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The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
FALSE SACRIFICES.

In a Kansas farm paper, a farm
woman tells how she reduces expenses.
says the Kansas Industrialist.. This is
her letter:
put up all my fruit and vegetables.
raise 200 or 500 chickens and a flock
of turkeys each year for eggs and
meat, have a big garden and big
potato patch. 1 bought a cream sepa-
rator and am going to pay for 1t my
self out of the cream. Then I am go
make the chickens and turkeys buy
my own and the children's clothes,
and the groceries. Sugar we buy by
the hundred pounds, as it saves a
little.
do all my washing, baking, mend
ing and help in the field to save hired
help. AS soon as my ironing is done
I sort my clothes and mend the ones
that need it before they are put away.
l make my own carpets and rugs.
When 1 want dollar don't have
to so to my husband for it; can go
to my own pocketbook. I have time
to read and visit my neighbors and
also the school. I piece quilts and do
baby stockings out Of larger ones that
are worn out, and my little boy looks
neat in a suit Of his fathers castoffs-
If this woman lives on a farm that
isn't paying expenses. her economy
and sacrifices are to be commended.
If she lives on a farm that supports
gasoline engines, silos, hay rakes, hay
barns, and good dairy cows, her letter
is merely a confession of misdirected
human effort.
Why are farm girls going to the
city? Read this letter for an answer.
Farm girls will keep on going to the
city until farm women hold new ideals
of service. Why should a woman not
in actual need take pride in a days
work over the wash tub, when CO.
| operative laundries are possible? Why
should a woman take pride in prac-
| ticing a false economy that drives her
| children out OF Gods country where
| they were born and where they, by all
right of nature and humanity. belong ?
/ Farmers aren't poor-not a bit of
| it-and there is no reason under the
skies why a farmers wife must
| weave and hoe and scrub her life
away. After the dawn of the new
farm day, that men are writing and
talking SO much about, things will be
different for the woman on the farm.
She'll think less about the expenses
and she will realize that a clear brain
and a back not perpetually tired are
things worth paying for-paying good
yellow crop money. II you please.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

A cat-a ghostly, incomprehensible
animal that thrfves on poison, lodges
bullets, and walks in and out of traps
unscathed-has furnished Chicago with
q mystery which borders on the un-
canny. Each night for the last five
months a malicious and predatory fe-
line has conducted an orgy on the elab-
crate magazine stand in the station
cry store on South Clark street. some-
times alone, sometimes in company
with fellow cats, which It slays and
partially devours. Hundreds Of dollars
In stationery and magazines have been
ruined by the weird animal. and hum
dreds Of attempts to trap, poison or
shoot it have been futile.
The cat has a mania for magazine
covers. It has been heard yowling in
ecstasy, and once 1t was seen by a de-
tective who made 1t his business to
wait for it behind a counter for a
week. He described 1t as a huge white
animal, rolling over and over the mag
azines in a frenzied revel. He would
have shot 1t, too, for he was armed
with high-power gun. but as he was
aiming the weapon an unbearable itch
on his nose distracted him and in a
flash the cat was gone.
A week later the same detective was
rewarded for his vigil by another sight
Of the cat This time he fired three
shots, and the animal reared up and
emitted q strange meow" 1t returned
the next night, however. with a fellow
cat and destroyed the entire upper lay
er Of magazines.
Despairing Of killing 1t In this FASH
ion. poison was tried by the hunters,
hunks OF meat and bits Of catnip heav-
lily sprinkled with deadly drugs and
powders were literally placed on the
magazine stand and other spots in the
[wf< 0n3vnnf M -
meat and sampled most Of the catnip.
And then the cat came back. It tore
a dozen magazines into shreds, spoiled
a dozen more and broke several large
bottles of ink And 1t has been COM
ing back every night or 30 the last
two Chicago Dispatch to the
Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

The demand for foreign-made foot
wear in Shanghai. and. in fact. in all
China. Is limited almost entirely to
Americans and Eueopeano. Only q
limited number of Chinese have adopt
ed the foreign style ~ fooewear, al
though. of course. since the recent rev.
oluti0n. foreign shoes are mere general
ly worn by the nativos than before. A
certain element Of the student and
clerk classes creates tho hxger part of
the native demand. ana slQce, as a gen.
eral rule. their means axU united, they
seek low priced gooal soGardless OF
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

