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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

A little group of women were dis
cussing the subject of race suicide the
| other day.
One woman, who has been married
tour years and has family to match,
said with a good deal of vigor that she
thought that these women who were
married three or four years before
they had any children at ali were
absolutely wicked.
And then, of course, someone spoke
up with that familiar argument be-
hind which so many young married
women who avoid motherhood try to
shelter themselves: II think it's a
good deal worse to have children when
you can't afford to bring them up
decentIy.'' IA
Now to my mind there's a good deal
! to that argument.
And yet don't think it's any excuse
at al for many OF the women who
Justify themselves by it.
You think those two statements are
inconsistent? Not a bit. It certainly
isn't kind to bring children into the
them up decently. But it is these
women's idea of "decently" with
which 1 quarrel.
BY decent bringing up they do
not simply mean enough good food to
build healthy body, enough educa-
ton to develop an intelligent mind
and enough care and training to help
form the kind of character a good
citizen ought to have.
Indeed no.
When they say they can't afford to
have children because they can't bring
them up decently, they mean thew
can't afford to usher them into 'i tbs
worl1 with all the fuss and fandango
with which the modern baby often
makes his advent even into the most
modest home; that they cannot afford
TO surround their children's babyhood
with all the paraphernalia with which
their Weather friends make baby
hood complex and unnatural: that
they cannot afford to give them as
children all the expensive playthings
the fancy frills of education. the fine
gowns in which to pc their elders
and the lavish supply of spending
money which the modern child 11111st
nave because all the other children
do"
The proprietress of one of those lit
tie shops at which the school children
OF the town do most of their trading
much money the children even OF
modest homes had to spend.
There are dozens of children that
nave a penny or two every day." said
she, and some have dime a day and
there's one boy from up your way that
comes in with quarter almost every
morning"
I remember when was a little girl
announcer girl told me that she and her
cousin, who was visiting her, we're
each to have a penny a day for a
week Ever after. that girl was a
marked person to me-my youthful
idea of a plutocrat
And yet I had a very happy child
hood.
I wonder if children NOWADAYS
Couldn't manage to have a happy and
profitable childhood without ali these
luxu1fes and frills which We have
come to consider part of "a decent
bringing up
Yes, my friends, it may be some ex-
aVniGinc
really cant afford to bring up a child
decently, but is it any excuse that YOU
don't want to undergo the least self
denlaI or loss of freedom yourself. or
that you can't give child every lux
ury and pleasure and frill you might
enjoy giving?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
The punt of the pigskin resounds
through the land.
Every cloud may have a silver lining,
but it takes an aviator to prove it.
The only way to have peace is to wait
for the other fellow to begin the trouble
Crumbs of comfort don't always ma
terialize from casting our bread upon the
waters.
When you feel that you have the world
at your feet be careful that your foot
doesn't slip.
No, Maude, dear; the floating popula-
ton of city isn't composed of those
who are in the swim.
Hardruppe-"That fellow Bjones must
have money" Borrowell-"So must 1. In
troduce me to him.
Don't brag about what you are going
to do tomorrow. Somebody might ask
you what you did yesterday.
There's no use in crying over spilled
milk" quoted the Wise Guy mo, beer
is still cents a glass" agreed the Simple
Mug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
HUMOR OF THE Day

Crawford hear he was operated on.
What did he have? Crabshaw-Mo
New York Times.
Hell must apologize for not turning up
at your party last night. She-Oh weren't
you there?-London Opinion.
Caller-Is your husband in. Mrs Ma
guire? Mrs. Maguire-Yis sor. Caller
I'd like to see him. Mrs. Maguire-Ye
can't scr. He's in for tree months
Buffalo Enquirer.
1.-The Coliseum at Rome is magnificent
ruin" said the traveller. Yes" replied
the tirnorous citizen; land I thought for
ing to be In the same nx."-Washington
Star.
Sometimes 1 feel sure" said BiIkins.
that I once sat on throne and waved
a scepter." ''And now" remarked his
CHEEKY wife, you are going TO stand on
the back porch and wave rug beater: =
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Winifred-But I think I ought to tell
you that my eldest brother is an ex-presi-
that shall not separate us,-Satire.
Geraldine-what did pa say when you
asked him for my hand? Gerald-He gave
me delightful travel taik.-Judge.
Sunday School Tescher-Yes. Job was
warded. In what condition do we find
him at the end Of his life? Bright
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Republican
Chauffeur-Didn't YOU hear me blowing
my horn? Victim-Yes; but I thought
perhaps you were a candidate for the
presidency--Johnson News
Neighbor-My. what a big muzzle. Does
from gettin' bit.-JudEe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
THE PMDIER.

