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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Into the lives of all of US there seem to
| come certain days when everything,
from morn till noon, from noon till dewy
eve" in more prosaic words, all day long
seems to happen exactly wrong. We go
from one mistake and mishap and frus-
tration to another and evening finds US
at the last. cross and weary and disap-
pointed with our day.
We have an old saying to account for
such days. 1t is, IT must have gotten
out of the wrong side of the bed" /
wonder if there isn't more truth than we
realize in that homely expression. /
we somehow start wrong, and the only
cure is to stop right still and start all
over again-right.
Surely you have noticed that when you
try to walk across dark room if you
don't start just right and collide with
some object. you are sure to lose your
sense of direction and collide with
dozen before you reach your goal. The
only thing to do is to stop, get your bear
ings and your temper, wait minute and
then start again-right.
If l writing the typewriter and
make one mistake, am sure to follow it
up with half a dozen if I go on at the
same place. I have found. and I fancy
other typists must have also discovered,
that the only way to get going right is to
stop a minute, calm down and start again
right.
the key. it is pretty hard to drop or rise
to the right key. The safer, surer way is
to stop go back to the beginning and
start again-right.
Now 1t seems to me that these days
when everything goes dead wrong are
simply times when somehow or other we
have gotten off the key of right living.
out of tune with the universe. and that
it is useless to try to jump back to the
right key. The only sure way to get in
tune again is to stop short, go back to
the beginning and begin again.-right.
You remind me that, owing to the fact
that time has disagreeable prejudice to
turning backwards in its flight for any
one whomsoever. this would be rather
difficult process? Well. [ didn't mean 1t
quite so literally. I just meant to drop
out of the busy hum of life for a few
moments, be by yourself and relax. IL
your time is your own, read some peace
full book for a little while, or go for
solitary walk. At any rate sit still for a
few minutes and just try to get hold or
yourself if you know what that means
and then start out afresh-right. on the
right key in tune with the universe.
If YOU can learn to do this I promise
you that many times when you have
gotten out of bed quite the wrong
side" you shall still overcome that mis-
take and evening shall not find you
cross and weary and disappointed but at
peace with yourself and even very happy
at having conquered failure and snatched
victory from the Jaws of defeat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

An interesting advertisement of CaIlSins
& Holden was recently put out by that
agency
This is an advertising agency. As
such, it has special tendency in the
direction of any media It knows il has
no preferences, and believes it has no
prejudices.
Its job is to sell goods: and to do that
1t uses such avenues of publicity as seem
TO offer the most efficient media for a
gwen selling campaign"
That is a good platform to work on
Many other agencies no doubt work on
similar platform but have never
seen printed anywhere before such a
simple. direct definition of the real frnc-
ton of an advertising agency.
1t is repeated here to show the upward
tendency in every branch of the adver
Using business.
The agency business has been pretty
generally misunderstood. Advertisers
have thought advertising agent was
merely a commission broker who would
buy and sell advertising space upon or
der-just as brokerage house buys and
sells stocks-but change has taken
place in the agency business.
The advertising agency OF today which
is on the job, will not undertake an ad-
vertising campaign unless convinced BE-
forehand that the advertiser will win out
be successful.
It is a modern selling organization
that's what it is and that is what IL must
be. Besides. il must have ability in the
wise selection of media and know how 10
prepare copy that rings true.
The agency that is buster over getting
low rates. making big contracts which
are seldom kept. that cares not a ray
where the advertiser spends his moneF.
long a good fat commission comts
around every months going out of busi-
ness
In its place is coming the agency that
advises clients honestly and works al
ways for the betterment of the business
of the clients well as giving the media
they use a square deal IN rates and fatth-
full performance of contracts.
ITO be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicag. News.1

