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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
EVENING CHAT
Homes for Women.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

ZONES are mostly for women.
1ney are managed chiefly by Wom-
| en-. lived in a longer time by women.
and cared for almost entirely oy
women.
am sure no one will deny these
facts.
Why, then, is not more attention paid
TO woman and her convenience in the
pulIdlng of homes and the manufac-
ture of household furnishingcy
A friend of mine built a house BY
her thrift she helped her husband
earn and save the money for it, and
then, because he was so much alb
soroed in his business, she was given
the chief charge of building the nsw
home. And being an original woman
she did not feel obliged to build it ex-
actly as men had built the thousan is
of other homes in her city Instead
she incorporated into it innumera bic
little features which made 1t a bett er
place for women to live and work in
than the average house
For instance, she has a big linen
closet upstairs in which are several
long drawers long enough to hold a
skirt laid out at full length. Any
woman Will appreciate the convenience
of that. And how easily such an ar
rangement might be made in almost
any house. But how seldom it is.
Again, this woman has the sink bu 1t
several inches higher than the average
sink. What is the need" she says,
OF having Sink so low that i nave
to stoop to do my work there, when it
costs no more to build it a comfortable
height %
Another thing on which this woman
insisted was that the architect should
give her a room downstairs for a sew
ing room. 1t is just a wee bit OF a
room with only space for a sewing
machine, a chest of drawers. a table
and a chair or two, and a big window
with a very pleasant prospect, but the
SOY No in cfn ny n
clutter in the big living room is
enormous.
These are some of the ways in which
one bright woman who was given a
chance improved on masculine archi-
lecture. Women everywhere ought to
be given more to say about homebuiid-
ing and ought to exert themselves to
think and say and act more than they
do on this very important subject
And the result would be not only
to make their own individual homes
better places for women to live and
work in, but to improve the pattern
of the ready made homes which are
being man-built by the thousand all
over this country.
Nor should woman stop at inf1uenc-
ing architecture; she should also 40
all she can to influence manufacture
in so far as it touches her. For n
stance, I am appalled, at the h savy tea
kettles which are sold to foolish Wcm-
en- who daily overtax their strength
in lifting them. Women ought 10 pay
an end to the manufacture or such
articles by refusing to buy them.
Again, look at the difference IN "a
Dor between making high Or low PED
There is no excuse Tor these oaSA
breaking low beds A bed has to be
made as we'll as slept in. and manu-
facturers should remember that, ana
when they fail to should be taught
lesson. -
They tell US that the American man
will give the American woman any
thing at all she wants to ask fer!
Let's learn to ask for houses ana
more ef5cient from feminine point of
view.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

the Chicago action, however, to note
that women over twenty-five would
probably not have been barred had
there been plenty of room for them.
1t was thought advisable to cut down
the age limit so that homes might be
provided for more young girls who go
to that city from the country and are
in greater need of protection than
the "old'' women who are jogging on
toward thirty.
But the question, when is a woman
old, is now bigger and broader than
it ever was before. For it is a fact
there are few old women now-oId
in the sense in which they used to be
regarded.
Time was, and not so very long ago,
when a woman of thirty was old.
Fashion and custom both consp1red
against her. She could not dress like
a girl. She must wear bonnet and
shawl There could be nothing gay in
her attire AS the years came after
thirty. each one gave her something
in dress that made her older still, and
at fifty she was in the grandmother
class, with nothing to do but sit in
the chimney corner, with her knit
ting or fancy work.
Where now can such women be
found? There are none. In place
of the bonneted and beshawled woIn-
an of thirty years ago, you now see
a daintily gowned woman, wearing a
fetching hat, and all the other charm
ing accessories which fashion DEGREES
You may have to look at her twice to
decide whether she is twenty or fifty
and even when you have looked twice
you are not sure.
But what is the use of talking about
woman's age? She will not talk about
it herself And she is only as old as
she looks anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

With the country people all moving
to town, when do you think living will
cost less? pertinently inquiries the
Seneca Tribune.
Editor Knox, of the Alma Signal,
once knew constable over at Hop
ixins, Mo-, who recently affixed his title
to papers as "Kunciple.'
Charlie Blakesley of the Kansas City
Star calls attention to the fact that a
Denver man made a hit with the Lyons
Daily News by telling it that when he
grows old he expects to make Lyons
his home.
An observation by Sinful Peck, o:
the Hiawatha NeWs-Democrat: The
tramp of the national guards may be
your idea of a swell vacation outing
but this department prefers to pitch
wheat with a thresning gang.
We see that Kansas City and To-
relxa are going to introduce voting ma
chimes, says the Holton Signal, and II
adds: We presume that the Bull Moos-
chimes in politics, viii refuse to use
them.
A Young lady and gentleman rode
out southwest of Pratt one day last
week on a motor cycle relates the
Pratt Republican. When they were
about three miles from town the young
lady wished to try riding alone and
operating the machine and of course
courtesy demanded that she have her
way. She got started all right, but
she didn't know how to stop it and
the last seen of them she was a hun
bred yards in the lead and the young
man was sprinting after the machine,
with the perspiration flowing from his
brow. We presume someone must
have seen the dilemma and stretched
q rope across the road. for the young
folks are back all right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
LET HER yOTE.

