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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
CAN HARDLY WAIT.
Baseball Players Are Taking Keen In
terest in Game Already.

This beautiful weather has set the
followers Of the national game hus-
thing to the extent of purchasing base
ball supplies and talking of the merits
of the newest things in baseball goods.
Already the boys are selecting bats
and balls and gloves and every even
ing between the dark and the daylight
the enthusiasts are lirnbering up for
the seasons sport
This season the Victor people are
putting out the cleverest thing ever in
the way of gloves and mits The strong
point of the new nit is the thinness of
the edge. A catcher may reach for a
grounder and be sure the ball will slide
into the good left hand rather than
strike thick edge and bounce over
the catcher's head
Players will find the new glove made
by the Victor people this year to be
more flexible and more easily manipu-
lated than any other make or style.
The H. B. Howard Athletic Supply
company are distributing agents for
the Victor goods. They are also show
ing an unusually fine line of baseball
suits. 1.-The suits this year are made
of the same substantial material as
ever, but the trimming is niftier than
last year" said H. NJ. Starr.
Already the tennis players are or
dering their supplies. Among other
shipments sent out by Towards dur
ing the past week was one to the
Philippine islands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
EVENING CHAT
pY RUTH CAMERON

There is a bachelor woman of about
As who occasionally visits in the ca
pacity of dressmaker several homes in
our neighborhood
She is rather plain featured.
She has no especial talents.
She is not a brilliant taIker or a.
particularly Travelled or cultured wom-
an.
She does not. of course have the
attraction of wealth to recommend her
And yet, the other day, when her
name came up in the conversation.
someone said:
Yes. I like Miss LIS dressmaking.
but like her even better. | lust en-
joy having her come to the house
somehow" Everyone who knew her
echoed the sentiment.
Just this I think she's SO
HEARTY.
I wonder if you know exactly what
mean by that word? I'm not quite
sure it can carry all the meaning I
want it to take to YOU
What I mean is: So full of energy
and enthusiasm, SO much interested in
everything, so happy, SO alive So
well-I guess it's the best word 1 can
find for it-so HEARTY.
Maybe an illustration will describe
the quality best.
When you ask Miss L. how the world
has OSSA u treating ieT since you last
saw her, instead of giving an answer
such as, "Al1 right, I guess" or "Pret-
ty WE'LL as most of US do, no matter
what our blessings, she tells you
"splendidly.''
And she says it in such a vigorous,
happy, God in his heaven is all right
with the world voice that YOU actually
feel braced up as if something partic-
ularly nice had happened to yourself
L have heard people ascribe Miss
L. s popularity simply to the fact that
terests, but I don't think it's wholly
that.
That helps immensely. of course,
as it always will in this world of ego
tistical little people who want nothing
so much as an audience.
But [ think the whole foundation of
her charm is the fact that she is so
keenly interested in everybody's doings
her own as well as other peoples
I heard a clever young college man
tell what he thought men liked best
in a woman, and it was just this quail
ity-heartiness.
ST don't care whether a girl is pref
ty or plain, and I don't particularly
care about brains" he put it, "but
do want girl who's thoroughly alive
and interested in what's going on
about her"
I've heard girls say: "I'd give any
thing to be pretty"
Why? so
Because that makes people like
you
And yet these same girls are not
cultivating that equally. or maybe
more, friend winning quality which
lies quite within their reach.
/ wonder why.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

