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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
ADJUSTMENTS

When the Sheehan English Opera
House tomorrow evening, January %,
Tales of Hoffman," Topeka people will
have an opportunity of hearing a COM
bination which seldom presents ITSELF
that of hearing the worlds most pOpu-
lar comic opera sung by an aggregation
of stars. Heading this remarkable
company is Joseph F. Sheehan, one of
the greatest of all American tenors,
and surrounding him is an aggregation
of renowned artists, and one OF the
best choruses ever heard in English
opera.
Orlando Daily. who enacts the fash
ionable. attorney in the support of
Frank Mcintyre in the big farce hit
''Snobs'' which comes to the Grand
Monday, January 29th, has a rather
hard time Of it in the play for the
reason that the action requires that
Mr.. Mcintyre, the star, strike him over
the head with a cane, and that he falls
down a long flight Of steps. For the
first few performances of the play in
New York, Daily was almost a constant
subject of a physician, as he was black
and blue from his many falls. His
dressing room was always redolent of
arnica and witch hazel, which he had
to use assiduousIy. Finally he went to
Mcintyre, and asked him if dramatic
art would not permit of the star being
a little less strenuous in the scene and |
not hit so hard. Mcintyre agreed to this |
and in addition ordered the steps pad |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

AO~SeS Fckeuo04AI
Has a Speed Class.
- am a stenographer and should Ike to hear
a hope of getting interested in q dictation
speed class, of which the founder I feel
sure there ara scores of bright, ambitious girls
who will be only too glad to avail themselves
Of this opportunity to Increase tasir speed and
Incidentally their earning capacity. IT is really
club have formed and have access to a
fine, large class room, fully equipped for such
work SHAH furnish details TO those who are
Satisfactory recommendations As to char
this proposal. and must be supplied b7
those desiring to accept Too much in
this respect can hardly be exercised by all
parties to the arrangement The scheme is
trustworthy
Win Give Stack of Magazines
u often read Of invashas asking for reading
matter. have stack OF Inherent magazines
and shall try to get more from friends to send
to any one who VIII pay express charges I
should like to pay these but not ABIDE to at
"A good thing to clean white shoes is
cleanser made by mixing 10 CENTS worth of
cream Apply with a brush. This makes the
SS a. ~ w 5 as sloV, 10 cream pima SHOES
to the white mixture little bluing make
color paint to tint the shoes lavender
Is there any boarding school where girl
can woEk n. her wsy throush 50 as TO be able to
cannot AFFORD to send to high school 80 ]
At school was considered a bright scholar
BLANCHE s.
The stack of reading matter will be CRATE
f1l1y accepted and called for
The query with which your pleasant letter
concludes IS referred b readers converse MT
with boarding school methods and possibilities
The Corner would be grat1hed If 1t might be
the of forwarding your laudabie am
hilton
Cost of LIVING.
Is SIS too much to be spent for food out
of salary of 1925 per month"; THIS amount
includes the summer fruits. canning and
picking; but not more than put UP for the
average sized family. ny Kf&xze girl of 8 Is fed
according to Ho9t's Manual ON the Care and
Feeding OF Infants and nursing a baby
months old Ny husband Is at home to meals
about seven times week. but about every four
0 i've weeks is oct Sunday and SO skfps
meals He doesn't for pork wen done
beef, but win occasionally eat #. Could we
live well less than $25 Sz7 per month
that Is taking It the year round. which in
Guides the fruit season7 Our company wouldn't
break rs. seldom have any visitors more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

frage was debated by Mr.. John Nc
Donald for the affirmative, and Mr..
f. w. Thomas for the negative. Fol-
lowing the discussion, a vote was taken
and the ballot stood thirteen favoring
the enfranchisement of women and six
ODDOSing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

WANTED-Three boys to sell State
Journal on streets at noon from 1918
a. m until 2 p. m. Apply State Jour
nal office tomorrow morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
Marion HarZandS Helping Hand

