The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-16
Will Become Brisk
When Cold Breezes Cease.
Pentup Energy VIII Burst
Forth, Say Land Men.
TO MAKE Topeka BEAUTIFUL
There Is Much Interest Mani
tested in Home Gardens.
Items of General Interest to
Real Estate Men.

There is a large amount of pent up
| energy in Topeka ready to burst forth
! when the weather man hands out more
| balmy atmo spheric conditions It IS
generally admitted that comparatively
speaking, business has been dull the
| past month or two. But just now a
spirit of optimism prevails to such an
extent that a pessimist is a hard per-
son to find.
The building permit department has
not been kept busy thus far in 1912
granting applicants the right to erect
new structures. 1t is a known faCc.
however, that scores of plans for new
dwellings have been approved by pros
pective builders, and that as soon as
the frigid breezes from the far north
| cease to blow, the builders will begin
to make the hammers ring in every sec
| ton of the city.
Optimism Is Manifested.
ST have talked with at least 300 NOR
chants, jobbers, and travelling men III
the past week or two" said a business
opinion that business will soon open
up in fine shape"
Were going to have big crop i'll
Kansas said the president of the To-
peka Real Estate Dealers association,
land that cannot help but bring pros
perity. Topeka would not be an out
grown city were the population 1Oo, DOC
at the present time. Topeka viii have
100000 people"
VIII Beautify Topeka.
The state fair management and the
realty men are interested in the plan
to have the children of the city
schools become farmers on a small
scale this spring and summer. The
state fair will offer some attractive
premiums>for produce grown by school
given a fund to ~be-used- as prizes for
the most successful gardeners. The
Topeka Real Estate Dealers associa-
ton will give further assistance in the
direction of solving the weed prob
lem in Topeka and making the city a
veritable garden spot. It has been
limited that the organization will give
aid to the Provident association in the
garden work for the poor that the as
sociation will carry on.
school Garden Plan.
An outline of the general plan
which will be adopted in the city
schools, and which was sent out to the
principals gives the following informa-
ton:
The principal will arrange for one
teacher of gardening for the school.
The principal Is the most available
person to undertake the work because
of the pupils being selected from sew
eral grades.
of grades 3. s, Z and s. In those
grades it will be assigned as a substi
tute for nature study in the course of
study. AS many pupils as possible
the work for it is the most valuable
nature study that can be assigned and
has other strong claims.
The work will consist of home gard |
ening. The emphasis will be placed on
vegetable gardening, but flower garden
ing will be open to those who desire 1t.
The only gardening at school will be
demonstration work on small plot to
make clear what the pupils Should do
in their own gardens
At each school where the space is
available there will be school dem
onstration plat 5x10 feet in size. In
this will be illustrated the preparation
of the soil, the planting of each kind
of seed. the method of cultivation. and
crop succession.
Each pupil will make a plat OF his
home garden, and will keep strict
account of all time put in, money
spent and money received from the
Arrangements have been made |
whereby the school children will be |
able to purchase seeds at wholesale |
rates.
An Interesting Agitation.
There is an interesting agitation on |
in Topeka and Shawnee county rela-
tive to the proposed legislation in re-
spect to oleomargarine. The Lever |
bill is the packers bill and the Hau- |
gen bill is the farmers bill. One or /
ganization of the Topeka club women /
believing that the adoption OF the |
former would lower the cost of living 1
petftfoned congress to remove a tax |
from colored oleo. This is one of the 4
requirements of the former bill.
o. F. Whitney of Topeka. has sent |
petitions to 100 oranges in Kansas. The |
petitions favor the Haugen bill. and i
hey are already being sent in to the |
members of congress from Kansas. The |