Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — The Charm of Kansas. [ARTICLE]

The Charm of Kansas.

Kansas exercised the same fascination over him that she does over all who have yielded to her spelL There are some women whom to have loved once renders it impossible ever to love again. As the “gray and melancholy main” to the sailor, the desert to the Bedouin, the Alps to "the mountaineer, so is Kansas to all her children. No one ever felt any enthusiasm about Wisconsin, or Indiana, or Michigan. The idea is preposterous/ It is impossible. Tuey are great prosperous communities, but their inhabitants can remove and never desire to return. They hunger for the horizon. They make new homes without the maladle du pays. But no genuine Kansan can emigrate. He may wander. He may roam. He may travel. He may go elsewhere, but no other state can claim Min as a citizen. Once naturalized. thlp allegiance can never be fore-sworn.4-John J. Ingalls.