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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

We were talking the other day about 2
young mother who takes life unusually
hard, and some one cited another woman
who certainly takes life easy, if anyone
ever H11 did
days, said this man, lis more easy going
people like Mrs. r., who'll take things as
they come and not be all the time plan
ming and fretting and worrying"
Tls man who places such a high
premium on easy going people is need
less 10 say, easy going himself For in
stance, he does not believe in allowing
family cares to make life miserable the
way some people do" He can't see why
he should be tied to a furnace as some
people are. He isn't. He attends to
his furnace when he happens 10
remember it and it gets along inst
as well that way, as other peoDle .5s
furnaces do. That's his story. OF course
that furnace gets along all right VVhy
shouldn't 1t when his wife, who, needless
to say, takes life very hard, attends to if
If he fails to? That's the other side of
the story. He doesn't tell that. Although
he does occasionally hold up his wife-a
thin tired little personals an example of
people who take life too hard.
Strangely enough, Mrs. R., whom he
applauded as woman who knows how
to take things easily, has a husabnd of
the opposite temperament. When she re-
fused to be disturbed worried because
the baby had a bad cold, it was he who
worried about it, and who finally insisted
that they have doctor. OF course, Mrs.
r. did not believe the doctor knew what
he was talking about when he said the
baby barely escaped pneumonia He Is
just one of those doctors who like to ex-
aggerate things SO they have more
credit for curing them she explained
Mr.. A. is another of these easy going
folks. He could make a good living as a
bookkeeper. but he doesn't like the work
and has taken up newspaper work in
stead. at which he is most empha tically
not a financial success but what of
that?' he says airily. IT enjoy it and L
am willing to receive less remuneration
than for work dislike. We get along
very comfortably at home. and 1 am not
ambitions for wealth. Happiness is more
important, I think
OF course, they get along very comfort
ably at home. Why shouldn't they, when
Mr. AS daughter, who is working her
self to death, turns almost all her earn
ings into the family Golfer?
As anyone who has ever lived with one
of these take-life-easy people can testify
easy going folks are apt to make hard
going for somebody else.
OF course We need easy going people
in the world. We need their even dis
positions and happy go-lucky ways azd
cheerful temperament. But we need the
other kind to remember the things they
forget, and do the things they neglect
and in general, counteT-ba1ance them.
and it doesn't seem to that it be-
hooves easy going folks to depreciata
those who are so unfortunate as to be
born with a sense Of responsibility
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
says UNCLE CIV

Stick to the ladder, not to the rung.
Perseverance is one of the prime viz
tues. but it will do you no good to
stick to a gold mine if you don't keep
your eyes open. The most dismal fall
ure in Down-and- Outville is the man
who spends his lifetime at one job
without increasing either his earnings
or his efficiency. And the woods are
full of that class of cattle-dumb,
driven cattle.
profit, and that is to stick to some
thing that's getting better-that's NOV
ing and going somewhere. Next to the
sponge, the oyster is the best sticker
on earth; but all the sponges and oys-
tiers in the seven seas haven't a single
achievement to their common credit
Stick to your job is bad advice to
any one who hasn't the best work that
he is capable of handling. There is no
reward for the filter, but there is Just
as little for the barnacle, who bores in
and hangs on until he is scraped loose
Don't get your job and your ambition
mixed up until you can't tell them
apart. Your ambition is the thing TO
persevere in-your daily task and your
present salary are merely incidents and
instruments. If you are made of the
right kind of stuff. if you are really go
ing to succeed, that point of view is
pest for you and your employer. IF
your present job is only a stepping
stone to one just ahead, you'll do your
work better than the fellow who ex-
poets to cling to the berth until the a ge
limit gets him.
Don't regard any position as perman-
ent unless that position calls for the
best that is in you. It's a wise worker
VINO no sooner gets hold of a good thing
than he uses it to get hold of a better
or Every job that comes your way
is a rung in the ladder. and its hest
use SO lar as you are concerned, is for
climbing And you can climb if Won
Keep your eyes open. Stick to the lad
der, not to the rung-(Copyr!gh 1912
by w. E. Williams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.1
The poorer the sermon the longer II is.
He who laughs best doesn't have the
laugh on him.
Better a close mouthed friend than one
who is close listed.
1t is easier to promise bread than il Is
to provide butter
Better a woman with rosy cheeks than
a man with rosy nose.
Some people never seem to tire OF max
ing other people tired.
Many a girl can draw a beau who
knows nothing about archery
Some people seem to get a lot OF pleas
ure out of not having any fun in life.
It's no trouble for a slow man to ex-
coed the speed limit when he starts down
hill.
1t often happens that when a man
knows his duty he tries to stave it OF by
seeking advice.
If you intend to do a mean thing, wait
till tomorrow: but if you are going to do
a noble thing, do it now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
GET THE GARDEN HABIT.