the last few days-and they will see an
example of womancraft.
The plans for the new three-story
brick building at 5O8-51O Quincy street
for L. NJ. Penwell have been drawn and
the contract will be let soon- The
used by the undertaking establishment
and the third floor for lodge rooms.
There will be no mems theater meet
ing at the Novelty Sunday afternoon
on account of a large Auditorium
meeting under the auspices of the
Christian churches of the city. A
week from Sunday Evangelist Charles
Reign Scoville will be the speaker.
If a disinterested person would start
out ON some newspaper reporters run
and attempt to hunt news and listen to
the ideas of all he interviewed on
certain news item, he would find out
then that there is a reason why mis-
takes are often made in the news col
umns.
The dope" now has it that the
Smith Automobile company will be
moved from Topeka to Kansas City.
The Commercial club in attempting to
keep the plant here has done many adj
mirable things-such as supporting the
proposition by speeches" and prom
ises.''
j. w. Davis, representative from
Kiowa county, has pushed a bill in
the house providing for an appropria-
ton to light the exterior of the state
house dome. This is a scheme that the
Commercial club has been trying to
push through for years-by giving their
moral support.
Those who bought the Isle of Pines
property which was given by S. B.
Roher to the White Elephant cam
paign have formed temporary or
ganization and expect to organize into
a company at a later date. Henry w.
McAfee is acting chairman and C. F..
Clearinghouse is secretary.
Myra McHenry visited Mayor Bill
lard and Commissioner Bone this
morning at the city hall. Mr. Bone
was smoking a cigar when she enter
ed but he threw it in the corner of
mayor was in a-good frame of mind
so there was no trouble from that
source.
When the new addition to the Wolff
Packing plant is completed this in
stitution will cover an entire block
with big brick and concrete and steel
buildings. A large number of men are
employed in this plant and with the
enlargement of the new departments
the payroll will be increased. The
Wolff people are doing a big business
in the west
DR.. George Babb, city milk inspec-
city commissioners with which to pur-
chase archaeological supplies for his
office. With this apparatus he will
make examinations of food stuffs and
he will test butter and milk. DR.. Babb
has been trying to push this appro-
priation through ever since he has
been with the city.
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the past three years. and the house
will not be closed during the remodel
ing.
Miss Edith McCorkhilI, an employee
of the Topeka laundry, sustained
very painful injuries Monday while at
work, by having her right arm caught
in the mangle, and causing it to be
severely crushed and burned A doctor
was Immediately summoned, who
dressed the wounded arm and ordered
that Miss McCorkhill be removed to
st. Francis hospital. Miss Corkhill is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Z.
McCorkhil1 of 400 West Locust street,
and is q. young lady II years old A
report of her condition this morning
stated that she was resting easy and
doing as we'll as could be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Catlin of Chill
howa, Mo, arrived here today noon to
| make an extended visit with Mr.. Cat
Inns sister, Mrs H. r. Altman, of 31z
Branner street.
The G. @, Gage. Sewing society met
this afternoon with Mrs. Hewitt on
Washington street.
| Mrs. A. c. Smith and daughter
Tessie will leave tomorrow for Los
Angeles, Cal. to make their future
| home.
Mrs. H. r. Altman is improving
after being quite sick for several days
with an attack of the grip.
| Miss Tessie Smith spent the day to-
| day the guest of herr aunt. Mrs. B. F.
! Williams, of 818 Branner street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

