The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-21
A LITTLE SENSE NEEDED.
FRON OTHER PENS
DO NOT SCATTER YOUR FIRE

III NOI SCATTER YOUR FIRE.
The clergy is still asking the ques-
ton "Why do not more men attend
church," One minister who sent out
several hundred letters of inquiry to as
many men read the answers, tore them
up and from the whole formed the
concrete conclusion. because they do
not want to-
This conclusion presupposes the
present to be an irreIigious age, a view
which ministers as a whole are not
content to take. They are showing
disposition at least to turn the search
light of inquiry inward and this gives
some encouragement for solution of
their problem. At a recent gathering
of ministers in Omaha a prominent at
torney, active in church affairs, de-
livered a toast, 1.-The PeW's View of
the Pulpit" in which he took the
position that too many ministers scat
ter their fire and do not concentrate
enough, and also frequently go into
their pulpits unprepared
Complete preparation, coupled with
deep conviction and backed by an
irreproachable character will go a long
way toward insuring the preacher a
respectful hearing. 1t is strange, too,
that ministers do not see that if each
pastor concentrated his energy on the
work of his own church he would soon
remove the occasion for diverting his
activities. Infusion OF this generating
force into the membership of each
church would soon arouse them all
into live, working community, each
member doing his part-Omaha Bee.
GENTLE ART OF KISSING.
Until the microbe theory became as
prevalent as mosquitoes are in New
Jersey the only danger in kissing was
in getting caught. Many a couple kiss
ed and forgot all about it, nor was it
considered necessary in such cases in
the old days to summon the family
physician to gently battle the mouth
and wipe from the lips every vestige
of the imprint of other lips. However
with the advent Of germicides and
germs there arose in this country a
feeling against kissing. Young men
have of late years been merely throw
ing kisses which of course, no young
lady with any hygienic sense ever
caught for fear that shs might also
catch something else The sweet os-
culations that waited the souls of
Romeo and Juliet into dreamland
were becoming but a memory Some
intelligent gentleman proved not long
ago by chemistry that Juliet never
took any sleeping potion anyhow, that
she died from the contraction of germs
which she had obtained from Romeo,
who had been kissing one of her gloves
that he had accidentally found in the
trash pile. Be that as it may, the fact
remains that a hygienic reason was
found for the antagonism to kissing in
the East.
We are glad to announce that the
SWANS can kiss all they want to now
without fear of getting anything but
wives. DR.. Worthington. of the Har-
ward Medical School. has declared
that there is every reason to believe
that when two wholesome persons
meet lip to lip, they break away with
out upsetting the bacterial balance
Charleston News and Courier.
SIGN OF INSANITY.
A woman and her husband brought
her father to the night court in New
York on the charge of insanity. The
old gentleman had not yet shown de-
monstrative signs of it but he had
been guilty of making some remarks
that indicated that he was gently glid-
ing over into the regions of lunacy
One of these remarks. and possibly
the most significant one. was this:
Speaking of baseball. the old man ex-
claimed: 81 can beat any ball player
in the National League" The declara-
ton was the principal fact offered to
confirm the charge that the old man
was insane. In these davs, when the
heroes that fill the public thought al
most to the plane OF reverence are
with the man who is guilty of such
sacrilegious emotion, except to send
him to the lunatic asylum?
And so the court did-sent him to
Bellevue for hve days. Wfere he is to
be closely watched, and If in the mean
time, he is heard to denounce the
shortstop or criticise first base, his
doom will be life exile in the walls of
an asylum. When old age, remembering
the young days of its prowess, ex-
claims what it can do and is sent to
the lunatic asylum for so declaring if
is invading the shekinah of the golden
past with profane and dirty feet
Ohio State Journal