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gh ap and h hr is to Be ya ksnhrd Abo
any, dem Vy . IN d0 y household mndk6M uzm
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
Our Monday Miscellany.
Telephone Girls Protest.


saw your article in the paper about the
telephone girls and their work SO I would like
to express my thoughts I should like to know
how many deaf and dumb telephone girls you
could point ont to me, have been an opera
tor for nearly four years and during that
period have not seen getting either deaf
or dumb from her work You further stated
any more education than a year old baby. Ny
friends and I do not to be considered in
such class, nor does any operator. The
5DT1ty of the girls receive from $50 to SIS every
two weeks and that is than many girls
get who work harder than
for hours, they are different MY hours
from until s. relieved fifteen minutes
In the morning and fifteen minutes in the after
We also get half hour for luncheon.
which Is served by matron at the company.s
expense. So, for my part, I would change
my position for anything else EMILY H"
AS matter Of justice TO telephone
Tsanies. I give the bright side of a question
phone operator a while ago Readers must
decide themselves which party has the sur
est ground.
Our energetic defender OF what she believes
TO be the right viii allow Wild protest from a
Kong suffering editor?
You say saw your article in the
pc PER- and forthwith proceed to pa1narneu
naents Whereas the letter In question was
plainly labeled contribution and the opinion
Of one correspondent. Then the subject was
open to fair debate
Personally. / have knowledge of the
methods of a telephone ONCE beyond what
telephone -perhaps-the observation of
the workings Of the machine under the man
agement of the heroine of Mr.. de Miles play,
= The Woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

IN the house Of relative or friend who feeds and
lodges a dependent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
Offers Home to Woman

offer to a homeless. chiid1ess and friend
less Of good character and able do
ordinary houSevork. a home for several years.
TO such a person win be a sister. as far as
her temperament WI permit. and the necessi-
ties of life will be hers This would be a per
Tnanent home, so hong she Will take on her
self her share Of responsibility. In sickness
and death she viii be taken of our
selves. and will eventually find a resting place
IN family lot Mrs. A Mot"
With the cases of sundry worthy. homeless
women in my mind. I insert this letter. Ac-
ceptance of position such this involves Z
sacrifice or independence upon the part OF the
elderly woman whose slender in
adequate to supply Of her wants OF course
the invariabIe objection that no house is large
enough for two families to the front.
7 hold that it is better to study forbearance
and patience In the home. where one feels that
she Is paying her way by honest service. than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

Miss Mary Dallas Gage will enter
tain her bridge club Tuesday after
noon at her home on Fillmore street
with a few guests besides the mem
hers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21

Beware of Rock Island, If you go
over there and you are a piece of
population" you might as well make
your will Not that you will be dead
but you'll be retained in Rock Is
land
They have organized a $4,000 Popu-
lation club" in Rock Island and some
of the most prominent business men
of the town-in the future a city
have imbibed the boost baCilla. They
have directed a piercing glance into
the dim and hay future and proclaim
themselves $4,000 strong; enough for
a three-night stand for operas, and a
class A baseball team.
New York has its Brooklyn and its
Philadelphia, st. Louis has it East St
Louis: Omaha its Council Bluffs; Keo-
kuk its Warsaw; Buffalo its Andalusia
and lie Claire its Port Byron-why
then cannot Rock Island have its Dav-
export, and reverse the thing?
And so they have started for the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
SPARE THE BIRDS.

The destruction of birds and bird
life in the United States is brutal and
uncalled for. The American Game
Protection and Propagation society
with headquarters at III Broadway,
New York City, is doing all it can to
save the birds in this country. They
argue that birds are not only pleasant
TO have as songsters, but that the
good they do the farmers and gard
eners is much greater than the dam
age they do TO the growing crops and
TO the orchards.
Besides this there are a number of
birds, which. II properly protected,
would furnish a large amount OF food
product for this growing nation. Many
of these birds, ducks. geese, shore
birds. etc, are slaughtered at n time
when every female killed means the
destruction of a small flock or a whole
family OF birds, and at all times the
killing goes on at a rate that is out
of all proportion TO the increase.
A game warden reports that in
one shipment. oct. Is. 1911, 10000
birds were sent from one county
in the state of Mississippi alone and
according TO the game warden OF
Louisiana there were 4,265. 5SE
ducks, geese and shore birds killed
in that state during the winter OF
1910 and 1911. or a period OF about
six months This slaughter should
he stopped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21

