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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

in the case of very young children
that is to say. of children at the age
of three or four. when the beginnings
Of education may most proftablys be
undertaken-is a duty which obviously
should fall on the parents. But how
many parents are willing to give as
much as thirty minutes day to the
education Of their little ones? The day
must surely come, though, when par
ents will appreciate their duty in this
respect, and when that day does come
a new and more hopeful era in edu-
cation will have dawned.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
EDUCATION AND BAsFRATT,-

That education will make an excellent
baseball player a better one is some
thing new in the way of theories. It is
not recalled at least. that it has ever
been advanced before. For the most
part, that is about the last attribute
it has been considered that baseball
players have needed. And while this
new theory may strike most people as
being something strange, because the
ability to play good baseball has seldom
been associated with a players equip
ment in education, there is no valid
reason why it should not be a sound
one.
President somers of the Cleveland
American league team is the sponsor for
the new theory. Furthermore he is
going to give it a trial. On his staff
is a youthful outfelder. Joe Jackson of
Memphis, Tenn. Jackson was recruited
by Mr.. Somers from the New Orleans
team Of the Southern league. It is the
belief of Mr.. Somers that Jackson stands
a good chance Of developing into one Of
the greatest players that the baseball
diamond has ever seen. These views
are shared by others. But Jackson is
shy on education. He's been playing
baseball ever since he left the gram
mar schools and he is still few years
from his majority. So Mr.. Somers has
planned to give Jackson a college course
during the winter seasons and will pay
all the expenses Of such a course. Pres
ident Somers thinks that the mental
training Jackson will receive at college
will make him even more valuable
ball player than he would be without
S7rch an education
These contentious seem to be as
sound as a perfectly good twenty dollar
gold piece. Mental training is an aid to
any and every man in his work, re-
CARELESS Of what it may be. And why
shouldn't it help the developing ball
player Of great promise? As a matter
Of fact, there are and always have been
not a few stars in the baseball arena
who have graduated from college pre-
vious to entering on a baseball career
in the professional field. The great
Mathewson is one. Fred Tenney. man
ager of the Boston Nationals is another.
So too is the clever Eddie Collins.
There are many more. Nor can there
be any doubt that the educational train
ing they received at college quickened
their mentality in ways that have ma
terially helped their natural aptitude
for the wonderful national game to de-
velop to its greatest possibilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
oUAKER NTEpTTATToNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A dollar saved is often a dollar
leaned.
It takes rain to raise crops. and UNI
brellas-
Many a successful politician has had
to support his supporters.
On the other hand. a woman is
known by the servants she keeps.
Lots of young fellows find 1t easier
to get married than to get anything
else.
Success is purely a matter of luck
If you don't believe it, ask any unsuc-
cessful man.
There seems to be quite difference
between being broad-minded and be-
ing -winded.
When it comes to the latest tint in
hair the women say they don't know
which way to turn
There may be just as good fish in
the sea as ever were caught, but they
are not all suckers.
Are you busy these days?" asked
the doctor. Busy" exclaimed the un-
dertaker- I'm simply rushed to death"
Loves makes the world go round
quoted the Wise Guy. YES assented
the Simple Mug. provided you have
enough rocks for ballast"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
THE WATER SUPPLY.

