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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
EVENING CHIT
which is the inconsistent sex?
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Which is the inconsistent sex?
The older I grow, the more 1 pro-
test against the accepted answer to
that question. Women, to be sure, are
very inconsistent about some things,
| but if anyone can point out a greater
| Inconsistency in the feminine charac-
| ter than the average male shows in
the discrepancy between what he
thinks he likes in a woman and what
he actually likes, I shall be ashamed
for my sex.
Once upon a time there was a young
woman who dressed her hair with a
Puritan simplicity which was not be-
coming to her. She did this because
her husband had always told her that
he disliked anything in the nature of
rats or puffS, that he could instantly
tell when a woman had them on, and
that he thought they were always dis
figuring.
Now one day a girl friend, who was
visiting this woman, persuaded her
hostess to let her do the latter's hair
IN fluffy ruff1es style. The result was
surprisingly becoming, but the hostess
insisted that she must take it down
before her husband came home as he
she was persuaded by the author of
the new headdress not to change it.
II bet he'll like it, said the audacious
one. You don't know him. said his
wife. Or
But as it proved she knew him bet
ter than he knew himself for when
he came home his greeting to his wife
was why. how nice you look dear.
What have you been doing to your
self? If it's that gown, I wish you'd
wear it every night
A doctors wife tells how she meek
~ adopted all her husbands sugges-
lions as to heellesS Shoes homeless cor
sets, shapeless dresses and ratless
hair, and never suspected that she
wasn't delighting his eyes until she
heard him enthuse over the wives of
some new friends. She made an eff
fort to meet the women, and found
that without exception they typified
the opposite of his suggestions to her.
Again, men will almost Invariably
tell you that they dislike any sort of
perfumery on woman, and yet they
cluster like bees about the attractive
woman whose affectation of some par
ticular fragrance is one of her attrac-I
lions.
Nor is 1t just in little matters like
this that men do not know their own
minds. Indeed no. Many a man will
describe his ideal woman to you one
day as quiet hammered, simply
SoWned girl with some intelligence
and character, and the next day will
throw himself at the feet of some I'M
derbred, overdressed creature with
about as much intelligence in her head
as in the puffs that cover it,
Which really deserves to be called
the inconsistent sex?
wonder.
No, on second thought, I don't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

and they did it well. BY its elasticity
that charter has. with few modifiea
tions, met the changed conditions due to
an expansion of which nobody at the
outset could have dreamed, has dealt
with issues which could not have been
foreseen, and has stood the strain OF
foreign and civil war. The little coun-
try of about 5000, 900 inhabitants which
framed the Constitution has grown 70
over 100. 600 600, including its depend
encies. and the thin fringe of inhabi-
tants along the Atlantic coast have
spread across a continent and have car
RED their sway into the Caribbean ana
over the verge of Asia
Only one republic was in the world
previous to the birth of the United
States. and that was Switzerland. Now
the world contains twenty-seven re-
publics. twenty of which are in the
Western Hemisphere. The charters of
all of those on this continent have been
modelled on that of the United States.
Republics are found in Europe and
Asia as well as in America. The latest
of these, China, contains a quarter of
the population of the whole globe. Not
only has the United States given an i'm
petus to the growth of republics in all
quarters of the world, but it has been
the radiating center of wave of Iiber-
alism which has tempered the govern
ment of every monarchy on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
SAYS UNCLE CIV

The trickster wins no permanent
success, for the very simple reason
that all the rules of the game are
against him and all the world is, for
self protection, bent upon enforcing
the rules. No brain was ever bril-
liant enough to beat society.
He that resorts to sharp practices
raises up enemies, even among
rogues. No thief trusts another. and
an extortioner is hated by his kind.
The hand of every man is against
him that breaks the law, political or
social Boast as we will of our
strength, no man ever attained fame
or fortune without the cooperation
of his fellows. The prime essential
of success is the enlistment of the
services of others.
1t is necessary at times to defy our
association, or even the wide world.
but this defiance is supreme folly
if it does not knit to US champions.
The trickster ignores essentials and
proposes an impossible short cut to
the goal. He insulates himself from
that sympathetic current which is
called cooperation. He alienates
from himself that without which the
hope of success is an absurd dream.
Where he might have drawn to his
side supporters he has created an
tagonists.
It is true that one may seize upon
wealth or place by fraud. 1t is also
true that he may for a time appear
to have attained them honestly and
thus retain the confidence of his
neighbors. But in the end the Argus
eyed majority detects the flaw in his
armor, envy points the poisoned
shaft of punishment, and myriad
greedy hands pluck from him the
tattered shreds of reputation. if not
his material spoils. And there is no
thief so base that he would not, in
the hour of misfortune give back all
to regain an honest name.-(Copyright
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
RY THE WY
q HARvEY PAIsso1Ia

