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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
Democratic Wellesley.

Wellesley college is a girls town.
At any rate, everywhere are girls,
nothing but girls.
Over the grassy slopes of the camp
us, in and out among the winding
paths they roam, blurs of white with
an occasional black dot made by a
seniors cap and gown.
For what do girls go there?
To see them wandering about over
the hills, and through the little valleys
dim from overhanging branches that
have seen so many girls come and go,
to hear them laugh whole-heartedly,
you would say that many of them had
come there for fun. great many
girls are there for study--witness the
piles of books in their arms; And some
are there for both, and some because
dad wanted the INTO go, and some be-
cause it is the thing to do, and so on,
just as in any college in the world.
What are girls at Wellesley wear
ing?
Sensible, girlish dresses! No hobbfe
skirts for them, no plumed hats with
lace undercaps. To be sure they may
have hobble gowns by the score hang
ing Imply in their closets, OF elaborate
hats carefully tucked under their
couches in the milliner's box, but you
don't see any of them on the campus.
Short skirt and sailor blouse, with
tie knetted at the throat---this is the
most popular costume. If it gets cold,
slip on a sweater, or If it rains put on
a rubber coat, and pull an oilskin
Southwestern down over the face, and
there you are.
All the girls go hatless. A hat on
the campus is a rarity, as are elabor-
ate coiffures. They do up their hair
quickly not to be late at lectures, and
although you may see empire puffs
once in a while, the majority of them
are satisfied with simple coils or
braids.
Perhaps you wonder how much it
costs to go to Wellesley?
| Well, it costs SITS for tuition and
! $275 for living. There are no more
expensive suites reserved for the rich
est girls. Money cannot purchase par
| TALLY. The seniors have the first
choice of rooms and the other classes
in order. Miss Millionaire finds that
her fathers checks cannot procure for
her a better view than Miss Little
money, who happens to be one class in
advance.
There is no -four hundred at We'll
lesley, no upper ten" OF course there
are some girls who have a great deal
of money, who run their own automo-
biles and all, and there are some who
live more simply, yet represent twice
as much wealth at home. But in the
college world the girls are accepted
for their own value, not on the value
| of papa's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Travel
Ter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The smaller the man the more i'm
portant he is apt to think he is.
X
Home may not be merely four
square walls, but it wouldn't be much
of a one without them.
X X
This is also the season of the year
when hard cider is handy substitute
for other things.
X X
And another thing a man cannot do
is keep step with woman who is
wearing a hobble skirt.
x X
Many people who have excellent op-
portunities to increase their happiness
don't take advantage of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

1t ruin Tie OulCdSO 1NOWS-I
The race for wealth ends at the ceme-
terry.
Occasionally man breaks loose and
gets tight.
Many a hot time has been started by a
cold bottle.
Some people try to substitute pleasant
smile for honesty.
Work is about the best rest cure that
has yet been discovered.
It's about time to count up the things
you have to be thankful for.
Make a noise like ready money and
your friends will not forsake you.
Pessimists are persons who couldn't find
happiness with a fine-tooth comb.
Many a brave man never gets a chance
to prove 1t, but is just as well satisfied.
It's the natural bravery of a widow
chance.
Something should be done to prevent
hens from laying so many cold-storage
eggs.
More people would take chances if they
could put them back in case they didn'
turn out right.
Oh, no, Cordelia, a man isn't necessarily
a lover of flowers because he throws
bouquets at himself
One way to remain happily married is
to cut out your relatives who are afflicted
with the butt-in habit.
More people would be satisfied to take
things as they come were it not for the
fact that most of the things that come
are not worth waiting for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
UNIQUE Honor for Boston Man.

A signal honor, conferred upon but
very few Americans in any part of the
world, has just been rendered to Ed
mund Billings of the Good Government
association. by the city of Messina,
Sicily, in return for his work of dis
tributing the Massachusetts earth
quake relief funds. A street of the
newly constructed city has been named
Via Billings
Although the fact of the naming of
the street has been known to Mr. Bill
lings since the honor was conferred,
his friends learned of it for the first
time last week, when photographs
from Sicily were received in Boston
showing the un-Italian name promi-
nently displayed upon the corner of
the house at the bend of the street.
AS a result, Mr.. Billings, as well as
Mrs. Billings, is being showered with
congratulations, and friends are de-
lightedly pointing out that but few
Am orleans, and only the great figures
of history, have heretofore been hon
ored in this way.
Time and again since the catastro-
phe, when Mr.. Billings was sent to
Italy as the Massachusetts representa-
tive to aid in the distribution of the
$1,000 that was locally raised, MT.
Billings has been honored in this coun-
try and in Italy, but this latest honor
is the most unique that has been ac-
corded him.-Boston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
Hank! harkl my soul,
Angelic songs are swelling.

