The Topeka state journal., 1911-10-02
KANSAS COAMENT
ALEXANDER CALDWELL sTl

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HERE.
And so Alexander Caldwell is still
alivei Not only alive, but in active
business and agile enough to act as one
look after President Taft when he
visits Leavenworth. How long has it
been since his name has been in the
papers?
But there was time when it was in
the papers, often enough, for Alexander
! half century or SO ago. Hhe fought
in the Mexican war, for one thing, but
that was more than half a century ago.
Then he came to LeavenWorth and or
ganized one of the largest overland
trans portation companies the world
ever saw, employing thousands of men.
Then he was president of the company
that built the first railroad from Kan
sas City to Leavenworth, president of
the company that bought from the
government the Delaware Reserve
which contains thousands of acres of
land in Leavenworth and Wyandotte
counties. Then he was a senator of the
United States And then he was for
gotten. At least by everybody outside
of Leavenworth. There he has been
for he has been president of the Com
mercial club for years and is still pres
ident Of the First National bank.
But 1t looks queer to see his name
in the papers again.--Iola Register.
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MENTALITY AND HATS.
Take it from the women themselves,
tier mentalizing is increasing, says
Walter johnson in the Battle Creek
News
They are growing able to perform
feats of mind that a few generations
ago would have been impossible for
Them. AS to the reason, they will
scarcely agree, but one scientist de-
clares it is because their hats are
growing lighter.
Five years ago the creations" which
women wore as hats were of enormous
weight. They acted virtually as lids
which kept the brains under them OBJ
scured and press ed down, this author
ity asserts. But as the hats are grow
ing lighter the women's minds are be-
ginning to expand. The habit Of going
bareheaded is also adding to the brain
relief.
II "the less weight the more brains
holds good all the way through, there
are still many suggestions to be made.
BY the application of the rule, the
fact that many invariably wear their
hair cut short, probably has much ef-
feet on their mental ability, and the
bald-headed man has the best chance
of all.
The only chance the men have.
therefore. of keeping themselves SUI
perior mentally to femininity is to
any brains to boast of would sacri-
fee her hirsute adornments to the
United States constitution requiring
hats to weigh FIVE pounds and no less.
BY this means the women would inn
mediately be put back on their old
plane of mental incapacity and the
superiority of the masculine would re-
main unassailed.- News.
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THE VALUE OF TWO IDEAS.
Nothing is more valuable to any man
than the possession of two or more
ideas. This is & world of comparisons
only The ultimate. of nothing is
known One thing can only be de-
seribed in terms of it's nken ess or un-
likeness to other things, and right
there is where the two or more ideas
give you worth. Ifea doctor knew of
he would be seeing sufficient symp-
toms of that disease in all patients to
cause him to diagnose every case as
that Of a troubled appendix. Speciali-
cation on one thing is good and fine
only when you know enough about
every other thing to keep you out Of
the ''rut." 1t may be all right to keep
your nose to the grindstone, but we
have always doubted the value of
keeping 1t to the grindstone. In other
words, we believe in a once and a
while change of gTindstones. The
charge of Shoemaker stick to your
last is all right but in his manufac-
ture of every day shoes, let him not
forget that there are such things as
high topped boots, dancing pumps and
sandals in the world.-Frankfor
Index.