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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
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DAILY ORGAN CONCERTS


Several Topeka business men took
steps today toward a daily organ reel
tai at the auditorium. from 1880 to
lis or 1880. every noon hour and on
Sunday at o'clock. The concert TO
be absolutely free of charge. and 10 be
of popular music with an occasional
classical selection.
The organist OF the great pipe organ
of salt Lake city who played on the
Topeka pipe organ the other day said
that our instrument is in many re-
spects superior to their own and haa
attachments and improvements that
they would like to have on theirs.
Ihe salt Lake organ is celebrated
the world over and their daily organ
recitals constitute one of the bireert
advertisements salt Lake city has
The first of the experimental daily
organ recitals will be given at 3 O'Clock
next sunday afternoon. following with
recital every day up to and inciud-
ing the next Sunday
IL IS to be hoped by that time the
arrangements will be made to nave
music daily for at least a year.
The organist will be Mr. Dwight II
Seymour. the organist Of the Baptist
church. whose experience In different
cities has been large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON

Il have found that one OF the best ways
to get children into the habit of doing
the right things. is to try to make the
right course the course of least re-
sistance. I suppose that sounds obvious.
but I know a great many mothers who
waste much energy because they do not
realize and practice that method"
So a woman who has been eminently
successful in the difficult profession OF
motherhood puts one of the secrets of her
success.
And this is the way she explains and
illustrates that statement.
Il used to have the children keep their
own closets, so that they would not get
them mixed And all the time was
bothered by finding them left all over the
house. 1t was always Bobby, why didn'
you take your rubbers UPSTAIRS or
Eleanor, this is the second time this week
that I've stumbled over your overshoes.'
them to be orderly. and see If that
wouldn't help Father made a box for
the rubbers of the whole family with
little compartment for each one of US.
and we kept it in the back hall-now 1
almost never have any trouble
Then, again. | always wanted the
children to plt on aprons before they
came into the kitchen to do anything.
The girls had aprons OF their own which
they kept upstairs. and the boys were
supposed to hunt up one of mine. Well
it seemed Impossible to enforce that rule
1t was. oh. 7 was only going to make
a little paste and didn't want to go way
upstairs TOT my apron. or III, bOtntIs
mother. 7 couldn't find any of your old
aprons So finally one day after Eleanor
had spilled a cup of milk down the front
of her new dress. ] had father put up
five hooks right in the entry as you go
into the kitchen-I had the girls bring
down their aprons, and gave the boys
each one of their own. and told them
they were to hang their aprons those
hooks and were not to pass by into the
kitchen without taking down their own
and putting it on-yOu wouldn't believe
the time in cleaning UP their clothes tina
has saved me.
That's two examples. could give you
a dozen more. but you see what ] mean
Instead of wearing yourself out hammer
do something hard or inconvenient. Just
study out how you can make what you
want them to do more natural and easy
in other words try to make the right
course the course of least resistance
Does this idea appeal to you as good?
1t certainly does to me
And right in my own life. ! have an
unconscious example of its efficacy. Last
Christmas I had small desk dictionary
given me. During the last year / knO v
that I've looked up ten words to every
one I looked up during the time / had to
go into the other room. open the bookcase
and pull down heavy dictionary.
It is human nature to follow the course
of least resistance Much can be accom-
plished in training ones children and
ones self to overcome this tendency But
much can also be accomplished by MAX
ing the right course the course of least
resistance.
Think and see il there is not some OBJ
stacle or some unsatisfactory condition in
with consequent saving Of energy Tor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