If you think she knows as much
As the steerage Turk and such,
Let her vote.
If you think she has a mind
Equal to the steerage kind,
Let her vote.
If you think she's earned the right,
That you grant without a fight,
To the foreign bedlamite,
Let her vote.
If you think she is as good
AS the burglar brotherhood,
Let her vote
If she's more deserving than
Any bum or holdup man,
Let her vote.
You do not bar out the thug
Or the anarchistic bug,
Or the gin-mill ugly mug,
Let her vote.
If you think that she is just
And is worthy of the trust,
Let her vote.
If you think her heart beats true,
For the right, it's up to you
Let her vote.
If you think she earns her way.
Don't be stingy with the pay,
Let her have her little say
Let her vote
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
THE RAT AS A CAUSE OF WASTE

Two of the most important causes
of economic and health waste are the
rat and the fly. Just at present the
rat is foremost on account of .he
threatened entrance of plague into our
country. The discovery Of plague in
neighboring island sets in motion the
machinery of our health service. local
and national, and at an enormous
waste of time, money and effort we
seek to catch, examine ana then kill
all the rats on 1000 miles of coast line
in order to keep out one disease.
This is necessary, and must be DONE
But how much better to have no rats!
1t has long been known that rats are
a source of tremendous economic
waste, not only in seaboard cities about
| docks and wharfs, but in every portion
of the land. Figures are sometimes
given of the amount of this waste
which mounts into millions but even
these figures are only guesses and
probably far short of the truth.
Modern efficiency demands that no
rats should be tolerated; that this
enormous economic waste and danger
to health should be prevented by swat
ting the rat, clubbing him, trapping him,
poisoning Misunderstanding him
wherever and whenever ne raises his
pestiferous head. 1t should not be eft
to the health organizations of cities
and towns and the nation to do this
work. says The Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association. The work
should be done by the individual prop
erty owner or occupier, who now care
lessIy, indifferentIy or ignorantly IN
vites the rat to become an unprofita BILE
Int
paying for his board by subjecting his
host to the peril of deadly epidemic
disease. By building the rat out of
existence and waging vigilant contin-
uous farfare against him the public
could reduce the rat problem, and con-
sequently the plague problem. to Moth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
HUAOR or THE DAY

She-In way, getting married Is like.
using the telephone. Hollow so? She
One doesn't always get the party one
wants-Boston Transcript,
Didn't Need Them.-Gruff Customer
Cooking up from the menu cards)-Have
you brains? Timid Waitress (confused)-
No, sir That's the reason I'm working
here.-Judge.
That banquet tonight can't get along
without me- You have a very good
opinion of yourself Billed for a speech
NO; was invited to hsten-"-Kansas
A Diplomat.-Cook-wh didn't you
come last Monday for yer dinner2 Beg
gar-Why, heard that you were wasnlng
and your mise-ess was doing the cooking.
-Fhegende Blaetter.
First Old Park Lounger-I wondeg
what's become of the old fellow who used
Ditto (acidly)-He died yesterday. and
what's more, he left this bench to me.-
Puck.
English Tourist dn Bloody 5ulch hoteD
BY the way. old top is the grizzly bear
common around here2 Landlord-Used to
be. but It's extinct now, Why, even Three
Fingered Ike won't allow It in his dance
haIli-Puck.
Say, pop, what's a church," "A church,
my son, is a place where women sit be
selves that Thou shalt not covet Is not
in the Ten s-'-Philadel-
phia Record.
do YOU understand the cause Of the
girls uuarreI?'' why, I was told II was
six feet tall with broad shoulders and
dropping mustache. '-Cleveland Plain
Dealar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

AS a general proposition, the con-
tented man hasn't much.
x X
Girls with beautiful hands and arms
are seldom given to wearing gloves.
Topeka girl says her idea of a
beau de luxe is ore who wears SILK
shirts.
In a small town, the exceptionally
good looking stranger is either
drummer or a stray actor.
y x
Photographs would not be so popu-
lar if all of them were true reproduc-
lions of their subjects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

SuosC1 ,bers of tho state Journal
away from hoIrc during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address ut the rate OF
ten cents week or thirty cents a
month Thy nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the state Journal Wall be
IN you like a 1ajly 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, 1912-09-03
KANSAS COAMENT
QUIT COMPLAINING.

