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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY.

Women are wont to say that they
dress for the men. 1 believe they do;
also for themselves: also for other wo-
men, says Erman j. Ridgway, in The
Delineator for August. don't believe
one man in a thousand can appreciate
an elaborate gown. Most men, 1 think,
like simpler effects. A gaudily over
dressed woman makes her escort pain
fully self-conscious, if he be a gentle
n an. But all men can and do appre-
ciate the ensemble of a beautiful face
and beautiful figure beautifully gown
ed. And the simpler the gown the
greater the appreciation. The best
dressers realize this. I heard of one
recently whose parting injunction to
her tailor was, Spare no expense to
make it simple"
Why is 1t that trained nurses are so
attractive? I never saw an unattrac-
tive one. and some of them are "a joy
forever Is It health? Their study has
taught them how to take care of them
selves. Is it their immaculate cos
tunes? Why shouldn't everybody be
aseptically clean? Is it their mission
hich appeals to our sentiment? Why
shouldn't everybody have a mission ?
After all, isn't that our real measure
of beauty?
How too often have 1 seen a beau
tiful face, glowing with health, and
had the surface beauty sadly married
for me by discovering an insipid brain
inside. 1t is the same with men. Some
splendid specimens whom have eager
ly gone to meet. soon showed brainless
heads or licentious souls, and 1 have
turned away. with disgust A weak
man must always be sad sight, how
ever attractive the outside Men feel
this quickly in other men; women in
other women: but men do not get the
measure of a shallow or bad woman so
quickly, nor women the measure of a
handsome rake
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13

ton. 1t was self evident the man had
likewise seen it. He sat. rigid, thun-
derstruck, his hands clutching the
pommel of his saddle. his keen eyes
wild.
Help" he gasped, help" and Carl
caught him as he fell.
Little Rose brought water from a
neighboring spring and restored him.
He said nothing, offered no explana-
ton, did this distinguished gentle
man. but when he handed Carl tiny
gold case, the boy, with the opening
of the tiny clasp, knew all. The eyer
of little Rose gazed out from a tangle
of golden curls, even If the low cut
velvet gown and the twisted strings
of pearls seemed far remote fron
what he knew of her.
1T was her mother" said the gem
tleman- TT seems she's come again."
Her mother? The boys heart leap
ed with sudden buoyant gladness and
then went black within. Her mother!
1t was like the wondrous fairy tales,
the romance of the folk lore, this
uniting of the lost and wronged! But,
Q, it meant the severing of the friend
ship! Her mother! Yes, and her faith
er, too!
But even now. the band would
reach them in minute, threatening.
aggressive and at war. In a moment
they would claim their own and van
ish, lost in the circling mazes of the
hills. He had but to call. and Little
Rose and old freedom and old dreams
were his again.
But Joe. the big Indian. stealing on
their path, had witnessed all the
scene. and guessed at once it's full and
striking purport.
He spoke with all the conviction of
a king, you go at once" he said.
''You go unframed. But if you follow
or make cry of this. the worst will
hT md ryufP
Oh, the bitter nights the boy lay
tossing on his bed, arguing with him
self, endeavoring to forget. To for
get that it was his inability. his indif
ference, his callous selfishness that
had cheated this brave father of his
right. But. thanks to the stern Teu-
ton of his character. the best in him
prevailed and. traitor to the camp, he
restored the girl to her own.
1t was while travelling through the
RESIDENTIAL that above an entrance to
a vast estate he associated the en-
craven coat-of-arms with perfect sure
ty with the delicate tracery of the
miniature. Baron Won Stroben's
lands" one said, and now the way was
clear.
The professors eyes, still soft with
old day dreams, came back from the
still deepening of the dusk. and he fin
gered thoughtfully the manuscript.
Yes; he had proved loyal to his trust,
had given up the Little Rose and
bowed his head to right The conflict
had been fierce and long. but he had
wont
There was a rustling of the cur
tains at the door, but still the man
dreamed on. 1t was only when two
hands closed over his eyes that sud
denly he raised his hands to silver
curls above him and smiled in new
content. Dear little Rose-my wife.
I've been thinking of you"-(Copy-
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
POINTED I,AHAGIsAPHs.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

