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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
KANSAS COANENT


LIZ CHILD PROBLEM.
eminent educators discussed farm,
s MoIK' play and physical culture as
s eii[ee remedies calculated to settle the
ts+pendent child problem at a national
conference in st. Louis this week.
SS1uperlntendent Barnabas. of the New
1 iork Llnccln farm for dependent chill
dren, declared that a back to the
SUI movement was practical. He did
I,oe advocate the sending of boys to
liz, Tue larm who were unfit or unframed,
cut sald they should first be trained in
q Iarm school. Miss Beulah Kennard.
president of the Pttsburg playground
association, said that before the child
could have an intelligent training it
h,ust know how to be a child. 1t must
pay. She declared that play was not
et0ugn appreciated in the makeup of
Cnlloren IN Institutions, and asserted
tnat there was too much routine and
LiAllarlsm to most of them. She ad-
Eocated baseball for girls. Mrs Anna
GOWN, agent of a children's Aid soci-
e.y' STATED that before the mind could
pe framed the body must be made fit,
ana that course of physical training
ana manual training must precede the
intellectual development
aomeless boys and girls, dependent
upon Charitable institutions for educa-
llon and development were under con-
sideraticn in the discussion, That a
combination of these features with the
usual course of study in the public
schools would insure more perfect chill
dren, whether dependent or not on
cbarty. needs no argument. This is
recognized as fact by school auth
crltles and when play grounds, physi-
cal culture manual training and lessons
III farming are provided in the public
schools the country will have adopted
a more practical system of education
Atchison CHAMPION.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Inc University of Kansas is just
concluding another school year, and
commencement is at hand.
Ihls period of the year should al
ways bring to the Kansan great pride
al the splendid state institutions OF
learning, and especially the university
started half century ago on old Dread
at Lawrence. its classic buildings now
spread over the beautiful horseshoe
rise, and are grouped with some idea
or symmetry and pleasing array Its
students number nearly $500, and the
Institution is, as the Telegram has sc
| many times declared, the leading one
| Of learning between Chicago university
and Leland Stanford on the western
coast.
Distinguished citizens of Kansas
| Rave been educated at Lawrence, and
| now their sons and daughters are re-
oeiV1ng their education there. The
school is acquiring years, and with it's
years, tone, and standing everywhere
All hono:' to the University of Kan
sas!-Garden City Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06

the iandlady or the janitor. Then it
suddenly occurred to Dorothea that
Jack might have gone to call on her
and they returned to the house. On
the front step sat the detected lover.
Cinderella and her godmother, re-
splendent in the big car, drove up and
accosted him.
You are to come with Us and get
married" Aunt Calara told him.
He looked at her in Samazement.
W-What? he Stammered.
She explained that she was going to
Europe; that he and Dorothea loved
each other, that other people would
make trouble, and they had better get
married while she was there to settle
1t. In the big car they drove out to
a place where less formality was re-
CURED than inside the city limits. The
pastor of a little old church married
them. Aunt Clara gave them her
blessing and handed Cinderella an en-
velope. Within was a gift of land
and money that made their future
secure.
Whats the use of being a fairy
godm other 2" Aunt Clara said, as she
kissed them goodby, "if you cannot do
1T right? I hope when I am old you
will let me come and sit in your
chimney corner, and IL you are not
happy 1t isn't my fault
Then she went away in her big car,
looking as If she were really a god
mother In fairy tale, with her funny
goggles and her big straw cap
copyrighted 1910, by Associated Lit
erary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
QUAKER INDICATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
1t doesn't take dynamite to blast a
reputation.
Many a man aims high, but uses
blank cartridges.
The successful buffer is the one who
knows when to keep his mouth shut.
Few men are such accomplished
liars as the Oldest inhabitant of a
small town.
If you start out to win a girl, don't
give her the impression that she is
being ratified off.
NeI1--"what would you do if you
were In my shoes % Belle-"Buy a
pair a. size larger
It might be possible for God to
make a man who would please every
body, but he never did.
Even when a woman wants her own
way she changes her mind so often as
to lend variety to the matter.
The people who are hard to get
along with are those who object to our
always having our own way.
Some men are as stubborn as mules
but it is just as we'll otto talk about
a mule behind his back.
Every young fellow should bear in
mind that the day will come when he
will know as little as his father knows
now.
an apple blossom because he only
thinks of the possible stomach aches
represented by it.
Blobbs-"Guzzler boasts that he
wasn't born with a silver spoon in his
mouth" Slobbs-'sNo, he was prob
ably born with a corkscrew in each
hand"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
Take to Cigarettes.

