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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

| Woman Is the weaker vessel; at least so
everyone has been saying for the last
| million years or so, and yet again and
| again the weaker vessel is called upon to
stand the greater strain.
| an. thinking especially just now Of the
home services which working women are
so frequently called upon to render When
a woman goes out into the business world
| and works all day long to earn her living,
| and turns in part of her wages to tie
| family budget, she ought to receive the
same immunity from home care which is
given as a matter of course to her father
and brothers.
And yet what one of us doesn't know of
a dozen cases where women, just because
| they are women, and presumably the
| weak, are asked to bear a double burden =?
| L know young girl who works at high
| tension for eight and a half hours dGy
| in very strenuous business office. She
ought to mean absolute rest to her, but it
doesn't; she must spur herself on the task
| OF helping her mother get the supper and
clear 1t away. A younger brother who is
doing some easy office work which doesn't
take half his energy is far more able to
help than she, but no one ever thinks Of
once why Gertrude always helped her
with the dishes and Charlie never did.
should hep Again, at this very moment.
I can think of two cases where women
are working eight or nine hours day in
business offices and acting as eonvalescelat
nurses to some member of the family at
night In both cases there are male MEM
beTS of the family who, by reason of their
being male, the stronger vessel, are con
s1dered immune from such work; and in
both cases. although it might be a strain
on the family finances to pay an attend
ant, there is no doubt that that would be
done if the choice lay between that and
asking the father or brother to do what
the daughter is doing.
Sometimes women: both married and un-
married, deliberately and unnecessarily
put themselves in the position of holding
two jobs by their desire for extra spend-
ing money; then they have only them
seIves to blame for the overstrain that is
sure result. But quite as often they are
unwtllingly forced into this difficult posi-
ton.
1t is surely most unfortunate when condi-
tons In a family are such that 1t is a b.
solutely necessary that the wage earners
should share the care of the household
1t is even more unfortunate when the
family sense of justice IS such that the
whole burden is placed upon some won-
ans slender shoulders while the male
members of the family go burden-free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
BIZ THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

An Atchison man is too lazy to deny it.
Qualified praise goes at once to the dis
card.
Work is about the only thing that will
tire healthy boy.
Did anybody ever look forward to a rip
roaring gccd time and have it?
Probably there isn't as much graft as
we who don't get it are apt to imagine.
Any town is a good town to the travel
ing man who books a good order in It.
1t is hard to convince a man that his
salary is increasing as fast the cost
We have about given up hope of finding
a place where fish are as plentiful as
bait.
When a man gets married. he is apt
to favor conservative styles he can wear
next season.
An A1chison young lady is such a joiner
that she belongs to everything excepting
the Boy Scouts.
Probably the easiest task is for a poor
man to reIl what a rich man should do
with his money.
Your argument may only seem to be
convincing because it is easier and quick
er to agree than to argue.
moss back believes he is making con-
siderable concession when he says there
are some good men in the other party.
No, Geraldine, the Declaration of indie
pendence wasn't written by a bachelor;
T. J. was a buffer like the rest of us.
While the ardent hero of the novel may
find some satisfaction in kissing the
hcroine's hair, it occurs to US that his aim
moor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
AYHAWKER JOTy

