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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-12
LEPRosY MAY BE UCRED.
Inmates of "Nount Happy" in Ha
wall, Are ParoIed Quickly.

Honolulu. T. H, July 12.-Ten
more inmates of Mount Happy" for
merly known as the Kalihi hospital
for lepers, have just been paroled by
the territorial board of nealth as the
result of treatments with the new
chaulmoogra oil specific evolved by
DR.. A. L. Dean. president of the Uni
versity of Hawaii.
They will be compelled to report
only occasionally to the health board
for examina lions to ascertain whether
there has been any recurrence of the
disease, as the treatments have
checked the Ieprosy in their cases to
such an extent that it is not consid-
cred dangerous for them to mingle
with persons who are not afflicted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-12

acre of ground on Black Creek for
gas The well drilled there at that
time started the drilling experiments
in Cowley county which have led
to present developments. The bonds
will mature in January, 1928. The
new issue will be serial bonds, paid
out in ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-12
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
July II. 1897.

July IL, 1897.
The survivors of the Battle of the Blue
those of Capt. Burns battery, are writ
ing their impressions of the battle. There
are a dozen of these men now living i'll
Topeka. Harvey d. Rice has recently writ
ten his impressions of the battle and has
presented them to the State Historical So
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AFTER BABY WAS BORN
Many Mothers Left IN Weakened
Condition

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-ciety- As each one of the survivors writes
his impressions and files it with the soci-
ETY., they will be kept together and bound.
1t was for those who were killed in the
Battle of the Blue that G. G. Gage erected
the magnificent monument at Topeka Gene
terry. Mrs. Burns, wife of the captain of
the battery, had painted q picture in oil
representing the battle. and presented it
to Shawnee county. 1t now occupies a
prominent place in the district court room.
Mr. and Mrs. A P Wilder returned
Thursday from a several weeks visit in
New York They were accompanied home
by their daughter, Miss Susie, who has
been visiting in Chicago.
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Olney, Ill.-''For over a year after
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weakness of the female organs. AL
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Evening star., 1922-11-20
WORK FOR PEACE,
MRS. HUCK'S WISH
New Representative Tells
Woman's City Club Of
Plans in Congress.

The sixty-seventh Congress of the
member modesty" from the second
woman member to enter its portals.
for Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. re-
Gently elected to I'LL the unexpired
term Of her father. the late Repre-
| sentative William Mason Of Illinois.
declared her intention Of not remain
ing in the background in an address
before the members Of the Women's
City Club at q banquet celebrating
the third anniversary OF the organt-
zseion held at the City Club Saturday
night.
Il am interested in the child labor
amendment to tho United States Con-
stitution. but my real work will be
for worldpeace," declared Mrs Huck,
who said that 1t was an obligation Of
this generation to work effectively
for world peace.
Mrs Huck. who received her early
school training in tho District Of CO.
lumbia, told the members she also
had her training in national ques-
tions when she was in Washington
with her father. When, as q child.
and heard discussions on the Nc
kinley bill and the political topics
: of the day at that time. Mrs. Huck
| informed her audience that she rep
resented the largest congressional
| district in the country.
Anniversary Banquet.
The occasion of the banquet last
night was to celebrate the third an
| niversary Of the founding Of the
| Women's City Club, which has grown
| from thirty-two members three years
ago to the present membership Of
| $500 and vowed to reach aroud 1000.
Miss Mabel Boardman declared that
Of legislation in the last few years.
but. she said. Legislation will not
better the character Of the nation"
urging the motto Thou shalt not"
rather than Thou canst not
Judge Mary O'Toole reviewed the
members to fight for civic betterment,
among which she suggested women
on the juries. Mrs. Emily Newell
Blair deplored the manner in which
the suburbs were being laid out and
developed in squares. She urged the
condition and make the suburbs con-
form in beauty and development with
the inner parts of the city.
Urges support for Men.
j Henry E. stringer. president of the
City Club, extended the welcome of
the organization that he represents.
and urged the women of the city to
| back the men in the projects that
| they undertake.
! Other speakers were Miss Julia
| Lathrop and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton. Mrs. Harold Paul Parks was
chairman and Mrs. Lyman B. Sworn
tstedt tosstmaster.
| The members Of the banquet COM
mittee were: Mrs. Harold Paul Parks
| and Mrs. George Eastment: music
committee. Mrs. Frances Pierce STRAIT
ton and Mrs. George Kicker: decora-
| tions. Mrs. o. E. Hunt and Mrs. George
w. Eastment: finance, Mrs. Laura A.
Bradley and Miss Olive Beatty: seat
ing, Mrs. Mabel Hiatt. Mrs. Harwood
! Read, Mrs. Jennie o. Berlinger and
Miss Margaret Vail; publicity, Mrs.
Ellis Meredith, and ushers. Miss Lucy
Watt.
Evening star., 1922-11-20
LIVING COST STILL TOPS
1914 MARK 81 PER CENT
Food, Clothing and Coal Prices
Continue to Climb, Industrial
Boards Report Shows.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 20.-Ths
cost Of living among wage earners'
families in the United States was
57.1 per cent higher on October Is
last than in July. 1914, the national
Industrial conference board an.
nounced yesterday. There was an
increase Of / per cent in the month
preceding October Is. Continued
slight increases in the average cost
Of food, clothing and coal were
noted.
Between July. 1920. when the
peak OF the rise in the cost Of liv-
ing since 1914 was reached, and o.
tober, 1929, the cost of living drop.
ped 2b.2 per cent" q statement said.
Evening star., 1922-11-20
SUES FOR INSURANCE.
Woman, Indicted for Husband's
Death, Seeks 90, 900.
wINCTIESTER, Ky.. Noven

