The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-23
KANSAS COAAEET


MAYBE JOHN JUST LIKES TT
II IS very probable that John Ja-
cOD Astor IS enjoying the racket made
Dy the ministry over his coming mar
tlase with Miss Force and that the
threat to make him marry outside
the church is just what he wants.
enormously rich men like Astor Of
ten tire OF their yachts, their autos,
tneir palaces, their horses and their
wives and seek novelty and diversion
in notoriety. All the ordinary lux
urles pail on them. They would dis
appear from public prints if they did
T. now and then, do something
startling and there's nothing
reaches FARTHER than a racket with
ones church.
OF course, if the Episcopal clergy
men unanimously refuse to marry
MN, Astor can get the knot tied by
an OFFICER of the law, which will add
more glitter to the notoriety. Most
any rlch man can pull off a brilliant
wedding but John Jacob will prob
aply see something rich and rare, if
not racy. in defying his church. New
ork society people will be with him
IN any event They'd back him up
IN the regular style functional bril-
nancy or they can easily shed their
church obligations to stand by him in
any novel way he devises of leading
MS 1S-year-old darling to the hymen-
cal slaughter. With old man Force
EOb A40hlAB d peep, JOnu surely seems
to have the money the advertising
and the goods. and it will take a
stronger church than any Astor ever
attended to break a cinch like that
when held by one who cares not for
God or humanity, but just money
Wichita Beacon.
MANKIND AT SUMMER HOTELS.
Much mas been written about suf-
fer1ngs of men at the summer hotel.
and indeed the subject is worthy Of
some concern.
Embroidery furnishes one safe and
secure resource to the women guests
against everything that adverse fate
can bring them in the way of bore
dom and bad weather.
The masculine contingent has nc
such refuge. He can not play tennis,
golf, pool, or other games more than
two hours out of the "a. Nor can he
read more than an hour or two with
out weariness. And no red hlooded
specimen can sleep more than nine.
Nor can he spend more than two or
three hours at the table.
That leaves nine hours absolutely un-
provided for in the modern man s
scheme of enjoying vacation. This
the scarcity OF men at the summer re-
sorts than the alleged compulsions OF
business.
The essential trouble is that the mod
ern man, with all his trtumphS has
not yet acquired such authority over
his own nerves and habits that he has
learned to loaf. The only possible way
to make him happy on a rest time is
to give him some kind of activity.
The normal man, however, needs
periods of absolute Inactivity. Even a
machine will wear out three times as
quick if you run it night and day. Some
time shall we not learn to make our
outings really count, by finding happi-
ness merely in silent peace, satisfied
merely to be without care, sufficiently
occupied by the jocund simmer OF
sunshine in the tree tops, the restless
lashings of old ocean on the sands, the
ripping flow of the peaceful river?
To those who know their true mean
ing, the voices of nature speak with
a power ard fascination that can drive
away all thought of our dusty offices
and hunming mllls.-Winfeld Courier