The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10

/ every state in the union also sends its
delegates to inspect the Springs and
then report to the home folk whether
the trip is worth the money or not. 1t
Between Manitou and Colorado
Springs is an interurban line.
| On this line, as well as
over the other street car lines
a sprinkler made out of a street car
passes every few hours. Thus the
| road is kept comparatively free from
dust. The cars contain huge tanks
with the sprinkling apparatus arrang-
ed on either side. OF course, showers
help out. The rains come up suddenly.
are of short duration and quietly steal
| away. A cloud forms in the noun
tains no larger than the proverbial
''man's hand" Soon the sky is part
ly overcast and a rain falls gently. In
sun comes out and the "Too-rists'
start on more sight seeing trips.
1t is a question whether the too
| rists'' were made 90 the town or the
| town for the ''too-rists."
! One of the latter class approached
rooming house proprietor and asked If
| there were any single men there. Upon
being told that there were none. all be-
ing married men, she exclaimed:
"Well. must go elsewhere to room.
I'll be perfectly frank with. you. [ am
a widow looking for a husband, and I
l am sorry that 1 have not learned
| where the widow did lig'ht-just my
| luck.
Seriously 1 think that the people are
! as interesting as the sights After gaZ-
ing at the beautiful, Veil-like Seven
| Falls in South Cheyenne canon Sunday
| a woman exclaimed: Amt they cute?"
I suppose the falling water. affected her
| acutelY. n
/ Another interesting spe ,tacle was the
WORLDS convention of deaf n1utes which
is in session here, The mutes snap off
words on their fingers until it makes
one 1iZzy to watch them. An institution
for the deaf and dumb is located here.
Then there is the old printers home, a
fine building surrounded by beautiful
grounds, where veteran printers Elay
checkers and tell how they used to
set. Horace Greeley copy. Colorado
college, a Congregational school, also
is here.
Another beautiful building is the Ell
PaSo county court house. At night it
is Illuminated with electric lights on
the outside, forming an outline of the
building which may be seen for miles.
This is going some" for a city of only
20,000-but this city owns the Garden
of the Gods, South Cheyenne Canon and
several parks.
OF course these figures do not include
the hoatirg population which goes up
into the thousands. For these fioaters
amrsements, some free, are provided
every day. The Midland band gives
free concerts at Manitou nearly every
afternoon and evening.
At one of the concerts overheard 4
woman Say: Yes, Mrs. Blank brings
her daughter here every year just on
purpose to get her married OFF. The
cd lady gets some good fellows or the
string for her girl, but then makes a
fatal mistake. She hangs around the
your couple too much. Now if we're
her" and the gossirer moved out
of my hearing. 1 also heard another
woman say that husband hunters were
thick here.
DO the woman get intensely inter-
ested at election time?" replied q wo-
man with a firm chin. to my query.
You bet they do. And think it has
} made a better day of election. People
make sort of a holiday out of the oc-
CASTOR and go to the polls in their best
, clothes. My husband, ne don't care
much about politics, but You bank on it
/ I do. However, Jim. he says that one
politician in the family is enough.''
And this interest in the political field
is said to be common to both the rich
end the poor women. And by the way,
there is great deal Of wealth here. On
III Wood avenue, there are seven million
| aires.
Broadmoor, southwest of here, is an
other aristocratic suburb. Here is To-
Gated the 100000 italian villa of Mrs.
Ashton Potter, niece of Senator Chaun-
| cey Depew. She inherited part of her
money from The Goodyear rubber pco-
Tle to whom she is related, so L under
stand. Another beautiful home in this
section is owned by C. A. Baldwin. It
| is modelled after the Petit. Trianon Of