The one best bet in Kansas, points
out the Salina Journal, is two to one
on the farm; two blades of grass next
year to one this
1t strikes the Hutchinson News
that Turkey needs a protocol and an
arnistice and a few other things of a
peaceful nature.
Last winter was severe on the quail
and rabbit crop, says the Ottawa Her
aid, but there seem to be plenty of
jay drivers left.
A boy in Derby who stole a red
necktie has been sentenced to year
in jail and a 500 fine, which holds
the high record for neckwear prices
in Kansas, thinks the Saline Journal
Now that every one has the right
to vote, suggests the Leavenworth
Post, wouldn't it be a good thing to
devote some time to the matter of
having judges and clerks who are
competent to safely record those
votes?
I Sayings by Uncle 81 of the Ottawa
Republic: TIL Teller with money to
burn usually makes things smoke.
TIL finger of scorn, if it's a
womans is likely to be loaded with
rings Predictin' trouble
is tn easiest job of a prophet.
Thrown on the screen by the Linds-
borg News's Vitascope: The same OPP
portunities may make a hero of one
man and a fool of another.
Some folks may have more money
than brains and yet not be rated as
rniIliOnaireS = The worst NAV
happen of course-but it won't do
any good to worry about it just now.
Lots of folks expect to go
to heaven, who would be provoked at
the Lord for letting some of their
neighbors in.
Continued political success seems to
affect some people curiously. At any
rate, Dan Anthony tells the following
story in his Leavenworth Times: A
Leavenworth man bought a pair of
fine serge pants a couple of weeks
ago. Last Sunday when he came to
look for them they couldn't be found.
His two grown daughters appeared
ready for church wearing serge skirts
in color and texture remarkably like
the old mans new pants and he be-
came suspicious. While the family
were at church he made a hunt and
in the rag bag he found the body of
his pants but the legs were gone.
There has been a chilly atmosphere
about that home all this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelnhia Record

IfrOH the Fnlladelph1a Record.
The Meat Trust can't control the price
of venison. That's always deer.
It's hard to prove that a fellow is a
lobster SO long as he succeeds in keeping
out Of hot water.
The fact that we are all born equal pro-
ably accounts for our inability to forgive
the success of our friends.
It's one thing to tell a fellow to get Off
the earth and quite another thing to get
him to take Turkish bath.
No, -Maude, dear; we have never heard
that 1t was customary for the widow of
a sailor to wear sea weeds.
Even when you have a through ticket
On the express train to Successvflle don't
tear up your return ticket.
The optimist was suffering from in
somnia. We'll, I'm glad it isn't toothache
that is keeping me awake" he nlurnured.
NeIl-''Yeu can say what you please
about him, his heart is in the right place"
Belle-"How do you know?" Nell-"He
entrusted it to my keeping
Blobbs--"That old codger boasts of be-
ing the oldest irihabitant." Slobbs-''That's
nothing TO boast of. Any man can be the
Oldest inhabitant if he lives long enough
I've should ali marry our opposites.''
remarked the Wise Guy. Did you ever
hear of a beardless youth marrying a girl
with harelip?" asked the Simple Mug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
HUAOR OF THE DIP

Frosperlty--Pr Prosperity has ruined r,sr,,
q Hiah' remarked the moraIizer s.VVeii :
teIolhed the demoraIizer, eff 1 was eoi,,,
20 4e ruined at all, I'd prefer prosperifv
n ather, did mother accept you the Fir.
lime you proposed to her?'' Ives ~ ,,s 81
Ses' put since then any proposal that
nave eyer made she has scornft1IIx- =.
'ecteo' Detroit Free Press.
why did you insist on havin, -
wlIe Join the Suffragette CIub7sS sPuar
cause, replied Mr.. Meekton a-rtr,Y. De- .e-
want to see that Suffragette club ~.
me the trouble that's coming to it.'-Wsstt.iAI
Jennie is very careless abou+ -,
temper How SOP" s'She is aIwsr-. ne, ner
In g1t"-Baltinore American, los
MaIdu IEssnWhati Going to church again,
yez advertised fori-Judge. COOK as
1T is hard to do two thine. =.
uIne. Rave you ever seen a smen 9s 1e
ca. peanuts and watch a circus7a-Fs,yI
why have the children SO s,ddar,,.
cloea they don't want to 20 WIFI ~ oe-
tne sailing party2" Il think a. r us on
cause S,. they heard their father saw :. pc
w m De a spanking Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few people mean all they say when
angry.
Bad luck encourages wise man to
get buster.
X x
Headstrong folk are not necessarily
equipped with a preponderance of
brains.
=
It is also true that any number or
people ask for things they don't re-
ceive.
Too many people don't pay as much
attention to their own faults as they
do to those of others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
FROM OTHER PENS

