The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
Governor Capper Is at End of
"Cupid' Patience.
No More Love Affairs To Be
FOstered by Executive.
PRETTY WIDOW STARTED IT
Her Letter of Love Was Print
ed by the Newspapers.
As a Result Hundreds of Male
Cries Were Heard.
Governor Capper has baked.

Governor Capper has baked.
He won't umpire cooling contests
and he won't play agent and middle
man for Dan Cupid. Lonesome con-
stituents who haven't the time or are
too lyniG to look up their own soul
mates, must look for relief from other
sources. AS a result of the governors
decision a lot of first class romance
has gone to smash and nearly 200
letters from lonely masculine souls to
an adorable Kansas widow are ready
for the scrap heap.
Being war time governor when he
was educated to love peace is suf-
ficiently strenuous for the Kansas
executive. He wants to go to the
E United States senate. He will make
an adroit and active campaign for the
nomination and election. But he won't
conduct a clearing house for love
dreamers. Even at the risk of alienat-
ing a few fond constituents. the gov
ernor won't permit his office to be-
come a central agency for the dis
tribution of mushy. gushy love mis-
sives.
Widow Started 1t.
1t was a Kansas woman-beautiful,
by her own admission. and simply
wild about children and in love with
housework and cooking and the quiet,
simple life of the farm-who caused
the governor to make his decision. He
lonesome Romeos who wanted the
governor to aid in finding an at
tractive, moderately wealthy. home
broke unencumbered Juliet That was
easy. But this Kansas widow with a
deep seated yearning for a home mate
and a willingness to go fifty-fifty on
any reasonable proposition. started the
trouble.
Some Of the hungry news hounds of
the state house read the beautiful
widows letter 1t was a dull news
day, with the Huns holding a caucus
over the Byng drive and the Bolshe
wiki organizing an initiative and refer
endum on the price of peace. So the
widows letter landed a big bunch of
publicity.
Then Came the Letters.
Then came the letters There we're
any number of perfectly loVable
bachelors from the rural districts VINO
wanted a companion for life " no
would enjoy helping with the a. m.
milking and who appreciate the out
door freedom and liberty of fo!lowin z
walking cultivator fourteen hours a
day during the season when life in the
house is too hot anyhow. There were
also a bunch of AA1 widowers with
uphill farms and crop of vhiskers
and three or four dear little unwashe1
youngsters who would be included n
the love bargain. Then there were i
few paved town chaps who inquired
concerning the visible assets of ;he
lovely widow and in a postscript asked
her to send a certified photograph by
return mail.
Governor Capper went to bed with
game knee. So Charles H. SessI ons,
the governors private secretary. tried
to assert the prize offerings in the
love lottery. The second day Sessions
turned the job over to W. H. Souders,
the governors private stenographer.
who works on two shifts of the union
scale with but one state check. Sou
ders saw neither the humor nor logic
in the mail order matrimonial bureau
and laid the letters away until Official
business was less pressing. That Is
the reason the Kansas widow with 4
burning ambition for someone who
would really love her, has not heard
from the 200 volunteers who have
been too busy to go to war or direct
their own matrimonial arrangements.
And now the lid has gone on the
whole project. The governors office
Will not be used as a clearing house
for bashful. timid souls who cannot
work without their own Grooming,
coddling and cuddling system.