Willum Alum White has marked
down the price of bullmoose votes to
a point where nearly anyone can af-
ford the luxury of voting the third
term ticket. According to his latest
fearful appeal he will permit us to
vote for from one to five dollars, the
difference being, no doubt, the trim
m1ngs and texture of the vote. Re-
member the price, Plain votes only
one bone each.
The man who has been paying for
| SILK hosiery for a wife and three
grown daughters may see a temper
airy ray of hope in the fad of paint
ing EN- on.
But if that fad should become per-
manent, it would not be long before
style would require that the pattern
be changed three times daily by a
high-priced pate1la artist.
This department picked the win
ner in the first game of the w. s.,
but failed to find a friend who was
willing to put a chip on the other side.
Picking a winner without incidentally
picking friend is insipid pastime.
In Bavaria kissing on railroad trains
is prohibited by law, and, if there
are no tunnels on the Bayarian rail-
roads, they may be able to enforce
the law.
The government has about a hun
dred cannons for sale cheap. Now is
a good time to lay in your winters
supply of cannons
Mr.. Stubs really is sick. He has
bad cold, regardless of the observa-
tons of certain ribald stand-patters
who hold that he is just scared stiff.
And number of other politicians
in the moose pen are vurry, VURRY
sick, although they haven't colds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE.

walk the old frequented ways
That wind around the tangled braeS.
I live again the sunny days
Ere / the city knew.
And scenes of old again are born,
The woodbine lassoing the thorn,
And dropping Ruth-like in the corn
The peoples weep the dew.
Above me in their hundred schools
The magpies bend their young to rules
And like an apron full of jew'ls
The dewy cobweb swings.
And frisking in the stream below
The troutiets make the circles flow,
And the hungry crane doth watch them
grow
As a smoker does his rings.
Above me smokes the little town
With it's whitewashed walls and roofs
of brown
And its octagon spire toned smoothly
AS the holy minds within.
And wonderous impudently sweet,
Half of him passion, half conceit,
The blackbird calls adown the street
Like the piper of Hamelin-
hear him, and 1 feel the lure
Drawing me homeward to the moor,
I'll go, and close the mountains door
On the city's strife and din
F. E. Ledwidge, in the Saturday Re-
view.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record.J
The actor seldom gets to the top By
easy stages.
The quarryman gets used to having Lbs
hopes blasted.
Being on the wrong side of the fence is
apt to become a habit.
Many a woman cuts her friends who
doesn't believe in vivisection.
There wouldn't be so much room at the
climb.
The woman who is always looking for
the latest wrinkle sometimes finds it in
her mirror.
Blobbs-''They say Bjones failed for &:
million Slobbs-"Gee! I'd fail for half
that amount"
You can borrow enough trouble in an
hour to keep you busy paying it back for
the rest of your life.
Don't judge by appearances. Many
man has gained a reputation for dignity
when he really had a stiff neck.
When woman no longer takes any
it's a pretty sure sign she is getting tired
of him.
Sillicus-"Just look at Mrs. Dashaway
in her decollete gown. She's very fond
of dress" Cynicus-''Then should think
shed wear more of it,
Nell-'Maude is going to marry a title"
Belle-'Why, I thought she was engaged
to a man from Kentucky" Nell-''WeIl,
all Kentuckians are either judges or col
onelS aren't they?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
THE CONSTITUTION.

Beginning on Monday, October 18th,
Philadelphia began to celebrate the one
hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary
of the framing ofthe Constitution I'M
der which we live, says LesIie's Weekly.
Not only in Philadelphia, which was
the seat of government in 1887, but in
ali other American centers, there should
have been some recognition of the an
niversary of the framing of the Ameri-
can Constitution. The members of that
convention of a century and a quarter
ago had a delicate task on their hands,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
WHY SOME FARMERS FAIL.

More than one-half the farmers
who fail to make their farms pay,
fail because they do not make a bust
ness of their farming, says the Kan
sas Industrialist Running a farm is
just as much a business as running a
store, a bank, or a corporation. A
man buys and farms a piece of land
to make a living. Why should he
not employ the same business meth
DDS as the grain merchant or shipper
or miller who handles the same prod
ucts? Most farmers count their own
labor and that of their families as
nothing when they figure up how
much money they have made from
their farms. Many a farmer thinks
he is making a profit from his farm
when in fact he is losing money.
The agricultural college not only
teaches boys how to be successful in
producing better crops and better
stock. but it gives them the business
training which enables them to man
age their farms in businesslike way
and to know when they are making
their business pay. They keep a rec
ord of what they buy, what they
spend, what labor costs them, includ-
ing their own, and at the end of the
year or month they are able to show
what they have done. The college
trained man does not make mistakes,
because he knows where he is, all
the time. The mistakes of the aver
age farmer are made unknowingly.
They are the result of working
b1indIy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
FROM OTHER PENS