I-OUR EXPATRIATED REPORTER
or all the promising young n1en
VINO nave passed out of the local
room or The Chicago Evening Post
ourlng the last twenty years, only one
was ntterateur. He came to us
i iaSni tne University of Michigan, and
iert US to be the press agent for Ring
| ings circus. In the interim he en-
oedVored, with a persistence which
staggered the city editor and the
Lunctlonaries at the copy desk 70
40 the general round of a report
ers work with the detached air of an
oxford undergraduate, the diction Of
Waiter Pater and the Color sense
that is the way he described # him
seH-of the later whistler" %
course ne reminded us at first OF
the nero of George Moore's "rrba
Confessions of a Young Mar tI,s
olf1erences between the two rani61v
developed George Moore's vouns
man did actually swim in the ci,rrar9
ne TAXED about, but our young man
De- quietIy en- the beach at Windsor
Hark' Where he could commune with
the stars and the waves and. in sen-
eraI, keep his aestheticism baIa6caa
py the fresh air and ruddy LIVING ~
the south Shore Country club. Tben
as we have said, he left MS for RIr1'
ling Brothers circus. dofns S.i,,. rS.ls
slonlst1c studies" of the circns r1eo-
PIE Tor the newspapers from town ~,
Town. Ihen, we heard. he be6
sIpped over" to London, and neTt
q gratif1ed letter from the Suez canal
INFORMED us that our ex-reporter was
t,o Tor the Durbar. the representa-
49,, rn.o u q great London daily news
paper BY and by he returned 70 T.o,3-
con- ana the latest issue of the Ion
oon Graphic contains a characteristic
article by him on why like E1ar1
ia 1I Moved by something stronrer
sisa-,,.. .en IarnlIy pride, we print it
n apgood has done fairly well: Caoroa
Aoe ana Peter Dunno are fan1iI,,
names; Francis Hackett will find =
way; but we take off our hats to Ma
n.y.; ;1n 1Onnsoni To think of him, stand
uon Graphic and handing o11t a. a.
people of England his reasons for lis
ing England What will orr Me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
SPORTING THEORY OF JUSTICE.

Twentieth century American courts
are sometimes so negligent of the real
merits of a case that they occasionally
place the definite article the in sane
tity above the honor of our wives and
daughters The lawyer who made
this statement, an ex-president of the
American Bar association, had in mind,
writes w. j. wissel in the Survey, the
case of a man convicted of a das-
tardly crime, to whom a new trial was
granted. because the Indictment read
against the peace and dignity of
state" instead of against the peace
and dignity of THE state
Technicalities bulk so large in the
minds of many of our state jurists as
to justify the remark of a teacher in
a prominent lay school that our legal
system seems to be governed by the
sporting theory of justice-every time
a litigent forgets a rule he is set back
so many courts"
The old case of Williams VS.. The
D. L. & w. r. r.. which was tried
seven times before it was settled, and
which lasted % years, and of the Con-
necticut Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany VS.. Hillmon, which, after being
taken to the federal supreme court on
an appeal that enumerated los errors,
was reversed by that court % years
after the original trial, make the ficti-
tious story of Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce
in Bleak House an American reality.
The American Bar association has
worked zealously for several years now
to remedy the situation. After careful
Il F0r-
committee in charge of the matter
formulated a bill which was unani-
mously approved practically in it's en-
tirety at the annual meeting of the
association in 1905
Two successive congresses have con-
sidered this bill in an amended form.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Every time pessimist dies people for
get to miss him.
Things that are offered to us free a. e
usually the dearest.
One way to keep a friend is by letting
him keep his money.
What has become of the farmers friend,
the lightning rod peddler?
It's tough on the airship chauffeur wheil
he takes a drop too much.
If man has no money to speak of IT'S
up to him to do his own talking.
Rheumatism has all the artists beaten
to a FRAGILE when it comes to drawing
limbs.
Some women seem to forget there are
other pleasures in life besides nagging
ones husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

