The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-10
FROA OFFER PENS
CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS

A New York lecturer in recent ad-
dress undertook to demonstrate that
some OF the practices of immigrants in
this country, WHICH are troublesome to
the best intentions and may be easily
corrected when the requirements of
the American environment are made
clear to the arrivals
To illustrate his point he told an in
teresting story. A certain immigrant
mother of numerous offspring was sew
eral times hailed to court and fined for
hurting her ashes into the city street
on which she lived. With phiIosophic
submission to arbitrary governmental
tyranny she paid her fines and went
her way Finally a charitable person
explained to her, in her own tongue,
why she should not throw her ashes
into the street. It then appeared that
in the little Polish village whence she
came she and her neighbors had been
requested by a local authority to
throw their ashes into the road by
way of inpromptu street building.
Then he relates contrasting anec-
dote as follows:
once heard one of the founders of
the City club say that when he came
of age he asked his excellent father to
give him some idea of what might be
his duties as a full fledged citizen of
this great city. His father replied:
'tMy son, as gentleman and the son
of a gentleman, all you need know of
municipal procedure is that in order
to have your ashes properly cared for
you must bride the ashman. Mil
waukee Wisconsin
SUNDAY FOR POSTAL employees.
An effort is being made, especially
in the middle west, to give the postal
employees Sunday as a day of rest.
If indications go for anything, this
movement will succeed. In Chicago a
vote is being taken to ascertain the
public sentiment and the signs are
that the vote will be in favor Of giving
the postal employees their Sunday.
We hear in the postofice department
that the postmaster at Chicago reports
that the strongest opposition to clos
ing some of the substations Sundays
in the residential districts come main
ly from those men who are writing
and receiving love letters. as they do
not want any interruptio of their
tender epistolary effusions.
By all means respect the tender
wishes of those in lovei All the world
loves a lover, the Spostoffice chiefs not
excepted. Give the right of way to
love letters, for the nation that writes
no love letters is indeed an object of
pity. Love letters, in nine cases out or
ten, and among wholesome people, are
the forerunners of marriage, and we
all know that family life and domestic
felicity are the mainstay Of nations.
But just the same it seems too bad
that sweethearts should selfishly de-
sire to add to the work and worry of
the postal employee Washington
Herald.
TO PLEASE THE MEN.
1t is a fact that the impelling mo-
tive of fashions of women's gowns,
hats and other outer appurtenances is
dictated by a purpose to arouse the
admiration of men Such theory has
been promulgated from time beyond
the reckoning of statisticians- But how
does it work when the latest dictum
| of fashion from Paris is announced?
According to that dictum, the FASH
| ionabIe woman of the Immediate fu-
ture will be dressed like Turk, a
| Spaniard, a Japanese, a grand dame
| of the first empire and convict
Here is the combination: Hat, Tur-
kish turbans Jacket, Spanish bolero.
| but with Japanese kimono sleeves
skirt, high wasted emDire with loud,
perpendicular convict stripes. Tt is
| to be taken for granted of course, that
the women will continue their accus-
toned practice of pleasing the mon.
some But, how much will such
a com bination1 aid in producing re-
suits ?-Chicago JOurna,