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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
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At recent experience meeting of the
s. r. o., (5ociety Reporters Union) one
member testified that when she asked
a woman if she had or was expecting
company the reply. if negative. was in
variably in some such form as this:
No, thank goodness"
All the other members solemnly cor
roborated the testimony of the first and
related similar anecdotes.
But" said one of them, i notice
that the same women who confess to
the trials and tribulations of the hostess
themselves hike out OF town at regular
intervals with suit cases and steamer
trunks to return the visits which caused
them so much grief. / suppose they
think they have to get even but should
think they would be wiser to let one
visit go unpaid and thus, perhaps, avert
future trouble"
Far be it from me, as an S. r." said
the roly-poly one. ITO discourage the
visiting habit. I don't know what we'd
do if we We're not able to record from
time to time that Mrs. WallingfOrd
Farquhar was spending a few days
with her sister in Kansas City or that
Miss Josephine Geraldine Soutureen
would return tomorrow from an extend
ed visit at LeaVenWOrth anC the post,
but personally I'm glad I'm only a poor
working girl and not a lady and don't
have to entertain company ] don't want
nor return visits just to get my money
back. This business of inviting people
10 visit YOU just in order to save hotel
bills when you 90 to their town doesn' t
go for me. I say that the average visit
of a fortnight, as we say in the Hot
Air column is a chastity experience"
70 I don't think everyone feels so
about company" demurred the serious
one.
NO, indeed" put in the other one.
Every household has its welcome
guests whose arrivals are perfect joys.
But that doesn't alter the fact that
only few visitors are welcome and
that most people endure out of town
company not because they enjoy it but
because they regard it as a necessary
evil The visiting habit is a purely
feminine foible A man can hardly be
persuaded to visit his own kin and
when he goes he never stays longer
than a few days. The wives and
daughters do the visiting and the hus-
bands and fathers do the roaring. Ev-
cry town has its professional Visiting
Girls. Their lives are one round of
making and receiving visits. The only
intervals are a few weeks in the spring
and fall during which they prepare
their wardrobes for the fray. They are
society girls with nothing to do but
amuse themselves and pursue the phan-
tom of the Not Impossible He. With
these objects In view they understand
the value of green fields and pastures
new and seek them at the slightest
prov0cation AS soon as they make an
agreeable girl acquaintance they ar
range an exchange of visits You see
them going out of town on one of their
periodical man-hunts in a silk shirt
waist suit carrying an elegant travelling
bag and with trunk full of pretty
clothes for exhibition purposes but II
YOU were to search them you WOuldn'
find more than dollar and a half and
their return ticket. For the profession
al Visiting Girl is almost always poor
To save hotel bills she makes use OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.

The greatest principles of religion are
faith in God and obedience to moral law.
Rev. DR. c. Ellis Stevens, Presby-
terrain, Philadelphia.
BLIND TO CHRISTIAN BEAUTY.
There are no people so blind, none
such abject slaves of self conceit. as
those who cannot see the beauty in old
fashioned Christian relgion--Rev. z. F.
Hopkins. Congregationalist Chicago
THE LITTLENESS OF NAN.
Humility grows out of a consciousness
of Gods providence and mans depend
ence. out of sense of Gods true great
ness and mans actual Ittleness.-Rev.
John c. Horning. Reformed. St Louis.
RUNNING PAST DANGER
SIGNALS
The world is fun Of moral wrecks on
LIES highway, and most of them have
occurred because men and women ran
past danger signals literally scattered
along on every hand.-Rev. H E. Foss,
Methodist. Philadelphia
CONVERSION AND CONFESSION.
Conversion has confession running all
through it from first to last No one
is converted who has not seen himself
a sinner in the sight of God and con-
fessed it and begged forgiveness-Rev,
DR.. William J. Holtzciaw, Baptist, At
lanta, Ca
THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE
The most eloquent passages of our
spiritual development may often be
found when we press the golden lips OF
gospel silence e=Sainst our neighbor' 3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

and even finely arranged little bits of
foliage in brown and green tints play
important uarts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
Boiled Salad Dressinps.

