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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
HUA4oR or THE DAY

Woman Passenger-C WHY is
the train standing here so long2 A hot
box? It's funny you never discover these
things before the train starts.-Puck
Then you won't marry me2' mo. a
thousand times no. You don't neea -
say no a thousand times" retorted 49,. -
rejected suitor resentfully. Il only asked
you once. Washington Herald.
Are you going home to mend 49,
fencesT' Not this year" replied ~
statesman Pm going home this tim, ~,
get on the inside before the hated or,r,o -
ton succeeds In surrounding nv 49,, 49,
with barbed wire. Washington star
-. she dances with abandon" rer,.-a-4
the advance agent for the salome 49,
--sn no permit in this town. refo,-fs5
tie chle1 OF police. We require r,oro
Jofrnaf eiiAn tilaI louisville Courier-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
Concrete Apples,

Charles Bauermeister, who has a farm
at Fairfield, about two miles from Caid-
well, N. j., is bitterly disappointed man
and minus one gold cap he used to have
on front tooth. Also he has lost his be-
lief in tree surgery.
Last fall he doctored an apple tree that
showed signs of decay. He plugged tine
affected parts with concrete and to 4 his
wife the tree would bear the finest apples
of any one the farm. The other day he
decided the apples were ripe enough to
pick. He had friends in for dinner. and,
glowing with pride, Mr.. Baucrmeister
brought in a basket of the fine looking
apples.
Not until the guests had made wry
faces without a single compliment about
the apples, did Mr.. Bauermeister try one.
A bite was enough for Mr.. BauCrlnelster
His best gold-mounted tooth gave way
under the strain. The farmer now is con-
WINGED that the concrete got into the fruit
There's only one thing to do with ap-
pies like these" he said 'We'H give
them to the chickens. 1t might help the
egg shells to get harder and then wen
send 'em to Europe without fear of break
age."-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
THE REAL CAUSE.

Tt may be that, in the rush of every
day affairs, you have not had time to
consider the state of the Union, says
the Kansas Independent. It viii do
you a lot of good to go into executive
session for a few minutes: this is
very large country. 1t needs your in
telligent help, and you can't give this
help If you don't know something
about the land in which you live.
Doubtless you've heard something of
the high cost of living. Let it De the
text for this preachment. The latest
federal census showed that e1,972, 266
human beings lived in the United
States of North America. This was
ali increase of 81 per cent. ove- ten
years ago. Of al14these nearly 80 mil
lion people the census classed 42,632,-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
LET THE WOMEN VOTE.

Undoubtedly, the men of Kansas
would be prompt and forceful IN their
resentment of any suggestion that
their wives and their mothers, their
sisters and their sweethearts are any
! less womanIy than are those of any
other state or nation; that they are
neglectful of their homes and the
children who are to bear the future
burdens of this great commonwealth
And vet the women of Kansas have
enjoyed limited suffrage for many
years They have participated gem
orally in municipal elections for a long
time as we'll as in elections relating
to school affairs and bond issues. Nor
has any suggestion ever been made
that the women who have enjoyed full
suffrage in several of the states for
varying periods of time have failed
in their duties to their homes and
their families, because the right that
they have to vote has resulted in at
tracing their attention away from the
ordinary pursuits of w1fehood and
motherhood.
And so it is we'll within the truth
to urge that the main contention of
those opposed to woman's suffrage to
the effect that it will destroy her use
fitness as a wife and mother, and rob
her of the charms of femininity, is
mere myth that has been put forward
by clever people to befog the issue
No such result has followed the ex-
tension of limited suffrage to the
women of Kansas, or of full suffrage
to the women of other states. Nor is
there any possibility that it will de-
velop in Kansas If the women are ac-
corded the right that is theirs. To
insist that the noble women of kansas
will devote all their time and atten-
ton to politics If the ballot is given
them. and thereby neglect their chill
dren and their homes. is an insult to
their intelligence.
Kansas has a we'll deserved reputa-
ton in this and other lands for being
a commonwealth that is well to the
fore in all forward movements that
have to do with the security of life and
tie pursuit of liberty and happiness.
Still Kansas has Jagged little behind
in discharging it's full duty to its
women Their moral right to exer- |
else the franchise is exactly the same
as that of the men. And they should
be permitted to do so.
The opportunity comes on Novem- |
Der 5 when the men of Kansas will !
have the chance to make amends for
their dereIfctfon of the past in this
particular. They will be called upon |
to vote on the necessary amendment |
TO the constitution that will extend |
no more than exact justice to the
women. And they will be recreant to
their duties of citizenship If they do
not vote for the adoption of this con-
stitutfonaI amendment, and roll up
majority in. its behalf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
THE ART OF THE CAD WRITER"

