The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-13
Society Leader Just -"DOtes"
Over Saving Daylight.
She Likes To Watch the Sun
Paint the Horizon.
GARDENER IS NOT PLEASED
Moved Up Clock Makes Him
Get Out Before Daylight.
One Woman Who Is "Funeral
Fiend" Is Disappointed.

How do you like the daylight saw
ing plant" is the question that the
women are all. asking each other, af-
ter trying it for nearly two weeks.
II dote on it," says the most prom
inent society and club woman in Kan
sas. Il always did love to get up in
the early morning of summer days, to
see the first rays of the sun painting
the horizon in rose and gold, when
the birds are singing and the flowers
blooming fresh with dew"
oh. yes, I understand all the
poetry about it," answered her inter-
locutor, but at what time do you
fancy the sun used to come up by the
old time, along about the latter part
of the 'Junes where the roses are
straying? -
AT $50, wasn't 2" replied Dame
Society, who usually rises about ten
O'Clock, unless she makes a special eff
fort and rubs her eyes open at eight
when she particularly wants to hear
a bird caroling above new blown
violet.
DiscomInodes Gardener.
The question was put to another
leading woman of the city's activities.
Il like the plan first rate" she an
swered i'm her brisk way, and If 1t
did Europe any good, it may help US.
But the man who takes care of my
yard doesn't like it. He tells me he
always got up at daylight anyhow,
and now he has to dig out an hour
before it gets light and. the woman
sighed for the sad fate of her gar
dener. even while she acknowledged
the efficacy of the saving plan
The club wo1..an who is always late
to every meeting or party she attends
was asked about the hours jump in
time The woman's reputation for tar
diness is such that she is generally
l., Tafc n
replied that the new time schedule
had been great hardship for her. She
forgot to move her clock forward in
compliance with the order, with the
consequence that she appeared at
meeting the week after the law went
into effect, two hours late instead of
one. Ordinarily she gets into session
some time before the tumult and the
Shouting dies" but this time the adj
journment had taken place. and the
cantor was locking up the hall.
= Another Topeka woman, whose
taste in matters of recreation is pc
euliar. offers her own objection to the
new time schedule. She goes to ev-
cry funeral in town. unless it requires
the outlay of carfare to reach the
scene. that being her idea of a won
. derful time, as well as a simple and
inexpensive pleasure.
Il Can't Get to Cemetery.
This extra hour of daylight in the
evening" she complains, "allows the
hours of the funerals to be placed
later. The way it is now, it is more
than 1 can do to get out to the ceme-
terry and back again in time to get
supper for my husband, who makes a
great disturbance unless feed him at
s o'clock, and in these days of so
much pneumonia and such numbers
of deaths, there isn't day goes by
without at least one burying. Hurry
as I will, 1 can't get around to nearly
all of them"
At last a member of the Good Cow
.ernment club was cautiously ap-
preached on the subject. Said she:
1.-THE best laws in the world have their
drawbacks. Nothing is perfect in this
faulty world, and we can't expect that
1T will be all beer and skittles for any
of US Personally, I am well pleased
with the new order. But for the City
of Topeka as whole, I am profound
~ sorry. Why? Just because the To-
peka public is given one hour more
every day in which it must blush to
behold the bronze-adorned turret of
our comfort station"