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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06

of either sex. with any other member
OF the family. Social dancing il In
dulged in by 30 per cent OF the boys
and - per cent OF the girls. A large
number OF the dances they attend are
held in hotels. In 81 per cent Of the
boys homes and in 4S per cent of the
girls homes parties for young people
are not held.
me report gives q. detailed recrea-
tional program. Among other things
advocates the establishment OF a
department OF physical training and
play "a recommendation which il now
being carried Quit, the purchase Of a
public 'ool athletic field, co-opera-
ton between the board of education
and the park board in the utilization
OF park Fairgrounds, and a system of
school social centers to be carried on
under the direction Of the superin-
tendent Of schools and principals and
partially maintained by parent-teach-
er associations.
Other recommendations touching
the schools are: School grounds to
be open for play from the closing of
the school to $50 or p. M. and on
Saturdays. with paid teachers or 9TH
ers equipped for such work in charge;
Fairgrounds to be kept open and
supervised during the summer; COM
petent persons to be assigned to ath-
Ietic f.-lds after school hours and on
Saturdays. also at stated hours in
summer; school buildings to be con-
structed and equipped to serve as CEN
tiers Of civic, social, and recreational
activities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06
A CURIOUS Ferry Boat.

Perhaps the most curious ferry boat
to be found in the world is at Simla,
India, says a writer in the January
Strand. The river that flows to the
northeast of SUM, the chief town or
the Simla Hill States, has few bridges,
so, necessity being the mother Of in
vention, a novel method has been
adopted. The skin of a buffalo is in
fiated with air and is placed. with the
four feet upward, to float in the water.
The owner then throws himself over
II, and the one or two passengers sit
or lean on the top of hi :. BY means
Of small paddle in his right hand
and the movement to and fro Of his
legs in the water the owner takes his
passengers across. The journey takes
from three to five minutes and the
modest sum of a pice Cone farthing)
is charged. 1t is only by repeated
crossings in a day that a man can earn
much, but so many natives use this
means of going to and from their viii
lagos that the trade is not unremuner-
alive. Few Kings are more comical
than these mussacks, whether moving
in midstream or being carried back to
the village at night on the owners
back. They are. OF course, very light,
and ar about two and a half yards
long. They seem to be safe, except in
monsoon weather, when heavy rain
has caused a rapid current, but at
such a time two mussacks are often
linked together. SO that, being heavier.
they can avoid the rocks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06
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BOBBY JONES NJ IssEs DRusILLA.
BY MRS EMzLfER

"She can only tell what has happened
to her, but can she compose poetry or
anything else that is an accomplish
ment-tell me that"
We'll, do not know that Drusi1la
is what you would call accomplished"
said Teddy Bear, "but she does know
how to tell an interesting adventure.
ard / think that is better than poe
try
so do L. said Bobby Jones. not
knowing at all what poetry was, but
bound to be loyal to his friend Dru-
silla.
Il can recite poetry said little
wooden soldier from his box under the
table. Would any one like to hear
me?'. And without waiting for a reply
he began:
81 am a soldier brave and would not
Even from the enemy's great big
"Oh. 1 know something better than
that said a woolly dog on wheels.
TT is a verse my grandmother taught
me:
II do not care for fish or pie, and
pudding is no treat.
But when l see a dish Of bones, I eat
and eat and eat
Il think that is pretty bad" said
the rooster from a box Of animals
nearby. Now 1 call this poetry:
IF all the birds could crow like me-
Wiser birds they all would be.
always laugh when from a tree
l hear that silly to-wit, to-wee."
my grandfather's fathers father
used to recite this said a black pussy
cat who sat under the table:
1T would rather be pussy cat than
anything / know.
For if were a little girl I'd have to
learn to sew"
"O-o-o-o-o," came from all over the
room.
That's awful" said Teddy Bear,
land if no one can do better than.
what we have heard. let us go to
sleep
Copyright, 1914. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate, New York;
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CHIIDREN's RECREATIONs.

