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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
AYHAWKER JOTS

1t doesn't make much difference who
was elected to office, signs the Gridley
Light-the landlord will expect his rent.
Mack Gretchen, Of the Sedgwick
Paragraph, points out that many a
man who balks when he is scolded can
easily be led by kindness.
AS Tom Thompson, of the Howard
Courant, says: The man who admits
he is wrong does not believe away down
deep in his heart that he is very much
in the wrong.
The most severe rebuke is the one
heard Friday, remarks the Pratt Union.
when one man said to another: II
have been wishing for a chance to read
your obituary" fA- H5 -
A Lawrence woman is reported to
have remarked that there will be some
women blessed by being called to serve
on a Jury, for it will allow them to st
down, fold their hands and get a good
rest
AS Miss Anna Carlson, of the Linds-
borg News, explains 1t; They say inc
Creator intended that woman should
lean on man for support. All of which
is true, no doubt. But the Lord never
intended that she should be obliged TO
lean on a wobbly support.
While waiting between trains at TO
ronto this week we were invited TO
supDer by Editor Kelley. Now wheth-
err bv accident, coincidence or our
walking record, no fork was given us
to eat our pie.-Editor Hudson IN
Fredonia Herold. With prompt court
esv. Editor Kelley of the Toronto Re
publican replies: We apologize and ex-
plain. 1t was this way: Some time
ago we had a fool paragraph about
Editor Hudson, saying ne ate PIE Win
a knife and wouldn't use fork be-
cause the blame thing leaked. Our
ten-year-old daughter took the squib
in earnest She "set' the table that
evening, and feeling sure he would
NOT use q. fork if he had one, only put
a knife at his plate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07

cast aside their anger of the night
when they study out in the peace ana
calm of the day the terrible conse-
quences of a decision that should hold
snoring a criminal act. Families would
be torn asunder when the penalties
were imposed, villages would be deci-
mated worse than by the horrors Of
war. Criminal snoring would be as
disastrous as a plague or famine.
Considering the prevalence of snor-
ing the world over-for no land is free
from the whistles, the gurgles, the
snorts and all the other distressing,
calamitous and cacophonous noises
it is strange that modern invention
which harnesses other forms or
strength and power, should not have
found way of utilizing these nasal
performances. Perhaps it might be the
means of cutting down the cost of
high living by the employment, in fac
tories and the like, of such wasted
force, transmitting the power by wire
as electricity is now served to Gus
toners.
Then there is another field for OBJ
servation: the determining of charac-
ter by these nocturnal noises. If the
various sounds could be analysed and
understood and then the proper de-
duction made, how easy it would be
to ascertain the character of any par
ticular person. Such knowledge, judi
ciously used, would prevent unhappy
marriages, sidetrack divorces, and
cement or break business alliances, as
the facts might demand.
Rockefeller, whose Chicago college
harbors all sorts of cranks, might start
a chair of snoreology, or Carnegie,
who butts in on all the activities of
life, might find vent there for some
of his pushing dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
EVENING CHAT
AZ RUrH CANNRON.

