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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON

Once upon time a young woman mao
/ unintentionally offended e friend OF herS.
Another friend went to her, told ner nov nov
and urged her to explain matters ana WIN
her friend back
The Young woman refused.
Finally the peacemaker said, But asioe
from ali other considerations Mrs. r. is an
influential woman. She is valuable 10
seWhat do l carer" said the obstinate
one. II am going away from here in
few weeks, and shall probably never see
her again.
She went away. Ten years afterwards
che came back, a widow and penniless, to
earn her living in the town she had never
expected to visit again. And she found
that the position of librarian which she
Hoped to obtain was practically IN the G'ft
of the woman whose friendship she nal
said she would never need.
Yes, she got the position, but only BE-
cause the woman she had antagonized
was one of those rare souls who are Will
ing to pass by the false and tawdry glitter
of vengeance for the real solid gold OF
Self-conQueSt.
great many people who, like this woman.
are careless how they lose or antagonlze
their friends when they think they Will
not need them again.
How selfish and cold hearted and mer-
cenary this is, I don't need to say. But
what I want to point out is that; ethca!
wise to throw away a friend no matter
how far apart you think your paths Will
lie. The Whirl OF circumstances Indl SenuS
us willy nilly, hither and thither, may
bring you close together again in month.
And no matter how uninfluential he
seems some day he may be quite as
necessary to you as the little mouse was
to Aesop's lion.
Besides there is another point of view an
experience of a friend of mine illustrates.
He once applied for admission to a desir-
able club and was promptly blackballed;
and this was the reason His cousin had
once belonged to that club, and just be-
fore his departure to another city had
gotten into trouble with the clubs officers.
Feeling that he wasn't going to be there
any longer, and SO it didn't matter, he
had thoroughly freed his mind to them.
The resulting antagon1sm made trouble
for this cousin of whom he happened u
be very fond.
When you antagonize anyone you start
circles of trouble which reach distant
shores. 1t may be you and it may be
some one else whom you wouldn't injure
for the world who will suffer.
When 1T is necessary to antagonize any
one in order to stand firm for a principle
in which you believe, do so; the conse-
quences will take care of themselves. But
don't do it, it doesn't pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
GLOBE SIGHTS

When a man bets a hat with a woman,
he's giving odds.
Confidence won't help you much unless
you have something to go with it.
When the children are away, Mother Is
lonesome, and gets a little rest.
1t might help a little if the cheer leader
could hear himself as others hear him.
Sympathy is often extended to a woman
when a divorce is what she really needs.
Some people can believe what they want
to, which has advantages and disadvant-
ages.
Work wearies us little; what makes us
tired is to hear a loafer talk about need
ing a rest.
Competition is the life of trade; see how
the Greeks helped the colored bootblacks.
OF late years, fewer statesmen try to
look like Abraham Lincoln, who was good
and homely.
While the world is willing to help a man
reform it can't do much for him If he
won't help himself.
Alb Adkins, who has a wife and three
daughters, feels that the politicians will
pay more attention to him under the suf-
frage system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