lFrom the Chicag- News.
A revolution may be the same thing
over again.
No, Alonzo. spot cash isn't always
spotless cash.
The older a woman grows the fewer
adjectives she uses.
Training up a child in the way he
should go is going some.
No man ever does as much today as
he is going to do tomorrow.
Every time man makes a lucky
guess he boasts of his good judg-
ment.
some men think they are getting
worse off.
We som etimes think the fool-kiIler
should be prosecuted for criminal neg
ligence.
An old bachelor is a man who has
never met the one woman he couldn
live without.
In some states, when a man isn't
good for anything else, he is sent to
the legislature.
It's all right for a man to be cool
in the hour of danger-if the GOODNESS
isn't all in his feet.
How a woman enjoys doing some
thing for charity that she thinks
else!
Many a man remains in the bach
eIor class because he is skeptical as
to the ability of a woman to support
him.
A good many people do not believe
Lord gives them what they deserve
instead of what they ask for.
It sometimes happens that a woman
is aim lost as sorry she married GER
tan man as she is glad that she kept
some other woman from getting him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record
The jolly tar never feathers his nest
until he pitches in.
1t is a strange thing. but the sum
mer girl often has a chap on her
hands.
for the villain sometimes makes a big
hit.
Say, pop. what kind of women
make the best wives?" II don't
know, my son. They're still looking
for them
why, John, I'm surprised to find
you in this condition" "Sho am I;
sho am L I thought you we're atsh
your mothers.
Blobbs-"Tm sorry to hear of the
explosion at your house. Was your
know. we haven't found her YETI
Mrs. Newlywed-"I think you are
too mean for anything" Mr.. Newly
wed-''What's up now?" Mrs. Newly
wed-'You used to say you would die
for me and I've just found out that
you haven't any insurance"
Persons who yell the 1oudest for re-
form sometimes need it the most.
Experience may be the best teach
err but common sense makes a post
graduate course unnecessary.
1t is natural for a pillar of the
church to have a marble top, but why
call a bald-headed deacon a man Of
many parts?"
Daughter cried all through the
play" Father--Was it pathetic %
Daughter-"Very. The hateful usher
put ChoHy on one side of the aisle and
me on the other"
Polly You know that
young blade who has been Fostering
me with diamond necklaces and lob
ster suppers for the last month %
Dolly Footlights-'fYawh Polly
PinktigEts-'I got even with him to-
day for fair" Dolly Foot1ights-
How" Polly Pinktights-'I mar
ried him .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
FROM OTHER PENS



1t is a rule with the Pullman company
that even If an upper berth is not taken
II must be made up ready for occupancy.
Inc ioea Is that the occupant of the
lower berth shall not under any circum-
stances get more breathing space than he
mas paid for, though the porter must
perform extra work and the company
must pass stringent rules in order TO shut
OH air Tor which it gets no money.
Imagine manufacturer going to ex-
Pense and trouble TO prevent a Customer
gettlns more benefit out of goods paid for
man was originally bargained for The
Fullnan company sells so much comfort
1t directs that by no chance shall the
traveller get more than that amount of
comfort even If that extra comfort robs
the Pullman company of nothing
me state of Wisconsin passed n law
last year which forbids the Pullman por-
ter making up the upper berths which
are without tenants. The constitutional
ty OF the act is now being tested in the
courts. II the company WINS the Judi
clary, probably for the first time in his
tory, will have defined the amount of air
to which a person under given circunn-
stances shall be limited.-Toledo Blade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
.AYHAWKER JOTS

An observation by Uncle ST in the
Ottawa Republic: You don't have to
take correspondence school lessons in
the art of flattery. Study obituaries.
As the Winfield Courier sizes up the
political situation: The presidential
candidates have now got all their hats
in the ring, but some of them keep
talking through them.
Genius is generally impractical.
Here comes Poet Walt Mason advis-
ing: You might find it a pleasant
change to clean the snow off the
walk with a lawn mower.
Giving bonuses to manufacturers
and buying their kind of product from
foreign makers isn't the kind of
boosting that goes to make towns, in
sists the Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1soR GLOBE.

