The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

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And twisted into figures that to make
Ere each into the bubbling caldron flips.
My mouth mouth, begins to water as they bob
And acquire a shade of brown exactly
TIL they're lifted out unbroken to the
pan, all smoking hot,
=, And ready for an epicure's delight.
On anbrosia and nectar, and the wine
| All tabled more or less In classic story,
Are not In It for minute with the cake
The crisp. old-fashioned cruiler in its
glory.
| -Ninna Irving. In Life.
| Cat Hats Wedding Party.
A cat with eight lives gone and bare
~ enough Of the ninth left to enable
1t to crawl into the middle of Broad
way in Harlem at 2 o'clock last Tues
day morning caused an unexpected in
terruption to a joyful wedding party
The party was hitting 1t up to Mount
Vernon on the way home from former
Mayor Lawrence Fagan's residence in
| Hoboken, where the marriage of his
sister-in-law, Anna Louise Foley, to
Alderman Waldo Shipman Goodwin was
| celebrated.
The cat was on its last legs. It had
been run over by an automobile and
was wailing pitifully: Evidently with
suicidal intent the cat managed to drag
itself to the middle of the street and
auto to put It to death. But fate had
| decreed 1t should not perish in that
| way, even though the next auto to
pass should contain the best man and
| three of the bridegroom's closest
friends.
In the machine were George Goodwin
the alderman's brother, Herman Ran
dali. Charles Place Phillips, and Miss
Phillips, his sister. The auto is owned
| by Phillips and the chauffeur had an
Intuition that 1t was proper after a
wedding such as had been celebrated
| in Hoboken to let out link or two in
honor of the occasion. Weddings have
strange effects on some persons, and
with these autoists the ceremony SEEM
ed to have sharpened both the sense Of
sight and hearing, for. under the un-
certain glare of the electric light, all
saw the unfortunate cat sprawled in
| the street and heard its cries above the
chugging of the large touring car.
The brakes were applied with a sna ,
| that shook up the occupants, but they
were pleased and happy especially Miss
Phillips, when 1t was found some other
auto, and not theirs. had inflicted the
| injuries on the cat and that they could
not be charged with killing the ami
NAL
Phillips gave orders to drive to the
nearest police station, and, arriving at
| the West 125th street station, the entire
party went in and related the tale OF
the cat. They asked that a patrolman
accompany them to the spot and put
the animal out of its suffering. This
was done only after all had done their
| best to satisfy the lieutenant at the
desk that the auto they rode in had not
run over the cat. Patrolman Crossin
went with them and shot the animal.
Then the trip to Mount Vernon was
continued. No record has been an
nounced of the time made in the Jour
ney- ---..-...-
lating them on having escaped the
path Of the cat for, had not the Hotel
Belmont been farther down town. they,
too, might have seen the suffering ami
NAL Superstitious friends are especial
| ly clad the bridal pair separated from
| the party bound for Mount Vernon
and went to the hotel.
The marriage of Alderman Godwin
and Miss Foley was celebrated IN the
! Church of Our Lady Of Grace in Ho-
The Rev. Mr.. Charles J. Kelly Of
| ficiated. The reception was held n
former Mayor Fagan's home. 1000 Hud-
son street, and the merriment lasted
until the early hours of the day foi-
| lowing.-New York Press.
A Useful Board.
senator ROOT deserves circuit IOI Sc
curing the passage in the PIPER branch
| of congress of bill creating federal
| fine arts commission. The need OF
| such body has long been recognized.
Congress spends large sums on works
of a monumental character. 1t erects
| statues and memorials or provides
sites and pedestals for statues present
| ed by patriotic and other societies. 1t
| is engaged in beautifying the national
| capital, carrying to completion the far-
sighted plans made more than a CEN
| fury ago by Major lEnfant. In dis
charging these duties, all requiring
some appreciation of values in art and
architecture, congress needs expert
guidance. If it had enjoyed such guild
ance in years past, many departures
1 from good taste in public art and ar
| chitecture would have been avoided.
President Roosevelt tried to supply
a plain governmental need by naming
an advisory commission of artists and
architects. to serve without salary. But
the two houses were Jealous of
| ity. and, though the services of the
advisory commission were entirely
gratuitous, congress dispensed with
them by legislation as soon as Mr..
Roosevelt went out of office. he
sanction of the legislative branch is
now about to be given to the creation
of an effective fine arts board.
| Whether or not this board will have
retroactive powers Is not clear. II 1t
is to have. it might do a great work of
artistic restoration and equilibration in
the statuary hall of the capitol
4 Senator Lodge in his admirable ad-
dress at the unwilling of the statue of
John c. Calhoun referred to the mis-
cellaneous and possibly misfit COM
pany in which Calhoun was about to
| find himself, both as q statesman and
as a statue. Senator Carter sensibly
urged an amendment to the commits
sion bill excluding from statuary hall
the effigy of any person not dead fifty
years. Whether the commission can
exert such beneficent control over this
assemblage or not, it can do vast
/ amount of good in establishing better
art and architectural standards for