The traditional man-of-war's man. who
made a practice to roll his quid to the
other side of his cheek and spit on his
hands before taking to the guns, is de-
cidedly thing of the past, according to
the reports of the navy department.
The quid of chewing tobacco is no
longer an essential characteristic of the
man behind the guns. He is coming to
the conclusion that he doesn't care for
chewing tobacco, or that it is not a nice
habit or that he hasn't time to chew and
be about his business too.
Last year the navy department con-
tracted for 10000 pounds of chewing to-
bacco for the use of the men of the fleet.
This year the contracts will call for about
10000 pounds, less than one-third of that
amount.
There was a time when chewing tobacco
was as important feature of the ship s
commissary as the allowances of grog
was to Capt. Kids crew or Capt Mar
ryat's sailors. But the modern sailor has
changed his habits
HIS is daintier sort Of person by far,
cleaner cut, more orderly being who
has not lost altogether his social per-
spective. Nowadays the sailor prefers a
cigarette to the guild of tobacco, but on
the whole he is less inclined to both nico-
tine and grog than he has ever been be-
fore -Bluetacket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
.AYHAWKER JOTy

A stand-pat editor in the Fourth
district is quoted by the Kansas City
Star as expressing the fear that many
Democrats may vote for Jackson for
congressman under the impression
that he is ANDY
An Atchison county farmer is be-
ing quoted as saying: 81 often think
that when I die piece of land would
be better to leave to my wife than
second hand motor carr
There are lots and lots of old bach
elors, says Deacon Walker, who long
for d wife for no other reason than to
have some one around who will help
them to remember where they left
their collar buttons.
There once lived girl in Atchison
who had never had her way, relates
the Globe. Her father bu1ldozed and
was called home her mother began it,
and up to the time the girl was 4 5 she
had never selected even a hair rib
bon. Then the good angels came for
her mother, and when the girl man
aged her mothers funeral, she went
around her task of ordering hacks and
flowers, and selecting text and hymns
with a smile. "How bravely she is TAX
ing it, friends said who came in to
weep, but found no one to weep with,
''but she is holding herself in; she
will go all to pieces when the funeral
is over But the woman didn't go
all to pieces, nor was she holding her
self in. She was really letting herself
out, and enjoying it. MY mother al
ways said she thought pink flowers
inappropriate for funerals she said,
putting pink flowers in the coffin. Then
she chose white to wear to the fun
eral, having been told all her life that
if such an occasion arose she should
wear black.
Col. H. C. Whitley of Emporia was
chief of the United States secret SER
vice in the days following the war,
when the country was overrun with
desperate criminals of all kinds, says
the Emporia Gazette. Authority was
badly disorganized as the result of the
war and robbers, assassins, counter
feiters and rogues of every descrip-
ton had the opportunity of the CEN
fury. Such a position as Col. Whitley
held was one of extreme difficulty and
danger, and he was constantly en-
gagged in a battle against the laWless.
Sensational and dramatic incidents
were part of every days work. Now
adays detective stories are wonderfully
popular, and the people who write
them for a living are racking their
brains for plots of the thrilling va
riety, and they can't invent stories as
strange or weird as the stories the col
oneI has lived through. He has wisely
decided to tell some Of these stories
of the adventurous times, and is writ
ing them, just as they occurred, and
proving in every one that truth is
stranger than fiction. The colonefs
stories have been contracted for by a
we'll known syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
RuEEALo ZONES, PRoWEss.

If Buffalo Jones, whom Kansans take
particular delight in because he is one
of them, is not induIging in the we'll
known prerogatives of sportsmen and
stretching the facts a little, the
heroics of hunting the big game of
Africa have been dealt blow from
which there will likely be no recovery.
No longer will there be any DISPOSE
ton on the part of the people to credit
the posers as mighty Ninrods with any
unusual bravery or foolhardiness, as the
case may be, in their pursuit of lions,
cheetahs, rI1inoceroses and other ami
mails which have been looked upon here
tofore as being most dangerous. Such
fellows have always gone after them
with miniature gattling guns and a
retinue of natives bearing extra engines
of destruction for cases of emergency.
Buffalo Jones went after the same
bunch of beasts with a couple of cow
boys, a few cow ponies and a few coils
of rope. He has returned home and
reports that he had no more trouble in
roping and tying lions, rhinoceroses
and other things, than he would have
in catching up with and bringing to
earth an obstreperous COW or steer that
might nave HUH q 1lOAo
After the many thrilling stories
which have been printed of late about
the experiences of famous hunters of
the ordinary sort with lions and the
other fractions four-footed things f
Africa, especially when they have got
ten in close quarters with them, the
tales of Buffalo Jones are unusual to
say the least They picture the sup
posedly ferocious- beasts OF the African
plains and jungles in decidedly differ
ent light. Indeed, one may be pardoned
for thinking that slap on the ear is
all that need be given to any of them
to let them know their infer1orlty 20
man and send them on their way.
OF course, Brother Jones has not been
very explicit as yet with the details CT
his African adventures. Maybe like
North Polar heroes he is saving the
proofs of his prowess for the investi-
gators of some university or for the
pages of some magazine that is willing
to pay we'll for them. For instance, he
hasn't told how a mammoth lion acts
after he has been roped and tied, and
then carefully united and set at lib
erty For, be it known, that only one
of the many lions and other animals
roped by Jones and his cowboys was
kept in captivity. All the rest of their
catches were promptly turned loose.
These things will probably all be
elueidated in good time by Mr.. Jones
and his companions through some
chosen medium. 1t is to be hoped
when they are that series of photo
graphs will also be presented showing
the I'M ing of a captured rhinoceros
and then setting him free. Instead Of
showing the beast with his head down,
paving the ground and getting ready
| for a murderous charge because the
peace and quiet of his ways were dis
| turbed for a few minutes, it will prob
| ably picture the animal dancing on his
hind legs, bowling and Sinking with
glee and remarking: "Thank'ee, Buff
| falo, old boy. you're the first perfect
gentleman we've met up with
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POINTED pAIsAGkarHs.
IFrom the CHICAGO News.