Maybe you can find it, Mr.. Man, by
cleaning up your desk.
Some pretty good people get on the
wrong side occasionally.
If your enemy does some good decd
he is only grandstanding.
An optimist is one who is willing tc
take a seed catalogues word for it.
Aren't you beginning to pine for the
rich rumble of the circus wagon?
You can't tell how happy a bride
will be from the price of her trous-
sean.
A course in photography should be
included in sign-painter's appren-
ticeship.
Nearly every orator feels important
enough to think his speech should be
printed in full.
Anyhow, a late spring delays house
cleaning. No use trying to keep or
optimism down.
Efforts to place the blame for the
high cost of living don't do much To-
ward reducing it.
Hospitality is delightful. besides be-
ing a successful means of keeping some
people poor.
To one trying to sleep, the most gem
tie noise may sound like a disturbance
of the peace.
Sometimes the price of peace is high
but it's often worth it when paid in
the form of alimony.
Missionaries are a peaceful people,
but there is no denying they make a
good deal of business for the army
and navy.
It's impossible to pick out, in a gath
ering of great men, those who began
life eating off oil cloth on the kitchen
table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
ny THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

We have been unable to figure out
the answer to the other handle on the
| loving cup. It looks to us like a de-
| vice to assist some dub in grabbing
| it away from the owner while in the
act of taking drink.
Bale Waggener has decided to run
for the senate; it follows that he Will
the panatella shape of cigar will again
become popular in our legislative
halls. Bale Waggener, armed with
nothing but panatella-shaped cigar,
can break the senate rule against
smoking quicker than some persons
could break a ripe egg with an axe.
There may be no such thing as a
baseball trust. but in the past-1ilxe-
wise in our fair burg-we have noted
the next thing to it--a baseball dis
trust; the same appearing late in the
season when the team was on the fritz
and the owner was selling off ali the
players who had a cash value above
SO cents.
In his pictures Hon. Zapata of
Mexico may have posed as patriot,
but he looks more like a hardware
drummer who was endeaVoring to get
all his samples into the picture.
A North Topeka person who thought
ne was a doctor, but was not, was ad-
judged insane But his case was an
exception; large number of persons
suffering from malignant attacks of
the same ailment are still at large.
The poor simps who are slated to
answer booze selling charge before
woman judge and woman jury in
Colorado should take a slant at them
selves in the mirror=and if they
can't make themselves look handsome
they might as well plead guilty.
Down in Nashville a nine-year-o
girl made a public speech for suffrage.
Back up! Your guess is incorrect. 1t
is the girls mother who should be
spanked.
something to worry about even if he
has to take up the report of scientists
that, within a million years, the shape
of the Big Dipper will be changed.
A modest man should choose some
profession other than that of burglary
A Iook-1n at a woman's bed room at
midnight would petrify a modest man.
Not that we believe the Colonel can
make any telling reply to Phil Camp
belIs letter, but we wish he would
try it. We have worn out the only
for liar" we can think of.
Spring is the time of fresh things
Maybe that is the reason everyone has |
a fresh cold. That's the only spring |
visible at this time.
And, speaking of spring, sweet |
spring, Doc Crumbine advocates ex- |
ercise rather than spring tonics, for |
spring ailments. We take it as Docs |
subtle way of endorsing the movement !
to have everyone get out and chase a |
snow shovel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
HUMOR or THE Day