The board of directors of the Y. NJ.
c. A. will meet at o'clock Friday
evening.
The Sorosis club will meet at the
Central Y. M. c. A. Saturday at $50
o'clock.
John Manley. state Y. NJ. c. A. sec
rotary, is in Emporia on association
business.
Members of the group Bible classes
of the Central Y NJ. C. A. VIII meet
this evening at 6:15.
General John C. Caldwell will
speak on South America at the Cen
trail Y. M. c. A. Saturday evening.
DIR. F. i. Loveland will speak on
Browning next Sunday evening. A
musical program from Dudley Buck
will be rendered for the occasion.
DR.. Don c. Payne has returned from
Chicago and Indianapolis where he has
been for some months past, taking a
post graduate course in eye surgery
and optical science.
An entertainment of solos and
dramatic readings will be given this
evening at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
This is one of the series of free attrac-
lions which have been planned.
A concert will be given in the high
school assembly room Friday evening
by the Ernest Gamble Concert com
pany. The event is under the auspices
of the teachers of the city.
Home money home enthusiasm,
home rule and home patronage have
made the Independent. If you need a
telephone at all. connect with the syS-
tenn that reaches everybody.
For the first time in the history of
the Washburn law school a woman
lectured the students Tuesday. Mrs.
George H. Whtcomb instructed the
class on sales in the absence of her
husband.
The senate is figuring on giving the
school teachers of the state a pension.
The preachers, the bakers the black
smiths, the section hands and the cab
drivers will all be petitioning for pen
sions soon.
The floor of the senate will be kept
free from lobbyists and lobbyettes here
after. Senator Quincy has introduced
a resolution claiming that they inter
fered with the business of the session
and the other senators agreed.
The mayor and city commissioners
held an all morning star chamber"
session today going over the paving
specifications for the year. This is a
job that requires many hours of toll
toll that can't be bothered with visitors
and news gatherers.
If someone thinks that the women
are not able to take care of their votes
and are not able to handle public ques-
lions, let them remember what has
been done in the Topeka school board
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brand upon speakers who attempted to
overdraw their accounts; gently, but
firmly, esforced the house to transact
some business and exclude some ora
tory, and thereby he made hit with
the sufferers at the long, curved table.
But this is not all DR.. Goddard has
done since he came to the legislature.
He has acted as both peace-maker and
pace-maker, as the occasion warrant
ed. and has preserved his good nature
under all circumstances.
The oratorio given by the lower
house last night, was a spectacular af-
fair, and left both performers and
patrons in a pleasant frame of mind.
1t gave some members chance to
work off the "gray haired mother"
talk which had been resting heavily
upon their chests, and it gave the
women a thrill of importance-maybe
two thrills of Importance. The frank
ness of Hon. Cassin. who said he had
six daughters who would vote for him
if they had a chance, was one bright
spot in a dull overflow of oratorical
effort. and Hon. Cassin is hereby ex-
tended a vote of thanks.
But the big part of last night s
show will be given later. When the
house discovers the practical joke the
senate is about to play upon 1t, there
will be seen in the lower body, some
fancy f1ip-f1aps and pole vaulting.
This, more-or-less- gentle reader, is
the situation: Two years ago, the
house acted the part of fall guy, and
killed the suffrage bill, SO this time
the senate was rightfully entitled to
the unpleasant task. The house polled
the senate, and found, or thought it
did, that suffrage could not carry in
that body; then last nights big ex-
travaganZa was staged for the suf-
fra gettes, and pulled off as advertised.
The house members now feel the
nridQ of a good act we'll done. Thew
feel safe in their belief that the senate
will do it's duty, and kill the amend
ment at the proper time.
BUT the senate has a streak of hu-
NOR, and has prepared a cruel joke on
the house, towit: THE SENATE WILL
PASS that suffrage thing, and leave
the house out on a limb! The admin
istration end of the house does not
want the suffrage amendment sub
mitted because it will take up one of
the three places on the ticket, and the
administration has about half a dozen
other things it would like to submit at
that time. To be sure, the suffrag e
amendment will be ditched by the con-
ference committees appointed to choose
the three most important amendments,
but it will leave the unfortunate house
of representatives in the position of
having "gigged back" and very much
Gin bad' with the suffragettes.
The busiest man during the big
show last night, was Cap. Wilcox,
house doorkeeper. The exhibition gave
him a bad hour, and started the per-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Ten Years Struggle Ends.
Washington. Feb. S.-After a 10
years struggle, the house has passed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Items for the East Topeka column may
be telephoned to Ind. phone 1751.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

spirations on his noble brow. Every
body seemed to want to get on the
floor Of the house, and used every pos
sible means to that end. The lex
member joke was a favorite, but was
not the bowling success it might have
been with a, new doorkeeper. Cap.
Wilcox has been on the job SO long
that he knows the ex-members clear
back to the year one, and it was in
deed refreshing to watch him ditch
some of those who attempted to put
over the "ex-member'' talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

a bill providing for the purchase and
construction of American embassias
legations and consular buildings
abroad. The measure was put throues,
under a suspension Of the rules bv a,
sta1sding vote of al to SO, the an
fiouncemenI of the result beine greeted
by applause. The senate. which ~,
several occasions, has adopted siunilar
bills, is expected to ratify the action OF
the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

