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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
A WISE SOCIETY," MATRoN.

So many bricks are thrown at the
ultra-fashionables of the land and
those who have gobs of money, made
| or inherited, that it is only fair TO toss
them a posy once in a while when they
show the qualities that deserve such
recognition.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, formerly Tes-
sic Fair, of the old Bonanza regime,
and her nephew, Herman Oelrichs,
should come in for a regular shower
of flowers for the everyday wisdom
and homely virtues they have shown.
A few years ago, when young DEL
richs was nearing the age when boys
take to cigarettes and drinks as a sign
of manliness, Mrs. Vanderbilt played
a clever, womanly trick on him AL
though a member of the Four Hun
bred, she has never been identified
with it's fast set and she looks with
horror upon the idle young boys and
girls who recruit themselves for it by
youthful dissipation. 1t would have
been foolish for her to argue with the
boy in this matter. Womanlike, she
reached him along the line of the least
resistance and the most attraction.
She offered to bet him a cool half
sum of his future fortune en- the prop
osition that he would not smoke or
touch intoxicants of any kind until he
was 81. He snapped her up at once
any son of Herman Oelrichs would
take a bet-and then proceeded to
take measures to win it.
He was no anchorite or recIuse, or
prig or molIycoddle, this young Gel
richs. He went to college and mingled
with the boys like a good democratic
mixer. He was strong in athletics:
trolled a fair tenor in the glee club;
was out for sports of any kind at any
time, and, to his credit, was a good
average student. The boys liked him,
though he never Joined them in sprees;
his teachers liked him, too, ard his
college career was a happy and cred
table one.
The other day he came to his ma
jority and his aunt gladly paid over
the 100000 to him. He has made no
pledges for the future, but a young
fellow of his birth and environment
who shows such a level head and so
much backbone can be trusted to
smoke and drink with discretion,
should he decide to smoke or drink at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
AYHAWKER JOTS

Enthusiasm is a great thing, says
the Haven Journal, but you want to
mix it with lot of common sense.
The Parsons Sun points out that the
sheriff of Montgomery county, opened
the hunting season in Caney by max
ing raids on the Elks, Eagles and Owl
lodges.
"Flagged Train With Shirt is one
of the favorite headlines used by the
editors of several Kansas weeklies
over readers advertising a patent
medicine.
Isn't it a wasteful extravaganza,
asks the Americas Greeting, when a
$3-a-day man takes a half day off to
play croquet? And does it not help add
to the cost of living?
C. c., of the Formoso New Era, has
noticed that it is hard for a rounder
to be on the square; and also that the
word work occurs in the Bible four
times more often than worship
A young Concordia sport engaged
in a crap game with a half-breed
Indian and emerged therefrom with
much carved face, which kept two
physicians busy for the rest Of the
day.
The law recognizes the man as the
head of the family and the boss of the
household declares the Hiawatha
World, but it is particular to add: The
trouble comes in getting his wife to
recognize it.
A BeIo1t merchant adVertiSes new
and old stovepipes, sweet potatoes,
cabbage, crackers, Towering bulbs,
meats and cakes for school children's
lunches. The Jamestown Optimist
calls attention to the fact that he
overlooked knitting needles, SPAWN
cure and celluloid collars.
Bud Slivers got the ear of the To-
ronto Republican the other day and
said: To show that a change of condi-
tons will make a change of opinion.
I have a friend who once very much
admired a young lady of the extreme
blond type. He called her his golden
haired beauty. But she married the
other fellow and now my friend refers
to her as that red headed woman"
Doc Robinson lately found a purse
containing a five dollar bill, relates
the Atchison Globe: He Immediately
traded the bill for five silver dollars,
and then returned the purse and all of
the money to the owner, whose card
was in the purse. doc, you have
proven yourself an honest man, but
how does it come there are five silver
dollars in my purse instead of five
dollar bill?" the owner asked. TITS
an easy matter to explain. 1 merely
changed the BILL" said Doc, as he took
a fresh chew, 80 that you could pay
me a reward"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
EVENING CHAT
q RUTM CA1GNRoN.