WINCHESTER, KY. November 2o.-
-Mrs'' Nancy Renaker. widow Of
Leon Renaker., mysteriously slain In
s. nis home here last July has filed
ance companies to force payment Of
policies on the life Of her husband, in
which she WAS named beneficiary.
Mrs. Renaker IL under indictment on
q charge Of conspiracy to murder in
connection with the death Of her
husband.
The amount in controversy In the
suits 10 $4,000. RenakSr carried
q total Of $4,000 insurance. . part Of
which already has been paid. Some
Of the policies carried Z 1ouble In
defnnfty clause In case Of death from
accident or violence.
Evening star., 1922-11-20
HOSPITAL HELD UP.
Five Patients Robbed BY Bandits
IN Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. November 2o.--Ttiree
masked mon boldly entered the Nor.
row Public Health Hospital, 11sz
Mount street faced hvs patients to
the wan with rAvoivera and robbed
mediate possession, about $50 and
.jewslfy worth many titnee - much
rhe fobbsry took place IN the roorAa-
tton room q the. end of the hoapitArs
mxin hail.. where the Victims afl Of
;slam; sealnens .eee 4c. Sngsoee4A faa, j
7 ~ Il 'easEl e Fl
Evening star., 1922-11-20
BOY OF z IN PULLMAN =
PUZZLES N. Y. POLICE
Child Travels Alone From Louis
lana and Cannot Tell
Who He Is.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 2o.--A two
and boy, who had
Travelled alone all the way from
Shreveport. La. Saturday was taken
from Pullman at Pennsylvania
station and turned over, to the police
because he could not tell who he was
or where he was going.
Owing to delays in the run from
Louisiana the car in which the boy
rode had. been transferred to another
train at Washington. reaching here
several hours after his scheduled
train. the Pullman porter told the
police.
Station attendants reported that a
we'll dressed couple had made in
quiries about the train on which the
boy had started. and. unaware Of the
transfer at Washington. had gone
away when they learned its passen-
The lad was turned over to the
Children's Society to await a claimant.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
its Traits as Shown ait
The Brooklyn Museum

