The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
KANSAS COMMENT
PROMISES.

If a gifted author decided to write
human nature story" and needed raw
material, the best thing he could DO
would be to read the records of the d.
vorce courts. The testimony of hus-
bands and wiveS-particular1y wives
who have found marriage deluston,
furnishes all the material that any
literary workman could ask. Why do
novelists rack their brains inventing
plots, when the bare facts of everyday
life are more interesting and dramatic
than anything they can manufacturer
A Kansas City woman, explaining
why her husband was failure, said
that he was always making promises
that he never kept. He was most
lavish man with promises. He never
refused her a thing in the course ot
| their married life. If she said that she
wanted a SO hat he would tell her that
such a hat was too cheap. Go to the
| milliner's Joint Mirandy," he would
| say, land buy the best lid in stock. I
want my wife to have as good a hat as
any woman in this town. 1 am going
to cash check this afternoon, and will
! give you all the money you need for
| hat-but be sure you get good one.
And she had to wear her old hat until
/ it fell to pieces. He always forgot to
cash the check Occasionally she had
grave suspicious that he had no check
| to cash.
Excelsior Springs for a few days, and
| needed some money, he'd ask her, IN
| the most cordial way possible, why she
| didn't go to Europe and have real
good time. You might just as well go
| to Europe and see the laundering old
art galleries and cathedrals.'' he would
say las to go to Excelsior Springs. l
am Just closing up an important deal,
and in a few days I'll be flushed
with money, and insist that you make
a tour of Europe. You deserve it, my
| dear Of she went to
| Europe. Equally of course, she never
went to Excelsior Springs He never
closed up the deal, for one reason or
another.
And so she lived on gorgeous prom
ises, year after year. Her husband was
perfectly charming all the time: She
never had a cross word from him all
the days of their married life. He was
affectionate and sanguine, and people
who visited the house always said that
he was an ideal husband.
It is probable that good many Will
sympathiZe with the husband, and say
that the wife was unreasonable, for
good many think that superficial kind
: ness atones for a great many delin-
quencies, and a good many more, who
are lavish with empty promises them
selves. are strongly Of the opinion that
women should be satisfied with prom
, ises. But there Is nothing better
| qualified to disgust the average wo-
sible for a wife to respect husband
who never makes good.
Mirandy, in all likelihood, would pre-
. fer a husband who smashed the fur
, niture now and then, if he 1oosened up
, financially so that the household
, wheels might be kept turning.-Em-
poria Gazette.
INCREASING THE WHEAT YIELD
! It is estimated that Kansas pro-
duces annually a million bushels more
, | wheat than formerly, through the ef-
forts of the agricultural college in i'm
; proving the seed. The average yield in
. the state, should, by this means, be
: increased two bushels an acre in the
. near future. This would mean clever
: million bushels increase in the 'tota
: production, or a return of approx
, mately ten million dollars.
The college is developing new strains
of high-yielding and high-milline
> wheats. Wherever seed of these new
wheats has been sent in the state larger
= yielde have been obtained. and the en-
I tire crop has been demanded by neigh
1 boring farmers for seed Oftentimes ar
increase of from five to ten bushels ar
acre, due to this cause, has been re-
? ported.
The college sent a number Of ex
perts this year into the growing wheat
8 fields throughout the state. to deter
= mine the purity and quality of tht
S wheat for seed, directing the farmer II
e it's cars for this purpose, assisting hin
d in selling it as a seed crop, and coop
y Grating with the elevator and mill mel
in giving the seed the widest possible
: -Chanute Tribune.