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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
TWO YEARS WASTED.
Due to "Fads and FurbeIows" i'm Our
Schools.

Washington, Oct. 29.-Two years OF
useful life are lost to every American
under existing educational conditions
due to the increased fads and furbe-
lows adopted by the latter day schools
and made part of their compulsory
curriculum. This is the finding of
body of eminent educators headed by
President James H. Baker of the
University of Colorado, whose report
was issued today by the United States
bureau of education.
THE great mistake in our educa-
ton is to suppose" says the report
that quantity and strain constitute
education. Education is a question of
doing few essential things well
and without overstrain. The college
has committed a grieyous mistake in
demanding more in quantity than in
quality produced under conditions of
healthy normal development"
The educators who, says the bureau
officials, spent 10 years investigating
conditions, would have the elemen-
tary education of the young occupy
only six years instead of eight. They
would have the student pass through
high school and college so as to be
prepared either to enter the world at
the age of 20 or if DESTROYS of taking
up a profession enable him to be
equipped in two or three years later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
WHOLE TRIBE DRUNK.
Indians Promptly Expend Their An
nuities for Liquor.

Tower, Mimi, Oct. 29.-After the
Indians of the reservation here had
been paid their annuitieS by Superin-
tendent Reagan they proceeded to
spend their money freely for alcohol
and whisky. AS a result today there
is but one sober Indian family in or
about Tower, according to Mr.. Rea-
gan The red men and women of Yer
million Lake engaged in an orgy last
night and early today.
Superintendent Reagan said that
paving the Indians is but a short cut
to handing out money to INSCRIPTIONS
bootleggers who have been preying on
the reservation residents.
One family that received $72 was
penniless last night. The husband and
father who intended to buy supplies
for the winter obtained several bottles
of whisky and a gallon jug of alcohol
and he and his wife became intoxi-
catad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
HER CASE is DROPPED
American Woman Charged With Kid
mapping Irish Children Goes Free.

Dublin, Oct. 29.-The dropping of the
prosecution of Mrs. Lucille Rand,
daughter of Henry T. Gage of Califor-
mia, and of Mrs. Dora Montefiore, a
London philanthropist, was virtually
decided on today when the case against
tEem on a charge of kidnapping came up
before the police magistrate here.
The two women had taken a leading
part in arranging for the transfer to
England of children of striking Irish
transport workers. The children were
to be cared for in England during the
continuance of the strike. These efforts
were opposed by the Catholic clergy,
who objected to the children being sent
to Protestant homes.
At the hearing today the attorney
for the defendants explained that the
women's action had been misunder-
stood. There was, he said, touch of
humor in charging them with kidnap-
ing, when they were really on an err
rand of mercy. They had not commit
ted any crime he declared but had per-
haps acted indiscreetly.
The attorney general for Ireland then
consented to an adjournment of the
case for month, which is taken as an
indication that it will not come up
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29

her muff pressed to her face, her brown
eyes half closed with mirth, and Patsy
was barking. trying to get out.
nope you're satisfied" he said cheer
fully, but impersonaily. ct nearly land
ed me in jail as common thief"
But | had no idea it was you 1 spoke
TO. AND really, Ores. don't think it was
nice of you to come where l. am living,
Don't you? 1 happen to live there also.
second apartment up, to the right. 1 have
lived there four years.
Il shall move tomorrow"
You will do nothing of the Sort He
tucked her arm comfortably under his
and shielded her from the wind as they
turned back into the little park Enclosure.
You Will come UP now and meet nv
aunt, and have tea with us properly, and
shall tell her that we are to be married
at Easter, thanks to Patsy.''-(Copyright
1913. by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
AXHAWKER JOTy

