davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
EVENING CHAT
Efficiency i'm shopping.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Are you tired of hearing about the
efficiency movement, that great new
science of doing things in the quickest
and easiest way?
cation for it. As you know, the eff
cheney idea has been applied to house
work, and it has been proved that by
eliminating useless motions, perfect
conditions under which she works,
such as the position of apparatus, the
heights of sinks, tables, ETC., a big
slice of every woman's time and energy
can be saved.
Now if the science of efficiency is
useful in this department of woman's
work, why can't it be APPLIED to 9TH
ers? And in what possible direction
could study of energy and time saw
ing be more valuable than in relation
to shopping?
Are you an efficient shopper?
don't simply mean, do you get what
you go after? But do you get it with
out using an unduly large amount of
time and energy?
1t was after a morning of shopping
which left me astonishingly tired and
out of temper that I began to wonder
if 1 might not use more efficient meth
DDS in this matter.
I went over the ground thoroughly
in my mind and formulated some
rules for more efficient shopping. If
shopping leaves you astonishingly
tired and out of temper, you may be
interested in them.
One should always make out a list,
not only of articles to be shopped for,
but of places to be visited. Twice
during that day 1 went back to a shop
in which 1 had bought one article,
for another. 1t will certainly save
time if, before leaving home, or on
the journey to town, you make out a
list of shops to be visited in the order
of their convenience. Under each
shop write down the articles which
you want to look for there.
If you are going to have several
things to carry, do not try to carry
them separately. 1t is confusing to
try to keep track of them, &c say Moth
ing of the danger Of I"ss-and con-
fusion often tires one more than actual
work. Either have some kind of a
bag or case to carry them in or have
them wrapped up together.
Don't let yourself get too tired.
Five minutes spent in the rest room
just relaxing would double your eff
ficiency for the rest of the forenoon.
Don't let yourself get too hungry.
When you begin to feel confused and
unable to concentrate, get a cup of
chocolate or bouillon and see how
much simpler everything seems.
Be sure to wear comfortable shoes
and a light, small hat.
These are just a few things that 1
feel would make me a more efficient
shopper. They may please you, and
then again, they may not. Even if
they don't, they may start a train of
thought which will bring you some
helpful ideas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
INVESTING IN HEALTH.

About 100000 was spent last year
by fraternal organizations, labor
unions and insurance companies in
special funds for the treatment of their
tuberculous members and policyholders,
according to a statement issued recent
ly by The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
Sanatoria for the care of tuberculous
members of such organizations have
been established by four fraternaI or
ders, The Royal League at Black
Mountain, n. C., the Modern Woodmen
of America at Colorado Springs, the
Independent Order of Foresters at
Rainbow Lake, N. Y, and the Work
mems Circle at Liberty, n. Y. The
Loyal Order of Moose have voted to
erect a sanatorium and the Order of
Owls is considering the project The
Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias
and knights of Columbus have all
voted unfavort,bly against national
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.1


Cold cash has produced many GUTTER.
Even the dead beat is always willing to
pay grudge.
Girls seldom go to the kitchen when
they want to kill time.
The success of the self-made man is due
to self-made opportunities.
Some men never make mistakes sin -
ply because they never do anything
Few of us who are entitled to the
consequences are willing to take them.
The average man would like to get a
divorce from most of his relatives.
How would you like to be compelled to
love yourself as you do your neighbors?
A joke isn't necessarily funny becaure
a woman with dimples and pretty
teeth laughs at it,
When a woman informs her husband
that she has something to say to him ~
means that he is due for a scolding
Babies are always giving women the
laugh when they talk baby talk to them
out the women never seem to catch on.
It's as difficult for some people tn tallS
when they have something to say as ii is
Tor others to keep silent when they have
nothing to talk about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

the fact that 1 intended to live my life
apart from yours. 1t was your vanIry
that sent you south to ask me to marry
you. For long time you had fingered on
the bring of an engagement, loath to re-
nnquish your freedom During that time
L had waited, waited, waited for the
words that it was my right to hear. After
the long waiting and heartache l heard
them-when piqued vanity caused you to
speak them. 1 refused you. When the
coincidence of the two names occurred
sent you that clipping. 1 knew that II
you really loved me you would come to
me- You came and now 1 am glad, Phit1p,
glad to tell you that I love you. And,
Philip, you have the key to the inner
room. The room holds memories which
shall share with you because they are
memories only of you.'-(Copyright. 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
says UNCLE CIV

