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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON,

just about every day of my life I am
| newly impressed with the vast possibili-
ties in the science of motion study for the
| household.
the science of motion study is the science
of arranging ones surroundings and
training ones self so as to do all routine
work with the fewest and least firing mo-
lions possible
Applied to business establishments. this
science has saved thousands of dollars of
money.
Applied to homes, I know it would save
thousands of hours of labor.
VIII you permit me to enter on a little
personal history and tell you some of the
ways in which l have found motions be-
ing wasted in my own household in order
to make my idea palmer?
When L was boiling eggs the other day
noticed that 1 had to take several steps
to see the kitchen clock. Three times
during the process of boiling those eggs
once to see what time it was when 1 put
them in and twice to see if they were
done-I took those steps. Absolutely
wasted energy. wasn't it? And probably
wasted many times day in that kitchen.
reached for my dictionary to look up
word one day and it suddenly occurred
to me that I was demonstrating a motion
leak My dictionary is my largest book,
and the sake of appearances has been
placed in the further end of my book
rack and l have to reach over several
I use the most frequently. Needless to
say, appearances were thrown to the
winds and the dictionary put in its proper
place.
Again there is a large chair at the foot
of my bed. Every time l walk around
my bed in the process of making it.
must walk around that chair also. Only
a few steps each time to be sure, but how
many thousand steps in a week or a
year. hfetime2
Just one more example. The coal shovel
with which we put on the furnace coal
has always stood, neither close by the
furnace nor close by the coal bin, but
a chimney
either. That means that both before and
after we put on coal, we walked several
needless steps to get the shovel and
place it. Why does it stand there2 No
body knows. Simply for the reason that
governs most household arrangement
that it always has
I know that some better housewives
than l are thinking that none of these
leaks which / have mentioned would
have existed at all in well-regulated
homes Perhaps not. Doubtless. these
Madame. I wouldn't be too that 10
others do
In the arrangement of the pantry. IN
the arrangement of the garments in your
wardrobe of the china in your china
closet, in your kitchen, and, indeed all
over your house there are a thousand
chances for motion leaks
Even some of the most systematic bust
ness establishments have found that
there were many leaks in their systems
Perhaps you are the rara avis who is the
exception to this universal rule But, be-
fore you decide that. don't you think 1t
would be worth while to look about you
and see if you can't find a few motion
leaks in your household?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

| might come at the next call, and that
she had better get ready for it.
1t would be ungallart to say that
Mrs Dareforth was ready for it, but II
can be related that the proposal didn't
come The count just ran in to say
that he had bargained for the patent
but was short $40 900 cash. He must
raise 1t within two hours or lose the
Iour millions profit. He would have
money from Rome by the next steamer,
and if the widow would
She would and she did. She was hap
py 70 give him a check for the amount
needed, and the count shrugged his
gratitude with both shoulders at once.
Two hours later Mr.. Fred Nevins told
her over the wire:
-antv'
-sOf course you have" was the reply
Wei, what now2''
I'm in the detective business Went
INTO 1t only twenty minutes ago. but have
already struck clew-"
ITO Count Lugir'
>, What w What! Fred Nevins. I com
But he shut her off, and she had a night
of anxiety. Next forenoon Fred came
again This time he said:
Hot on the traili"
what do you mean?"
Count Luigi He got your check cash
ed but hope to get him with the goods
him.
Fred Nevins. have you gone crazy.''
No answer He was off again. Two
awful hours passed, and then came the
ring again.
Got him at Iast.''
Got Who?'
Count Luigi. Took him off the steamer
about 10 sail Got your $4,000 back for
you. He was formerly a barber"
That night the jolly bachelor was taken
seriously for once. When he had finished
telling his story he said:
SO you can how bad you need
husband who is in the detective business"
Yes was the long-drawn reply
(Which is me-
Yes! '-(Copyrighted, 1912, by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
says UNCLE CIV

