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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
EVENING CHIT
Enthusiasm.
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|. Popularity papers-Being the second
| of a few little talks on the ingredi-
ents of popularity.
Enthusiasm was a second, though not
a very close second, to unSelishnesS,
in my poll of the qualities which make
for popularity.
Men, especially, are attracted by this
quality. Girls sometimes say, Men al
ways like loud girls. Look at Gertrude,
she is just as loud and coarse as she
can be, and a terrible flirt, and she
always has string of men after her,
while Lucy, who is just as sweet and
nice as anything, never has a man.
May it not be the vivacity and spirit.
the Hveliness, in short, the enthusiasm
with which Gertrude is always bubbling
over, rather than her tendency to
coarSeness, which makes men like her?
To be sure. Lucy is nice and sweet,
but even you, her champions, must adj
NIT that she has painfully little spirit
and vivacity.
Enthusiasm. real, genuine enthusiasm,
spr1nging from health and good will
and love of fun, is an invaluable charm.
Eleanor is always an eagerly welcon-
ed guest at all gatherings of the young
people of her neighborhood, whether
goose parties or mixed gatherings.
Why? Simply because, as one, of her
admirers puts it. Things always go
when Eleanor is around" Eleanor you
see is blessed with an enthusiastic and
vivacious spirit.
enthusiastic people always have fun
Wherever they go and consequently
make other people have a good time
Ihey are foes of monotony and bore
dom, and hence friends of the whole
human race.
All this is very well,'' hear some
one saying, land very fine for the lucky
people who are born with the gift of
enthusiasm, but you promised to give
recipe for popularity, and what's the
use OF recipe when you can't get the
ingredients? What about us who
weren't born that way?''
All, my friend, you are right in call
ing those fortunate, who are born with
the great gift of enthusiasm 1t is in
deed the wonderful quality which. like
the twelfth good fairy's gift. or PAN
dora's final discovery, annuls many
misfortunes. But you are wrong in
thinking that this ingredient is unat-
tainable unless you are born with it:
If you aren't naturally enthusiastic and
vivacious, cultivate these qualities.
You think that's impossible? A greater
philosopher than you Or 1 differ from
you. Depend upon it, says johnson,
'vivacity is much an art and depends
greatly on habit
TO be sure, it will not be so easy for
you as for the person born with this
good spirit, but hard and impossible
are by no means synonymous
But mind one thing. Remember il is
not the appearance of enthusiasm that
you are to cultivate. That's a hollow
bauble which all who find out its emp
tiness justly despise. Fake enthusiasm
like fake unself1shness will only bring
fake popularity. You must cultivate
genuine, heart deep enthusiasm if YOU
wish to win with it genuine, heart deer
popularity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

the farmers wife saw it. Then she
came down the path with an impetus
that carried the gate of its hinges
but she was too late. The autoist v az
in his machine and speeding away. II
was what the detectives term a neat
getaway"
The young lady had not driven
mile before she gasped out:
Now just think of that! ne
doesn't even know my name!
And five minutes later:
And I don't know hist!
He was Randolph Roberts on ms
way to the city to make preparations
to sail for Europe.
She was Miss Estelle Hastings;
daughter of the broker, who woulo
also sail within a month.
One night at a table d'hote IN
Switzerland they found themselves
vis-a-vis.
my escaped prisoner," he ex-
claimed.
my deputy constablel" she re-
torted.
She won't be permitted tc escape
again. He has her bound by ner
solemn promise not to attempt it
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a $50. 900 ToorHACHE.