and to protherly kindness charity. II
| Peter, 81.
At the close of the weeks work
| memory and conscience are prone to
| meet and smooth the quarrels away.
The jars and jangles of the daily
grind seem so unca1Ied for in the
quiet hours of rest, and we wish we
could have recalled so many words
and deeds.
Perhaps this spirit is felt more in
the near approaching Christmas sea-
son. For we are hearing the first
notes of the world wide divine har-
monies in the anthem of Christmas
tide. We are preparing for the one
time in the year, when if ever, all over
the world, every human heart is hui
man."
In proportion to our preparation
will be our attainment of the divine
content. Therefore in the weeks to
come let US be generous and charit-
able. Let us be generous in spirit as
we'll in fact. Let us give credit where
it is due and hope it is due even where
it appears not. Surely, yes, let US stand
for our rights, but in the shortness
and uncertainty of life, let us remem-
Der that few sights or affronts re-
quire notice that vengeance in the long
run reacts on the avenger.
Let us be charitable in spirit as we'll
as in fact. Let us, before, and in
judging others, ask ourselves: What
would I do, under the conditions con-
fronting my brother man, if had his
same ancestry, environment and cir
cumstances?"
Two thousand years ago lived
Christ. This is known, laying aside
all questions concerning His origin.
And we know that His living, and His
dying, has given the world a greater
permanent, progressive uplift toward
the higher and better things, than the
living or dying of any other. This all
fairminded must admit, laying aside
all creeds and contentious, all 'isms
and schisms.
And we know that the Christmas
spirit, the spirit of more blessed to
give than to receive the spirit of toll
Grant generosity and sympathetic
charity, was the characteristic, the
character in fact of that human Divine
whose anniversary we will soon cele-
brate So let us be generous; let us
be charitable; let us try to acquire the
Christmas spirit of the One whose
coming heralded the hope of an ulti-
mate universal recognition of the
world wide brotherhood of man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
THE REPORTER.

Newspaper reporters live in a world
of their own. They do not ask and do
not expect honor and glory outside
their own office. They realize that the
daily reader plunges through their
printed efforts, snorts once or twice
if the article deserves recognition and
passes on to the next column.
Every once in awhile someone
writes something about the reporter
someone who knows the game. 1t
usually is good and usually is appre-
ciated because it is true. The reporter
is not accustomed to written senti-
ments concerning his profession or
calling. The following clipped from
the editorial columns of Golfers, en-
titled 1.-THE Reporter" digs under the
hardened pride of the newspaper man
of the streets:
''Tugged by some centripetal force
to wherever there is a clash Of human
pe.ssions, he is always ON the spot
Unlike his borther. the novelist. who
fashions out of the furnace of his
mind at painstaking intervals some
finely modelled bit of porcelain, the
furnace of this mans soul is always at
full draft Into it is flung day by day
all the infammable stuff of life-the
mixed ingredients of heroism, murder,
revolution, passionate love. And stead
lily, inexorably, it is poured out again,
uncritical of itself, Stag and ore, half
drivel and half literature. The recon-
pense he works for is to have his fell
low workers say Good story. His only
critic is the desk Today, yesterdays
good story is lighting the morning
fire in a thousand tenements. Anonym-
ity, which guards him from self con-
seriousness, stands also mockingly be-
tween him and fame. He snatches his
friendships like his meals, as stokers
must strike up their friendships be-
tween shift when the Mauritania is
out for q record Yet there is no
freemasonry like his. From behind
the scenes he makes the puppets of
the worlds stage dance for US. But
we can suspect his smile, as he sur
veys our antics, to be something be-
tween pity and contempt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
The waste of Arnaments.

The annual return of the naval expendi-
ture of the Great Powers would make a
powerful peace sermon if the figures could
be driven home to every citizen. These
thousand millions are so much taken from
production and devoted to waste They
help to transfer corresponding amount
of labor from productive work to utter
fuulity. And the only return which the
peoples receive is a never-ending success
sion of crises. They cannot get for all
this monstrous sacrifice even the sense
of security. What could the world have
done with the 1000 millions, or we with
our contribution of 1855 millions? frac-
ton of the vast sum would have equip
ped scientific army for the war against
disease. Another fraction would have
built barrier against the economic in
security which always threatens the hap
pinesS of the laboring man. Another frac-
ton would have put education and the
light and sweetness of sound learning
within the reach of all apt for them. They
have gone instead to convert some OF
the best of our minds and hands into a
host of economic parasites and to lodge
among the nations the terror of war and
deStructiOn.-LondonD Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