City Commissioner Miller is on the
right track in planning for the de-
velopment of the water supply so that
it will be equal to all emergencies and
the increasing demands that will be
made on it during the immediate fu-
ture. OF more essential concern to a
city and its people than anything else
is an adequate water supply. Topeka
has that now, and the quality of the
water is unsurpassed. It is so near ab-
solutely pure water that it may well
be designated as such, and is far
and away superior in this respect
to the water supply in most of the
other cities of Kansas and the entire
country for that matter. 1t is a civic
asset the value of which is almost
immeasurable.
But Topeka has grown so fast of
late and is giving every indication of
a continued and large growth in the
future. that the waterworks plant will
eventually have to be enlarged. And
as Mr.. Miller rightly suggests, now is
the time to enlarge the plant so that
it will be equal to meeting the de-
mands on it that will surely be made.
Mr.. Miller points out that it won't
DC AoAS duOl4lCG pump Will Dc
needed at the plant. He also thinks
that a large reservoir should be con-
structed which will hold a sufficient
reserve supply that will insure enough
water for the city for all emergencies,
such as a continued dry spell or
large fire. Such a reservoir would
preclude the necessity Of ever having
to pump river water into the mains
And this would be a condition worth
attaining. 1t has been some time since
it was necessary to go directly to the
river for water. And everybody in
Topeka has undoubtedly recognized
this advantage.
Mr.. Miller estimates that the cost
of such improvements would be in the
neighborhood Of $4,000. If they are
undertaken within the next year il
might prevent anything in the way of
the extension of water mains. And
while such contingency would work
something of hardship to residents in
the newly built up sections of the city
which are not yet supplied with water
mains, the gain to the whole city
through these improvements would
surely be so large as to outweigh such
considerations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

From the representative of all the
factions in the Republican party in
this state cries and signs are going up
FOR harmony. 1t is pointed out that
unless harmony is brought about in
the party for the prosecution of the
next state campaign, it stands an ex-
cellent chance Of becoming the minor
ity party. And some who are now
praying the loudest and longest for
harmony are among those whose activ-
tiles were chiefly responsible for de-
stroying the harmony that existed in
the party at one time. But then few
people feel a pinching shoe until they
have purchased it and worn it for a
short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
FROM OTHER PENS
VALUABLE ASSOCIATION.

When Tennyson was a student at
college he belonged to little group
known as the Apostles. There were a
dozen or more Of those APOSTLES, and
they all became not only famous, but
the most noted men in the world Why ?
Because that society was formed to
study and talk about literature,
science, art, history and subjects that
were great and exalting.
If those young men had got together
for sport and fun, and adventure and
the superficial things of life, we should
never have heard of one of them after
ward. They would have chosen the
drift and floated off with the drift, as
so many boys do nowadays. The as
surance of q good life is in one asso-
citation, and this can no more be neg
iected than a. persons home or health.
A devotion to noble themes is a boys
One Of the fatalist doctrines
of life is that a boy is expected to live
on the low levels of frivolity, and SOW
a few wild oats, possibly, and then es-
cape in time to redeem himself 1t can
not be. The only thing to do is to Or
ganize for a manly, strenuous, upward
trend. toward those things that mean
something. 1t is the only sure way
Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

"Oh, but can't she said, 81 have
to marry a man with money"
Granger looked at her stunned.
Why do you say that?"
"Cousin Jane says 1 must" the girl
told him. ''She says I have always
been used to everything and that I
would never be happy with poor
man.
Couldn't you be happy with the
man you love?"
my song?' she asked breathlessly,
Did you ever hear the end?"
Then she sang it to him. And to the
last two lines she gave particular en-
phasis.
Z @rhe heart of a man to the heart of a
" AS it was in the days Of old"
That's the way 1t should be-" he
said. Il could be happy with you on a
desert island, yet you demand riches .
"Oh, no. she protested, Cousin
Jane said that
eff it were not for Cousin Jane" he
asked. "and should tell you that all 1
can give you is a little cottage in a
quiet little town, would you come with
me?''
''I'd go with you to the end of the
world" she said.
That afternoon he went to Cousin
Jane and told her the truth. Cousin
Jane gasped at the revelation. But
do not want her told" Granger said.
Then he looked at the hard woman
sternly. you had better give in he
said suddenly, cor 1 shall let her know
about the pearls
But she began.
ssYou have them" he accused. ct
found this in my ROOM. He held out
to her a small gold cross which she
had worn every day hanging conspicu-
ously from her watch fod.
You can give her back the pearls
as a wedding present"
Granger took his wild bird to a mod
est little place, in quiet town. The
pearls came unmarked in a white box
and Helen wore them nav and then
with her simple white gowns
Some day 1 will give you more
jewels Granger promised her, and
she would answer. silly. what do I
want with jewels? ?"
Thus the telling became harder and
harder, he loved their life and wanted
no other. So it happened that it was
Cousin Jane who wrote HE is de-
ceiving you you a, ask him what he is
keeping from you?
She showed the note tc HIM Are
you?' she asked
YES" he admitted.
Her face was very white. What is
t?' she demanded.
ALAS, I am a rich man." he told her.
will you hate me because did not
tell you?''
Il shall love you always" she said,
and sang for him again the ending oA
the song which had brought him to
her.
e The heart of man to the heart Of
GAS 1t was in the days Of old.'"-
Copyright. 1911, by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
KANSAS COAAENT
THE STATES DUTY.