While moral conventionality is the
meanest of the virtues, it is still a vir-
tue and not to be despised. Religious
convictions aside. we have never been
able to improve upon the Command
ments and the Beatitudes, and prob
ably we never will. The ancients knew
a thing or two about wholesome and
wholesouled decency, and whatever
their practices, the preaching of their
great teachers was in the main correct.
And whatever our present-day prac-
tees, the moral teaching of the an
clients is the soul of conventionality and
the good salt which keeps sane and
pure and clean the ideals, if not al
ways the acts, of the multitude
Let him who decries conventionality
apply his theories to the realm of
science or politics or religion if he will.
since we guarantee religious freedom.
In one way or another he may do the
world an inestimable service. But let
him have a care how he trifle with the
accepted moral standards. No great
character is ever developed by blind
obedience to recognized moral law;
stalwart principle has birth from stur-
der virtues than any mere negative
acquaintance. But no great character
ever maintained a moral balance with
out having taken into consideration the
fights of others. And this, again, is
the basis of the Commandments the
Beatitudes and our moral convention
ality.
It is doubtful if any great man ever
disregarded the basic laws of m orality
without paying a fearful penalty. It
is certain that no great woman has
ever done so.
Public opinion is society's police
force, judge, jury and executioner.
Huge captains of industry who disre-
gard the distinction between mine"
and thine know better than their
Victimized neighbors the truth of that
staten They if anV might dafx-
the moral canon
Thou shift not covet thy neigh
boris wife, is as sound doctrine to-
day as it was when is was written
on the tablets which Moses broke be-
fore the worshippers of the golden
calf. and they who disregard the ad-
monition know best the penalty
which even the most hypocriticaI
elements of society enact
That which is good morals is good
business. good politics and good So
cial practice The terms are indenticaI
1t is we'll enough to improve upon
the conventional canons if one may,
but let none disregard them without
counting the cost
Conventional morality is more
over a safeguard for weak souls, the
guide and chart for the incompetent
The ordinary man who departs from
1t finds himself presently in the
quickSands and the woman who will
have none of it quickly becomes the
victim of society's keenest weapon
the disdain of the eminently proper
copyright, 1912 by W. z. VIII
Hams1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Was there ever a finer dedication TO a
house Of business than the following
which was read by President Taft at the
conclusion of the Wanamaker jubilee In
Philadelphia
In this marble court the president Of
the United States. on the Goth of Decem-
Der. 1911, at the close of the golden jubi-
lee year, in the presence Of 10000 citizens
dedicates this building, a landmark OF
labor and a signature in stone 10 the
power of concentration and cooperation,
in mercantile pursuits under freedom of
competition and the blessing of God.
Now that you have read IL once, just
read it over again.
And now please read this EXCERPT from,
President Tafts speech:
The Introduction into the conduct OF his
business of rigid rules as to the fixedneas
of the price. the accuracy Of the repre-
sentatiOn to the quality, the conveu-
fence accorded 10 all in the return Of un-
satisfactory goods, and the delivery with
out COST or at "A reasonable cost. Of the
goods to the home Of the pure haser. to-
Eether with such economical arrange
men in the sales store to reduce to
"A minimum the effort necessary to e,r-
anime the goods TO be purchased. the
concentration and cooperation of the dir
ferent branches Of the business to reduce
expenses and increase efficiency all cali
for an executive genius that hardly finds
It's counterpart.
You see the president Of the United
States has not been too busy to keep in
formed as to what is going on in the ad-
Nertfsing world.
"FiXedness of prices accuracy or rep
resentation,' return or unsatIsfactorv
goods" TO reduce expenses and increase
efficiency these are the four founda-
tons Of successful advertising
Fixed prices remove doubt.
The truth compels confidence
Return of unsatisfactory goods estab-
fishes a stores reputation for square deals
ing.
Good advertising increases a business
thereby lessening expenses. Increasing
efficiency and enabling the people to buy
cheaper than they otherwise could.
Why don't all merchants everywhere see
this2 President McCrea. of the Peunsvl-
Vania railroad, attributed Mr.. Wanna
makers success to the power OF organiza-
ton Back Of advertising must be an eni-
Gent organizations strong sales force
President Baer made brief speech and
said that Mr.. Wananaker succeeded be-
cause he knew how to grasp an opportuni-
ty-
That's Just it-graaping la opportunlty.
That's why those merchants succeed
who advertise intellfEently and make good
their promises to the people.
Why remain in darkness when the oln-
ploymcnt Of advertising win turn the
searchlight on you ali Of the timer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
AYHAWKER JOTS

A reflection by Bachelor Bert Walker
in his Osborne Farmer: 1t is leap year
all right but it doesn't seem to make
much difference.
The way women who have killed
their husbands are being acquitted
may well make the lawyers fear fall
ing-off in the divorce business, thinks
the Logan Leader.
An Atchison woman. reports the
Globe, dOctOred her mincemeat WITH
brandy, and the other day when she
served it in pie for dinner, her husband
said after his first moEthful: Minnie
that was not bite; it was a drink. "
If all the names in the four columns
of personal and local notes in last
weeks issue Of the Lindsborg Record
are spelled correctly. Editor Stromquist.
of that paper, is entitled to the medal
for being the most careful newspa per
man in Kansas.
Reported by the Alton Empire: An
Alton man, to get 1t out of sight, has
been hanging his whisky bottle in the
well. His wife found the string and
pulled it up. recently, and he has about
made her believe that it belongs to
Chinaman who bored through from the
other side
An explanation in the Hoisington Dis
patch on the use of ''shall'' and
'-should': Never use "shall' when
you should use should and never use
SilOul0 NtACiA YOU SilOuiQ Use snail
In short, we should always say should
whenever we should and never should
say shall when we should say
should Is that plain enough2
Old Jason, who belongs to our flock
muses. the Village Deacon in the Os-
borne Farmer. is always talking about
how he used to associate with the big
gest politicians in his county back
east. I have often heard Jason say he
was with them every day and they fire.
quently used to consult him. 1 have
just found out the truth about Jason.
He was janitor at the court house back
there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
A POETIC PorPoURRI.