Every once in a while the telephone
at our house has as Spasm OF rlnslnS
two. A dozen times in succession the
short, staccato two Will ring OUT re-
f1ecting the impotence OF the opera
tor and of the party at the other END
of the line.
Two lives across the street, and
very often during one of these spasms
I look out and see a light, If 1T is eV-
ening, or soma other sign of life II II
is in the daytime, and then 1 know
what the unanswered telephone proDa-
bly, signifies, and 1 am both sorry and
ashamed for one of my sisters under
the skin"
For this is what "two's" refusal to
answer the telephone means: Two is
an eligible young bachelor. He makes
friends among the fair sex easily and
fortunately some of them do not al
ways tire so quickly. The party at
the other end of the persistent tele-
phone is one Of these. She is always
making some pretext to call him up
on the telephone and the result is
that when he feels reasonably sure
she is on the wire he sits calmly smok-
ing and reading while the phone calls
and calls and calls, until everyone else
on the line is close to nervous pros
tration.
Poor little girl! I can't help being
perate and unhappy she must feel to
be SO shamelessly persistent. And, yet
again, I can't help being ashamed, as
any of US instinctively are, for those
of our sisters who go against the dear
est tradition of the sex-that woman
must seem at least. to be the pursued
and not the pursuer.
You notice 1 say seem. Most women
do actually pursue their mates to a
certain extent. One of the most mod
est women 1 know said, That is the
man for me- the first time she saw
the man who is now her husband, and
proceeded to stalk him in a strictly
feminine way. Yet ne thinks he show
ed wonderful taste in selecting her
from a crowd of attractive girls, and
remarkable energy in winning her. For
in spite of the fact that she hunted
him in feminine way, never once did
she make any open move that looked
like pursuit.
I have heard it said that a man
sometimes marries a girl because he
feels f1attered at her open showing of
liking. [ don't imagine that happens
very often, and I am pretty sure that
when it does, there wasn't any other
attractive girl about who was appeal
ing to the normal instinct of pursuit
in thai man.
Perhaps it would be a much better
world if men and women each openly
sought their mates. But we are living
in the world as it is, and in that world
there is nothing surer than that the
real man wants to hunt out his own
mate, and that the moment he suspects
he is being hunted he dislikes the
huntress.
"They also serve who only stand and
wait" is a sentiment which it is well
to remember in a great many relations
of life, but in none is it half so i'm
portant as this.
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says UNCLE CIV

If you really want to make the world
happier, begin at the breakfast table. A
cheerful conversationalist, who really has
something to say, finds a short cut to
the purpose of life, which is joy. The
other day a particularly sane woman
called attention to the GUINNESS of the
average American family. She hit the
nail on the head when she pointed out
the sad fact that the members of the
ordinary household are hardly on speak
ing terms with each other. The man who
can teach Americans to interest each
other in the family circle will make the
world better, win a place in the hall
it in the required manner, some church
will canonize him in good time. Men
have deserved and won canoniZation for
services infinitely smaller.
The glum family circle is a hotbed of
gloom, a breeder of woe and an inSpira
tion to crime. 1t STILES joy at the foun-
tain head and its component parts go
forth to spread the poison of unhappi-
ness among morally healthy persons A
sneer at ones attempt at breakfast table
cheer is likely to bring forth scores of its
evil kind before the family meets at din
ner. The sullen, uncommunicative circle
that has no thought in common creates
an ever widening circle of sullenness that
approaches infinity within twenty-four
hours.
An effort to be sociabIe in ones home
is an investment that pays huge dividends
both to the individual and to society.
The pains spent in finding cheerful COM
mon topic of conversation is bread cast
upon the waters of human service. There
is in every family the necessity of ad-
justing the various mental planes to tenn
porary harmony. To find a point of COM
mon interest is to go far toward eliminat-
ing SelfiShneSS, i'll humor and the gloom
that too often invades what was meant
to be the most cheerful spot on earth.
To attain this harmony requires patience
and forbearance, with an occasional sacr1-
flee of self-centered introspection, but the
result richly repays the home and society.
If you are really in earnest about giving
the world something worth while, make
your home happy. OF course, If you
have been an offender in spreading gloom,
that matter seems unimportant to you
Doubtless YOU regard home cheerfulness
as something required only of the simple
folk, who cannot do big things in the
world outside. The best cure for that
deIusion is to make the experiment of
cheerful fireside.-(Copyright, 1912, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