brought the fellows gauntleted hand
quickly from the horn.
The other curb was won at last, and
the old lady turned for a final word.
You're real good she said, earnestly.
TIE city can't be such dreadful
place when there are boys like you in
it. IS your mother living?"
Yes, ma'am-In Ireland" returned
Big Tim.
4 hope you write to herr"
Twice a month, ma'am.
Keep on writing Don't ever miss
Mothers set store by letters She
emiled lonesomely- ~Goodby, Mr.. Po-
liceman.v
Big Tim, bareheaded. bowed courtier-
ike over her fingers. She dropped him
a little courtesy.
To Sheila it was like a scene from
a play. The snow was clean and fresh
The glittering show windows, prickeC
out by their myriad lights. were the
background The old lady and Tim
unoonsciousIy graceful and sincere
held the center of the stage. The hur-
rying crowds on the walk filled in.
The temper of the audience in the
street changed at the little tableau,
impatient scowls gave place to smiles.
Big Tim dove into the tangle and
zigza gged his way to the MIDDLE of
the street again. His whistle sounded.
His white gloved hand was aloft beck
oning. The snarled strands of traffic
Strengthened out and shutiled back and
forth.
The motorman who had banged the
loudest gave Moloney a friendly grin
as he rumbled past. On all sides peo-
pie nodded and smiled There was
something heart-warming about The
gentle Kindness of the big policeman.
I'D like to get across, Mr.. Molo-
ney,'' said a timid voice when traffic
had settled down again. Tim turned
like a shot 1t was Sheila, demure and
friendly
yves. ma am he stammered.
Almost at the curb she Rugged his
elbow suddenly to her breast "You
aren't a brute, Jimmie she said.
warmly. I'm a mean, ungrateful girl,
so 1 am"
''Sheilal' cried Tim. huskily. "Cal
I come up tOnight2'
She smiled dazzlingly. and a blush
mounted to her rounded cheeks. If
you'll bring me my ring
sDarlin." said big Tim, fervently.-
! Copyright. 1911, by che Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
THE FoUNT OF KNOWLEDGE.

THE fOJNT OF kNONSLEDOSEs.
1 had hundred dollars once
A fortune pretty near!
] kept it till I met a chap
Who whispered in my ear,
Where a river and a railroad meet
A city sure must grow;
I have a site like thisi" and-wen
1 let the hundred go.
Another hundred then / saved,
And at the proper time
/ met another chap who had
A mining venture, prime;
lit has machinery. shafts and all
The others paid for that
You're just in time to get the cream
1 coughed my hundred flat,
And still another hundred bones
I saved and sailed down;
And met chap who had the Dug
To start model town.
1T means a fortune big, he SAID
I'm privileges and rent;
Besides. it's real philanthropy.
And then my hundred went.
Three hundred bones at knowledge
shrine.
And though I'm badly shorn.
I've learned that streams and rails can
meet
Where cities can't be born;
I've learned that others mining stock
Won't buy my bread and meat,
And model towns can get along
Without an easy street,
Buffalo Evening News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

gFrom the Chicago News.l
It takes more than hot air to lift a
mortgage
Criticism often turns out to be a tribute
of respect.
Another remedy for insomnia-turn over
a new leaf
The race isn't always to the swift-and
never to the loafer
Even college education doesn't hurt
a sensible young man.
woman may not have the dough
even If her diamonds are paste
What about that ship of yours that Is
to come in-has it started yet?
The love of money is truly the root of
much evil-if you marry for gold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
SENT TRAIN ORDER
Now Early Photographer VIII Get a
Monument.

Middletown, n. Y, Jan 3.-Mrs. Il.
H. Hartman and two associations OF
railway telegraphers are erecting at
the station of Hartman, n. ". me-
mortal to Charles Minot. who IN 1851
transmitted the first train order by
telegraph. Mrs. Hartman is giving
the monument. which will be com
pleted and dedicated by veterans Of
the wire early in the spring.
The design of the memorial tablet is
artistic and ingenious. The figures on
the plaster. like ornaments on either
side, are made up of battery jars and
other things from the equipment Of
the early telegraphers. At their base
are larger jars. while the scrolls Of tho
capitals are made up of curlcd ticker
tame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
n THE ATcHTsoN GLOBE.

