The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-17

getting more than fair return on
their labor or investment So far as
tunes as the result of strawberry Gull
lure. IN spite of what some of the gar
oening magazine writers may have said
IN oroer to earn five cents word
Inc pure food laws over which there
was SO much frothing at the mouth
nave resulted in lowering the bottoms
! Oh the berry boxes two inches. There
Is also sign at every soda fountain
winch reads "Benzoate of Soda and
ARTIFICIAL Coloring Used at This Foun-
tain When you buy a patent medi-
cine you may read on the label that
is eleven Cor SOD per cent alcohol
But do we, as a result of the Pure
rood laws get more berries for our
money. better berries, drink fewer soft
drinks or take less patent medicine?
MOI that anybody wants to knock the
Pure Food Law. Like the prohibition
] law, the child labor law and other re-
form legislation it is amusing, it is not
strictly enforced. it leads to some hypo-
crlsy and much perjury, and IN our
| Time, perhaps, there will be no definite,
practical beneficial results from it, but
! 1t Is step in the right direction. We
Insist upon putting the cart before the
horse, but still we move long some
how. Humanity marches. You may
not like the line of march and may
| imagine you know a short cut to the
desired goal, but if you can't make
your comrades accept your leadership,
follow the procession. IF you can't be
the bell-cow. fall in behind" Atten
ton then! Forward! March! Hep, Hep,
/ Hep. etc.
| We have generally hailed with joy
/ ana loud acclaim. all labor saving
1 devices. but to the squeezing machine
| which is being installed at vinewood
/ park we cannot give our immediate
sanction, we will have to take it I'M
der amusement. OF course we admire
the enterprise Of the Vinewood COM
pany in installing a machine to
squeeze whole lot of people at once,
providing there is a need for such
thing-but what slam on the gay
young cavaliers of Topeka! And they
| feel the insult too. Those to whom
we have talked resent the insinuation
| very much. Yet there must have
been demand for more squeezing
| than was being turned out by the old
methods or the machine would never
have been installed. Perhaps If the
young gallants who are now railing
Il against the squeezing machine had
Il been on the job steady enough it
i would never have been thought Of
We are not personally interested. but
as one who revels in the preservation
of old-time customs we hate to see a
squeezing machine in business. While
not given to extreme expressions we
think a squeezing machine is about
the limit. Maybe it isn't thought
maybe our food will be eaten and
digested by machine some day At
any rate this squeezing machine is
, merely forerunner of what is to
come and soon all the hand made
squeezing will give place the
market to the machine-made product.
And il this condition must come
; about too much credit cannot be
! given the managers of Vinewood for
their keenness of foresight. They are
, very proud of the machine and said 1t
, was installed to encourage the squeez-
ing industry and they expect a mar
velous growth along this line during
, | the season. Representatives will be
sent to Washington Immediately to
, work for a high protective tariff on
: the foreign article. There are so
/ many titled gentlemen in Europe who
r are fit for no other line of activity that
foreign hand made squeezing could
' be put on the market cheaper than
the American machine product The
} promoters of the. industry feel that
, they ought to be protected from for
, eign competition.-Lilla Day Monroe
) in the Club Member.
II y X y
: Mrs. c. H. Booth has asked the
members of the M. W. club for. a
: picnic at Garfield park this afternoon
! for Mrs. F. G. Boltz who leaves for
, Fredonia the first of the week to re-
. main permanently. The others asked
| We're: Mrs. L. P. Bonebrake, Mrs L.
| Beard, Mrs. Jessie Howes. Mrs. Frank
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w. F. Logan, Mrs. S. J. Hodgins, Mrs.
Tim Drake. Mrs. c. H. Hu1lett, Mrs.
t w w Decker. Mrs. S. A. Swendson,
and Mrs. Curtis Monica1 of Emporia.
f Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Logan enter
tanned Monday evening and Mrs. w.
w. Decker Wednesday in honor of
) Mrs. Boltz.
The Golden Rule club will hold its
last meeting Of the season with Mrs.
H. U. Lincoln, 700 West Sixth avenue,
Friday afternoon. Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs.
Johnston and Mrs DeArmond will be
the hostesses.
The engagement of q well known
club man formerly of Topeka and
the daughter of a prominent Topeka
man has been broken. The cause. it
is said, was too many interested
friends and lovin' kin.
Mrs. John NJ. Brunt gave a lunch
con at Mills tea room today for the
Eureka luncheon club followed by
cards at her house, $40 Fifth street
| east.
Mrs. Otis Allen and Miss Nellie AL
len entertained this afternoon for Miss
Edna Guy, whose marriage to Mr..
Joseph w. Schaefer will take place.
June %. The guests were Mrs. Hinkle
NJ. Guy, Mrs Frank Guy. Mrs. Chas.
/ Griggs, Mrs. Frank Sturges. Mrs.
Chas. Joslin, Mrs. Fred Gillette of
Kansas City, Mrs. Harry Hobson. Mrs.
Ralph Kennedy. Mrs. Walter Davis,