The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-23

of the straw and bordered by plain silk
in the deepest shade. This band was
adjusted in waved lines, the two point
ed ends meeting-but not joining-on
handsome aigrettes in tones of brown
and gold completed the garniture.
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The assertion of DR.. W. S. Lindsay
the witness stand yesterday, that
many people afflicted with mental de-
rangement are at large, caused, it is
reported. much merriment in the
court room. But why? Don't you
know lots of crazy people who pass,
your acquaintance off on one sub,
ject or another, some mildly and
harmlessly, others violently? AS a
matter of fact it is more difficult to
find people who are perfectly normal
mentally than those who are more or
some women for buying clothes they
can't wear and don't need, sort of
mental obsession? How about the viii
lage gossips, of both sexes. who in
vent and exaggerate scanda1ous stor-
les on other people? Lots of folks
with the persecution mania in a mild
form are running loose and making
themselves and their associates mis-
cradle. There are women who pass
for respectable and whose behaviour
minds and such indecent curiositfes
and interests that they might be
classed among the maniacs. An in
veterate liar, whose word on the most
trivial subject can not be credited, is
mentally rather than morally (if
there is any difference) deficient.
Many cases of temporary insanity
among people who excuse their ex-
cesses on the score of hot temper
as if an insane rage by any other
name were somehow less discredit-
able. Are you cultivating pessimism
and a perennial crouch, exaggerating
your grievances, and walking on your
lip? Look out! You are only re-
move or so from acute melancholia.
The woman who scrubs and digs and
scours all the time, whose life is
bounded by the wash tub and the
kitchen range, whose absorbing pas
sion is getting her clothes out earlier
and putting up more fruit than any
of her neiShbors. whom spot on her
kitchen floor or a f7eck of dust on her
library table can make miserable, and
who would rather her family would
never read the books because the
gaps in the shelves annoy her order
ly soul, is the victim of a mania and
is in as much danger of insanity as
the fat and lazy neuresthenic whose
limited interests of gossip, guzzling,
gobbling, gadding and glad-rags, have
not been sufficient to save her from
the rest cure. DR.. Lindsay is right
There are a lot of candidates for Nut
College" running at large. Everybody
is queer, even thee and me,
Mr. Will Curtis will give a dinner
Saturday night at the E.I<s club for
Miss Mary Meade and Mr.. Terrence
Ewart, whose marriage will take place
next Wednesday evening.
A pretty house wedding celebrated
today was that of Miss Edna Guy,
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Guy,
and Mr.. Joseph William Schaefer.
The ceremony took place at noon at
charmingly decorated with palms,
roses, sweet peas and the other June
flowers. In the dining room the
mammoth wedding cake of glistening
white adorned the table and was sur
rounded by pink roses. The bride
wore a charming gown of white silk
tissue and baby Irish lace, with a
long tulle veil and bouquet of pink
roses and Valley-lilieS. The only at
tendants were two little flower maids,
Lucille Bahnmafer and Florence Nc
Cord in white frocks and pink rib
bons. The Rev. DIR. s s. Estey read
the service and Miss Mabel Holloway.
at the piano played the wedding mu-
sic Major W. L. Shaw of Washing
| ton Court House. Ohio, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred GilIett of Kansas City, Mr.. and
| Mrs. d. B. Rice and Mr.. and Mrs.
Oswald Nystrom of Tecumseh We're
| out of town guests at the wedding, in
vitations for which We're informal and
| limited to relatives and close friends.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Schaefer have gone to
| Excelsior Springs to spend fortnight
and will be at home when they re-
! turn at 72S Lane street. Mr.. Schaefer