This department was never very
enthusiastic over the gold fish as a
household pet. Although a little CIR
in our family insisted that the hshlet
knew her because he wagged his tai
when she stuck a NIT in the water, il
has been our belief that the gold fish
was an open-faced simp, hlled with
bubbles and innocuous desuetude. But
such being the case, it is necessary to
give the gold fish a testimonial.
The pet gold fish does not sit on the
front porch and howl to beat four-of-
a-kind. He does not jump on the
kitchen table and cop out pork chop;
he does not pull down the window
curtains or sleep on your best hat.
wherein the gold fish could prove an
alibi. But outside of that, the gold
fish doesn't amount to much.
Person named Blease. residence
South Ca'lina, says: ITO h with the
constitution It was a very foolish
thing for said Blease to say, but it
got the desired result; it got his name
in nearly all the papers.
The chihuahua Club has been
organized in this office. At present,
less than a dozen members of the en-
tire force are qualified for member
ship in the Chihuahua" but several
others are losing hair at such a rate
they expect to be eligible during the
coming year.
A Hiawatha lady had fad for col
l. citing pitchers. That has been a fad
with b. b. magnateS and scouts for
some years. But unlike the Tnagnates,
the Hiawatha lady does not turn down
a pitcher just because it has a glass
handle.
The newspapers have told of so
many instances wherein Gen. Sickles'
discarded wife saved him from a SELL
out, that we accept her tendency to
save him as fact. But no one has
taken the trouble to furnish the an
swer to the only question involved:
Why does she do it?
Our idea of a good word is
'acerbity.' Don't know what it
means but it always had the appear
ance of high-brow word.
Political prophets who assert that
Mr.. Bryan will run the government,
do not scare all Democrats. To some
it may be a threat, but to thousands
with whom the vote-for- Bryan habit
has become second nature, it is a
promise, rather than threat.
Trouble with the Bull Moose IDOL
la dinners is that the dollar will
hardly buy the salad and tip the
waiter. But it may be all right, as
tn Bull Moosers are accustomed to
getting along with things that are not
very substantial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.1

From the chicago Ne"S'l
No, Alonzo, a spellbinder seldom
shines at a spelling bee
All women are not as bad as other
women think they are.
1t is pleasanter to admit that you
have been sold than bought.
Many a man stands in front of a bar
and swallows his pride.
If you have dyspepsia try a contin-
uous treatment of hand made labor.
man is apt to be suspicious of a
pretty girl who talks only common
sense.
Lives of great men may remind US
that it is sometimes better to remain
obscure.
Some Of the blame for the lies we
tell ought to be charged up to people
who ask our candid opinion.
1t must be nice to be critic. A critic
can roast people he doesn't like and
get paid for doing it.
About the only time the average
married man has any peace in his
home is when his wife has her mouth
full of hairpins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
Keeping Babies Well.

Mariana Wheeler, former superin-
tendent of the New York Babies hos
pital, has been writing of disease pre-
vention in Harper's Bazaar. In "The Care
of the Baby's Nose, Throat and Ears
she writes particularly in the Novem-
Der Bazaar of the need of regular in
spection:
Amy acute inf1ammatory process, If
detected at the start and efforts are
made to check it, may be war1ed off,
and a severe attack of catarrh, tom
silitis, or even diphtheria prevented. In
view of this fact it would be wise
move on the part Of every mother to
make a practice of looking into the
child's throat occasionally. Under or
binary conditions I would recommend
doing this at least once a week, but at
times when contagion is prevalent, and
during the late winter and spring
months, when the snow is melting or
violent winds are carrying street filth
and germs, it should be done three or
four times week. Looking into a
child's throat is a very simple matter
The child does not mind it in the least
as soon as he becomes accustomed to
it, but accepts it as part of the daily
or weekly regime. The practice cannot
commence too early
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCTIsoN GLOBE.

So many persons who study gram
mar, get over it.
Eleventh commandment: Never give
kin any advice.
This world probably seems painfully
small to a man trying to hide on 1t.
A good housekeeper always has her
suspicious about a restaurant kitchen
Occasionally there is a disagreeable
man who insists on airing his Candid
Opinion.
The theory that abuse is convinc-
ing argument continues to have too
many advocates.
An economical husband must be
great joy to his extravagant wife who
gets his savings
Possibly some of the motor bandits
are driven to it to raise the price of
new tires and gasoline.
One trouble with the man who can
eat anything is that he is apt to do
it at the wrong time.
In another effort to gain distinc-
ton, Jude johnson read the presidents
message last night.
If age were confined to a mans hair,
Or the lack of it, the bald spot wouldn't
be so unwelcome.
No actor, taking the part of an old
topper. can make himself as ridiculous
as the real article.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07