1t is sad commentary upon the
common sense of humanity that most
of US desire a competence or wealth
for the express purpose of committing
slow suicide. 1t is. ON the whole, very
fortunate for society that only a few
men are not compelled to hustle all
day in order to be sure of eating sup
per. also there is at least one tnlng
more important than the equal Gfstri-
button of wealth. and that is the ap-
proximately equal distribution of work,
with a little reserved for those super
men who have to be continually hump
ing themselves to avoid blowing up
from surplus energy.
OF course the present condition of
things can be vastly improved. That
goes without saying. But it can't be
improved at all by giving the aver
age man all the money that he wants
to spend. 1t could be helped by TAX
ing away from the idler the money
that he does spend and making him
hustle for the good of his stomach
and his immortal soul.
The immense wealth of the plutocrat
may or may not be his by moral right,
but society at large is better off with
the money in his hands than II would
be if the money were in the hands of
the majority of us who envy Old Doodle
bags it's possession. The chances are
that he has still enough virility left
not to sit down and go to seed, as we
would do If We had 1t, and il he naSn I.
it is better for the world that he and
his children, and they only, suffer
from too much ease than that many
others should.
The ordinary man, rich or poor,
doesn't know what to do with wealth.
1t means to us mostly an opportunity
to quit hard work, go to the shelf and
die of moth and rust. 1t means
chance to eat too much bread without
the muscular or mental effort that
brings sweat to the brow and properly
accelerates the action of the digestive
fluids. The wealth that ave desire to
gain without effort means sluggish
minds and muscles, bad livers and
moral decay and the loss of the highest
privilege in the world-that of being
of use. For the object of life is not
ease but Joyful service. The man with
the wealth that we covet knows this.
if he has won his way to riches, and
the chances are that he still keeps busy
whether he is of any particular use or
not.
For the rest of US, what we need is
not the opportunity for idleness but
more joy in the ordinary human C
Invites and a greater desire for ex-
traordinary usefulness. The last thing
in the world that a healthy man, rich
or poor. needs is a chance to live
without work.-(Copyright 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
GFrom the New York Press

IFrom the New York Press
f1ne feathers never made one woman.
but bedraggled ones have unmade mil.
lions.
III mighty hard for a woman to con-
vince herself that the doctor won't tell
some things to some old cat.
When man threatens to his wife that
mes thinking of resigning for being kept
SO late at the office, it's sign she knows
it was the theater.
some men Just naturally play in such
pad luck that when there's a perfectly
sooo olo paby carriage ii will never
match the new baby's complexion
man is pretty nearly hopeless so far
as ever being any use is concerned when
he gets 1t into his head he's got to start
a society for reforming something.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
Improving HuckIeberries.

