The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
IN STOCK SURVEY A UNIQUE PRESENT
Local Markets Teacher Issues Great
Urged in Report. Gift to Advertisers.
Fifty Per Cent Thirteen Splendid
in H C. and Joe. Paragraphs and Verses
NUMBER OF HOGS INCREASE WORK OF SECRETARY PiNET
FiftyTwo Per Cent Purchased Appeals Intellect
in Same Markets Than to Eye.
Total OF 5,24s If Teachings Are Observed
in Survey. World VIII Improve.
WORK OF SECRETARY PINET
to Intellect Rather
Than to Eye.
Rather
+ Teachings Are Observed
World VIII Improve.

Many expensive Christmas gifts
were made in 1920: nor is the senti-
ment of the heart always expressed by
the value of such gifts. But perhaps
greater than any gift bestowed was
the calendar sent advertisers in 1.-THE
Kansas Teacher" the official organ oil
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton.
| compliments of the Kansas Teach
err were the words inscribed on the
calendars; but inside the finely litho-
graphed covers are thirteen of the
finest paragraphs and verses that the
most ardent lover of literature could
| hope to peruse. And every one is the
/ product of the pen of Frank L. Pinet
secretary Of the association.
I Gifts That Money Cannot Buy.
, These are gifts that no money can
/ buy; gifts beyond price. For they are
gifts to the intellect rather than to the
eye or the appetite. or the desire OF
worldly luxury. And il each recipient
of one of these calendars reads its con-
tents and ponders upon them and
lives up to their teachings, the world
must be improved commensurately.
The thought for January is "Aspira-
tions''-a prayer that the best may be
seen m men and women; that faith
may endure in human hearts. And ii
IS couched in language SO beautiful
that the senses are lulled into peace
fitness and the soul is rested.
February Thought Is Music.
For February the thought is music
music and beauty in everything.
Music in the battered fiddle of the
blind troubadour on the street as well
as in the priceless violin of the mas
ter: music in the wall of the wind as
we'll as the roaring of the storm-'To
touch the chords Of Love with tender
ness, with gentleness and with I'M
r. III T. -
True Musician"
Then comes the tribute of apprecia-
ton to the common things that may
be possessed by pauper as well as
prince. There is beauty in the sea,
the sun, the skies, the stars, the rivers
sees beauty in the common things
shall have fellowship with all the chill
dren of Nature.
The Castles We Build" are then
commented upon. Fair and beautiful
castles-things that are to be-that
demolishes in a moment.
But alas for him!-O friend of
mine-alas for him who builds no
castles of filny air. who dreams no
dreams at Mid-Noon, who owns no
manors in SPAIN
Thought For brotherhood.
There is a thought for all in
Brotherhood" It brings to mind the
fact that after all all men are the
same, made from the same clay.
OF the same thoughts. the same fears,
the same hopes and ambitions.
And in the end, at Lies last tavern,
in token of our brotherhood, Death
shall pledge US all the golden chalice
of equal Fellowship"
THE Earthly Paradise is a picture
of home-a home barren of luxuries.
without tho doors nf which wolf
keeps eternal vigilance and above
which the skies are cold and grey. But
within the four plain walls is Love-
"tropic isle in a savage and wrathful
sea and a fair oasis amid the tawny
sands of lonely desert spaces"-for
this is Homei
The Highway of Life.
Among the poems contained in the
is THE Highway" which fol-
lows:
Life is n highway. wondrous fair;
And We are but pilgrims Journeying there.
And it's here the rain and there the rain
But ever the sun comes out again;
And it's over the bill and under the hill
And its here a stone and there stone
And it's many mile one must go alone;
And it's here a foe and there a friend
And many turn and, at last, the end.
Life is a highway, wondrous fair.
And We are but pilgrims tourneying
there"
There are TWO other verses on the
seasons that are especially worthy of
mention:
Spring.
The scent of violets in the fragrant wood.
The sound of little birds that sing
A wondrous song; the awakening mother
hood
OF cosmfc Nature-thfs is Spring.
Autumn.
"A purple haze above the doomed and dying
wood
A flame of sumac on all the drowsy hills.
A touch of pathos and OF sadness that
stills
The heart with tears and Is not under
stood"
Pinet formerly was a contributor to
Recreation and other
and also to various news
papers in Chicago and Kansas City.
Since then his work of building up the
Kansas State Teachers association and
editing the Kansas Teacher has kept
him too busy to, devote much time to
literary work. However, many of his
verses and considerable prose is to be
found in the Kansas Teacher from time
to time. He published a book Of verse
in 1905. None of the prose or verses
in the calendar have ever been pub
liShed