The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-03
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than great riches; an4 loving favour rather
than silver and gold."-ProTerbs xiii
Many of the readers of this paper
are familiar with the Saturday Night
club. 1t is a unique organization. It
is literary club with a flavor. The
membership. thirty, is limited. It's
mem bers are not known at the meet
ings by their usual names, but are re-
ferred to or addressed only as the
gentleman from the state represented
The state he is given does not neces-
sarily mean that he has ever lived
within it's boundaries or even visit
cd it.
The Gentleman from Mississippi"
was down for a paper at the regular
meeting of the club last Saturday
evening. He was not ready to fill his
part of the program and requested the
writer of this article, the Gentleman
from Oregon to jump into the
breach, act as "Mississippi's" substi-
tute and bridge over the existence of
the club from its meeting on April 1
until next fortnight should bring
around the set program for that par
ticular date
The Gentleman from Oregon, to
be sure. responded, not nobIy but
necessarily. Service is a great thing,
and of course. if one can serve an in
dividual and club at the same time,
it is an opportunity not to be over
looked. As one member said when
he learned that Mississippi was not to
fill his date: For this relief, let US
give thanks
Here is story, true one. and from
the writer's own experience last No
vember, that he told last Saturday
evening on the occasion mentioned.
To be sure, the gentleman from Ore
son really talked about the necessity
and Importance to a community of
good hotels and good roads-but that
is another story, as Rudyard would
say.
zone morning in November, my
wife, daughter and I landed, from
steamer plying up Puget Sound, at
Vancouver British Columbia, intend
ing to stay only a day at that place.
The objective point of the trip was
Powell river. further up the sound to
the location of what is said to be the
greatest paper mill in the world 1
marvellous process by which wood was
turned into the white paper upon
which this article is printed; but I
wanted to see this big mill, located
where the raw material was obtained
and where the most modern methods
were employed; but the regular
steamer to Powell river had been
taken off. There was nothing at hand
except a lumber boat of slow speed
and rather disconcert:ng accommoda-
tions.
'As.my daughter was not very well,
we decided to abandon the Powell riv-
er trip and stay over a day or two in
Vancouver. Vancouver is a beautiful
city of150, 600 people, and the principal
hotel there is all that could be desired
in architecture, comfort and cuisine
The i'll member of the family began
to show symptoms of a real sickness.
There we were, in a foreign land, none
of us knowing a single soul of all the
people in a city with customs of it's
own and with a government under a
king instead of by a democracy; a city
where the automobiles and all vehicles
turn to the left and where an Ameri-
can in crossing a busy street is GER
tainly bewildered to know which way
to dodge in his efforts to be the first
of The Quick or the Dead
HAD we desired to avail ourselves
of the services of a department store,
it would have been easy; for there
are good newspapers there and big
advertisers, and the merchants told
the reader what they had; the reader
knew what he could get and where
to get it.
But doctors are not good general
advertisers. 1t is not customary to
see in the columns of a paper the
announcement that doctor is a spe-
cialist on tonsilitis; has had great sue
cess in relieving distress of this ma
ture and, in more or less black type,
points with pride to the fact that the
mayor was one of his successful pa
tents, and that the sheriff was quick
ly cured of a sore throat by this
skilled practitioner. Nothing of the
sort. There was simply sort of ply
sicians' directory reading: DR.. James
Smith, Is East Georgia street. Eye,
ear. nose and throat, Telephone Main
1862 and there were a lot of these
advertisements, IL SUCH they may be
called. They were practically all the
same, excepting the name. the ad-
dress and the telephone number.
In a quandary, and abstractediy
looking out from the window of the
hotel toward fine, twelve story, mod
ern fireproof office block, the To-
pekan caught the words, in gilt letters
on one of the front windows of Van
couver Block:
"'Dr. Mac Lehman
Here was an inspiration. In any
event, that doctor had a good name,
he also had a good office in a good
building; 1 will see him.
AN immediate visit to the doctors
office found him in. in attractive
quarters, a fine appearing gentleman