The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-11
HER CHEAP DINNER.


That night corn fritters sat in state
She got her husband interested
In re the dime she had invested.
But-well--men are so obtuse,
To try and please them is no use,
Her husband. sans a single stutter,
Remarked, Say, what's the price Of but
ter?'
And then he figured UP the. corn
And eggs and butter that had gone
Into those fritters and the batter
And ended with, why. what's the mat
ter?'
OF course. she'd tainted. Twas shock!
She might have had Plymouth Rocki
In fact a quail or two were lost her
In what those cheap corn fritters cost
-I1urana W. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
Taft on Criticism
President Taft was an honor guest
at the banquet of the Periodical Pub
fishers Association of America at the
New Willard hotel in Washington, D.
c., and he delivered to the 900 literary
personages he saw before him series
of witty sallies and experiences. which
brought forth roars of laughter and
cheers. He addressed them as the
controllers OF public opinion and pub
lie officials" Among other things, he
said: 'I had letter the other day
1IO1lI d ItltI WIN E1lu, 0OH 4lhG lAS
tariff bill which was passed and which
you signed. I don't like your associ-
alton with Joe Cannon. I don't like
your association with Aldrich. I don't
like what you are doing with respect
to the magazines and the periodicals
and suppressing free speech. I don't
like anything about your administra-
tion.' Well, I sat down and dictated
the following: My dear Sir: You are
in a bad way.-Wiiliam H. Taft
II will tell you one thing. if you
don't have a sense of humor, I don't
believe you would live through four
years of the presidency. I am inclined
to think that one of the best introduce
lions into the presidency SO that you
may enjoy at least three years of the
four, is to begin with tariff bill and
then continue with a few insurgents.
You get into condition Of mind where
nothing hurts that happens and then
you do exactly as you please. You
don't read any more papers than you
can help and you have the satisfaction
from time to time of your own ap-
prevail And that is the danger, you
controllers of public opinion, you may
hammer man into Indifference as to
what you say. The power of criti-
word I would like to say, and that is,
when you sit down and write out
criticism of some poor devil who is
exercising responsibility that is very
hard to exercise, first give him the
benefit Of that which every criminal
has the benefit of-the benefit of
reasonable doubt. Second. don't use
any parliamentary expressions If you
can help it, for the reason that If you
do and you overload your criticisms
with superlatives and intimations as to
a lack OF honorable motive you are
going to weaken all your criticism, and
nobody Is going to pay any attention
to it,
Clothes and the Votes.
To the handsome frocks worn by
suffragfsts at Mrs. Beln1ont's Colony
club gathering and at Mrs. Mackay's
Madison Square Garden meeting is CIV
en- degree of credit for Mrs. Stuyve-
SAINT Fisf's conversion to the cause.
These gowns relieved Mrs. Fish from
that state of mind in which only a year
ago she was trying to fancy Nine.
Reeamier or Nine. de Stael dressed
in knickerbockers. with short skirts and
derby hat. engaged in a hand-to-hand
fight at the polls
Presumably clothes will not make the
suffragist any more than they make
the man. It is increasingly evident,
nevertheless, that they do make a diff
ference pioneer in exposition of the
point that becoming dress becomes the
cause of woman's rights was Miss Su-
san B. Anthony. who took to silks and
SOFT laces very early in her platform
career. Even in England, where the
strenuous suffragette holds the center
OF the stage, the subject of costume has
come up for discussion. and it is agreed
that the ladies militant should wear
for their campaigns garments of UNI
questioned smartness. The idea Of
uniform was not enthusiastically re-
ceived. though it was allowed that the
organization co1ors should go into the
trimmings.
Clothes mean many things tomany peo-
pie. To Carlyle they were whole phi
losophy. To artists and press agents
To an occasional husband they are
potential bankruptcy. For the suffra-
gistS they will provide assurance that
devotion to principle will not mean de-
privation of an interest common to all
hearts that beat truly feminine. There
will be something for the sisters to talk
about. No dull nnenotony of political
chatter shall shrfvel their souls. We
look to see a social interest in equal
suffrage embracing presently the whole
-Four Hundred.-New York World.
The Nissequogues.
Jerry woodruff, described as the
"last OF the Nissequegue Indians" died
the othe day at Setauket. Long island,
at the age of SO, after life spent In
voluntary Slavery"
There are u good many people in
this city who did not know that there
was tribe of Indians called the Mis-
sequogues In Long Island: that there
are remnants of those tribes living
upon the island STILL and that slavery
in New York state existed up to a
period so recent that there are persons
living who were born in it.
For these people-the majority, we
suspeet-it is necessary to say that
there were thirteen Indian tribes on
Long Island; that remnants of four or
five of them still exist there; that the
Montauks yet claim a good part Of
eastern Long Island: that there is a
considerable reservation of the Shin
necock tribe near Southampton; that
less than a s. ore Of years ago a part
of this tribe removed to Long Island
City and a section of 1t to Manhattan,
and that BLACK and red men were held
in bondage in this state until about
1S30.-New York Mail
Wise Bird, This Woodpecker.
In California the woodpecker stores