SCHOOL FOR THE HAND-AnNDED.
II like this school because never
could have learned anything. ana I
am more use in the world" This il
the way a girl pupil in the Elemen-
tary School of Cleveland, Ohio. de-
scribss her impressions of the new
kind OF school work. according to a
bulletin just issued by the United
States bureau Of education.
The Elementary. industrial School
was established to give ''hand-mind-
ed boys and girls as good a chance
as the ''language-minded" have al
ways had. Cleveland was one of the
first cities In the United States to
types Of children-those who take to
books and those who do not. In
Cleveland, ~ in most American cities,
about half the children have been
leaving school in the sixth grade.
The Cleveland school authorities saw
that much Of this waste was due to
the attempt to force abstract INTEL
lectual effort on boys and girls whose
interest was in doing things. The
Elementary Inductrial School was
meant to meet this situation. To it
boys and girls were admitted IL they
were over 13 years of age and were
two or more years behind their
grade in school
In this school one-half Of the time
IL devoted to English. mathematics,
geography -history-the two in close
connection-and to hygiene Of q
thoroughly practical character. The
remaining periods are given to man
ual and Industrial work. including.
shop work. to domestic economy and
gymnasium practice. A poll of the
pupils showed that with the girls
cooking and sewing were favorite
subjects: with the boys. mechanical
drawing and woodworking. In other
schools Of the same type which it is
proposed to have in Cleveland. it is
probable that the course will be ex-
tended to include a year or more of
definitely vocational or trade school
work, in preparation for specific en-
ployment.
The school has been successful,
even in the face Of adverse condi-
tions. The enrolment has doubled in
the past four years. Pupils who had
long since lost interest in school work
of any kind, some to the extent Of be-
ing known as "dullards and incor-
rigibles." have become eager and
alert, not only in the hand subjects,
but in the academic work as well.
In speaking Of the Cleveland work,
Prof. w. N. Hailmann, author of the
bureaus bulletin. says: THE ordin-
ary school was born among and for
the language-minded. Intellectual
and physical cu1ture-not manual
self-expression and economic insight
was its aim. The industrial worker
was practically excluded from it; he
had no leisure for it, no time to en-
gage in its play. This one-sidedness
still clings to the school. and it is
hard to eradicate.
THE Cleveland Elementary Indus
trial School may not offer the best
general solution, certainly not the
only solution. of the problem; but 1t
does offer a solution that lies in the
right direction, and one which IL at
least a promising beginning"
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
QUAKER NfEDTTATIONs.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Record-1
Whstling girls never crow about IT.
Some men and all dogs should be cur
tailed.
Many a lawyer has different suit for
every day Of the week.
The girl who eteels her heart may defy
anybody else to steal II.
Some fellows strike out for themselves
while others depend on q pinch hitter.
The book agent selling an encyclopedia
never claims to be q man Of few words
The people who kick because they are
kept down in the world should think OF
the coal miners.
''AIrs fair In love-" quoted the Wise
Guy. 7 prefer brunettes myself" added
the Simple Mug.
S'nicus-ssFAsnt heart ne'er won fair
lady" Cynicus-'sNos but i've hearts
have won many jackpot"
Conscience makes towards Of us all. but
don't jump to the conclusion that the
brave man has no conscience.
Even the fellow VINO never dFin1B may
take couple OF swallows whea he orders
redbirds in q restaurant
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
IRON OTHER kENS
THE HIGHEST COST OF LIVING.