Apple green west and an orange bar.
And the crystal eye of lone, one star.
And Child take the shears and cut what
you will,
Frost tcnight-so clear and dead STILL
Edith NJ. Thomas in Harper's.
Pea green piffle and orange bunk,
And the ragged rhyme of one mad or
drunk,
You must confess this approaches Miss
Edith's verse-but we can't sell this
Buffalo News.
Crushed pumpkin dawn an lemon
Child: lead your mother outdoors to
At stun like this we could never fail.
But we'd never dare offer this stuff for
Houston Post
Alice-blue cheese and a plate of tripe,
And fourteen Cinnamon hitting the pipe
Verses like this make a bosom throb-
hope 1t won't cause me to lose my job
Milwaukee Sentinel
Pale glummed eve and herd of whangs.
And the erris glob of the knawsome
fangs,
Wool warped gnage and a blotch of ooze-
Bartender, what did you put in the booze?
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A pistachio moon and a cerise cloud
Make the dark, cold night a brilliant
shroud-
Why did you dig Mothers grave so deep?
Such a poem of passion calls for a weep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
KANSAS COMMENT


La " L1L<A4Eo CONLEl-
It is the complaint of the conserva-
tive mind that you can't make the
world better by writing laws. and there
is something in the cOmplaint-but not
everything. For instance: Men have
been killed for so years and more by
gas explosions in the soft coal mines
of the world Telephones were invent
ed a-ne. in general use 30 years ago. A
telephone ia a mine would enable min
ers to call help when an explosion
occurred But telephones cost money.
Men are cheap. and under the old
atrOcious doctrine of the assumed risk,
miners were snuffed out in these eX-
plosiOns and their families suffered
secure, and men We're at "A discount.
Wel-here Is what laws can do. KAN
sas passed a law com pelling mine own
ers to put telephones in mines. Kan
sas also passed a law modifying tho
doctrine of the assumed risk. The re-
ped with telephones and in two in
stances accidents have happened ia
which the Ives Of Kansas miners have
been saved. The law in less than a
year saved nine lives. Seven families
that would now be near the line of pow
erty, families whose little children
would be out of school the moment the
be consuming up to their normal ca
pacity, now have fathers and prOtec-
tors. The law can do that much With
out the law the state would be poorer
in men, and richer in dividends. With
the law it may be poorer in dividends.
but it is richer in men, That by the
way, is all there is to the progressive
movement. It is an EFFORT to emphasize
men rather than property.-Emporia
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHTsON GLOBE.

A lie has to get pretty old before it be
comes a legend
Anyone can get advice. but only few
use 1t effectively.
A wife is apt to feel that she earns
more than her husband but gets less.
An old man can't act as young as ne
used to. and people don't want him to-
An oId-fashioned winter should also
help to discourage the polar explorers.
There are always as many as two no
tons OF what constitutes a liberal re-
ward.
There is frequently some difference be-
tween congratulations and an honest
opinion.
1t is sad to see beer wagon stop regu-
Iarly where the grocer doesn't deliver
much
It is hard to convince a woman she
pays for a prize she gets in a can OF bak-
ing powder.
Our notion of a Cheap Skate is one VINO
has the game pinched after losing money
on it.
It doesn't make much difference how
YOU spell a word you can't find in the
dictionary
We have always had some curiosity 70
know how much of a prize fight purse is
real money.
Lacking the judicial temperament. we
also fail to see why confession should
tighten the sentence.
When one considers that she must copv
legal notices, a lawyers stenographer al
ways seems underpaid.
There is a good deal Of rejoicing over
catching a man in a lie, as well as over
some other deplorable affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor does the warmth of love help
out much when there is no gas.
x x X
You're apt to underestimate man
if you judge him according to your
own standards.
Presumably. the thermometers feel
omplimented at the marked attention
paid them lately.
=
There would be nothing to prevent
camel from going through the eye
of a needle if the latter We're big
enough
After all, isn't it a bit unreasonable
for people in this cline to expect
warm weather in the winter time?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

vardaman. of Mississippi has been
exonerated of all blame in alleged ir-
regularities concerning the handling of
executive contingent funds while he
was governor of that state There
would be no chance for a similar YER
dict regarding any alleged Irregular
ties of his tongue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
DAFFYDKL.S
BY q. NOALL.