PUBLIC WELFARE NONSENSE

PUBLIC WELFARE NONSENSE
The idea that Progressives alone
stand for public welfare is nonsense.
Men of all parties wish to see all men
better off. Those who voted the Pro-
gressive ticket on the promise of short
er working hours, better pay, lower
prices of living, pensions for sickness
and old age, prohibition of child labor,
were deceived. Such reforms may only
come by the cooperation of all men
regardless of party and may only be
had through community and state
wide sentiment The nation could not
give such aid to other than United
states employees. Let's see how it
would work in Hiawatha. Suppose all
the employers, farmers, shop and store
owners and all the laborers, workmen,
clerks, would agree on 8 hours work
at 10 hours pay? Could it be done!
would the farmers, the shopkeepers,
restaurant owners, and store owners
ana other employers agree to it? How
many barber shop owners would agree
70 hours? Would the parents wish
the children to be prohibited from la
Dor? Wouldn't more parents favor
scheme to get more labor from their
children? The United States en-
pioyees now have s-hour time and em-
ployees on state work have s-hour
Tune. Many contractors only require
hours work, but the hours of work
and workers. The Progressive party
could only secure such legislation in
each state by majority of voters ia
VorlnS such legislation In this town
the employers and employees could
agree to hours and scale of wages.
VIII they do it? Will they agree to
pay women as much for work as they
pay the men? Some of the men who
voted the Progressive ticket talked as
II they thought the Progressive party
would fix up the program all over
the country If Roosevelt was elected.
IT was foolish idea, but many had It.
They thought the corporations would
De MADE to do what they wouldn't do
pay the cost-pay what they wouldn't
pay. They were deceived by human
welfare promises that they wo1ldn,t
make themselves, although thew ex-
pected others could be made to do
what they wouldn't do. ANY time the
Progressives in Hiawatha want to nut
In practice the reforms for human
Werare they talked so much about
they can count on as many Democrats
ana Republicans to aid in it as they
can muster. One way to acquire short
er hours and better wages and cheaper
HNins is Tor all employees to get to-
sether ana ask employers to agree Il,
shorter hours and better wagesOand
each person can try cheaper Iiyinr,
edcn IN his own way. The farmers,
employers and employees who voted
Tor the Roosevelt public welfare mo-
lions can put in the S-hour pIan ana
raise wages by agreement It is a
me idea. Does any farmer choose IN
WORK rewer hours? Can he and his
nanos work shorter hours and get the
"ork oohe?-Hiawatha World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
QUAKER MEpITATIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
The road to perditioA is never closed for
repairs.
Two things that always surprise a mar
ried man are twins.
No man ever marries a woman because
she is a good conversationalist.
From the point of view of the chronic
borrower, alls we'll that lends we'll
Before beginning to stamp out an evil
the reformer shouldn't forget to wipe his
feet.
The average man will follow the crowd
almost as slavishly as the average woman
will follow the fashions
Blobbs-'-GuZzler says when ne drinks
he can't attend to business, so he's going
to give it up" Slobbs-'' Business2 %
DO you think woman should get
mans wages?" asked the deliver into So
cial problems. My wife gets mine,'' re-
piled Eenreckxe, sadly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
..oH. PUMPKIN PE,n

OOH. PUMPKIN PET"
Oh, pumpkin pieI
Athwart thy face
An hundred fancies may 1 trace!
l see the CLINT of summer sun,
and twilight, when the day is done;
Inc sober peace of musing cows
VINO IN the meadow grasses browse;
me radiant glory of the morn
Ihat sweeps across the nodding corn.
thousand happy fancies start
When thou are nesting near my hearth
Oh, pumpkin pie.
1 hear the breeze
That whispered in the maple trees;
L see the Swaying fields of wheat,
And low across the land at night
1 catch that ballad of delight
The chant the cricket sings in glee,
And summer comes again TO mel
Oh, pumpkin piei Thus doSt thou cast
Thy joyous glamor Ger the pastl
Oh, pumpkin pie!
Within thy breast
These gladstone summer fancies rest,
The golden sunshine and the dew
Have paid their tributes through and
through;
The song the lark trilled in the air
Within thy form is echoed there;
And all these things of joy to me
Were caught and firmly held by thee.
Oh, pumpkin pie! Thanks, for all thou
didstl
1 welcome thee unto my midst!
Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
AYHAWKER JOTS