There is plenty of laws delay. but 1t
sells al high price
A Kuhledge man is so contrary he
argues with himself a good DEAL
1t is our theory that the political game
is bad enough without fool election bets
While the mule may kick a good deal.
that isn't what makes it bring a high
price
About the only relief a rheumatic per-
son gets IS chasing it from one joint to
another.
Diogenes. however. wasn't the only
loafer wko thought the rest of the world
is crooked.
Pretty fair grub is usually served at a
banquet. but the speeches interfere with
digestion.
Neither do a poor mans rich Kin ever
pay dividends as regularly as he thinks
they should.
Social advantages. you may have OBJ
served. have been a disadvantage to a
good many people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
DIVERT Using Talks
BIZ WILLIAM c. FRDE1IAN

The advertising solicitor who promises
big returns to single insertion-the
'-one-tine mans a real menace to the
advertising business
A great many of these "onc-time" So
licitors arc over-zealoUs. In order to
make good (as they wrongly fecD they in
duce a man who has never advertised to
This is unfair. both to the advertiser
and 10 the newspaper.
" lille it is true that a single insertion
has sometimes proved that advertising is
of great value to a business. Vet the COM
monest kind of common sense should re-
Ject the proposition
It is the constant appearance of advcr-
fising-the regular two or three times 4
week-or every day announcement-ai-
ways telling the people some fact th@y
should know about the busincss-tnaf
makes an advertising campaign success
full
If the '-on-time'- solicitor would exhibit
as much zeal in developing accounts on
right lines, he does in making all sorts
of promises to get one time Insertions he
would get more business in the end, AMI
more advertising would stick to the pub
location which ne represented.
The progress made ~ advertising in
recent years is due almoAt wholly to the
good sense of the represer tatives OF pub
locations who have franEzSS told would-be
advertisers that they must follow a GER
tain fixed plan in advertising in order .
get results.
Single insertion adveruzfnE and spas
rodic advertising is rsauy waste %
money it is the constailt sticking II
that familiarizes the people with any
business and that influences their trade
ITO be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
by THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

When a local theatre advertisement
/ closes with the words: Carriages at
1915 that is merely a tip to Bert Pat
ten or Cy Hurst to back 'em in on the
jackson street line at about that time
In his effort to find a follow up
story on the Rossville damage case,
the reporter ran foul of two military
celebrities, Captain Hamilton and
General Denial.
The new Chinese Republic started
things right by amalgamating their
Fourth of July with New Years day.
Trying to un-hook Hook has become
a favorite indoor sport, but it appears
to an innocent bystander that ma
jority of those engaged in the sport
are doing it in an effort to keep up
their batting averages in the news col
umns.
But Mr. Taft may as well go ahead
with the appointment. IF he tries to
please all the Kansas politicians. he
will have to stay longer than another
term to do it He will have to wait
until about seven eighths of them die
off.
This is good sleighing weather. and
many are taking advantage of it. Some
are sleighing in sleighs, and others
are Staying rabbits.
Some friend of humanity should IN
vent pair of trousers that work go
/ ing and coming, like a Potwin street
car; then they could be worked week
about, before part after and vice
versa, thus eliminating the bag of the
knees.
A suffragette is all right-at the age
of IS; there is a chance for some ele-
gible man to reform her before it be
comes chronic.
A Topeka avenue kid reports that
the knife he got from the church
Christmas tree is a fraud; it is so dull
he can't cut his initials on the family
piano.
Col. T. r. is receiving some hearty
| invitations, from the newspapers to
| come in, but the New York Evening
Post leads in the enthusiasm II
! doesn't stop at inviting him to get into
| the race, it dares him to.
Harry Thaw settled with his credit
ors for % cents on the dollar. It is
| evident that he held out on them by
hiding his dianond-crusted cigarette
case.
A large number of New Year resolu-
tons have been broken, and in many
instances it amounts to a compound
fracture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
Iron the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.]
Tie baby can't even have the collie with
out its being in a wonderfully smart way
Every time anybody wants to do a good
act something comes along to make it
look more like Jail offense.
A girl has two great ambitions-first to
Get her hair up a finality. and then to
get beau as starter
A boy gets through having his mother
pack him off to school only to become a
man and have his wife drag him of TO
church.
If man hasn't any money for people
TO take away from him they will take
away his reputation, so as to make some
sort or score
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