The state university of Kansas has
Just had its annual comm enceneht
and over 800 young men and young
women were graduated. The uni
Versity is an institution in which
every citizen of Kansas has an snter-
est and is one that pays big dividends
upon the inyestme nt. Although The
University of Kansas does not have
as much money at its command as do
similar universities in other states, the
results are most satisfactory so far as
they can be made to go. The state
does not give all the young people a
higher education, but it does give
every one of them an opportunity. Any
young man or young woman who
wants to go ahead in study beyond
the branches of the common school
mas the chance to do so. If this were
not so the state of Kansas would be
tagging behind other states and in a
Few years would suffer the inevitable
loss that comes to those who do not
want to advance.
A higher education mems not only
more learning and culture, but it
means investigation and progress. 1t
IS duty of the state to look to the
future and to see that the young
kansans are not forced to go else
where to continue their studies and
to insure that the dull level of things
as they are is not the policy of our
people. In the university, and the
agricultural college, the normal school
and the Pittsburg manual training
school, the state is doing its work and
should keep up the lick, increase the
rapidity and power of the stroke, and
get greater results from the magni-
hcent raw product raised in Kansas
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.
IRON the Chicago News.I

CFrom the Chicago News.l
Even a tail man may not be above
criticism.
Money might go farther If it didn't
travel so fast.
Most men If weighed would be found
Wanting-the earth.
Some women worry themselves gray
trying to look young.
A pretty girl says the power of tbs
press often goes to waist
Cigars are often referred to as weeds,
and the reason is obvious.
A mans first love isn't his last, and
his last knows she's not his first
A woman who will lend her cut glass
for a church social is a true Christian
It's easy to believe that you have
good taste, but 1t isn't SO easy to con-
vince others.
Try to be different from your neigh
bors, and no doubt they viii appreciate
the effort.
A woman always has an excuse for
everything she has done or has made.
up her mind to do.
Few people trouble themselves to
generate enthusiasm for things in
which they have no interest
Every man has vanity enough to
think that most women he meets would
be proud to have him for husband
When a man promises his wife money
he feels almost as generous as II ne
really intended to give it to her.
When a man can wade through snow
drifts at the equator he may hope to
check the flowing tide Of Woman's
talk.
When a girl tries 70 dodge a kiss she
manages to do it in a way that enables
her to catch it where it will do the
most good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

BrummelIian Incredibly. as possible
the coinage of Republican partisan
ship, but the story that Democratic
congressman called upon to Iegislate
IN hot weather find paper collars more
endurable than linen is at least plausi-
BILE. There are considerable areas in
this country where the boiled shirt
hints at sympathy with plutocracy and
the linen collar is defiant of 1.-THE plain
people" The Democrats aim to be
with "the people, and the paper col
lar is still an article of commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
CIVIC CENTERS.