Bridge sc Cree" which might have
been painted Cor the Salon from a
Salon formuls, or of the portraits by
j. j. Shannon and Maurice Griefen-
hagen. In the organization Of th}s
show. we may note In passing, the
everyday phase Of the subject hms not
been neglected. But It In not for thai
that the Journey to the museum is 90
be- made. IL is to be made Cor the
types we have cited, for the surnptuous
s'ecssaan2 CT Brangwyn. for the draw
ings by Muirhead Bone and Max Beer
bohm, for the silverpoints by Legros.
for the works by Hornell and Anne
Swinnerton, FOR the things, in short,
that testify TO thu strength in what
We may call conscientious rebellion.
In England. as elsewhere in the world,
there are few painters who believe
IN new ldeas-and hold fast TO what Is
good In tho old ones.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Chinese
A Brilliant Little Collection of
Their Painfings

Still another exhibition OF early
Chinese art is TO be recorded, one at
the Bourgeois Gallery, devoted 60
painting and sculpture. The latter Ia
very fms, including two or three beau.
tifui Buddhistic fgures and couple
Of etriking pieces OF Eastern natural
ism. The early Tang deer Is little
masterpiece Of observation, tho kind of
thing that would have rejoiecd The
soul Of Baryo. But 1t is painting that
holds the center OF this stage, land
seapes. studies Of fish, fowls and ami
mails, and, above ell. more than ono Of
those portraits in which Che Chinese
cause che genius Of monumental art
to flow through the brush. It is al
most inevitable that one should think
Of Forain In looking at the extra
ordinary scholar" Of che Yuan dynas-
ty. But there Is q grandeur about it,
added TO the superb draughtsman-
ship, which the modern rrenchman
never touched. That is the great Key
TO Chinese art, tts surcharging Of
Technique with the quality OF style
in Its moat majestic phase. II 10 hard
TO take this exhibition al one In che
endless aeTtss unrolled by the hurry
ing season. ss occupios q place apart,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Aes and Business
A New Scheme for Their Col.
lahnraainrs

Was there ever a modern city more
active than New York In the interests
Of art1 The exhibitions of seaso
arc past counting, and behind quanti-
ties Of tham. there is what wa nigh
call the machinery of promotion, th
energy chat develops sales. II had
seemed as IL nothing could be added
to the existing processes through
which sn artist is given the chance t.
exhibit hts work end dispose Of it to
advantage. Yet one more enterprise
has arisen, having this end In view
which Is new and unique. It 10 the
organization whose plan was announced
in The Tribune last Wednesday, the or
sanization which will open on Jan
uary ! the painters and sculptors
gallery Ia the Grand Central Sta
tion. There art and business will coll
lahorate under auspicious circum
stances. The lay members pledge
themselves to furnish 100000 q year t.
keep the thing going The artist mem
bers contribute painting or sculp-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

scenery planned and executed BY this
family. The model contains seventy
marionettes made Of stucco and terra
cotta, costumed In silk and sasfas sns
cluding Arlecchino, Pulciuells and Ba-
fanzone, with Mosques and berga-
masques. ~
One case IN the exhibition shovs
carieatures OF the day; prominent char
acters, modelled In terra-cotta and In
wood which artists of those days ex~
hibited at the expense OF money.
The collection OF paintings includes a
work by Francia, roomful Of nfedern
Bologncsc oils and water colors and
many sketches by the designer Latsi
Sierra, well-known In Bologna. A few
exhibitions were given after his death
end 1t is due 70 Corrado Ricci, for
many years Director OF Fine Arts, that
his sketches were published in book
form. The present collection et tha
Orleans Palace consists Of 1900 designs
collected by Barberi. Ssrra's two paint
ings, "Michael Angelo at the Deathbed
Of his Servant, Urbino," painted IN
1874. and the portrait OF "SiEneTs Dss
sert!," In 1894. show that hs was a
master In coloring, though he himself
considered that his designs were fas
superior to hts paintings. Sierra. s1
intricate and complicated draftsmsr7,
belonged TO the school Of miniaturists
as we'll as the old school Of indi~
vidualism. ~@@
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
New Things
A French Sculptor and Some
American Painters

