be that more
attention is being paid to hygiene
than ever before and that the masses
of today are giving better heed to
sanitary laws than those of past
generations.''-B American.
Eyes Cause Car Sickness.
If an individual is immune all
through childhood and early life, but
develops car sickness as an adult, the
fault will probably be found to rest
with the eyes and the way to avoid it is
to travel with the eyes closed, or, bet
ter still, to start with properly fitted
glasses. 1t is easy to understand why
this should be SO. So when the eyes
need glasses the whole nervous
equilibrium of the body suffers, even
to this struggle is added the vibration
of the cars and the temptation to
watch passing scenery through the
windows the struggle turns into active
revolt of the whole system against i'm
position.
sickness are not quite the same is
found in the fact that a person may be
a good sailor and yet suffer dreadfully
with car sickness. and vice versa.
while it's occurrence in babies would go
to show that the sense Impressions
by the ear, the eye, or the nose-are
not at the root of this disorder, be-
cause in very tiny babies the sense
impressions are undeveloped. or at
best very feebly developed.
AS a further proof OF this, car sick
ness often comes on during sleep, and
when this occurs the eyes, of course,
are not the cause in that particular
case.
The symptoms Of car sickness may
be of a most appalling violence, the
state of collapse being so extreme that
death is often feared. 1t is comfort
ing to know that this fear is unbound
ed, and that although persons may be
dreadfully ill. they rarely, if ever. sue
cumb.-Youth's Companion.