| All women read advertisements so
they are out of this running, but the
man who passes them by misses lot
| of good reading, not to consider his
| financial loss from his ignorance of
bargains.
! Much art goes to their making.
They bear the same resemblance to
big literature that the vaudeville act
does to the four-act play. At "legit-
innate" theater the star has all the
evening to make his effects. He may
be dilatory with them and lingering
when they come, but at a vaudeville
house the headIiner has only a brief
time and must make every speech and
every move tell
So it is with the writer of adver-
tisements. In scanty space he must
be matter-of-fact and convincing. If
he has figures of speech-and all of
the best lad" writer's use them-they
must be followed by figures of price.
The old-time 'ads'' were stupid af-
fairs, but when John wanamaker
Iured Gillian, the managing editor of
the Philadelphia Times, to write his
store announcements in the way he
desired, he created a new school of
advertisements; the kind that talked
through the pages of the paper just
as a good clerk talked with pros
pective purchaser across the counter;
frank, friendly, informative and
truthful talk.
The Wanamaker lads" have been
copied all over the land, but the home
ones still keep a commanding posi-
ton in their particular line. The men
and women who write them-for some
of the best specialists are women
are artists in a literary way They
put thought and poesy and magma
tion-often humor-in the things they
turn out.
Here, for instance. is an extract
from a recent lad" of Wanamaker's
New York store:
4" When a woman wraps herself in
fur coat like that, do you notice
how she goes with wee, soft, little
steps, as if she were thinking of the
tiny creatures of the forest to whom
the fur coat once belonged?' said our
fur buyer. 1t was an acute observation.
Under it lay the half-recognized fact
that these new, cIosely-wrapped, in
timately clinging fur coats become
part of the wearer."
But the art of the 'ad' is better
than it's psychology. Suppose the coat
had been seal fur, would it's wearer
rampage around like a young bach
elor'' from the Pribyloff "rookeries'
Or if a fox skin, would the sly ma
ture of the animal seep through and
warp feminine nature?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
KANSAS COMAENT
TAFT Or WILSON,

No real Republican has any excuse
for voting against the Republican
squarely on the Republican platform
and his courage, ability and conscien-
tiousness are unquestioned. His ad-
ministration has restored confidence in
the business world, at the same time
enforcing the laws against all viola
tors, without fear or favor and with
out self exploitation and bluster. In
after years he will be recognized as
one of our truly great presidents. He
found chaos and dtStrust and has
brought about order and confidence.
He is a real and not mere profess
sional progressive. Under no former
administration has more substantial
progress been made along safe and
sane progressive measures. The pro-
gressive measures which he has IN
augurated are practical and workable,
and have come to stay. The contest
is between Taft and Wilson A vote
for Roosevelt is in effect, vote Tor
Wilson. No true Republican can
justify a vote for either Roosevelt or
Wilson. Taft ought to carry Kansas.
and will do so If the Republicans do
their duty. Above all, Republicans
should understand that a vote for
Wilson is direct vote against Taft
It would be better for Taft for Roose-
welt to carry Kansas than for 1t to go
to Wilson. No well informed man be-
lieves that Roosevelt will carry enough
states to be a serious factor in the
race. 1t will be Taft or the New Jer-
sey schoolmaster.-Leav Post
IT'S IN THE AIR, BRETHREN.
If you think Taft isn't gaining
ground right here in Cherryvale look
around you and you will find in a
short time half a score of Democrats
and Roosevelt men who a few weeks
ago would have spurned the idea Of
voting for the president but who are
openly saying they will support him.
The Republican has the names OF a
Wilson supporter and a Roosevelt fol-
lower, who met today and shook hands
on voting for Taft. It's in the air,
brethren. The Moosers are seeing that
the fight is between Taft and Wilson
and they are not going to do anything
to aid the old time enemy.-Cherry-
vale Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
AYHAWKER JOTS

