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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
SEATS IN THE PARKS.

This is the season of the year when
considerable portion of the necessary
work is done to make the city parks
attractive for the ensuing summer.
Shrubs are being planted, trees
pruned, flower beds laid out, paths
graveled and everything like that. so
that the parks will blossom out in due
course of time in all of their delight
full beauty.
But more than flower beds. hand
somely shaped trees, and glorious
shrubbery is needed to make public
parks the breathing spots, and resting
places that they should be; to make
them of the greatest possible service
and enjoyment to the people. And
prominent among these other needs is
their equipment with seats.
This is one of the appurtenances of
public parks in which Topeka is de-
plorably lacking. There is not single
park in the city in which there is any
where near a sufficient number of
seats. This is one IF the reasons too,
why more Topekans do not go to the
parks more frequently. When they
get to them on a late afternoon or
evening, after a walk from their
homes, the all too few seats are pre-
empted by the early arrivals and there
is no place for them to rest unless they
squat on the ground. And frequently
they are unable to do this because of
Keep Off the Grass signs. So visit
to the parks for most folks means an
endless walking around in them,
which is firing at best and does not
permit of their beauties being thor
oughly enjoyed.
Park seats cost money to be sure.
And the laws are such that it is we'll
nigh impossible for Topekans to spend
as much money as they would like on
their parks. The amount now allowed
is barely sufficient to maintain the
parks on their present basis. So it
is pretty hard to figure out where
the money is coming from to buy
seats for the parks. Perhaps the only
way is through economies in other d.
rections in park maintenance. There
might we'll lie let MP for a while in
the planting of new shrubs and the
laying ont of new flower beds. 1t is
likely that all the original plans for
the development of the parks in these
particulars have not been worked out
as yet. But some of them could well
be left undone for little longer and
the money that is devoted to them
could be expended in no better way
than in the purchase of park seats.
That is about the first equipment that
is put in the parks in other cities. And
it seems to be the last one that the
Topeka park management has thought
about,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
.LAXHAWKER JOTS

AS the Lawrence Gazette puts it:
This is the time of year for interurban
railroads to begin to blossom
An amplified version by the Ottawa
Herald: Cleanliness is next to godli-
ness and next to cleanliness comes the
dragged road.
The Emporia Gazette thinks that
Jim Jeffries probably found some COM
fort in the story of the defeat of
Booker Washington by white man.
1t is the opinion of the Emporia Ga
zette that the pure food laws will not
be complete success until the lunch
counter mince pie has label on it.
Relates the Beloit Gazette: The
editor who gave up his seat to a lady
on the train said he was crowded out
to make room for more interesting
matter"
Americas Greeting, that people who
are trying to protect people from
CRAFTS are only working a little graft
of their own.
Farm wages are higher than for As
years, says the Atchison Champion.
but the farmers sons will stick to the
ribbon counter days for the sake of
being a gallery god at night.
Ralph Faxon's serial editorial on
1.-THE Concrete Bridge in a recent is
sue of his Garden City Telegram was
numbered as chapter CCCCLXXXIX.
But nobody except Brother Faxon
knows how many that is.
The Abilene Reflector may well be
pardoned for tossing this bouquet at
itself: The Reflector does not often
boast but it takes considerable pride
in having printed 25 " columns about
the Methodist conference and never
mentioned yellow legged chickens.
A farmer was telling about money
being made out of cattle. "a man in
an automobile killed calf in front of
my gate. He got out of the machine
and handed me So" The town man
said he couldn't see the point, and that
he didn't think $40 was much for a
calf. "Well, you see,'' said the farmer,
'the calf didn't belong to me. -
Brown County World.
Three cheers for Editor James of the
independence Reporter. He is one
man, at least, who knows his 1imita-
lions and is not ashamed to admit
them. I'VE want it understood, he
said recently, that the editor of this
newspaper is not going to be forced
into the ministry by lemon juice
campaign on the part of esteemed
contemporaries We have no desire
to reduce the standard of the minis
try
A few modest words from the
Hutchinson News: 'Leavenworth's
court house, which burned the other
day, was built when the founder of
Hutchinson was setting stakes for a
city that was to be better city than
Leavenworth ever hoped to be. The
city referred to is Hutchinson. This
was back in 1871" There can be no
denying it. Hutchinson is the great
est city in the world-for its size but
its size is small.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Shina are getting ready for set-to.
The revolution in Mexico may entangIe
the United States. The prophets of a
war in the immediate future between
the United States and Japan are mary.
Revolutions in and wars between the
states in Central and South America
are imminent at any time. Indeed,
there could not be more opportune
moment for pressing the universal
peace propaganda with great vigor.
But about all it has been met with so
far by the large powers of the world is
many additional orders for newer and
mightier battieships. In fact, the OUT
look for perpetual reign of the dove
of peace is not encouraging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
Source of the Amazon