A great corporation recently sent its
star representative to close an impor-
tant deal, writes Herbert Kaufman in
woman's World for September. Pos
sessed of unique facilities and en-
dorsed by a successful career, every
advantage lay with this company.
The man chosen to represent them
was competent, resourceful, familiar
with all the intricate details of his line,
possessed of pleasing personality and
the power of conviction. His habits
were orderly, he neither drank nor
gambIed and could be relied upon in
any emergency, but a toothache un-
doubtedly lost his principals a profit
| of $4,000.
The tooth began to bother him the
day of his departure-it became uI-
cerated on the train. and he spent an
entire night without sleep and in
nerve-racking agony.
Arrived at his destination, he was
utterly unfit for work and in a duiled,
distracted frame of mind. attempted
to transact business. He could not
concentrate his attention upon his du-
ties, his selling talk was rambling and
listless, he lacked force and magnetism
and made such a poor case for him
self that competitor, who under nor
NAL conditions would have been dis
tinctly his inferior, succeeded in clos
ing the contract.
Year by year, we are learning how
essential is physical perfection, not
only to personal welfare, but to trade
and the professions as well.
The physician who doesn't guard
his own health can not bear up under
the demands Of heavy practice-the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
The Misslssippi Forest.

1t may be only a chance unaware
ness of my own, but it seems to me
that no one has ever truly described
the happy, sturdy beauty of the Mis-
sissippi forest. eAIl my literary pre-
monitions were ofsmuddy. river bot
lowering moss hung swamps. But no
swamps are here. There are rather
several levels; first; the creek bed and
banks; then thick grown bottom lands,
so-called, which are sometimes over
flowed, but except for an occasional
marshy hollow, mostly dry; and then
a third rolling level, where the long
leaved pine trees grow, beautifully
open and free from underbrush, and
covered with a bright green coarse
grass. The bottom lands are dense
with broad leaved evergreens and
hardwoods - cottonwood, sycamore,
beech and poplar, this last of enor-
nous growth never seen in the north.
bark instead of red-brown; sometime s
headed up, at 60 feet above the
ground, into a bit of dense greenery
like a clipped evergreen on lawn;
and ancient cypress with their lower
trunks spreading out into deep flut-
ings, like wooden buttresses. The
cheerful trees, however, are the broad
leaved ergreens-ma gnolia. holly
and bay; clothed in dark green, in
credibly polished leaves. the sunlight
striking from them all over little
cleaning points Aid draped from
tree to tree, over the Towering wild
plum, the red blossoms of the buckeye,
and the milkwhite starry dogwood,
the yellow jasmine flaunts its golden
trumpets-EtheI Puffer Howes, in the
July Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
AXHAWKER JOTy

Reported by the Everest Enterprise:
Little Minnie Larson had the misfor-
tune to step on rusty nail this week
and received severe pain.
Mr.. LATE Lantern. who is visiting
with relatives in Harper, ought to
have little trouble in finding his way
in the dark.
If you want to find out who the
really witty men in town are. advises
the Harrington Sun, start down the
street with a watermelon under your
arm.
A little more rain Tuesday evening
spoiled some more little corn for the
farmers. says the Lyons Republican,
and will compel them to build new
cribs.
The Harper Advocate reports that
because watermelons are plentiful in
its vicinity the price has come down
so the average person can afford to
fill up.
The Square Deal idea, as it occurs
to the Kiowa County Signal: IF you
do not talk as we do, and do as we
want you to do, you are an incubus
and we will kill you to get rid of
you."
Here is a perplexing question that
has been propounded by the Herring
ton Times: Would a colored lady
wearing the popular white hosiery
with hole in them look any worse
with hole in them?
One nice thing about the tight-fit-
ting dresses the girls and women are
wearing nowadays, remarks the Wet
more Spectator. One can tell every
bow-legged and knock-kneed female
at first glance. Every once in a while
we hear some young fellow remark:
That girl couldn't stop a pig in a
lane"
The latest alcoholic drink is the
fluid that is found in the bottom Of
silos, reports the ST John County
Capital. OF course, there is no reve-
nue. tax on it as yet, but 1t seems to
be the real corn product, raw bour-
bon. And. too, it is reported to the
department of agriculture that Vir-
ginia farmers cows got drunk from
munching fermented corn stalks.
A business man of Leavenworth has
received a letter from a probate Judge
in western Kansas in which he refers
three times to his holding a juvenile
court The first time he spells it "ju-
vanile," the second time "juvanil'' and
the third time '.juvinal-three bad
spells all in a row without even one
hit" by ACCIDENT A cabinet maker
was once elected probate judge in
jefferson county who spelled it Pro
bat Jug."-Troy Chief.
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surgeon who is not in the pink of con-
dition lacks readiness and steadiness
in crucial operations-the employees at
the mercy of bad teeth, ne matter
what his skill. knowledge and capabil-
ity, can not be relied upon-the law
yer who shows no discretion in his
selection of food is fair prey to the
irritation of indigestion during his
most important trials.
The hour is not far distant when
employers in estimating a mans fit
ness for responsibility, will take sharp
account of his body as well as his
brains.
Flawed timbers are not safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsofF GLOBE.