THE frost is onthe pumpkin OBJ
serves the Bunker Hill Advertiser. '.And
ere long it will nip many political am
bitious.''
Surely the people of Cuba, Republic
county, are deeply interested in poll
tics. There was good attendance at
the political meeting last Thursday, re-
ports the Cuba Daylight, although there
was picture show in town at the same
time.
Why do so many yaps wait until they
have passed the girl before they lift
their hats? quires the Kansas Indus
trialist, and it continues: And why
don't they take them off entirely in
stead of moving them just enough to
Inuss their hair?
We often read in books of men who
made their dear old mothers a promise
not to do certain things when they
were boys and kept their word all these
years, remarks the Abilene Democrat,
and then it is mean enough to ask:
Did you ever know such a man in real
life?''
thusiast over simplffied spelling. But
he evidently belfves in pleasing every
body, If possible. In one of the Russell
Rustlings that he furnished for the
Luray Herald last week he used both
forms of spelling the same word. name
~ ''a1fabet'' and "a1phabet.''
Some shots at random by Grant Har-
rington, editor of the Wyandotte Chief:
Government is never any better than
the people who make it. A
good scare sometimes helps a man
more than good advice. Among
the soft things of life forget not your
own head. Marriage is but a
partnership-man is the silent partner.
Unless we live up to our ideals,
they will liv uown to us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the exceedingly rare humans
are men who boss their wives.
X y
Most people are peaceab1e as long as
they have their own way.
Men who owe much or everything
to their wives seldom brag about it
r.
Gratitude is another one of the
virtues that not so many people pos
sess to any consid cradle extent.
Nor is 1t difficult to interest a man
in anything that is sure to bring him
in material returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
FROM OTHER PENS
THE REGULATION OF PRICEs.

THE REGULATION OF PRICES.
The meat riots in Berlin yesterday
illustrate anew the fact that those who
set out to regulate prices must fail
unless they regulate much else. Food
has been so scarce and dear in Ger
many recently that the Government
suspended the customs duties and au-
thOrized the municipality to regulate
the prices by sales of the foreign prod
uct. This looks all right, but the sequel
shows that it worked wrong. The i'm
portatiOn of the foreign product on a
new basis of cost antagonized the do
nestle product, for which conditions OF
supply and demand were not altered
at the same time. None OF the dealers
in the home product would handle the
unfairly competing imported product
and the boycott by the butchers prevent
ed the marketing Of the cheap meat
AS a consequence the housekeepers who
could not fill their baskets as cheaply
as they had been led to expect raised
riot and destroyed the German meat
which alone was offered for sale Then
the police closed the market, and no
meat at all could be bought The city
now proposes to cancel the licenses OF
the boycotting butchers, and the end Is
not yet. Evidently destruction OF meat
and putting butchers out of business Is
not the way to alter the relations OF
supply and demand, nor to provide
housewives with the money which
would make them Indifferent to prices.
As the German tarif is agrarian II may
be said to have been altogether too sue
cessful, therein resembling our own.
which also has so elevated the cost OF
living that the regulation of prices is
proposed here, too. TIL here as we'll
as in Germany one artificiality leads
to another, ana one inter. renee with
natural conditions necessities an ever
1engthenihg chain of legislation. The
better way is the simple and the nat
uraI way of letting prices reruiafe
themselves by removing privileges and
other hindrances to the natural pla,-
of supply and demand.-New YORK
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOALL.

