The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-25

the members. But a meeting will be
held between the present and the
former officers for the discussion Of the
work left over from the last admins
| tration which will be inherited" by the
present management. The nominating
committee, also will have a meeting
soon, and results will be reported later
Mrs. GODDARD was chosen to her posi-
ton as president almost unanimously
and will have the undivided support of
all the club women. It is expected
| that the work next autumn will start
off with the brightest promise and that
the year to come will be one of big
achievements. The work Of each year
makes the tasks of the next year
greater and easier of accomplishment,
and the thirteen years Of labor that the
federation has passed through, will
help the efficient administration Of af
fairs for the fourteenth year, to feel
that they. too. are "workmen that need
not to be ashamed
The following is taken from Harper
Bazaar aud is another Of the many
suggestions offered for solution. or
help to a solution of the problem Of I'M
happy marriages. In an unhappy
marriage. the woman suffers most. and
as club women are interested in what
ever concerns women in general and
are particularly concerned with the
knotty tangle of marital difficulties and
the divorce courts, the paragraph will
rot be out of place:
ct is a lesson that men have appar-
emily never needed to learn. that mar
riage is for life, not life for marriage.
and that the world is teeming with
other interesting things. 1t would make
most wives vastly more capable, more
Interesting. and certainly happier If
they could bear about with them the
same conviction that the world is full
of other interesting things. 1t would
be balm to many an unsuccessful mar
riage. For, despite all the wisdom in
cannot be made, happy and successful,
and certainly the fewer of these fall
ures that are flung out for public ad-
justment the better.
Let men and women learn to make
a workable compromise and make the
very most of the other interesting things
in life. For, in the end, in marriage as
in life, we experience only ourselves.
What we get out of life is just what
We have PUT into 1t. And if any under
taking is a failure we might just as
well bring it home to ourselves and
say: I am failure along that line
For, of marriage as of life, l know no
profounder truth than that we can ex-
rertence curse Ives
In an article in the Syracuse Post
Standard, attention is called to the
that is INDUCED in by young writer's
that is, young in years or young in ex-
perience. But it may be noted that
sometimes it is not young writer's that
violate all good taste by making the
same mistake Benjamin franklin
once decided to re-write the Bible. He
got as far as the allegory of Job. He
erased the passage, Doth Job fear
God for naught?" a question supposed
to have been put to the Almighty by
Satan. This is how Benjamin. who was
bent on making the Bible academic
and scholastic. transformed the pas
sage: Does your Majesty imagine
that Jobs good conduct Is the effect
of personal attachment and af-
fection?" By way of contrast between
this pompous foolishness and the writ
ing of p gifted man with a sense of
humor. note how Mark Twain in I'm
nocence Abroad" tells how he left a
room at night when he found a corpse
on the floor: 81 went away from there.
do not say that I went in any sort
of hurry, but I simply went-that is