The suggestion of the department of
agriculture that blueberrieS should be
cultivated, with a view to increasing
their size and their market value as a
fruit crop, is interesting, and not de-
void of promise. though in some re-
spects the popular publications con-
corning it are not definite we
could wish. Blueberries are spoken
of, coupled with the remark that they
are called huckleberries in the south
ern states. apparently with the notion
that the two are identical, which is not
the case. If the name huckleberry is
commonly used in the south. it is as
suredly not confined to nor at all char
acteriStic of that territory, but is of
wide and authentic usage throughout
the country, including New England.
What is more to the point, is that
blueberries and huckleberries are by
their numerous varieties, belong to
the great tribe or family of heaths,
which ranges from the stately rhodo-
dendron to the obscure and almost
funguS-like Indian pipe; but they be-
long to two distinct and separate gem
era. The huckleberry or American
interchangeable former name is a
corruption of the latter through the
intermediate form hurtleberry-is the
Gaylussacia, with several species,
such as the blue tangl or dangleberry
and the dwarf huckleberry. The blue
berry is Vaccinum an extensive gem
us comprising many varieties of blue
berry, the evergreen blueberries of the
south deerberries, farkleberries. and
even cranberries. The true buckle
berries are always black or so deep
blue as to seem black, while blueber-
ries range from palest blue to deepest
indigo and to pure black. Both are
edible but the hlIaherrv IS by far
the commoner. and most of the So
called huckleberries in the market are
really blueberries.
The question of improving this pop
ular wild fruit by cultivation is an in
teresting one, which involves some
anomalies When we consider the de-
velopment of the Rhode Island green
ing and the Northern Spy from the
wild crabapple, and the cultivated
gra pes from the fox grape. and the
similar improvements of strawberries
and blackberries, the possibility of
growing blueberries as big as Con-
cord grapes seems not unreasonable, |
and decidedly enticing. The circum- |
stance is, however, to be observed |
that some of the favorite species seem |
incapable of flourishing anywhere, |
save on the most barren ground, so |
poor and sour that few other plants |
will grow in it. while others are to be |
found only in the richest bottom lands !
and swamps of muck. Whether the /
one 10 inches high and a mass of light |
blue berries. or the other, 10 feet high |
and bending under the weight of clus- /
tering black fruit, is to be the chosen /
subject of culture is not the least i'm
portant consideration--New York J
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

Some real political progress has
been made in Kansas by the action
of the legislature in the adoption of
what is known as the Massachusetts
ballot law. Now for a new primary
law, one in line with the suggestions
made by Governor Hodges in his mes
sage to the legislature. Among other
things in this connection, he wrote:
Members of one party, or of no party,
may and have taken part in the
nomination of the candidates of a
party with which they have never
been affiliated. This is wrong, and
should be remedied by some sort of
registration in which party affiliation
is declared a reasonable time in ad-
vance of the primary"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
KANSAS COAAENT
NoNPARTIsAN JUDICIARY

NONPARTISAN JUDICIARY
There is one provision of Speaker
Browns nonpartisan judiciary bill
which was not clearly presented by
the first reports and which appears to
have great deal of merit 1t is that
the names of candidates for judges
shall be printed upon separate ballots
at the primaries and these shall be
given to voters of all parties when
they apply for ballots, giving all an
opportunity to vote for the nominal
ton or any of the candidates. Then,
when it comes to election, the names
OF the candidates for judges will be
placed in the independent column.
Thus they will not, at any time, ap-
pear as partisan candidates. This may
help some. Perhaps it will. If all
men were patriotic as they should be
1t would help a great deal. But it
viii not eliminate partisanship. Demo-
Gratis will not forget that Jones is a
Democrat just because his politics are
vote, nor will Republicans fail to re-
member that Smith is a Republican
ana that he has done valiant service
for the G. 0. p. And the proposed law
Will give the tricky politician an ad-
vantage. Jones and Smith may both
be good men but here is Brown a can
d1date, Brown is a Democrat, too, he
is very unfit man for judge but he
is one of those mouthy chaps who
take the fancy of many unthinking
voters. He will have a good deal of
strength and the friends of Smith,
realizing that their candidate can
spare good many votes may throw
enough to Brown to defeat Jones, in
order to get a weak man nominated
against Smith. There we have one of
the evils our primary law sought to
avoid.-Leavenwort Times.
THE DISTRICTS MONEY.
When the Sutor bill providing that
funds of school districts should be de-
posted in some bank where interest
would be paid on the amount and that
this interest should go to the district,
came up in the legislature there was
immediate opposition on the part of
the school district treaSurerS who held
that the small amount of interest was
really due them for their trouble. This
idea has familiar ring and the fact
that the amount is small seems to
make little difference in the earnest
ness with which it is made. AS a
matter of fact, the interest on the
school funds belong to the district and
should be used for the betterment of
the school. The treasurer is supposed
to have enough interest in the school
system of his own district to serve in
that capacity without pay and if re-
is necessary it should be a
stated sum, knowledge of which would
be open to the district In the discus
sion on the measure, it was stated
that the interest for a year amounted
to some $40 to $50 and this sum would
provide another month of school in
the average country district.-Salina
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
DAFFYDHS
By q. NoALL-