l am merchant OF strange wares;
The market-places know me not;
Yet with all laughing wayfarerS,
High and low cast my lot
The last street that ever 1 trod
Made my feet ache-I Swore
BY Hermes, the wanderers god,
No town should ever see me more!
The wind rose, the rain came down,
Little cared I for wind or rain
There's not a door in any town
Shall open to let me through again!
A fine way of life is mine!
Golden fruits 1 have to eat,
And if for hunger L repine
My dreams fly forth ard bring me meat
I nothing lack for comradeship,
Each mans dwelling is my home;
And free birth on every ship
That sails the seas of Christendom-
/ have such treasures in my pack.
Yet I'll be poor when l am old
For I'd sell the lot for cup or sack
Warm and red when the wind blows
cold.
I was born in a green vale,
In the far land of Already
MY mother carried the naiikinS-pall,
MY father was never known 10 me.
Light-footed as a goat was L,
Music pricked me like a goad'
1 danced low and 1 danced high
And out at last on the high road
Come We muses., bring me aid,
Teach me to sing as is most lit
How merrily 1 ply my trade,
And how all men should envy 1t!
Lady Margaret Sackville, in the English
Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Almost every man seems to be look
ing for a chance to make a fool OF
himself.
X X
Why attempt the impossible when
there are so many sure jobs to be done
that are worth while?
There is not much of a future in the
political arena nowadays for the boy
who cannot tell a lie.
Those who refuse to work seem tC
be the keenest in their demands for
something to eat.
Before you criticize, remember how
much easier it is to see the faults and
mistakes of others than it is to realize
your own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NoALL.

If man went in the stable to bring
out his horse to work would the horse
staIl2
(ssSix months" yelled the judge. IF
he doesn't serve it hang the OLD man. }
If in the courseS.of a cross country
race the athletes wore running suits
and were nearing the finish would you
saw their breath was coming in short
pants2
COh1cerl Call cop.)
Is there always plenty of atmosphere
in the home of a millionaire?
Everybody look at him. He's the
boob that put the pump in pumpkin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
FROM OTHER PENS

FOUNDER OF THE OPEN SUNDAY.
There died in England the other day tho
man who, more than anyone else, is cred
tied with having destroyed the joyless
British Sabbath. His name is r. NJ. Nor
rell and he was the founder of the Ma
tional Sunday League He was a young
jewelers. clerk when, in 1850, with a dozen
companions, he decided to make q fight
for better recreational opportunities on
Sunday for the masses of people. The
leagues first proposal was that museums
and art galleries should be open to tire
public on Sunday. A motion to that eff
feet was made in the house OF commons
that year and overwhelmingly defeated.
Official opposition was intense. Many OF
Morrell's meetings were broken up by
mobs and he was the object of constant
suspicion by the authorities. But his
ideas made Roadway. Charles Dickens
was very early won over to his idea, and
when Morrell undertook to raise a fund
by private subscription for band concerts
in the park, Dickens was among the first
to send him contribution. Huxley.
Owen, Carpenter and other professional
men also helped him out when he undeJ-
took to establish Sunday evening enter
tainments in London. The record of Nor
relfs fight for more liberal Sunday has,
to this generation, it's amusing side, but
for MorrelFs generation it was a problem
so tangled up with religious issues and 81
cial habits as to be fairly painful in its
solution.-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Governor Stubs has issued a pro-
clamation setting aside October IS
cleanup day for Kansas. The gov
ernor will also have to issue procla-
nation setting aside the last Thursday
in November as Thanksgiving Day
whether he and his friends are success
full at the polls or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
THE CALLoUs "GREAT POWERS,


Every stirring of patriotic ambition
in the small states of the Balkan
peninsula is frowned down by the
great powers if it takes the form
of a movement or hint of movement
to free from Ottoman misrule the part
of Europe still under the Turkish gov
eminent. Macedonia has suffered ter
ribly for many years but the foremost
nations of Europe do not care-at
least their rulers do not Bulgaria and
Greece ardently desire to gather into
their territory districts which are
mainly Bulgarian or Greek in popula-
ton and feeling and are wretched I'M
der Turkish misgovernment, but the
great powers hold both Bulgaria and
Greece in check.
The plain truth is that when Russia
aided more or less by Austria Hungary.
Great Britain, Germany and france
gave Roumania, Bulgaria and SerVla
the measure of freedom and propsper-
itv they now enjoy, the powers when
take to themselves the privilege OF
shaning the destinies of all lesser coun-
tries in Europe did not want or count
,,ro- as large A degree of success Iof
these small states as they have man.
aged to attain Now the great mill
tarv nations fear that the growth OF
national spirit and national resources
in the Balkan countries will make them
increasingly difficult to control and foi
that reason their hopes get small con-
sideration in the councils of the states
men who keep watch over the map OF
Europe.
1t is not an inspiring spectacle IL
is neither admirable nor impressive
but It exhibits clearly the spirit ana
tendencies of statecraft in pracu-
cal and materialstic age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

illegal thing, when. as president, he
permitted the purchase of the Tennes-
see Coal & Iron company by the Unit
ed States Steel corporation. This might
make honors even were it not for the
fact that most sensible people are of /;
mind to agree with Governor Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