| According to the Russell Reformer,
the latest conundrum in its vicinity, is:
| why is a certain persons mead ike
Saturday night?" Answer and diagram:
| Because it is the weekend.
Evidently the Meriden Ledger is in
need of an ear horn. 1t says: Still we
have failed to hear any reason why the
state should spend several hundred
thousand dollars for the purpose OF
propagating fish.
AS the Valley Falls Eastern Kansan
says: If the immigration officials would
use the same caution with the steer
age passengers that they put forth in
the case of Mrs. Pankhurst, the coun-
try could be considerably better off,
1t is remarkable to assume that the
grocery store clerks in Howard are
a happy lot and exceedingly choice or
their Jobs. One of that towns customs
permits clerk who weighs girl to
kiss her for his trouble as she steps
from the scales.
Reports in the Kansas weeklies in
dictate that the wheat all over the state
is looking fine. But it will be killed"
several times before a bumper crop is
harvested from it late next spring.
Luckily, Kansas wheat has as many
lives as the proverbial cat.
Some of Mrs. PETERS observations, in
her Eureka Herald: If all the prayers
were answered, the majority of folk
would quit work. 49,. Whether it is
income or outgo has lots to do with
the size of money in the eyes of most
people. Between the things that
are too big for us to do and the
things that we think are too little,
usually there isn't much left to under
take. q. . If the heating plant is in
good working order, and the last ton
of coal is paid for, it's a mighty fine
rhanSOdiZn October
SaS
This is a true story, says the Downs
News, although it seems more like
page from a story book. Mrs. Priscilla
Botorf, who died last summer, had long
been a subscriber of the News. 1t was
her custom to pay for it a year at
time. When her subscription expired
February IA, this year, she came to the
office and renewed but for six months.
She was asked if she wanted the paper
stopped at the expiration of that time.
With faint smile she replied: Il ex-
pect that will be as long as I need it"
Her subscription expired August ID,
1913 She died that night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29

CLOTHES, THE BIRTH RATE, &C
When as in silks his Julia went,
Whom Herrick lyricised with passion,
The press declared Gehenna sent
Each new and femininny fashion.
When hoopskirts made their wide appeal
During the war miSnomered civil,
The papers made their readers feel
The girls were going to the divil.
And in the days of sweeping trains
And sleeves as thick as Vallombrosa,
They said that women had no brains.
Have they chance of heaven? No,
sah!'
And in these here x-radiant days
OF grenadine and wolfe and dimit-
Y, press and pulpit, in amaze.
Cry out aghast: This IS the limit!
What is the reason for this piece?
Why did I spill these agonistics?
Observe each year the great increase
In vital, to speak, statistics
Franklin p. Adams, in the New York
Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
EDUCATION FOR LIFE.