Every human being at times has
more or less serious physical ailments,
and at such times we feel sorry for
ourselves and want the world to feel
sorry with us. So we have grown
into the general habit of brooding
over our troubles, magnifying them and
making them a general topic of con-
NeISdlon Wherever we may be- 1T Is
thoroughly bad habit-bad for Our
serves because it makes our troubles
worse bad for our neighbors because
u oepresses them without any re-
sultahI good to anybody, and in ex-
ceeolng bad taste. We have no right
70 load our aches and pains, real or
laiicleu' upon others. No contagion is
SO widespread and unnecessary as that
OF the chronic complainer. Life is rela-
tlVeiy orlef at best, and should con-
tam lor all of us the greatest possi-
ole amount of sunshine and cheer, and
no one can be happy while listening
10 a tale OF woe. Some people are wise
enough to protect their own well be-
ing anc that of others by refusing
10 allow themselves to become victims
OF the doldrums; they constantly Gull
tlVate mental moral and physical
heaith' ana transmit it freely to all
with whom they come in contact, and
these are the worlds best physicians,
the best ministers to those who are
really sick. An atmosphere of bright
ness, cheer and hope breeds health
just as surely as an environment of
gloom, hopelessness and despair brings
ultimate physical breakdown The ma
jor part of our ailments are purely
imaginary, anyhow; the result of our
own failure to combat depressing in
fiuences. Let's get out in the sun
shine, fill our being with it, and scat
ter it freely wherever we go. Think
health, live health, and under ordinary
conditions you'll enjoy life better and
so will your neighbors.-LaCygne Rec
ord.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
WHEN Is WOMAN OLD?

How old is a woman when she is
no longer young? This question has
been revived by the Young women's
Christian association of Chicago, in
the adoption of a rule which pro-
vides that women over twenty-five
can not be admitted to the institution.
The resultant discussion is likely to
rival that over the age of Ann.
1t is comforting. in connection with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
D.AFFYDHS
By o. NoALL.

Is a foul tip in baseball a game
fowl:
The Mississippi is great river but
isn't the Rio Grande?
(And while the turtle is a lazy fell
low yet no one accuses him of having
a soft snap.)
whenever public sale is going on
is the auctioneer?
Going. going, gone! And sold for
two-bits.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

And the same old story was cabled
from Germany the other day. Another
monster Zeppelin dirigible was wrecked.
and almost totally destroyed. But as
has been the case generally in all such
instances, there was no loss of life. The
Zeppelin airsfaps are usually put out
of commission by uHtoward circum-
stances just before flight is begun or
-e4ar one is finished. It must be rather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[Fronn the New York Press.

EASAA ehO 1NC" III II CSS-1
1t takes a mighty big present to make
up mighty little quarrel with some wo-
men.
grandmother is If when she died she left
her any old lace.
The reason a large family spends so
much of a mans money is it would spend
just as much If there was less of it.
It's just a coincidence how a man can
talk to a woman on railroad train, and
if he does it in the street she'll yen for
the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Surely the Duchess of Roxburgh, Il
former American girl, is cut of place
among the titled nabobs of Great
Britain. She is shocked at The scant at
tire worn by the women at the English
bathing beaches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Following in the footsteps of Luther
Burbank, a Denver horticulturist has
produced a rasp-strawberry. Now if
somebody would produce a plum peach,
and combine some of the other fruits.
it might be possible to get ahead OF
the pests which ravage the orchards by
bafiing them for few seasons at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

A large part of the $4,000 word denial
made by Colonel Roosevelt to the
charge that the Standard Oil company
contributed to the Republican national
campaign fund in 1904 with his xnowl-
edge and consent, is devoted to ex-
traneous matters boosting his present
campaign for a third presidential term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

An English physician of considerable
reputation expresses the opinion that
there will be more lunatics in the world
than sane people three hundred years
hence. There are many people, though,
and not without some reason, who be-
Iieve that such a condition prevails
nov
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

In view of the fact that the summer
season is still on the boards, it is no
more than reasonable that the cold
wave, which was predicted to arrive
recently by the weather man, should
have been sidetracked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Material reductions in rates are
likely to be made by the express COM
panies soon after January 1. That's
the date when the new parcels post
law goes into effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Men harp at women for being slaves
to fashion. But there is no custom
more nonsensical than that practiccd
By many men in discarding their straw
1lats on September l, just because a
dictate of fashion so DEGREES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