regulation by fyderal statute d.
rect nominations will not become eff
fective Theer must be some provis-
ion that will permit Of action in the
event of a deadlock or a peculiar COM
bination Of circumstances where it
might be desirable 10 act other than
in accordance with instruction.
The presidential primary may mean
the abandonment Of the electoral col
lege, a cumbersome piece of machin-
cry that has already become obsolete.
The fathers Of the republic believed
a number Of representative men, chos-
en- from each congressional district,
could more wisely select the president
than the whole people. So they create
the electoral college. With the advent
Of parties, members of the college
found that they had to enforce the de,
crees Of the parties and select the par
ty candidate who secured the largest
number Of electors. There is no Law
binding an elector to do this but he
| is bound by honor.
When the primary is IN general ex
/ istence the electoral college will be
I useless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
HEART aid
HOME
problems
7V

Dear Mrs. Thompson: (D-What
colors are most suitable for blonde
to wear? (2)-Do you know of good
whitener for the teeth? (3)-Does per
oxide grow hair on the face, or does 1t
prevent the growth? Obs person
with brown eyes and hair that is Meth
er light or dark called a blonde?
BROWN EYES.
(D-Good colors for a/blonde are
light and dark blue and white. If
the complexion is very clear, lavender
and the wistaria shades may be worn.
Care should be taken in the choice OF
such colors, however. (2)-Use a
good tooth paste or powder, and brush
the teeth regularly. Some dentists ad-
wise the use of dioxygen, while others
claim il Injuries the teeth. (3)-Per-
oxide beaches the hair on the face,
and discourages its growth. GA
person with brown eyes and hair that
is not light would be a semi-brunette.
Dear Mrs. Thompson My father
drinks and our home is unhappy. l
have been going with a young man
six months and l like him very much.
know he wants to call on me, but l
don't like to have him know what kind
of home | have, He has asked me TO
marry him, but he is poor and l know
my parents would be against him.
Please tell me what to do. H. B. G..
Judging from your letter, you are
still quite young, too young TO think
of marrying. Do the best You can
under the circumstances, trying to
make things more pleasant at home
The young man, though poor now
may be in better circumstances by the
time you are old enough to think oil
marriage.
Dear Mrs. Thompson Will you
please tell me if a girl of 20 is too
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
ABOLISHING THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE.

The preferential primary law as an
piled 10 the election Of delegates TO the
national convention, is defective, in
that it lacks uniformity. The more the
subject is studied the more one is con.
WINGED that the suggestion of Senator
Cummins Of Iowa that laws for the
conduct OF the presidential primary be
enacted by the federal government TO
make. them uniform throughout the
country. is the best idea yet advanced.
Surely state laws would vary widely
and they cannot eliminate the dele
gate convention. which precludes the
direct nomination Of presidential can
didates advocated by many.
After the presidential election is
passed doubtless an effort will be made
10 remedy the defects of the statutes
OF the various states but they will be
unsatisfactory and produce confusion
until the national government acts and
the delegate convention is so organ
lied or abandoned that the outcome
OF the preferential primary is made
f4al. II is obvious that so long as
The delegate system is followed and
without uniformity OF selection and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM.

