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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-05
YOU NEED MUCH WATER.

The water wagon is a good place to
ride, says the Kansas Industrialist.
Most Kansas people believe this and
are hanging on somewhere, but the
healthiest, wealthiest and wisest pee
pie are sitting right top with the
driver. The state board of health gave
the sassafras tea fiends a hard jolt
when it denounced spring blood pur1-
fiers" as spring fakes and recommend
ed that they make garden or clean the
back yard for their health If, after
reading advice so persuasive as that
YOU still want to take something
take water-lots of it, externally and
internally You'll have to begin early
and keep at it late every day if you
drink all that you need. An adult
thrives best if he consumes at least
seven pints of water a day. This means
IA glasses. Sounds big, doesn't it2
There must be a reason.
Water is necessary to carry off the
body waste products. Only a certain
part of the food is used to make mus
Gle and brain. The rest cannot posi-
blv be of service, and in most cases
acts as a violent poison. If person
eats a big dinner-a genuine country
Qlnn61-nS 1OES6lS lnOSC SOlu6n lSANS
on temperance and consumes meat.
cheese, eggs, milk and ice cream in
abundance. All goes well, perhaps, yet
there is another side to the question.
The principal waste products in this
case are uric acid and urea, both of
which are extremely poisonous. An ex-
cess of uric acid in the system will
cause severe headaches, and convu1-
sions. SO mother has another of those
sick headaches or father is laid up with
rheumatism. If they had been drink
ing enough water, it would have diluted
the poisons and no harm would have
resulted.
There is a very popular faI1acy
abroad namely, that a person should
never drink water with his meals There
is one and only one danger in this
That is the temptation to wash down
half mastfcated food with water. There
is one distinct advantage in the di-
gestion of food when water is taken
with tae meals IS FOOD is sa2ll .,.ess
it goes to the stomach in a lump about
the consistency of a bread dressing
One can see that it requires a great
length of time for the digestive juices
to penetrate the mass and come in
contact with the food particles. If the
food is diluted with water, the diges-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-05

ness of it all He had destroyed her
girlish ideal. And he could never re-
build it.
There is only one way" he said
earnestly. Fifteen years have passed
since then. I am not the boy who
hurt you, but the man who would
cherish you. have nothing in COM
mon with that boy 1 know what
could have you back as you were then,
with all your dreams in your eyes,
that l would thank God for such
perfect gift And it isn't because you
have grown to be so lovely, such an
exquisite realization of all my dreams,
Phyllis, that say this. For ten years
have thought of the little girl who
was all that was sweet and true and
pure. l had five years of madness af-
ter left you, and because of that l was
meet the question in your eyes?
who had dragged love in the dust by
my foolish infatuation. for a woman
so unworthy. But now-oh, believe
you must Observation-Disclosures
He had risen and was standing be-
side her, pleading with all the force
of his awakened manhood. You can
you must"
testation. Then she crossed the room,
a tall, graceful figure, the folds of her
satin gown ripping noiselessiy behind
her
Hol0 OpCu0Q I1Gf QSSks anu CAME Oe1Ch
with a little package.
open it," she said briefly.
In it he found an old picture of
himself, letter or two, and a bunch
Of faded violets.
"They are all that is left of our
love affair." Phyllis said, sadly. Can
we bring faded violets to life, Grant? %
mo, but L can bring you other
violets, he said, "fresher ones, and
sweeter ones. You must let me,
Phyllis"
For a moment she wavered. 4
had not thought of that" she said
lit seemed to me that those faded
violets were the end of the story-but
of love still left for me, perhaps-oh,
perhaps-you might bring me other
violets, Granite Copyrighted 1912,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Roast yourself if you want people to
agree with you.
If you don't carry gun. you aren't apt
to shoot anyone.
AS a rule, an exhibition game isn't
much of an exhibition.
Laziness is more apt to keep you poor
than the trusts are.
An anarchist probably wouldn't feel SO
bad about it if he would go to work.
Children in a large family are apt at
learning to help themselves; they have 20
do it.
It can be said for last years summer
suit that it looks better than a moth ball
smells.
1t isn't always safe to assume a man
agrees with you because he doesn't stop
to argue.
There is enough vanity in the world to
make a good deal of business for the
photographer
You may have observed that a profess
sional politician is a statesman if you hap
pen to agree with him.
Methodist preachers don't move as
much as they used to, and life seems
more monotonous in other respects.
While the suicide mania is compara-
lively rare, there are millions of people
who like to take poison in small doses.
So many people ask a paper to knock
its advertisers and then wonder why it
doesn't take advantage of their sugges-
TONS
If man attains the age of fifty with
out attracting attention in any other way.
he can sometimes secure the desired ad-
vertising by starting to college.
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.JAx,KAWKER JOT.S

