The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-24

The biscuits there was nice and brown,
cause. summer, spring or fall,
The old Dutch oven baked the stuff that
tasted best OF all.
Perhaps twas cause our appetites were
The men who ride the cattle range amt
| apt to kick or carp;
But anyway find myself a-dreaming of
The old Dutch oven baked for US beneath
-Arthnnors e c aoa19 ao rfn the Denver Re-
publican.
Race Suicide Nonsense.
Rabbi Charles Fleischer. of Temple
Israel, Of Boston, spoke yesterday in
the Free Synagogue. 40 west Eighty
| seventh street, on 1.-THE Future of the
Human Race" He advocates early
| marriages and small families.
There has been a lot of talk, main
| ly nonsense. bout race suicide he
said. I'VE have heard what Theodore
| Roosevelt has had to say on that sub
| ject He's SO far away still I may say
what I will without danger of losing
| my estate with him. Then, we know
| what Roosevele's first cousin in spirit,
| the Emperor William of Germany, feels
| on this subject. We know that the Ro-
man Catholic church likewise has Ia
ken a pronounced stand for increasing
| the race.
| az can see what Emperor William
wants big families for. His purpose
| is to make Germany strong, to cope
| with other nations in war. The Catho-
| lie church needs numbers to add to its
power. I do not doubt that the aver
| age Jew feels happy, too, when he
| hears that there are more synagogues
| this year than 1ast-an enlarged ego
| tism.
To-day there is less reason for large
| families than there was even two gen.
erations ago A large number of chill
| dren means torture for the family that
undertakes to educate its children ac-
| have been told that small families les
sen the moral sense of women. No
| doubt the moral sense is lessened
somewhat, but not to the extent that
many may suppose.
TITS all simple and easy enough for
men to blame things on women, and in
| the so-called race suicide to say the
| women are the ones responsible.
| have found. not from hearsay, but from
actual observation. that the average
| man feels he has done quite enough to
beget the child. His contribution to
| the upbringing rarely extends beyond
providing money for the household ex-
| penses.
| Human advancement has brought
| the death rate down amazingly. Wars
| are less frequent, famines are of short
| er duration, and improved sanitary
conditions have heightened life and re-
duced epidemics of disease. Despite
| Christian Science. medical science con-
| tlnues to advance. Christian Scientists
are never in a hurry to put themselves
in the way Of epidemic. I wish a
| group Of Christian Scientists would put
| themselves where the signs of pestil-
| ence are so verv material as they are
| where an epidemic RACES.
cit may be immortality to curb the
! birth rate but where is the morality of
bringing into the world children that
l l.. 4~Ixv F@v>o InOft h
are immoralities. I'll take my choice.
| The present war to reduce the prices
| of meat is simply pathetic. 1t seems
| we have reached a point where we
cannot live. Yet we are told by some
| to bring more children on to face
! these trials. Living conditions as they
are coming TO be are reducing the
strength. vitality and fertility Of the
race."-New York World.
How to Gain Time.
The only way in which one can be
sure of gaining time is to procrastinate.
It is only the few hours Immediately
in front of yoL, gained by putting in
its proper place. employment which
was on the point of ingulfing your
| leisure, that you can be really sure
| of having to do with as you wish.
| There seems no other way of taking
time by the forelock. If one does at
! once the work which will have to be
start SO considerable that one is in
danger Of not even catching time by
the heels when one is at liberty to
start in pursuit. This makes time
stand for leisure, but what better
thing could any one stand for leisure
being not idleness but breathing space
in which to recover from ones pant
| ing run. to reckon the distance one
has come. and to weigh the value of
the things gathered on the way. If
we are unable to face and use leisure,
then the race should be called off,
for it has reduced us to furried sour
riers. busy without rhyme or reason,
representation an unavoidable duty,
lying directly before US.
| Naturally one must procraStinate
with taste and discretion. To postpone
everything is as unintelligent as to do
everything 1t is looking work in the
not dropping ones eyes out of respect
merely because it is work, and stupidity
taking it on because It says 1t is a duty.
Perhaps it is nothing Of the kind.
Anyway a cavalier waving of it into
the limbo will show the stuff 1t is made
of, not to mention its seeing that you
are not a person to be bullied. If it
still hangs about you can tell 1t to
come back tomorrow; you may find a
moment to give it. If it fails to turn
up a second time ten to one 1t was
no duty at all and when you told it
to be off it thought its disguise pene-
trated and ran IN a panic OF DelnS ulS-
covered. We have built up somehow
an exaggerated worship of work, until
it is done blindly, breathlessly. as
though there was som ething inherently
immoral in stopping for a moment to
see what kind of work it is that we
are doing. It is spineless person
who cannot retain the whiphand over
work or at least manage when over
offlcious work attempts to catch us to
escape with taunt and a slyly pro-
truding tongue.-New York Evening
Sun.
/ Modesty and MiscOnceptfon.
A mfdd1e-aged Welsh market wom-
an visited a theater for the first time
in her life and was much interested
in he Led