Electricity will revolutionize all
fields of employment, particularly
farming. Here is some interesting
data:
Forty bushels Of corn and cob were
ground in one hour with a Is horse
power motor at a total cost Of cents
per bushel, including labor at Is cents
an hour and interest and depreciation
on the investment The actual power
cost was less than cents a bushel,
electrical energy being purchased at
cents a lclowatt hour.
A six roll shredder and husker pro-
duced nearly two tons an hour at a
total cost OF $2s5 per ton, of which
only q cents was the actual cost for
running the Is horse power motor,
the rest being for labor, depreciation,
etc.
A 20 horse power motor threshed
154 bushels of barley in an hour at a
cost Of only O0O6 cents a bushel for
electrical energy consumed.
Forty-one and half bushels Of shell
ed corn were ground in one hour for
a total cost of O.O24S cents a bushel
OF which OO136 cents was for power
Three washers full of soiled cloth
ing were washed in 81 minutes for AZ
cents, including labor, etc.
A portable vacuum cleaner cleaned
100 square feet of floor surface for a:
cents.
The horse groomer cleaned sever
horses in an hour at a total cost Of
3 cents per horse. including help, etc
A cream separator handled 1,3O(
pounds of milk an hour at a tota
cost of OOPS cents per hundred; thu
actual cost for current TO operate thu
~ horse power motor being but Q. OOl!
cents per 100 pounds.
Nearly a hundred pounds of butte
were churned, washed and worked il
80 minutes at cost of but 0.244 cents
including labor, etc.
! Seven hundred and fifty pounds O
! sausage were ground in one hour a
a cost OF 10 cents a hundred for Ia
Dor and power, etc. The cost of energ
to grind 100 pounds was but 0.O2
cents.
The hay hoist handled one ton O
hay for only 21z cents for power.
A root cutter, operated by a 2 hors
power motor. cut SIS tons an hour a
a cost of but OOO79 cents an hour 70
current
Corn was cracked at the rate of 6
bushels an hour, using a 10 horse pow
er motor at a cost of OOO43 cents pc
bushel for power.
The corn shelter shelled ia bushel
Of corn an hour at a total cost c
O.OO22 cents a bushel for power.
For 10 cents a ton the fodder GU
ter will cut two tons an hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
- AS OTHERS SEE Us >.

$4,000 mark-in spirit at least. All
trains will be coming toward Rock Is
land in the future; no trains will leave.
And when they come into Rock Is
land they will stay; there will be too
many attractions for them to go.
An organized effort was started at
a meeting last night Quite a large
membership has already been realized
Everyone of these is a staunch boost.
er for the new cause.
During the last five years Davenport
has made a noted gain in its popula,
ton; the example has not been lost
in Rock Island. They want to do like
wise.
It is probable that a booster organ
izatiOn will be launched and that Rock
Island will buy a horn Of its own, for
the purpose of dispensing of a bit OF
noise for the community. They DO not
set a time limit on the $4,000 popula
ton business. They are just going tc
get it-and get it as quickly as posi-
BILE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
CAPITAL COMMENT

fined. Mr.. Hamlin asked the depart
ment manager what the colored man
did TO earn his money.
HE doesn't seem to pay much at
tention to our ORDERS was the reply.
He is detailed to Mr. Knox's private
office, and he also works at the secre,
tary's residence"
Where is he now" Mr.. Hamlin
asked.
He is with Mr.. Knox on his trip to
the Panama canal, acting as valet to
Mr.. Knox and his party"
Does he have TO shine Mr.. Knox's
shoes?"
YES" was the reply. 81 suppose
that is part of his duties"
Query: Why should the American
people pay $4,000 for a boot black fol
the secretary of state?
HEADS AND TAILS.
Campaign managers for President
| Taft and former President Roosevelt
spent $4,000, 600 at the recent primary
election in Pennsylvania. In Alleghe
ny county, which includes Pittsburgh
the following were among the contri
| butors TO the Taft fund: James
/ Laughlin and Henry Laughlin of the
| Jones-Laughlin Steel company, $4,000
each; w. F. Snyder, owner of vas
| ore carrying steamer lines, which sup
| ply the steel trust, $500; w. H. Rowe
president of the Pittsburgh Steel com
| pany, $1,000; J. H. Reed, chief coun
sci for the Carnegie Steel company
$1,000; w. l.. King, member of The
/ board of directors of the steel trust
$1,000; W. F. McCook, steel trust at
+ tCrney, $1,000; A. w. Mellon, banker
and steel stock owner, $4,000; B. F
Jones, of the Jones and Laughlin Stee
company, $4,000, and Senator G. T
! Oliver, owner of newspapers, banks
and steel stocks, $1,000.
Mr.. Roosevelt's chief supporters ar,
/ George W. Perkins and Frank A. Nun
sey, the former a director of thu
steel trust and the latter the larges
owner of its common stock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21