Love is hardly ever cheerful loser
Full many a train Of thought doesn't
carry any freight.
Occasionally a man does the right
thing at the right time.
Get busy and start something-even
If it is only a bank account.
Some business opportunities by any
other name would SAVIOR of graft.
A narrow minded person is just the
one to make some broad assertions.
Lots of people are sorry they bought
It every time the installment man calls.
The average man doesn't improve his
time when he thinkers with his watch.
Even consistent temperance advo-
cate may kick on the amount of his
water tax
A suffra gette says the average won-
ms faith in her husband is fully two
thirds pretense.
When you hear an undertaken growl-
ing about the increased cost of living
he is probably trying to boost his BUSH
Less
A married man complains that every
time he, meets enc of his wife's rela-
lions he is asked to explain some
thing.
All men may be born equal, but they
no sooner climb out of the cradle than
one-half begins to Try to work the other
hs1f.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
KANSAS COMAENT
HOW ABOUT THIS /?

We sometimes wonder whether DIR.
Crumbine and the scientists really
know what they are talking about
when they tell us that the fly is our
arch enemy and that if we do not
swat him he will get US. A few days
ago We passed a gypies tent and lying
in the grass before the entrance was
a swarm of flies. Closer examination
revealed the presence of little brown
baby in the center of the flies. In
voluntarily we attempted to scatter
the flies when the mother came out
and said. Gypsy babies don't mind
the hies, they are used to them" Then
she picked up the baby, and a right
healthy child it proved to be. What
the mother said was at least partially
true. For ages the Gypsy babies have
been roosting place for flies, yet the
race has not died out and neither is
1t note dior being short lived. Not
only have the babies been bothered
by the flies, but they have been bitten
by mosquitoes, what little water has
been used has been impure and the
gypsy life has been entirely lacking
in matters of sanitation. Here Is a
real question for the scientist, which
he will probably answer by saying
that the fresh air life to a certain
extent counteracts the other evils and
thus strikes acknowledgements
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
HUNOR or THE DAY

Imagination and Fact--"Oh, mother.
I've found a place where there's just
millions an hundreds o. Strawberries
Hell think your family name is such n
fine one. She-Do you? 1 get dreadfully
tired of it--London Opinion.
Wife-And will you promise to water
the flowers regularly while I am away?
Husband-Don't you worry about that I
know what thirst is.-Fliegende Blaetter
American-why do you think the Eng
universal language? Foreigner-Because
it is the finest swearing language on
earth.-Chicago News.
Life is cheap in Afghanistan' ct might
motor through 1t. How are the roads p
Louisville Courier-Journal.
II suppose everything must be frozen
rate. some pretty stiff stories are brought
back.-New York Press
Johnny. what did the minister preach
about today?' ut was about something
that stinks like an adder and bites like
a multiplier. Chicago Record Herald.
Satisfaction Demanded. cut
my hair too short Just cut it again. and
leave it longer this time."-Sourire.
THAT fellow seems to be extravasant.
''Hopelessly. Spends his own money 1ust
as II 1t were the government s."-Kansas
City Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe. J

IFrOm the ALcnlSOn 9lOOc.l
A man can attract lots of attention
by faintiEg.
In a little town, the station agent is
the railroad.
Responsibility always means some
thing disagreeable.
We wish we had a stomach so strong
that we could live on gravy and pie.
You should accept a compliment as
you do a joke: smile politely, but don't
repeat it.
The politest of people have pleas
antries,' that are almost as disagree
able as Jokes.
was there ever dog that would go
after the cows?
The poorest actor in the poorest
show on the road is something terri
Bile to think about.
When a politician tells you the out
look for his side is unfavorable. that
means he has lost.
When a stranger goes to a new place
people look him over to see what they
can find to make fun of.
We have known many men to begin
smoking stogies, to save money. but
we never knew a man to stick to it.
IT is such a crime for a man to be
idle that people are willing to believe
a number of other evil things about a
loafer-
On Flag day, every man who puts
out a flag Is either a candidate, or ex-
poets to become a candidate in the
near future.
We don't like nervy amateurs: an
amateur should at least know enough
to realize that he isn't very good, and
be a little frightened.
There are never any crowds gather
ed around the bulletin boards anxious
lv awaiting the returns of a debate on
Higher Thought.
when a man runs for Office, the pa
pers write him up and tell how he has
always worked for the party and borne
the brunt of the battle.
If a man takes a magazine for a
year. he doesn't have to take 1t the
balance OF his natural life, as some of
tie publishers seem to imagine.
A health enthusiast says that occa-
sionaily man should abstain entirely
from food two or three days. While
we are trying to eat less, we don't go
so far as to fast two or three days at
a time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
THE RIGHT SLOGAN,