AAuA Slnk WIN d dulSIuAOOul
seems tub have a better opinion OF
4 time than anybuddy else He hates
/ like thuh dickens tub waste any OF
it.'-Deacon Squash.
In the Kansas-Missouri game, the
K--U.'s submitted the same lock they
i presented to Washburn. The differ
ence was that Missouri couldn't find
| the key-hole.
The nut cannery for Schrank. Ev-
ery-once-in awhile Socialistic Beer
| waukee pulls a highly intelligent
stunt. With Schrank in the nuttery'
J the unfortunate incident will be for
gotten. With Schrank in the penlten-
tiary he would continue to figure as
| a political asset with feeble minded
men, and a recipient of flowers and
| candy from feeble minded women
And, as for the Chicago judge who
sentenced a man to quit work, he is
to be pitied. The wild rush of nus
bands to get within his jurisdiction
will swamp him.
A favorite newspaper joke is on
the slim man who calls his 20O-pound
wife little girl But the slim man
I with the fat family has this advan-
tage: there is no danger that his w1te
will cut one leg off his faVor1te pants
to make a tube skirt.
Some simp with no visible occupa-
ton has compiled figures to show that
there are a million too many women
in the United States. His argument
would have been more sensible had he
declared there were just two million
too many men. But of course, ne can
find a million men who feel competent
to name the million superfluous wom-
en-.
If a parcels post bill is passed, some
provision should be made to protect
the mail carrier from little Rupe, the
farm youth who wants to get the town
market price for a skunk hide, ana
Adoiph. of Saindt Looie, who has dis
covered a particularly stout brand OF
Limburger and wants Rudolph, OF
Schenectady, to pass upon IT,
Foreign correspondents assure us
that Germany, Austria and Italy Will
act in concert. The only trouble with
that concert will be that they will
each desire to sing bass
Newspaper artists never overlook
an opportunity to draw picture OF
Eve, in Eve-like costume, feeding
pale blue apples to purple snake.
To get a rotten picture into PRINT II
is only necessary to connect 1t with
some Biblical subject
Il is a widespread belief that the
good government club which is try
ing to BIO. st the reIgning house or
Stubbs by causing trouble between
perfectly good Democrats. could take
a club cutting. with all members pres
ert. on one ordinary bicycle without
crowding the seat.
It has been discovered that Mary,s
little lamb was Ct fact, but that he fol-
lowed her 10 school about SO years
ago. Such being the case, comma,
Mary's little lamb is almost old enough
at this time to sell for Spring lamb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELoR,

CFrom the New York Press.l
Intimacy can break up the strongest
friendships.
A man has to know a good deal before
he can realize somebody else knows a, lit
tie, too.
Any man knows every one of the Ten
Commandments when it's some other fell
low breaking them.
What makes a man too old to girl for
her to be interested in him is for him to
be married already.
There's always a photograph oF fine
children woman has to take with her on
visit or IT will be spoiled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

but as yet it has failed to pass both
houses.
But even If congress should pass
similar bill, only the federal courts
would be improved; the situation in the
state courts would not be affected.
Just how this crucial phase of the
situation, is to be remedied it is in
supremacy difficult to say. Much de-
ponds on the attitude and the energy
of the State Bar association and much
upon the character of the press Of the
various states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
NoVEMRER,s IEwEL.

November nights are chill with frost,
Her days are dark and drear,
Her woods are stripped of flower and leaf
Her fields are sad and sere.
No cricket pipes a merry song,
No bird is heard to call,
The very todS have gone to sleep
Beenath the garden wall
The landscape stretches far and wide
Bare as a new-made grave,
No golden fruit or scarlet vine
Is left to make it brave;
But 10! in spite of meadows brown,
And skies of laden gray,
She wears one jewel on her brow,
1t is Thanksgiving Day.
-Ainna Irving in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

According to the statistics at hand
ten football players were killed and
thirty-six were injured severely dur
ing the season that is just closing
This is something of casualty list,
even if it is the smallest in the history
of the game of late years. But it
pales into insignificance when placed
alongside the aviation disasters of the
season, also the deaths from drowning,
and in the hunting field where men
are mistaken for deer and other
things, and in various other lines of
sport and pleasure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

any kind of a verdict other than mot
guilty." And besides, it has almost
become an unwritten law of the land
that young and pretty women are
privileged to murder men as they
please. Their trials are mere per-
functory affairs to permit prosecuting
attorneys to make a stab at earning
their salaries, and other lawyers to
enhance their regulations and add to
their bank rolls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
DAFFYDHS
By o. NOALL.