AT this late day the ultimate source
of the Amazon is revealed to u.s. 1t
! is strange that the solution has been
so long delayed. The facts about the
heads of nearly all the great rivers are
well known. We know the glaciers
that give birth to the Rhine, and the
literature on the sources of the Nile
and the Congo is very large. Perhaps
the greatest of all rivers was neglected
In this respect because South American
exploration was rather out of fashion
while explorers were gridironing Africa
with 1,400 pioneer routes.
But DR.. Wilhelm Sievers has solved
the problem, and we Lave the story of
his search and a, map of his discoveries.
He is one of the authorities on South
American geography, and his latest ex-
plorations were among the Peruvian
Andees in the neighborhood of the
headwaters OF the Maranon, as the up
per Amazon is called. SieveFs has dis
covered the facts about the water part
ing between the streams that break
through the western mountains to the
Pacific, and those that swell the floods
of the three upper sources of the
Maranon. He found that the great
Italian explorer Raimondi was mis-
taken when he declared that the Nupe
was the most important of these
sources, for the Lauricccha carries
WdlcI, SAtSN0S 1eA tilCi
south, and is the greatest of all the
Amazon sources.
DIR. SEWERS traced this river to its
head in snow mountain called San
Lorenzo in the Cordillera de Huayhu-
ash. Here the waters from some gla-
cier fronts are gathered into a stream
that forms the little Lake Caballo
Coca, 1850 feet above the sea. Out
of this lake flows the pure blue water
that forms the most important source
of the Maranon. 1t is farther from the
sea than any other water that joins the
Amazon, and according to common
usage among geographers the little
stream among the SHOWS of San Lo-
renzo is entitled to the distinction of
being the ultimate source of the Anna
zon.
The Peruvian maps are wrong in
calling Lake Lauricocha the head
source of the mighty river. 1t is about
100 miles to the northeast Of the real
source. 1t Is not probable that ever
again will there be any controversy
as to the fountainhead of the greatest
river in the world, a river that has
nearly $4,000 miles of navigable high
ways and a development of deep chan
nels at least twice as extensive as that
of the Mississippi basin.-New YORK
Snn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
HUlNOR or THE Day

Were you ever held up by stage
robber?" ''Once 1 took a chorus girl
out to supper."-Puck.
did they call on the author Of that
new play for a speech?' mo; an
apology."-Detroit Free Pdess.
She-Are you against long hatpins
for women? Howell, I have been
several times.-Yonkers Statesman.
Him-Are you fond of la Boheme?"
HerII don't know. 1t depends Alto
gether on what kind of dressing you
put on it.-Toledo Blade.
''You know old Joilaby? Well, he has
Iocomotor ataxia." He has? thought
all the time 1t was a limousine
timore American.
Mrs. Smart can't make up my
mind what to wear to the opera to-
night. Mr.. Smart-Well. for goodness
sake wear somethingLTown Topics.
$50 she refused you" Eyes. 1t GER
tainly puzzles me-" "Oh, well, if she
had accepted you, the whole world
would would have been puzzled
Houston Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
laps ARE NEF7FTCTENr.

