The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-29
KANSAS COAAENT
FOR HAPPY HOMES.

opponents of the idea of the indis-
cflmlnate divorce have been working on
the wrong end of the job when they
merely attempted to influence legiS-
Idtures 70 make the laws more strin-
gent and increase the travel to Reno.
Remove the cause; there can be no
True OF lasting reform without begin
hIng at the beginning. OF divorce
causes there are many, so it is well to
lake them one at time. Bad cooking
LOT LOT instance, is large cause of I'M
happiness. No man can continue to be
1alry prince after he has acquired d
pun digestion and a disposition as
neavy as his wife's biscuits. Therefore,
a lack OF culinary art does something
10 increase the business of the divorce
attorneys. To each man or woman who
can 90 something to relieve the situa-
tlon, honor is due. Domestic science
heips' out you can't teach a girl do
mest1c science when she insists that all
She wants to learn is piano playing and
purnt wood work. Therefore, he who
slmpnIles the cooking proposition is
possibly a greater benefactor of the
race than the domestic science teacher.
Such a one is Herr Lampert, Of
frankfort, Germany, who comes for
Waro with a new kind of oven, in which
cooking is done without danger of
burning the articles cooked. Not only
IS the situation thus SIM lif1ed, but the
COOKING is done in paper bags, thus
making 1t still easier. Just throw the
packages in, and let them cook. The
oven Is heated Indirectly, which may
not be any more perfectly lucid to you
tnan 1t is to US, but the main point is
clear: that it does the work. as has
peen demonstrated in a cooking con-
test with judges of international re-
pute- OF course, the ovens may sell
at high price, and not be fitted for
cooking everything from soup to cof-
re h1,% to- -, 4 ~,
the contest was sufficient to keep a
man we'll fed and well pleased with
the variety
This oven, if the advance notices are
accurate, is more important inven-
ton than the aeroplane. If a young
mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of matrlmony, he should first secure a
Lampert oven, and then look around
Tor suitable woman to put the pack
ages in.-Atchisen Globe.
THE MAN AND HIS MOTHER.
The man who does not profess to
honor his mother is impossible to find,
but 1t is often the case that the pro-
fession is mere ip-service-goed
enough for public consumption, but
not deep enough to cause him to re-
nounce selfish desires or to shoulder a
little of the burden that mother is
compelled to carry. He pretends that
on earth, and then proceeds to dissi-
pate, carouse and gamble while the
mothers heart is breaking over the
shortcomings of the hypocrite who ig-
nores her prayers. He sees his mother
perform countless tasks which he
could relieve her of, but he is too
selfish to incommode himself. He pro-
fesses fine ideals and contempt for the
man who lets a woman support him,
or for the man who does not cherish
his mother. and yet he fails to discover
that the cap fits himself. There is a
leaven of hypocrisy and of insincerity
running through much of mans pro-
LESSONS. What he is, is so very differ
ent from what he pretends to be that
you have to weigh his sincerity and
discount his protestations. Deeds are
what count and no matter how much
Ia man may pretend to idolize his
mother it is well to learn what sort of
a life he lives and how he treats that
mother amidst the home surroundings
before you accept him at his face val
ue. And when you are summing up
the evidence, do not let the plea in
spired by mothers love influence the
verdict The spirit which prompts
woman to beg for mercy for the brute
who beats her, clouds her judgme nt
and colors her imagination when she
rises to defend some drunken or I'M
grateful hound whose only virtue is
that he is her son.-Marysvi1le Advo-
Icate-Democrat.