What excuse would there be for a
domestfcated parrot il it didn't swear?
This is also the season when many
New Years resolutions are broken
with avidity.
With any number Of people snow is
never SO beautiful as when it is melt
ing away.
It's not Well to judge the quality of
cigar by the beauty of the band
around it,
If they didn't have the old jokes to
fall back on. the professional iokesmiths
of today would have a harder time OF
it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
orAkER MEpITATIoNs.

fFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
ANY fellow is apt to feel blue if he
hasn't red.
tons than acquittals-
If the aspiring author can believe the
bookbinder, every book is bound to sell
man may completely demoiish q
Swiss cheese, and yet not eat the more
A matchIess beauty is nearly as unsat-
isfacfoI.v as a cigar without a match
No. Maudie. dear: few women have to
take a postgraduate course IN the scho"i
for scandal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Something Of an anomaly is pre-
scented in a picture of a line of New
Years callers outside the White House.
awaiting their turn to pass the greet
ings of the season with the president.
The line is comprised wholly of officers
of the army and navy, accoutered in
the magnificent habiliments Of their
respective ranks and wearing their side
arms. These run all the way from
the short sword of an admiral to the
ponderous sabers of the cavalry off
GERS. And for the protection of this
array of force and might are two
Washington policemen, each armed to
Lhe teeth with a dinky club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
SLEEPS AFTER FALL
Woman's Tumble Causes Develop
ments Puzzling TO Physicians.

Denver. Jan. $40 a fan in her home
is attributed a deep sleep which came
over Mrs. Johanna Bunmirc Of this city.
New Years day. and from which IL is
now feared that she will not awaken.
Her case is puzzling to physicians.
Mrs. Buffmire's leg twisted under her
when she fell and blood vessel broke.
The leg has turned black from infec-
ton. and since a short while after the
accident. she has been i'm a deep sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
DAFFYDHS
BIZ .. NoALL.

IF the boilermakers went on a strike
would the riveta bolt?
fCharge him assault and battery.
He licked a stamp-)
Does Pixies Peak leap when Colo
RADIO Springs?
6Clang! CIangi. Clangi. The anvil
chorus is busy.)
IT Emporia IS sporty is Burlingame
tThis is a case for the coroner.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Ohio insurg nts are having a diff
cult time to preserve harmony within
their ranks. Such might be expected.
One hindrance to the insurgents get
ting anywhere with their cause is that
each Of them Tlnsaks he is so clever
that he ought to be pretty much the
while show
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Newspaper interviews with Mrs. o.
H. P. Belmont. one of the suffrage
leaders in New York and the posses
sor of several million dollars on the
side, will be few and far between from
now on In the future she proposes
to write them herself at the rate of
5000 q column
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

An expedition of German scientists
having started to explore the Dead
sea and study its waters. it is reason
able to expect that Doc. Cook will soon
publish a book concerning these mat
crs which will discount anything that
the German professors may be able to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

A moving picture of old John Wan
amaker's face would have been inter
esting, when he read in the newspa-
pers of his grandson getting the ap-
plause of his cronies in New York
restaurant on New Years night by
soaking his hands in tub Of cham
payne and exclaiming: 80 do I wash
ave all nv sins of 1911tn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Nearly s1OO,0OO,0oo worth OF gold
and nearly 10000, 900 worth of silver
were produced in the whole United
States during the year 1911. The val
ue cf the farm products and live stock
of Kansas for the same period has
been conservatively placed at 1884,
66Q SIS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

In all probability the princes and
potentates of the Manchu dynasty viii
soon throw up the sponge to the rev
olutionists. movement is on foot to
commander their wealth to keep the
tottering governments forces in fight
In tin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Henry Allen declares that the ''peo-
pie demand" that Colonel Roosevelt
make the race again for the presi-
dency. Presumably Brother Allen
means the Kansas people, as it is
among them that he works and plays.
And perhaps they are the same "peo-
ple'' who were so mistakenly demand
ing the calling of a special session OF
the legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

