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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Two young people who were unusual
lly reserved and undemonstrative our
ing the six months of their engagement
, have developed into a surprisingly al
fectionate and demonstrative married
connie. They have been married over
two years and seem to grow steadily
more affectionate in their manner tow
| ards each other.
A group of the wife's feminine
friends we're discussing this phenome-
| non.
| why, when they were engaged
| thought John was the most undemon-
strative lover I ever saw!'' one of the
girls contributed, 'and 1 said. Good
ness, if he's like this before marriage,
what will he be afterwards?' But !
never saw such change in my life. He
can hardly keep his hands off of Bar
bara even in public, and every time
he looks at her you feel as if he were
kissing her and you ought to go out
of the room. That after they've been
married two years."
"And Barbara's just as bad, too
put in the wifes most intimate friend.
You know before she was married she
was the strictest thing. She wouldn't
even let John kiss her until they were
actually engaged with a ring, though
they had an understanding long before
that And now she's just as affec-
tionate as he is. Isn't it queer?'
In the group of girls was one young
married woman-a bride OF six months
The intimate friend turned to her,
"WeII. Jane, what 90 you say?" she
asked lightly rs it that way in your
family tooT'
The unconscious sigh which Jane
gave as she answered was a keener
commentary on her answer than she
would probably have deliberately given.
"Oh, no. she said, rather bitterly,
nothing like that in our family. We
did all our lovemaking before we were
married"
There was a little silence while some
of the girls recalled what an Excess
sively demonstrative lover even in pub
lie James had been, and how very
different he was as a husband and
then someone opened another subject
with nervous haste.
HOY many couples there are who
could explain not only post-nuptial I'M
denonstrativeness, but far graver trou-
bles by that sentence I'VE did all our
lovemaking before we were married"
The question of how far 1ovemaking
should go before marriage is some
thing besides a moral question. 1t is
also a question Of expediency, as many
girls who have married after ultra
fervid courtships can sadly testify.
Every undue liberty a girl permits
before marriage she will bitterly rue
sooner, or later.
I know some girl who is even now
committing such indiscretions is think |
ing, But my case is different. 1 know
my lover will never tire of me-"
Is 1t not a queer Quirk OF human |
nature that makes US all so sure that 1
our cases are always different
No, little girl, it's ten million to one |
that your case isn't different. And |
wish with all my heart that you might |
hear the bitterness and the sigh that |
went with that brides revelation. If |
you could, I'm sure you would never /
give yourself reason to say,
I'VE did all our lovemaking before |
we were married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
HUMOR or THE Dry

Mrs. Regstaff-Did your husband ever
try his hand at sustained siction? Mrs
Percollun1-Dtd he7 For at least fen
years he's been trying to make me believe
he likes my cooking.-Chicago Tribune.
Postmaster of Punk HoIlow)-I see that
q fust-class waiter in New York gifts only
80 q month, and out of the small sum H..
mas 70 pay his omnibus. Ezra Heuhouse-
Hun! Why don't he live close to his fo,
and walk!-Puck. ~
I suppose the extremely modest cam
paign expense account you publfshesf
made a very favorable impression. ..r
don't know about that" replied the cam
d1date Some Of the voters in NV state
are in the habit of getting very erouchY
toward an office seeker who gets the
reputation Of being a cheap man
No one is ever driven to drinl-he onlv
follows his inclinations. = Manchester
Union.
II wonder why 1t is said that ALI thu
world loves a lover" II guess it's he
cause the world thinks it's such nm n
hear his letters read In urt'-C,afhoffo
Standard and Times.
Dobson-Rogers is comparatively rich
isn't he? De Broxe-That depends tIror,,
whether you use me as a standard ~
comparison or Carnegie.-Boston Trans
crfpf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
SILENCE.