The man stopped. Something in him
stirred as the waves of sound f1oated
out through the half-open window, and
when the choir joined the contralto and
carried the music up and up to
the splendid climax, the man became
conscious of emotions he had not ex-
perienced for years. He had gotten
out of the way of going to church.
When the music stopped, he resum-
ed his stroll, but not the train of
thought interrupted by the music.
He recalled that as he stood there a
man and woman, absorbed in animated
conversation, passed apparently without
hearing the music.
Why was he appealed to and not these
others?
He was rather pleased with himself
that ne had been appealed to by the
beautiful music.
He was rather sorry for the others
that they had not been appealed to.
1t argued a larger capacity in him.
Is a man who doesn't care for music
less a man2 He felt quite sure of it.
Isn't it test of a big soul-to care
much for many things? He was sure
of it.
He thought of his children.
If he wished to develop them along
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
PA AND POLITICS


One day Pa roars and stamps and slams,
An says there's too much politics,
Il m sick of readin' bout such Shams-
Doggone these politicians tricks;
wish some paper'd cut it out
I'd jest subscribe for it at once;
It's wasted time, beyond all doubt,
To read about them felIers' stunts
So me an Sis, next mornIn' bright.
We took the paper and we clipped
The politics and done IL right;
You oughter seen the way we shipped;
We left some spots, and, on page ten,
OF markets there was quite bit,
But say, papers ragged when
All politics is out of it.
And when we saw it on his plate
We thought Pad praise US to the skies,
But, stead of that. he jawed us great
We got an awful rude surprise;
He said that politics was all
He really cared to read each day;
OF all the things that's short or tall
Amt Dads the most peculiar, say?
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New YORK Press.1

IFrom the New Z rK Press.1
We'd all rather be right than president
till we get the chance.
The worst about trying Iuxuries is that,
once you do, they become necessaries.
! Some men work harder trying to get
out of doing a thing than it would take
them to do it.
There's no woman that does not hate to
admit she wears clothes underneath that
will keep her warm
Great honors exist only in the imagina-
ton of fond women who are heroic every
day in the 1ittlest things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

There was something of a break in
the solid south" at that. The Re-
publican candidate for governor was
elected in Tennessee. But then, Pat
tersonism, which. among other things,
nullifies the administration of justice
by the courts, was just a little too vi
cious for the people of any state, re-
gardIess Of politics, to stand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Three cent street car fare with a
cent extra for each transfer has prov
ed to be profitable in Cleveland, where
It has been tried for a year. What's
to prevent other cities from falling
into line with the procession that
Cleveland has started2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

A Russian newspaper man has been
sent to prison because he furnished an
Austrian correspondent with some
Russian state secrets. In this country
a newspaper man would have hard
work holding his job if he did not dig
dig up a state secret and make it pub
Lie every other day or SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Sarah Bernhard declares that wo-
man is capable of any sacrifice in de-
votion to the people. Which must be
especially true when the sacrifices
such as Nine. Bernhardt has made
are as amply rewarded by the people
as hers have been with the coin of the
realm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
Lovely Characters. Lesson XIII.
DRAKE

A Man who took things easy was the
late Sir frankie brakes
' no never bought or begged a thing
that he could go and take
He took look, ne took the sea; his
flag was never furled
Until he took the time to take a triI
around the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
THE TEST OF A BIG SOUL.

Out for a stroll one beautiful Sab
bath morning in October, writes Erman
J. Ridgway in The Delineator for De-
cember, when in our northern states
there is a soft snap in the sunlight and
a warm GOODNESS in the air, fine
scholarly-Iooking man CHANGED to pass
a church as the contralto was singing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

That explanation from DR.. Abbott of
the Outlook on the reverses of the Re-
publicans and the contributing editor,
is mighty labored. There are also no
less than 221 words in its first SEN
tence. This is setting a pace for in
volved writing that will make even
the contributing editor hustle to catch
I'M with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

natural gas and the company distrib-
uting it in Topeka whenever there is
a shortage or temporary failure If the
supply during the coolest of weather,
but it comes in very handy these days
with the town facing a coal famine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Oregon is hailed as being the most
progressive state in the union, politi-
cally. But it's voters defeated by 49,
600 votes an amendment to the con-
stitution which would have granted
suffrage to women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