In writing of Japanese competition
with American industry in the April
Worlds Work, Mr.. Clarence Poe says
that 'in the race that it has to run,
the Mikado's land has no such ad-
vantages as many of our people have
been led to believe. In America it has
long been my conviction that cheap
labor is never cheap; that socalled
cheap labor is curse to any COM
munity-not because 1t is cheap, but
because it is inefficient. Here in jap
an, however, I was quite prepared to
find that this theory would not hold
good. By reason of conditions in a
primitive stage of Industrial organiza-
ton, thought that might find cheap
labor with all the advantages, in so
far as there are any, and few of the
disadvantages encountered elsewhere.
But it is not So"
mot only in the mills, but in nu-
merous other lines of work, have !
seen illustrations of the primitive
stage of Japan's industrial efficiency.
AS a concrete illustration 1 wish I
might pass to each reader the box of
Kobe-made matches on the table be-
fore me (for matchmaking is an inn
portant industry here.) I have never
in my life seen such a box of matches
in America. Not in a hundred boxes
at home would you find so many
splinters without heads, so many de-
fective matches. And in turning out
the boxes themselves, I am told that
it takes five or six hands to equal the
product of one skilled foreign
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
QUAKER MEDTrATToNs.
-. pbiIsdclnhia. Record ]

From the Philadelphia Record.]
A leader of men is very often woman.
Every girl isn't belle just because she
has been told so.
wisdom often consists of keeping our
thoughts to ourselves
The man who keeps his troubles 70 him.
self may avoid a lot more.
Would you say that SVEN society was
the kind that is pulled up?
OccasionaIlyyou meet a woman who Is
almost as much afraid of her husband as
she is of her cook
The one time when a man is obliged to
acknowledge the corn is when he goes TO
a chiropodist-
some people would be dazzied IL they
should ever permit themselves to look on
the bright side of life
MANY a thing is too good to De true,
quoted the Wise Guy. fnats TOO pao'
said the Simple Mug
Hoax-.sIf you couldn't get any tobacco
would you take SNUFF" Joax-l supposs
would, In pinch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
"a

Topeka mat fans" says the morn,
ing paper, "can see Zybszko." Perhaps,
out they can't pronounce him.
moved out, the insurrectos are not sat
lsned- They want all the other furni-
ture removed. They hold, as we take
IL that the entire furnishing is COM
posed Of ''oid sticks
Some men have such poor business
Judgment. says Hondo Murphy, thar
they would try to sell Ben Buffers
biography in New Orleans
All is not gold that giitters, but lots
OF people don't care so long as 1t gilt
tiers.
A rich crank Is eccentric" A poor
one is - fool
"Fergive yer enemies. but not ontil
after yuh git square with EN-
Deacon Squash.
Most any man can get along with
his wife If he will let her select his
necktie and female acquaintances.
Ballinger was ''visibly affected" by
his warm welcome back to the tall
timber; at least the A. P. correspond
ent figured it out that way. He might,
however, have been affected by the
fact that he had to go back there.
LATEST STYLE.
Look at that "near-Eas+er' hat;
Isn't it the limit?
II / had a chance at that
Cheerfully I'd trim it
With an axe or pruning shears
Just above the lady's ears;
ISN'T it the LIMIT?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