Marry in haste and spend your
money in leisure, seems to be the
motto of some people. thinks A. T..
Random of the Harrington Sun.
DR.. Emerson of Wellington was
Kicked" by his auto handle as he
was Cranking up his machine the
other day. one of the small bones in
his arm was broken by the blow. The
Press tells the doctor he must
be more careful how he fools with
such an unruly critter.
Talking about tall girls, there
was one passed our store the other
day." said George Bennett in the
hearing of the Harrington Sun, "who
was so tall that she stuck out two
feet below her skirts. Why she was
so tall she couldn't walk under her
own umbrella without ben ding"
I never saw an ear of corn worth
four dollars, but L have seen them
that cost that much,'' remarked
farmer recently to the Alma Signal.
He figured it this way: There are,
say, 1900 grains on an ear; if every
grain is fertile the ear will raise 200
ears--eight bushels worth four dol
lars. If the ear is not fertile a man
mixes that much bad seed in on an
acre. He cultivates ground that
should raise eight bushels of corn and
gets nothing-is out four dollars.
An explanation from the Oakley
Graphic: We are still out of in
sides for this paper and have only
paper enough on hand for the city
list. The remainder will be here
Some Day, When Dreams Come
True We have paper enough for
one edition in a surrey in a snow
bank half way between here and
Colby. The people who are reading
Burning Daylight" will be disap-
pointed, but the story left off in 81
nice place last time. He was hold
ing her in his arms. and just think
of holding her like that for two
weeks during a blizzard!
An Atchison woman, relates the
Globe, has stayed home SO much since
she was married and children came
to be put to bed, that she had forgot
ten that there was a moon, and wasn't
sure it was still working in the same
old way. Recently the Bright Boy in
the family was. looking up the list of
eclipses for educational purposes, and
posted his mother up a bit. Like all
mothers, she showed interest in her
boys business, but that night he
heard her tell his father about it
She said: I'VE used to be greatly
in that same old moon,
but it's been in eclipse a long time
for me- And the boy wondered at
her meaning, which needs no chart
for older folks.
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says UNCLE CIV

If you're still laboring under that
little Rollo. hat-in-hand, please-sir-
e-me-a-job delusion that was wish
ed on you at mothers knee, come out
of it. Dear old mother knew moro
about love and inspiration and the
milk of human Kindness and few score
other things that make life beautiful
and good than all your philosophers,
but she wasn't designed by nature tc
be the sparring partner Of an industrial
white hope.
Mother never learned that nobody
would give her boy a chance to make
good in The worlds work merely be-
cause he was good and kind. He should
be all of that-and more. What the
world is demanding in these big, brave.
deliver goods days of ours is
measure of talent, a measure of cour-
age, q measure of willingness and two
measures of self-conf1dence. We live
in a competitive age, which began with
the dawn of the first day and bids fai
to last for awhile yet. In a manner
of speaking, we are always at each
others tnrosLts, although the goodness
and kindness which we have inherited
from succeeding generations of gen
gle as to make the world a happy at
tractive dwelling place. But that doesn' !
alter the fact that it is the scene OF
a continually shifting, changing, rough
SllE -InS-anI-n1Il sort OF
battle, over which presides a personal
or impersonal God of abstract justice
whom no woman understands Hence
it comes that mama's darling must go
forth and make good or be exceeding
ly unhappy. And no man makes good
if he plays the role of a mere polite
petitioner.
What we want to know, little one,
is what you think you can do and how
hard you are willing to try, and how
sure you are down to the soles of your
No. IS that you can swing the job.
You're up against a mans fight now
and difhdence upon your part is likely
to be set down as cowardice Also,
we're not going to put a higher esti-
mate upon you thar you put upon your
self Better make if too high than too
low. If it's too high, We'll trim it
down for you-never fear about that
The important thing is that you have
the self-confdence, and back it with a
Willingness to work. Having these, do
not hesitate to make them known.
A calm, self-comfort, 81 cam back
ed by grit, wins The best that the
man with his hat in his hand gets is
a chance to sit there and hold it, Dig
nified self-ccnfidence gets by the inner
doors to the big boss, but the office
boy tells little Rollo to "go roll his
hoop. Copyright. 1912, by W. T.
AVilliamS1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-05