Oldtime games, such as prisoners
base, leapfrog. blindman's buff. bull in
the ring, hare and hound. and duck
on the rock. are no longer favorites
on the school grounds of today, at
least with boys in Springfield. ILL.,, ac-
cording to an investigation just COM
pleted by Lee F. Hammer and Clar-
ence A. Perry of the Russell Sage
Foundation. Less than one-tenth of
per cent, or about one boy in 1000
in Springfield, mentioned any of these
games. The only activities reported
by over 90 per cent of the boys were
baseball motion picture shows, read
ing. and kite flying.
Motion picture shows were equally
popular with the girls, according to
the report. The girls also INDUCED
in jumping the rope, roller skating
and hide and seek. Standard games
like Il spy" London Bridge, fox and
geese, button button, and blindman's
buff. are at the bottom of the list. in
dicating that they are played by COM
paratively few girls.
An inquiry into tho amusements OF
the high school students showed that
practically all of the high school stu
dents attend the movies OF the bows
Sc per cent. and of the girls, "a pei
cent. attend the theater The BOYS
who attend average about once 9
week. and the girls go almost as fire..
quently. The majority of the visits te
the theater are not made. in the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06
Globe Sights
BY THE ArcHrsON GLOBE.

Who said common sense was COM
mon?
An unparalleled opinion is your opin-
ion, of course.
Sloppy weather probably is the most
generally unsatisfactory brand.
Right after Christmas old people be-
gin to look forward to spring.
To the man who says IT will'' the
chains of destiny are mere cobwebs.
Flapdoodle, in many instances, Is a
funny story about some great person.
In view OF the theory that time is
precious. a good deal Of 1t Is devoted
to argument.
1t sure aggravates a man to be ac-
| cused Of intoxication when he hasn't
had drink
The world grows better. although we
aren't disposed to give the New Years
resolution much credit.
| Probably a cold world is not inter.
ested in the fact that you take a cold
plunge every morning.
| If only fear keeps you on the straight
| and narrow, don't brag about it: the
world hates a coward.
Father probably will receive a bill
next Saturday for the suspenders
daughter gave to him Christmas.
| Some men are going to find heaven
| unsatisfactory if they are unable to
pick a quarrel with their neighbors.
| Imitation may be the sincerest
form of f1attery, but imitators, like
| parrots, are seldom as green as they
| look. .5s5
Because you happen to make a
lucky guess. don't devote the rest Of
your life TO Dragging on your good
Judgment.
French cooking probably is the
worlds greatest, as the epicures in
sist, but calling bum grub. a French
name is no consolation.
| There is this about the gent who is
always getting the worst of It; he il
more likely to tell you about it than
the one who ~'.~aSe Gats the best of
4 It.
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Kansas Comment
t1NKNoWN AMERICA.

Nine men in ten, it may safely be
guessed. If asked to speculate where
Ungava was, would feel pretty GER
tain that they had heard of it In in
terror Africa. If told that 1t is twice
as big as Texas, they might marvel Il
bit that anything of that size, even In
Erica, should have escaped them. But
Ungava isn't in Africa at all. 1t is one
OF the big pieces of unknown America,
and constitutes, in fact, approximately
the north half of the province of Que
bee, Canada. 1t was turned over to
Quebec q few years ago, and has re-
Gently been made the subject of a
curious report prepared by the prOvin-
GUS people have in the last two or three
centuries taken the trouble to explore;
bits of Ungava, and write more or less
about what they found: but these
writings have never until now been
gathered together SO as to provide a
general view of the huge country. This
work of collation. has been done by the
provincial authorities. The Ungava re-
gion is in general a vast plateau, 800
to 1000 feet high; perhaps a fourth of
its area is occupied by lakes. There is
a great network of rivers, among which
are some of the most wonderful water
falls in the world. One of these falls
is declared to have sheer drop of 302
feet: it's potential waterpower develop
ment. at lowest stage of the river is
calculated at 10000. 1t is gathered
from the authorities that the country
climate is SO severe that little Of 1t will
ever be useful for agricultural purposes.
That, however, will be taken with al
lowance by people who know what
northern Russia and middle Alaska can
do agriculturally. The timber has
largely been burned over. and large
trees are now to be found mainly along
the rivers only. Ungava is almost
twice the area of Germany, and in all
the world there are few regions so ex-
tensive that are SO little known.-Sa-
lima Journal
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naughty thing. II you win come with me
4 Win find You bright ribbon Tor I ny
AWAY" Is s 81 -
Go. sammy" said his father soiemnly.
Never will You find a lady more gracious
and forgiving!''
Sammy smiled at G0ldilocks and tucked
his hand In hers.
''You are very kind said the professor
earnestly.
Il viii send him home soon," she smiled
Then she turned and added: II am the
rector's niece, Miss Allen She went
disappeared among the trees the professor
still stood there staring after them, with
the red-gold curl twining around his fin
gers, as the image OF it's owner was en-
twfning itself bout his heart.
And the professor neglected to return
that curl to Rose Allen In fact, he kept
1t always. For" said he afterward "a
man may keep curl of his wife's hair.''
Even IL he doesn't use it as flyaway,'
added Rose. as she Rugged little Sammy.
l-(Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-06