While these can not be recommended a s
perfectly wholesome. they find favor with
many people who have not acquired a lk-
ing for the salad oil dressings. or who may
fancy changes occasionally in salad dress
ings as vel as other culinary prepara-
tons Then. too, there are certain salad
combinations that seem 10 require dress
ing that partalkes more of the nature of
sauce than the mayonnaise or French
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
GREATLY ALARMED
By a Persistent Cough, but Perma-
nently Cured by Chamberlain
Couch Reme5v

Mr.. II. P. Burbage a student at law in
Greenville, s C.. had been troubled for or
years with continuous cough which
he says greatly alarmed me. causing me
to fear that was in the first stage Of con-
sumption" Mr.. Burbage. having seen
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised,
concluded to try it. Now read what he
says OF it: Il soon felt a remarkable
change and after using two bottles of toe
IS cent size, was permanently cured" Sold
by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

the homes of her city friends and in
place OF going to the mountains and
the seashore if she has no acquaintance
with cottages at the popular resorts.
spends her summer vacations with her
country friends.
And yet there's no economy in the
practice. You might just as we'll pay
hotel bills and be done with it. You pay
for everything you get in this world one
way or another When you visit your
city friends you buy their concert and
theater tickets, pay their car fare and
send the entire family Christmas pres
entS beside entertaining your hostess in
your turn. And visiting is never per-
fectly satisfactory unless you are visit
ing members Of your own family. You
know what bore it is to try to arrange
your shopping hours and gown builders
appointments with any one else. There
are always places you'd like to go and
things you'd like to see that your host
ess doesn't care about, yet you can't in
sist upon her going or go without her.
When people invite you they invariably
say, I'm not going to make company
Of you or take the least bit of trouble
about you but they always do. It's
impossible to have company without go
ing to extra trouble and expense"
We hear a good deal about true hos
pitality," the serious one observed, but
we see very little of it. As you say
most invitations are made with the eX-
pectation of a return. Society is large
~ on a business basis. / used to sup
pose that these girls and women who
are always visiting one another We're
devoted friends who enjoyed one an
others company, but 1 sometimes sus-
pect that they merely make use Of one
another A girl is so proud of having
a stunning looking guest that it over
comes her natural jealousy of an at
tractive woman. She knows the potent
attractive to the men of a new girl in
her drawing room and also looks for
ward to returning the visit and being
feted and made much of as the visiting
/ girl in her friends town"
And oh how her father roars about
/ it," exclaimed one of the others. And
I how he beefs about the parties and
things and the extra work it makes her
mother and the way they burn the gas
until all hours of the night and keep the
whole family awake with the late
visitors
But nothing about this outside.
! ladies' warned the roly-Doly one as
the meeting broke UP. I'VE need the
/ professional Visiting Girl in our bust
ness, and can't afford to encourage the
/ anti-Gaddin- club even for the sake of
! the husbands and fathers
The husbands and fathers don't do
us any good grumbled one of the 9TH
ers. They never give pink teas OF
! have trousseaus to describe
NO" the roly-pOly one assented, but
they pay the bills"
One Of the oldest bits of frivolity pos
sible was worn at an afternoon wedding
/ by a young girl, suspended over fair.
! frail lace and chiffon creation Of Dale
yellow. it was long chain of tiniest
/ pink roses so cleverly strung together
that they were like exquisite great
fell quite to the knee with two or threl
long roses upon the ends. Inquiry pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
Table and Kitchen.

Conducted by Ida Ames Willis, Mar
quette building. Chicago, to whom all in
qui1ies should be addressed
All rights reserved by Banning company.
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

Put two tablespoonfuls Of soft grated
cheese in mortar and pound it until per-
fectly smooth. Season with a teaspoonfuI
of salt and little cayenne. Add a table
spoonful of vinegar and rub perfectly
smooth. Then add enough oil to moisten.
This is not a boiled dressing but is added
to the list because it is rather out of the
ordinary and makes a nice dressing for
potato salad.
BOILED DRESSING FOB FRUIT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

