The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
JUST | DAY MORE. PAJAMA DISPLAY
Essay Contest for Grand Boxes
Closes Monday Noon.
Still a Chance to Win IL Seats
to Fitch's "'The City,"

The weather man says tomorrow
will be cold day in Topeka. In other
! words tomorrow will be good day to
stay at home. Also tomorrow is Sun
day. Pardon a suggestion for the
afternoon-sit down and write an es-
say on the City and the Country
If this essay is a winner it will be
worth a box with six chairs at the
Grand opera house Wednesday even
ing when Clyde F'itch's great play,
The City, will be presented in To-
peka- The State Journal is awarding
the winners of the writing contest
Send your essays that they will reach
this office before Monday noon.
Since the first announcement of this
essay contest a week ago scores Of
papers have been sent to the essay
editor of the State Journal. The
themes have been coming from ali
parts of the city. Many of them are
clever treaties on the relative advan-
tages to be found in the country and
in the city.
The first prize for the essay will be
a box at the Grand. The second prize
will be another box. The themes are
to be written on the two subjects, the
CITY" and the Country" Do not
write more than 200 words on the
subjects combined. The contest is
open TO everyone. They may dispose
of their boxes by seating their friends.
relatives or giving them to others.
Sample essays are submitted:
The Countrywide place where
the real. big. b1issful moments of
freedom are drunk into the very soul
where they live-really live, in the
clean, wide, free sweep of an unbound
ed horizon. and breathe untainted air,
limitless as as the sky itself. 1t slim
ulates builds bone, sinew and muscle.
Nature put this tonic in the country
for you - sunshine" = rain" = the
smell of the earth''-''the spices of
the pine''-''the odors of the hemloek.
Take it, it's yours.
THE City''-Self1shnes itself-every-
one for himself and the devil for us all
"a few miles from the country-a
cramped, little spot, where you breathe
tainted air, burdened with fears, bit
terness trials, sorrows and disappoint-
ments, all ground into the walls around
you, stamped into the floor you walk
on. The city turns ambition into sell
fish greed. No matter what you get,
you want more. And when you've got
mor-and God knows at what price,
tits not enough You still want more.
The fastness of life makes temptation
sought after You lie to yourself, even
to God, to gain that which is required
to keep Up with your neighbors- Cheat
ing, lying, stealing almost becomes a
pleasure. -ecause all you want of the
city is what you can get out of it.
Livery Walk Oh HE III the CITY a
Marathon, but the goal is not station
airy. It's like the horizon, mo man
can reach il
The contestants may favor the city
and knock" the country in contrast
or vice versa If they are versatile
they may favor both and win the
prizes. The contest is open to all
long, short. lean, fat. old, young, male !
or female.
But remember these simple rules:
% Not more than 200 words.
90 Send address with themes.
90 Write a double essay. one on
city and one on Country"
90 Have them in State Journal office |
before Monday morning at 10 o'clock,
December 9.
(5) Write plainly. typewriter if posi-
BILE.
90 Favor. city. country or both