old to wear her hair down her back.
1 wear my hair in one long braid, and
my friends tell me am too old. l do
not look old, and l like the present
plan. GRACE T.
l agree with your friends that you
should give up the plan of wearing
your hair down your back, even
though you do appear younger than
you are.
Dear Mrs. Thompson Will you
help me in very embarrassing mat
ter? l am in love with a girl my
brother is engaged to marry, and she
says she cares for me more than my
brother. l don't wish to be dishonora-
BILE, but the girl seems to be unhappy
over the idea of going ahead with her
part of the contract. What can We do?
My brother apparently does not know
how things stand. JACK.
Your position is indeed a difficult
one, and don't know how the prob
lem can be solved without consider
able heartache. The girl ought not to
marry your brother unless she loves
him. Why not talk it over with your
brother if you wish to assume his OBJ
legations? If you do not, the simplest
solution might be to allow the
girl to break the engagement on the
ground that her love is not sufficient
If | We're you, should hesitate long
before supplanting my brother. Why
not drop out of it for a year or so?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21
THE CAPTAIN OF THE CALL
FORNIAN.

Testimony before the senate COM
mittee that inquired into the Titan
ic disaster indicated that the steam
er Californian was only - or l 5 miles
from the doomed ship when it sank.
The British investigation of the catas-
trophe has gone deeper into this SUBJ
Ject and the admissions wrung from
the officers of the Californian, taken
at their face value and as recounted
in the news dispatches, constitute a
heavy and black indictment against
the master of that vessel.
Captain Lord, of the Californian.
saw the lights of the Titanic only
i've miles away, and supposed they
were those of tramp steamer. But
after he had turned in for the night,
the officer on duty on the bridge and
an apprentice who was with him saw
signal rockets sent up from the other
ship and responded by showing signal
lights in their turn. There was no
response, but the officer, in doubt as
to what the rockets had been sent
up for, went with the apprentice to
the captains stateroom, aroused him
and told him what they had seen. Cap
tain Lord made an answer which in
Dictated that he was of the opinion
that nothing was wrong and went to
sleep again.
Both the officer on deck and the
apprentice testified that they were of
the opinion that the ship whose lights
they had seen was in trouble. They
knew that the rockets sent up from
II were used by some steamship lines
as a call for help. But having notified
the captain, they were not permitted,
under marine discipline, TO act with
out orders from him. On the face
of the evidence, it looks as though
the death of 1900 persons can be
laid to the door Of Captain Lord, be-
cause of his ineficiency or callous in
difference.
But the world should hesitate
about taking this view of the case.
II for no other reason than that IL
is so damning TO him. Witnesses have
testified that when he came on deck
the next morning he said he did not
remember the officer on watch and the
apprentice entering his room during
the night. Is it not more charitable
and perhaps more Just to consider the
possibility that they did not fully a.
l%aken him and that he did not realize
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-21

farmers of this country, sells binders
in Russia and South America for $50,
and the American farmer pays the
trust 1920 for the same binder While
he was president an effort was started
TO break up this trust, and Mr.. Roose-
welt secretly suppressed that effort
He ordered his attorney general not TO
start suit against the one trust which
more than all others combined robs
and plumbers the farmer.
George w. Perkins. organizer of this
harvester trust, is putting up the mon
ey for Mr.. Roosevelts present cam
paign.
ONE OF UNCLE SANS BOOT BLACKS
When Congressman Hamlin of Mis-
souri, was investigating the state de
partment he made inquiries about a
certain colored man who was on the
pay roll at $1,000 a year, and whose
duties didn't seem to be very we'll de