davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
JIYHAWKER JOTS

A man has been found by the Law
renee Journal who is so stingy that he
won't give an intellectual treat.
Brother Mcfarland calls attention to
the fact that you cannot expect your
ship to come in until you have sent
one out"
Each day the Wichita Beacon pub
fishes an illustrated puzzle-in addition
to those drawn by Mr.. Wertz, notes the
Kansas City Star.
1t has been left to the Holton Record
er to solve the problem how Andrew
Carnegie can get rid of his wealth. 1t
suggests that he live on diet of ham
and eggs
The Cleveland correspondent of the st.
John Capital reported recently as fol-
lows: 'Hube Aleshre has purchased a
Victor talking machine. Hube thinks
that it take the place of a wife"
The trouble with experience as a
teacher, observes Arthur Riddle in the
Minneapolis Messenger, is that she
doesn't head off your mistakes, but tells
you about them after they're made.
When Walt Mason wrote a poem
attacking the agent who sells things
he supposed the agents greatest Of
Tense was in selling things. But now
an agent has written a poem in
answer, notes the Hutchinson News.
Chauncey Devere Appleton, the 10
year-old son of Lysander John Apple
ton, filed suit for $4,000 damages from
his father, in the district court the
other morning, reports the Atchison
Globe Seven thousand are asked for
actual and three thousand for punitive
damages. The charges against the
father are that he laid on hands and
chastised his son for throwing base
ball through a plate glass window. The
case will be interesting, as it will help
to settle a question often discussed
these days, to-wit: Have children No
Rights?
According to the Kansas City Star,
the Spring Hill New Era was favored
the other day by it's Snake Creek corre-
spondent with the following item:
when doom the family washin Mundy
Ras Hybarger met with a paneful acct
dent. His feet slipt as he was bendin
over the tub (Ras ben a tall MANI and
his he'd went down too his neck in the
suds coin the tub to upset with Ras
under it. Ras havin a big mouth and
bein most out of breth anyway from
fast rubin, was most strangled when
he got up and it was kwite time be-
fore he wuz hisself agen. They thought
fer awhile he had swallowed sock in
the excitement but found out since lie
had but wun in the wash, havin over
looked the other Wun."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

years? The events of school, of shop
and court grow. dim beside those that
are etched with the impulse and emo
ton of youth. But the city population
is increasing rapidly. and the city type
OF life is becoming the ideal. Soon half
the population will be in cities. The
old-fashioned country life is waning.
Country customs will not extend to the
city but the city customs and life will
dominate the country. 1t may be- I'M
desirable in some respects but it is IN
evitable and a matter of statistics.
Hence towns and cities should be pre-
pared to give the right sort of ideals
and the correct type of civilization.
Every town should have one or more
Fairgrounds or fields set apart for
wholesome sports. 1t should have ball
grounds, croquet grounds, and apparatus
of all kinds for out of door gymnastics.
This may be adjacent to the school
grounds, or in part of the public park,
il there is one. Most parks in towns.
like the majority in cities, are made
to be looked At rather than used. The
boy finds that he must not play ball
in the streets. that he must not fire.
quent the school yard after school
hours, and everywhere in the park is
the forbidding sign. Keep off the grass
Left to his own resources, his inven-
ton frequently leads towards mischief"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Filtration is attention without inten-
ton.
A woman never exaggerates when
speaking of her age.
He's a sure-footed mule who can kick
the same spot twice.
Never forget a friend-especially IL ne
owes you anything.
It's often what the wife wants that
the husband says he can't afford.
A woman is proud of her wedding
ring even if her marriage is a failure
Opportunity is apt to dodge the man
who spends all his time waiting for it.
The trouble with the average man is
that his ideals are higher than his
salary.
It's difficult for man to swallow his
indignation after being compelled to eat
his words.
Women with the marrying habit are
born optimists. They always hope to
better it the next time.
And the average man would rather
spend week in Jail than attend a re-
union of his wifes relations.
When a man says he did thing as a
matter of principle it's safe bet it was
something he ought to be ashamed of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchisoa Globe.1

TFrom the Atchisol Globe.]
When married women sit down ana
look Wistfully in the dark they are
wishing they had money.
The most important discovery in
medicine you can make is that you
don't need SO much of it.
Encouragement enjoys the distinc-
ton of being about the only thing
easier to find than trouble.
When a woman is rushed to death,
investigate and you will find she has
an engagement with her dressmaker.
Always go to the man in the case
if you wish to know if the announce
ment of a marriage engagement is
official.
We suppose that when every one
has a flying machine, the roads Will
become more impossible than they
are now.
Men may hatter each other occa-
sionalIy. but we have observed that a
man seldom over estimates his broth
er-in-law.
We do not admire dog sheared to
represent a lien. Such a dog always
reminds us of boy ten years old
wearing curls.
When the neighborhood prejudice
against a girls voice seems to be dying
out. this is what it means: 1t is win
ter time, and doors and windows are
closed
Here of late churches are owning
their own spoons, knives and forks.
and in this way are putting a limita-
ton on the woman who regarded the
loaning of such articles. with thread
tied around the handle that she might
get back her own. as her labor in the
Vineyard of the Lord.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDs.