There is bachelor woman Of about
As who occasionally visits in the ca
pacity of dressmaker several homes in
OH neiPhhorhnnd -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
FOR A WICHITA sKYsoRAPER-
Twelve story ONCE Structure VIII Re-
place Biting Block

Wichita, Kan. Feb. s.-Wichita is to
have a 12-story office building to re-
place the four-story Biting Bros.
building DESTROYED by fire New Years
day. Plans for $3.50. 900 structure were
announced today. The building will
occupy one of the best building sites
in the city.
1t is understood that work will be-
gin on the building this spring. This
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

12-stery structure will be among the
tallest in the state and probably the
most valuable. 1t will have frontage
of 30 feet on Douglas avenue and 40
feet on North Market street. o. C.
Wand and A. w. Biting will finance
the deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
Ernest Gamble Concert Friday.

The closing number in the teachers
course for this season will be a con-
cert by the Ernest Gamble company.
which viii, be given at the high scho d
Friday night. The company includes
Mr. Ernest Gamble. basso;. Miss Verna
Page. violiniste. Mr.. Edwin M. Shon-
ert, pianist. Tickets so cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Many cases of piles have been cured
by a trial package of Pyramid Pile Cure
without further treatment. When it
proves its value to you, get more from
your druggist at so cents a box, and
be sure you get what you ask for.
Simply send your name and address
to the Pyramid Drug Company, 303
Pyramid Bldg Marshall, Mich, for a
free trial package in plain wrapper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29

raison d'etre for the table d'hote; for
the New York table d'hote, at any rate.
Outside of the latent desire of the table
dhoters to be thought by their SNUG
friends to be persons stepping aside from
the strict path of rectitude through their
visits to the oh-so-orful table d'hotes.
most folks, as 0. Henry we'll knew, make
their love-ther wholly problematical.
hypothetical lovs-for spaghetti their
main excuse for being table d'hoters. 1t
is the thing, you know, to say that youS2
crazy about spaghetti. The mere state
ment that you're spaghetti bug-such.
at least. is the view of the guileless table
hoters-carries with it the connotation
that you're one of those blase, dead-next,
up-to-the-minute, dining-out people, cog
infant of what is transpring in and
out of all circles; a sort of bedeuced bon
vivant, y'know, who can't be fooled about
life in a great city-all of which, as
tinctly and preponderantly the New York
pose.
o. Henry. while merely to conform, he
ate spaghetti. didn't care at all for spa
ghetti. 1t didn't taste like anything to
him, and he disli1ed the ignoble difficulty
of eating it. He could have lived two
thousand years at ieast-would that be
had lived that long. or longer.-without
ever in the least craving for spaghetti
and he only partook of it because it was
his infallible custom, as one of the shyest
men ever in possession of an invincible
genius. never to do any thing that would
make ii appear as IL he sought to sepa-
rate himself from the herd He knew that
the undersigned hadn't the least love or
reverence for spaghetti. He knew that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29

attractive. trying to make themselves
think that they coarl eat spaghetti with
a relish. It was more than that. 1t was
disquieting. 1t was disheartening, to put
it a little stronger, to see a pretty girl
with her mouth dstended to it's extreme
widest, while she seeks TREMENDOUSLY ana
Intellectually to ease q fractions fork
full of dripping spaghetti into that beautl-
full, shelly pink receptacle for food tnat
in every case ought to be normal ana
human. And when, as in about four
cases out of five, the girl slgnally fails
to accomplish her purpose, and many
strands of the squirmy spaghetti hang
Imply from her fork and drip the dark
sauce on her pretty chin, thereby swab-
bing the powder from that particular
place, and leaving it out of keeping with
the rest of her makeup: and when the
won't -do-it strands of spaghetti flop dIs-
mally TO the plate from the fork, and the
girl pretenCs to laugh, without a nicke. S
worth OF laughter anywhere in her en-
tire composition, why, YOU feel sorry,
YOU know, and wonder why women.
whose right and privilege and desire IS
to make themselves attractive, should In
dulge in MISUNDERSTANDING spaghetti al
all.
But they'll go right on doing il; and if
one doesn't like to be sad, or dlsheartened
or disquieted. why. one can stay away
from the spaghetti joints and eat sure
enough food and see. without heaviness
of heart, other persons doing the same.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29
A Busy Mans Vacation
and the amily Behind