! healed. The effectual fervent prayer or a
/ righteous man availeth much. James
w 16.
Ellen Burns Sherman has an illum-
! mating discussion in the December
number of The North American Re
view on 1.-THE Evolution of Prayer"
Incidentally it is a powerful argument
| in behalf of the efficacy of prayer.
which is so conclusively set forth in
the general epistle of st. James, and
summed up so forcefully in the words
quoted above.
One would like, writes Miss Sher-
man, to catch the ear of those who
say, whats the use of praying if the
Almighty knows what is good for US %
and another class who regard prayer
as an attempt to change the mind of
the Creator, or an effort to break His
laws.
Neither of these views apparently
was held by the Author of the Lords
Prayer. Why?
If the best man the world has ever
known found it advisable to pray
there must have been wise reasons for
His belief and habit. Nor may we
conclude that He attempted to break
any laws. Effectual prayer cannot
(and the other kind still less) go
counter to law. but is effectual because
it recognizes and avails itself of hid
den laws already made. laws which
were an open book to the Man of
Nazareth.
The other question, What is the
use of praying if the Almighty knows
what is good for us?" has such an ac-
cent of reason that it is the more mis-
leading. But it may be answered by
obvious facts in a parallel case. A
young child does not need to ask its
parents for the necessaries of life.
When childhood ends, however. he
must in most cases ask with all the
compelling power of strong desire, for
everything worth getting in life, in
Guiding the achievement of character
and the spiritual distinction which is
its finest f1ower-a distinction which
is one of the results Of prayer.
eff he have not found his home in
God, his manners, his forms of
speech, the turn of his sentences. the
build, shall 1 say, of all his opinions.
will involuntarily confess it, let him
brave it out how he will
In harmony with this edict of our
Concord Isaiah is the statement of the
psychologist that every thought has
physical reaction On the kind of
asking a man does will depend the
quality of his manhood and his con-
tribution to the world. If his uncon-
scious prayer is solely material things,
he may discover too late how true it
may sometimes be that nothing fails
like success"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
HUA4OR or The DIP

But" exclaimed the traveller, do
you never read the newspapers2" Il
useter,' replied the farmer. 81 did
oncet fur quite a spell, but they got
too funny. Bout ten or 'leven years
ago quit reading 'em. Since then I've
been readin' a book."-Saturday
Evening Post.
That said Mr.. Dustin Stax, "is a
magnificent art treasure" How do
you know? BY the painters sigma
ture?" mo. By my own signature
on the check I gave the dealer."-
Washington Star.
Mother-rOmmy, if you're pretend
ing to be an automobile, 1 wish you'd
run over to the store and get me some
butter. Tommy-Im awful sorry,
mother, but I'm all out of gasoline.
Judge.
Being conservative in politics never
keeps a man from being screannfneIv
insurgent in the matter of ties and
socks.-October Lippincott's.
DO you really believe, doctor that
your old medicines really keen any
body al1ve?' asked the skeptic. .sSIIrs-
ly returned the DOCTOR NV nre-
scr1ptions have kept three drueejsts
and their families alive in this TO-
Tor twenty years.'-Harper's WeeIrlv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
AN IN1NnNENr DIsAsrER.

At Chr1stmas-time don't mind much
Unwelcome and misguided gifts;
Tokens designed the heart to touch
And books whose atmosphere uplifts;
But one dire fear hangs Ger my heart,
Nor VIII be quenched by mere avowals-
dread those latest works of art
Those hidden, CHASTITY cross-stitched
towels!
Atrocities of bronze or brass
I've learned to take with smiling face;
For gold-bedaubed Bohemian glass
1 Gush my thanks with artlesS grace.
II even stand hand-painted plaques,
Or gtlded and beribboned trowels;
Or plaster casts or monk pipe-racks-
But not those fearful cross-stitched
towels!
They have designs in reds and blues,
OF men bizarre and houses queer;
Strange landscapes of most vivid hues,
And children that are quaint" and
dear"
Oh Fate send any simple thing
box of sweets-a book of Howells'-
A decorated ball of string
But save me from those cross-stitched
towels!
Carolyn Wells, in Harper's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07

known-this robust, rudy man buhbilnS
with such earnest enthusiasm .
Now tell me about yourself, Edna
Il am manikin.'
A eeper flush swept over Harrys race
he had not forgotten.
I'm a man, I hope" he said loWly-
But I'm still fond of cakes and tea. An
other cup, please
Edna's hand trembled she served MIN.
Forgive me, Harry. There nave peen
great changes with us BOTH
He leaned nearer, compelling her eyes
to meet his
Edna, there's going to be another
change for us. I am going back TO Cuoa
-but-not aloner'
Just as you say, Harry" she Responded
meekly.-(Copyright 1912, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-07
WHERE THE ORIENTAL FAILS.