1t seems incongruous in the ex-
IRENE to utter a word about the
pleasures and profits of kitchen gar
dens with two and more feet of snow
on the ground, and the weather man
winking his left eye as a way of
warning that additional snow may
come this way. However, Old Sol
is beginning to get up pretty early
these mornings, And as sure as you
were born, there will be an end of
winter and a beginning of spring be-
fore long. Winters backbone for the
year 1912 was evidently made out of
concrete reinforced with steel. But
even such a composition can be brok-
en-. That is soon going to happen
to the vertebrate of this famous win
ter.
Taking a good hold of times fore
lock is a practice of wise men, and
regardless of the snow and ice on all
sides, these men are already develop
ing their plans, mentally, for kitchen
gardens that will supply their tables
with the freshest kinds of vegetables
during their seasons and incidentally
knock a few dollars a month off the
cost of living, against which most
folk have a righteous protest.
should not be a good1y company of
such wise men in Topeka. A move
ment is underway to interest the
school children in utilizing the vacant
city lots and the back yards during
the spring and summer for the cult
walton of vegetables. Pleasure, pc
cuniary profit and a wealth of val
liable information will be rewards to
vided their efforts are intelligently di-
rected.
Wholare in better position to as
sist the children in this particular
than their dads and their mothers?
AS a matter of fact there is not much
of an excuse why many families in
Topeka should not have their own
little truck gardens every summer.
Few cityans are blessed with such
extensive back yards as are Topekans.
Few back yards are composed of such
fertile soil In fact, conditions in
and around Topeka are ideal for al
most every family to raise its own
vegetables for it's table during the
spring and summer. It is surprising
how much garden truck can be grown
on a small area of ground. Some of
and around Paris, have access to
tracts of land that are not any larger
than couple of Topeka's city lots.
Some of these French vegetable gar
dens are not even as extensive as that
And yet, off of them their owners
raise enough to provide for the entire
support of themselves and their fam
lilies during a whole year. There is
a good surplus, too. to put in the
bank. That shows the possibility of
a small tract of land in the matter of
vegetables.
This is going to be a great spring
for the raising of vegetables. The
ground will be in the best possible
shape for their cultivation. Atmos-
pheric conditions promise to be most
favorable. Talk things over with the
seed men, and make your plans &C
cordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

You can't shovel snow with a hammer.
1t is harder to quit gossiping than TO
quit smoking.
Some folks seem to specialize on vim
ming consolation prizes.
Some loafers like 10 get up early so
they can put in full day.
A nervous person can hurry a good deal
without doing anything.
A reprobate doesn't speed toward home
as swiftly as the Prodigal son did.
Summer comes pretty quick to the man
who invests in a new spring top coat.
Doc Robinson: I'm known as a crouch.
but If I were rich 1 would be referred 10
as eccentric and firm
There are SO many nice young men that
a girls Ideal can change oftener than a
government in Central America.
One way to remember seems to be 70
try to forget. Some infinitives, incidental
", but none of them split, we trust.
Jude Johnson is a failure because he
has always been waiting for tho
psychological moment instead OF going
to work
Where you have to pay the most for
your meals, the waiter is a esurey per-
son who wants extra pay for taking his
time.
When members OF a family think or re-
ducing expenses, they are apt 10 say
something about Fathers Extravagant
Habits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
THE PIPER