"Patronize home industry That's
the slogan that every loyal American
should follow. 1t is the best argument
there is to build up a town, state and
nation. And that is why tariff laws
were made SO that everybody could
share in the benefits of that division
OF prosperity that comes only in pat
ronizing home Industry. If it is a
good thing for the local people it
must be equally good for the entire
nation. See the point why this coun-
try must always maintain a high tar
III IL you want to maintain home in
dustries. When you buy out of town
goods that are made in your own town
you cheat some wage Garner out of
job. You do the same thing when
you buy foreign made goods-Atch-
ison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
QUAKER MEDrrAT1oNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Even pencil has to be pretty sharp
to make it's mark.
We don't need straws to see which
way the wind blows in March.
Nautically speaking. when a man is
stern should he be proved of II?
Pneumonia and neuralgia NAV he
mentioned as among the news Of the
day.
The fellow who goes into a thing
head first doesn't always get there with
both feet.
We must all take the bitter with
the sweet, consequently the optinist
regards life as cocktail.
You can seldom say of the roxorr-
ment contractor that he buiIded HERR
than he knew.
Blobbs-"Young Bjones is auvf,,,,,,
fresh Slobbs-"Yes, and t,,e ,,ns.' -,
markable thing is that as child he
vas absolutely spoiled" 80
Scribbler-"Give me a rhvn,e fo,. "a,
YER" Scrawler-'why not trv ro,S9,,
Scribbler-"But that doesn't rby,,sa,,
ScraWler-Well, 1t makes a nieassn+
Jingle" pieasaht
Wigwag-'aThere is notb;ns ,u-
horseback ride to get IN an 49,. r.ns
I always take canter before dirra.., :;
Cuzzler-"And generally tale :.
canter" take de-
WEE never knew man who u,a.
4 more AFRAID of germs and eonfa s Tae
He ca Du,ssans. Wagg-"That's riehf
feeling that he is EettinT 4hs WITHOUT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13

GHOSTS.
o to creep in by candle light,
When all the world Is fast asleep
out of the cold winds. out of the night
Where the nettles wave and the rains
weepi
o to creep in, lifting the latch
80 quietly that no soul could hear,
And at those embers in the gloom
Quietly light one careful match
You should not hear 1t, have no fear
And light the candle and look around
The old, familiar room;
To see the old books upon the wall
And lovingly take one down again,
And hear-O strange to those that lay
So patiently underground
The ticking of the clock. the sound
OF clicking embers
watch the play
OF shadows
till the implacable call
OF morning turn our faces gray;
And, or ever we go, we lift and kiss
Some idle thing that your hands may
Some paper or book that your hands
let fall,
And we never-when living-had cared
SO much
AS to glance upon twice. -
But now. 0 bliss
To kiss and to cherish it, moaning our
pain.
Ere we creep to the silence again.
Alfred Noyes, in the Westminster Ga
Zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
.sThe Insects. Homer,

