The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04

81 cares of wealth now am ignorant;
0pIne ON vices too, might affluence implant
mat l am free from. Were my wants
doubt that long should be satisfied.
wish could.
Chicago News.
s"TriaI Marriages in Russia. :.
1t will be remembered that the first
suggestion of temporary contract mar
riages, or marriages expressly limited
to ten-year terms came from that
bold radical and disciple of "the comic
spirit" George Meridith. Some of his
admirers were shocked. while others
regarded the idea as at least semihum-
orous in conception and intended ef-
feet. But the writer's of short stories
saw possibilities" artisticalIy speak
ing. in 1T, and two or three attempted
TO depict the misery, the injustice, the
cruel misunderstanding that trial
marriages or limited, renewable unions
would entail. Later an American wo-
man, an educator and student of So
GEOLOGY. in an elaborate textbook on
the family, threw out the hint that in
the future one solution for the evil of
nasty, ill-cOnsidered unions and equal
ly hasty divorces may be sought in
trial marriages. That hint raised a
veritable storm of criticism and CEN
sure. Now, curiously enough, it is at
national congress of Russian women
czar's empire, that experimental mar
riages are seriously proposed and de-
Tended. Several delegates, it is report
ed by cable, argued that the union for
life is often immoral" and the cause
of deceit, sin, and unhappiness, and
that experimental marriages shuld be
tried in the interest of morality, the
true home, the welfare of society. 1t
is scarcely surprising to hear that "op-
ponentS" of the idea were not lack
ing" rather is it surprising to hear
that more than one delegate really
and earnestly believes in trial marriag-
es as an improvement from the high
social and ethical point of view on the
proverbia1ly a land of strange con-
trasts, of extreme radicalism and fan
atical conservatism of culture and bar
barism, of ultramodern fads and the
deepest ignorance. Russia has
had Nietzshe cults, Oscar Wilde cults,
in life and letters. Latterly her best
thinkers have complained that the de-
feat of the revolution has been fol-
lowed by intellectual and literary
New Health Machines.
The thirty steel machines with their
complicated mechanism, which will
be used in the new department of me-
chanicotherapy in the Vanderbilt clin-
ic of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons have been placed on public
exhibition. The machines are a gift
from Mrs. Ray Matshak, in memory
of her husband, who was a prominent
a room of the clinic, they look like
gymnastic apparatus of intricate de-
sign.
DIR. Charles H. Jaeger, one of the
surgeons of the hospital, explained
the machines would give strength to
the tissues, bones and muscles of pa
tients convalescing from operations.
The principle of the system is to exer-
else the joints and muscles to restore
them to their normal condition.
'"These machines are SO planned"
DIR. Jaeger said, "that there isn't a
joint or a muscle in the entire body
that cannot be exercised by one of
them The system might be called
medical gymnastics, by the means of
which any workman who has suffered
a fracture or other injury which has
disabled joint or muscle can have
the stiffened joint or muscle restored
est possible time.''-New York Press.
Wears Snake in His Hat.
James Barker, a bachelor, ~ years
old living at Window. in st. Louis
county, has a snake in his hat. Others
also in their boots, but Barker is
although not a healthy
man. He keeps this snake in his hat,
he says. because it is a sure cure
for the most violent form of neuralgia.
Recently he visited the courthouse
at Clayton to get on the pauper list.
While waiting to have the blank filled
out he took off his hat Reposing in
the top of his headpiece was a snake:
County Clerk Rhul was frightened
when he saw it. knowing his own
sobriety, he wanted to test 1t on the
negro janitor, and had him investi-
Then they asked the bachelor for
an explanation. He said he suffered
untold agony from neuralgia, which
caused his face to swell to large pro-
portions. A friend told him to put
snake in his hat
Now the snake is writhing inside his
hat. and he is bothered no more. Bar |
lxer saws he would rather have the |
snake writhe on his head than writhe
with pain himself.
In any event, the snake slides down |
the incline of his bald pate inside the |
ba+ and now he has no more neural |
gia than has the courthouse tower
St. Louis Republic.
QUAKER MEDTTATTONS.
IFron the Philadelphia Record.1
Anpearances are deceitful, es- |
neciaily when they are against US.
1t doesn't take a conference of
baseball magnates to settle old scores. |
A favorite is a horse that In |
wins when you don't bet on
him.
The bov who runs away from home |
is aIways a hero until he comes back I
About the only people who don't
quarrel over religion are the people /
who haven't any.