Most bridegrooms are scared, and
some of them never get over it.
A bulldog never smiles, but it couldn't
help its face much if it did.
No one can be a tyrant without be-
ing hated, and it's unpleasant to be
hated.
Still. time wouldn't seem so precious
unless one wasted a bunch of it occa-
sionallY.
You will find it easy enough to cor
rect a mistake If it is in the other
fellows favor. -
Occasionally one meets a braggart
who will go the full distance and brag
on his wife's relatives.
Although this is a free country, it
isn't a good idea to be too independ-
ent to work occasionally.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

(F'rom the Chicago News)
A kicker seldom makes good in a
business of his own.
Only the office without a salary has
to seek the man.
In the language of lovers, kisses
speak louder than words.
There is always a big demand for a
thing that cannot be had.
Yes, Alonzo, lots of the sweetest kinds
of girls failed to graduate
There are more brands of cussedness
than there are brands of religion.
Anyway, a married man never has to
waste any time in making up his
mind.
1t takes brave man to face a lit
tie woman at the head of the stairs
at a. m.
Some women are so changeabIe that
they never wear the same complexion
twice.
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ley. that state, would surely be a
short one. He actually fined the lead
er of mob that lynched a negro 81.
With most righteous indignation does
the man thus punished protest. He
threatens to appeal the case to the
higher courts. Establishing a prece-
dent in Texas of Furnishing the lynch
ers of negroes even to the extent of
filming them 81 each is a turn of JUS
tice that could scarcely be tolerated
in such an enlightened commonwealth.
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says UNCLE GAY

When you've got the mental eQuiva-
lent or three drinks under your hat
band, have thrown your speed clutch
over into the high and are burning up
Fhe road to ambitionviIIe, you may be-
',eve that you've got everything to be
deSIred-but you haven't.
The world isn't entirely speed mad,
John Henry. There ale more inspir-
ing sights than blue streak with two
on behind.
We aren't bent on making radio
electrical impulses. look like slow
coaches, although they go round the
world only eight times in a second.
Ihere's something else in the back of
our headS besides speed.
In fact, this speed mania his about
played out. We've tumbled to the fact
mat While we've been spinning along
in the high, we've been missing lot
or fun and a great many good things
that aren't entirely fun
speed will be desirable so long as
Time is factor in earthly values, and
when 1t isn't You and will have lost
the expense of quality, whether it be
in joy riding or the making of over
alls, is mighty expensive and in
Signlf1cant factor in the problem of
human existence. Speed for speeds
sake is just about as "heady" as pure
alcohol and no healthier. To the
healthy man, it has little attraction. 1t
may pass musteryas an occasional, un-
What you and I and other com
paratively sane folk want is quality.
It's universal principle, but bringing
nome to everyday life, you'll remem-
Der that not all the machines in the
world have been able to kill the i'm
pulse to do and tho desire to use the
product of hand labor. The work of
the hand has upon it that bloom
which is quality and art. Those of US
who know what We want are willing
to walt for the approximately perfect
product. That's true of everything
from Persian rugs to Roquefort
cheese.
We are learning in this country to
appreciate little healthy leisure and
the excellent thing that takes time.
rapid transit, but it would surprise
you to know how many people would
abandon the fast trains If the slow
trains were more comfortable. Speed
and comfort in travel coincide only
because the companies that can afford
TO operate fast trains and fast boats
can also afford to make them models
of comfort. Otherwise, they would be
losing ventures-its the comfort after
all, that counts.
We are becoming suspicious of
speed. We know that in manufactur-
ing speed is only too likely to mean
shoddy. We have confidence in the
manufacturer who frankly says that
he takes time-it means pains and
conscience. So, John Henry, take your
time. Make every minute count for
quality, which is the only true prog
Tess. Rocketlike careers end like rock
cts, in smoke and the evil odor of
burning wood and paper. Speed at the
cost of integrity and efficiency is mad
ness, and nowadays a less popular
form of madness than it was yester-
Copyright. 1912, by the Nc
CIure Newspaper Syndicate)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few people have as many true
friends as they deserve.
4 u
Most of the self-made men also pro-
vide themselves with big heads.
" e
People who can't take jokes are gen
orally strong on springing them.
n y n
If it is true that poets are born the
world should be more tolerant to-
wards them.
What has become of the fashioned
children who had good table-manners?
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FROM OTHER PENS