THE HIGHEST COST OF LIVING.
The state of Missouri has decided that
travagant a life for the community. SO IT
has placed ban on the use OF base.
having decided aSst basemsne vnH Wss
too expensive. 1t increased the cost of
Living and very much increased the
basement tenements was cheap rent. that
ie. cheaper rent than for a decent habita-
Charged up against basement tenements
was bad sanitation. no light and little air.
with the CONSEQUENT contegion. tubercu-
children. When all these items were added
the bills. for the margin between living
and absolute destitution Of basement
dive. ers was SO narrow that all bills for
OF these misfortunes were paid by organ
lied charities or the public charitable in
state decided that it would be much
cheaper to rear the next generation in
ters than basement tenements: for rno nrener e
homes mean less crime and disease and
ignorance. which in turn means less ex-
poor farms and organized charities. Mis-
souri, may be getting 9 little bit ahead OF
the times: but , her view & about the & e.-
ments and similar evils will some day b
adopted by every business-like municipal
other view of municipal bookkeeping could
ever have been tolerated.-Joiiet Herald.
REALLY A THRILLING TAX.
OF course. there Is kicking against the
income tax. Much of this Is the outcome
of the natural disposition to kick against
anything compulsory: and especially
what one owns. Some cynics would say
spring from the. fact that they tend to
reveal also possible laxities In respect Of
the everyday tax laws. Be that as It
may. 1t strikes the Courant that there are
few genuine objections to the tax that
will come through the wash with anything
left Of them. It is true that there will be
jections lie against any tax law? It ts
true that 1t discriminates. but go does
Fortune. The most serious objection that
We have to offer Is that 1t brings into
customary use the one best emergency
resource of the government for raising
funds. as, for instance. in war. But what
is worth calling attention to Is that 1t is
It brings; True i r sompels els, a,.cadn a csFtsdin
who has anything. to keep account -
should do bookkeeping. But take the tax
itself. Here is q man with an income OF
80 900 a year. II he is sino1e his tax comes
to the great pile Of SO II his income runs
up to $23 900. II single. and $24.00O. If mar
much OF a variation in a $4,000 income Is
the matter OF 400? 1t passes away under
the familiar maxim OF "de m'nimis
when you get up to incomes Of hundreds
of thousands. we venture to assume tnat
nobody Is going to waste much time IN
sympathy for sufferers" involved in such
floods Of money.-Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Things will run along smoothly in
the major league baseball world for
some time. Charles w. Murphy, the
owner of the Chicago Cubs, has left
for an extended tour of Europe.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Another blessing of the drouth is
the bumper turkey crop that has been
produced in Kansas. But then. there
is no rose without its thorn. There is
q shortage in the cranberry crop. How
ever, as far as many persons are con-
cerned there would be plenty of cram
berries to go around II there weren't
any at all.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

An Illinois woman has just won a
$17.40O breach of promise verdict in
Minnesota. Yet some people consider
bank clearings an index Of commercial
activity.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Possibly the success attained by Will
liam F. McCombs in the management
OF the Democratic party as it's national
chairman has given him the courage
to approach the matrimonial arena.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Huerta's latest defiance of Uncle
Sam surely doesn't change the situa-
ton to any considerable extent. He
has been doing the same thing for
many months
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Notwithstanding the smash in the
eye that Tammany received in the
New York City election, it will have
little trouble in keeping the wolf from
the door this winter. The Tiger still
has its paws on most of the state Of
1ices and the state senate.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

An enquirer wants to know wha
girls who wear watches on their wrists
do when it is time to wash dishes. The,
don't do anything.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

George w. Perkins is credited with
having remarked that with the advent
Of Sulzer to its ranks the Progressive
party is no longer a one-man party.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal IL q member Of the
Associated Prers and receives the fun DAY
telegraph report Of that great news NJ
ganixatlon for the exclusive afternoon
0ublication in Topeka
The news 10 received in The State Jodf-
nal building over wires for this sole puf-
posaL
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

It appears that the Prohibition par
ty has been negligent in not adopting
the Brazilian porcupine as its animal
emblem. This beast never takes a
drfuk
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Perhaps. in emptying his desk, Gov
ernor Foss will come across that left
hind foot of a graveyard rabbit which
afforded him so much satisfaction a
short time ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Professor Munsterberg says women
do not change their minds. Evidently
the professor never saw the exchange
desk of a dry goods store.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

President Wilson might appeal to
the life insurance companies for ac-
ton calculated to bring those 5000
Americans home from Mexico.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Harry Thaw's case threatens to in
wade the first page again. Can't one
OF the states start another impeach-
ment trial?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

General Felix Diaz gave as his ex-
cuse for not going to Mexico City that
his wife was ILL Why doesn't he fess
up that 1t was he who was i'll?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

japan is receiving heavy shipment
OF wheat. What Interpretation doe
Captain Hobson place upon that.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Chauncey M. Depew says the Ameri-
can girl is not SO pretty now as she
was fifty years ago. And Mr.. Depew's
beauty seems to have faded somewhat
during that time also.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
AGES OF USEFULNESS.

