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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
THE MARK.

Changed in the wash my Gents best
Irish hanks
To footing squares. unworthy of a male,
Bordered with stripes and spots, four-three
at Blanks;
But what of that. Not that do 1 bewail,
Or spurn the flimsy scrap that bears
inlet
IS" and a coronet.
Her do chide whose super-fatted dread
OF losing count of any spot or stripe
A laundry mark of vile vermillion thread
Locksutches every week in every wipe.
This-this cannot stick. Each Satur-
day
Adds to my curls some gray.
For when anew there comes the laundry
cart
And brings the Ioathed "a. Z.233."
1 then see red. and all my tortured heart
Leaps in revolt, and cries, This shall
not bei'
And with a knife rend the stubborn
blot
From off the blooming lot.
Thus for the time my injuries assuage,
And thus more holes than cambria 1
possess.
But let me plead within truthful page
That other tongues than mine may claim
redress
For I shall own no mouchoir worth
remark.
Before the tyrant bark.
London Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsOHq GLOBE

Nine out of every ten people like to look
at fresh fish.
An Atchison family is great for bringing
chaos out of order.
Every time a paper prints statistics It
takes lot of chances with the truth.
A man who cheerfulIy takes credit for
the work of another, might steal other
things.
Honesty is so much the best policy that
even policeman can't be crooked and get
away with 1t.
Mayonnaise dressing we have figured
out, was made to disguise few articles
of diet which taste worse.
Another paradoxical proposition is tie
fact that a hobble skirt doesn't make a
fat woman seem smaller.
Speaking of those who have sometime
to be proud of as the party leaders do,
there is the man who is proud of his
paunch
In the physiology class we learned tnat
alcohol would cook an egg, and since
then we have met many who seem to ap-
prove that culinary method.
Not wishing to detract from Edison s
lame but 1 reserve great deal of my
admiration for the mechanical genius wkc.
can keep fountain pen in good running
er."-Rufe Hoskins. -4-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

which should be it's opposite. Long
and patiently he searched for a model,
but could find no face bad enough to
parallel in hideousness the angelic
beauty of the young face in his stu
do. Many years afterwards, when ne
had given up the search, he looked
upon the almost inhuman counten-
ance of a criminal, lying in despair on
the floor of a prison cell. At length he
had found the model for whom he
had been looking. He painted the
terrible face, and then learned to his
amusement that the ime-hardened
man and the angel child were one
and the same. Brutal passions had
transformed the seraph into a demon.
The body had been refashioned by
the mind.
We frequently see the power OF
thought strikingly illustrated, when
great sorrow or disappointment, or
heavy financial loss, in short time
SO changes the appearance of man
that his best friends scarcely recog-
nize him. The thought of his mis-
fortune has dulled his eye, whitened
his hair and seems to laugh demon
iacalIy from the very wrinkles it has
made in his face.
Whatever we concentrate upon, the
mental attitude, for the moment
forms the mental pattern which the
life processes going on within us are
constantly copying, reproducing, out
picturing in the body, in our environ
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
THOUGHT. THE SCULPTOR.

Every human cOuntenance registers
with unerring accuracy the dominant
sentiments of the soul, writes Orison
SWEET Marden in August Nautilus.
Study your face carefully, and see
what it says to the world, what mes
sage of good will or selfishness does it
carry? Has charity softened it's out
lines and has magnanimity left a trace
there? Has the spirit of love and help
fulness Illuminated it with a divine
light? Have unselfishness and the love
of truth made it aglow with a beauty
that no mere flesh-tinting can give :?
Is 1t refined and spiritualized by high
thinking and noble doing? Or is 1t
growing hard and coarse and brutal
by familiarity with base passions and
motives.
Our faces and manners are the bull
letin boards on which are advertised
our habitual thoughts, our life his
tories, our motives, our ambitions, our
hopes. our fears, our aims, our
triumphs, our defeats, our courage,
our cowardice.
We are open books to all men who
ia Ike the trouble to decipher our out
pictured thoughts and emotions We
cannot long deceive people as to our
CHARACTERS, because everything within
us is trying to defeat the lie and to ex-
press the truth. Everything we har-
hor in the thought proclaims itself to
the world through our faces, our man
per, the impression We make
If we are selfish and greedy, we
cannot radiate love and happiness If
our thoughts are mean, stingy. sordid.
we shall make the same kind of i'm
preston upon others.
All real and enduring beauty must
| come from within. Notice how angry
passions, evil emotions. worry, fear,
hatred, envy, jealousy, malice, even
though they be but momentary feel
ings. will distort and destroy for the
time being the most perfectly fashion
ed face. If evil thoughts or deeds be
persisted in, the transient effects will
become lasting.
The story of the two paintings by
Leonardo da Vinci is one that may De
paralleled every day in actual life.
The great artist had painted the face
OF lovely child, and was so fascinat-
ed by the picture that he kept it con-
stantly before his gaze in his studio.
The sight of the beautiful child face
tranquilized his soul in sorrow or ia
anger. He resolved to paint picture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