I will take my pipes and go now, for the
bees upon the sill
Are singing of the summer that is COM
ing from the stars
1 viii take my pipes and go now, for the
little mountain rill
Is pleading with the bagpipes In tender,
grooming bars.
Will go DER hills and valleys, and
through the fields of ripening rye,
And the linnet and the throstle and the
bittern in the sedge
VIII hush their Threats and listen as the
piper passes by,
On the great long road of silver that
ends at the worlds edge.
will take my pipes and go now, Tor the
sand-flower on the dunes
Is a-weary of the sobbing of the great
white sea.
And is asking for the piper, with his bas-
ket full of tunes,
To play the merry lifting that sets all
hearts free.
will take my pipes and go now, and God
go with you all,
And keep all sorrow from you and the
dark hearts load.
I will take my pipes and go now, Tor
hear the summer call,
And you'll hear the pipes a-singlng as l
pass along the road.
Dom Byene, in Harper's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The failures that cast a fellow down
are in reality the things that help him up
1t is ten times easier to fail than sue
coed; that's why SO many persons do Il.
You must have something more afftrr-
ing than brass If you want to be glitter
ing success.
Every man must get to heaven his own
way, but housewives say the weigh OF the
grocer is short
me dear?" Mr.. Newiywed-'I don't know
1t must be because the dressmaker's bill
came today"
Say. Pop, what is money!" Money.
my son, is the root OF all evil. That is
to say with it you can buy a wife or keep
expensive bachelor apartments. No mat
ter which one you choose your wish you
had the other"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

sensible plan for tariff revision. This
is his known stand on every question
Of national importance.
After Colonel Roosevelt's Columbus
speech a dispatch came from Wash
ington to the effect that there was
much in it with which President Taft
was in agreement. But the president
was at odds with his former friend
and sponsor on the initiative. the ref
erendum and the recall. Where
Roosevelt and Taft are and always
have been in agreement are on the i'm
portant questions of national scope,
although they differ slightly as to de-
tail. Where they are at swords points
are on questions of state scope. And
why should these extraneous ques-
tions be dragged into the national
campaigns, or the campaigns being
made for national nominations?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Sporting note in the Cawker City
Ledger: To while away the snow
bound hours. the fellows have been
playing ''mumblepeg'' on the back
counter at the book store.
When you have lost interest in the
grounding as a weather prophet, ad-
vises the Eureka Herald, you may see
if there is any truth in the old saying
about March coming in like a lion and
going out like lamb.
II have heard of many smart dogs
remarked RUFF Hosl1ins to the Atchison
Globe the other day, but when you
see a canine calling the cattle home, it
is usually accompanied by a boy or
an able-bodied man"
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Corvette of
CherryVale ought to be there strong
when it comes to footing their own
horns. but the chances are they are
even more modest than most folk with
less suggestive names in this particu-
lar.
Some excellent promises are made
by the new correspondent of the Ga
lena Republican at Hornet. He or she
writes: When Sister and Bro
HiIly- Billy get to counting, or Mrs So
and So crosses the road, they will not
find their names in your most excellent
paper.
College journalism is progressing
nicely toward the practical side of the
question. At the state normal school
at Emporia, Sidney Miller, editor-iE-
chief of the College Bulletin, was Civ
en- a severe trouncing by George Mer-
rill, a star athlete and fraternity
man. Miller, through the paper, had
been making severe fight on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