An artist OF unusual Gratis Is in
troduced to this country ut the Sternar
gallery. He Is a Frenchmen, Nj. Nume
Paflagean. Momentarily the imprcs-
sion received from some Of hIs bugts
suggests that he Is another nodernist
come to judgment, seeking through q
rather strained interpretation OF form
to make the oourgeots sic up and hav-
ing In mind certain Of his more gro
easque conceptions ws are nos auvs huA
th@s In measure Ehts Impression ta
Justified. When be snodsls @ ~rnmsaus
enigmsciqus" ws are act inclined 60
take the enigma seriously. One NAV
easily be obscure In art without being
profound, and the mystery" IN NJ.
Patlageau's work alluded TO Ia a rather
overweight preface to the cseaIoa1,e
leaves us quite unnaoved. But by his
treatmsnt Of form we are decidedly im-
pressed. He ts, we take It, al, ecleetic.
an artist who has como In contact wi.h
the antique and With The renaissance
with Egypt and, as we have Indicated,
with modernism. The net result Ia a
subtle realism, sometimes exernplifsd
in o graceful feminine nrosils and
sometimes in g spirited portrait OF a
man ais surfaces might be more In
teFsstingly mOdulated, but his contours
show beautiful feeling for line. II
ne hasn't exactly style he has. at any
rate fairly fascinating msnner. His
naaks. whether enigmatical or not
have certain poetic quality, 6 utSle
strained. little bizarre and mot a
little charming. He ~ a skilled crafts
man, OF that there can DO no doubt, and
there Is just enough shat is new and
individuaiized about his art co poaka
his exhibition a wslcomo episode.
-eWhen Mr.. George Biddle- held su ex-
hsbttion Of his work here year or &vo
tgo tt suggested '&haty he had mot ou,ts
got into his stride. The decorative sor.
+eousnsss Of his aower pieces was not
matched by similarly affirmative pota
in his paintings Of the figure. Now he
2as arrived. In large collsctfon of
paintings water eolors and drawings at
the Wsidenstein gallery he returns to
his Tahitisn motives with all of his old
energy and good deal moro shan his
old technical equipment. II he uses
a more adroit hand ne uses also q finer,
more penetrating vision. He brings
oaek from the South Seas Impressions
not only &lllsd with exotic light, color
and charm but with something like an
indtvtdualized point Of view, s4vipe
them interest as designs. The most oh
vtous testimony TO the progress ho has
made Is offered in the big "speaYinp
Fish," in which his naturaIistic ole
menSs are fused in q graceful and
amusing pattern. But his more con-
struetivc habit Is even more effectively
revealed In what we can only call the
broad drift Of his paintings, their
tendency 20 adjust the servid pageant
OF life In the Pacific 20 q large and
"sighty idea Of composition. 40 that
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

ure work ranges from the daintiness of
T. W. Dewing, the romanticism Of
Blendon Campbell, the grace of E. A..
Bell, to tho finely tempered severity
Of George de Forest Brush and the
rude vigor Of Robert Henri. It is q
varied show.
Downstairs ut the Macbeth gallery
there is little group OF paintings by
Mr.. George Wharton Edwards. A new
quality has come into his art. He haa
always given pleasure in HIS broadly
painted, luminous water colors, but
these oils arc finer and more attrac-
tive than anything he has ever done
before. Hitherto there has been a
sharp staccato touch about his han.
ding. Now he Is broader, more suave,
more concerned with tender uuancea of
light tone, delicate whites and blues.
He generalizes his foliage with height
ened skill. He sees a given subject
more as a unit, composes It moro
gracefully and envelops ie with a more
softly diffused atmosphere. In word,
Mr Edwards has suffered @ meta,
'norphosis. lifting himself to higher
plano with complete success.
There is an interesting little sux-
prise In the opening exhibition Of the
season at the Daniel gallery. II lies
in Portrait" by Derain, the mod
ernist, whose performances, as q rule,
fall far below the pitch which HIS AGO.
lytes claim for him. This is a massive,
vitalized study Of the head and shoul-
ders of woman. Charles Shee!er and
Preston Dickinson are the most plau-
sibie Of thu American modernists aug
rounding II. They have q ltstle roous
to themselves. In the larger gallery
there Ss pleasing collection Of new
shings by Ernest lawson, William
Glackens. @. q. Prsndergass and others.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