A sp1endidly progressive and alert
young woman was telling her friends
about a summer course in architecture
which she had been taking.
How 1 wish 1 had time for some
thing like that" sighed one of her
| listeners. I've always been simply
| crazy about landscape gardening, and
last spring 1 thought perhaps I'd take
a course in it, but simply couldn't
| find the time"
Now this lover of landscape garden
ing is also a lover of embroidery. She
was wearing at the moment a wonder
full lingerie gown fairly shattered with
the most exquisite and intricate en-
broidery. She made it herself. She
has more deliberately embroidered
waists, gowns, lingerie and accessor-
| les in her wardrobe than any girl I
ever knew. And she does all the work
herself. And yet she could not find
the time to take a course of summer
study which would have taken at the
most twelve hours week.
Now please understand that I am
not depreciating the way in which this
feet right to spend it as she chose, and
who shall say that she was not quite
as well occupied in employing her tai
ent for producing exquisite handiwork
as she would have been acquiring a
smattering of information about land
scape gardening. But the point is this
she said she was simply crazy"
about landscape gardening. ques-
ton the sincerity of her insanity. In
other words, if she really wanted to
take that course as much as she
thought she wanted to, she could have
found the time.
What a man wants that will he
get" says Emerson, cor be changed
in the trying"
There is far more everyday truth in
that philosophy than we realize.
Genuine, wholehearted wanting of
anything is a tremendous leverage.
Somehow or other we are likely to
find time for the things we really and
we can't possibly do this or that or
the other, despite the fact that we
want to with all our hearts, we are
likely to be deceiving ourselves.
Desire. if it is strong enough, de-
velops ability. One of the most hap
py-go-lucky, money careless girls 1
ever knew developed after her mar
riage into an ultra-economical house
wife. With the eternal vigilance that
is always the price of household econ
omy she scrimps and saves and con-
trives, and manages to run her house
full change in character the result of
necessity: her husband earns a gen
erous salary. 1t is simply the result
of her desire to have most of the mon
ey for pretty clothes.
When anyone says. 81 have been
longing to come and see you but
simply couldn't find the time I've
been so disappointed" I usually take
the longing and the disappointment
with a grain of salt
Most people get what they want in
this world. even the unselfish ones
who live for others. because unless
that was what they really wanted the
most, they wouldn't be that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
FINANCING THE FARMER.

During the last three or four years
the United states has been losing rank
as an agricultural power, says Current
Literature for November. This year.
whether by the favor of fortune or
the increase of intensive and scientific
methods of farming, or both, Uncle
Sam has harvested prodigious crops.
The cotton crop is estimated at 16 per
cent above the previous maximum, and
the government experts tell of a rec
ord-breaking crop of corn, oats and
spring-sown wheat. The total wheat
crop probably exceeds the yield of
700. oo0, 900 bushels which has been re-
corded only twice before in our history.
Brewing interests should find satisfac-
ton in the barley crop; paint and oil
industries must be encouraged with the
fax report; while abundant forage crops
Gin which the consumer is indirectly
interested), an excellent crop of pota-
toes, fruit, and vegetables. together
with the cereal yields, justify a cheer
full frame of mind not alone in the
business man or railroad manager but
in the people at large.
It is not sufficient. however, to grow
crops; they must be harvested and
financed. OF all great businesses in
America, farming alone has yet to be
put on an adequate basis commercial
ly. Europe, as Myron L. Herrick,
American ambassador to France, ex-
plains, has established banks for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