A little group of the greatest men in
the world of science and literature
Travelled from all over Europe few
weeks ago to an obscure village in the
south of France, where they sought
out a humble cottage, and hats in
hand, paid homage to an aged man
The name of the man so honored is
Henri Fabre. He is 81 years old, and
the world at large has never heard of
him. Yet Darwin called him 1.-THE in
imitable Observer" Victor Hugo wrote
of him as 1.-The insects Homer
Maeterlinck and Rostand have sung his
praises. The world of science knows
him as the greatest living authority on
knows him as a writer who has seen
the romance of the life Of insignificant
creatures and written it in prose that
is as enchanting as any poetry.
Henri Fabre has spent all his life
watching the ways of insects. He
knows what the katydid says when it
sings in the twilight, and why it re-
peats itself SO insistently. He knows
the constitution and laws of the ant re-
publics and the monarchies of the bees.
He knows how the spider acquires the
engineering skill that enables him to
build his f1lmy web. The butterflies
have told him the secrets of their loves.
the mosquitoes the pangs Of their thirst
for gore. All the tiny creatures that
fly and crawl are his beloved friends.
This naturalist has passed all his life
in and around the little village of
Serignan, in sunny Provence, unknown
by all the world except the great stud
ents of science and a few great poets.
He has waited nearly 80 years for the
world at large to recognize his great
ness, but now, when such men as
Prince Roland Bonaparte, Maurice
Maeterlinck, Lord Avebury Edmond
Rostand, and Frederic Mistral assem-
BILE in his cottage and present a gold
medal to him, when from all lands the
scientists AMI poets pour kilograms of
congratulation upon him, the newspa-
pers of Europe are telling the story of
his quiet life among his insect friends.
He has one monument his book,
souvenirs Acknowledgment which
stands today as the most authoritative.
intimate, and beautiful book on insect
life that has ever been published.-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Debts also have habit of making
enemies.
y
Free advice is like everything else
that is free. It's not of much account.
\ X 4
Men are always protesting against
picnics but they keep on attending them
Just the same.
Some girls can make up their minds
nowadays much quicker than they can
their compilations
X y y
There is no satisfaction for the man
killed by lightning in the fact that it
does not strike twice in the same place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
ERON OTHER PENS
A NEW JUDICIARY System.


The constitution gives congress a
free hand in the matter of constituting
tribunals inferior to the supreme
court. To this authorization we are
indebted for the federal courts, which
have long played an important part
in our system of Jurisprudence. They
have proved their efficiency for the
work they were created to do, and,
indeed, it is nots clear that any cry
ing necessity has suddenly arisen
which is beyond their activities. But
if so-if litigation has so far out
grown present facilities as to demand
the establishment of an entire new
system of the judiciary, with the
customs as it's beginnings, where is it
to end? May it not carry us further
"a long way further-than the legis-
lation which invited the reproach
that this was a government by com
mission? And. by the way, it is a fact
of special significance that the new
court of commerce is the child of the
body whose creation may be said to
have given the impulse to the move
ment that was not checked until con-
gress had run commission mad-the
interstate commerce commission.
1t is manifest that when a congress
composed of lawyers for the most part
happens upon new professional FL
Dorado, it goes the limit of exploita-
ton. Neither the constitution nor its
offshoots are permitted to block the
way.-Washington Post.
PRIZE FTGHETER'S TRAINING.
The prize fighter attains his full
strength and development gradually
and by systematic methods, never
reaching a genuine test of his posi-
bilities until he enters the ring for the
encounter with his adversary. He has
boxed with men weaker than himself,
not to prove his power, but to get his
muscles in trim. With these at their
best he is ready for the supreme test.
Ball players, oarsmen, runners and
the like are, on the contrary, COM
PEELED to meet as extreme strain in
practice as in the final contest, and
are, therefore, not always at their best
when this critical moment comes
Brutal as the prize fight is, it is an
illustration not to be found elsewhere
of what the physical man is capable
of, and as such has an interest to the
normal man of which he may feel
more or less ashamed, but which is
human and genuine. Yet. curiously
enough, notwithstanding the admira-
ton most men feel for the physically
perfect of their kind, they are rarely
moved to emulate the condition by any
efforts of their own in the way Of
training. The average man is entire
w willing to remain soft of muscle and
inferior in development and to prac-
tice athletics by proxy.-Indianapol
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the state journal
Hway during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents n month (by
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State journal viii be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13

John D. Rockefeller declares that
the time has arrived for establishment
of universal religion. If it is to be
based on the new religious doctrine
recently promulgated by the faculty
and students of the divinity school of
the University of Chicago. it is going
to have a hard row to hoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrorn the New York Press

[Frora the New York Press.]
The hardest money to get to spend is
when you married for it.
The harder it is to support a big fam
ily the easier it is to get one.
The way to make O. woman enjoy a
yachting trip is to photograph her on
it.
A man always thinks it takes less
brains to run somebody else's business
than his own.
One of the best ways to get engaged
to a girl is to make her think some
other girl is willing to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
TAFT HAS ARRIVED.

