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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
SEX EDUCATION.

To what extent can sex instruction
be given in the public schools? Wide
difference of opinion still exists among
school men on the subject, judging
from reports received at the United
States bureau of education. There is
widespread recognition of what Pres
ident Foster, of Reed college, calls
The Social Emergency" and general
agreement as to the need of action
against the social evil, but when it
comes to the question of what part the
public school shall play. the ideas
range from a detailed plan of sex in
struction beginning in the elementary
| schools to a determined opposition to
any form of sex education whatso-
ever.
Professor Thomas NJ. Ballet of New
York university, outlines several
points of attack in sex education. He
believes sex instruction can now be
given to the following groups: Cd To
parents, by means of lectures; CD to
enlisted men in the army and navy,
where the need for it is urgent; CD
to college students, both men and wo-
men; ca to young people in the Y.
NJ. c. AS and similar associations. DR..
Ballet considers sex instruction to
college students particularly valuable;
because it will enable them to impart
sex knowledge in turn to pupils in ele-
mentary and secondary schools. as
soon as the public is prepared for this
step.
Recently medical men have Joined
hands with school men in the sex
hygiene movement. DR.. Hugh Cabot,
distinguished physician of Boston
is one of the leaders in the demand
for sex instruction in the schools. He
declares that the policy of silence and
punishment as practiced in the past
has failed. He suggests education.
rather than punishment, as a remedy
for social evils. He says: Sooner or
later We shall come to realize that
teaching the comprehension of the sex
instinct is the function of the public
school, though we are far from such a
realization today" Other members
of the American federation of sex by
giene, including former President
Eliot, of Harvard, who is the head of
the organization. hold equally positive
views of the need for sex instruction.
On the other hand. there are many,
both among educators and physicians,
who see danger in ser instruction OF
the schools DIR. Tierney. president of
Woodstock college. Maryland, ex-
presses the fear that is in the minds
of many thinkers when he says: Sex
instruction is apt to put forward by
some years the time of suggestion and
temptation. Safety lies in diverting
the attention from sex details
Officials of the bureau of education
believe that the sex hygiene question
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IF'rom the Chicago News1
The nervy man is never embarra ssed
long at one time.
1t almost as hard to be a good neigh
Dor as it is to have one.
Don't blame honest dollar for taints
that are thrust upon it.
One never realizes what a soft snap one
has until one loses ones teeth.
Some girls never get over being romantic
while they remain single
An optimist is man who can fool him
self into the belief that he is contented
If man tells his troubles to his wife
she sees to il that he has plenty to tell
Does it pay to be wise? A wise man
worries over a lot of things fool never
thinks of.
But there is seldom anything wrong
with mans home If he is willing to pay
the freight and let his wife run it,
People who believe in charms and other
superstftionS also believe that il title
learning is dangerous thing an educa-
ton must be more so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
CHuDHOOD MEMORIES.

