The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-30
FROM OTHER PENS
TILE BURDEN OF THE cHIIn


Prof Nearing, of the University OF
pennsylvania, sapiently announces
that mo man whose wages amount to
less than $500 year should have
children" This is the new arithmetic
of social science, founded on the pres
ent cost of living. If the living gage
goes higher, the Creator of all souls
Will be still further limited in the
number of souls sent here. This does
not apply to Africa. This is strange
talk that we hear of the burden of the
little child. We're we, most of us,
then, nothing but burdens? Are we to
be ashamed of our lives, that we were
load on our father, and more trou-
Bile than blessing to our mother? This
view becomes personal and uncom-
portable. Many of us thought we did
them good; that the mother-snoile was,
real; that she enjoyed us. Down to
the very last the look she gave seem
ed rapturous in affection, and she
used to speak of the joy she had had
IN her children. Somehow we have
been deluded into the view that we
were her happiness. OF course the
pigs and clover rule is now in force in
the new agriculture. If man has no
clover he must not keep pigs But
children have had different place in
song and story. It is hard to tear out
the child from human life and history.
Still, 1t seems that little child is
never burden-not even the inper-
feet child, with his big, wistful eyes
at the window because his foot can
not bring him to the gate. In sober
truth, children are the greatest force
on earth today. They are the inspira-
ton for good government and a bet
ter tomorrow. They really build all
schools and churches. They till all
Fields; they use all harvests. 1t is for
the children that all wheels go round.
Burdens? They carry the world on
their shoulders, and it is mostly the
children of the poor who do it.-New
York Mail.
A SENORITA IN HARD LUCK.
Senorita Rodriguez has gone back
to Costa Rica, where she has 100000
acres, and where she would have a
husband. The senorita said she was
disappointed in not finding one in this
country. and went on to tell of short
comings by sections. In the west, she
said, she found strong and aggressive
men, but they drank heavily and
chewed tobacco. Those in the south
drank too much, ALSO. The men of
the east were nmersed-there's an
analogy in that word-in business and
society affairs We. of the west are
rather detected that when a Costa
Rican hefress comes along on a hus-
band hunt there is no advance notifi-
cation. We might line up our best
and quit drinking. It was decidedly
unfortunate that5the senorita dropped
in somewhere out this way so unex-
pected1y that a possible beneficiary
didn't have time to discard his qufd
Very likely the senorita is gum
shoe worker and proceeds on her ro-
mantle missions as mothers surprise
their little boys. We cannot help
thinking that the senorita was un-
lucky in her travels, especially in this
region. We do not recall in our ac-
quaintance any men who chew tobac-
co except a couple of our favorite ball
players Into what set did the rich
girl drift? She should return at a.
stated time and look US over again,
giving US the opportunity to read up
up on Costa RIGA in the interval.-Chi- |
cago Post.