SILENCE.
I am the warden of the seals of sleep.
Grim shepherd of the restless hours
that stray
Like lambs along a tranquil country
way.
Mine are the vigil that the lonely keep:
Dead cities where the desert sands drift
deep;
Songs man once sang. prayers that he
used to pray.
Mine is tomorrow. mine is yesterday.
The stars that becixon and the mists that
creep.
claim alike the singer and the song.
The ancient phinx that guards LIES
riddle /.
All hopes that triumph upward from the
clod,
All deep creative powers, to me belong.
Alpha, Omega, in my bosom lie
Safe in my keeping have I hidden God.
Edith Willis Linn, in the Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An onion, by any other name, would
surely smell the same.
=
Some people seem to go on the
theory that if they're good they'll be
unhappy.
y n
Joseph, with his coat Of many col
ors, would have been big chief in
the political arena of today.
X X
And the easiest way to get along
with a woman is to agree with her in
all things.
When all the women are given the
ballot, it will be possible also to
blame them when things go wrong
politically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
PoINTEp PARAGRAPHs.


IFrom the Chicago News.1
A wife can make her husband do any
thing he chooses.
One drink. like one word, usually brings
on another.
new broom sweeps clean, but IL soon
becomes old.
Anyway the spirit mediums seem "a
have ghost Of show.
Poets are born-therefore they are more
to be pttied than censured.
Two hours sleep is enough for any ona
after it is time to get up.
Too often the way of the transEressor
Is across his neighbours lawn.
A man never realizes the value or +,
closet until he acquires a family skeleton
What a girl likes about being secretI,-
engaged is that everybody will soon eet
next So
About one time out of a billion a man
can lose all his money without loeirC
most of his friends. -s
1t is sometimes difficult to convince n
man that two heads are better than one
the father Of twins. for example
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

THIRp PARrY FA1LuREs.

After all of these forty years OF ac-
tivity in the national political field.
what has the Prohibition party done
toward advancing its cause? It has
never elected a member of congress
and has never received an electoral
vote in any state. Once one OF its
candidates turned the scale in a presi-
dental election John p. St John
compared with 10000 for Neal Dow
four years earlier. The tremendous
expansion in the Prohibition total in
1884 was ascrtbed to the dissatisfac-
ton of many Republicans with Blaine,
their own candidate. Many Republic
cans, the Mugwump element. went
straight over to Cleveland, the Demo-
cratic nominee, while others used the
Prohibition party as refuge. St
John received $4,000 votes in the de-
fourths of which, it was assumed,
were drawn from the Republican
party. Cleveland's lead over Blaine
in that state in that election was only
Loaf. Thus the Prohibition candidate
may be said to have defeated Blaine.
and made Cleveland president-South
Kansas Tribune.
ROOSEVELT AND THE NEGROES.
1t would appear from the tone OF the
southern press that the Roosevelt at
tempt to gather moss through the
policy promulgated by the Bull Moose
convention regarding the negro ques-
ton is being taken at its full worth
and is regarded only as a cheap bid for
votes south of the Mason and Dixon
line. The southern people are not to be
caught in such a trap, especially in
view of the fact that RooseveIt's record
while president gives the lie to his pro-
testations at present. While this policy
is not likely to make votes for the new
party in the south, it is most likely to
lose the party MANY votes in the north
for the colored people are resenting the
heartless abandonment of their rights
OF man regardless of race, color or con-
d;tion- This is generally the result of
attempting to cater to two opposing
elements through the generous admin
istration of lethargic dope which is in
tended to blind the people to the exact
purpose of a set of willy politicians who
are governed more by interest than by
principle.-CIay Center Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
DAFFYDHS
BY o. NoALL-

Could a man build hre-proof hen
house with Plymouth Rocks?
(Oscari OscarI Fetch me bayonet.)
II a chambermaid broke into music
store would she be arrested for taking a
few sheets?
Con with the whiskers, boysi Here
come the cops-)
Could a man sit down and read
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea? a
Go ON, you gol darned circus man.
You can't fool me. That midget's on
stilts1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

From a no battleship program. the
Democrats in the House of Representa-
trves went to the other extreme and au-
thorized the construction of a SIS, 900. 600
dreadnoug11t, which will be the most
powerful 1ghtiug-craft that has ever
been built. Ten or a dozen years after
this monster of war has been launched,
It will be ready for the scrap pile.
Promoting universal peace by the bat
tieship route is assuredly an expensive
Undertaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Moosers just as it is with the big ones.
No kind of political fight in which they
engage is a fair one unless they have
things their own way. Their place.
however, is not in the Republican
party. 1t is in a distinct party of
their own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
GOOD CHEER IN STOCK MARKET