The idea is steadily geining ground
in American cities of grouping the mu-
nicipal buildings in accordance with
some definite plan which. when real
lied, shall have a marked effect upon
the beauty as well as the convenience
of the community. Springfield and
New Haven are two New England
cities in which this idea of a civic cen
ter will soon be carried to fulflment.
In New Haven the new and costly post
Office authorized by congress last win
ter will be located on the site of the
old Tontine Hotel, facing the beautiful
green. This building, with the new
public library, the new courthouse and
the city hall, will give the city a civic
center of striking distinction. It will
be necessary to remove the Second Ma
tional bank building, which was erect
ed only a few years ago, but even this
sacrifice will be we'll worth while in
consid Grafton of the result to be Sc
cured. Instead of tearing down this
heavy building, it is proposed to I'M
dertake the difficult feat of moving It
bodily to the adjoining site occupied
in the past by the old public library
Manch ester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
as TO CHILDREN's DULLNEss,

That parents are largely responsible
for their children's duIlness is the
opinion of Rev. A. A. Berle, pastor of
the Shawmut Congregational church
of Boston. DR.. BerIe has four remark
able children who were trained, when
quite young. along lines originating
with and carefully worked out by his
wife and him. The eldest, sixteen, is
a sophomore at Radcliffe college; the
second, fifteen. is a sophomore at Har-
ward; the third and fourth, twelve and
nine respectively. are attending high
schools.
just how they obtained their high
order of mentality is told by their
father. whose ideas are set forth by
H. Addington Bruce in New Ideas in
Child Training in The American Mag
azine for July.
''AH that many backward students
really need says DR.. Berle, sis to have
the gates of their intellect opened by
the stimulating of interest in the tasks
they are set to do. This. particularly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
HUAOR OF TIE Day

Good Business once got a man to
take out $4,000 life policy. and he met
with a fatal accident within a week.
You must have wished your persuasions
had been less successful" "Oh, don't
know You see married the widowi'-
London opinion.
Pater-Can you give my daughter the
comforts to which she has been accus-
toned? Suitor-Yes, sir. I've breakfasted
at your home, and I'm certain that can
complain about the coffee, read the paper,
announce that I'll dine at the club.-To-
ledo Blade.
Come over and smoke a while" Cant.
I've got to chop wood" why not let
your kid chop wood?' "Oh. he's busy
Journal.
''Weli, we are going to have the tariff
discussion all over again L don't care.
I've sold the several shares Of stock
had in a wooden mill and am confident
tariff on wooden goods is reduced 20 per
cent ad valorem. Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
On the Hotel Piazza--''Why don't you
show a little ambition, Slithers? ?" asked
Binks. go in and make q reputation for
yourself" What's the user" said Slith-
ers. ''Id no sooner make it than these
old ladies on the piazza here would tear
it all to pieces.'-Harper's Weekly.
The Reason.-Ingenious IIorsedeaIer-
Now, here's a nice horse for you. sir.
Quite young The reason his knees are
bent like that is because he was born
in a stable with too low a roof.-Pele
Mele.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER.


The town of Independence, which has
two good daily newspapers, is threat
ened with another. This threat has
been hanging over the burg for several
years, and now it is going to material
ize.
The man who will establish a daily
newspaper at the beginning of the
summer needs a guardian. At this
season the merchants are all cutting
down expenses and will do as little
tdvertising as possible until the fall
trade opens. The man who opened q
new coal yard in the dog days would
exhibit more sense than the one who
starts a newspaper. But the man who
breaks into an OvercroWded field with
a sack of type is foolish enough for
anything, and if he happened to be
in the Arctic regions he would go
around bedding ice.
Recently several Kansas publish ers
have enjoyed lucid intervals and a
number of daily papers have been
consolidated, to the great advantage
of the owners and the business men.
Lawrence used to have four dailies,
and now has two and everybody is
happier. lola used to have four, and
now has one. The expense of publ
cation is so high that d daily news
paper must do a large business to
break even, and few indeed are MAX
ing money. Yet the chump with the
sack of type is always ready to cut a
swath. if he happens to have a politi-
cal grievance, or If he represents some
body who has a grievance.-Junction
City Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