If the cows browse in the field
where could you and eye brows?
(Wipe that off your chin!O
Has the coffee grounds for divorce
if the tea leaves?
CAS- Dat Abar says: Many are call
ed but few get up.)
If Hans Wagner slammed a high
one to center field should you call him
the Flying" Dutchman2
Il whispered in an ear of corn,
about a cross-eyed needle, who struck
a match right on the nose, and
Giddap, there, Napoleon. It's time to
start for home.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

Evidently the admiral in command
of the Greek fleet is no George Dewey.
He is resting on his oars while the
armies of the Balkan allies capture
the forts protecting the Dardanelles
straits. When this is done he will
weigh anchor, sail into the sea of
Marmora, and be in a position to at
tack Constantinople directly. George
didn't wait for any army to take the
forts guarding the straits leading into
Manila bav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
HUNOR Or THE DIP

Young Popps-Dearest, what did vou,
Iather say when you told him of our en-
sasement? Daphne Sweet-Darling. il was
TOO tunny. He gulped few times. and
then turned to the parrot Polly - said
Judge.
Wen Tommy, what did you think of
Venice "Oh I'll never forget VeniceI"
no doubt You were profoundly Impress
ed What did you see there ?;' "I saw
the little girl who lives across the street
from me back in Oklahoma City.''-Rir-
mtngham Age-Herald.
Teacher-what days of tho vear
most dear to us? You may answer, Willie
WiHle-Christmas an April TO- Teacher
April TO- Why, what happens then? WfIiia
Gee don't you know that's m dav ths
baseball season opens-CleveIand Plain
Dealer. 1A
You ought to try to get into the CON
fidence of your constituents. said he
confidential adviser. II have their co.,
fidence replied the statesman IT told
ought to hold office for more than nna
term and now they are taking me at nv
word.'-W ashington Star. my
Wlilis-Is that new young preacbsr 49,,
hired fresh from college up to date9 c.j,i,s
You bet. He called out the Easter choir
SQUAD s.ll last sunday and has ordered prac-
uce behind closed doors.-Puck
we want you to confess said the CAN
tain tai, of. Of police There's $50 in IT,"
q wan said the New York eIinuan
We already arranged to confess 10 The
magazines at that much per Chapter
IoWnsman-fes sir. we're aiming to
have the best fire department in these
parts, reckon. Stranger-What's the
latesty ToWnsman-We're Roin, 70 ,,,aL-o
EN- practice two days before each fire, By
Mrs; Brown-Smith-They must be very
happily married Mrs. Jones-RobinsonZ
why DO you think so? Mrs Brown-Snnith
on, they see so little of each other
Money won't do everything what
now for instance?' TT won't kaay, g. 49,
who has made up her mind to ot,,t -"
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a good reason is useless as a
valid excuse.
+ 4 +
Most men have too exalted ideas of
the value of their own opinions.
+ + j
People who are punctua1 usually
are forced to waste a lot of time.
= + j.
It's pretty hard work to convince q
man who gets a lot of them that every
knock is a. boost.
+ : J
Another evidence of the pessimists'
weakness is that they make much
more noise than the optimists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
from OTHER PENS
REvIvING THE SPELLING PEE