1AAA2 = "a avn ~ AA41 = = A@ahs
Being virtuous in one particular il
not a license for lapses in another.
Golfers favorite indoor sport this
long while has been to lambast every
newspaper or other publication that
opens its columns to patent medicine
advertising. Generally speaking. this
Is a righteous crusade. 1t does not
follow. however, that all prepared
medicines which may be advertised
are deleterious and impositiOns on the
public.
But while Golfers deplOres patent
medicine advertising. and points with
pride to its stand in the premises, 1t
appears to be exceedingly enthusiastic
about cigarette advertising. In q re-
cent number of Golfers double
page cigarette advertisement appeared
in the middle of the issue. 1t was IN
colors, and by far the most conspic-
uous advertisement in the issue. Tne
revenue from it must have been fancy
possibly $1,000 for the single inser-
ton.
Maybe Golfers considers cigarette
smoking to be a most effective anu
dote for patent-medicine swinging, or
perhaps, just the kind of SUBSTITUTE
that some folk may crave.
Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison
who can hardly be CLASSIFIED as
"cranks," and whose opinions are en-
titled to consideration. are among
those who deem the cigarette to be as
much of a mocker of men as strong
drink is.
Kansas. that Golfers admires for
few things and ridicules for many
has placed the same sort of a ban on
cigarettes that it has on whisky. Inelr
sale is prohibited absolutely. 1t ID
forbidden that minors even may
smoke them.
No Kansas newspaper that has any
respect for the sentiment of its con-
stituency accepts cigarette aoVerusins'
Golfers circulates in Kansas. IL 49,
therefore, a handy medium throueh
which the cigarette advertisers, VINO
are generally denied the local adver-
Using columns. can. solicit clgarette
business in Kansas of the mail order
variety, 1t isn't likely. though. that
either the cigarette advertisers or Col
lier's considered this phase. or posi-
bility of the advertising in question.
The point is, isn't Golfers a good
deal in the same position of the pot
which called the kettle black when it
Trades. even with such good reason
against patent-medicine advertising
and then wallows most lucrativefy IN
the cigarette that IS neio
by so many to be SO harmful 10 It's
devotees, and especially the more
youthful among them?
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Journal Entries

A mans idea of his own good points
is more than likely to be faulty.
Most of the innocent bystanders''
must plead guilty to the charge of be-
ing "rubbernecks'
=
1t is pretty difficult for anybody to
keep up his interest in game he is
unable to win at.
= +
There's generally whole lot of diff
ference between what a man goes after
and what obtains.
When a girl coyly confesses to being
lover eighteen she is at once set down
as being considerably over 1t.
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Euening Chat
Who Said What?
BY RUTH CAMERON

