The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-11-13
Mary Succeeds
on Main Street
KINDLY WATCH JANE"
By LAURA MILLER

If woman really wants to have fun
in this modern world, said woman gets
into a niche where she can watch, re-
port upon and, on occasion, manipulate
some of the currents Of feminism.
There's a woman out In Topeka doing
that very thing. wherefore there has
grown up a tradition In Kansas, par
ticularly in Kansas politics. kindly
watch Janew Now Jane is merely q
nickname for newspaper known off,
cially as the Kansas Woman's journal.
1t is the initials Of the paper plus the
necessities of the case that worded tho
slogan quoted.
Who and what are behind janet
all one side Of a sheet Of paper. There's
q motto, Devoted to the interests Of
women, children and home" that II
honestly lived up to. There was, dur
ing the last political campaign, the Re
publican state central committee, which
made the paper official organ Of the
Republican women Of Kansas. There
are the subscribers, both men and
women. And there IL Lila Day Mon
roe, editor, who describes herself az
chiefly responsible except. when the
printers of my most capable publishing
company commit some kind of crime,
mayhem possibly, on some pet article"
1t was July when Mrs Monroe wrote,
''Ha' mercy! have the rheumatics..
I've one wrist trussed up in red fan
mel bandage. CDR. said hot applications.
and I'll leave 1t to you If there's any
thing more torrid than a red flannel
bandage)
II was born into q family that was
crazy to have a girl. AS the only girl
in a bunch Of boys. had many priv
ileges, but 1 had to learn to be a good
sport. My father died. I became
school teacher, read law, grew up and
married lawyer politician. When I
first went away to school boarded at
the same place with a newspaper man
and his wife, who were mighty nice to
the lonesome little stranger. The edi-
tor. took the most inconvenient times
to become drunk. With his wife I used
to get up in the middle Of the night to
get out the Courier. To keep awake
learned to set type, until could stick
it-up-with-a-click' and even compose a.
I went along. Ask any old printer II It
ever gets out Of the blood when the
incubation happens In youth.
II only advise girl to 60 to big city
for a bit of post graduate work, for a
soJourn that will make her appreci-
ate the wide spaces more when she
comes back. One Of the greatest boons
for women is the feeling that they have
sort Of. proprietary interest in the
home town. such as have for Topeka
Mystery of Sound Board
The sound board of piano. al
though II is actually thin sheet of
nr wood. is wonder not fully under
stood In its effects. Most people know
that every note has a complete and
very elaborate set of vibrations which
give II Its pitch and character, and all
these separate sets are reproduced in
the sound board quite Independently.
even in comparatively simple music
there are frequently thousands of vi
brations going on In that piece of thin
brittle wood. which we can hear but
cannot see; and with all the crossing
and recrossing of the vibration lines
which must take place there is rever
any confusion. and II is possible to Sc
iect any group of vibrations as the
one to which we can pay the most at
tentton. Perhaps even still more won
derful is the fact that the piano maker
can make the board susceptible to dlf.
ferent kinds of vibration without
knowing how he does 1t.