The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-28
FROM OTHER PENS
PROFESSION OF CoNUNDRUMs.

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Two months ago John Witherspoon,
of Trenton, N. J.. went to sleep and he
has been snoozing away ever since.
1.-THE doctors,'' says the news dispatch,
"are puzzled From Chester Pa,
comes the news: "A peculiar fever is
puzzling physicians of this city. Miss
Sallie Sterner, of Pottsville, Pa, has
suddenly regained the speech she lost
five years ago. Physicians puzzled by
the loss of articulation are still more
mystified over the latest develop
ments.''
Pity the poor doctor. His row is a
hard one. He is at the beck and call
Of all ailing. He is the slave OF the
telephone, the servant of the door bell,
the obedient attendant upon hysteria,
bad temper. scratched fingers. And in
the intervals between patients, i'll the
few quiet minutes of the Office, in the
still hours of the night his unrestihy
brain seethes and churns in vain effort to
catch the answer to some puzzle which
refuses to be medicable. The move
ments of the spheres. the composition
and behavior of Halley's comet, the
final outcome of the worlds series are
no more mysterious to the physician
than the reason why Jim Jones' funny
bone is periodically thrown out OF joint,
or Bessie Bum suffers from rheuma-
tfsm only when there are dishes to
wash.-Toledo Blade.
MATTER OF CLOTHES.
Dress has a great deal to do with
and he wants his dress to cultivate
the right spirit. He can raise or lower
himself according to the character of
the clothes he wears. One feels the
effect of his clothes. If he attends
some function in clothes not fitted to
the occasion he does not enjoy it.
Clothes seem to be verv superb
cial matter, but they enter very much
into character-making. Put hat on
a boy that is banged, upturned. rak-
ish and rowdylooking and by some
sort of an osmosis these qualities pass
into the nature of the boy and con-
troll his tendencies. There is no bet
ter example of the influence of en-
vironment than is seen In the effect
of clothes.
The cost has nothing to do with it.
1t is the neatness, the taste, the way
it sets and feels that help make up
the inclination and disposition of
person. The dignity, the ease, the in
telligence of a man can be promoted
by his dress, and the opposite qualities
Just as well. Clothes are really char
acter-formers and one should see that
they are directed to whatever con-
tributes to the grace, order, dignity
and beauty of character.-Ohfo state
Journal.
BALKY HORSES.
wealthy farmer in New York
whipped a balky horse and while en-
gagged in this rather violent effort, he
fell over dead. We would not say
that this result was in the nature OF
retribution for foolish and cruel
act. It is possible that the exertion
so affected the action of the heart that
death was the consequence
But the incident should call atten-
ton to the fact that the whipping OF
a balky horse is a risk that no man of
sense should accept For if man is
not killed by the exertion, it hurts
him otherwise, as all mean acts do,
and whipping a balky horse is gen.
orally that sort of an act.
Violence is not the specific for
balky horse, and it will seldom do the
horse any good, while 1t will always
do the man harm. The driver catches
the distemper from the horse, and
baIky men are worse than balky
horses. AS a general thing the men
who are cruel to their horses are cruel
to their wives and children. Both
treatments arise out of the same
spirit.-Ohio State Journal.