THE NEW EDUCATIONAL. PLAN
The Montessori method of teachinT
children is attracting wide attention
and at present several American edu-
Gators are abroad studying the work
OF this new system and Some ATTEMPTS
have already been made to Introduce n
into this country. In essence the Mon
tessori method is a system of SEIZED
ucation for young children through the
principle of child liberty. Toward sim
gle individuals, one by one observed,
education must direct itself" SAYS DR..
Montossort, who, by the way, is a wo-
man and noted italian educator In
her system the teacher, instead of
teaching and correcting, merely OBJ
serves and directs. A typical Monies
sori program consists of informal con-
versational periods; lessons with short
rest intervals between games, both free
and directed simple gymnastics, clay
modelling, collective singing and in
spection as to personal cleanliness.
Music, poetry and dancing are used to
develop the childs rhythmic sense, and
it was found after the children had
learned dancing they ceased instinc-
lively the ugly jumping which was one
of their former pastimes. The plan is
carefully devised to promote muscular
coordination and sense perception. the
two directions of functional growth in
young children.-New Orleans Plea
vune-
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NINE-MEN vERDICTs.

There can be no doubt that the pro-
posal to allow nine members of jury
TO render verdicts in civil cases is
growing in favor. It is one of the
judicial reforms most likely to be en-
acted during the next session of the
legislature. The prejudice it encoun-
tered in the beginning is being dis
PEELED; men are beginning to see that
this change may be made without put
ting the jury system in jeopardy. The
notion-and it is the basic assumption
of our practice-that truth can be
found only in the agreement of twelve
men is nonsensical. The probability is
that few of the verdicts rendered in
civil cases are concurred in by the
twelve members of the jury. One or
more of those jurors is apt to have
yielded to the opinion of the majority
without having changed his own opin-
ion / nthe least. To allow nine MEM
bers to render a verdict would not
-heerfore. be so radical a change as
most people fancy. The greatest
change effected would be in increasing
the difficulty of causing a mistrial by
tie simple expedient of putting a
"sinker'' on the jury. 1t may not be
easy to slip one dishonest man into a
jury trying a civil case, but if 1t is diff
ficult, it would be three times as DIM
cult to slip three such men into fury.
A law of this kind would relieve our
courts greatly--Galveston News.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
From the PhiIadelphil

From the PhiladeIphia Record.)
Wasted opportunities are generally
those that go to other people.
Some people want to do all their kick
ing with other peoples feet.
Don't count your chickens till they
have laid some eggs of their own.
Self-conceit is what prompts us to
feel sorry for the people who don't
like US.
The fellows who don't succeed are
generally those who want to do some
thing else.
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HOME NEWS wH1LE AwAY.

