The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03

and they will be asked to come out
squarely on the issue. and If they
show a disposition to dodge, they will
be counted as belonging to the opposi-
ton and will be fought accordingly.
In a splendid book called Mind and
Work" by Luther H. Gulick, there is a
discussion of woman's changing work
quote from one of it's chapters:
THE modern woman does no skilled
handiwork Of an industrial character
The sewing that is done in the home
cannot be called skilled. The skilled
sewing is done by the dressmaker-the
tailor. The cooking that is done in the
home is not the skilled cooking of our
grandmothers. The modern American
woman does not put up her preserves
in summer from the fruit she has gath
cred with her own hands. She does not
have to take care of a coal fire; she
turns on the lever and lights the gas.
She is fast losing the spring house
cleaning; she has the vacuum machine
come to the house and clean it for her.
So the work that has in the past af-
forded opportunity for the expression
of her personality and the outlet IF
her energies, Is rapidly passing. With
her old time work taken away from
her, reStlessnesS is inevitable, and it is
desirable restlessness, because It
makes women reach out to bring to
bear the powers that they have. When
a man of power is doing a routine
clerkship job he is restless, too. III
every community there are to be found
women who have found their jobs in
philanthropic work, educational ser
vice, in household decoration, or in
any other piece of work that suits
Them work in which they can express
themselves fully. Then there is quiet
results from living on our best level.
Living on our best level is possible
only when we are in right relations
with our work"
Josephine Preston Peabody, Mrs.
Lionel Marks, Of Cambridge, Mass, is
the inner of a prize of 81, 500 offered
by one of the governors of the Shake
speare Memorial theater at Stratford-
on-Avon for production at the theater.
Six hundred and fifteen plays were
submitted to the reading committee.
They selected two, which were referred
to the Duke of Argyll. who decided in
favor Of Mrs. Marks play, entitled
1.-THE Piper" 1t deals with the old
story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Mrs. Marks took a special course at
Radcliff college and was instructed in
English literature at Wellesley, and her
successes are matter of interest and
pride to the country in general and her
schools in. particular.
The following IS from the Illustrated
World of Kansas City:
Extravaganza has become not only
a national and characteristic vice, but
is fast becoming a national menace
Our peculiar temperament lends itself
easily to indulgence in that which is
best and most expensive. There do not
appear anywhere in the conduct of ma
tional, municipal, or individual affairs
that appreciation Of the economical
and prudent use of resources and that
adjustment of expenditures to means
which always have been found neces-
sary to the support of prosperity and
to the maintenance of a condition of
solvency. We have a big country and
the littlest of us have ambitions to
match it The man who makes $4,000
a year wants just as good an automo-
bile as the one who makes s1Oe. 000 and
he has it, even though he mortgages
his home for the price. A woman goes