There should be no tagging in the
movement for the establishment in
this city of adequate public play
grounds for the children. 1t is often
the case in cities. and Topeka has not
been without them, where a movement
for the development of the town along
proper lines, such as this Fairgrounds
proposition, has been projected at the
start with wonderful display of en-
thusiasm and then has lapsed into a
state of 'innocuous desuetude'' and fin
ally died. There is no indication that
this is to be history of the play
grounds movement here. but no posi-
BILE chance should be taken of such an
outcome. The matter should receive
constant attention until these romping
places for the children materialize Few
better discussions of the necessity for
these recreation parks have been pre-
scented than one which has just been
put out by the university extension di-
vision of the University of Kansas. It
was prepared by Frank w. Blackmar
Phi. D., professor of sociology and eco
nomics. brief portion of it follows:
THE play element in human nature
is strong. It is a vital element in the
which, if directed. will lead to a higher
and better life. but if undirected, may
lead in the opposite direction. Idle
hours lead by unseen degrees to idle
and vicious habits, which are produc-
tive of vice and crime. The place for
character building is on the play
ground, as we'll as in the school room
1t is then that the ledge of character
crops out. Elements of vulgarity, rude
ness, domineering, unfairness and
pugnacity, if existing in the child, will!
come to the front on the playground.
These are suppressed in the school
room. The teacher who does not know
his students a. play does not know
them verv well. The playground is a
source of moral force and social en-
ergy, and moral force and social en-
ergy are the greatest needs of present.
day life.
1T is generally supposed that it is
only in large cities. with their tall
buildings, tenements, streets, and al
But observation of the habits of boys
in small towns, although there is great
er opportunity for the town boy to
play in the streets and to roam over
the fields. shows that there are evils to
correct in the small town where the
gang is easily formed. The country
boy has the advantage of the field, the
orchard the brook, the winding stream
with its swimming pool and frequently
ir Kansas, the strip of green woods Is
it not true that of sill the pictures
that hang on memory's WALL the ap-
parently unimportant occurrences OF
childhood and youth during the hours
Of recreation are the most vivid in later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
QUAKER fluctuations.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
If time is money a good bit of it must
be counterfeit
About the first real brave thing a bow
does is to smoke cigar.
A thing of beauty is a Joy forever. or
at least until she gets old.
Humanity is too often being proud NJ
the fact that you have no pride
Free speech is merely saying what ve
like to the fellows we know we can lick
The most powerful antagonist to the
Golden Rule is the desire to get even
A man must be a pretty good fellow
when even his relatives speak well of
him. -
The longest ladder won't reach to the
pinnacle Of fame unless the right man
climbs it. AAoAl
After he is graduated the fellow who
was always at the head of his class
gets it little lower down. or abont In
the neck. III
Guzzler-"Let's have just one more
drink 70 drive dull care away" Uio~
wag-'And have it come back in ~.
morning sharper? Nix"
First Centipede-"The news came 90
me as such a shock that was COW
Pieteiy knocked or my feet second
Centlpede-"All Of them?" iu
conscience makes towards of ~
an, quoted the Wise Guy. "wbat
sOod does that do when it only raaEa.
an honest man out Of one In thos.s
sandT' asked the Simple Mus 'Aou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Why wouldn't it be a good plan for the
Chicago Tribune and other supposedly
Republican newspapers to hold their
horses, as it were, and give Mr.. Taft a
reasonable opportunity to show jusc
what kind of a president he is going to
make. and just how much or how little
he is going to accomplish in the way Of
securing legislation from congress for
the solution of the many big questions
which are paramount these days? Per-
haps by the time Mr.. Taft has served
three years of his term, a poll of the
Republican editors west of the Ale
ghenies will have a different story to
tell, and one that will be decidedly
more favorable to Mr.. Taft. Much Of
the criticism which has been hurled at
Mr.. Taft that has not been unfair has
been premature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
LOBELIA,s FAuURE.