Though dear to my heart are the scenes
of my childhood
When fond recollection presents them
to view,
I'd not care to live there again in the
wildwood,
Amid those remembered surroundings,
should you?
My health was superb and my appetite
splendid,
l ate my sowbelly and greens with a
But I'm glad that comestible ordeal is
Such foods nowaydays I could never
digest
My hickory shirt and my shoes of rough
leather.
My jeans pantaloons that could stand up
My 10 cent straw hat-all my wardrobe
together,
Perhaps cost my father round silver
bone.
All, those trusty jeans breeches! Those
rusty jeans breeches!
Those stiff scratchy breeches that stood
up alone,
You had to undress If you'd get to your
Those unyielding breeches were hard as
a Stonei
The drafty old farmhouse, the windows
The fireplace to which after dark we'd
draw near.
All facing the fire like troopers embattled,
While roasted in front, frozen St1ft IN
the rear.
And the cold of the bedroom. The feath-
er bed bullying.
The bliss of sweet sleep-then the 4
Dear memoriesi You'll pardon the tears
I'm INDUCING? "
l am weeping for joy to be rid OF II aii-
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
EVENING CHAT
A Splendid Revenge.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Once upon a time, some fifty or sixty
years ago, there was little boy who
didn't go to the circus.
He saw the circus come to town, and
he watched the parade, and he listened
to the barker at the tent door, and he
read the posters, and he almost ate his
heart out with longing to get inside
that tent of wonders. But he just
couldn't go, and that was all there was
to it.
No, L don't mean that. 1t wasn't all.
If it were L shouldn't be telling about
this little boy who didn't go to the cir
Gus. because he would be just like all
the other hundreds of thousands of lit
tie boys who have been cruelty de-
prived of that inalienable birthright
No, this little boy VIII didn't go to
the circus was different from the rest
of us who agonize over our childish dis
appointments. and then grow up and
think childish longings and disappoint-
ments don't amount to much.
The day the circus left town this lit
tie boy stood on a hill and watched it
out of sight with his little heart swell
ing with grief, and as he watched he
showed what stuff he was made of by
making a vow. He vowed that when
he was grown up he'd take every little
boy in town to the circus.
And last spring the little boy who
didn't go to the circus still further
showed what stuff he was made of by
fulfilling his VOW. He took every boy
in town to the circus, and as the town
is now a middle-western city, that
meant more than two thousand boys.
To my mind, that man is an alchem-
ist For to want others to possess
what you have lacked, to be made ten
der to disappointment by your own
disappointments, and generous to 9TH
er folks longings by your own unsatis-
fed longings, is to have turned the
deprivations and disappointments of
life into the purest gold.
A social worker once asked a self
made rich man to advance the money
to send a boy of unusual talent to
technical school. why should ?" the
self-made man asked, bitterly. NO
body ever helped me. I had to get
along as best I could"
The world calls this man successful.
call him a failure.
Experience has hardened instead of
softening his heart, and when all is
said and done, it is it's owner who suf-
fers most when a heart turns to stone.
OF course We can't all take two thou
sand boys to the circus. But we can
all try, in whatever degree is within
our reach. to revenge ourselves on fate
for our disappointments and depriva-
lions by keeping her from inflicting
the same disappointments and depriva-
lions on others.
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same ship after writing detailed instruc-
lions to Parker about taking the gray
motor over by way of Liverpool.
II was, perhaps, a month or two later
on Broadway. On the back of his car
FannyS hat box held its position firmly.
Suddenly, and as if from a cloud, came
FEMININE person who opened the door
OF MS car and sat down beside him. her
eyes were flashing and mutinous and her
voice tripped itself in a rush of words.
That is my own precious hat box on
the back of your 1t was stolen some
months ago when L had stored it in the
basement of our apartment houset'' She
was quite breathless now, and Dorian had
time to admire Fanny Blake. IT followed
You on mad run for two blocks down
Broadway, and now l have your.
You most certainly have" muttered
Dorian, while aloud he said with his
whimsical smile playing into Fanny's
eyes. 81 picked up this box in London.
Church street, to be correct, and nave
followed it's lead wherever it suggested
he sighed. '.It has been a great pleasure.
the number of labels on it a dis
grace" Dorian enjoyed the blush in
Fanny's cheeks.
Travelling is my hobby" she told him.
Mine, too laughed Dorian. and Fanny;
for no reason that she knew of. blushed
again And now that you have held me
up in Broadway daylight and demanded
your box, where am to take you and it,"
Il feel rather mean about asking for
1T. Fanny said. But L am very fond
of tit has so many stories behind all
those labels
Dorian looked at her moment, then
on your left hand He waited while she,
after a startled glance, obeyed. The hand
was suiltless of rings and Dorian drew
a breat of relief. Now tell me where
right, 1918. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
QUAKER AIEDITATIONs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Too many of US ride a hobby without
an emergency brake.
It's one thing to follow advice. and
quite another thing to catch up.
We speak of good luck and bad luck,
but neither is really matter of morals.
Unfortunately the stamp of approval
doesn't always come from those who are
welI-heeied.
Even the athlete who holds the record
for pole vaulting should hesitate to jump
at conclusions
It's easy enough to forget our friends,
but our enemies seem TO make an in
delible impression.
The man who has more money than
brains is the one who hasn't brains
enough to hang onto it.
A true friend is a man who will listen
to hard-lucl1 story without showing any
traces of impatence-
Some of us want our bread buttered on
both sides. In fact, even love grows cold
when it is only on one side.
Sillicus-"W ould you marry for love or
for money!? CynicuS-''1t'S hard enough
to carry out the terms of the contract in
either case"
BlobbS-''Mrs. Dashaway says she
bought her stocks cheaper than anybody
else" Slobbs-"What's the matter with
them; had they been damaged by water?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