Phyllis I have looked upon for years as
a divinity
In spite of sundry lapses into ways
described as mannish,
So IN glad to be informed of her return
to femininity,
And to learn that very shortly these
absurdities will vanish.
For months she's worn one trouser leg
which outlines with temerity
That form divine of which 1t hides
much less than it expresses.
But since 1 know she's Shapely / shall
welcome with sincerity
A trifle less publicity and candor in her
dresses.
She used to go a-hunting in costume
whose affinity
To breaches was notorious because she
rode astraddle,
But now she has abandoned that attempt
at maSculinity,
And once more has adopted the Vic
torian side-saddle-
She's shed her beetle-crushing boots
whose heels were rudimentary,
And resumed the shoes and stockings
which she once described as silly;
But happily it's needless to continue the
inventory,
Throughout she'll soon be frivolous and
feminine and frilly.
London Sketch.
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tive juices can easily have access to
it.
In this and in other ways water keeps
the digestive tract clean. If people
drank enough water, there would be
no operations for appendicitis. If you
are haunted by the fear of that ill; if
your brothers and aunts and uncles
have died with it, just drink water and
stop worrying. Every case of appen-
dicitis is preceded by constipation. Wa
ter is the best preventive for this.
Too many persons are scrupulously
careful about their neck and ears, but
have the dirtiest digestive systems
imaginable. They fill their systems
with liver pills and continue to feel
miserable, while a good dose of water
six times a day would bring them out
of the kinks, and quickly, too.
A certain authority was heard to re-
internally, and seven gallons applied
externally, every day, would keep
person in good health. Seven gallons
day is not too much for the pur-
pose, either. Most of the waste prod
ucts, especially the uric acid and urea,
are thrown off by the kidneys and skin.
When the pores of the skin become
the kidneys. Often the strain is too
great for them. The bath is a good
thing not alone from an ethical stand
point, but as one of Natures require
ments.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. /

IFrom the Chicago NewsJ
The deserving poor do not always de-
serve to be-
If a girl really wants mans love she
returns it.
o U are novels that have caused
many a mans downfall.
Always remember to be a gentleman
unless you are woman.
Ambition is a good thing, but don't fIy
higher than you can rooSt-
What the world needs is less good ad-
vice and more good example.
All things are for the best-and every
one of US in1agines he's the best
Many a man is dissatisfied with his Iot
because it is too near his neighbours.
After sympatfizing with people who
are in trouble many man begins to feel
like a hypocrite.
A young widow has one important ad-
vantage over the inexperienced naid-she
can act as her own chaperon-
1t doesn't seem right that a woman
should have two ears for hearing gossip
and only one tongue for repeating it.
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QUAKER fluctuations.