If a cooks lungs were out of order
would she breathe through the ice
chest2
CThat'n be about all from you,
Percy.)
If a crow is poor is an ostrich?
(Sand the track, Jim, we're slippin'. }
If you tickled one with a feather
would an oyster?
Don't tell them that you saw me in
the soup)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Apparently France is getting ready
for the ten-cent vaudeville comedian.
One of it's savants has prepared die
tionary of the monkey language and
made a collection of monkey songs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

When that Kansas school girl. who
placed Philadelphia, New York, Chi
cago, Denver and st. Louis all within
the confines of the Sunfower state,
grows up she should be placed in
charge of the Kansas publicity bureau
which will probably be in operation
nv that time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Presumably if Fred Snodgrass, the
ball player, had not been in on the
division of the funds that were taken
in at the worlds series, that California
girl would not have sued him for
$4,000 damages for breach of prom
Use. Breach of promise suits are un-
heard of unless the man in the case
has some coin or the prospects of get
ting a little
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Nor would it be unusual, now that
the Baptists have prepared "a new and
improved Bible" to their own liking,
if several other religious denominations
proceeded to do likewise. There is yet
much foolish rivalry between various
branches of the church established by
Christ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Evidence abounds on every hand
that the $1O,O0O,OOO appropriated by
Mr. Carnegie to bring about universal
peace is not nearly a sufficient sum, or
else it isn't being expended to the best
possible advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

No wonder President Taft is in a
happy and contented frame of mind
these days Notwithstanding his defeat
on November 5. He'll have thirty
pound turkey for Thanksgiving day,
and it won't cost him a cent, either,
excent for the trim nings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

If Russia and Austria engage in
their threatened mixup, the oppor-
tunity will never be better for China
to make an effort to recover Mongolia
from the control of the car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Those perpetual candidates for
presidencies of one sort and another
must envy the happy fate of Sam
Gompers. He has just been elected
president of the American Federation
of Labor for the seventeenth consecu-
tive time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

1t is safe to assume that the top
notchers'' in the editorial profession
outside of Kansas who will be invited
to address the Kansas State Editorial
association meeting will not include
Medill Mccormick and Norman Hap
good. One such performance by each
of these distinguished gentlemen was
a-nIaptv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Hay is cheap! But-and more's the
pity, perhaps-few of US have the
epicurean fancies of the horse. How
ever, this falling off in the cost of hay
may bring about a reduction in the
price of certain breakfast foods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Kansas has no reason to feel the
least bit of shame for any of her foot
ball teams of this year. With scarce
ly an exception each of them has made
a magnificent showing. Three cheers
and tiger for the footballers of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Maybe the exorbitant price of $780,
900 that is being asked for con-
trolling interest in the Philadelphia
National League club is due to the
Vaccinations of the Lemon trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the State Journal IL q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report Of that great news or
ganfxAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received in The state Jour-
nal brildtng over wires tor this sole puR"
@0g@.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Incidentally, the goosebone weather
prophets seem to be a little backward
in forecasting the kind of a winter
that will prevail hereabouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

II like that man you just introduced.
He knows enough to keep his mouth shut
at the right time" Yes, he's. trying to
get accustomed to his new set of teeth. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

What would 20 do if the editor to
whom You sent your cherished verses
called them a 'metrical spasm?'' "Oh. I
wouldn't mind. if he thought they were a
-Birmingham Age-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

Isn't it also rather abnormal for
Kansas to experience normal weather
for any period of the year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-26

of Cecilia Farley, and noticed the
stress that was placed on her beauty
and demure ways, had any idea that
the jury of mere men would return