Lobelia is my cousin-we'n call it twice
oughly approved.
Snes pretty, and she's bright enough-a
And still Lobeiia failed to fill a high
place in our set.
She would not spend all waking hours
in talking about dress
It's hardly strange Lobelia was not a
great success.
I introduced her all around. and launched
her faithfully
With. tons of cake and bonbons, and gal
Ions of hot tea:
But poor Lobelia couldn't show absorb
ing interest
In nerves. and rheumatism, and colds
upon the chest.
1obelia changed the subject; and so,
must confess,
It's hardly strange Lobelia was not a
great success.
She had no. queer religion, her views
were orthodox;
She hated picture-puzzles made of wrig-
gly little blocks:
She didn't care for bridge enough to sit
) up to all hours:
she doubted that mahatmas had queer,
superna1 powers;
Lobelia did not wish to vote, and could
not win at chess
It's hardly strange Lobelia was not a
great success.
When older folks were talking Lobelia
would sit by
even try
To prove they were old fogies, completely
out of date,
Though long-drawn "reminiscences they d
venture to relate.
Lobelia was not UP in slang; she used
puns even less.
It's hardly strange Lobelia was not a
great success.
I found her rather quiet, though a very
charming GIRL
She did not keep your faculties in one
unending whirl:
Her tone was low and modest, her talk
had something in it,
And, strange to say, she didn't giggle
every single minute!
She married well and early, though why
1 cannot guess:
So, after all, it may be said, she had
sole light success.
Tudor jerks, in Munsey's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
Machine Records Love.

If you happen to be bashful, which
you possibly may be. in the gentle art
of wooing, you may right now take
Unto yourself cheer. jollity, mirth, and
soon be over. You may have to be-
come a phthymographter to make
things right and you might regard
yourself as good deal of cuss to
co that, but you would have the exact
and precise knowledge which is so sat
isfying.
All you have to- do is to lure the OBJ
ject of your affections over to Phila-
delphia, and then out to the labora-
tory of the psychological clinic of the
University of Pennsylvania. The rest
is easy. With a careless air you in
veigle her to place her dainty hand
of course. the hand is dainty-in
machine which you will notice is Ia
beled ''phthytnograph" or "phygmo-
graph" Then you step into the next
room and get the man in charge OF the
machine to whisper your name softly
in her ear.
The machine does the rest. If she
had merely a sneaking regard for you,
or if she is Indifferent, or If she just
palpitates within when she thinks OF
you, the machine will show it. The in
dicator will tell you the real story in
the next room.
The machine registers a distinct line
on sheet of paper. which records with
precise accuracy the force of the emo
tons which are aroused by the mention
of your name.
OF course. If the line swerves despair
ingly down, there is nothing in the
world to do but get the girl away as
soon as possible and seek in other
fields your heart mate. But If it curves
up-curves up with a good, smart
sharpness-it is a cue for you to rush
back, tell the man who is operating
the machine that he really isn't needed.
and then clasn the dear girl firmly to
your heart. Tell her you know she
thinks the world of you. and that she
needn't say yes" as you have her an
swer already She will regard this as
a bit of masterful work. and your stock
will rise accordingly.
Later we doubtless will have pocket
machines of the same sort, and they
will be a boon to the bashful. "She
loves me, she loves me not will be a
game which will return to favor even
outside the daisy season. In fact, the
invention or discovery. or whatever 1t
is, supplies a sporting chance on which
wagers may be made, and as such Is a
thing much to be desired.-New York
TELEGRAPH.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Engaging talk on the part of men is
the kind that appeals strongest to
girls.
Many women who go fishing for
husbands are unlucky enough to land
wild animals.
= Z =
The expression worth its weight
in gold'' will soon be superseded by
worth its weight in pork"
X *
That man who agrees with every
thing each of his friends say, soon
gets a reputation for having sound
judgment.
If the state would only step in and
charge a fee for a poetic license there
might be fewer poets, and that would
help some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
HONEST AGITATION HELPFUL.