[From the Philadelphia Record
He raised his hand against his wife and
welded a club, but not even the card
game was arrested.
They said the store was exclusive and
had been from the start; L don't want to
be abusive but l saw its counterpart.
Mrs. Henpeck-"There will be no mar
riages in the next world" Mr.. Henpeck-
mo wonder they call it heaven"
Visitor-"Your daughter er-doesn't
seem quite sure which note to strike >
Mrs. Bluffen-"Oh, my no. She plays with
a great deal of feeling
Mrs. Fuclose-"Isn't my new decolIete
gown great 1 tell you I'm in the swim
now" Mr.. Fuclose-"You are certainly
dressed for the part
Merchant-"Our statesmen must show
tact. Now for instance, If & lady came in
the store and asked to see some false hair
what would you say to her2" Bright Boy
I'D ask her what shade hef-her friend
preferred, an Enough" said the
merchant, name your own salarg.'
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many of mems motives are of the
Interior variety.
X x
Undertakers. being human, are likely
TO be happiest when business is brisk
with them.
y
Being cheerful in misfortune is an
other fine theory that few people can
put in practice.
X X
As soon as the women find out that
white shoes make their feet look bigger
they'll probably discard them.
< x
Why are all the frailties of men and
women blamed on Adam and Eve?
Maybe Mr.. and Mrs. Noah are respon-
sible for a few.
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FROM OTHER PENS
SEEM, THINGS.

Apparently the chronic suspicion
which has been epidemic IN England
for To- these many moons has spread
to some parts of Canada. Whether II
has come in with English immigrants
and succeeded in getting by the visi-
liant immigration officers of the Do
minion, or may be classed, for want OF
a better word, as Indigenous, does not
appear. At any rate, one may be par
doned for regarding as significant an
editorial article in the Toronto World,
beginning with this sentiment: How
long will Canada and Canadians con-
tinue unworthy of place among ma
tions by delaying to offer liberal naval
assistance to the mother country in
her threatened hourl TO that British
people who are giving US millions and
millions for our railways, our shipping
lines, our harbors and canals, for our
loan companies and Industries. our
municipalities, our enterprises of every
kind cat away less than bank interest,)
and who defend us at the same time
from those who would wipe us out If
they could, but for the British navy."
1t has been evident for some time
that England supposed herself to be
possessed of a threatened hour" but up
to now she has not been regarded by
outsiders as being in imminent danger
Manchester Union.
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DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL-

If an engine can blow off steam can
a cream-puff?
(Trust the baker to have plenty OF
dough on his hands-)
If woman overdraws her account
does the bank-teller?
(John Henry. Put on your old clothes
and go to beating those rugs and car
pets.)
If a deserving young man wanted to
marry a bankers daughter would the
money-lender?
(Watch out, mothersi A fortune
hunter is at Iarge-)
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HUNOR or THE Day

Come now, Hemma," says thu. White
chapel bridegroom, you're goin' to s.
obey when you comes to it in tn sarNlce,
amt you?" ''Wot, me2" cries the bride
ME s'y obey to you'll Why, blime me,
Emery. Won amt art me size"'-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
He spends his money Ike a million
aire" How is that?" He doesn't spend
it at alI."-New York Globe
GRAY Iady-Odds boddikins, Sir Ushtred.
did YOUR moated grange stand here
Specter Knigl7t-By my hahoom. yes; out
a nnillionaires bought it and shipped IL
to America Gray Lady-Why dist not go
with it? Specter Knight-ln sooth, IN
such a bad sailor.-Punch.
II believe de recall 'ud help to reform
me- said Plodding Pete. What differ
ence would de recall make to youS in
o1lired Meandering Mike. II we mad IL.
INK I'd quit dis rowing life an settle
down an try to git back at some o desc
Judges dat keeps sendin' me up."-Wash-
ington star
1T wish Jones were dead But \
Thought you always wished your enemies
Svell2'' land don't II Isn't heaven bets
ter place than this earth?'-Satre.
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CARELESS AUToMoBmING.