Recent statements charged to DR..
Greasy L. Wilbur. chief statistician of
the census department. and afterwards
denied by him to the effect that a man 10
past his prime at 10 years, recalls some
OF the statements made by DR.. Osler.
relative to the age of usefulness of man.
DR.. Osler, 1t will be recalled, has since
found reason to take the wire edge on
the rather sensational classification OF
men according to age. As q matter OF
fact. age has far less to do with q
mans usefulness than his habits Of
life, hts methods OF work and the char
acter of his thoughts. Some men are
as vigorous at Is as many other MEN
are at So Some consider their life work
accomplished at 45 and plan to retire.
dropping into the free and easy habits
OF the man with no occupation to call
him regularly: others at that age have
Just fitted into the place Of greatest
usefulness and look forward to a quar-
ter OF century Of service that will
count for much in the community or
perhaps in the state or nation. Census
OFFICIALS may CLEAN much information
OF value concerning the citizens of the
republic: they may classify men ac-
cording to their occupation, wealth and
nationality; they may determine the
average age at which men retire; but
1t is impossible to fix any hard and fast
rule about the years in which men are
most useful to- the state for in this the
personal equation plays a big part.
Speaking generally. a man is as old as
he feels when he checks in for work in
the morntng.-Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

In these days the most lordly senior
would not disdain being the foot of
the class that can kick a goal from
fie1d
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

Boston is enthusing over the posses
sion of a lobster that weighs q
pounds. This must make the bean
iealoua
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

OF course Huerta is deeply grieved
to think that he will have to keep on
being president.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

IN inc W0BO0s
Hear the German empire bragtfn.'
Kaiser Bill il on the wagon;
He is ON to stay
So dispatches say.
Never more the purple dragon.
Never more the festive flagon,
'Tis passe to get n jag on
In this age and day.
The Diary Of q Bonehead.
The other day, in an unguarded mo-
ment, 1 accepted an invitation to ride
home with an automobile salesman in
a new 1914 car. It was beautiful car
and the ride home Nas pleasant. but
noticed that we were being eyed curl
ously by several gentlemen who passed
US, driving new 1914 cars.
The next morning when I got to my
Office 1 found five automobile statesmen
waiting for me and before the morn
ing was over seven more had called.
Each had stated the merits Of his par
ticular car and asked me and my FAM
lily to go riding.
Automobile gossip travels fast.
When got home found nine new
cars lined up in front Of my house
and nine statesmen whom I had never
seen before were sitting on my front
porch discussing the relative merits
Of their cars. In vain did I tell
them that I didn't want to buy q new
car. I had been seen riding with an
automobile salesman. That was
enough. S
Since then I have ridden in forty
seven cars and my head is SO full of
differentials, self-starters and two
speed axles that cannot attend to the
details of my business. I wake up in
the night talking about transmissions
and spark plugs.
One of those gentlemen Is going to
wish one OF those cars on me before
get through. have nine dates for to-
day and fifteen for tomorrow and there
is no escape. I must buy one to get rid
Of the rest.
Moral: Never go riding with an
automobile salesman. Walking il
cheaper.
Signs Of the Times.
America consumes more sugar than
any other country in the world. A lot
OF Americans are evidently trying to
keep sweet under adverse circumstan-
ces.
women in Sweden have been given
the right to propose marriage. but
can they support the young men in
the manner to which the latter are
accustomed?
Russia will try to curb the revolu-
i tionary spirit by introducing baseball
Anybody who wants to be an umpire
in the Russian league il welcome to the
job.
Baltimore man who had undergone
200 surgical operations Is dead at last.
Perseverance is a great virtue.
| Bryn Mawr is going to develop a
perfect women, but are there that
many perfect men in the country tc
marry them?
J. d. Rockefeller. Jr., tipped . Bos-
ton waiter ten cents. Only the very
rich can get away with that sort OF
stunt.
| Any Mexican who can steal q horse
can claim the title OF general and lead
an insurgent army.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10

THE FArAL DISEASES.

