The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-16
KANSAS COAAEHT
CHnDREN.s DAY COMING.


Fashionable women are to carry
dolls this season. The fad is now in
full sway in the large eastern cities
and IS slowly creeping this way.
FaSn1onable women have, at various
times, carried the stuffed resemblance
OF a bear, coddled and given luncheons
to monkeys, hobbled their steps, had
their ears pierced for room for addi-
tional jewels and other sundried things
which can not be found among natures
achievements. All harmless amuse--
ments. Yes, indeed, for what fad is
not harmless? And as pursuits they
are in the same intellectual class. But
we must be given something for the
things that have been. Not many years
ago 1t was considered rather smart
for one to have their tonsils removed.
Now no really correct person would
think OF owning an appendix.
Seriously, what is to be said of
woman who has place set at her table
and to her dressmaker? The Teddy
bear was tragic enough but the
thoughts of a woman engaging in con-
Versation about her doll, one asking
the other if her doll will speak when a
string is pulled, sounds the knell of
American sanity.
The real Partisan dolls are not with
out financial caste, ranging in price
| from twenty-five dollars to one hum
| dred dollars and some even more. For
| tIASSC aO11S Dire ny no 1USdIlS II1C S1InplSS
| loves OF childhood with one eye out and
the paint licked off the nose. The dolls
are dressed to taste and as nearly as
possible the counterparts of the ones
| that carry them.
F'ads have dawned and waned, but
the zenith has not as yet been reached.
But in any case let US not relinquish
| hope Sooner or later when fashionable
| society has exhausted all other novel
possibilities. children will become a
craze. Poor little beggars-would we
feel glad for them or sorry? Just what
would a child. gain in a mother who
had lavished care and caresses eli
dolls and jointed puppets?-Hutchinso
Gazette.
THE RISE OF BACON.
| The poor man now views bacon from
afar with something of the sense If
| awe and separation he feels for the
pampered plutocrat in a fur-lined over
coat and q imoussaine. A climber OF
no average speed has bacon been, pasa-
ing from plebeian to patrician in de
cade or a generation. And its old
friends among the masses must have
| a. regret sharpened with sentiment as
| well as an unsatisfied appetite. For
old bacon has been a good friend in
its time 1t has been the piece de re-
sistance on which armies have march
ed, and fought, and died, and won vic
| tories. Also 1t has cornforted and sus-
tanned them in defeat and heart-break-
ing retreat Bacon also is pioneer as
well as a mighty warrior. It has done
its full, large part in winning the west
in other ways than providing automo.
biles for smart young farmers in these
halcyon days 1t nurtured their daddie,
in the days when game was scarce II
the good old days before bacon wa:
breakfast bacon, and was more com
monty designated as sow belly. /
formed with flour the principal supplies
of those forerunners of the westward
march; the trappers and hunters VIII,
came before when the west was reall,
Wild. They fingered far from tn
haunts of men while there was bacol
for their gravy and beans, and f1ou
for their biscuit and slapjacks. an
then came in to barter rich furs 70
other Injuries as they needed. AM
| bacon was also There in large an
common role when the west was hal
wild; when it became the cattle coun
try. or an FL Dorado for the pros
! pectors who followed the hunters an
trappers. And later. when the rec
home builders came. bacon came wit
= them to help. and making bacon of tn
, corn thew grew helped more. Still far
, Their and later this bacon, still com
mon enough crossed the west and tn
western seas, and aided the white ma
in invading an Orient which ne didn'
need. and in which he asn't wanted
Atchison Globe.