LFrom the Chicago News.]
Therell be no duplicate wedding
presents in heaven.
A one sided controversy never gets
very strenuous.
Guessing is harmless exercise for a
weak imagination.
It might have been worse-from the
optimists viewpoint.
How to become a practical house,
keeper-First get your house.
It's surprising how many people who
are not in society are shocked by it.
Blunt language comes in handy
when a man wants to make cutting re-
marks
A woman can't make-a fool of man
unless he's a little that way at the
start
Accidents are stubborn things. They
refuse to happen when you want them
to.
If the truth were known most of
US would have to plead guilty to the
charge of negligence.
Beware of the man who laughs at
all the jokes you tell. He's preparing
to let you lend him money.
From the matrimonial viewpoint a
husband and wife are considered one;
but everybody knows it takes two to
make a ouarre'
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members or the newspaper man who
reported his recent speech at Elizabeth,
N. J., just picked out the salient SEN
fences he uttered and ran them in a
row. At any rate Mr.. Murdoch is
quoted as saying, in speaking of Uncle
Joe Cannon: He has played in the
dark with Tammany. Every heart
throb of his is in response to the i'm
pulses of an aristocrat." To even sug-
gSst that Tammany men come within
the category of aristocrats is laughable.
Indeed, they would soon lose the hold
they have on their numerically great
constituency If there was anything
about them which merely savored of
aristocracy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LF'rom the Atchison Globe. ]

Ever see a good joke in a joke book
Some people get everything into their
heads except sense.
A worthless man devotes a lot Of
time, we have noticed, to talking
things over
When pa and the children say. I'VE
live high when ma has no GIRL it
means that ma is daisy.
The automobile is something of a
Reformer: it kills more kings and ricn
men than the anarchists.
The world "Homemaker" sounds
prettier than any other word in the
English language when it is heard far
enough away from the baking, sewing,
and DISTINGUISHING.
You often hear young men say: "I
have no money, but I can get all sorts
of backing" Business men of ex-
perience and means know that this
backing proposition is usually a
joke.
When man and wife call at neigh
ries, or any other delicacy the neighbor
has to offer, the wife always says: II
don't see why he is hungry; he just got
up from a perfectly elegant dinner"
What is meant by the term "im-
mediate relatives?" When there is a
wedding, it is frequently reported that
only immediate relatives were pres
emit uOeS TINS IHedl the 5ecoiiu COuSllS,
or does it stop at cousins in any de-
greer? Or, perhaps, it means that only
the relatives in good circumstances
were asked, poor kin never being "int-
mediate" even at funerals.
When a man is cross there isn't any
thing in the world more aggravating
than a house with all the connecting
doors down or one that has doors thai
close noisiIy A man likes to slam =
door He gets more good out of slam
ming a door. in his opinion, than any
one could get out of religion. 1t is MS
protest against everything in the
| world that is wrong. and it means that
| he isn't much older than the child thai
beats its head on the floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Were there more slips between the
cup and the lips many men would be
better off.
There are not many people who are
" Hing to give up even when they know
they're in the wrong.
X = X
The rosters of the Don't Worry
clubs haven't nearly as many names
on them as there should be.
4 r =
If it were not for the disappoint1nents
in life its occasional joys and pleasures
would not be properly appreciated.
n y
An eagerly awaited inning was given
to the astronomers by the comet but
most of them struck out rather inglori-
ously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
II UMOR OF THE DAY