few of Topeka's automobilists are
criminally careless in the operation of
| their cars on crowded streets. They
should be punished severely or placed
in restraint for the danger in which
they put the lives and limbs of others
whose right to the use of the streets is
equal to theirs. They are not neces-
sarily speedomanics. But the utter dis
regard they show for the safety of
pedestrians stamps them as maniacs Of
some sort. They must be as mentally
deficient as are most of the other Grim
inals by nature.
The automobilists deserving of this
criticism are those Who persist in run
ming rapidly, not always at a speed
that is in excess of the limit, by the
street corners where many people are
transferring from one street car to an
other during the rush hours of early
morning. noon and evening. There was
a happening of this sort at the south
west corner of Sixth and Kansas
avenues on Wednesday afternoon at
$50 o'clock At that time two trolley
cars had stopped to discharge passen-
gers at the corner. There was a big
crowd of women, shoppers homeward
bound, waiting along tEe curb stone 20
take these cars. They started for
them Coming from the north was an
automobile, with the tag number, 346.
1t was being driven by young man.
He was running the machine at
speed that would be ordinary on a
clear street But he never Stacked up
a bit as he approached the crowd that
was passing from the curb to the street
cars. He footed his horn several times,
and the crowd of women separated TO
let him through. But there is always
more or less confusion in the hurried
movement of such a crowd, and one
elderly lady who did not possibly hear
the horn stepped right in front of the
oricoming automobile. The young man
at the machines wheel did have sense
enough to choose the lesser of two evils
or dangers. Had he struck the elderly
woman she would undoubtedly have
been killed. To avoid doing so he turn
ed his front wheels SHARPLY to the east
and put on his brakes But in doing |
this he struck another woman and |
knocked her to her knees. Luckily she
was not injured in any way, or at least |
she was able to get UP and get on the |
street car for which she had been |
It was the height of reclllessness for
this young man to attempt to force his |
through such crowd with |
out diminishing the speed at which he
was travelling. even if he was not going
very fast And there are not a few au-
tomobile drivers who do the same
thing 1t is an outrageous perform
ance People hurrying to get street
cars are not apt to give the heed that
possibly they should to automobile
horns Besides they are right in be-
lieving that they are entitled to the
privilege of crossing at a street corner
from the curb to the car line without
their lives. Most automo-
biHsts, it is gratifying to say, seem to
respect the rights of the crowds that
make for the street cars during the
rush hours But the few that don't
put all of the automobiles into more
Or less bad repute.
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In the Kansas Comment ON this page
yesterday was an exceedingly instruc-
tive article on THE Size of Kansas"
1t was credited to the Olathe Register
from which it was taken, and where it
was printed without any indication that
it was not original with that paper
As a matter of fact, this editorial was
first presented to Kansans by the Kan
sas Farmer in its issue of January 81
And the credit for it belongs exclusively
to this interesting farm journal Such
apologies in the premises as are due the
Kansas Farmer from the State Journal
are hereby rendered
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tial nomination Il am not a candidate
and am not willing to be put in that
attitude before the country wrote
Mr.. Bryan. However, it has been pretty
effectively demonstrated in the politi-
cal arena that a man who says he is
not a candidate doesn't necessarily
mean that he will not be one either III
the near or distant future.
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CALM BODY POLITIC.

What the people have once established
they may rightfully change" Mr.. Roose-
welt told the Down casters, repeating II
for the nth time. So also George Wash
ington. with stress on the purport OF
''rghtfully." AS reverently quoted in
article l of the Rhode Island consttu-
ton, 1--WE declare that the basis of our
political systems is the right of the peo-
pie to make and alter their constitutions
of government; but that the constitution
which at any time exists, till changed
by an explicit and authentic act Of the
whole people, is sacredly obligatory
upon ALL" Is it likely, were Mr.. Roose-
velt's queer proposal for the interpreta-
ton of constitutions by majority vote OF
the electors submitted TO a referendum,
that the people would approve it2
Meanwhile, the constitutions existing
being "sacredly obligatory upon ALL
those who are disinclined to favor the
change mentioned are plainly within their
rights. They should not be heedlessly
accused of being opposed to popular gov
eminent on any such account. Under the
most laborious system of amendment a
genuinely pronounced demand for a
change is bound to be responded to be-
fore long. Not every processing mega
phone for the peoples voice, however.
truly expresses the peoples will-Provi-
dence Journal.
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REFLECTIONS or a sACHELo@.

TFrom the New York Press.1
Nothing hurts girls feelings so mucE
as for her hair to look carroty red when
IT is.
Next to investing in sOlJ mines starting
an amateur garden loses the most money
Diplomacy is where man starts to
take a morning bath by putting on his
evening clothes.
When you think no men will work 10
break out OF Jail ii is past understanding
how others will work to stay IN politics.
A man is so generous to his wife that
if she inherited a fortune ne wOuld he
willing to let her Lave new hat out
OF it.