The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-07
EROA OTHER PENS
A TEST OF CIVILIZATION.
The stage of civilization

The stage of civilization in the
countries of Europe is tested when
cholera gains such foothold on that
continent as 1t has now. One Of the
most terrible of pestilence5 puts the
efficiency of governments and the de-
velopment of society to the proof. 1t
lis certain that Russia will make bad
work of its struggle against cholera
through the remainder of the summer
and fall. The Russian authorities
have proved unable to stamp out the
disease in st. Petersburg, the capital
of the cars empire. in the winter,
much less to rid their metropolis of
it in warm weather.
In Southern Italy the conditions are
such that the government will be
hard pressed to stop the pestilence
quickly and prevent 1t from spreading.
Obedience to the civil authorities is
not yet a confirmed habit of thought
and action in those parts o. the 1tal-
ian peninsula.
| But when cholera reaches the Ger
man frontier it will be stopped, al
most absolutely. 1t may never gain
the smallest foothold in the German
empire. Austria-Hungary will prove
nearly as we'll able to keep out the
pestilance which all Europe breads.
| France, Great Britain. Holland, Bel
GUM, Norway Sweden, Denmark and
Switzerland will all meet any possible
attack of cholera with efficiency of
highly advanced civilization and the
| latest weapons OF science. Spain,
Portugal and Greece are not so we'll
prepared to encounter and beat off so
virulent and terrifying a scourge.-
| Cleveland Leader.
APPROACH OF COLD DAYS.
There was a breath of autumn in the
air yesterday morning. and one was al
most minded to look out of the win
| dow for traces of frost. OF course.
| there weren't any, but one could feel
| that summer was almost ended and the
| next thing was to prepare for frosts
| and SHOWS, for they are only few
| weeks off. One can hear the solemn
| prediction in the rustic OF the dry
| leaves: in the sunflowers growing old
| and in the sparrow Hedging getting big
| and Saucy.
or New Hampshire farmer, where the
white winter is constant, is happier
| than our own. There the family, the
| kitchen, the wood supply, the horses and
| their feed are all under one great roof
/ and the winter can bury them in and
| they will be happy. To be conscious
| that one is snug and warm and has
/ plenty to eat is to be on the summit
of life.-Ohio State Journal.
OVERwORKED.
! Word comes from Newport that
prominent summer residents" there
| are suffering from nervous and ply
steal prostration. The members OF
| the colony have been kept on the go
almost continually for the last month
| with dinners and luncheons, parties
and other forms of social gayety- The
| result has been that a number of the
| women and some of the men have felt
the strain Several have tainted dur
| ing social entertainments, and in one
case a man and his wife have hurried
off to the mountains for rest.
Let us hope they may get the need
ed recuperation. But what is this as
an example of holiday making? The
value of our New England summer re-
sorts is the relief which they afford
from the strenuous exertions of the
so-called social season here in town.
j To overwork in the endeavor to find
relaxation is a preposterous scheme
Better let social gayety go and potter
around in bathing suits in the unfash-
ionable colonies with which our coast
lis populated.-Boston Post.