A Fortune Hunter.-Griggs-so Smart IS
| going to remarry his divorced wife J!
| Briggs-Yes, the me-cenary cuss is after
| the alimony he pays her-New York
| Times
| Pirate-Harduppe-I Wigwag hon
est? Borro well-WelI' ne came me around In to
| umbrella I had borrowed from him.
| Philadelphia Record.
lyon look very tired. young man: are
Won overworked?" I'm studying for a
minister. sir well, why in the world
don't you let him study for himself?"-
Yonkers Statesman
The Griffin shocked at the way faith
er treated you. I've ALMOST worshiped
papa but it seems my idol has feet OF
CLAW The suitor-Clay? Concrete. more
likelyl-Boston Transcript
The Caller-Do you need any typewriter
supplies, sir? The Governor-Typewrite
supplies? No. I've only just bought her
a box of choclates.-London Opinion.
was it a very bad play. them" he
dear boy, even the lights went out at
the end of the second act-"-London Tat
tier.
she-why do you want me to take the
morning glory my floral ernblem2 He
Because the morning glory knows when
to shut up.-Baltfmore American.
Crawford wonder what Dorcas want
ed with Christmas tree? He hasn't auv
children Crabshaw-Eis wife insisted on
having one for F1do.-New York Times
rs there anything you can do better
than any one else?" Yes" replied the
small boy. II kin read my own wsfting.''-
TIt-Bits.
Ma am a descendant of a monkey"
asked the little boy. Il don't know" re
piled the mother IT never knew any OF
your fathers folks" The father who
was listening, went out in the coal shed
and kicked the cat through the roof
Kansas city Star.
er-He can read speedometer and write
Theatrical Agent-rve told yer once
] 'avent got nothing for yer, Tragedian
You might refuse me dramatically.
anyhow.-London Opinion
Raleigh flung his garment at Queen
Elizabeth's feet cit is that purple su1ok-
ing jacket that was presented to me-" he
explained--New York Sun.
do you think the aeroplane win ever
be used for smuggling No" replied
the aviator. It's quite enough for a man
to risk his life without taking a chance
on spending it in jail"-W aslinston
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press.I

CF'ron the New York Press.l
In this world spunk gets away with
spirituality.
man thinks he is in love with a girl;
she knows he is,
All girl needs to want to be called
willow is to be as thin as a fence
rail-
The only money most people can keep
ed off on them.
A man will take somebody else's rules
for his religion, but he wants his own
for his smoking.
The biggest nuisance of all is the fel-
low who wants you to do his way the
things you like to do your way.
The only way most people can keep
from spending any money they get is to
lose it
What a man enjoys about late supper
is how his doctor has warned HIM neyeS
to do it.
The more wild oats a man sowed when
he was young the more he forgets in later
years what poor crop it was
Nowadays the only safe way for a mar
ried man to stay late at night working in
the office is to have the telephone out of
order so his wife can't find he isn't there.
first Saleslady-Are you going to marry
the gentleman that comes here every
day. Second Ditto-Nope. IL rather have
without a Job.-Life-
She-I can't cook but we could hire
somebody to do that He-And I can't
make money. but we could hire some
body to do that.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many mems ambitions run in the
direction of making living without
working.
y y
Waiting for ship to come n is also
among the most Improbable of activi-
ties.
n y
And there are not a few people, too,
who worry over such things as where
the pins 60
X y y
If most folk could know the suspi-
cions their dear friends hold concerning
them, they wouldn't be flattered.
" u
OF what does it avail man to get
his shoes shined if he is forced to abide
in a Kingdom of Slush?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Much time of the police in several
cities in this country is devoted to
keeping the peace in the Chinatowns
under their jurisdiction. 1t takes large
numbers of policemen to keep the rival
Chinese societies, known as longs
from warning on each other. In all
likelihood the police would let these
tong wars be fought out to finish.
in the hope that the Chinese mixed up
in them would soon annihilate each
other, were it not for the fact that IN
such warfare, the major portion of the
victims are innocent bystanders.
Thousands of revolver shots are often
fired by Cinnamon when they stage a
tong battle, and the number of killed
and wounded on both sides is more than
likely to be nil. It's the passersby who
get hit every time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
KANSAS CONTENT
CowARDICE rs coMMoN

