The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
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AN oLD-FAsH1IofNED MorHFR


an ner heart-throb department in
the Chicago Tribune. Laura lean Lib
Dey occasionally has occasion to an
sW 49,, questions which do not seem ex-
oStiy IN ner line. One of these sprung
.1ceheiy was by a young Italian girl
W ~no con messed that she drank three
sidsses or wine a. day, but that her
steady's mother objected to her cut
Ing IN on the grape in that manner,
as lne poet would say. The girl also
SaIo tnat her doctor and her parents,
Ing also from Sunny Italy, approved
u ene VINE business. the doctor de-
eiaring tnaf the wine was essential
70 9 glfl who worked as hard as this
one "a stenographer), needed a little
stl1nulant to help her on her weary
way that the wine made blood, and
eiae' II she put on the lid, she might
parents always drank wine, and they
were st1li on the job, and highly re-
spected citizens in their community.
rom ali this one might expect the
ssyn1palnetlv Laura Jean to come
through with consolation, and offer a
working method of bringing the old
fashioned mother to time. But she
dld nothing of. the kind. Briefly stat
ed. her advice to the 1ovelorn and
sorely perplexed maiden was to cut it
e and it was almost that blunt.
she told the girl simple fact that
mas been amply demonstrated; that
WINE doesn't make blood, but that, on
the contrary, it has a way of burning
up the best part of the blood.
Had the heart-throb editor had
more space, she might have gone on
to say that no one who is able to
work ever needed a stimulant that
could not be found in air and water
and wholesome food. Sick or we'll,
those are the only stimulants which
nave no singer. They are the only
stimulants, also, which will enable
man to do his best work with the
least wear and tear on the system.
There was whole lot more than pre-
JUDGE to the decision of the old
fashioned mother who didn't want her
son to marry girl who drinks
Atchfson Globe.
TOOK CONSERVATIVE COURSE.
Sergeant Fred Snyder committed
suicide at FIT. Leavenworth a couple of
days ago. His sweetheart had been
visiting the post, and Fred wanted her
to marry him and go to Germany, and
live happily ever after, in a vine COW
cred cottage.
The. young woman declined the
tempting offer, and said she was going
back to her home in Kansas City.
Fred told her firmly but respectfully.
he would kill himself. She assured
him that her mind was made up,
whereupon he stepped outdoors and
SnoI h1nSeIf and slept with his fathers.
Sergeant Snyder deserves much
praise for his conservative course. 1t
is customary, in cases of this kind, for
the disappointed lover to kill the girl
before doing any damage to himself.
Sometimes he is satisfied just to kill
the girl. A case of that sort happen
ed at Leavenworth not long ago, and
the murderer was sentenced to DEATH
but was never hanged.
The fact that Snyder stepped out
doors is another evidence that he was
a considerate and efficient young man.
He appears to have realized that the
young lady might have been embar-
raised had he committed suicide right
before her, so, with rare tact and deli
cacy, he stepped outdoors, and made
Too much can h6f be said in praise
of this admirable young man So long
as discouraged lovers are partial to
suicide as the short way out. no better
plan than that of Sergeant Snyder can
be adopted.-Emporia Gazette.