The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-10

+, Give me the thing to do mats not been
done,
That helps my kind and yields my spirit
The ak upon the beech to mark my way,
| A golden sunset from behind the rugged
hills,
And. then, should the gods allow,
A white arm round my neck entwined
And on my lips, the kiss OF her who I'M
i derstood and shared
l. Richard Wightman, in Success.
/ City of the Future.
! At the international town planning
/ conference in London Eugene Henard,
municipal architect of Paris, gave Il
forecast of what the ideal city of the
future will be like. He said, in sub
stance: Light and energy will be con-
gen will supply heat. Liquid air will
keep up refrigeration in every larder.
In addition to heat radiators, there will
be cold radiators, which will enable
each house to be kept at the required
temperature.
by this power it will be possible to
provide in each house one or more
health chambers closed by close-fitting
double windows and doors, in which
the overworked occupant on his return
from town will find all the hygienic
i conditions which now he can obtain
only by taking an annual holiday.
/ Glass yerandas of various shapes
i Joined together and with covered foot
j will shelter pedestrians against rain,
and the normal height of buildings will
be exactly the width of the street. The
roofs of houses will be platforms upon
| which small flower beds and verdant
strawberries could be laid out, as they
| would be the landing stages for aero
Il planes.
when this progress shall have been
accomplished the physiognomy of
towns will be changed, all terraces will
automobiles Aviators will be able TO
fly from one terrace to another, start
ing and landing as they please. The
natural consequence of this new state
of things will be that each building
will have to be furnished with big ele-
vators capable Of raising machines
when they are ready to start and taxi
, ing them back to the garage on their
return. Houses of this description will
!. also be used to house motor cars.
Finally the town of the future will
be traversed by large radiating thor
oughfares, occupied partly by raised
platforms continually moving, which
will be terminated by large revolving
crossways at the intersection of the
main roads. Large parks and flower
gardens as residence and pleasure re-
sorts will be laid out in various parts
of the town" New York Sun.
Historic London Pit.
:, In the orchestra there are only
eight or ten rows of stalls, and imme-
diate1y behind them is the pit, which
is walled off by a barrier or fence thai
4 stretches clear. across the theater. In
the pit there are no individual seats
merely rows of long benches on which
the people sit rather closely together
!; 1t is, of course, impossible to re-
serve seats in advance, and people who
are going to the pit have to go early
on the evening Of the performance In
- 1,4o 1-+~ ~.
in the case of a popular play a long
queue of people may be seen at I
4 o'clock stretching from the pit door al
along the sidewalk, waiting for the
house to open.
They keep their places in line very
, patiently united by a common mood
of p1easurab1e anticipation. One
: manager while ago made the expert
ment of selling reserved seats in the
pit at the usual price, but to this the
pit people objected strenuously, on the
ground that they could seldom know in
advance just when thye would find
themselves possessed of that happy
combination of money and an evening
off which would permit of theatergo-
ing, and preferred to take their
chances waiting in line when the for
tunate opportunity arrived.
The pit is patronized by people OF
very estimable class, and is often
frequented by we'll educated men and
women who wish to save money and
do not care to dress. Whereas a seat
in the stalls costs half guinea Cor
approximately $2.50), q place in the
: pits costs only rs ed Cor approximately
60 cents), and the play can be seer
nearly as we'll
In the pit the same program that is
sold in the stalls for Sd is sold for I'd
and the pit has a refreshment bar OF
, its own, which is cheaper than the
main bar of the theater. OF course
} the real reason why there is a pit in
, the London theater is that there has
always been pit; that in itself is
, sufficient for the British mind, but Il
{ must be admitted that the system is
on grounds of common sense, an ex-
ceedingly good one.-The Bobkman.
Where Do the Pennies Go?
"Take care of the pennies and the
reads an old saw. 1t is a perfectly
good old saw, but one which the aver
age American appears to take little
) heed to. More than $50. 100000 pen
MES are coined annually in the Phila-
delphia mint. Only a small percentage
of them are ever accounted for aftel
t they leave the coming machines.
Only cent; let 1T go: catch the car
. Only a small percentage of the pen
: MES lost in the thoroughfares are evel
: found They lack luster and fail tt
catch the eye as would a silver coin
{ They are swept up with rubbish in the
streets, carried to sea and dumped
overheard, thousands of them, every
year.
When the new Lincoln cents were
first placed in circulation thousand.
/ were used as souvenirs. never agar
8 to be placed in general circulation
: Hundreds were gold plated and sill
8 vered, to be used as cuff links and
: stickpins.
/ County fairs and expositions of al
: kinds and descriptions mutilate thou.