Don't slam the coward too hard;
perhaps he isn't so different. except
that he took advantage of an oppor-
tunlty TO show it. So he is rather to
be pitied. as you may be some time.
Tor there aren't many exceptions to
the rule that most of us have a streak
OF rabbit somewhere in our red,
Whlte or blue blood. Sometimes, as
IN the case of the coward who quits
under fire. it is pitiful. as we'll as
occasion for considerable contempt on
the part of those who had rather die
than run. Again, it may be only
amusing, as in the case of a two
listed fighter we once knew who used
TO live in some terror for fear a mouse
would run up his pants leg. But in
some form. II is there in most all OF
US and there are only few lucky
ones who never have occasion to show
it.-Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Presumably there's trust of prize
fighters. At any rate all of them, in
ending those prominent ones of the ex-
variety, with the possible exception Of
Jim Jeffries, are boosting the proposed
fight between Johnson and Flynn. They
are insisting it is a fight that the peo-
pie should take seriously and that it
will be we'll worth seeing. In other
words. every effort is being made by
those connected with the prize ring to
separate the sports from their
money. And among the easy marks
the sports rank high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

President Taft's claim to being a
real progressive is well founded. That
is exactly what he is on every impor-
tant question of nationwide scope.
His enemies in the Republican presi-
Dental arena devote nine-tenths of
their talk to the initiative, the refer
endum and the recall, which are state
issues pure and simple. This is no
more than a confession on their part
that they would not have a leg to
stand on if they crossed swords with
President Taft on actual national is
sues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Is Colonel Roosevelt about to change
another attitude that has prevailed
with him for some time? A dispatch
from Oyster Bay says he is going to
open fire soon on "big business" Here
tofore. Colonel Roosevelt has insisted
that there is nothing necessarily
wrong with "big business simply be-
cause it is "bfR''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
probability

In all probability the greatest
weakness of the Republican ''insur-
gent movement is and has. always
been that the leaders of it are OBJ
sessed with the idea that their opin-
ions are the opinions of the people.
The number of Taft delegates that
are being chosen in the states that
the Insurgents claim to have in
their vest pockets ought soon to dis
abuse them of such faEcies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
OAFFYDHS
BY U NOALL.

If steam-plows will the hay-rake?
Come back to the farm, Steve, or
you'll get caught.)
If the cook is the queen of the kitcn-
en- who is the dinner bell?
ooh, hash! But every little bit helps-)
If tomatoes are served undresse1
what does the china-ware?
(Hey boysi Back up. There's no need
to put your feet in the trough.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
And bal Iowa, the state whence nails

And in Iowa, the state whence halls
Senator Cummins, a progressive"
candidate for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, twenty-four of
the thirty-nine counties that have
Republican conventions have decided
on solid Taft delegations to the state
convention which will select the dele
gates to the National convention. Not
long ago, Mr.. Cummins and his friends
were insisting that there wasn't a par
ticle of Taft sentiment in Iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

One of New York's anarchists got
into the clutches of the law the other
day for splitting on an American flag
and trampling it under foot while he
was delivering one of those TRADES for
which the anarchists are famous
That's a perfectly proper procedure.
And while patriotic folk are heaping
opprobrium on this wretch it might
be we'll for them to remember that
many a specimen of the grand old
flag, which has become a little too
frayed to hang out on gala occasions,
is used around the house for a dust
cloth or mop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Andrew Carnegfe's friends in Wall
Street are numerous. Perhaps he con-
tributed to the expenses of RooseveIt's
hunting expedition in Africa. SO that
it could be as extensive as possible
so that there would be all possible
chance for the fu1f1llment of the Wall
Street hope that the lions of Africa,
or one of them. at least would do
their duty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

President Taft is quite right in saying
that one man does not make a multi
tude- A few people, however, seem to
have the idea that seven governors do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Be a bit slow about schemes to re-
form the world, is some advice from
President Taft that all men should put
in their pipes and smoke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
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
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Theatrical Agent-rve told yer once
] 'aven't got nothing for yer, Tragedian
You might refuse me dramatically.
anyhow.-London Opinion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Raleigh flung his garment at Quee
Elizabeth's feet ''It is that purple sTnol
ing jacket that was presented to me- I
explained.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

Knicker-Is Jones we'll educated? Book
er-He can read a speedometer and write
a check.-NeW York Sun.