TFrom the Chicago News.1
A sensible man is seldom sensitive.
Usually when a man falls in love he gets
bumped.
Love heads the list of sweet things that
soon turn sour.
The easiest way for a woman to hold G
man is to hold him off.
If you accept charity some one is sure
to say you don't deserve it
If you would strike a man favorabiy
don't aim at his pocketboOk.
The man who stops to argue seldom ac-
composites anything worth while
When it's your turn to face the judge
the scales of justice usually go wrong
You'll never make friends by going
around looking as if you hadn't friend
on earth.
Perhaps a woman is guided by intuition
because she finds it easier to generate
than reason or wisdom.
AS a genuine beast of burden the camel
hasn't anything on the man with wife
and a dozen children to support
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few mems wants are limited to
their needs.
Neither are the back seats crowded
from choice.
Many reformers aim so high they
never hit the mark.
4 -
A man, built that way, will become
as big a nuisance as he's permitted 10
be.
X X
Automobiles are getting too com
mon for real rich and exclusive ok
They're going back to fancy horses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

gubsca S,ers of the state Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents q week or thirty cents a
month Cby nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State journal VIII Dc
to you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to sAVe
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press

The more a woman scorns masculine
selfishness in general the more she Will
indulge it in her own man.
There's really no reason to get excited
about a woman's beautiful stockings I'M
less you have to pay for them.
Any man who has the money will pay
high prices for few good cigars, but how
much would he pay for many virtues2
Fat people are awful lucky always 20
have a seat in a train to themselves II
the rest of the passengers can possibly
tlnd any others.
A million dollars in the bank may not
be able to give man true happiness. bit
IT can come lot nearer to it than being
a thousand dollars in debt ever could.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

With the railroad lines facing the
largest traffic in years, and their off,
cials anticipating IN acute congestion
and big car shortage, the politicians
will have to work overtime to prevent
the people from enjoying a large pros
perity in the immediate future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Senator Dixon, the left bower of the
Roosevelt movement, has written to his
friends in washington urging them to
call a state convention of the Bull
Moosers there. No suggestion is made
by Mr.. Dixon that primaries be held
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to this convention. Primaries are evil
IDENTIFY a mere matter of expediency
with the Roosevelt clan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Even if the politicians are permit
ted to do their worst there will be
material prosperity in this country in
the immediate future. Reports come
from the federal department of agri-
culture that the crops throughout the
country are of mammoth proportions.
They are even much larger than the
average for the past ten years. This
doesn't look much like the nation was
falling into an agricultural decline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

1t was necessary for Colonel Roose-
Welt TO issue an emphatic ultimatum
to settle the question about negro dele
gates from the south which proved SO
disturbing to the Bull Moosers when
they gathered at Chicago. He says sc
himself. Evidently he did not solve
that problem he was working on just
prior to his convention whereby he
could conduct it without appearing in
the role of a boss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Illinois railroad commission blames
a recent railroad wreck within it's
Jurisdiction on excessive speed. New
York's public service commission
reached a similar conclusion not so
long ago in respect to a wreck in that
state. And this is certainly an OBJ
noxious feature of the operation of
railroad trains for which there is a
sure remedy. Nor are the railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
DAFFYDHS
By u. NOALL.

Does the warden of a prison make
his living by the pen?
(Quick, Watson, the dictagraphD
If an author is a he is a publisher :?
(Stick around, Kid. I'm going to
open up a bottle of ink and make
things right.)
If oil is fat is gasoline?
(And a boob is disappointed # he
isn't trimmed-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Maybe that American, recently es-
capped from a Mexican Jail, who de-
clares that his jailers used to throw
live rattlesnakes into his cell, was
given with his rations a liberal allow
ance of the Mexican native drink that
is even more vicious than bootleg
whisky
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

In several of the states, there is ever
a complaint that the large cities are
the controlling factor in matters po-
litical. Such a situation, however, does
not exist in Kansas, as many of the
results of the recent primary show.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
FROM OTHER PENS
HAWAII AND PANAMA CANAL.