If Egypt is wise she will securely
anchor the Sphinx and the Pyramids
j. Pierpont Morgan is due TO arrive in
that lind for a continued stay And he
is particularly active in picking UP an
tiques for his library and museum IN
N-ar1r Xrarl-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

And the members of the Conner
cial Travellers National league will
now have to put up with a lot of in
conveniences as they make their
rounds. Their crusade against tipping
was launched with the advent of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03
Full, rEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRES:

This has also been an unhappy New
Years for that gentry known to fame
as the Kansas crop Killers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

1t is perfectly legitimate for parents
to cut their childrens hair, says the
Je- ell County Monitor, but we can tell
them one thing. They do not improve
on the work Of the barber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Constable Crying the good old test upon
beIated person who persists he was .ner
shobrer in s 1ife')-Can YOU say British
Constitution p Belated One with strong
est Idle hard" convictions)-There Ism
one noNt Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

All the other mighty nimrods of the
present era and their accomplish
ments. look like the proverbial thirty
cents in comparison with the deeds in
this line of King George of England.
During his few spare moments be-
tween the entertainme given in his
honor in India he succeeded in killing
ne less than 80 tigers and Is rhinoceri.
It must be remembered. though, that
Colonel Roosevelt has not hunted in
India.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

There were twice as many deaths
due to baseball in 1910 than to foot
ball. And during last year seven more
were killed in the baseball arena than
on the football gridiron. Yet no one
has the tcmerity for this reason to
cry Down with baseball Nor is
there any disposition on the part of
those having charge of baseball to
make it so safe that neither team is a
game can make q score.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

In his effort to find a follow up
story on the Rossville damage case,
the reporter ran foul of two military
celebrities, Captain Hamilton and
General Denial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

The new Chinese Republic starte'
things right by amalgamating thei
Fourth of July with New Years day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

When a local theatre advertisement
closes with the words: Carriages at
1915 that is merely a tip to Bert Pat
ten or Cy Hurst to back 'em in on the
Jackson street line at about that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

The news dispatches make it quite
evident today. that President Taft is in
the race Now if Mr.. Bristow, Mr..
White and Gov Stubs would just
climb into the Band Wagon and drag
Arthur Capper, that other insurgent
leader. after them We might all have
the peace and harmony that quartette
is clamoring. but not working. for.
Mr.. Allen. of course. could remain
without the breastworks. if he chose.
Clifford Pinchot also seems to be in
doubt as he says, I know nothing of
Mr. Roosevelt's affairs as to whether he
would accept the nomination, or
whether he believes he would be
elected"
Meanwhile. Senator Curtis suggests
to President Taft that the best way to
determine the value of the objections
to Judge Hook on account of the de-
cision in the Oklahoma two cent fare
case. would be to read Hooks opinion
while Senator Bristow introduces a bill
for line of fifteen steamships through
the Panama Canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Former state Superintendent of Insur-
ance l. F. Payne, of New York. today
makes a remark with which the public
viii quite generally agree. namely. that
'.whateve- Roosevelt is, he is not a
fraud adding that he is surprised
that anybody doubts his word
IChapter LXV tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Trying to un-hook Hook has become
a favorite indoor sport, but it appears
to an innocent bystander that ma
jority of those engaged in the sport
are doing it in an effort to keep up
their batting averages in the news col
umns,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Miss 3. A. Landriean died Tuesday
At Evergreen hospital. Leavenworth.
Miss Landrigan was well known in
Topeka and formerly lived with the
family of Willard Hall at Twelfth
street and Topeka avenue. The body
viii be taken to Logansport, Ind, for
burial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-03

Frank f. smith died this morning :
his home at POI Jackson street, at u
age OF IS years. n is likely that ~
body will be shipped 10 Des Moline
la. for burial. The funeral arranR'
ments viii be announced later.