Arguments are being presented in
divers quarters that such public agi-
tation as has been started for an i'm
provement in the administration of the
affairs of the schools and a raising of
the standards of instruction in them
is an exceedingly bad thing for the
city; that 1t calls the attention of the
outside world to the fact that the To-
peka schools are not all that they
should be and thus a handicap is put
on the city's growth. Similar conten-
tions are made in connection with the
city's water supply. The opinion is ex-
pressed that even if the water supply
is temporarily unfit for use for drink
ing and cooking purposes, this is
matter that might well be CLOSED over
in the public prints, because outsiders
who might have Topeka in mind as a
place to settle in would not be favor
ably impressed with a town where the
water supply was not all that it should
be for a considerable period of time.
There may be some force to such
arguments, but it is pretty hard to
locate it. An honest agitation for a
lettering of conditions in schools that
already have the reputation of ranking
high with the other schools of the
country is not going to hurt To-
peka. On the other hand. it should
help. 1t should let the outside world
know that while Topeka has good
schools, she wants better ones and
has a mind to undertake their i'm
provement. The same holds true of
the water supply. Prospective settlers
in a city would be apt to look with
more favor on town whose wide
awake citizens insist On having moth
ing but the best and have the courage
to kick good and hard when they are
not getting it than they would on a
town whose citizens were of the easy
going variety and took what their rep
resentatives on the school board or in
the waterworks department cared to
give them and let it go at that with
out a murmur.
Honest agitation for the improving
of conditions in municipality has
never been known to hurt it with peo-
pie beyond it's confines. The expos
ures and prosecutions of graft in San
Francisco never injured that town
Rather did they hold up that city
to the eyes of the world as a COM
uluHlly lIldl ndQ ldhGn on d new
lease of life: that intended to rid
itself of canker sores and make
itself more desirable place in the
future to live and do business in. where
every person would have a square deal
coming to him. The tremendous kick
delivered by the people of Kansas
City, Mo-, against its street car serv-
ice not SO long ago has not had any
noticeable effect in belittling the ad-
vantages of that town, as it continues
to grow in population daily Similar
instances could be multiplied indefin-
itely.
The point should be plain, though,
that all sincere efforts to better any
and all conditions in a city is not dis
advantageous to it, but in reality a
great boon for the town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
I E,ron the New York Press

IF'rom the New York Press.
The sting of being swindled is that
you didn't do it to the other fellow.
A man who is helped through life
by others thinks he is mighty amiable
to let them.
The reason so many people fall in
love is they want to do what so many
other people do.
Somehow two tons of coal at $12 al
ways seems ten times as expensive as
two boxes of cigars at SIS.
A woman waters her grief with her
tears as 1t springs into a lovely flower;
a man salts his with bitterness and it
turns to o thorn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Cuba is reported by her vice presi-
dent to be in a most prosperous condi-
ton. This probably augurs another
revolution there for a lot of malcon-
tents are bound to bob up with the
declaration that they are not getting
their share of the prosperity and that
they are going to fight for it, They
could probably accomplish more If they
you'd work instead of fight but work
and the fomenters of revolutions are
strangers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

A baby was born in a Pullman car
while 1t was being whisked through
Kansas the other day, notes the Chi
cago Record-Herald and then it adds:
I'VE shall expect to hear lot more
now about the wonderful productive
ness of Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Here's Diogenes modernized by the
Washington Herald: He discoursed
from grocer's tub, did that pestifer-
GUS old dub they call Diogenes. He
argued with the other man and stole
some cod fish now and then, or swiped
the grocer's cheese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

That spring is really on the way is
made apparent by reports from several
sections Of the country that many and
varied labor unions are planning for
strikes in the immediate future Strikes
and springtime are getting to be pretty
nearly synonymous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Just as the hens in these parts had
begun to get a bit helpful, and eggs
had begun to sell at two dozen for a
half dollar and even a few cents less,
another blast of arctic weather has
happened along, and in all probability
the distinguished danes of the barn
yard will again become afflicted with
cold feet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Leave it to the Parisians. That they
are ingenious enough to do the right
thing at the right time is evidenced by
the announcement that they intend to
"ionize" Colonel Roosevelt when he
visits them in the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

A safe forecast is that there will be
unusually exciting times during the
session of the. new British parliament
which has just convened. The irish
Nationalist hold the balance of power.
And If they don't get home rule" for
Ireland now they never will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Canada is surely progressing. It's in
habitants do not want to be incumbered
with any such thing as royal gov
ernor general to whom they will have
to be dcffing their caps continually.
They're too busy with other more es-
sential things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

asked her tersely if she would be his
wife she was so surprised that she ac-
cepted him.
John, she later chow did yoCs
come to ask me so soon."
$50 soon." he echoed in surprise
why, little girl, I've been wanting to
ask you since the first time I saw
ou."-(Copyrighted 1910 by Associat-
ed Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Indictments against eight men for
traffcking in young women have been
found by a New York grand jury. ana
yet there are some people who insist
that there is no such thing as a white
slave trade"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

The Chicago Tribune is out with an
other poll of the Republican editors
west of the Alleghenies which shows
that if a choice for a Republican presi-
dent were to be made tomorrow or The
next day 1850 of these editors would
vote Hr Roosevelt, 1,O93 for Taft, and
500 others would scatter their votes
among LaFoIlette, Hughes, Cummins.
P1ncAot, Cannon, Bryan and others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Just think of it! Graft, pure, I'M
adulterated graft, has been unearthed in
connection with the operation of Ohio's
state printing plant And Ohio has
ever had the reputation of being the
place where model public men are de-
N-eInned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17

Somebody ought to bob up pretty
soon ana insist that Mr.. Taft's friends
are behind the movement which has
been started to get Colonel Roosevelt to
lead the American Antarctic expedition
in search of the South Pole.