That Hampton and Tuskegee
schools for negroes, are valuable not
merely as excellent schools for the
| colored race, but for their important
| contribution to the present vocational
educational movement, is the declara-
! ton of the United States Bureau OF
education. In pamphlet just dis
tributed by the bureau, entitled Ed
ucation for Life tribute is paid to
! the work of Hampton institute and
particularly General Armstrong. its
founder, who is looked upon by edu-
Gators as a pioneer in the field of
practical education.
General Armstrong possessed to
remarkable degree the gift of educa-
tional prophecy" asserts Prof Pea
body in the introduction to the PAM
phlet. He foresaw and foretold with
extraordinary precision the tendencies
and transitions which within the last
twenty-five years have practically
revolutionized the principles of edu-
cation. The training of the hand and
eye, as well as of the mind, the NOR
al effect of technical skill, the con-
ception of labor as a moral force, the
test of education in efficiency, and the
vanity of education without discipline
in thrift, self-help, love of work and
Willingness to sacrifice-all these ia
miliar maxims of modern vocational
training were set forth by him with
all the assurance Of a social prophet
The pamphlet includes a brief
sketch of General Armstrong; life
and a collection of pithy utterancas
on aims and methods of education,
many of which are distinctly helpful
to those interested in present prob
lens, according to officials of the bu-
reau of education. 1t is felt that
General Armstrong; theory and dem
onstration of practical education have
proved to be right, not merely for the
races for which they were immediate
ly intended, but for boys and girls ev-
erywhere, since they represent a sue
cessful attempt to work out one of the
most momentous tasks of our time
that of creating an education that
shall be an effective force for train
ing productive, efficient members Of
society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
EVENING CHAT
Another Splendid Human Document.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Another Splendid Human Document.
Do you dread to growNold?
Do you think of all the years after
sixty-five or seventy as sort of stu
pid epilogue to the active drama of
life?
If you do, letter friend of mine has
an illuminating message for you.
Please read it.
Il have read with interest," she
writes, your article in last nights
paper entitled Why grow old?' and
wish that / could have a heart to
heart talk with you, and could meet
your friend of ~. l have fellow
feeling in my bosom for all such as
she who keeps cheerful outlook
upon life. am nearly IA years young
and feel as ready now to attack any
problem of life as 1 did 20 years ago.
1t seems to me that my brain is more
alert every day. I enjoy perfect
health, and read and try to digest
everything from psychology to beans.
II take a or 6 mile walk every
morning when the weather permits,
rising at o'clock in the summer to
do so. 1 have been married times,
and cannot yet say that marriage is
a failure. Have raised children, 8
my youth while helping to care for a
great grandson who is delight to
me.
81 am now studying Latin, am per
fect IN German ana Know eHOuSh
French to understand when it is
spoken. L taught both vocal and in
strumental music for Al years and
think 1 am entitled to a front seat
along with all other teachers up yon-
der My life has been crowded with
trouble, having had two daughters
killed before my very eyes, one acct
dentally, the other-well, 1 can't write
of it.
Il have taken up the study of birds
and trees. Unfortunately 1 am very
deaf, which deprives me of a great
deal of pleasure, the greatest being
my inability to listen to good lecturers.
But 1 do not complain. I've had my
fling Have heard nearly every sing
er of note up to 10 years ago, and en-
joyed listening to the best actors. I've
graduated in photography, have my
diploma and am now writing moving
picture plays, so as to be Independent.
I'm looking this over it may sound
rather egotistical. That was not my
object in writing. 1 wanted you to
know that there are other socalled
old ladies' who are young at 20. AS
Celia Thaxter sings. L stand in the
sunshine sweet, and cherish every
day. 1 love and am loved, what more
can 1 ask? Yours for long life and
a useful happy one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
THE RURAL DECREASE.

| When sixteen out of eighteen Kan
sas counties-you may remember
that Kansas is primarily an agricul-
| tural state-report large losses in
| rural population, something is wrong,
| insists the Kansas Industrialist, and it
| continues: The last census shows
| that sixteen of the eighteen counties
making up the two tiers surrounding
Topeka have lost thousands in rural
population n the last ten years
Geary and Leavenworth counties, ow-
ing to the difference in the methods
| of counting the soldiers in 1900 and in
| 1910, appear not to have lost in rural
| population. If it were not for this
! inconsistency, doubtless eighteen out
| of eighteen counties around Topeka
would have been affected. Don't
think it's anything unusual. You
have only to read the census reports
| to find the same condition existing
around nearly every city. Census re-
ports are rather ponderous for light
reading, but they are fascinating to a
student of rural conditions.
! They tell, further, that it isn't tired,
retired persons that are making the
figures look so ugly-it's the young
| people, the IL you plS1tSS,
that are doing it,
Listen to this: Nine and nine
tenths per cent of the city population
is under five years of age, while in
the country thirteen per cent are un-
der that age. What does it mean?
There is a larger per cent of very
young people to begin with in the
country.
What becomes of them? Here's
ne answer: Thirty-three per cent
of the city people are between 25 and
"A years of age, while the country has
only a little more than twenty-five
per cent Between the years of rs
and IA, families are reared and for
tunes are made.
There's no use in the world in be-
ing pessimistic about it. We can be
thankful that we've caught the appeal
of census reports. The solution of
any national problem depends funda-
mentally, upon the intelligent atten-
ton of the public to that problem.
When the peopIe-city people, country
people, old people, young people
think long enough and hard enough
on the subject of rural needs, the CEN
sus reports will tell different story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
The Diary of a Bonebead.