is about to assume great Importance
in many school systems. Chicago is
now struggling with the problem; the
board of education has appropriated
money to provide lectures on sex by
glene to parents and to groups of high
school pupils with the ultimate idea
or extending sex instruction to the ele-
mentary schools if the experiment
with older pupils proves satisfactory.
teachers in New York and other cit
les report considerable success in in
cooperating sex instruction into ele-
mentary work in biology. State Su-
perintendent Hyatt, of California, has
issued a leaflet on sex instruction that
has been considered worthy of distri-
button by the United States govern
ment; while the American Federation
of Sex Hygiene, carrying out it's plan
of constructive work against the So
cial evil, has drawn up what is prob
ably the most careful outline yet de-
vised for sex education at every stage
of life, both in school and at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
AIimony After 80 Years.

Lillian I. Garden, wife of Alfred L.
Garden, has just received an order
from Justice Guy of the supreme court
for s11, 500 alimony, after a 80 years
legal fight to collect $12 week
awarded to her in 1888.
Alfred L. Garden, the son of the late
Christopher Henry Garden. who was
for many years president of the Ninth
National bank of New York, has been
living in Nice, France, with his moth
er since his alleged desertion of his
wife a few years after their marriage,
Mrs. Garden meanwhile has been liv-
Ing in poverty.
The suit of Mrs Garden, recognized
as the Oldest alimony action on record
has been fought in many courts in
New York county. The marriage was
in 1881. in New York. Mr.. Gardens
mother objected to the bride, whom
she looked upon as a shop girl and
the young husband presently brought
suit for divorce. 1t was said that lie
hoped his wife would settle for lump
sum of money, but she defended the
week alimony. Not a cent of this has
been paid, it is said, and the claims
amount now to $4,000 without in
terest.
Garden went to Nice with his moth
err, and has lived there ever since.
Mrs Garden began proceedings to To-
cate some property which could be
seized to collect the alimony, but Judge
DOnnellE, her receiver appointed by
the court could find none. Then Ben
jamn F. Schneider was appointed re-
ceiver- ...
About five years ago Garden was
seen on q street car in Manhattan and
Schneider got on his trail and discov-
cred that Garden owned thirteen bonds
of the Schoonmaker Piano company
of Philadelphia, worth at the time
about $4,000. Meanwhile. Christopher
Garden. the father. had died, leaving
more than s1,000.00O, part of which
went to Alfred L. He turned it over
to brother for safekeeping.
Schneider instituted contempt pro-
ceedings against the Schoonmaker
company for not turning over the
bonds to him, receiver in seques-
tration, and won his case in the court
of appeals. Justice Guy then signed
the order turning over the bonds to
the receiver for Mrs. Garden. The sale
of the bonds yielded $11,5OO.
Mrs. Garden was poor girl at the
time of the marriage. She had no
near relatives. Her beauty is said to
have been remarkable. She is now SIS.
Garden is about the same age.-New
York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
KANSAS C0lalAENT