weeks, and, a new man from sole to
crown, l returned home.
when ! got home | found out, as
often / had found out before, the differ
ence between thoroughbred and nom
thoroug Inbred.
My home was all upside down, and
had been virtually all of the time since
I'd left it for Pinehurst. The very Gay
after Id left home the nursemaid. a
young colored girl. had gone down with
the measles, and she'd communicated the
same to all Of the four children, all Of
them under ten years of age Then the
colored Observation-Disclosures had been taken
with some kind of misery that made
her quit the Job and take TO her bed.
And atop OF all this, my wife had been
Sripped by an acute attack of larynSitis
which made it impossible for her 10 talk
above the bareSt whisper.
SO there she was in the house without
any help at all. and with no chance to
get any help for maid servants Of all
degrees have n natural enough dislike
for entering a house that has four cases
of measles in it. and my wife knew the
utility of even trying TO get any help.
SO shed been attending to the whole
job III a fourteen-room house almost
from the day I'd left for Pinehurst. at
tending to the furnace, mind you, all the
time. ana nursing the children and cook
ing all the meals. and keeping the house
just as spick and span usual, and her
self so wretchedly i'll all the time that
sue TAU dlliltSL 10 IiSnC the an
Old friend of ours, to keep him from
sending me a peremptory wire demanding
my instant return home.
And there she'd been writing me those
chatty, cheerful, rything-all- hunlly-
dory letters every day, making me pro-
long my stay, and all that sort of dead
game things. She knew perfectly Well
that if Id even family suspected that
just one, instead of all four, Of the youn
'uns was i'll I'd be running back from
Pinehurst and trying to push the train
along faster So she wouldn't tell me a
line about anything. l tried my blamed
est to reprove her severely when / saw
the way things STOOD l desired to show
her, by means of a few well-chosen
words of reproof Just how unkind she'd
been to me to let me slide along in igno-
rance of what had been going on at
home. But, somehow, / couldn't do it.
just let it go at that.
But when a woman IS game, isn't
she just about the gamest creature in
creation?"
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A QUESTION CONCERNING SPAGHETTI

kind of a Bohemia. The New Yorker
yearns to be considered sophisticated
to the point Of almost evil.
To get back to spaghetti: Last night,
at one Of these for-the-moment vogueish
table dfhotes. I saw about 300 persons,
male and female, in the act of par
taking, or trying to partake. of that food
fetish spaghetti. | should say that about
one in every twenty really knows how to
convey the spaghetti to his mouth with
out suggesting disagreeable thoughts to
the beholder. One didn't mind SO much
the difficulties that beset the male conf
sumers of the spaghetti. their struggles
with it. the visible labor that they put
into the job and that, in the hot, steamy
place, brought out the prespiration on
their foreheads
But it was sad. let one confess. to see
the great majority of the women folk,
many of them pretty and in every way
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Stern Advice.
WILLIAM DEAN HoWELLs, at

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, at one
w of the "immortals'" recent recep-
tons in New York. told good story
about critic.
ITO this critic he said. "a popular
novelist brought his first novel in manu-
script-a manuscript of about 100000
words. The critic duly read il, then he
gave the actor this advice:
Cut out half
THE young man accepted the advice.
He cut out all the weak and dull por-
tions, and il seemed to him that the story
was improved wonderfully thereby. He
sent it i'm its new form to the critic, who
then gave him this second piece Of adj
vice:
Cut out the other half.'"