1t was Podsnap's birthday and the
ne1ghborhood gave a party in his
honor. Of course there had to be a
present for Podsnap and of course 1
became the Angora of the occasion.
was elected to solicit the funds and to
purchase the gift.
By main strength L got 81 each out
Of the men in the neighborhood and
went and bought Podsnap an SIS
black leather handbag. 1 had col
lected only $14, so l put up the re-
naming 81 myself
l was greatly pleased with myself,
but no one else seemed to be partic-
ular1y delighted but Podsnap, and he
said that he would rather have had a
set of o. Henry or something useful
On the night of the party 1 heard
my next door neighbor say to the man
who lived across the street: THAT
looks to me like a SO bag"
81 saw them advertised at 1885,"
said the man who lived across the
street.
IT can buy them for s4S a Dozen"
volunteered a third neighbor.
There is always a little graft in
this birthday present business said
a man who lived next door to Pod
snap.
Mrs. Podsnap was positively insulted
and said, in whisper which was so
loud that everybody in the room heard
it, that it was a reflection on her to
thereby that his home life was not
happy and she had always been true
and faithful wife and Henry never
wanted to travel, etc.
Two of the men who were loudest
in their denunciation of the travelling
bag have not yet paid their subscrip-
tions.
Nevar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t is easy enough for a man minus
money to keep out of mischief.
E + r
At any rate, a fool and his money
generally have good time in the
parting.
Most of the "snap shots by anna
teur photographers eem to have
fatal effect on the subjects.
j. = =
Nor is there anything like enough
praise bestowed on those who refrain
from singing.
+ J. T.
Frequently it happens that the only
way a man can make his home happy
is by staying away from it as much as
possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
QUAKER MEDITATONS
IFrom the Philadelnbia Recora 7

u -OIii TIE Record
It's the love of money that makes a
man root for all evil "
1t is better to burn your bridges behind
you lnan in front of you.
1t is perhaps better to be green with
Verdancy than with envy.
Vaccination may keep people from, +al
ing things, but it won't cure kleptomania
Many a man goes through life seeking
the truth who can't tell it when he finds
it. ~ --ii>As
A full grown normal man must be some
liar to send regrets" to a o'clock tea
Many man gets the better of an argu-
ment without necessarily proving he is
right.
years of discretion?'' Wagg-''When she
70 longer tells her age
Sillicus-''I don't believe he is seriously
doesn't act a bit like fool
acknowledgements and his wife are
continually chewing the apple of discord -
buggins-"Well, I'll bet all Henpekke gets
is the core
Tommy-"Pop a felt slipper is soft,
isn't it? Tommy's Pop-'Yes. my son,
but can demonstrate to you that Slip
per can be hard and still be felt
Blobbs-.Is there much family resem-
5lance between Wigwao and his father?'
Slobbs-''About as much as there is be-
tween the pop of a pistol and a son of a
gun"
About the only time a woman ever pays
any serious attention to her husband is
between their wedding day and the ar
rival of the first baby
What girl likes about sitting on a
park bench in the moonlight with young
man is that the moon may dodge behind
cloud at any moment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
PUT 0. K. ON TANGO.
Chicago Policewomen Say 1t Is q
Beautiful Dance.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-Chicago's police
women have arrived at the conclusion
that the tango, hesitation waltz and
one step are beautiful dances and
that 1.-The trouble is not with the
dances, but with the dancers"
With Major Funkhouser, second dep
uty superintendent of police, the ten
police women critically watched the
dances as given by a dancing instruc-
tor and his partner. The lesson was
given that the police women may judge
between proper and improper dancing
at the public dance halls this winter.
Major Funkhouser declared that dane
ers doing the new steps should keep at
least six inches apart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29

A topic for writers next year will
be the Star-Spangled Banner. Fran
els Scott Key wrote it Sept. Ia. 1914,
and it's centenary is to be celebrated
at Baltimore under the patronage of
President Wilson, and with the CO.
operation of former Presidents Taft
and Roosevelt, and the active partic-
ipation of the governors of the eigh-
teen states which formed the Union
when the song was written. One eff
feet of the anniversary will doubtless
be to give unusual emphasis to pa
triotism as a note in the literature of
the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
RYTHE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