CRADLE ROCKING TABOOED.
The hand that rocks the cradle and,
incidentally and meta phorieally, rules
the world, is no longer to enjoy I'M
disturbed these notable functions
The anti-rocking movement has be-
gun vigorously in London, the open
ing declaration of hostilities having
been made in a leaflet addressed to
mothers by the public health depart
ment CT the city of London. This doc
ument most solemnly adjures mothers
never to rock the baby. 1t is here set
forth that rocking the baby to sleep,
far frcm being the wholesome and
altogether admirable performance we
nave been taught through centuries
to believe, is one that is rankly dia-
bolic in possibilities. Rocking the
baby to sleep, 1t is declared, is likely
10 set up various digestive disorders.
II stupefies the child and may breed
IN MN or her various bad habits. A
heaItny child, it is averred requires
no rocking to sleep. the rocking be-
ing a1ter all merely a kind of me-
cnan1caI narcotic, scarcely less dam
gerous than the poppy juice of the So
shn',I, soothlng syrup. The baby
should be put to bed in the dark and
allowed to go to sleeD natura11v
cradle rocking, say the concoctors of
l,ie antl-rockfng decree may cause a
cniIo 10 grow up unhealthy, exacting
ana petulant.-Atchison Champion.
PASSING OF THE EMRI.ENrs
With the next state campaisn in
Kansas only year or so distant. the
poIiticlans are beginning to take no
iee or the Massa chusetts ballot
aoopted by the last legislature, and
some or them are mourning anew rho
passing of the eagle, the rooster. the
handclasp and other emblems thar
maze the Australian ballot of recent
years sort of illustrated edition Of
the great American vote. For those
VINO nave tears to shed over this dis
appearance of emblems and accom-
panvlng circles, it is as well to get
rid of them now as later and in he
meantime the ordinary citizen will go
on dolng his own thinking and pre-
pare TO cast a vote for the candidates
VINO pest represent the ideals for
Wn1ch he stands. Bemoaninp tba
adoption of the Massachusetts ballot
because 1t requires man to know for
Wnom ne is voting comes with poor
grace In state of such general in
lelisence as kansas. The voter who
can read enough English to recognize
me name OF the party with which he
is a1flllated will have no difficulty
IN Young straight ticket if he wishes
anu the straight party ticket and the
Noler VINO cannot distinguish between
the party names may have the assis-
lance of members of the election
board in marking the ballots. On the
whole the prospect for confusion and
spoiled ballots is smaller than under
the system when the voter had both
circles and the squares in which TO
mark.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
AYHAWKER .JOTS

When Small Boy has Big Sisters coat
of tan. Ma calls it dirt, explains the
Lebanon Times.
Harry Thaw, thinks the Marion Re-
view, at least cannot complain of en-
nui as many of the idle rich do.
No woman cares to face an emer-
gency. points out the Rocks County
Record, without first powdering her
nose.
1t is all right to rave about Grecian
noses in poetry, says the Edmond
New Leaf. but the nose to admire is
the nose that is kept out of other peo-
pies business.
Told by the Norton Courier: The
farmer, in great need of extra hands
at haying time, finally asked s. War
rem, who was accounted the town fool
if he could help him out. ''What'll
you pay?' asked ST. iii pay what
you're worth" answered the farmer.
81 scratched his head a minute, then
announced deciSively: I'll be darned
if I'll work for that
The fact that this is the season when
oysters 9 good may be responsible
for the following in the Plainville
Times: Lambert brothers wheeled six
noon and succeeded in capturing
giant oyster of the Palezoic period of
the earth's formation. This monster
oyster is twelve inches in diameter and
one oyster would have made meat
enough for ten people for one meal.
a cute young man wearing a Bal
kan blouse, paraded Main street last
Friday The ladies took one good look
at him and then turned away in dis
gust. The women, you know think
they ought to have a monopoly on
freak dressing. Some day we are go
ing to slip on a flour sack for a skirt
and give a parade just to show some
of the ladies about how they appear
when walking along in these skirts a
couple of feet wide We believe if
men burlesque the thing women would
get back to sensible wear in a hurry
County Pioneer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

The size of a head seldom indicates
the quality of the material in it.
r + {,
Wars of words are probably popu-
lar because the ammunition is so
cheap.
While every man has a right to his
opinions he should keep more of
them to himself.
+ r +
Neither is one-half the world APP
parently at all interested in how the
other half lives.
j. =
Nothing specific in the way of
rules and formulas has been devised
for the solution of life's problems
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
"SCHRIBAR CORN"