No wonder the boys are Interested
nowadays in their Sunday school pa
pers. In the current issue of one of
them there is extended and excellent
advice on How to Batu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

II will be sure to strike some folk as
eminently fitting that holdup man
should be plying his trade on the
Rockefeller estate near Tarrytown, n.
Y SO far he has engaged in no less
than thirteen successful robberies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Neither is Mulai Hafid, ex-Sultan Of
Morocco, the only gentleman in the
world who takes his drinks privately
for fear of shocking his brethren did ne
imhibe. stimulants in public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
FROM OTHER PENS
OUR COTTON IN INDIA

India is the second cotton-growing
country in the world, AID yet it i'm
ports vast quantities of raw American
cotton for it's spindles. During the
year of 1911, one hundred million
pounds of American cotton reached the
city of Bombay, which is the chief port
of India. 1t is admitted that this cot
ton is superior to the native-grown
staple but serious complaint is made
at the manner in which Americans
handle their product. The wrapping
and pressing are defective, and the
markings are such that it is almost i'm
possible to identify the bale. If Ameri-
cans were more careful in the way they
put up cotton for transmarine ship
ments they would not only receive A
better price for it, but would find more
people in the market to buy it. India is
admirably equipped to become a cotton
manufacturing country, because labor
there is inexhaustibly plentiful, and the
rate of wages paid is lower than almost
anywhere else outside of China. In n
country where millions are furnishing
and dying of starvation anything that
will keep soul and body together VIII
attract all the laborers necessary
Memphis News Scimitar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

The erstwhile Anna Gould has just
discovered that she has purchased an
other gold brick of considerable proper
tions. It appears that her present hus-
band, Prince" De Sagan, is no prince
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
Eanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Dave Leahy, Governor Stubs and
Attorney General Dawson must look
with envy on the letter writing pro-
clivities of Colonel Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Among the nature takers, a place Of
distinguished honor belongs to the man
who insists that he rode on shark
beck for six miles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

discouraging. though, to have them de-
stroyed by fire or storms almost as fast
as it is possible to build them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
SILOS ARE SAVERS.

This ought to be a great year for
building siIos. After the experiences
of last winter it seems like most ev-
cry farmer in the country would build
silo this year, especially a little to
the west of us. Many farmers who
last year thought they could not pos
sibly afford a silo lost more stock last
winter than W aid pay for three or
four silos and they could have had
the use of the silos for the coming
years. Better begin now to prepare
for the winter, you don't know what
it has in store for this vicinity.-Ster-
ling Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

New York newspapers are comment
ing on a strange object in New York
harbor- 1t is a merchant ship, engaged
in foreign trade, flying an American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Making cand-r is now declared to be
an art. But it is more of an art to be
able to eat it without getting your
fingers sticky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
THE TREASITRE MONTHs

September is nearing. August has
borrowed a few of it's successors days
and we have felt the touch of the first
fall month in advance of it's coming.
September may not be as golden 80
year as in most of the years of the
past. The rains have kept August green
and its dress is to be passed on to its
sister. Green or golden the fall signs
will be here. 1t is not only the leaf
and the blade which tell of the sea-
sons turning. The American poets and
essayiSts, Lowell. Thoreau and all the
others, have written OF autumn as it
appears in the woods and fields and
skies. Appreciation and truth are in
their work. To the average English
man there is little in America that ap-
peaIs. or if it does appeal there is no
response. We wish that Richard JEFF
ferries had lived to come to this coun-
try to see our lowlands, uplands and
forests in the days just after the har-
vest. Nature was nature to him. JEFF
ferries was the greatest of the English
nature essayists, but England did not
know it until America had told her.
He would have done our September
and our Octobers justice. They are
the treasure months Of the American
year.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Perhaps, also, the members went so
far as to review the well known in
Hon. Noah drew to pairs and got a
full house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

The New York Literary club raided
recently by the police, was ian institution
which fostered extensive research into
literary affairs. The classics of E1oyle
and Bourdan may have occupied a
major portion of the five foot shelf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

1t is reported that !, majority of the
local hello girls play the piano, but
some subscribers hold that they play
nothing but octaves and three-finger
exercise on the switchboard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

Sammy Woods, the big, whole ouIed
agriculturist who engineered little
killing out near Wellington, died OF
blood poison, thus saving the state the
expense of keeping him in the asylum
until he recovered from his temper
airy insanity