Elk oriente lux has long been an adage
! emphasized by those whose education
or habits of thought were more or less
derived from eastern sources. That the
suns lighting comes from the east is
an accident of the earth's direction of
rotation; and that from the Orient first
came the semicivilized races to start a
better civilization in the Occidental
world is also due to another accident
that of climate, which allowed men to
rise out of savagery. The halfway
house. as it were. of the migrating
Oriental was the Mediterranean semi
civilization, which bore within its
blood the germs of its own death, and
which was illustrated in the fall of the
Roman empire.
The heart of orientalism is belief in
the supremacy of fate, which cannot be
withstood or surmounted. This implies
slavery to disease and death. The
Oriental supinely accepts disease, even
when plainly due to his own sin or
recklessness or when easily obviable or
durable, as the unaIterable law of fate,
either as punishment for spiritual sin
or as the vindictiveness and tyranny of
his irresponsible and unseen rulers. A
contradictory attitude characterizes the
Occidental point of view. Disease and
premature death are not the result of
fate, but may be prevented or cured.
The history of medicine and of diseases
everywhere demonstrates this truth.
The best illustration is the marvellous
statistical record of suddenly occi-
dentalized Japan in her late war as re-
CARDS the death rate of her soldiers.
Compare that with the reports of the
Turkish conditions in Constaninople.
This city has over a million inhabitants,
is sewerless and so insanitary that the
banished street scavengers,'' the dogs,
would have partly prevented the pres
ent unspeakable accumulations of filth
even in the most important thorough
fares" Asiatic cholera, smallpox and
Occidental Europe, despite all its
hygiene and medicine, may soon be
overswept by these dread diseases.
For self-protection, if not for better
motive says The Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association, scientific
medicine should extend it's power to
these Iaggards in civilization in Orien-
tai countries. Hygiene and preventive
medicine are their greatest need, to
give it to them our greatest privilege
and duty. Here is a sadly neglected
opportunity for the thousands of
philanthropic capitalists of our Occi-
dental nations to lift the Oriental
world out of its disease scourged and
death-bitten fatalism. We in the west
have the right to demand in self-de
Tense, if for no other reason, that the
greatest evils of life shall not be loaded
on US by the inefficiency and laziness of
a nerveIess fatalism
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

What has become of the old-fash-
Toned pupil who "sassed'' his teacher
T. x
All kinds of valuable energy is wasted
in efforts to fool the people.
= X \
Almost every boy at one time or an
other becomes infatuated with some
actress.
Most of the women can skip this:
Among the pests is the party who re-
minds you that you need a shave.
4 y
Before long now, the folks who were
signing for cool weather last summer
will be kicking strenuously against just
that kind.
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QUAKER MEDTTATIONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record
The naked truth must be made up
of bare facts.
Some women marry and some re-
main faithful to their ideals.
Does a letter remain stationery af-
ter you put stamp on it?
Only an optimist would offer a re-
ward for the return Of a lost oppor-
tunity.
The man with an ak to grind is
generally looking for some one to do
him a good turn.
The leopard cannot change his spots,
in which respect the girl who freckles
has a decided advantage.
The minister who breaches a SER
mon full of FIRE must believe in fight
ing the devil with his own weapons.
If a woman's gowns were made
with pockets perhaps she wouldn't be
so apt to carry her heart on her sleeve.
Many a man remains a bachelor be-
cause by the time he gets over feeling
he is too young to marry, he feels he's
too old.
The man who stands at the bottom
of the ladder and steadies it is often
the one who climbs to the top.
Book Agent-"Can I sell Won an
encyclopedia ?" Wigwag- I'm
going to marry girl from Boston, so
1 don't think I'll need it,
They were discussing the great
emotional actress. "She sheds real
tears exclaimed the admiring friend.
$50 do T." replied the manager. IT
haven't had paying week since she
started out"
Mrs. Muggins-"I'm so worried
about my husband. I'm afraid he isn't
we'll" Mrs. Buggins-''What are the
symptoms Mrs. Muggins-"He has
MT complained about a single thing
for nearly a week"