When the train is wrecked does the
brake?
(Say, Mr.. CaptainI Will you please
stop the ship, 1 want to get off and
walk.)
If the dishes gave a party what
would the china ware?
(Aw, let's blame ii on the cook)
If you built a modern cottage on a
hill how could you call it a bungalow?
(Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their party. TIA
la, la Ia, la la!l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
THE HANDBAG

The handbag that the lady wore
was wide and departments
And In said bag that lady bore
One spool of thread,
Fourteen hairpine,
Eight perfectly good buttons.
One thimble,
Three car tickets.
One recipe for sponge cake,
One manicure set,
Six samples,
One handkerchief.
Two yards of ribbon.
One powder puff,
One channels skin
Three headache powders.
One flock of keys
One package of chewing gum
One mirror,
Two postage stamps.
Fifty-seven varieties of dingbats.
And seven cents.
Milwaukee Sentinel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

An italian chemist has come to the
rescue of the fashionable women vino
weary themselves almost to death in
changing their dresses a haif-dozen
times a day. He has discovered a re-
markable series of dyes for fabrics
which change color every hour or so
For instance, a costume treated with
one Of these dyes is gray III the morn
ing light. 1t becomes a rich red at
noon In the twilight it turns a dark
green, and under artificial light it ap-
pears a delicate mauve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

Eureka! Another great mystery has
been solved. Indisputable proofs have
been produced that when the statue OF
the Venus of Milo was intact the right
arm descended a little below the hips
where the hand held up the draperies,
while the left arm was raised above
the head and grasped in the hand
small apple. But, come to think of IT.
how is this discovery to assist in re-
ducin.y the cost of living?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

AS was to have been expected the
Balkan allies have notified the Pow
ers that they will listen to pleas for
the bringing about of peace on no
other basis except one that provides
for a division among them of Euro
pean Turkey. The avowed motive
though, Of the Balkan states for go
ing to war with Turkey was to as
sure safety and decent treatment to
the Christians in Macedonia. But per-
haps they have figured it out that this
can only be brought about by wrest-
ing Macedonia from the control of
the Turks. And they may be right in
this respect If, however, they whack
up all the rest of European Turkey.
they will be pretty well paid for their
efforts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELoR.
IFrom de New york Press.l

TFrom the New York Press.1
A woman's idea of a successful hat is
if 1t looks to her husband as if it cost
two dollars and her friends two hundred
The most extreme insanity is being en-
If q man can button his wife up the
back it's proof to her how smart he must
be N business.
The thanks a man gets for paying for
ducks for his family is he also gets the
job of carving them
Maybe even the coal man raves about
what it costs him to heat his house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

Topeka's sports evidently don't be-
1ieve in taking any undue chances.
In Wall street the betting on the pres
1dentia1 contest is at the odds of to
/ that Mr. Wilson is returned a win
ner. But those who want to bet on
Wilson in this vicinity are willing IT,
wager only at even money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

At the rate Vera Cruz is coming on
as a Mexican center Of rebellious ac-
tfvities, Juarez will be compelled to
have itself captured a few times more
CT else take a back seat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

AS long as 'Muggy'' McGraw. the
manager Of the New York Giants
thinks that no criticism is due to Fred
Snodgrass because he muffed a fly
that thereby undoubtedly cost his
team the worlds championship, is there
any good reason why anybody else
should do so?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

That New York preacher, who urges
the discontinuance of the custom Ct
sending flowers to funerals, has begun
a crusade that he probably will not
be able to finish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

A man who robbed the homes of J.
Pierpont Morgan and other wealthy
New Workers is probably within the
truth in his claim that he did so under
a hypnotic spell. That's the effect
riches seem to have on people who
do not possess them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