"A
| Newspaper readers remember the
manner in which DR.. D. K. Pearson of
Hlnsdale, Ill, an eccentric philanthro-
p1St, disposed of his fortune. and
spent his last days In sanitarium at
that place. He gave away sopoetbino-
like 100000 before he died. Retain
ing only enough to insure modest
comfort at the end of life's Journey.
HIS gifts to charitable institutions and
MS wise generosities were the basis
Tor many articles and editorials. con-
corning the wisdom of doing good
while one lives, and not leaving wealth
Tor relatives to quarrel over after
wards Now comes the aftermath. A
niece. said to be the favorite of the
millionaire, is suing for what little is
LETT OF the estate, and the squabbling
that DR.. Pearson took such pains to
prevent is merrily going on. The
amount involved is only about $4,000,
but that is enough; the family skele-
ton, instead OF being hermeticaI1y seal
ed up, is out of the closet and jinRling
its bones before a Judge in Chicago.
How strongly human beings sometimes
resembi sparrows fighting over
crumbs! The courts will decide what
is to be done with all that is left of
that estate; but it is to be hoped, for
the comfort of the dead mans spirit,
that he doesn't know his carefully
worked-out plans have failed of their
purpose = doesn't know, or, IL he
knows, doesn't carei - Cincinnati
UNFAIR TO THE CANDIDATES.
We are making or permitting a
mighty mistake in the practical poll
tics of this country. Instead of can
didates for the presidency going
about the land, magnifying them
selves and berating each other
Wearying themselves beyond the pos
sibilities of ordinary human endt1r-
ance. and, possibly, at times wearyine-
the country, there should be an nm
Outstanding that the man who starts
in or Is started in for the Greatest
office in the world, should not be al
lowed to exhaust himself in this wav.
The main thing isn't to be elected:
that's only preliminary. The thing
is to serve ones country for four
years after being elected. The cleo
lion is an inevitable incident. but Il
IS the beginning not the end. A man
is much better fitted to meet the
great undertaking with it's mighty re-
sponsibilities, IL he hasn't done him
self up with a superhuman campaign
In which he has drawn upon bfs
nervous energies beyond what sbouId
ever be permitted. We see no 1vav
10 prevent this waste of energy excent
Sy common agreement among cam
1ldates or party managers to the ef-
-ect tnat candidates shall keen out
mo leave the stump to their spokes-
men. RMS is feasible. II appeals, by
ne way, to the self respect not only
1I the candidates but of the nation
self.-Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.I

From the Chicago News
simple minded man isn't always
foolish.
The chap with a theater pass is easily
taken in.
Many a bluff man has a wife who is
able to call the bluff.
Money talks but most of us never even
get chance to listen
It's the easiest thing in the world TO
bear the ills we haven't.
A woman can be as proud of her figure
as if she really had good enc.
Trace back your family tree far enough
and you'll find a wood chopper.
Only a woman can generate her sweet
est smile when she feels like crying.
A misery man seldom makes any trou-
BILE for his wife because of other women.
1t is human nature to call the bad part
OF the world they and the good part
we
Even when a man knows he is III
worthy of the woman he wants to marry
he is willing to take chances.
Some women never realize the worth of
their husbands and some others never
realize the worthlessness thsra0f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Only a few humans are meaner
than they have occasion to be.
X x
1t is also pardonable for an auto
mobilist to blow his own horn.
y X X
Nor would it be a joy-ride for a
crouch unless he was travelling alone.
X X y
Neither is it we'll to Judge the quail
ity of a doughnut by the size of its
hole.
Take heed of the aviator. The high
er he tries to soar, the harder he is
apt to fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
HUNOR or THE DAY

ive-Bobby-Uncle, couldn't a
IelloW have fine Sundays dinner If he
-T1t-Bits.
don't know what to do with my son.
He's so irresponsible" Get him on ff,s
weather bureau "-Washington Herald
Mother-Where are you going. boysy
WllDe-Over to the principals house
mamma. We want to register a protssr
against tearing down the boys crochet
and fancy work room to use the space as
a girls basketball court.-Satire
I'm a self-made man." said the proud
individual well, you are all right e.
cept as to your head" commented the
listener "How's that?'' THE part vo,Y
tax with is toe big for the part you thfnir
with."-Milwaukee Journal
Knows How.-Husband-You extraxa-
gance Is awful. When die you'll nroha
bly, have to beg. Wife-Well / shoI,ld ~
better off than some poor women vbo
never had any practice.-London OpfnsoS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
DAFFYDuS
By U. NoALL.