This is too much. An editorial par
agraph in the Chicago Tribune, which
now has the versatile Laura Jean LIB
hey on its staff. says: Defeated can
didates, come with your wounded hearts
to our own Laura Jean Libbey for
ooyo fort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Mr.. Bryan came back" little way
anyhow. He bolted the Democratic
gubernatorial ndidate in Nebraska,
worked against his election, and this
candidate was defeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

According to the experts, the toe
and its kicking ability is getting to be
the main thing in football as it has
been developed by the new rules. In
other words, football is beginning to
live up to it's name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

l.
cacies of a baseball game. "-Browning's
Magazine.
Singleton-I cannot understand why a
mans wife is called his better half. Wed
more-You would if you had to divide your
salary with one.-Boston Transcript.
servant)-Now carry this picture to the
exhibition gallery. But be careful for the
paint is not quite dry yet. Scranton,
that's all right. I'll put old coat
Fliegende Blaetter.
smith, "I hear your paw has gone into
politics." Sure" How'd that happen?'
well my uncle left him a silk hat and
a Prince Albert coat in his will, and paw
had to do something with them. wash
ington Star.
Reginald-DarIing, 1 see by the papers
that a food expert says that it is possible
for a family to live on 81 a week Do you
think it possible? Rosalind-No, dearest,
but I'll be a sister to you.-Cleveland
Leader
What was the happiest moment OF
your life?" asked the sweet girl The hap
piest moment of my life, answered the
old bachelor, twas when the jeweler took
back an engagement ring and gave me
sIeeve-links in exchange" Canadian
Courier.
TT is terrible thing said the prison
err 4'to be known by number instead of
a name, and to feel that all my life I
shall be an object of suspicion among the
police" but you will not be alone. my
''the same thing happens to people who
own automobiles. ''-WaShington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

big lines. must he not put them in the
way of caring for many things-books,
music, science. art. history. humanity?
The logic was plain,
To live greatly is to care greatly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

aside from the fact that he was the
first tourist to loop-the-loop around
the globe, Sir frankie is remembered
in history as a hot duck. Firmly be-
lieving that the place for one of his
name was on the water, he spent many
years wandering around over the wet
spots on the globe. He had a taking
way, and grand larceny was one of his
favorite outdoor sports. Outside Of
that, as Dick Thomas would say, he
was all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Trained nurses should be less at
tractive. A Canadian was fined $50
in Milwaukee the other day for hug
RinR one of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
HanIzad0n for the exclusive afternoon
qualification IN Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puE-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Major Sylvester, superintendent of
the washington police force, favors
the establishment of whipping posts
for wife-beaters and pocketbook-
snatchers. He thinks that it would
act as a great deterrent to offenders
of this sort and that it would not be
necessary to use it often. 1t would
certainly be most appropriate punish
ment for wife-beaters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Turkeys are cheaper. Is this one
of the results of the Democratic land
slide? Some folk will be sure to argue
that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Or. as Shakespeare had Mark An
thony say over the bier of Caesar:
But yesterday the word of Caesar
might have stood against the world;
now lies he there, and none so poor
to do him reverence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Apparently history is going to re-
peat again. It looks as though it was
going to be a case of back from Elba
and on to St Helena
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
Forming a New German Metropolis

If the plans of certain ambitious
spirits in the henish-Westphalian in
dustria1 districts are carried out, Ber-
lin will shortly lose its position as the
largest city in Germany. They have
mapped out a scheme for amalgamat-
ing Is towns, which will create a me-
tropolis with an imposing population
of more than $500, 900 persons. Berlin
numbers only 2,150,000 or thereabouts.
The towns which plan this raid on
Berlin's metropolitan prominence are
Essen, Dusseldorf, Hague, Elberfeld,
Barmen, Witten, Dortmund, Bochum,
Gelsenkirchen, Wattensceld, Bochum
Hattingen, Mulheim, Dulsberg, and
Oberhausen.
Much water will flow beneath the
bridges of Berlin's placid Spree before
the Rhenish- Westphalian scheme fruc-
titles: but they are determined men,
those giants who live in the proximity
of the Krupp works, and the imperial
capital may have to look for its laurels
after e1is-Chicago Examinf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Nor are there hordes of Republi-
can politicians, insurgents, standpat-
ters and every other variety, making
the pilgrimage up Sycamore Hill these
days in search of advice and support.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
HUNOR or THE DAY

HE must love her to distraction"
What makes you think so?" He per-
sists in trying to teach her the intri-
cacies of a baseball game. Browning
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

What has become of clifford Pin
chot, James A. Garfield, ct al?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

The way to prevent your secret from
railing into the hands of your enemy. Is
to refrain from telling 1t to your friend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

