The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-14


LIES black medicine we'd sweeten-
so IN each resolve fer New Year we've
Denver Republican.
FIattery for Health.
And now comes a very learned man,
psychologist. a physicist, and a phil
osopher, who seems to have tnvestiga-
TED the whole subject to his own salts
faction, and finds that the world is
cursed with truth, or, rather, with a
lack of lies. Human beings, particu-
larly those of the feminine gender. suf-
fer physical torments- it appears. be-
cause they are not buoyed up by suf-
hcient dattery. What women need is
not so much Quinine and ipecac as a
lot of white lies. When you go home
to the wife of your bosom you are not
to tell herthat she looks bad and ought
to have a doctor at once. By no means.
You must tell her that she Looks young
! er than she has for ,ars, and that
she never was as dear to you, and that
/ you are hardly able to pull through
your daily tasks because YOU are so
| distracted by thoughts of her.
The remedy at least is cheap. 1t costs
nothing but effort. but, alasi more eff
! fort than some men are willing TO put
| forth. 1T is not because a man is too
| truthful to tell lies to his wife about
her appearance. but because he hasn't
| the Willing mind. 1. is too common
| for men to presume that simply be-
cause they are married they need not
bestow courtesy or sentiment upon
their wives Some men reserve their
stories of f1attery for other mems wives,
| Which makes particularly interesting
reading in the divorce courts.
Now, this learned man is right in
| his fundamentals. We do not know
whether or not a case of appendicitis
| or of cerebro-spinal meningitis may be
cured by flattery, but if more men went
WI wi oh f111
faces. with loving words, with the
most tender courtesy, and a box of
candy or bunch of violets, a lot of
heart trouble would be cured instan-
ter. The principal fact about wo-
man is that she is q woman. She lives
| on love. She is made for it and nor
| mally cannot exist in good spirits with
| out it. The greatest injury that can
come to a woman is the feeling that
| she aWakenS no romantic Inspiration
in her husband. If every husband
would tell his wife once a day that
! he loved her, as well as show 1t, the
WORLD would be much happier. It is
not alone necessary to love your wife;
! you must show it by a thousand things
| that seem meaningless trifies to the
man, but are the larger part of wom-
| ar's whole existence. 3
-ry the psychologists remedy
Philadelphia Inquirer. Z s *
EdnOuS Hdm1ltOn Home.
A movement was started some
years ago to insure the preservation of
the thirteen gum trees planted in
circle on the grange by Alexander
Hamilton in incarceration of the
original states of the Union. It was
| found, however. that the trees had
| been planted too near together and
that they would probably not last
long, even with the best of care.
They had never attained any great
size. Besides their vitality had been
impaired by the vandalism of relic
hunters All that remains of them
now is unsightly stumps, and the site
| has just been sold to a builder who
will put up raw of apartment houses
on the westerly block of Convent
| avenue from One Hundred and Forty
| Second street. to One Hundred and
Forty-Third street.
| The old Hamilton residence is still
in use. A square structure two stories
high, looking toward the Hudson, it
had originally verandas on both the
! north and south sides, the loss of
which has somewhat altered its ap-
pearance, but otherwise it is practical
iy unchanged. Designed by John Nc
! Comb, an architect of note in hts day.
! it is good example of the comfortable
country house of the period. 1t stood
for a long time at One Hundred and
F'orty-Second street and Tenth avenue,
but is now beside st. Luke's Protestant
! Episcopal church at One Hundred and
Forty-First street and Convent avenue,
where 1t serves as a rectOry.
| An interesting account of the pur-
chase and improvement of the grange
| is given in Alexander McLane Hamil-
tons recent published Intimate Life
of Alexander Hamilton" The name of
the estate was derived from the seat
Of Hamilton's paternal ancestors in
Scotland. The grange originally occu-
pied a tract (which today is that
roughly bounded by St Nicholas and
Tenth avenues, and which extended
from One Hundred and Forty-F'frst
to One Hundred and Forty-Fifth
street, but formerly was much larger
/ in extent, the western limit being the
Hudson river" The Albany postroad
passed diagona1ly through it, and
probably divided the house and the
garden from the farm. General
Ebenezer Stevens, a prosperous mer-
chant, had country place nearby.
Apparently it was through him that
| Alexander Hamilton made his pur-
chase.-New York Sun.
Training for the White House.
It is time the old-fashioned man
had a president of his own, and Jud-
son Harmon appears at the critical
moment to supply the demand. We
have had candidates who knew so
much about the tariff and finance that
| 1t gave them headache to unload 1t,
and we have had candidates who were
strong for the old soldier and candi-
| dates who were right there with an
| q pprassiva foreign DO1icy but who ex-