The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
FROA O7EER PENS
A MATRIMONIAI, TANCI,E


James and May Powell, bound in
matrimonial chains, recently appeared
before st. Louis judge, praying that
the links be broken. The court, ac-
cording to the law in that state. de-
creed a separation. Three days later,
however, he held up the decree. hav-
ing by that time decides that there
was evidence of COLLISION In the
meantime, Mrs. Powell had become
Mrs. Ekfelt, the ceremony being recog-
nized by the courts as being perfectly
binding. Now the judge has finally
annulled the decree, leaving Mrs. Pow
ell or Mrs. Ekfelt in a perplexing DO
sition.
Here we have a matrim onial tangle
that would puzzle Solomon. The wom-
yet she can hardly be called a biga-
mist. Which, however is really her
legal husband? Having married Elk
felt, is it unlawful for her to live with
Powell? On the other, hand, if she
is Powells wife still, why should she
be allowed to remain witt, Ekfelt?
Has Ekfelt lost a wife he wanted, and
has Powell regained one he did not
want?
The woman in the case, perhaps,
ought to have waited until the judge
had chance to change his mind. The
least that he can do, under the cir
cumstances, is to try and solve for her
the problem for which he is to blame
washington Herald.
CONCERNING INCIDENCE.
In one of his books Henry Drum
mond says: ANY principle which Sc
cures food to the individual without
the expenditure of work is injurious,
the loss of parts" This is as much g.
law of nature as water seeks its own
| level, and yet the whole human race
| is striving to violate it. That's what's
the matter. Many men make an ex-
| travagant living putting in about a
| half hours serious work a day and
many men make shabby living work.
| ing ten hours a day. Thus our pres
| ent civ liization has adjusted matters.
| Is there any degeneration going on?
| Plenty of it, since the wholesome
duty of labor is so sadly neglected in
human experience. That is the de-
generating influence. Loafng and in
| dolence are dead weights on toll. They
pull the world back. OF course there
are leisure moments for rest, for Gull
ture, for the imagination and for pleas
ant and improving company. No man
has a right to any other kind of leis-
ure, and If he takes it he puts him
self on the community, as certainly as
the inmate of an inf1rmary, and with
not SO much credit.-Ohio State Jour-
| nal
| WOMEN AND MEN.
| 1t has long been favortte axiom
that girls are smarter than boys, es-
pecially in school and college. DR..
Taylor. president of Vassar, explains
the reason. Women" he says, Ego
to college to learn; men do not. While
| a good many men do succeed. there
are many more who are interested in
sport and even those who do study
do not take any pride in letting the
others know they are working Girls
are conscientious; they are far more
Inundated by failure than men"
| DR.. Taylor admits there are physio-
illogical reasons why the girl is smarter
than the man at the college age But
lit is also probable that the restrictions
Imposed on girls in the past have tend
: ed to make them concentrate atten-
ton on their studies College men
have as many interests as their in
c1inations prefer; it is usually not I'M
| til after they graduate that they set
| tie down to making a living. Mean
while they can afford to yield the
palm to their sisters for superiority in
youthful scholarship.-New York
American.