The man who considers woman a
poor weak creature is soon cured of
his mistake when he tries to prevent
one from having her own way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
KANSAS COAAENT
AS no ENcouRAaEMENT.

encouragement, like the other vir-
tues, is desirable only under certain
circumstances; in this instance. when
you nave made the proper start. That
genla! person, who always encourages
MS friends, has, we believe. been
praised too much. and the gent with
a manner and a bucket of cold water
Tor glowing schemes, has by the same
token been vastly under estimated. We
can't think, off hand, of anyone who
mas tailed to attain success because of
lack of encouragement, while you can
count by scores the men who have
made bad mistakes, and then made
tnem worse because of the cheerful
creatures willing to pat them on the
back, and look on the bright side of
things because of an optimistic ma
ture, and the fact that they had no real
money invested in the scheme. The
land agent, for instance. is one of the
most encoura ging persons on record.
II the owner of a fertile forty gets it
into his head that he should quit MAX
ing good living on the forty, and buy
q half section of cheaper land, and
make fortune raising Bermuda
onions, You can bet he gets a lot OF
encouragement. The man who tells
you you should throw up your COM
portable job in a small town, and go
to the city, where your talent will be
appreciated at its par value, is over
doing the helpful brother act in nine
ty-nine cases out of a hundred. Dis
agreeable frankness may not make
you any friends, but such a nature is
apt to be more helpful to the other
fellow than the nature which keeps a
sparkling stock of encoura cement con-
stantly on tap, and dispenses, 1t indis-
criminately. You can at least keeL
still.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Singleton-I cannot understand why a
mans wife is called his better half. We'd
more-You would if you had to divide your
salary with one.-BoSton Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

A woman at Wellston, Kan, married
her adopted son. She had raised him
from mere sprout, and probably had
him trained into what some woman
would consider a model husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
81
H[:NyN

Many a man who named his hei
Teddy R" a few years ago. now re-
fers to the young hopeful as son."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

CThe use Of the word negotiating. /"
in the above paragraph, is bad form,
but we inserted it for the purpose Of
getting rise out of Pop Vandegrift
The word is one of his pets, and he OBJ
jects to its misuse.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

An anonymous billy doo': by
The Way:"-Once more we have gone
down in defeat. AS a result, am
moved to commit poetry. Hear my
wall:
The saddest words can find to write,
Are T r. took no chips in the Kansas
fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

A Pittsburg woman threw a scale
weight and Knocked out a negro burg
lar. This is a good place for this wo-
man to quit throwing things. and pre-
serve her average. The chances are,
that the negro lodged after the missile
left her hand, thus negotiating an "as-
sist."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

REonheoiaa on what the stock mar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
SOME COLLEGE STATISTICS.

A student of the University of Mich
igan, at Ann Arbor, so the telegraphic
story goes. has been making a census
on his own account and some of his re-
turns are suggestive. 1t may be re-
garded as within the range of POSSIBLE
ity, If not highly probable, that the stu
dents of the university during the last
year consumed 132,2 10 cigars, $3.50
boxes of cigarettes, $1,000 packages Of
smoking tobacco, including 10000 pack
ages Of cigarette tobacco, 1000 packages
of cigarette papers and $3.50 plugs of
chewing tobacco, as a stinuIant to high
er education. The statement, though,
that these culture hunters also found
time to dispose of 77,44O packages of
chewing gum and 100000 bars of nut
chocolate demands the immediate at
tentfon of the governing board of the
university. For the gum and chocolate
habits, when once acquired, are almost
impossible to eradicate. The other tri-
fies are probably classified as necessi-
ties.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14
"a saddened Democrat"

ut may be noticed that the niscreant
who wrote this hides behind the sig
nature of Democrat" And there are
so many Democrats in Kansas just
now that 1t is useless to try to appre-
bend him and bring him to justice)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Entered July l. 1876 as second-class
matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan,
under the act of congress.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

Omcial State Paper.
Official Paper City OF Topeka.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-31

Men of science are generally agreed
that birds are natures great check on
the excess of insects. and that they
maintain the balance between pant
and insect life. Ten thousand cater
pillars, IL has been estimated. could de-
Rtroy every blade of grass on an acre
of cultivated land The insect popula-
zion of 4 single cherry tree infested
with aphides has been estimated by a
prominent entomologlst at no less than
twelve million The bird population OF
cultivated country districts has been
estimated at from seven hundred to
one thousand square mile. This is
small, compared with the number Of
insects. yet. as each bird consumes
hundreds Of Insects every day the lat
ter are prevented from becoming the
scourge they would be but for their
feathered enemies.