Mash half a cup Of cooked green peas
and rub them through q colander or sieve
Mix with a spoonful of soup stock and the
beaten whites Of three eggs. Season to
taste with salt. pepper and a little pow
dered mint Beat until we'll mixed, then
press into a shallow square tin and steam
in the oven over a pan of water until the
white of egg is set then cut into small
cubes and drop them into the soup just
before serving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

and even finely arranged little bits of
foliage in brown and green tints play
important Darts.
The City Federation of Women,s
clubs has started a crusade on the dan
delion 1t isn't likely that it viii be
Immediately effective but it has already
begun an endless debate similar to that
on the cottonwood question Ought the
cheerful little dandelion to go2 I'm
dOubtedly at this particular season
when the dandelion is in its most I'M
attractive stage and when the lawns
and parkings are disfigured by the awk-
ward little stalks topped with balls of
down which the Kansas zephyrS blow
hither and tFither over everything it
viii have few defenders. But next
spring when the brilliant yellow bios
SONS are starring the fresh green grass
and making every spot of green look
like Kate Greenaway lawn there Will
be many TO raise their voices to declare
for the dandelion. the first flower of sum
rner which comes before the green gets
back in the trees
High belts have come in with a leap.
Every one win not wear them Some
figures could no more stand nigh belt
than they could full skirt; and the
American is well dressed because she
goes by her own figure
The slender woman, the woman with
fiat hips the woman with a stylish fig-
IRE in truth. can wear this nigh Delt
and wear 1T we'll But even she must
remember one thing; it is ugly and un-
calmly if worn with a tight fitting
blouse or 4 blouse that has back
which does not droop over the belt
It is only intended for the blouse that
hangs like a circular ruffle over the CIR
die. And because of this it is very
difficult accessory to adjust.
Five inches is a good depth for It for
this matches the denth Of the Louis
buckle that is so much the fashion this
summer Rather, viii be the fashion.
as they have just started out from the
great houses
The belt is made of something quite
soft. Liberty satin is the universal
choice. Ribbon is preferred to satin by
the yard. but either will do. The belt
is drawn in very snugly, run through a
long buckle in front, then hooked q
little ut side.
If YOU can't wear this you can at least
remember that all belts are deeper than
they have been for years. The little one.
inch affair is almost unknown
Also that crushed girdles are more
Fashionable than straight ones. and that
the pointed blouse has undergone a
surgical operation. The belt meets
sQuarely in front and what dip there
is. it is equaled with a point at the top
All OF which is to say that the neat
little stitched belt, drawn down to i
long point in front is out
Wear it if you want to, but you WON'T
be stylish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
Innniries Answered.

Miss f P. writes: VIII you please ex-
plain what you mean by patent Gamers.
or canneries? I do not quite understand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
PATENT CANNERs.

TINS IS an apparatus Tor canning and
cooking fruits and vegetables on much the
same principle as the old-fa shioned meth
Cd of using a large boiler. with water but
a vast Improvement on the same and
great saver of time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

City Ticket once. Union Pacina
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
WILL HAVE A CHANCE.
mt ~ Trust. Do Not Conform to Law
They Will lie P~rosccuted by
Attorney General Knox.

Washington. April 16.-Bad trusts
will be warned and have a chance 10 re-
form. If they do not reform they will
be prosecuted. That represents the
policy Of the government. Attorney
General Knox directed one of his as
sistants to say for publication that
there would be no more litigation with
out warning. One of the assistants
said that the trusts would probably
have a chance TO reform after receive
ing the first intimation that they were
violating the law. The department of
commerce will do this preliminary
work.
The belief here is that the big trusts
are preparing to adjust their business
to meet the new conditions. The steel
trust is to become a managing corpor-
alton, instead of 4 holding company.
TIE Northern Securities company will
give way and one of the big railroads
in the combination, probably the
Burlington. will become the dominant
factor in the northwestern transport
tation business. These changes will go
on like this as rapidly as possible. and
the will give the capitalists
plenty Of time.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
70 Be No NH|1ENA}H|M|
Postmaster General Payne Says
Post Office Investigation Is
to Be Thorough.
The GUILTY ONES WILL Be PUNISHED.
Statement Issued Giving Reasons for
the Observation-Disclosures Branch
of the Department to he Probcd-
g. No Immediate Changes in Person.
mel of the Service Likely.