INK. Samivel, noted for his ability
to drive a good bargain, has traded
Kemp. the harmless hobo, for MRS.
| Pankhurst. But up to late hour TINS
I afternoon, England had filed no claim
for bonus on the transaction.
OF course we should observe that
| Katherine Elxins got Hitt the hrst
time up, but as other paragraIers can
do better with the subject, we refuse
to muss it up. Kindly consider tnat
we have not mentioned it,
The difference between this and
former Mexican elections is tnat the
Associated Press is using a rev nu-
meraIs in the dispatches. 1t used to
be: "Porfrio Diaz was again elected
president by an overwhelming major
ity," and the only figures in the dis
patch were in the date line.
Hon. Osculating Hobson is now
life member of the w. G. I. u, but
his application for membership in the
Y. w. c. A. has not been passed upon
by the committee.
The Lawrence Journal-world is
looking for the old fashioned man
who had malaria. He may be round
in San Diego, Cal, and his name Is
Dodd CASTOR.
Adolphus Busch left fifty million
dollars; kindly observe that he LEFT
it.
The object of this social survey"
business is not exactly clear to every
one. Sadie Simpkins thinks the pur-
pose is to establish the corner stakes
of the Latin quarter and run the d1-
Viding line between the lower ana
upper crusts. Hondo Murphy thinks
the real purpose is to find the exact
center of the city's pocketbook, and
then run tunnels in every direction.
1t is the consensus of opinion, how
ever, that if Huerta beat Diaz five to
one. the umpire was crooked
.1'm ahead of lot of poor geeks,"
says Filling Fuller. "They have their
overcoats in hook, but mine was
eleven years old last spring, and
looked so frowsy 1 couldn't get an
offer on it"
We express no surprise over the re-
port that State Text Book Commits
sion Austin did his California inves-
tigating during the torr1d spell. The
weather was rawther fierce in bee
yootiful Kansas at that time.
A Great Bend lady served time in
the pen for killing one James A:
Duffy. 1t now appears that said
Duffy is alive in Ohio. What should
a lady do under the circumstances?
Having paid the price set by law on
Duffy's goat, is she not entitled to oil
up her six shooter, go to Ohio and
collect?
What's in a name? Hans Dubbs
was among the winners in the Ne
braska land drawing, and the land
will probably sell for just as much as
if his name was Adelbert Mont
morency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29

The "SIIIy" Season,

People are beginning to realize the
absurdity of regarding the holiday
months as the silly season. We are,
or ought to be- now in full tide of
inanity and vapidity. What is the
fact? The papers are full of the pro-
ceedings of the great international
congress of medicine, the reports of
which the public are reading with avid
interest. if with minimum of under
standing. Every journal has opened
it's columns, as we have, to the discus
sion of some vital question touching
human life or the state of society, and,
if some OF the letters which are pub
lished (and many of those which are
not) deserve the epithet SILLY" the
great majority give evidence that they
are the outcome of real and serious
thinking, while not a few are actually
useful contributions to the solution of
the questions with which they deal.
The sea serpent nowadays rears his
ugly crest in vain; the gigantic goose
berry turns green again with envy.
The public heeds them not
In point of fact, the silly season
has become the season of thought.
Men and women use their leisure to
disentangle and coordinate, to weigh
and to formulate some of the impress
sions which they have acquired sub
consciously in the hurry of daily life.
We think that we and our contempor-
aries do good public service by putting
forward at this season of the year some
subject for serious debate. The mis-
chief of the age is that the ordinary
daily broader has no time to think.
He is always doing. His mind becomes
a rag bag of useless experience; but in
the hours of leisure he has time to read
and to think in an orderly manner if
he will give himself the trouble to do
so. The effort does him good, not harm
If his heart becomes hot within him till.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-29
ACCIES CELEBRATE.
Alumni Remembers Ffftieth Anniver-
sary of College.

Manhattan, Oct. 29.-After the storm of
yesterday that caused the parades to be
postponed the weather dawned bright
and clear the second day of the Kansas
State A Agricultural college golden jubilee
celebration today. Many members of the
alumni association are here, among those
who delivered addresses were Chnncellor
Frank Strong of the State university; w
ID. Ross. state superintendent of public
instruction.; Thomas w Butcher. president
of the state board of agriculture, and Dr.
H. C. Culbertson, president of the College
of mporia