One doesn't need an extensive vocabul-
airy as much as something to say.
1t is hoped the waiter doesn't grow as
weary of waiting as his patron does.
1t depends on whom one is waiting for,
whether time drags so blamed slowly.
Foresight would be a greater institution
if less of it was devoted to seeing evils
that never will befall.
One reason they catch up is that a man
doesn't mind being chased by woman if
she seems the right sort.
There is always a great deal to rer1em
Der; also, a great deal to forget, and both
of them are difficult processes.
Alb Adkins admits that his children prob
ably have been a great help to him by
making him stick to his job better than
he used tc in the days of single shiftless-
ness.
No boy evangelist ever impressed us
with anything but the notion that he
didn't know what he is talking about.
Sometimes we are inclined to question
whether every victim of foul tragedy is
q member of prominent family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The average fellow who declares
that he would rather be right than
victorious would come nearer the
truth if he admitted that he would
rather be beaten than be right. For
there are few men who have a just
cause, backed by an acquaintance
witt; the gentle art of advertising, who
can't score. The Mulligrubbers' union
60 the contrary Notwithstanding, So
ciety is on the side of the man who
stands at Armageddon. 1t merely
wants to know that there is no error
in his location, and that he hasn't
stolen the livery of the Lord to serve
the devil in. And inasmuch as we are
all asked to take sides, that isn't an
eXorbitant demand.
Some of us who say that we are
standing at Armageddon are merely
standing in our own backwards max
ing faces at the neighbors. Under the
paranoiac delusion that we are fight
ing the battles of righteousness, we
persist in these physiognomicaI ex-
erciseS until they produce ire and a
shower of brickbats; after which we
proclaim ourselves martyrs and say
something about preferring to be right
rather than victorious. But all the
time the police know that we have
erred in assuming that those who do
not agree with us are unregenerate
and fit only for targets.
lie whose cause IS just may nave
trouble with his neighbors, but he isn't
going to have trouble with them all
the time, neither is he going to dis
agree with all of them. Those of us
who are even approximately right
have our champions, providing we do
not 90 about seeking trouble. And
whatever the turn of fate, we have
our occasional victories. The mass
of society rises up to defend the I'M
der dog, provided he is not eternally
swapping at the heels of bigger ca
mines. If the under dogs notion of
things corresponds with the abstract
principles of justice, he finds himself
presently the issue in a neighborhood,
state or national dispute, according to
the importance of the particular prin-
ciple involved and the advertising
abilities of those most intimately con-
cerned.
For Righteousness raises up it's
champions as honey draws flies. There
are those who must go to defeat for
a just cause, but ninety-nine of every
hundred who whine that they would
rather be right than victorious are
likely to be neither.-(Copyrigh 1912
by the Mcclure NeMspaper SYndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05

farmer. If our present tide of pros
perity serves to delay the much
needed reform of our banking facili-
ties for the farmer, the bumper crops
of 1912 will prove a misfortune in dis
guise.
Germany and France, Mr.. nerrick
assures us, have not only taught their
farmers how to make the land yieId
maximum crops. but they also set up
the financial machinery by which the
farmers can borrow cheaply and easily
the money they need to put in opera
ton the processes they are taught. AS
a consequence, France, Germany and
other European countries are now far
in advance of the United States il the
per acre production of foodstuffs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
QUAKER NIFDTT 4TTONs.
IRON the Phtladeiphia RECORD. I

From the Ph1ladelDhla Record.
The woman who powders her nose isn't
so apt to shine in society.
Straw votes don't always show which
way the political wind blows.
In these days of easy divorce it's wise
child that knows its own stepfather.
Most people are known by the company
they keep, especially theatrical managers
One time when a fellow shouldn't try to
keep ahead of the game is when he goes
hunting.
No, Maude, dear: politically speaking
president and a precedent are not
synonymous.
The girl who hates a man to forget her
birthday will live to be grateful to him for
doing It.
wigg-Henpeckke hasn't spoken to his
wife for over year" Wagg-tDoesn't
ike to interrupt her, eh''
The doctor may use hieroglyphics in
writing his prescription, but he takes care
to write his bill so We can understand It
He--sI am afraid you are growing cold.
You used to say you loved every hair on
my head" She-"I still do. but you
haven't as many as you used to have
what must a man dc before he car live
at peace with all the world?" demanded
the exhorter. HE must be dead" came
a voice from the outskirts of the crowd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t is easy enough for a fellow to pro-
pose to girl if she wants him to
do so.
X
Any number of men could well at
ford to be more conservative in the
selection of their socks and ties.
= x
Most of the folk who were vexed
with the heat of last summer will be
wishing for some of it before long.
y n
Considering the material they have
to work with some women do ex-
tremely well in making-over their
husbands.
Doesn't the fact that a human is
equipped with two ears and one mouth
suggest that he should do at least
twice as much listening as talking?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
It own UP.