The drouth that burned up corn in the
great southwest this year may be the
price the nation must pay for a new crop
that will minimize similar losses in the
future. With the thermometer touching
JOG. ponds failing, kafir corn and milo
maize the much-vaunted Stand-bys of
dry. years, whitening in the fields.
'-Schribar corn" new mixture of drouth-
resisting sorghums, has produced from
twenty-five to sixty bushels acre.
Thirty farmers I'm Garfield county, Okla
homa, grew "Schribar corn" this year.
Less than % of an inch of rain fell be-
tween June Is and September ], but the
new sorghum mixture stood green and
growing through the blazing days that
killed the feteritas, the kafir corn and the
milo maize. The agricultural experts diff
fer as to the exact nature of the new
plant. BY some it is classed a hybrid
and by others as superior strain of
feterita- 1t natures in ninety days its
grains are larger than those of kafir corn
they are pure. white in color and feeding
tests are said to indicate that both the
grain and the stalk superior to kafir
'-Schribar corn is named from its oripi-
nator, Uncle John Schribar who claims
to have produced it from crossing three
drouth-resisting sorghums G the SdlIrra''
family. Future generations of southwest
ern farmers may have cause to veDerate
the name of Uncle John" Schribar. plain
farmer of Garfield county.-St. Louis Re
public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
FROM OTHER PENS

BAITLESHIPS OR BETTER COURTS?
-, Inc supreme court of the United States
a lag Sisht hundred cases ahead of it,
II no more cases were Sent to II in thai
TIME. Bring the courts into as high eff
REGENCY as the railroads and the iron mills
and the cotton mills and shoe shops. then
nfne-tenths of the legislation new and de-
manded will be superfIuous TO do ms
tice is the most important duty of tie
government of the United States. It's
hm ntinH cry. for doing justice is two years
uncertain. This same day that we have
the ineniciency of the machinery of JUS
assembled at New York a fleet of destroy
ers OF life and property of marvellous pow
not take that fleet two years. nor two
months, nor two weeks to destroy prop
shops in Maine. One of those destroyers
costs the people of the United States more
than they pay for the years expense of
the courts of the United States. The
costly destroye-s are ready and efficient
the destroying is not needed. The judicial
anything else government does-the gov
ernments courts can't do it. AS if our
cotton mills should be equipped with CAT
should put powder into your cellar in
stead of potatoes! You cannot do justice
without courts that act as promptly
the railroads, the fire departments, the
hospitals. Courts prompt. efficient mex
tice And when you have prompt. eff
clent, inexpensive courts, you will not
need these plled-up laws to regulate the
trusts, the railroads, the preparation of
foods. the hours of employment. Not new
statutes, but prompt courts. Not more
battleships. but more judges This great
richest nation that ever was wasting its
wealth more wantonly, more prodigiously.
than history tells of,-its glory is to be
not in its costly fleets. not IT. its military
records, not in it's piled-up statutes Of
regulation: yet in it's railroads. won
derful as they are; nor in its great shops
and mill and marvellous innumeI able ma
chimes of power and precision: not in its
new and ever rising standard of comfort
widespread. and wides spread education and
culture: not any nor all of those shall be
the chief glory. of the republic. but her
courts, her machinery for protecting each
citizen against the aggressions of any
other. The man who shall bring her
courts up to the efficiency of her rail-
roads and iron mills. that man will be her
greatest statesman-greater than her
greatest soldiers or admiralS. That
mighty fleet in New York is for protec-
ton against foreign enemy, an enemy
away across the sea. an enemy that exists
in Imagination. Our real enemies are
right here at home.-Lewiston Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

According to the New York Tribune,
William Loeb. jr.. has quietly begun to
feel OUT Republicans and former Re
publicans on the proposal to make Col
onel Roosevelt the fusion presidential
candidate of the regular Republicans
and the Progressives in 1916 This
makes it apparent that the colonel or
some of his friends at least. do not
consider the Republican party the rot
ten and worthless hulk they character
lied it last fall.