If it is all the same to them, the
members of the estranged family Of
Gen. Dan E. Sickles can keep their dis
gushing mush to themselves. The pub
lie is not interested in it except to the
extent that it has shattered another
idol of the Civil War.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR.
[From the New York Pre-

[From the New York Press.l
1t takes a mother to fool herself that
her daughter isn't fooling her.
Don't put off having your good time too
long or somebody else will get it.
1t might pay a man to give his wife a
money.
A man can be proud of how much more
nationally he grows bald than other men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

No wonder that review of an aero
plane armada by the French minister
for war was so successful and did not
result in anything that savored of an
accident. The aviators dragged their
machines along the ground, instead if
attempting to fly them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Another strTKe on the part of the
wooden mills operatives is on at Law
renee. Mass. But any disturbance that
may ensue can scarcely be any worse
than have been the recent. labor riots
in Wisconsin, where progressive politi-
cal measures to bring about the mil
lennium have been in force for a dec
AIDE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
KANSAS COrAEN7

YOU RE NOT so IMPORTANT.
Life is altogether too short and time
fleeting for any man to appoint him
self a committee of one to try and
save the country. 1t has taken me
some time to find out this simple
truth, but it has finally soaked in
Hereafter I shall leave the saving of
the country to those who had the
most to do with the losing of it.
From what little history l have read
learn that the country got along
pretty well before 1 hove into port
In TACT, it managed to wiggle along all
right before any of ahe people who
are DOING business now got into the
game. The older / get and the more
travel around, the more I notice
the shriveling process at work on my
own importance. Occasionally some
good wife will imagine that the CD
posite side Of the street tips up little
when her husband walks along the
other side, but the rest IF the world
fails to view it in that light. There
fore there is very little money in the
game. All of US at best are very
small potatoes and few in a hill. So.
my friend, don't get puffed UP and
imagine you have been called to take
the place of old Atlas. Just look
about you any bright day when some
big gun has been called away for
good. You will notice that things
are running along about as smoothly
as usual. The country will be saved
after you and I are out of the run
ning.-Deacon Walker IN the Osborne
Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

A New York man, while asleep, was
robbed of Il pearl necklace worth
$4,000. He should consider himself
lucky that the thief didn't take his
powder-puff also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Baltimore policemen have been for
hidden to play dominoes on Sunday.
But what are the poor fellows to do?
Dominoes are probably their limit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Some cheer for the old fashioned
folk. John Arbuckle, who is described
as having been an oId-fashioned mer-
chant, left an estate valued at $S0.0OO,-
nnn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

A Cincinnati woman declares that
she married a man without a fault.
Just think of the trouble there is IN
store for that man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

It is predicted that beef will cost s15
per hundred weight by Christmas. And
this is only one more reason why you
should co your shopping early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Surely. President Taft will not be
given an honorary degree in the Ana
MAS club for the glowing pictures of
prosperity in the immediate future
that he has painted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Hoboes are sure to watch with much
interest the determination of the suit
that has been brought against the
Rock Island Railroad company by par
ents who want damages for the death
of a son who was beating his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
A TIMELY INVENTION.

a German physician describes in a
Berlin medical magazine an invention
which he claims will produce electric
Sleep" that may be turned on or
turned off by the pressure of a but
ton. By applying his new form Of
electric current to the base of the
brain a narcotic effect is produced
which may be prolonged as desired
without injurious result. 1t is recon-
mended as a means of relief for vic
Tins of insomnia, and for the preven-
ton of pain in any part of the body.
This new discovery, if it shall prove
effective as a sleep-compeller and n
pain killer, might be made of untold
service to humanity. 1t would be a
merciful dispensation in the present
exigent political situation in the Unit
ed States for example, if there We're
some means at the disposal of the
near friends of Colonel Roosevelt by
which, without hurting him, they
could put him to sleep and thus for
a space shut off his wind. He is DONG
himself harm by his violence. He
needs rest. So do we all.-Philadel-
phia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Those ancient maps, showing Eden,
which the American Geographical So
ciety proposes to display in the win
dows of its new marble palace in New
York city, are undoubtedly topograph-
fcaI visions of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