The exchanges this week all contain
ed an article clipped from London
paper telling how Queen Victoria pro-
posed to Albert, her husband. This is
very appropriate as leap year is draw
ing to a close.
The poor showing made by the Kan
sas university football team is forgot
ten by the people of Lawrence in the
victories of the high school team. They
should play game for the champion
ship of Lawrence.
When it comes to putting the hound
ahead of the hare we give it to the
people of Emporia. The other day they
turned artificial gas into their mains
and now they will have gas whether
the Kansas Natural says so or not.
The editor of the Labor Chronicle of
Leavenworth says: "Messrs. Anthony
and Chapman both received a hatter-
ing vote from their home counties but
both could not be elected" This man
has the wisdom and the reasoning of
Solomon.
The man who died recently at Coun-
Gil Grove and left $1,000 hidden about
the farm where no one has since been
able to find it, has demonstrated that
there are more ways than one to put
your money out of the reach Of your
relatives and lawyers.
The editor of the Everest Enter
prise has missed his calling He
should have been a diplomat. Last
week he had the following to say about
the woman's suffrage: "In the minds
of many it is a fine thing, but few
still hold it is wrong move"
E. ". Moone, the sporting editor of
the Wichita Eagle, has been appointed
to fill out the unexpired term of the
county surveyor After keeping his
eye on the umpire man ought tc
be a good one at surveying. He could
tell whether the land lay foul or fair.
Two women who claimed they were
from Topeka were in Horton the other
day and solicited funds for 1.-The Or
phans' Home for old men and women"
or some other state institution, and
collected about $50 from bunch of
Mexican greasers working on the rail-
road there. Just as they were leaving
town they were arrested and fined half
the amount they collected. Looks like
another case of robbing Peter to pay
Paul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
DAFFYDHS
By o. NoALL.

If the Lone Star state is a great
state is the nutmeg crater?
"a little easy with that brick, Ros-
coe, I'm the boob that tied the can to
candidate.)
If a girl was to be initiated into a
ladies' lodge and the goat was missing
could they take a piece of bread and
butter?
Don't strike, oh, please don't strike
there are three balls and two strikes
now.)
If William Jennings Bryan is father
of the Baltimore convention, is Wood
row Wills-son.
q don't care. CALL cop.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

have the delightful sensation of rush
ing frantically to restaurant at noon.
climbing up on a tottering stool, in
haling whiffs from the cloudy kitchen
and jamming hastily prepared roast
beefs down into his defenseless stom-
ach. He has no thrilling escapes
lodging motor cars, leaping over
street car tenders, ducking under
horses heads and jumping through
elevator gates
Poor, lonely, forsaken. friendless to-
be-pitied farmer. Surely he should
move to the city!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Betty: A diet of lemon juice will
reduce your weight. Live entirely on
lemon juice for one year. If this does
not make you thinner cut out the
lemon Juice.
Lucy NJ: You can make a stylish
coat this fall out Of a horse blanket
and a few tin buttons cut out of
an oyster can.
Householder: If the moths have
eaten the tails off your dress coat
do not repine. You will have Tux
edo. To exterminate moths hit each
moth on the head with a hammer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Unlike second hand furniture, Sec
ond hand wives are priced above the
new.
n
Some people are considered wise By
their utteranceS-but many more by
their silence.
The farmer never is able to figure
out why the city man is able to stay
awake after 9 o'clock.
If women had to shave, evening par
ties would not begin until two hours
later than. they do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
HU4OR or THE Day

Then the wedding was not altogether a
successT' mo; the groom's mother cried
louder than the brides mother II v1se
considered very bad form."-Louisv-iiIe
Courier-JournaL
Doctor-Do you talk in your sleep7 pa
tient-No. talk in other peoples Tn ;.
clergyman.-Stray Stories. IA
It's going to be a hard winter" .sF4ov-
can you tell?'' by the size OF tbe ssIa,rr,
I'm getting. Boston Transcript.
II think a woman ought to mako h.,
clothes match her MEANS 'sI)ear n,ot
Are your means as narrow as thai s',
Baltimore American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Colonel Roosevelt has asserted in a
rather scornful manner that woodro "
Wilson was elected by minority vote.
The colonel would do well to recall
the fact that eleven of the last TWEEN
ty-three presidents have been elected
under the same circumstances. The
eleven are: 1924, Adams; 1914, Polk:
1s4s, Taylor; 1856, Buchanan; 1850,
Lincoln; 1875, Hayes; 1880, Garfield {;
1884. Cleveland; 1883, Harrison; 1892,
Cleveland, and 1912, Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