at his very hearty supper.
harrington brought up the SUBJ
yect OF the tray somewhat tiniidly. ssyVe
heard mat You had one, and we are
very anxious to see it,
II is an old family piece the vounr
man said. "rd never sell it, but nv
WIFE thinks it is best
me little rosy-cheeked woman came
10 her own defense.
we need the money! she said, "be-
t % we are buying house, and it is
10 be our home, and I'd rather have
that than all the trays in the worId."
der husband brought his fist down
nedVlly on the table That's right"
ne said heartily. the girl and I need
d rome and we are going to have it."
1ou see," the little wifs explained
easerly, we found a little white house
IN the suburbs. and had some money
saved up, and he had some money
saved up, and we made a payment,
ana IN the spring We ars going to
move into it, and we're going to have
roses on the porch and a garden with
our own vegetables, and maybe some
day Wen keep cow
you nave never seen such girl for
movers, the young husband told them,
peHeve she could make them grow
IN the DESERT
~. The supper was almost forgotten as
the homely little couple told of their
plans and aspirations Then. a little
later, transfer was made, a check
went into the young husbands pocket,
ana Patterson went away with the
tray under his arm
AS they walked through the dark
streets, Rita said softly, Think what
life means to them
Think what it might mean to u.s."
her.
Did you notice the way they spoke
OF homer" Rita asked.
Yes, it means something to them
besides mahogany and old brasses
Oh, Rita, Rita, aren't we wasting our
lives over things that don't count? %
For the first time she admitted,
Perhaps"
Patterson had a sudden inspiration.
Let US send that young couple your
tray for house-warming present.
Then you can put aside old memories
and we will begin over again. We
will find house in the suburbs, Rita,
and put our mahogany and rugs and
brasses in 1T, and my Sheffield tray
shall have its place on your sideboard.
not on mine. and you shall serve tea
to me every afternoon from it-and it
will be home"
And Rita. enraptured by the pic
ture he had painted of domestic joys,
| breathed little sigh and whispered
Yes, it will be home. "-(Copyright
| 1911, by Associated Literary Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
RETURN.

RETURN.
1t seemed to me that life was far away
hills;
I longed to walk along the trodden way
And know my human lot of joys or ills,
Leaving more dreams behind
Vague rainbows of the mindi
I turned from gracious fields and quiet
skies,
Running with eager feet down the stern
slope
OF the aleof and silent hills, too wise,
hope,
To meet my mortal need,
To understand or heed.
I trod the road and am come back again,
Oh. lonely hills, to you! I want no
Than silence; ask for neither joy nor
pain
But just to feel about me, as of yore,
Dream-haunted space-and be
flushed in immensely.
-Hildegarde Hawthorne, in Harper
Magazine.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l


And pride goeth before US all.
When a golf club gives dance, is it
golf ball?
Money talks. but it never really ought
to use a megaphone.
It is a sin to play poker-the way some
people play 1t.
Many a man shortens his days by
lengthening his nights.
As soon as a baby is able to walk it goes
after the bric-a-brac.
It takes a woman to manage a man
without being able to understand him.
If a man fears death 1t Is almost a con-
fession that he isn't living right.
One way to lose a friend is to have him
get rich while you remain poor.
When 1t comes to saving wood a min
utes work goes farther than an hours
talk.
It's easier for a man to pocket his pride
than It is for woman-because he has
more pockets.
We are frequently admonished to come
early and avoid the rush." but suppose
everybody were to do so?
Women make so much fuss about head
gear that a man wonders how they will
take to the unbecoming plain halos when
they get to heaven.
When an old bachelor meets a good
natured married woman he is apt to SIGH
and think how different 1t might have
been had they met before It was too late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
And row como q wise man in the

And row comes a wise man in the
Wisconsin legislature with bill to
make every unmarried woman over
twenty-five years of age pay an annual
tax of SIS. More than that, this genius
would create a state matrimonial COM
mission to be charged with the duty of
bringing together kindred souls. II
all the legislation that is proposed in
the several states were enacted into
law, it would soon be impossible for
humans to do anything they might de-
sire in accordance with their own
Wishes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

