The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-06
FRON OTHER PENS
PASSING OF RAGT1ME.

The dramatic editor of the New
York Sun says that ragtime music is
passing. It is high time. 1t has done
deal of harm to lowering the taste
and shattering the intellect. We have
had dissertations on the psychology of
about everything, and it is now time
we were having a treatise upon the
effect of music upon mental opera
lions. 1t would be a great field for
some genius to disport himself in !;
to tell us what music raises ones
thoughts and what drags them down.
The above editor notices that GER
tain light opera music, with it's pleas
ant melodies and dainty rhythms, is
pushing ragtime aside. and is likely
to succeed it. This may not be a
complete reform, but 1t is a great i'm
provement; and there is hope in the
fact that popular taste is tending that
way. Where ones emotions sit fond
ly in the embrace of a melody or a
soft strain. there is hope for that per-
son. His fancy tends upward. But if
he is in the riot of wriggling notes,
skipping and spluttering in every di-
rection, so go his mind and heart
Ohio State Journal.
WOMAN'S CONTEMPT OF COURT.
Do women have less fear of courts
than men? It would seem SO. We'd
nesday a federal judge in this city
found woman in such gross con-
tempt of the courts orders that he
fined her $4,000 Thursday another
woman declared that rather than find
her children-she said she had lost
them-and deliver them into the GUS
tody ordered by the court she would
go to Jail.
How shall the phenomenon be ex-
planned? Is it because the judge is in
nT11 q n m q n GRO
may be something in that or it may
be due to woman's experience gener
ally with judges and juries. Judges
and jurieS are as a rule much more
tender in their dealings with women
than they are with men. Man Gin
vites exploitation" He is not dificile
in, the ordinary relations of life. Why,
then, should he be SO considered
when he chances to be decked out in
a robe or seated in a jury box?
1t is only the fair sex that is the
bold sex when it comes to passage
at arms between the two.-New York
Globe
PRESSURE OF SOCIETY.
Some exaggeration doubtless exists.
in the reports of over-fatigue and
nervous breakdowns in the small but
wealthy social circle conspicuous at
New York. But it is true in nearly
all social sets in this country that the
pressure of engagements, of amuse-
ments and of entertainments is car
ried farther than in other lands.
Diplor1atists who come to Washing
ton say that more is required there
socially than in any European court
All our summer resorts have more go
ing on than there is abroad. Events
are provided at the big ones-aviation
just now-hotels exert themselves and
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tage centers carry on as vivid and
frequent a social life as their owners
practice at home in winter. In win
ter, in all American cities for all,
there is more in dancing and enter
tainment than income for income
would be provided abroad. The re-
suit Is what is what is almost I'M
known abroad. nervous prostration due
to social overstrain. 1t is an Ameri-
can failing and this excessive social
pressure has much to do with keep
ing men out of society in all sets
Philadelphia Press