The farmers of Kansas have decided
to protect the quail, now that the
state has given them the right to keep
all hunters off their land. The quail
have been heralded as the greatest of
all chinch bug exterminators and con-
sumers. The farmers believe the
quail can do more good for the state
killing chirch bugs than furnishing
targets for sportsmen who have plenty
of other things to eat. The farmers
are right. It's a case of farmers
quail versus hunter-chinch bugs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
TFrom the New York Press1

IFrom the New York Press.1
All a man has to do to develop a bad
disposition is to have q family.
Money may get a man into trouble, but
it can also get him out when poverty
can't.
There's nothing harder for a woman to
do than to keep on saying her PRAYERS
when the telephone rings.
When girl is an heiress, it's a sign
she'll never have to fib about how many
men ask her to marry them.
It seems as IL a woman could catch her
death of cold because her husband
wouldn't wear .the right weight under
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Here is little item that might fur
nish evidence in the DR.. Eva Harding
DR.. Loveland leg squabble in Topeka.
1t is taken from the En.poria Gazette
and the city editor is a woman: After
taking a couple of squints at DR..
JEWELS legs from the middle of the
house, one is forced to wonder just how
the eminent teacher gets along in a
high wind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

1t will be a Democratic senate in
Kansas after all. Therefore the para
graph in this column yesterday to the
effect that the one Socialist member
would hold the balance of the senate
power on account of an equal division
or Republicans and Democrats, is
considered invalid. When you start
the fire in the morning you are well
come to use yesterdays editorial page.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Next month the Kansas Good Roads
association meets at independence.
This may not cause as much excitement
as the last statewide convention at In
dependence, but it will mean more to
Kansas. The gospel of good roads can
not be preached too long in this state.
And after the preaching is over it might
be good plan to take up collection
at the legislative halls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Good news from Washburn's law
department-the present quarters are
crowded and more room is needed.
Topeka is the natural center for a law
education in Kansas and the Wash
burn school has been recognized as
one of the best in the west. If the
medical school could be as we'll sup
norfodt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Two Shawnee county commissioners
took their guns along with them when
they went to inspect a bridge-they
were arrested for shooting squirrels
without a hunters license. Hereafter
only the sheriff and his deputies
should carry guns when on duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Kansas lawyers, who are noted for
moving juries with their fearful ap-
peals and their sob producers should
welcome the outlook of women
''veniremen.'' Start a woman on the
sympathy route and her generosity
knows no bounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal Is q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
gan1EAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication IN Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour"
na1 building over wires Tor this sole puF-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

Topeka should be ashamed of her
bank clearing reports published every
week. Ashamed-not because the city
is not making a better showing, but
because several banks are not clear
ing through the local agency. The
reports printed do an injustice to the
city. They are not Indicative of the
business done here and class Topeka
activity far below cities of her size in
this country. The Commercial club
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

The murderers of Rosenthal are CIV
ing the details of the Staying, hoping
for acquittal. They should have
learned to talk plain English without
the Bowery trimmings-it would have
aided their cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

would do a good work in improving
the clearing house system. 1t is in
poor shape.
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The STYLE.

The Style.
Oh how I love the old plush hat
I bought four years ago!
I poke it into some new shape
1t ne'er before did know,
And then it is in vogue again,
Quite swell and up-to-date;
1t is the best investment that
I've CHANGED to make of late,
This year 1 jumped on it a lot
And beat it up a pile.
I let a car run over it,
And loi it's right in style.