HAWAII AND PANAMA CANAL.
In anticipation of the great COM
mercial and trade Ieenfits to accrue
from the Panama canal, Hawaifs
treasurer is at Washington to nego-
tiate a government loan for increasing
harbor and dock facilities at Honolulu
That our island possession has some
tolera bly, fair collateral for loan of
| 81, 900, to supplement a similar APP
| preparation made by the Hawaii legis-
lature, the treasurer observes that the
Island has a balance of trade in her
| favor of $12,0O0,00O, exports last year
touching the $5O,00O,OOO mark, while
imports totaled $3S,OO0,O0O. That
Hawaii has bonded debt of only
S5,OOO,OOO with an assessed valuation
OF property of SIG, 100000. For the
last ten years bank deposits have in
creased at the rate of a million dol
lars year, reliable indication of in
dustrial growth and development. But
that is not ALL As times and the
islanders prosper there is manifest
disposition to live comfortably but
save little. Ten years ago the saw
of the thrifty. Today that sum has
reached $4,000, 000--a showing of suf-
hcient economy and thrift to make
most any of our own boastful states
sit up and take notice. Then again,
Hawaii knows something of the econ
omfes of export business. For in
stance, tobacco, sugar or fruit must
now be handled four times, including
reaching eastern markets The Pan
anna canal will reduce the handling by
half and eliminate rail haul across the
continent. Wherefore the desire to
improve dock and Earbor facilities.
Meantime. increasing commerce means
more opportunities for labor and a few
extra dollars for the savings bank. In
deed. we might pick up a lesson in
thrift from our apprentice citizens in
Hawaii.-Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
A STEP TO PEACE?
Aeroplanes armed with quick-firing
guns are the latest addition to the
terrors of war. Experiments with one
of these war engines at the proving
grounds of the British Royal Flying
Corps at Farnborough are said to
have given highly satisfactory results.
The gun was fired by a gunner seated
in little box in front of the pilot
while the aeroplane scared in a stiff
breeze at an altitude of 400 feet, and
the recoil of the gun had little effect
on the steadineSS of the machine. Pro-
vided with guns and bombs, and cap
able of sailing through the air as well
as skimming over the water, the mill
tary aeroplane must be regarded as
killing implements. If there were any
warfare will be abolished because of
its awful destructiveness this latest
device should denote a forward step
in the progress toward universal
peace.-Philadelph Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
KANSAS COMMENT
NO ROOM FOR CoMPI.AINT.


OF course we all know that it isn't
politics that is hurting the country,
and it isn't railroads or competition
that is hurting the towns. The only
thing that has caused a general slack
ening up of business the past two
years, has been the failure of crops.
Now we have a crop in sight, much OF
it already harvested or assured, and
times will be better all around. There
will be plenty of feed, a good oats and
hay crop, lots of potatoes, and there
will be big corn crop this fall.
Some think it will take several years
for this country to get back to
where it was a few years ago, but one
good crop at the good prices it IS
sure to bring, will put us right back IN
the king row. There is no occasion
to feel blue now the time is past.
Last year at this time, when the
fields were brown, when everything
was burned up, there might have
been some occasion to complain, but
now when the cattle are knee deep in
grass; when corn is up to the horses
sides, and is clean and of a dark
green color, and when oats and ev-
erything look good, no one ought TO
complain; and when we come to
think of it, no one is kicking
Frankfort Index.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

wholly at fault for running some of
their trains as fast as they do. The
inexcusab1e desire of most Americans
to get there in a hurry is also re-
sponsibIe to a large extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

U. S. regulars and national guards
men are to play at war on a large
scale in eastern Kansas next week.
And this is the only kind of war that
should be INDUCED in during such an
enlightened era.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

That travelling man who wrote to the
Topeka postmaster asking assistance
to find him a wife, is certainly discern
ing. Kansas is famed for many crops.
but the most superior one it produces
is material for wives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

After the distinguished example that
has been set in the premises, it is only
natural that the Bull Moose which was
added recently to the st. Louis zoo
should manifest a disposition to run
things to its liking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Possibly it might help the former
president of Princeton get down among
the common people if he resurrected his
original given name and called HIM
self Tom instead of woodrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

If the Industrial Workers of the
World are consistent, they will join the
Bull Moose movement to a man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

Mad dog scares do not appears to have
been as numerous throughout the coEn-
try this summer as in times past. This
is a little more evidence that the peo-
pie, generally, are wishing up a bit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

At any rate, there is some reach in
a national ticket that stretches all the
way from New York to California.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
THE NAGGING Man.

In the good old days when our fore
fathers were killing Indians and joy
alcng the rock bound coast of New
England (now known as old New Eng
lard), in those so-called goo old days,
We say, there was a provision in the
statutes for giving the nagging wife
hers. Sometimes she was merely gag
ged and put in the pillory, a combina-
ton necklace and bracelets quite FASH
ionable at that time. But there was a
ducking stool for extreme cases. This
may have led to the belief that women
do most of the nagging. Perhaps they
do, but not by any large majority. Men
also belong, and take their nagging ten
denotes down to work with them in the
morning and home again at night,
working at that line more than the job
they are paid for. And a nagging man
is worse than nagging woman in that
he has larger field of operation.-At-
Gibson Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13

The Steel Trust-and George Per
kins-is up against it in the Congress
sionai investigation. Perks friend
Teddy has lost all control of congress.
In some way, the foot pedal has be-
come disconnected.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
A Motherly Soul.