NnO Sall W ADdt.
Can you place half the absolutely ia
miliar quotations which you read, OF
even half of those that you use your
self?
I do not think the average person
can, and as an amusing test 1 gave my
letter friends list of very familiar
quotations yesterday, promising to
supply the key today.
Below is the list:
Uneasy lies the head that wears
a CROWN = Shakespeare, Henry the
Fourth.
AN honest mans the noblest work OF
God."-Pope.
Handsome is that handsome does. 81
Goldsmith.
Touch not, taste not, handle not.
Colossians.
In the spring the young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love-
Tennyson, Locksley Hall.
THE love of money Is the root of all
evil."|TimOthy.
My life is one dem'd horrfd grind.
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.
"And thereby hangs tale. Shake
speare, The Tanning Of the Shrew.
File, foh and FUN.
1 smell the blood Of British man.
Shakespeare, King Lear.
BE sure you're right, then &c
ahead. DAVID Crockett's motto.
breast."-Pope.
"A live dog is better than a dead
Observation-Disclosures.
"Silence gives consent. ''-Goldsmith
Journeys end in lovers meetings
I-Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
IF eyes were made for seeing
Then beauty is its own excuse for
being. "-Emerson.
THE laborer is worthy of his hire. -
Timothy.
taxes."-Benjamin Franklin.
There never was q good war OF q
bad peace."-Benjamin Franklin.
ITO err is human. to forgive divine. u
Pope.
I'm that fierce light that beats upon
a throne.''-Tennyson
Give the devil his due."-Shake-
speare. Henry the Fourth.
"A young man married is young
man that's married. Shakespeare
Tanning of the Shrew.
Much learning doth make thee
mad.''-Acts.
IF a man can. write a better book
or preach a better sermon, or make a
better mouse trap than his neighbor
though his hut be in the forest, the
world will make a beaten track to his
door,
That last quotation is hardly fair
as it has long been a much discussed
question whence 1T originated. Almost
Eeveryone thinks it is from Emerson. but
it is not to DE found in his printed
works A Few claimed it for Thoreau
Gilbert Hubbard, when asked whence II
came. modestly announced that 1t wal
his own. The final solution seems tc
be that it was spoken by Emerson IN
one of his lectures but omitted when he
printed Them 1t found its way to the
world through the note book of one OF
his hearers
| Now. if you didn't see this list yes
terday. pc. haps you'll find 1t amusing
to take it home today and try 1t on
your family or friends
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From, Other Pens
ROCK PILE VERSUS DEATH LIST.

ROCk PILE VERSUS DEATH LIST.
Out in Portland, Ore. no one has been
injured, let alone killed, in an auto
mobile accident In the last nine months.
And all because the city maintains a
good sized pile of hard rocks at its
municipal Jail. To man whose most
strenuous exercise is the opening Of
mail, issuance of orders which exercise
only his brain and his mouth, or the
pushing of fountain-pen. a rock pile
looks like a mountain. The majority
of automobile owners, unless they hap
pen to be golf players, seldom get more
than this amount of exercise. Conse-
queQtfy.~ when they are. furnished with
picks and ordered to attack said pie
of rocks their hearts are as lead. In
Portland the automobile driver who is
caught while travelling at a speed in
excess Of the limit prescribed is hur-
ried to the police court. tried, and, il
found guilty, escorted to the rock pile.
there to work out his sentence. No
fines are levied. Every conviction
means a sojourn with the pick and rock
squad. AS result there is little or no
speeding in Portland, a city of 100000
people. And, again. because there is no
speeding, there are comparatively no
automobile accidents. The record OF
the last nine months shows the eff
cheney of the ordinance. 1t is hard on
the undertakes and doctors, but it's a
pleasant protection for those residents
of Portland who find it necessary to
travel the streets on foot.-Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
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TO AVOID CONFUSION.

Conflicts in the law, creating litiga-
ton and confusion. would be greatly
reduced If a legislative reference bu-
reau, or a like agency, were attached
to the library of congress. as the Iron
Trade Review insists. Moreover. 1t
ought to checkmate a flood of ridicu-
lous bills, prevent Implications and
avoid loose language in framing the
measures. An exact standard OF leg
islative' science seeing impossible this
side Of Utopia. but the bureau would
nevertheless encourage clearly con-
sidered legislation before it would be
laid before congress. ,-sI---.s-,. .rf
These facts have caused to be re-
ceived with pleasure the announce
ment that the libr: ry Of congress will
shortly undertake a service similar to
that of the legislative reference bu-
reau established by most Of the states.
Bills and resolutions of the most
absurd nature are thrown into the
chopper" under the present system.
many Of them never to be heard of
afterward, and never designed for en-
actment. They cause, however, a suf-
ficient furry to make business in this
country apprehensive. And foreign
ers, who are expected to invest their
securities in the United States. not
understanding the modus operandi.
are often startled to such an extent
that they abandon their plans and in
vest elsewhere.
Congress, in 1906. authorized an ap-
preparation to enable the librarian to
prepare such indexes, digests and
compilations of laws as may be re-
auired for congress" 1t is understood
that the library now hopes to go fur
Their, employing a corps Of experts in
law, competent to analyze, summar-
ize and compare; an auxiliary corps
Of translators and indexers and as
sistants familiar with the bibliogra-
ply of the law. Study would be given
to existing laws and other material
in relation to proposed legislation and
digests and comprehensive statements
would be presented.
The immediate adoption Of a meth
cd which would effect such a system
cannot be too strongly urged.
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From the Hickeyville Clarion