son. i heard somebody i say the hes oth hey
been MIXED Wei INV son. o 'Is t has
what they have cow-catchers for?''-Bal-
timore American.
Would-Be Golfer-I say. Sandy. could
We get somebody, to play a round with me:
as Go SANDY ays ookn s at a eba e
kilts)-Ay Wife. bring Jock along
Punch.
about?'' ut is a certain degree which
the ships cross in their voyages" oh!
they hung the wash of the sea. "-Baiti-
more American.
Force of Habit.-"Just look at those two
They belong to the rich banker, Wagner
who used to drive a four-in-hand. -
Fliegende Blaetter
Apparently the only safe rule in buying
antiques is to let the other fellow buy
them.-New York American.
you can pretty safely bet," began the
man who thought he knew, that any wo
is confirmed old maid" Not Of e aiwa paoy
replied the real wiseacre; "she may he a
mother who has a baby she thinks is pref
II want to hire a canoe" ..Accustonos5
10 rowing one, supposeE' Never was
in one Can you swim?" mot q
stroke We'll, you pay double and i,
advance I've been left in the lurch nv
enough suicides. ''-Philadelphfa Ledger
Tommy" said the boss, you auit
smoking two or three months ago. didn'f
your" Yes, sir answered the office
boy. How much have you gained fn
weight?' We'll, sir, countiri' it in
nickels, I reckon I've gained about fc,,-
pounds Chicago Tribune. D1
II wish / was twins said WINE
''Why2" Because then I'd send the ntbe.::
half of to school and this half vJo 1919
go fishing. Pathfinder.
"Hullo, Billie" said the freshman to a
classmate, who was whistling blitheiv %
he walked along. WHITTIER away?S HT'r,
goin up to DR.. Cuttems to be exa,,,,1,i ~
for appendicitis" said the other aTaaars,u
saem! You don't seem so very rn,,c6 z.,r u
ried about it, said the first. ssOb NJ
smiled BILL There won't he an,,+t NJ,
doing. I've never been able to nss ilis
examination the first time in ali nv s an
young hfe."-Harper's Weekly ' lat
Master-I see you've got a horsash~
q! mere, Fat. ! th.ought you didn't believvnn
dent sir But I have heard thar ~
As don't believe In 1t gets the best l,, .nern
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06

method, be able to create a CONNER
cial substance the effect will be. sensa-
tlonal
THE other experts of Germany are
jubilant over this invention. They are
pointing out the fact that the realiza-
ton of the plans Of the Kiel professor
would signify a greater demand for rub
Der articles, and therefore q greater
Industrial activity in this commodity
would be the result At present. owing
to the exorbitant prices of rubber, the
industry is suffering tremendously"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
tFrom the New York Press.l

IF'rom the New York Press.l
Sometimes virtue can last as long as
it's on public exhibition.
= man thinks he's helping the world
when he tries to get it to support him.
A stout woman thinks she is very
crafty to talk about fat people just as
if she weren't.
Clubs that are run for bachelors
would perish if they weren't so much
more popular with married men.
The trouble with trying to do good is
a suspicious world keeps demanding the
proof that it isn't really a trap you're
laying for 1t.
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THE sERENADE.

Have thy. springtime ere it fade,
Never shall it come again,
w nat IS man but meant for maid?
Wnat are maids but meant for men?
April holds for lovers play
put ner thrice ten days and nights:
axe them, or they'll change to May
Few at most be thy delights.
youths friend while winks the eye,
lime dotn rob the high and low,
Kings must kiss their Spring rood-bv.
Prlnces meet the winter snow.
n III and mine be this safe hour.
Thee and me oh let it bless
with a memory that shall flower
In tomorrow's wilderness,
owen Wister in Harper's Monthly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
state journal will he to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06

Tom Watson, who has been at the
head of the Populist party for the past
decade announces that in the future
he will fight under the Democratic ban
ners. Similar announcements from a
few of the insurgents are also in order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06

Nothing quite so important in the
ways of a news ittm has been tele-
graphed throughout the country and
prominently displayed in the newspa-
pers than the one which tells that
Theodore Roosevelt, jr.. has decided to
wear a GETAWAY instead of the regula-
ton frock coat at his wedding. When
1t comes to smashing presidents the
members of the Roosevelt family are
entitled to all the medals.
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"Fingy" Corners, of Buffalo, has
been eliminated from having anything
like a prominent voice in the councils
of the Democratic party. He has been
retired from the Craftsmanship of the
New York Democratic state commit
tee. And he never will be missed. No,
he never will be missed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06

A suggestion has now been made
that Colonel Roosevelt be named an
the head OF a commission to visit the
capitals in all foreign countries in the
interests of securing the elimination
of ornaments of nations and of pre-
serving international peace. This will
undoubtedly be hailed with delight
by those anti Roosevelt enthusiasts
who would like to see the colonel
busy at anything except mixing again
in politics in this country.
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Richard A. Garfield, who has been
notorious for years as the proprietor
of several large gambling establish
fnents in the eastern section of the
country, is reported to be making
plans to move his paraphernalia to
Mexico where he will locate perman-
emily. This is a case where the United
States loss will not be much of a gain
for Mexico