The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-22
XMAS cOAAENT
AMERICAN HUSBANDS.


From the products of the para
graphers we CLEAN the fact that an
aggressive husband was Iecently fined
IN RushVllle, Ind, for being impolite
70 MS Wlfe. In the paragraph mem
toned, it isn't stated whether the hus-
band in question caressed his wife with
a club, or read the riot act concerning
dresses that button in the back, but
the inference is plain that the husband
was rude toward the WIFI of his BOSOM
and got his, as husbands are apt to.
Which reminds US that good deal
OF fault is found with American nus
bands generally and they are accused
of everything from lack of gallantry
TO assault and battery: also, sometimes
they are guilty as charged, and deserve
the both barrels they get and more.
But husbands generally should find
lot of consolation in the fundamen-
tai rule of Journalism that it is the
unusual which makes news. If the
story that a man was kind to his fam
ily worked hard for them and paid
their bills with reasonable regularity
and without open rebellion; if such
story should be entitled to first page
position and scareheads then it would
be time for American husbands to hide
their heads in shame. for it would sig
Nifty they were a bad lot generally
Until such is the case, however, one
can bet something that the average is
good, and that there is no prospect Of
wife beating becoming the national
game. They needn't worry about COM
plants that they are less gallant than
the husbands of Europe; American
women might well remember that
much of the gallantry OF the European
husband is lavished on another man s
wife, and that the per cent of wage
earning married women is much
smaller in this country than in the
best nations of Europe. With the pos
n
ada, no other land has husbands who
save their wives so much of drudgery;
no other land gives the wife more
rights, although women are negll-
gible quantity in law making here.
/ Possibly it is true that American
husbands are less attractive socially
| than some of those of other lands who
devote most of their tine II cultivat-
ing conversation insteai of corn, but
the American variety, taken as a ma
tional class, needn't fear much by
comparison with those Of older lands
where women are bowed to a good
DEAL and permitted to coal the ships
and pitch hay. American husbands
not only deliver the goods, but they
have provided the most liberal divorce
courts on earth for those who don't
feel that they can stand the American
Ibrand.-Atchison Globe.
1
The newspaper reports of the raw
ages of grasshoppers in the western
counties of the state are probably
greatly exaggerated. but if the hop
pers get too gay an old law, passed
in 1877. may be revived. The law
provides that when any township
trustee or the commissioners of any
county believe that the insects are
destructive in their district they may
warn out" all the residents of the
township or county to meet on q GER
tain day to fight the pests. The Off
GERS are to select the day. the place
| OF meeting and the weapons to be
used in the fight, and every person
between Il and so years of age must
appear under penalty of fine. The
law has been q dead letter for years
but like hundreds of other of other
back numbers it would be possible tc
revive it.-Alma Signal.
PROHIBITION HERE TO STAY.
If any secretaries of brewers asscci
ations can get comfort out of declaring
that Kansas will go wet in 1912 or 1915
| or at a0V future tina thew are vel