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tn YOU like a daiIy 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, 1912-08-27

State fiscal officers are pointing with
pride to the fact that they have COL
lected nearly $1.o0O.0oo ii fees during
the fiscal year of 1912. the largest
amount so collected in any one year in
the states history. However, these
fees are in reality only additional bur
flens on the taxpayers and the others
of the .proletariat who may not pay
taxes. The corporations. concerns and
individuals who have TO pay these fees
directly see to it they get them all
back with interest in che prices they
charge for their wares OF services.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.I

IFrom the New York Press.I
A widow knows from experience not
to do it again. so she wants to.
All the money a man could mako in
a gold mine he could lose in a family.
The best thing for a man to do with
a girl he wants to marry. is to let her.
The reason some girls never learn
to hirt is they can do it best without
learning
A mans good opinion of himself 10
Endorsed by everybody except the rest
Of the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

Governor Wilson is, indeed, a man
of great discernment. He has reached
the conclusion that the country is
tired of extended stumping tours, and
for that reason he proposes to make
few campaign speeches. If Mr.. Will
son will adhere to these plans, he
will undoubtedly receive many votes
that he would not have otherwise OBJ
famed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

Even being ''in the silken bands of
religious restraint doesn't prevent
Dave Leahy from engaging in his par
amount pursuit of writing letters.
But this time, the three columns he
wrote about the delights of his Sc
questration made mighty interesting
reodirn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

Reports come from Missouri that
many of the hogs there are afflicted
with swelled heads. This seems to be
no more than a reasonable attitude
for the hogs to assume in view of the
price that pork is now bringing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
a SUMMER SKETCH.

A SUMMER SKETCH.
The wind will show her nodded grace,
To light her hair the sunbeam tries,
Moods play like waves across her face,
And oceans depths are in her eyes.
Fair armed with beauty more than name
She takes her toll of knight and churl;
Each year she plays the new-old game
A most enchanting summer girl.
Colmpete and sure in any part
The seasons pleasures she'll define.
Alas, they say she has no hearti
But know better-she has mine
Charles c. Jones, in Satire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

New York's police commissioner is
asking for s,35O,OOo for. the conduct
of his department during the next
year. This is an increase of $3.50, 900
over the cost of the department for
the current year. But why not oper-
ate the New York police department
out of the graft it collects?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

About the only thing that can be
said to the credit of General Orozco
is that he has some of the cunning of
a fox. He manages to evade the traps
that are set for him by the Mexican
fedoraIS
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HUAOR or THE D<Y

He-Does a woman when she's married
expect her husband to tell her his business
affairs? Shell don't know; but a woman
expects a mar to talk business when hos
co':rting her.-Boston Transcript
''Is It true that your daughter has mar
ried highbrow, Mrs. Rockingham No.
that story was started by some OF the
girls who are Jealous. Daisies husband
is a writer, but his royalties amount to
over $4,000 a year.'-Chicago Record
saf-a a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

John Dawson, the states attorney
general, suggests something real in
the way of judicial reform. He would
abolish all justice of the peace courts
in the larger cities and establish in
their places debtors courts through
which workingmen and others could
collect money due them without court
costs or the employment of an at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

Why should Mr.. Archbold get angry
at being called a liar by Colonel
Roosevelt? Many of the nations
most distinguished citizens have been
so characterized by the third-term
presidential candidate.
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property

DR.. Crumbine's suggestion that all
dogs should be muzzled for so or 80
days during the summer is not an UNI
reasonable one. 1t is a custom that
has prevailed in many eastern locah-
ties for MANY wears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27

As might have been expected. The
production of a $1o,OOO.OOO tobacco
crop this year in the BLACK Patch"
of Kentucky has resulted in the
might riders organizing to destroy
as much of it as they can.
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DAFFYDHS
BIZ o. NOALL

If a lady won't carry her little
daughter will the mail-carrier
(Here's your snuff, Grandma.)
If a foot is short is a furlong?
(Students, I beg of you, cease!i)
If Kansas avenue is white at night,
is Paris green?
(Hurry up there. boysi Don't de-
Lay the game.)