is looking for you. I'm going now
May see you tomorrow night?
must. Betty
I'm have to tell a fib. for we have a
dinner on at Carey's and a dance some
Where afterward, but I'll manage 10
have a headache and stay home she
promised.
SON Some time during the day patient
Miss Betty Gaines last night. 1 suppose
you knew that she Tilted Gregory
t1nooes 10 marry titled foreigner who
arrives in New York to morrow? She
met him abroad this summer"
so Betty had been leading him on nv
the look in her eyes the night before.
ne DIT savagely into his cigar, thankful
.nat the dear old gossip had interviewed
TO save his pride
soft was WAS a very charming Betty in 4
5e ont 'chnglng white gown, shorn of her
yeMeis' single blush rose on her
oHedst' VINO greeted the surgeon. For
time he sat silent afraid to trust his
- oMn VOICE He glanced at the girl, her
mhole ngure bathed in the ruddv glow
from the fire. She seemed a melodies
VI me dawn to Latimer and he set his
teetI ana tried to think of sOme COM
lnonplace topic, but his brain had gone
W. mroHs' ne concluded, and he waited for
Has it been a hard davq Are vop
very IredE she asked quietly
me note OF sympathy stirred his
No" he flung out. work. why. I
1 noIA as II my task were made for me-
work Is the one thing in life on who,
q man may confidently depe 1 II is
eite oniy thlng that never fails him at
a crucial time" -''i--
to,n WY this sudden and vehement Bit
"a he had not heard her call his mama
SIT Two years and the sound of her
them IN - the ner heart, but failed to set
en- have their work; women. nothing
-; ~ amusement, which is usually found
~ III, iIia IN tnose same men fools at one
tllIle or another. / never loved but one
woman and loved her because I tbouSht
she was honest and true INV
Ret ire you talking about me- Bobe"
&c, Today" he said. ignoring her question
nave heard from two OF your Sister.
~ taelen ; pest friends that you are engaged
" " noDIeInan who is to arrive in New
I DIRK tomorrow Yet last might Won al
lowed owed me TO make fool Of myself 1t
Have you no faith in me? VIII Won
oeheve the siclly gossip of idle women i
preference to the truth from the woman
you claim to lover"
Il love you Betty The dream, % 80,
has helped me fight and in a measure
WIN When 1 found you again, and Won
were not married, my love flared up into
thing L want in this world. Do you mean
S can you mean, he asked. incredulously
- WhlrHHS AT the look IN her
lace that you are not going to marry
He leaned over her chair. looking deep
Betty" he said; Betty do you love
He Fitted her to her feet.
Isis that surgeons coat big enough
for two?"
Yes, he whispered, his lips at her
white forehead land the pockets big
enough for cupid. "-(Copyrighted, 1912 by
Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor are all the fat-rriers in the
business of making lard.
Z x =
Neither do you have to be a thief
to take things philosophically.
x X
When a man is trying hard to do
his best any number of people think
he should do even better.
x y X
The more boastful man is the
chances are excellent that he really
has little to boast about.
y X x
If people would use the same en-
ergy to reform themselves that they
do to reform others, the progress of
civilization would be remarkable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
I'D YER Using Talks
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

Mr.. Charles N. Jackson, consulting
sales manager, dropped into my office the
other day to comment on recent ad-
vertising story which emphasized the i'm
portance of concentration in advertising.
Mr.. Jackson has had a wide experience
in the sales force field and is qualified
to judge, from actual experience, of the
mistakes that have been made in the up
building of a new business through adj
vertiSing.
This is what he said:
IF 1 had article that I wanted to
introduce to the public and had only a
moderate sum of money with which to do
it, / would not attempt to use any or
into some county seat, and thoroughly ad-
vertise my article in that one localty-ln
other words, concentrate my entire ener-
gies and capital to upbuilding the bust
ness in that district.
when I got through distribution in
that one district I would not then jump
to some distant part of the United States,
but 1 would go to the next county and
thoroughly work the same plan.
81 would try to expand my business in
as the center. then gradually develop my
business until I got national distribution,
and only then would L feel that 1 could
afford to use the national mediums"
Mr.. Jackson is right If a manufac-
tured product is not thoroughly 0iS-
tributed throughout the country, then it
is really waste of money to advertise it
in publications with national Calculations,
because only the circulation in territories
where the goods are distributed IS OF any
value to the advertiser
There is no waste circulation in news
paper advertising If your goods are only
in one locality, advertise in the neWspa-
pers of that locality, then, IS you can
afford it, extend your campaign to cover
other localities in the same way
(rTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

It is to be hoped that Senator La
Fel1ette's autobiogra ply now run
ming in one of the prominent maya
zines, will be continued right on up
through his activities during the fall
of 1911 and the spring of 1912. His
story giving the inside facts as to why
his candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination did not make
any better Roadway ought to make
interesting reading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

