The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-15
7lUo Spare Hours and a
Little Curiosity Are
Bid to State Museum
And When You Accept the Bid the Totem Pole Stares You
Out of Countenance at the Very DOor-You End the
Tour and Lecture Friend Duties of Citizenship.

skulls and bones which had been dis
inferred from an Indian grave. at
the bnllet-pierced hat of a dead Mex
lean bandit, and you wonder at the
psychology of the persons who Sc
cured them in the first place.
You are unused at the placard On n
pair of billiard cue tips. which says
they we're taken from a hall which had
been raided for gambling Then you
shudder at the Indian variance with
several scalps attached. which was
carried at the Custer massacre. You
gaze open -rnouthed at the pair Of
ribs from a mastodon or dinosaur,
each of them about six feet long.
You come out into the next room
with your mind a whirl of guns,
dirks, brass knucks, still bloody, scalps
and bones, the Philippines, drums, baby
carriages and old flags. Heie behind
a railing, you see old fashioned fur
niture, wax flowers, a Mayflower
chair. samplers. an old carved walnut
bed, and as a contrast, an Eskimo
sled hitched to a reindeer. Here also
Is another case Of Indian relics, and
in the middle CT the floor an iron
standard, to which are attached pc
lures OF grave gentlemen. each with a
wealth of whiskets combed~in various
styles.
At the Last Room ut Last.
And now you reach the last rconl
You are tired by this time, and If
SOu get 10 some place Wner0
there were no spectators, you would
take off your shoes. That is hardly
practical tho, So you content yourself
with stretching ort in a chair and
gazing vacantly into space. You con-
template placidly Inc collection of ar
ticles which have been marvelously
scron-sawed, AMI decide that If you
had a little more ambition, you would
wonder how the maker could ever do
such things with a plain piece of
wood a t. =
too much trouble to wonder anything
tho, so you continue to sit and gaze
around, until the legend on a picture
strikes your wandering eyes. It says.
Let Us Forgive But Not Forget ;"
and it looks interesting. A. last you
force your protesting feet to carry
you to see the picture, which proves
to be of the horrors of Andersonyjl!e
prison.
Being up, you decide to finish the
job, and you go thru the rest of the
cases methodically. You consider the
case of the Turkish gentleman who
one day smoked the pipe with two
bowls and a stem five feet two inches
long, and you wonder II the little col
lection of beads on a string really, as
its placard says. constituted the full
dress of an African lady-that is, the
whole dress. You are interested in
the Egyptian relics and the olive
branch from the Mount of Olives, but
JOu pass INC TeAlCS up Will
only a glance-you have just seen lots
of Indian relics, and too much is
enough.
So you are thru the museum. You
wander out into the first hall again.
The totem pole Immediately fixes all
its eyes on you and you hastily, ring
for the elevator. 1t comes, leisurely, an
extremely well-bred elevator, and you
step in. 1t goes down again, leisure
~. and you walk out into the street.
There you meet a friend.
Where you been?" says he. You
look as If you had cobwebs in your
BRAIN
You draw yourself up haughtily and
transfix him with a glittering eye.
in the memorial museum" you say.
TT seems to me that it is the duty of
every citizen of Kansas to go up there
once in awhile to look at the evidences
of the heroism of the old forefathers.
Besides. we. as Topekans-"
And SO on.