From the Hickeyville Clarion.
Grandma Whipple sent down to the
city for a Lew set of false teeth but
they were too high in the instep and
she couldn't get her mouth shet with
them in. Jed Frink, our gentlemanly
and congenial blacksmith and dentist.
says 1t is q wonder some. folks Will
never learn to patronize home indus
try.
Uncle Ezra Harkins' son Jabez il
taking lessons in art. Uncle Ezra
amt much of an artist himself. ex-
cepting in the animal line. All he
kin draw is flies.
The motto Of the weather bureau is.
BE sure you're wrong. then go
ahead"
Old man Purdy says he wouldn't
trade his corn for all the weather
bureaus this side Of Tophet. When
his corn aches 1t is surely going to
he don't know what Is goin' to hap
pen.
Miss Amy Pringle says a girl has
to be up and doing to land a man at
the matrimonial altar these days.
She has got to have the beauty OF a
Maxine Elliott, the charm of Bern
hardt, the cunning of a Madam du
Barry. the culinary proficiency Of a
Sarah T. ROrer, the artistic soul OF
Rosa Bonheur, the conversational
ability OF q Carrie Chapman Gait, the
strength Of mind of Queen Eliza
beth and the ffgger of Venus. When
a man pays a dollar for a marriage IL
cense nowadays he wants whole lot
for his money.
Uncle Abner.
What has become Of the old party who
used to whittle full rugged ships inside
Of glass bottles and give 'em away to
friends and relatives for Christmas pres
ents?
A pair Of coppertoed boots and an
orange would make a mighty slim Christ
mas for the modern kid, but they are
what us fellers used to get.
1t IL getting SO the public kin get used
to anything. Only once in a while now
anybody mentions the war
The barber shop quartet is practicing
up for the season. This Is sure sign
of long hard winter.
For a Job that sticks nobody has got
anything on the paperhanger.
Now Is the time for the college fellers
to come home for the holidays and show
their folks correct language and table
manners.
II you fold up the napkin it is sign
that you expect 10 be invited to eat an
other meal in the house, and II you don't
what is a Teller to do? Hank Tumms
solves the problem by sticking the napkin
in his pocket and taking 1t home with
him. '.'',1' no. -"
When a Teller leorns how to run his au-
tomobile 1t is time to buy new machine.
No woman is satisfied with a photo
graph that looks like her. Any photOg-
rapher who can't knock fifteen years on
u womans age might just as wei quit
and go to work on the section gang.
A temperance lecturer, in the course OF
an address, gazed severely at his all too
apathettc audience.
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QUAKER fluctuations.

[From the Chicago News.1
Imagination is the mother Of most
of our troubles.
Ever meet a girl who was as pretty
as her own picture?
A misdirected search for happiness
is the stepmother of selfishness.
And sometimes word to the wife
is sufficient to start something.
Our idea of a wise man is one who
is just a trifie less foolish than the
r jority.
Contentment comes to those who
desire but little and are satisfied with
less.
A man never realizes just how fool
ish he can feel until he has attended
a o'clock tea.
The average woman never calls it
f1attery when a man praises her for
qualities she knows she doesn't pos
SeSS.
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Germany is the latest nation to be
warned" by the United States for al
legged improper interference with the
commerce Of this country on the high
seas. But the chances are that Meth
er Germany. Great Britain nor any of
the other European belligerents will
do much worrying over protests of
this sort. They haven't such bad
memories but they can recall the
divers warnings that the United
states has directed to those in author
fty in Mexico during the past couple
Of years and what happened, or
didn't happen. when they were
ignored or disposed of with a reply
eouched in a tumble Of diplomatic
3Argon.
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President James of the University
Of Illinois is among the few who
practice what they preach. So OPP
posed is he to nepotism that one of
the professors in the university had to
resign his position before DR.. James
would consent to the professor mar
rying his daughter. mo son-in-la w
on faculty Of which am the head"
was the unalterable verdict of Dr.
James. Did President Wilson happen
to have like scruples. Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo would have been
hunting another job long ago.