The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-07
KANSAS CO4AENT
IS IT GAMRLNG2

The law against gambling in this
state IS very severe and it provides
penalties for about everything that
men indulge in in the way of games of
chance from playing poker to grabbing
In a grab bag at church social. But
now the law is threatening the women
Last week there was a meeting of
county attorneys at Topeka and they
discussed long and seriously the ques-
ton:
Are the women gambling when
they sit down at q card table and play
bridge whist. five hundred or some
other game for a prize to be awarded
| by the hostess %
The county attorneys had been dis
cuss1ng horse racing, betting and other
attractions of the law when one mem
Der rose in his seat in the rear of the
hall and put the question stated above.
Assistant Attorney General S. N. Haw-
kins had the floor and was submitting
TO questions on all sorts of legal sub
jects.
ST would say that it is not gamb-
ling" he said, right off the bat.
IF that isn't gambling" put in Coun-
ty Attorney K. M. Geddes, of Butler
county, sis it gambling for men to play
cards for money!"
1T Isl said Mr.. Hawkins
''Why?'
Because the woman who play at the
kind of party mentioned has no chance
W lOSe, was the reply.
"Well," continued the Butler county
man, "supposing dozen men get to-
| gether and play once a week, a differ
emit man putting up a ten-dollar-bill
each week, and the crowd playing for
it. That is the same principle involved
in the woman's card party. Wouldn't
that be gamb1ing?''
Then some gallant or discreet county
attorney thought it best to change the
subject and the matter wasn't settled.
But suppose the question should be
brought up in the courts In that case
neither gallantry nor discretion would
avail and it would have to be pushed
to the end. 1t is sad. indeed to con-
| template what that end might be.
There is no telling how jury or a
| judge might look at it. 1t might be
decided that it is mbling.-Leayen-
worth Times.
| COMFORT TO THE TRAVELLER.
A good country road is always, to be
| desired and is a source of comfort and
convenience to every traveller. Good
| roads attract population, as well as
good schools and churches. Good roads
| improve the value OF the property. so
| that it is said a farm lying five miles
from market. connected by a bad road
is of less value than an equally good
| farm lying ten miles away. from mar
| ket connected by a good road. A larger
load can be drawn by one horse over
| a good road than by two over a bad
| one. Good roads encourage the greater
| exchange of products and commodities
between one section and another
Corning Gazette.
THE EDEN CLIMATE.
| A Yale college professor announces
that it could not have been an apple
which was used by the devil in the
garden of Eden as a means of tempta-
| ton for Eve and Adam. He says ap-
pies would not grow in their climate
and therefore the fruit must have been
something like pear.
| There is probably no real theological
question involved in this discussion but
we would like to knew how the college
professor has ascertai ned that apples
would not grow id Eden. They do
mighty well in kansas, and from the
Heved that it was good deal like Kan
sas except there may have been less
wind-Hutchinson News.