This much seems certain. An agita-
ton in Greece for simplifed spelling
would not be out of place. According
to an authority in the premises taxi
cab in Athens is called a polipoly-
acknowledgements
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

J. NJ. Barrie has bought a Scotch
castle named Arnhuinsuidh. Presuma-
bly, he is only able to pronounce it
through the medium Of a bagpipe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
TEAM WORK

Three men on bases. The crack
batter up Two strikes and two balls
called. Last half of the ninth. a run
would tie. Two runs would mean the
pennant. The pitcher delivered. the
batsman swung, there was a familiar
sounding whack and the ball sped
low, and cannon shot like towerd the
center field fence. But-the fielder
was there. He made good. He whip
ped to second baseman. who snapDed
to the home plate, and the runner was
out Three outi The game ended
Team work. When two horses are
hitched to a wagon, if the double-tree
is not at right angles with the tongue
ore or the horses is tagging ard the
other Is doing more than his share.
Ieam work. pulling together, doing
ones full part is necessary to the hap
py home. The mother and father and
the children must each have a fair
share of work and do it. Not only IN
makes for happiness, love, heartoeats.
brain throbs, muscle building, any
thing and everything, there must be
good team work. The husband who
lets his wife build the fires IS lagging
The wife who lets her husband cook
breakfast has let her end Of the dou-
ble-tree get almost into the spOkes Of
the wheel. The daughter who let's her
mother wash the dishes is a drone,
and does no good in that team. The
nine would get along better without
in the coal is probably a cigarette
smoker, but whether he is or rot. he
certainly is not worth a darn. Let all
save together, enjoy together, work to-
gether-thats team work.-Chicago
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

Announcement is made by a seer
that the war in Europe is a sign OF
the worlds end. But the coal dealers
are still doing business just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

That Indiana couple who eIoped in
an aerop1ane came mighty near hav-
ing a funeral dirge played for their
benefit instead of wedding march.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

Dick Hcblitzels one of the stars
amOng the Cincinnati Reds, is about 70
make a real home run via the mar
rage route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

C3ubwon1en plan to drive Jack
Johnson from Chicago. This will af-
ford something for clubwomen in
some other city to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

'"The New Sim is playing to big
business in a New York theater. Any
body who can show New Workers any
thing new in that line is entitled to
all he can get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

pretty bashful sort of chap isn't hep"
Bashful? I should say SO. He's the kind
of fellow who'd stamrner and stutter and
break and run If opportunity came un
sInihDgly and tried to shake hands with
him. st Louis Republfc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

The State Journal IL a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
3maegrMph report of that great news or
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
TIE news In received In The STATE jour-
81 bzildtnG over wires for this sole pa1r-
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QUAKER MI-DTTATTONs,

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Some fellows never loosen up till they
get tight.
You are generally losing time when you
are finding fault.
Almost any child can spell eel with ease
in fact with two e's.
The man who has money to burn never
collects any insurance on it.
Many a fellow has put up bluff with
a girl only to have her throw him over.
Some people are just as apt to jump at
conclusions as the kitten playing with his
own tail
1t may be easier for an actor to forget
that he has an audience than that ne
hasn't one.
The fellow who is charged with kissing
a leap year girl might enter plea of
self-defense.
Sillicus-'fDo you ever give advice?.'
Cynfcus-@Not unless I'm pretty sure 1t
won't be followed
Blobb@''Let us take in Little Italy soma
night" SIobbs-''You don't have to wait
for night to see the Dago.
It's pretty sure sign a man Is growing
old when 44e keeps telling US he feels as
young as he ever did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

A Pointer for Hint suppose" OBJ
served the tramp bitterly, you would
like to have me get of the earth But J
cannot" Have you tried soft soap"
asked the woman in the blue Bingham
dress, Observation-Disclosures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
TERMs OF suHsCRIPTIoN.

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
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[ A Jack the Bitter has appeared in
| Kansas City. Another crime to charge
| to the meat trust