If Cottonwood Falls below par,
how much is Ellsworth?
chi there, boysI Head him off, he's
comm round the barn.)
If Chief Meyers hits 'em hard for
the Giants, what is Charley Doom?
CAN up for the lucky seventh,
boys!D
If it rain pitchforks will it hail
Columbian
II don't carel CaH a copiD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

A stranger in Kansas might be par
doned for thinking that the political
game here is being played by a bunch
of kids. One side to one of the con-
troversies h progress refers to its OPP
ponents as the Gold Dust Twins. ."
They reply by characterizing the Lead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

One of Uncle Sans boys in the con-
sular service reports that American
musical instruments are popular in
foreign countries, especially the phon-
ograph. Aud since when, pray tell,
has the photograph had place in
the company of musical instruments?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Great crowds turned out to hear Col.
Roosevelt on his trip through Michl-
gan. Great crowds also turn out for
the worlds championship baseball
games, as well as circuses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Senator LaFollette evidently did not
get value received for his pre-con-
vention campaign fund. 1t amounted
to approximately $4,000, a tidy sum-
And he went into the Republican ma
tional convention with only 96 dele
fTates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Governor Wilson seems to be able
to hold his own with all of the presi-
Dental candidates in all particulars.
While travelling through Kansas he
rode in the engine cab for a consider
able distance. And the train was then
running at a speed of 80 miles an
hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

William Allen White declares that
the Progressives have all the votes
they need to win victory in Kansas.
But they are liable to toss the victory
to the winds by spelling their ballots
in marking them. This doesn't jibe
with Bills repeated insistence that the
Progressives of Kansas represent the
most intelligent force in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Surely the Wall street gamblers are
getting a trife careless with their
money. They are offering to bet at the
odds of to 1 that Governor Wilson
will be the next occupant of the
White House
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

It is pretty difficult for an ordinary
minded individual to figure out just
what harm could come from using the
school houses of Topeka during the
evenings for woman's suffrage meet
ing or for discussions of any other
political questions. As a matter of
fact the school houses should be turn
ed over to the public for use as their
forums for the discussion of all ques-
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Before long a sufficient number of
political clubs will have been organized
in Kansas so that every voter can
have one for his exclusive use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

An American society has just been
formed to give aid to the cause OF the
pretenders to the Servian throne. Is
there any activity in any nook or cor
ner of the world which has not the
support of some sort of an American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Anyhow the cowboy who is riding
from Idaho to Washington is getting
his pictures in the newspapers. Ana
in the minds of many that is one or
the attachments most worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Justice appears to be travelling in
the right direction. A Kansas City
diamond thief has been sent to prison
for fourteen years. That sort of
sentence has usually been saved here
tofore for the unfortunate who found
it necessary to steal G loaf of bread.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal il a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Telegraph report OF that great news or
Ean1zatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building ever wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
[Frorn lac New york Press1

IFrom the New York Press.1
A woman has smaller feet so as to ina
able to wear still smaller shoes
The reason a man knows how badly
the government is run is he isn't run
ming il.
man works to get himself into poll
tics and then the public works to get
him out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Some truth as strange as fic-
ton. An unidentified woman of dis
tinguished appearance and handsome
" gowned, jumped from her automo-
bile in New York the other day and
saved a mans life by tearing up her
petticoat and making a tourniquet
which she applied to the mans leg
from which his foot had been sew
cred by a street car wheel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

No wonder the players in the cham
pionship baseball series are exerting
themselves to the limit. The men on
the winning team are likely to pull
down $4,000 each as their share of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Certainly there can be no criticism
because the brothers of President Taft
have contributed literally to his cam
raign funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

ers agragonistic to them as "Triplets
in Treason Such boyishness must
be a potent factor in winning votes
for a political cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10

Reports have been received in To-
peka that the Kansas Natural Gas
company has contracted to get more
gas But the important question is,
will il get enough?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-10
KANSAS c0MAENT
MExICAN SITUATION

Matters down along the Mexican
border assume a threatening aspect
about every other day. AS a matter
of fact no serious depredations have
been reported on this side of the
border. There have been numerous
stories about American property being
destroyed and American citizens be-
ing mistreated by the rebel guerillas
Up to date Uncle Sam has had no
reason to intervene or take any ac-
tive part in the campaign of curbing
the rebels. But some of these days
we look for a band of those des-
peradoes to come over on American
territory and undertake to butcher
and pillage, and then there will be
something doing. The American citi-
zen who goes gallivanting off to some
other country to invest his money and
make his home must look to a great
extent to that country for protection,
and so long as there is not a viola
ton of international decency his home
country has no business butting IN.
That's about the position the Ameri-
cans who are in Mexico are in. But
let the rebels invade American ter
ritory and undertake to carry on their
nefarious business among citizens I'M
der the American flag on their own
farms and ranches or in their own
towns, and there will be something
drop that will jar things in the land
of the INSTRUMENTATION Kansan-
Republican.