IT own up
And you are incoming around like
a calf that has lost his mother. Why
haven't you asked the girl plump out,
long ago?''
i've been a-going to, but when 1
get ready to start in she changes the
subject on me. That's the same as
giving me to understand that she
don't want to hear anything on the
subject
''Why?"
Why, because you are an old bach
ana have got the cart before the
morse. Sarah Jane White is ready to
marry you at any time. Fine gal.
sarah is. Make a mighty good wife,
But why don't she let me know
sne loves me?' protested Eben.
because 1T amt her place to until
she Knows your feelings toward her.
sarah Jane is rather of a quiet girl
I believer
Far more than the average
Om! I'm! think we ought to startle
ner INTO betraying her emotions. Some
gaIs have to be startled before they are
de .s1 that they love-
Listen, Eben. Listen to a man that's
nad three wives and courted seventeen
gals that he didn't marry
ana the two men put their heads to-
gether and whispered and nodded and
chuckled and shook hands and said it
1t was winter. The next evening Eben
was due to call at the Whites at 8 o'clock
sharp, and before the hands of the clock
reached those figures Mr. and Mrs. White
mad departed for prayer meeting, and
Sarah Jane had the house to herself.
Hurried footsteps and a laundering
knock on the door. 1t was the excited
and hard-breathing cooper who stood on
the steps.
Father! Motherr' gasped the girl.
They are all right
"Then-then-'
"Eben. He's feIlY'
And is dead!' as her hands went up
Mebbe not Mebbe he's only broke
both legs and his two arms. Come along
and seer
Out into the gusty, snowy night she fol-
lowed him without cover for her head or
shoulders, and a block away they found
Eben Schermerhorn in the snow in front
of the cooper shop.
Went up to clean the snow off the
roof and got fall but he's breathing
yet"
Eben was carried to the house, and
as the cooper slipped away the patient
opened his eyes and regained conscious
ness to hear fearful voice waiIing:
'Oh, Eben, live for my sake, because
I love you SOL"
Didn't I tell you sol" chuckled the
cooper next day. Some gals has to be
fed gumdrops and some has to be
startled, and If you ask me which is the
best way I must answer that Dunno
copyright, 1912, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
CHANGING EURoPE's MAP.

An interesting opinion concerning the
effects of the war between the Balkan
states and Turkey is provided by Henry
Clews. the New York banker, in his
current weekly financial review. Re
marking that the financial situation in
this country during the past week Or
so has again been largely dominated
by developments abroad, Mr.. Clews
writes:
1.-The Balkan war completely upset all
expectations. The Turks met with a
series of surprising defeats, the results
of which are sure to lead to important
changes in the map of Europe. There
is now little doubt but that Turkish
rule will disappear forever in the Bal
kans, and that the Christian population
in that part of the world will no longer
be under Mohammedan control
Eventually this will work for more
stable political conditions in that part
of Europe, which for generations has
been a point of serious international
complications. That sacred and indie
Unable thing, 1.-The balance of power in
Europe" has been broken; and. while
the war promises an carly termination
because of the serious defeats admins
limited financial resources ofthe Balkan
States, the final readjustment may re-
quire time and skillful diplomacy. The
most serious possibility of friction lies
between Russia and Austria. Owing to
the reasonable attitude of the latter,
however, latest advices indicate the
chances as being in favor of an AMIGA
able understanding. England is likely
to play an important part in the final
adjustment. Should Russia and Austria
get into difficulties France would prob
ably take sides with Russia. But Eng
land is very friendly with France, and
has to keep in view the peaceful control
of millions Of Mussulmans under her
dominion in India and elsewhere. Ger
man interests also lie in the direction
of peace, for she can i'll afford to pro-
woke the hostility of either France or
Russia, being wholly preoccupied with
profitable industrial development. At
the moment, therefore. the general out
look is for an early termination of the
war, and an adjustment of disturbing
issues on a basis that will promote the
peace of Europe and at least partially
remove an element of serious interna-
tional friction"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TF'rom the Chicago News. ]