New Hampshire seems to have a
senate of the proverbial kind. It re-
fused to ratify the proposed income tax
amendment to the federal constitution.
The resolution on this subject had al
ready passed the New Hampshire
house OF representatives, which is nu-
merically the largest representative
body of its kind in this country. having
a membership approximating 400. 1t
IS to be presumed, therefore, that the
vote in the New Hampshire house on
this resolution fairly represented the
sentiments of the people of the state.
But the senate, a body of less than
forty members, said otherwise. And
SO it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many folk try to excel without
having the ability.
Among the professed lovers of
classical music are many who merely
make believe.
x y y
People who are dull at seeing the
point of jokes often don't miss much.
4
If most people knew as much as
they think they know there wouldn't
be any need for encyclopedias.
y = y
This is also the season of the year
when many summer vacation trips
are planned that will never material
lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Here's a most unusual condition of
affairs. The state chronological COM
mission is of the opinion that the ap-
preparation made by the last Iegisla-
ture for the purposes is sufficient to
eradicate the San Jose scale from
Kansas. This is probably the first in
stance in any state in the Union where
the interested parties have admitted
that any legislative appropriation was
LARGE enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Even with the looping off of one
thousand of the names on the regis
tration books, because of Implications,
removal from the city, ETC., the reg
istration figures for the city are
1926. Computing on the accepted
basis, this gives Topeka a population
considerably more than $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Where Kansas leads the other wise
ones follow. Common drinking cups
have been barred at the public foun-
tains which are scattered all over New
York Citv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Bank Commissioner DolIey has Of
fered a reward of $500 for the appre-
hension of the robbers who frisked the
state bank at Hudson. The law pro-
hibits the governor from offering more
than 5000 for the apprehension of a
murderer. More evidence, if any were
needed, that money is placed above
life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

The expected happens once in a
while. The National Wool Growers
association has passed resolutions in
opposition to a revision of the wooden
schedules in the tariff law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.l

Youth seeks pleasure; age happiness.
Self-control is easy till it comes time to
exercise it.
A mans morality is governed by the
law; a womans by her conscience
II you have lots of friends, it takes a
good deal of money to supply what they
have to borrow.
Comfort is what man thinks he's go
ing to have at home in the evening till the
telephone begins to ring, callers come, the
the collie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

A heavy frost must have visited
Portugal recently. The press dis
patches of the other day from there
stated that a monarchiaI conspiracy to
restore Manuel to his erstwhfle throne
had been "nipped in the bud"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Let there be no more criticism
poked at the fashions women assume.
The latest edict from those who shape
the fashions for males is that the 'Rah-
rah boys shall have velvet bands on
the hem of their turned-up trousers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Congressman Madison is of the opin-
ion that the special session of congress
will run on into August. Things have
come to that pass where the members
of congress have to sweat to earn their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

A sign of the times: Horse-racing
having been put out of business in New
York state, plans are under way to
utilize the large racing courses for a
series of aviation meets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Announcement comes from the Uni
versity of Kansas that Dean Temp1in' S
statement was not official. Neither did
It have any earmarks of being sensible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

Surely the business prospects of the
country must be mighty good. "Uncle
YIN" Hill is in an optimistic frame of
mind about them.
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KANSAS COMMENT
WHERE WOMAN ARE EQUAL.

0AErbE WOMANr AXE Equal.
When Australia welded her six
states into federal union, in 1902, she
gave equal political rights to men and
women. Now, after an experience of
more than eight years her parliament,
oy unanimous vote, cables message
70 Prime Minister Asquith, urging that
Great Britain shall enfranchise her wO-
men, and speaking as follows of Aus
traiia,s experience with woman suf-
rage:
1t has led to the more orderly con-
duct OF elections, and, at the last fed
eral elections, the women's vote in a
majority of the states showed a larger
proportionate increase than that cast
by the men.
1T has given a greater prominence
TO legislation particularly affecting
women and children, although the wo-
men nave not taken up those questions
TO the exclusion of others of wider sig
nificance.
in matters of defense and impe-
rial concern, they have proved them
serves as far-seeing and discriminate
ing as men.
1--WE respectfully urge that all ma
lions enjoying representative govern
ment would be we'll advised in grant
ing votes to women"
1t begins to look as though the next
world triumph for democracy would
come in the form of woman suffrage,
granted by several leading nations at
about the same time.-Kansas City,
Kan, Gazette-Gl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

That big mass meeting which is go
ing to be held in New York City to
support the general peace movement
should be followed by similar ones all
over the world. They seem to be
Rorsly needed Just now. Russia and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

An alarming view is taken by the
New York Telegram. Only a matter
of time, it says. when they have pistol
pockets in those harem skirts