stock market is a good omen, just now,
of the future of business. The move
ment of prices and the tone of the New
York exchange are alike significant Of
conditions which are far wider in their
scope and effect than the ordinary ups
and downs of speculation.
At present the only Goubts about the
business outlook in the country at large
are of political origin If the merchants
manufacturers and bankers of the
United States were absolutely assured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IF'rom the New York Press.l
A girl who doesn't want any beaux has
hers already.
The devil doesn't have to work much be-
cause his converts do it for him.
Even a millionaire must get nervous
when the first of the month bills lie On
the table unopened before him.
It's better for a man to deceive his wife
about where he was than to have to bug
her new hat to pacify her.
A mans funny story becomes the sad
dest of all to him when somebody else
tells it just before he has chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

II. c. Sticher. editor of the Usage
City Public Opinion, will probably be
read out of the ranks of the Kansas
Progressives He thinks that the Re-
publicans of this state who care to
vote for President Taft this fall
should have the privilege of doing so.
He even goes so far as to say that the
Roosevelt electors should appear on
the Kansas ballots in an Independent
column This is treason to a right
aous cause
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

eubsca beers of tho state journal
sway from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents q week or thirty cents a
month CbY nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State Journal Will be
In you ike a datIy letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested ON
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
rrror, tb.a Philadelphia Record.l

rErona the philadelphia Record.1
II takes more than rings to transform
a girl into belle
Political activity frequently consists OF
an ability to dodge an issue
Love may be blind. but that is no Fea-
son why the neighbors should De.
mans diary would be an interesting
him book for the girl he is engaged to-
Every woman feels that she ought to
ioin a society for the suppression OF some
thing.
The dyspeptic sometimes wonders If he
didn't eat all the good things when ne
was a boy.
Although he may not realize it, many a
man is in luck simply because he isn't
found out.
There is a certain type of man who
thinks that if he should cut off his whts-
kers his dignity would be gone.
Hoax - Borrowed has such taking
ways" Joax-"Well, I wish he would
cultivate some bringing-back ones.
her bathing suit she AFFECTS me IKE
champagne." Slobbs-"Yes, she is extra
dry"
The only difference between a bachelor
girl and an old maid is whether we are
using the terms before her face or behind
her back.
Don't despise the little things" quoted
Simple Mug. ''If you were on elephant
you would get more pleasure from pea
nut than from bale of hay.
do you believe that a man can inherit
qualities from his forefathers?" Most as
back was exceptionally talented. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

1t seems exceedingly appropriate
that the treasury department should
contemplate cutting down the size of
the bank notes, since they buy less
than they ever did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Former Governor Hoch has been
ts@veling around the country as a I-c-
turer pretty extensively of late. In
Chicago the other day he expressed
the opinion that President Taft and
the Republican party would be sue
ce~@fu' n the battle of ballots this
fall. And there has always been merit
to the political predictions of I'd.
TJoCb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Colonel Roosevelt and his friends
point with pride to the fact that the
expenses of the Bull Moose national
convention were less than $4,000. But
the colonel is as silent as the mollusk
for which his home town was named
concerning the cost of his unsuccessful
campaign for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Like father like child Because the
Bull Moosers in Graham county could
not control the Republican county CEN
trail committee which was reorganized
at Hill City the other day, they bolted.
It Il rule or ruin with the little Bull
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
by THE WAY
d RARvMY RAR9o1lA

We have observed that the motorman
usually gets his permission to go ahead
just as we have decided that he is
going to rest while, and have stepped
in the middle of the track just ahead
of the fender.
Also, for the, sake of the patrons OF
her roadhouse, let us hope tnat MI s
Tom Thumb viii not attempt to serve
beer. She couldn't see over anyInihs
but a "bartender's SIZE"
You may say this for matrimony: II
convinces a man of lot Of the Things
he used to consider hearsay.
The Toledo gent who stole thousand
and returned 500 of it, evidently neeoeo
lust about $9o0.35 to square it with his
wifes dry goods store.
Art Hargis holds that, as everybody
is running on someone else's ticket
he has a right to run on the moe
pendent ticket. which, up to late
only thing the bull gang had not nieo
upon. &4
Did you ever wonder what the arm
less wonder of a circus sideshoW does
when his aggregation lights in the mos
quito district of New Jersey!
So have we,-comma,-so have we.
topeka is going to try the voting
machine. The state has been using
the voting machine for about eight
years.
The Maple Hill cat went mad ana
bit his best friend, but nothing else
could be expected of him SAID tom
cat had been named Teddy Roosevelt.
We think We will spend our Vaca-
ton in the trout district of W1scon
sim OF course we can't afford TO spend
our vacation in the trout belt of Wis
consin, but we can easily afford TO
think that we will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

