The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-12
AS MAN TO Man.


One of the officials at the state
house complained the other day about
his face hurting him from the effects
OF sunburn he had accumulated while
on an automobile trip. An attache OF
the Office advised him to go to the
and apply to his blistered visage. The
newspaper man, who happened to be
present added his endorsement OF
cold cream to that Of the Office en-
ployee. and the official went away to
seek for balm of Gilead.
He came back in about two hours
and he sure was sore on Topeka drug
stores.
II have been to every drug store
in town." he said, ION both sides OF
the avenue from Ninth street to
Fourth, and not a one of them had
any cold cream. This is dickens OF
q place. Bet 1 could have found that
cream in the little old drug store back
in the home town."
The newspaper man was surprised
At this carelessness on the part OF To-
Deka druggists in the matter of cold
cream and he asked the Democratic
Office holder for details.
"We1l,' said that sunburned digni-
tary, II went into twenty stores and
I asked them at every place for cold
cream. One clerk offered me ice
cream, but I was sure did not want
that. told him I wanted cold cream.
Gold; 1 spelled it for him. l told
him 1 wanted cream that had been
kept in a refrigerator. He had
whipped cream, he said, but not the
kind I wanted.
II went down the street to another
store, and it was the same way. They
had coca-cola and tame cherry and
chocolate frappes and they offered
me my choice of these, but insisted
on having cold cream.
mo, l did not tell them it was for
sunburn. They ought to have known
that from the looks of my face.
II crossed the street and went into
a store with a marble front and
French plate glass shelves and brindle
fringe hanging on the soda fountain
and there I asked hopefully for cold
cream. The proprietor sent me to the
soda fountain and a blonde clerk with
his hair parted exactly in the middle
vor or pineapple.
Il went to another place and they
told me the ice man had missed them
that day. 1 went clear to Fourth street
but if any druggist on the route had
cold cream he wouldn't sell it to me.
Say. you fellows wasn't stringing me
about that stuff, were you? There is
such a thing. isn't there? My face is
in bad shape and I want to do some
thing for it,
And the appointive office holder of
the state of Kansas looked sharply at
the newspaper man. (The office en-
ployee had fled at the first word of ex-
planatiOn.)
The newspaper mans face is cast in
a serious. solemn mold and he held his
ground and looked calmly back at the
aggrieved official and declared to him
that cold cream was the best thing in
the world for face that had been
blistered by the sun and advised him
to send to certain wholesale drug
house in Chicago for the DOPE
1t is sure hard lines when an honest,
sunburned citizen has to tramp the
streets of a city and rampse through its
drug stores in a fruitless search Of q
healing lotion for his pain and suffer-
ing. These drug stores were all
stocked up with ice cream for the
stomach and whipped cream for the
palate, but. not a drop Of cold cream
could this pilgrim find for his face. Is
man to lose all the skin from his
face for want Of such a simple remedy?
The drug stores are forbidden by law
to keep and sell liquor and beer but
there is no ordinance against the ham
ding and sale of cold cream.
Unless there is some change in bus
mess methods a man will either have
to wear veil when he goes out in the
sun, or mask. or be disfigured for
life
For want Of nail the shoe was lost.
Tor want OF shoe the horse was lost.
Tor want of horse the rider was lost.
Yes. and for want of little cold
cream at the right time and place this
occupant OF the state house is going to
lose his skin, his peace of mind and his
1a1th In the advancement of humanity
1t is too bad.