The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-04
WHEN OLD AGE CONES.


outworn;
Some stone prepared for builders yet
Nor would I be the stated, weary sage
Who sees no strange new wonder In
And with me there on what men call the
Crowd memories from which Gull the
And live old strifes. old kisses and
some old jest;
shall be be eS 9nf bHde a3 to the rest
If God grant me old age.
I'll read each wrinkle wrought by pa
AS oft as one would scan a treasured
Knowing by heart each sentence craven
I'd have. you know life's evil and life's
And gaze out calmly. sweetly on it all
Serene with hope, whatever may befaI;
As though a 1ove-strong spirit ever stood
With arm about you, waiting any call
If God grant us old age. .oos o,,u
Letting our waning senses first grow
Toward sins that youthful zealots can
While We hug closer all the good we
I'd have us worldly foolish. heaven wise,
Each lending each frail succor to with
stand,
Ungrudging, ev'ry mortal days demand;
While fear-fed lovers gaze in our old
And 60 forth bold and glad and hand
in hand.
Burgess Johnson in Harper's Magazine.
Hottest Places in New York.
A factory room where the temperature
is 212 degrees above zero.
That is really hot Yes, it's the not
test place in New York where men go
r,V-1 - Ar11 t7n a
few are hardy enough to bear it.
This hottest place in town is in Des-
brosses street in a Vulcanizing factory,
where telephone wires are insulated by
being coated with preparation of rub
Der. In the room where this process
takes place the temperature rises to 2l2
degrees-1o0 degrees hotter tran the
hottest it may be outside in the sun.
Man can endure no more.
Actually, there are some who can
stand this, however. Only a few. mind
you, but still some. They are only the
strongest and hardest of the workmeni
and they can be in the room but few
brief minutes at a time. Several times
daily it is their duty to enter the room
to see tha1 all goes well.
To keep from losing their skin and 70
protect themselves frorn the terrible
heat these men wear heavy WOODEN
shirts, butroned high about their necks
and wooden masks and gloves. -Four
or five minutes at the most in the vul-
canizing room is all they can stand
without collapsirg. and some can't ever
stay that long.
Outside these men, nobody is ever al
lowed to endure such Il frighttul heat
In fact, It is hard to convey the idea OF
212 degrees. YGu can get the same de-
gree OF temperature by thrusting youl
finger into boiling water. Water boilS
at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
No native born American can stanC
such heat. and foreigners-1tahans ans
Sicilians-nlake the best hands at sucf
work and make up the staff of en-
Moves in the vulcaniZing rooms. Ever
tEese hardy sors Of southern chimes
often collapse from the terrific tempera
ture.
There arc plenty of other hot place:
in New York, but none to compare witt
this. In some of the big hotels it get
to 145 degrees in the great kitchens
Cooks and helpers have to work in ina
Temperature for hours unprotected
There is a great difference between IA
and 212 degrees above zero, just the
same. Some races can endure a tenn
perature of $50 degrees without protec
ton, but after the mercury has passed
.he 10 or $50 mark it means death To-
anyone to remain in it for any Length
of time. -1
The kitchens in many of the hoteH
and restaurants are in the Easements
Poorly ventilated as they are, the tenn
ueratIlre remains practically statlonar!
| I'll day.-New York World.
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