The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-03
ER0A O7HER PENS
HAVING A GOOD TIME.

How men differ as to their Ideas OF
having a good timeI There was a man
once who thought that getting drunk
was having a good time; another, that
playing cards until 2 o'clock in the
morning was the thing; another that
lying around a club smoking cigars and
drinking liquor was a fine experience;
another that gadding about the coun-
that loafing about hotel Hobbies for
hours watching people come and go
and so on ad inf1nitum.
Tastes differ as to what a good time
perience of low and dwelling talk and
deed, that leaves the mind empty, the
soul stale and the, body weak, is not.
in the long run, having good time.
A low brow may think he is having a
good time when he is binding his hope
and shortening his days. His heart
hurrahs, but it lessons its beats.
THE joy that all men crave lies with
in the invisible circle of the heart" said
Hamilton w. Mabie, and he who scours
through the jungle of outside indul-
genceS to find it, may find fftful and
suffering CLEANS of it for the moment
but it soon changes into a phantom
and regret.-Ohio State Journal.
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HATPIN LEGISLATION.
Massachusetts takes the hatpin mat
ter very seriously. Two bills are pend
ing before the legislature to limit the
length of the nuch-berated article of
toi1et-and of defense. One would al
low it to protrude half an inch outside
the hat and punish an offender by a
fine not exceeding $40 The other would
cut the projecting length to one-quar-
ter of an inch and deal out a punish
ment of fine not more than 800, with
possibility of Imprisonment in an ag-
gravated case.
The former was introduced ''by re-
7if1o from a street
car conductor, who asserted that he
had been wounded. seriously in one eye
by one of the pins. The other was
placed before the lawmaking body by
a lady who had had the bad luck to
injure a man by jabbing his face with
one of the monstrosities projecting
from her hat.
The great and general court of Mas
sachusetts has no standing committee
on the proper length of hatpins. The
bills are in the hands of the committee
on legal affairs, which is requested to
make the long pins illegal affairs.-Chi-
cago Journal.
REALISTIC GUN PRACTICE.
Heretofore great gun target practice
in the navy has been educationally very
useful in training the gun crews and
gun pointers, but 1t has always been
recognized that firing at canvas targets.
whether stationary or movable. at a few
teaching men to shoot straight, was
somewhat different from the actual gun
practice that would be necessary in
real warfare. The canvas targets do
not afford any indication of the ac-
ton of shot and shell on the armed
side of a ship anywhere from 5000 to
1900 yards distant.
Recently the navy department has
determined to follow the example long
since set by the British navy and more
recently by the French navy. in utiliz-
ing old and obsolete ironclads as tar
gets to be fired at at true battle ranges.
Such targets being heavily armored will
show the craftsmanship of the gun
crews at real fighting distances and at
the same time afford valuable infor-
nation as to the power of projectiles,
as well as the resisting strength of ar
NOR plate. BY using manikins and
pressure gauges in various parts of
these real targets the effect of gun
fire upon the ships fittings and upon
her crew can be in measure deter
mined.-New Orleans Picayune.