The capture of 'Leftie Louie" and
"Gyp the Blood" and the last of the
Allen gang was a sad blow in more
than one quarter. Think what it must
have done to the correspondence
schools for detectives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Even the brewers in convention at St.
Louis couldn't adjourn without advis-
ing the farmers how to run their
farms. EverybCdy's doing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Il am less engaged in pleading my
cause than in pleading yours" says
Colonel Roosevelt to the people of the
south. However. he won't turn down
third presidential term if one comes
his WAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Now comes word from the manufac-
turers that women are wearing bigger
stockings. And Christmas is coming
and the cost of living is steadily mount
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

One of the advances that the modern
aviators have made over Darius Green
lies in the fact that they droc farther.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

The judge who lays down the rule
that the parlor is the proper place for
counting. evidently wasn't brought up
in a nat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Heredity still counts. King George
vas not high flyer in his youth. but
new he wants to go up in an aeroplane
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Colonel Roosevelt has accused Cover
nor Wilson of having inverted the
s.-uth Governor Wilson reciprocates
by insisting that the colonel did an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is 4 member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received in The state Jour-
naJ building over wires for this sole pur-
Uego-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
A BIG RENEFIT


What a glorious thing it would be
and what a lasting benefit to the
younger generation if more of the
lessons of life could be taught in the
public schools. True it is that expert
ence is the best teacher, but surely
some of the benefits of the experience
of others, some of the rules of the
game that must afterwards be learned
in the University of Hard Knocks.
could be instilled into the minds of
boys and girls during their school
days. Why should your boy and girl
be obliged to learn from the bitter
ness of Improbable experience things
thousands of older people have
learned, and the things that could be
taught by others? We turn our boys
and girls out of school supposedly
equipped to fight life's battles and
then we wonder why so many only
succeed in failure. We act as path
finders on the course and then fail
to plant danger signals marking the
slippery places and the pitfalls and
the dangerous bridges, short turns and
misleading by-roads.-Kansas Opti-
mist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Crawford-I hear he was operated on
What did he have? OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Chauffeur-Didn't you hear me BLOWN
my horn2 Victim-Yes; but I though
perhaps you were a candidate for tn
residency.-Johnson News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Neighbor-My, what a big muzzle. Doe.
he bite2 Boy-Naw; that's to keep hin
from gettin' bit.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Caller-Is your husband in. Mrs. Ma
guire? Mrs. Maguire-Yis, sor. Caller
I'd like to see him. Mrs. Maguire-Ye
can't sor. He's in for tree months
Buffalo Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30

Hell must apologize for not turning up
at your party last night. She-Oh, weren't
you there?-London Opinion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-17
MUSIC NOTES

Mr.. J. P. O'Donnelly will give a re
cital on the new organ at ST Johns
cathedral. Savannah. next Tuesday
evening.
The ladies and choir of the First
Christian church will give cantata
for the organ fund in the church audi
torium on the evening of June 10. The
Enchanted Swan" is the cantata Sc
lected, and Mrs. John NJ Slaton will
read the story of the kings children
and the Enchanted Swan" The cho-
rus will be sung by $50 women and
children Solos will be sung by Misses
Ruby Rogers. Ruby Gaffney, Ruth OPP
penheim. Mrs. Ruth Rogers Corley and
Mr. Gilmer Siler. Mr. Albert Gerard
Theirs is musical director, and Mrs.
Charles Goodman general chairman and
business director
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-17
DEATH STILLS PEN OF
AUGUSTA STRINDBERG

STOCKHOLM. SWEDEN, May iI-Au-
guste Strindberg the noted swedish nov
elist and dramatist is dead from cancer.
He had been seriously III for some time
Suindberg has long been accounted one
Of the greatest writer's Of his period by
all lovers OF Scandinavian literature He
was man Of powerful and varied genius.
and his literary output was very grea
The complete edition Of his collected
works includes more than 30 volumes
covering wide regions of the vast field
Of human thought More than fifty nov
els came from his pen and as a play
wright he was equally prolific. He was
born in Stockholm in 1919, and his intel
lectual activity has been incessant In
all his works there is the dominant spr-
ID Of a rigid fatalism Man is but n
helpless creature the sport of The rest
less social and other forces by which he
is surrounded. He is also apt to be the
special victim Of woman Strindberg ne
garded the fair sex as the natural enemy
Of the male. his philosophy differing en-
tirely from that of lbsen