Washington, April 15.-Postmaster
General Payne Tuesday evening gave
out q statement in which he announced
that the investigation of the affairs
of the post office. department would
be continued and that any parties
found guilty of wrongdoing will be
dealt with summarily. The statement
is as follows:
During the months of January and
February information and reports
reached me. which l deemed it
for the public interest 10 ~investi-
gate, and /, personally, gathered
such information and facts as
would enable the proper officers of
the department to undertake a thor
ough investigation as to the truth or
falsity of these reports. l directed
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow to take the proper steps to
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
HANGED FOR MURDER.
Criminals Convicted of Tnkins Life
Pay the Penalty for 1Nl cir Crime
in Several Places. E.

Media, Pa, April 15.-Albert West,
a negro, was hanged here for the MUIR
der of Mart w. Allen, a policeman, at
Chester. The crime for which West
paid the death penalty was committed
in Chester on Saturday, February l,
1902.
Butler, Mo. April 1s.-Dr. James L.
Gartrell, 6s years old, once a member
of the Texas legislature and probate
judge in a Texas county, was hanged
here yesterday for the murder of D.
b. Donegan in March, 1901.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 1s.-John
Taylor was hanged at the county :iail
here yesterday for the murder on
March 2, 1901, of Ruth Nollard, his
former sweetheart.
St. Joseph, Mo-, April 1s.-Charles
May, who shot and killed Robert Mar
tin on December Is. 1900, at a coun-
try dance, was hanged in the Jail ward
here yesterday. May has had three
trials.
Eugene, Ore, April 1s.-Elilott Ly-
ons, who on February 6 shot and
killed Sheriff w. w. Withers while re
sisting arrest for DEMONSTRATING, was
hanged here yesterday.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
TO VISIT GEYsERs.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt Leaves Fort YELL
lovstonc to View ]spouters
and Falls.

cinnabar, Mont, April IS. Presl
dent Roosevelt left the quarters OF
Maj. Pitcher, at Fort Yellowstone.
Friday morning, for Norris, where he
will spend most of the rcmainder of
his stay in the park. The geysers are
n the neigbborhood of Norris. If he
has time he will visit the falls of the
Yellowstone.
During the last two or three DAYS
OF his stay in the park the president
will be Joined by Secretary Loeb and
the other members of the party. The
plan Q the president 10 spend a day
IN the Black Hills has been aban-
ooned owing to the impossibility of
d~lsarranging the programme as al
ready arranged. An hour will be
spent at Edgemont. where the presi.
dent will be given an o~ld-fashioncd
COWBOY reception.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
differences between employers and

differences between employers and
employees.
9. The National Association of Manu-
f%acturers pledges itself to oppose any
and all legislation not in accord with
the foregoing declaration.
Promise Support.
Concerning the movement in several
localities of independent workmen to
organize for protection against coer-
cion and intimidation by unions the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, that the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers OF the United
States of America in convention assem-
bled, heartily commends such organi-
cation of independent workmen to Sc
cure and maintain their rights, and
that this association hereby pledges
its moral support.to such efforts.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

Those ever-ingenious people, the
chinese, are great at fish farming, and
one OF their little lodges for Matching
young fish Is most ingenious. Taking
a fresh egg they suck the contents
through a tiny hole, and refill the egg
with the tiny eggs Of the fish they
want to hatch. The hole is then seal
ed up and the egg placed under a set.
ting hen. In a very few days the
nsh v are so far advanced that one
has only to break the shell into mod.
erately warm water and the little fish
spring to life at once.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.
Property Valued at Nearly $1,000.
900 Consumed by Flames in the
Texas Oil Fieads.