An elephant poacher has just been
Killed in Africa. This may possibly
be a token of the political fate that is
in store for the Bull Moosers of these
United states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Not only is Kansas fourth among all
the states in point of illiteracy, as the
latest report of the United States bu-
reau of education shows, but Kansas
also probably ranks first in the ratio
of its inhabitants who are able to
unravel cryptograms. This was dem
onstrated by the success achieved by
Kansans in marking their recent pri-
mary ballots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Jack johnson says he has gone into
the fight with Joe Jeanette just TO
please his wife. Probably she needs a
little more spending money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Neither does it appear that the people
are at all as anxious to rule as certain
politicians would make it appear. The
Republican vote at the recent primaries
in this state was only about So per cent
of its normal volume.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Recent rains in these parts may
have brought joy to the farmers, but
not so, scarcely, to the Kansas boys
who are participating in the great war
game that is being played hereabouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

If there are 100000 bacteria in a
spoonful of milk, as a smart scientist
insists. how many are there in the
New York police department?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Neither Henry Allen nor William
Allen White has announced as yet
just who were the twenty regular del
egates and the twenty alternates that
represented Kansas in the Bull Moose
national convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Announcement is made by a st. Paul
woman that she has just completed
the task of writing a novel with her
toes. Come, now, won't some of the
perpetrators of the summer novel aIso
ffess I'D?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Customer (sarcastical1y)-rve managed
can chew it Waiter-Yes, sir. We guar
antee our knives, but our responsibility
Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
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publication in Topeka r.
The news is received IN The State Jour-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

Also, for the, sake of the patrons OF
her roadhouse, let us hope that Mrs.
Tom Thumb viii not attempt to serve
beer. She couldn't see over anything
but "bartender's size.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21

You may say this for matrimony: II
convinces a man of a lot OF the thlhss
he used to consider hearsay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-23

was returning to the royal palace in
Madrid with his English bride a bomb
thrown at his carriage killed several
persons near theIequipage and wounded
two of the horses, but the king showed
no signs Of fear. In Paris upon one
occasion, ne was a target for bomb
thrower when he was on his way to the
races. Although but narrowly missed
he showed no signs of alarm and when
the hubbub subsidized he continued his
conversation and his journey to the
race track, unmoved by the incident
Kings are not of much use in the
world, but those who show the grit
that Alfonso has shown may some
times be decidedly ornamental. II
the king Of Spain goes to join his
murdered neighbor, the late Dom
Carlos Of Portugal in the long list Of
crowned heads whose fate has proven
that no divinity hedges about the lives
of kings, his murder will be regretted
by everyone who has a truly demo-
cratic love OF a square deal and a
sportsman's appreciation Of a man of
sporting blood.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-23
RUSSELL.

Miss Eta Robinson of Garland
Wyo., who has been visiting friends
for the past ten days returned home
via Des Moines on Friday afternoon
Charles Rowland died at his home
In the northern part of Russell on
Saturday evening with paralysis. He
worked in Huston's livery barn and
was stricken while putting hay In the
hangers. The funeral will be held
Thursday afternoon at the Baptist
church.
d. B. Ford and family returned
home Friday evening from Kansas
City, Kan, where they have been Wis
iting his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hockey of
Lancaster, Ohio, came Friday for a
visit with Mr.. Rockey's brother Philip
and wife.
Fred Stacy made business trip to
Des Moines on Saturday.
Mr.. Woodcox of Des Moines spoke
in the Methodist pulpit on Sunday
morning.
Abe Ashaba and family OF Ottumwa
spent Sunday with his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Ashaba.
M. c. Mckinley took pleasure trip
in his automobile on Sunday to Gar.
den Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson OF
Strassburg. Canada. came Thursday
to spend the winter with their daugh.
ter Miss Lloyd May.