The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-17
KANSAS CONMENT
GARAGE.

GARAGE.
The above word has probably caused
more trouble to the English Speaking
! race SINCE 1t was imported from some
foreign locality than has any word of
time.
And In view of the fact that the
Woro Is coming more and more into
use, ana seems to have settled down
mere In the midst of our language with
the intention of remaining for a con-
siderable period, it is imperative that
our public schools, high schools and
coHcSes take up the task of educating
the rising generation in its correct
pronunciation
The present generation is probably
hopeless. We doubt whether it will
ever be possible to sandpaper the edges
off from the word as it is now COM
noE1y handed out by some of our most
worthy citizens.
Garage" is French. Hence it is
Sate 10 assume that it has some soft
and alluring RECOMMENDATION which the
seek 4
The American makes a lunge at the
word, and when it falls from his lips,
mangled and mutilated, it has the ac-
cent on the first syllable, and sounds
the way the word Garage" would
There are various other incorrest
ways OF pronouncing garage" You
can pick up quite a nice collection with
very little study and application.
BET there is one correct way of say
ing it.
Speak it as though it were spelled
ga-razh," the accent on the last sylla-
BILE, and both first and second ga"
as in father Make the finished
product rhyme with mirage" and
tha-'s it.-Salina Journal.
STATE HOSPITAL NEEDED.
The death of Mrs. Cunningham, the
poor colored woman. from tuberculosis,
again calls the attention of the county
ard city officers to the fact that there
is no place where INDECENT tuberculosis
woman was deserted by her husband
and her former friends and was left
to die. But for the kind hearted women
OF Wichita she might have died without
the cara which. every human being
should have when helpless. She was
re fused admission at the hospitals be-
cause these institutions cannot accept
tubercular patients for fear that other
patients will contract the disease. She
could not be cared for at the Sedgwick
house because that institution had no
means Of caring for her. She was then
turned over to the care of a woman
and the county commissioners werc to
pay for the care. But the sick woman
he eyed to be taken from the place be-
cause she said she did not get the care
she needed. Kind hearted women then
took her in charge and cared for her
until she died. The case is a pathetic
enc AMI shows that while we boast of
civilization we are not prepared to care
Tor our INDECENT sick. especially those
afflicted with tuberculosis.
1t is certainly time hat a movement
for a state tubercular hospital was
started. Other states have such hospi-
tails. Why does not Kansas have one?l
Wichita Eagle.
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
There may have been time when
the average farmer was justified in
feeling that the hand of every man
was against him. but that was before
the season of butter at % cents a pound
and eggs at around a quarter of a dol
lar a dozen. In the lean years the farm
er had to take just about what people
chose to give him for his products, and
he was compelled to pay the price de-
handed for whatever he bought. But
row he has emerged from the condition
of a much abused Individual and in his
way he exercises the dictatorial powers
which his occupation rightly should Sc
cure to him. He has his daily market
quotations to show him when he can
buy and sell most advantageously. The
city or the town where he trades guar
anteeS the correct weight of all that he
buys, as well as of what he sells; he
has the pure food law by which the
government i1sures the purity OF the
food stufts he purchases, and in one
way and another he is shown consider
alton and a protection that many per-
you would expect the farmer most of
all to tote fair' in his business deal
ings. Under the circumstances, the
tales of the Wholesale adulterating of
1rilk-not only mean but a dangerous
practice-which abound in Leavenworth
county ara at the very least most sur
prising.-Leavenworth Times.