Beaumont. Tex, April 16.-A fire on
Spindle Top. which started at one
o'clock Wednesday morning. did dam
age estimated at $500, 900 to 81, ooo, 900.
Two hundred and siSty-fve derricks
We're lost. Two hundred rigs were on
the producing wells.
The lire started from a lantern at
Caldwell Oil company's well. The
fly wheel of the engine struck the Ian
tern and ignited the derrick and the
names spread with tremendous rapid
lty, three blocks, numbers SO, 81 and IS.
being in ashes by three o'clock.
No effort was made to extinguish
the fire, for it was impossible to get
within a hundred feet of the flames.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

A Sioux City cattleman is consider.
ing the %advisability Of interpreting
q Arctic musk OK with cattle of the
temperate zone, believing that the
toe SO produced would be better
able to withstand the severe winters
OF the west. He has been in CORE
s~pondence with Lieut.. Peary, and the
arctic explorer is f%avorably impressed
with the project. The vast loss of the
present season among herds on the
western ranges emphasizes the neces.
slty OF trying to infuse harder blood
into American cattle.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

weekly summary of crop conditions:
N;p+o,
WINTER wheat is generally excellent,
ana II hasmade splendid progress since
ohe hrst OF the month; in the upper
on'o valley, however, the freeze of the
s.' and 9TH caused some injury. On
'he whole the condition Of the cron in
the winter wheat belt east of the Rocky
ho"n'alns'slmore promising thanfo for
years.
Spring wheat seeding is nearly com
p...eo IN Iowa and Nebraska, and is
progressing well in South Dakota.
oa's continue promising in the
southern states and seeding is nearly.
Completed or we'll advancedin the con.
alal valleys where the early sown IS
coming up we'll. .
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

In that city Of tnnumerable public
conveniences, Paris, one of the novel.
ties in street contrivances is an am.
pulance IN a lamp-post. 1t consists Of
an ornamental bronze pillar, about is
feet in height, with a round, %oyerhang.
ing top, resembling that Of a light.
house, The shaft contains a folding
stretcher with printed directions for
affording first aid to the injured. In
case of a street accident this stretcher
may be obtained Immediately by
breaking a small glass window inst
above the letter box, removing a kew
and unlocking the receptacle.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
big Yacht Dannre1

wv WEYMOUTH England, April IS. =
VINE maneuvering just outside tho
preakwater here yesterday shamroc,.
~ olr Thomas Lipton's new .h.l>
lenger Tor the Americas Gun was d;s
lnas'ea. One maj was drowned sav.
erai others we're swept overhoara ~.
I,,e mass OF fallen w~reckaee, and ST..
mnu un'as ana a number of the crew,
mere hurled down a ha,cl,wnv sin
Thomas sustained a slioht 49, oir
bruised. men We're
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

Two eggs q day from one hen for 81
days is the tale told by Chas. Helmke.
owner Of Lonataka poultry farm, at
Green Village, N. J. The hen is sim
ply q result Of careful breeding, for
Nr. Helmke has been experimenting
with this end in view for several
years. II has long been q theory Of
Ehisthat by proper selection and breed.
Ing hen might be produced which
would nv at least one egg every day in
the year. He has also theorized on
the possibility OF q breed Of hens
Nhich would produce two eggs every
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

Naples doctors are studying the ex-
t~raordlnary case OF a young woman. a
victim OF hysteria, from whose body
pins n needles have been issuing
Tor some time past. An examination
ny means of the Roentgen rays shows
thai there are still a large number Of
needles and pins in the young WON.
ans body. The doctors are at a loss
to explain the phenomenon, but it is
supposed that the girl eats the pins
and needles when in a h~ysterical fit.
Admitting this, it is still difficult to ex-
plain how they find their way out at
her eXtremities.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
Three Men Held.
Railroad Sold.

carbondale, ILL.,, April 16.-The east
and west railroad. in course of con-
struction from Leo Rock, on the Missis-
slppi river, through to Altamont, has
been sold to the ST. Louis Valley rail
road, and is now a part of the Gould
system. 1t connects at, Thebes with the
cotton Belt & Iron Mountain railroad
and at Efingham or .Altamont with the
Wabash road.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01

Electricity lately has been pressed
INTO the service of the housewife, the
Budapest newspapers announcing the
invention of an electrical washing ma.
chine by Josef Macy, of Szegedin.
With this machine the use of soap is
dispensed with, the electric current
being intended to take away any stain
or grease. The machine will wash 800
pieces of linen without the assistance
of a mar.