If a man busted into a song parlor
and copied 100 operate scores could
you call it a music hall?
(''I'n lonely grain of sawdust since
the old mill moved away.")
If cats lives are many has a cur
few
"a smart dog doesn't make any better
bologna-)
Via the Santa Fe Employees Maya
zine: If Santa should get a divorce
from Fe would the storekeeper?
(Io. but Attorney o. j. WOODY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

GF'rom the New York Press.I
long sermon makes a short impress
sion.
woman likes to do a thing and make
up her mind about it afterward
The place for the man who thinks the
world is q fool is in an asylum
1t takes an awful long time for a man
to put on womans rubber. unless she's
his grandmother.
When young woman isn't afraid to
climb a fence you could understand the
reason. too, if you saw it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Great viii be the prancing in secret
on the part of a number of Democrats
who think their light has all too long
been hidden under a bushel Several
of the prominent Democratic leaders
are of the opinion that the presidential
nomination for their party viii go to a
dark horse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

In memory of the late Alexander
Butts, who served with such rare dis
tinction in the newspaper world as
managing editor of the Kansas City
Star, a magnificent window, symbolic
of broad and practical humanity,
which was, indeed, the keynote of Mr.
Butts life. has been placed and for
maIly dedicated in Grace Episcopal
church, Kansas City, Mo. A no more
fitting tribute to the life and work of
Mr.. Butts could have been conceived.
He was a Christian gentleman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

For the benefit of those Kansans
who haven't enough to worry about
during these days of continued cold
and gasless weather. the wiseacres are
busy with their predictions that pres
ent conditions are making for record
breaking floods in the spring and
early summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

It makes it rather nice for the many
Cinnamon in this country to be able to
indulge in elaborate celebrations and
do the cheering over the establishment
of republic in China, while their
equally enlightened brethren at home
are going through the fortunes Of war
te give the new republic stability
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

st. Louisans must be mistaken in at
tributing a further increased cost of
living at this time to the cold wave
which has enveloped the county. It's
the unanimous opinion of several ex-
perts in the premises that all the
troubles and vexations of humanity are
due to the house-fy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

According to the astronomical ex-
perts. this is the flood season in Mars.
Now If they will only report on how
the Martians handle the floods that
overtake them. some information of
value would doubtless be provided for
the inhabitants on this less-enlightened
snhera
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Jack Johnson is doing pretty well in
his battle of words with Jim COrbett,
but the latter will probably be able to
retain the talking championship among
the heavyweight pugillsts. Jim Flynn.
the present white hope is his only
dang.arnns cnmnetitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Colonel Roosevelt also has unusual
control over his mental faculties He
says he is not giving the slightest
thought to the presidential situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Cold weather is also establishing {
catIike reputation as to the number O.
its lives and the surety with which i
comes back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

II there is anything in name,
Raicevich. the latest aspirant to take a
fan out of Gotch. ought to be a better
runner than a wrestler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It's less than three weeks until
Grounding Day. Do your summer
sewing early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

There cannot be many real baseball
fans on the Pacific coast The directors
of the league there have decided to
number the players so their identity
can be established by the people at
tending the games.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

NO wonder fat men are ever happy
and smiling. A Japanese surgeon of
established reputation reports that they
have 20 per cent fewer disease germs IN
their systems than thin folk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Hope will be general that Pastor
Richeson sticks to his present deter
rnination to take all the rest of his
personal secrets to the grave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Manchu princes are soon to advise
the six-year- emperor of China to
abdicate. It's to be wondered if he
viii know what they are driving at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

An observation by the Hogwallow
Kentuckian: Trains are Of a cheerful
nature. doing a great deal of whistling
along the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
FROM OTHER PENS

DEMOCRATIC ANVIL CHORUS.
1t is the Democratic play to keep
hammering necessarily on President
Taft with a view to creating a false
impression that his administration is
a failure because Mr.. Taft is the prob
able candidate of his party for re-
election whom the Democrats must
beat to get into power
This anvil chorus of Democratic
knockers, however. is attuned to no
new political melody, but Is simply
repeating the noisy cutlery which has
been directed from the same source
at every Republican standard bearer>
Everybody realizes that Mr.. Taft has
had some difficult problems to deal
with. and embarrassing situations to
meet from the very day he became
president but everyone who wants to
be fair with himself also knows that
his administration as a whole has
been a success and that he has been
gaining in public estimation and
strength, particularly since the reverse
pendulum swing that gave us Demo-
cratic congress. The anvil chorus Of
the Democrats will. however, be kept
up all the time that Mr. Taft Is in the
running but it remains to be seen
whether it will fool people any more
now than it has in the past.-Omaha
Bee.