Miss O'Brien was all and more than
expected. She was a fat and mother
ly soul and after she'd looked me over
she said:
Yer too young to begin with beauty
doctors but I'll give We one of these
here little wooden things for to mas
sage yerself with. and when yer tired,
you just remember what old Miss
O'Brien told We.
Food first of all and then rest if we
can get it. Then water and soap, like
this"
Then she began her beauty culture
and as it, the only kind I've ever
tried, and the kind I'm going to stick
to. I'll pass it along to you. for dear
Miss O'Brien lives so far away that II
won't interfere with her trade.
She began by washing my face with
warm water and a clean piece of Turk
ish towel; after that she soaked some
more of the toweling in the juice of a
cucumber which she kept in a glass
jar. and which was nice and soothing
if a little sticky. on the skin
Without washing this off. she rubbed
quite d lot of cold cream over my face.
and then produced four or five little
balls of different sizes, some not larger
than marbles. and the biggest about
the size of an early Bermuda potato.
They were made of plain wood, and
polished but not painted.
She used the large ball for my neck.
chin and cheeks, rubbing 1t quickly
over the skin and pressing it with the
palm of her hand When she was
through with that she took a ball of
smaller size, ran it up and down the
creases on the side of my nose, until
felt that all the lines in my face were
being ironed out; she babe me close
my eyes, and, taking a smaller ball yet
very gently massaged around the eyes
under the eye-socket and above the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
A SPLENDID FOOD TOO
SELDOM SERVED

In the average American house
hold Macaroni is far too seldom
served. 1t is such a splendid food
and one that is so well liked that
it should be served at one meal
every day. Let it take the place
of potatoes. Macaroni has as
great food value as potatoes and is
ever so much more easily digested.
Faust Macaroni is made from richly
glutinous, American grown Durum
wheat. 1t is every bit as finely fla
vored and tenderly succulent as the i'm
ported varieties and you can be posi-
tive 1t is clean and pure-made by
Americans in spotless, sunshiny kitch-
ems.
Your grocer can supply you with Faust
Macaroni-in sealed packages sc and Toe.
Write for free Book of Recipes.
MAULL BROS,
St. Louis, Mo.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Do You Know

The wonderful machine which makes
pins measures and cuts the wire points
and polshes it, puts head on one end
repolishes the pins. and puts them by
rows into the papers in which they are
sold.
Some Of the newer French army aero
planes are so designed that their wings
can be folded, thus enabling them to
be towed on their own wheels behind
an automobile
Single orange trees have been known
to produce 10000 oranges. while a lem
on tree seldom yields more than 5000
lemons
AT the 500 year-old Audlem church.
in Cheshire, the curfew is regularly
rung. after which the date of the month
is tolled-a survival of the times when
no almanaCs existed
The amount of heat produced by an
average man in a days work Is suffi-
cient to raise 63 pounds of water from
freezing to the boiling point.
The term "spinster" owes its origin
to the fact that in olden times the law
did not permit woman to marry until
she has spun a complete set of linen.
The thermometer which has served as
a model for all those made ever since
was constructed by Fahrenheit at Am
sterdam in 1920.
Cuba's best customer OF cigars is
Great Britain. which takes $4,000, 900
every year.
Mild beer has l to l-2 per cent al
cohol; bitter up to 10 per cent.
Salt is produced in almost every
country in the world.
Hard boiled eggs take four and a
| half hours to digest.
Only one person in 5000 reaches the
age of 100 years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

table Compound. My husband said it
would restore my health and it has. -
Mrs. MAY WYATT, Ashland, KY.
There are probably hundreds of thou
sands of women in the United States
who have been benefited by this famous
old remedy, which was produced from
roots and herbs over thirty years ago by
woman to relieve woman's suffering.
Read What Another Woman says:
Camden, N. III had female trou-
bic and serious displacement and was
tired and discouraged and unable to do my
work. My doctors told me never could
be cured without an operation, but
thanks to Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound l am cured of that affection
and have recommended it to more than
one of my friends with the best results.
Mrs. ELLA JOHNSTON, 1924 Vine st.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia L. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfl-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held In strict confidence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
MOST DECIDEDLY YES.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am madly in love with one Of
the best girls in the world and as
only make $21 a week / feel that
l can not marry her, But | will
get a raise of s. in six months.
Would you have me tell her to
wait? MAURICE.
Tell her you love her. You will be
getting s26 a week by fall, and if she
is the nice, sensible girl take her to
be, she will spend the intervening time
in acquiring a knowledge of practical
If she loves you, She will
find way to make you happy on your
salary and also save money.