I
A menagerie is a beastly affair at best.
The letter "a is one thing that makes
men mean.
TRIES make perfection but perfection is
no triflc.
Those who are slow to wrath should
make fast friends.
The closer YOU get TO some people the
more distant they are
A woman may not know just what she
wants, but she usually gets it.
It's we'll to be up 70 date, but it's foolish
to borrow trouble IL advance.
A girl who is pretty and knows it is apt
to consider herself the whole peach crop
A process for extracting gold and silver
from mining stocks would certainly fill
long felt want.
When dwelling burns down the family
usually manages to save everything ex-
cept the things that were worth saving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
THE TRAIN.

love the fields, where Nurse and I
Can watch the smoking train go by,
Just like a jointed iron snake
And what a noise they let it make!
The smoke sails from its smoke-stack
high,
Like little clouds from out the sky;
1t rattleS quickly up the track,
But never does it rattle back!
I don't suppose a train could cry,
Because it has but one big eye;
Its iron teeth show in its smile
L m sure it's happy all the while.
But still 1 think if it were I,
My nurse would run to it and cry,
Come here, sir, your are a diSgracei
Where did you get that dirty face?
But no ones there-just Nurse and l.
To watch the smoking train go by.
wonder If its Nursie knows
The noise it makes, and where 1t goes?
Harriet Works, in Harper's Magazine
for November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-05
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOALLA

Would Boston have won the pen
nant if it had had New York's Bat
terry?
(Blow your whistle! You're coming
to a crossing.)
If shoemaker happened to annex
two wives would the court order him
to stick to his last?
Gave a cart men)
Would it be all right to call the adj
mission fees to a walking match gait
receipts
(Kiil him quick. He's the boob
that put the eye in eyelet)
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HUNOR or THE DIP

Whats new in the news?' Terrible
scandal at Oldport. It has leaked out
that Mrs Wallaby-Wombat, the society
ser8a5+s e1 1ins ipSTEentaee o. nSE
nal.
1.-The marriage took place in prison" at
to marry you mistake your people.
This was a prominent banker and
militant Observation-Disclosures Her
aid.
Mrs. Peckem-This paper says that 10y
rides" are all the rage in the east. What
in the world is a joy ride? Peckem-1t
must be the kind a married man takes
when he travels alone and rides in the
smoking car.-Chicago News.
The remark "Children should be seen
and not heard" receives no consideration
from the man who regards himself as
"a child of destiny."-Washing Star.
Shelf fashion makes our dresses any
skimpier I really don't know what we
women will do. Hell do; you'll wear the
dresses.-Chicago Post.
my wife and I were disappointed that
we could not attend the opera last even
dashery?" "Oh, it wasn't question OF
clean linen. They failed to deliver the
bills that I had sent to the money-laun-
dry."-Buffalo Express.
The Careful wife-He (frightfully hot)
-Pbewl I'd give 10 marks for a little
shade. She-Thats how you throw your
money Acknowledgements Blaetter.
No Use.-Diner-That man at the round
table gets three times more than I do.
1 shall complain to the manager. Where
is he? waiter-It's the man at the round
table.-Fnegende Blaetter.
All He could Think Of.-FIsherman-
Here comes another dead fish, Pat; the
1fyer's fun Of them. What's the meaning
of IL? Pat-Sure, I cannot tell at all at
all sorr, unless it's this terrible fut and
mouth disease.-Punch.
Looking Forward.-Husband-A once
for all don't talk to me about your first
husband. Wife-All right, dear; wen dis
cuss what sort of a man your successor
is likely to be.--F1iegende Blaetter.