REVIVING THE. SPELLING BEE.
The old-fashioned spelling bee. in
which our grandfathers and, more es-
pecially, our grandmothers, found real
delight, has been revived. Curiouslv
enough, it is in Chicago, a city which
never displayed. any particular desire
TO be considered old-fashioned that
the revival has taken place. Spelling
bees are to be held twice a week in
the Chicago social centers and are to
De conducted under the direct patron
age of the mayor, judges and other
citizens who have won distinction in
various ways, if not as orthosraphi-
cal experts. In the old days the
spelling bee had a double mission,
which it fulfilled admira bly,. It's f1nc-
lions were at once educative and So
cial, it brought the people of a COM
munity together and entertained
them. Incidentally it encouraged
them to become good spoilers if only
as matter of pride. If the spelling
bee can again be made live wire
social factor, undoubtedly success will
attend it's revival. But right here is
the trouble. We have departed very
far from the social simplicity of the
old days. Even in the rural COM
munities the people have found other
ways of amusing themselves 1t is
doubtful if they could extract very
much of the old time pleasure from
the spectacle of some poor fellow
syllable puzzler. And if country peo-
pie, whose opportunities for enter
ta1nment are necessarily limited no
longer care for the spelling bee how
in the world is it going to be made a
serious rival of the motion picture
house or the dance hall of the city?
Cincinnati Times-Star.
WAYS OF THE GREAT
1t is the bad habit of an increasing
number of public men to conduct their
correspondence with other public aeen
slightest consideration to what is due
from one gentleman to another. Such
exhibitions of bad manners are attribut-
able no doubt, in large degree. to the press
itself, but it is due in larger part to a
hankering for publicity which takes no
thought of the ordinary amenities of life.
II a mayor or governor, writing in a
letter to somebody. high low, says
something which the writer believes
should be made public, the least that he
can do is to wait until he knows, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, that the letter has
been received If the recipient of the
communication, replying, desires that his
views, equally valuable from the stand
point of public interest be made public,
he, too, has a personal duty to perform
in restraining his desire for publicity until
the reply that he has written is in the
hands of the man to whom 1T is addressed.
1t is a habit for public men who other
wise sticklers in matters of courtesy
to send manifold copies of their CORE
spondence to the press before the original
is dropped into the mail box 1t Is not
unusual, to say the least, for high Off
Gals furnishing for publication replies to
critics and admiring constituents, to
neglect to send the original or even a
should receive 1t first of all. Perhaps
the Society for the Encouragement of
Good Manners Among Statesmen will
take this matter up.-Boston Traveller
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

And the aeroplane's usefulness as
an engine of war is now threatened
by an invention that has been devel-
oped by a French scientist. 1t is
small apparatus that any soldier can
carry in his knapsack, and is said to
be capable of provoking a sufficient
disturbance in the air to cause any
type of aeroplane to capsize, even if it
is at a height of 5000 feet. But this
is the usual way that the war game
is played by the clever gentlemen who
deal in every conceivable kind of
munitions and agencies for war. For
instance, as soon as the steel workers
produce a brand of armor plate that
will resist the shell from any old kind
of a gun, the ordnance experts get
busy and develop more powerful gun
that will penetrate or smash to pieces
the hitherto invulnerable armor plate
Then the armor plate makers have
another job cut out for them, which
they tackle with a vim. They soon
produce more powerful armor which
relegates existing battleships to the
scrap pile. This sets the cannon
makers again on their toes, and so on
ad infinitum. There is only one I'M
changing detail to the war game. The
common people are taxed daily to pay
the everincreasing bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

Miss Helen Keller, the marvellous
deaf, dumb and blind girl has at least
one important characteristic of the
Socialists, with whom she has Joined
forces. She is fond of sausage and
beer. That was one of the long suits
of Karl Marx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

In some respects, at least, the press
and the pulpit of England have no
more influence with certain class of
people than they have in this country.
Notwithstanding the fact that these
moral guides of London have de-
nounced the raStime dances that have
been imported from the United States
as "barbarous,'' "ungracefur' and
frankly indecent" the leaders of
English society are in the throes of d
craze over these terpischorean revels.
and they have planned to give a big
ball in the future at the Savoy hotel,
which will be exclusively a ragtime
affair. Among the dances scheduled
for this occasion are the Texas Tom
my, the Bunny Hug, the Crocodile
Clutch, the Tango and the Chicken
Flip. For some reason or other, the
Rabbit Run, which is intensely popu-
lar in the political circles of Kansas,
has been omitted from the list.