Justice Howard. Of the supreme CO lrt
Of New York state, is probably speaking
well within the truth when he says
that the high heels which most OF the
women insist on having on their shoes
are barbarous, torturing and destruc-
tive Of health But his criticism
against such shoes is a waste Of energy
and words. Woman, lovely woman. will
wear what she wants to wear regard
less Of the consequences to her health
She considers her health a small thing
when measured UP with the demands
of Dame Fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
nv al NJ 9IaRRR 81


Another suggestion to Limerick
Writer'S: Why not rhyme s'flaxen''
With attraction?
And, speaking of that unspeakabIe
crime. the Limerick. Tom Powell tried
this one on the Big Limerick Graft
ana tailed to get in print for some
reason, presumably because his offer
majestic:
Governor Roscoe Stubs
VINO put the lid on the clubs,
Declared it illegal
For Owl, Elk or Eagle
To drink anything frothy, like "suds.''
Passing lightly and airily over Toms
me Scotch (woolen) disregard for
english rhyme, (witness f'Suds'' crowd
ed into rhythmic 5uxtaposition with
Clubs'), and having looked over
your private opinion of q Limerick
contest, anyway? Send answers BY
messenger Don't monkey with the
mails. It is poor policy to ship Excess
sive profanity by mail.)
Rejoice with this department over
the good newsi George has finally
and officially accepted the job OF
rear, that he would renig in favor OF
some poor but honest boob who didn't
deserve punishment.
ne pEonlDltlon or Poker in the dis
trlct of Panama, is one of the most re-
cent acts passed by Congress. All
Congress really needs to show its
undergarments is time.-just time.
PIPE THIS ONE. FOR INSTANCE:
me humane officer should note
The crimes within his jurisdiction;
That Peggy horse is made the goat
OF simps who rhyme without re-
striction.
And while it matters not with US
It's pretty tough on Pegasus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

II used to be said. remarks the New
York Tribune, that the greatest bene-
factor in the world was the man who
made two blades Of wheat grow where
only one grew before. But he is having
to share his honors as a conservation
ist nowadays with the scientist who can
demonstrate that the average man eats
Just about two times as much as IS
good for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
( from the New York Press. ]

IrTUIu LuB NEW 7 DIX Z Caas ]
Lots OF women would rather see
their best friends safely divorced than
safely married.
A girl likes to ride on those thrilling
roller coasters so she can show her
courage by clinging to the nearest
man.
To get along with his wife. an
has to apologize for asking his bach
elor friends to dinner, and then help
her get them married.
A woman doesn't wear a hat when
she goes to a theater box party be
cause that's the only part Of the
house in which she's permitted TO
wear one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

Jury duty will become more I'M
popular than ever if a plan tried by
Denver Judge is put in practice gener-
ally. He placed the members of a
Jury, which had been out for many
hours on a diet of lettuce and water
until they made up their minds to
reach an agreement. Needless to add
Al came after one such repast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

Representative Weeks Of Massachu-
sets must be admired for his cour-
age. He delivered an elaborate and
spirited defense of the wooden trust on
the door of the house of representa-
tives the other day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

Maybe Lorimer is so reluctant to
resign his seat in the United States
senate because the interests" which
placed him in it are insisting that they
are entitled to a little something in the
wav of value received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

A rural route carrier out of Leb-
anon. Kan. covered his territory, trav-
cling a distance of 291A miles, in 1
hour and 80 minutes. This is consid-
cred as going some, and it Is speedy
work at that. But almost any OF the
znotorcyclists who race around on the
Topeka streets could cover a like dis
lance in about II minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away from home during the summer
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ont OF town the State journal Will be
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Advance payment is requested on
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bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-19

"a dreadful sartorial rumor" has
reached the Providence Journal from
Washington. comments the Boston
Transcript. and it continues: 1t is that
paper collars are much worn by Demo-
cratic statesmen in these torrid days
The Journal receives the report with