Inc success OF the Taft program
has certainly discounted his enemies.
A short time ago the Wichita Beacon
was Growing over the failure of Taft
Have you heard any Growing lately .
There was some insurgents who hon.
estly thought they could help them
serves by attacking the president. Do
you hear them say anything dero-
gratory of the president now? Even
the Topeka Capital. the most rantank-
erous populist paper ever in the state,
has had some kind words to say for
the president. President Taft has ar
rived.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13
Accidents in Cotton Mills.

Cotton spinning mills in England,
France, Belgium. Germany and the
United States have, for a century at
least, been prolific sources of accidents
arising directly from the machinery in
use, as distinct from other causes. 1t
was this prevalence of injury among
cotton mill workers on the continent
that called into being the Society for
the Prevention of Accidents in Fac
tories in AIsace twenty years ago, and
excellent work has been carried on by
this society and its ramifications
among the cotton mills of Alsace, Lor-
raine and Rhenish Prussia 1t must.
in fact, be credited to this disinterest-
ed body of mechanicians that they
were the main pioneers of efficient
safety devices for cotton machinery.
During the last decade mills in Eng
land have adopted several. of these ap-
pliances, improved on others, and
from the inspiration given by those
early efforts British engineers and ma
chinists have invented many more
which do good service every working
day in the mill. The United States
are now actively falling into line, and
insurance companies are giving serious
attention to the proper safeguarding
of machinery in mills under their SUI
pervision.-H. NJ. Crawford, in Cas-
sier's Magazine.
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And still another argument. comes
to the front against the investment of
millions of dollars in huge battleships
of the dreadnaught type. Several 9TH
er millions of dollars have to be put
into the navy dry docks to make them
large enough so that the battIeships
can be accomn1 odated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-13

When Dave Lssahv writes the g over1
nor's s'scathing replies" TO ponucaL
enemies, he just writes the letter as
he would write 1t himself ana tnen
scratches out the IT do myself the hon
orr or Il take the liberty" in the first
paragraph. When he is signing The iet.
ter with his own name, Dave leaves on
these earnlarks.
When we see some OF the current eol-
lions of male attire. we do not wonder
that Jacobs brethren threw MIN ineo
the cistern.
A pessinist Is the man who suspects
the milk in a cocoanut of being water
ed.
There is still room in the wide neld
Of invention: Some DAY some s n,,,a
thing on the order of a horses nose pas'
to feed children from.
BY the way: What ever became OF
the kissing bug that raised such a as
turbance IL years ago this summer!
Frequently fisherman bats his
breath three times while batting ms
hook once.
. No elephant is handsome. but the
pachyderms would be more ornamental
as a class, if that dried. dusty express
sion could be washed of.
DID YOU EVER-hear a real sailor
sing "a Life on the Ocean Wave"aor
Rocked iE the Cradle Of the Deep!'
See q beautiful Indian maiden, or
Meet an actor who didn't talk shop?
The right of minors to vote in the
coming primaries, is still before the
attorney generals Office. 1t occurs to
this department that the easiest way to
settle the question would be to take
straw vote among the minors who
claim the right to vote, and see II
majority of them want to vote Tor
Stubs.
NATURAL HISTORY Gesson Id.
The SPARROW is foolish pest,
OF that there is no doubt
Because he tries to build his nest
Within the water spout,
Then comes a rain to do the rest
To wash the sucker out:
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next Republican nomination for the
governorship of New York state. 1t
wasn't so many years ago. eleven to
be exact, that Mr.. Loeb entered New
York states executive department as
a stenographer to the then governor.
Theodore Roosevelt This is but an
other indication that it is impossible
to keep a good man down.