Bob F'itzsimmons thinks he could
turn out a champion heavyweight
prize fighter within three months
provided, of course, he obtained the
right kind of material to work with.
That is certainly a proviso to reckon
with. Any old kind of a plug citizen
could turn himself into a multi-mil-
Iionaire in the same length of time if
he was only lucky enough to stumble
on the hitherto unrealized dream of
the prospectors. a mother lode Of gold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

No news concerning the weather
conditions prevailing there has come
from Medicine Hat during the entire
winter. Medicine Hats silence,
though, doesn't fool the world into be-
neving that it has been as a garden
of roses during the past few months.
At Swift Current, not so many miles
from Medicine Hat, the thermometer
registered 16 degrees below zero on
Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

Congressman Mckinley and sena-
tor Dixon, directors, respectively, of
the Taft and Roosevelt campaigns,
are likely to win the worlds cham
pionship medals for letter writing
from our own Governor Stubs, Dave
Leahy and John Dawson. Still, this is
an honor that Kansas can well get
along without.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07

Rumblings are heard in Siam of a
revolution which proposes to establish
republican form of government. If
this comes about the first act of the
national assembly should be the pass
Ing of a law doing away with those
two and three decked celluloid hats
which are so popular with the Siam
csc. They're even more ridiculous to
look at than are the queues on China
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
BY U. NoALL

If Detroit had bearded lady on the
team would Germany Schaefer?
OTIS over his head Weei)
He may not bat around 800 but
Dick Capfield?
(Bite him real hard, Fido. You
mother barked for meat and he gave
her a bone-)
If they allow beer stems to come in
free why do they taxicabs2
Get out your money, if you want
to take a ride.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
KANSAS COMMENT
ONE REAL MAN.


The other day In a store I saw a big
double-fisted man and his little wife look
ing over some goods. She found what
she wanted, but said: II don't believe
We can afford it," Eyes we can" replied
the big fellow tenderIy I'VE can afford
anything you want. You helped make
tnis money and you are going to enjoy
all you want of it just as long as it
iasts. The woman smiled and her face
lit up-and she bought what she wanted
There Is a home in which the hearth
stone will always be found aglow. The
man doesn't expect the woman to carry
an the fagots to keep the fire burning.
She knows he has other work to do and
Wlillngly carries her share That man
ism the greatest financial success in the
world; he is not the leader in society nor
In civic righteousness; he does not pose as
a pillar of sanctity in the church, nor is
ne ever found making the blessed Sab
citizen who doesn't grandstand. There
are lots of things he doesn't understand.
But when I saw him tote fair with the
partner Of his joys and sorrows I said to
myself: He has one big and shining
gem in his crown anyway That's more
than some of the brass collars have
VICTIM; NOT PERPETRATOR
j. r. hoontz general freight agent of
the Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe Rail
way company, lately made a demonstra-
ton in 30 towns to ascertain the freight
charges paid by family of five receiv-
!iAS oil IHCoule Oh $f0O d year ana spending
1t for the household. Mr.. Koontz traced
the freight rate from the fields and pas
lures to the mills. factories and packing
houses, thence to the retail dealer, add
ing the freight charges at each stage.
He found that the highest total freight
charges that could be taxed any family
on the list would be $779 The single item
of fuel was not counted in the demon
straton, because natural gas was used IN
more than half the towns in the list.
The high cost of living has been under
fXun 0T4 6Tan 81
because of a general advance on the price
of the things folks have to buy Every
thing in the world, from beefsteak to
matches has increased in price, except
freight rates. The Santa Fe, therefore.
would be pleased to have an opportunity
to assure the people along its lines that
its modest charge for freight transporta-
ton has been gradually revised down
ward for the last % years; also that while
the Santa F'e is paying from IS to 100 per
cent more than it did ten years ago, it is
not adding the increase to the freight
charges, and thus make the people bear
the burden. The Santa Fe is not a per
petrator of the high cost of living; it is
a Naturalization Globe.