The outstanding man In the group Is
young Mr.. John T. Carroll, whose "Girl
in Blue" Ia so good In ita dignity and
simplieity that we are ksen upon see-
ing more work from 4he came hand.
Miss Elmer M. Barnard. at the
own-Robertson gallery, handles
water color with an ease. o srscision
and breadth which make hex exhibi-
ton q real refreshment She keeps the
medium pure and crisp. There ia
no emulation OF the solldity OF oils,
save in one or two studies OF etill life,
and these, aa It happens, are so good
In quality, SO resonant In tone that
one can easily overlook their being
carried q shade TOO far in the direc-
tion Of the heavier means Of express
sion, The portraits ara altogether cap
tivating. They have substance, as we'll
es the sparkling lightness which be-
longs to them. Then there ars flower
subjects and amuaing fantasies. In
all her water colors Miss Barnard
adds to the regulate vivseity a sure
ness Of touch, Arm knowledgabls
de&tness, which are doubly welcome
where this medium Ia concerned; one
aces 1t SO often handled with such
amsteurish ciumsiness.
At the sterner Gallery, In association
with the sculptures by NJ. Patlagean
touched upon In another column, Mr..
William p. Henderson is showing a
number Of his paintings. He depicts
the themes characteristic Of the Taos
group without emulating that groups
panty and glaring habit. His color
may be on occasion little hot, but
In the main it Is vivid without crudity.
The "Taos Pueblo Is his best picture,
with few other landscapes approach
ing It's level. Tbs figure pieces, like
Juan, the Sheepherder," have an en-
gaging picturesaueness which would be
even more persuasive IL 1t were q bit
more lightly touched. The defect of
Mr. Henderson's full-bodied quality is
certain inertia In his line, certain
opacity in his color. The Taos men use
too much light. This painter errs. if
anything, in the other direction. A lit
tie sunny atmosphere would increase
the value Of his color.
The frss exhibition at the Artists
Cooperative Galleries, In she Gliding
Building. isaves mixed impression.
It presents several groups of painters,
and among them there are men Of
tried technical ability, men like
George Bellows and John Sloan, Robert
Henri and Leon Kroll. Their standard
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
\ Group of British Painters

form takes on liz proper dignity and
color IS not mere blaze but an or
aerea harmony. Most gratifying of all
10 the lafgehess of the artists grasp
upon his material, his notation of facts
10 sweeping and handsome terms. A
little canvas like the portrait which
ne calls "Temehus" (No. 81 has the
same amplitude, the same central SIM
plicity that belongs to the big study
OF nudes. Hauling the Nets" The
background alone in this latter pic
ture. with its bold massing Of ground
forms, shows how far Mr.. Biddle has
Travelled He sees and he paints with a
new breadth ard power. There Ia q
rich vitality In hie work. With this
he throws in, as it were, the faint grace
of his silver points and the spontaneity
Of his water eolors. From every point
Of view he is to be congratulated.
At the Macbeth gallery there Ia an
other exhibition of eliminate Paint
ings," the sixth In an annual seriss.
The designation is we'll chosen. In
the collection of about hundred can
vases there 10 nothing of museum
scale. The pictures are small, friendly
pieces, charming in subject and having
true artistic quality. They must have
been sought out with much industry,
for even when they are from the
brushes Of men no longer living, they
have the special character that Is
typical of these exhibitions. This is
surprising in the case of George Tnness,
for example. He usually chose q can
vas of generous dimensions. but both
the landscapes by him are modest In
scale. with q casual really intimate
accent. The Homer Martin Is In ehe
same case. SO are the two paintings
by Twachtman, both early works. one
painted here and the other In France,
Winsiow Homer is represented by q