THE FATAL DISEASES.
The three leading fatal diseases of
Kansas stood nearly even at the last
report from the state board Of health.
Pneumonia led the other two. but only
slightly, while Tuberculosis came soc-
ond, with cancer third. The nrst is
easily durable in ordinary cases. while
the other two arc regarded as incur
able. there being no known remedy for
either. Kansas il going to investigate
cancer, as she has been investigating
tuberculosis. and undertake to flnd out
something about the dread disease. Az
the present time the medical profession
10 absolutely in the dark, and knows
neither cause nor cure for cancer. 1e
Ia such q slow disease that II has baf-
fed the most learned of men, and while
great rewards have been offered for =
remedy, mono certain has ever been
discovered. And every year 1t Increase
its death roll, and becomes q greater
horror to the world. Doctors do net
know even whether 1t Is hereditary.
epidemic. contagious. or how It seixes
upon its victim. They only know that
once 1t is securely established, its tri-
umph il certain, and It IL only q matter
Of time when It claims its victim. In
the matter Of tuberculosis, science has
advanced far enough to tell us how to
prevent the disease, but there 10 no
known way to prevent cancer. The wise
scientists Of today are as ignorant OF
its cause or its cure as were the healero
OF olden time.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-11-10
DY ROY K. NOULT0N.

On the Wagon.
Hear the German empire bragGin.'
Kaiser Bill il on the wagon;
He is ON to stay
So dispatches say.
Never more the purple dragon.
Never more the festive flagon,
'Tis passe to get n jag on
In this age and day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

Chas. r. Kennedp
Will Lecture on
His Great PloI
Author Of 1.-THE Servant in the
House" to Give Dramatic
Reading at "oId First"

The fourth lecture In the "OiA
First" course win be delivered By
Charles Ram Kennedy on Monday
evening at S:16. Mr.. Kennedy VIII
give dramatic reading from his
own plays. He is best known as the
author of that most moving and
Christian drama. .=The Servant IN
the House." which had an extxaor
binary effect in turning the Thoughts
of the public to the essential mean
ing of Christianity. He Is a man Of
wide scholarship, of great intellectual
brilliance, of profound democratic
sympathies.
The people of Newark will remepn-
her that he recited with great ORA
matte effect Walt Whitmans noble
ode on Abraham Lincoln at the yin
yelling of the beautiful statue in
front OF the Court House,
An organ recital under the diree-
ton of Alexander Russell, Mus. b..
A. A. G. o., win precede the lecture
The program Is: l. Grand March
from the Queen OF Sheba," Gounod
2. Peer Gynt Suite; morning, Ase's
Death, Anitra's TRAM, Grieg; 9. (s9
Melody. Hoeclx; CD Andante Canta-
bile, Demarest; (c) Liebestod Iris
tan and Isolde, Wagner. 4. Toccata
from Fifth Symphony. Widor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
Exhibits Drawings
of Old Masters
MicheiangeIo, Raphael and Fa-
nous Artists Represented in
One Hundred Views.

One hundred drawings by the
worlds greatest artists, from the
time of, the Italian and Flemish prin-
ifives adowna TO thes English masters
of the eighteenth century, consti-
tute an unusual exhibition in the X.
Ederheimer Gallery, 366 Fifth ave
nue., New York city. The earliest
example is by Paolo Ucello, of the
fifteenth century, showing warrior
i'm fantastic garb mounted on. a horse
rearing over a fallen foe. Another
work of the fifteenth century is a
pen drawing by Andrea Mantegna of
q Roman warrior leaning on a shield.
A pen drawing. by Hans Memling,
Flemish, fifteenth century, shows the
Virgin and Child. OF the early Ger
man school is a pen drawing by Hans
Baldung Grien. Among the works
of great Italian artists of the renais-
sance there are four drawings by I'll
tian. One is the design for the
Venus of the Uffizi,' o drawing
which once belonged to Sir Thomas
Lawrence. Another, of Jupiter and
Antiope," was study for the ia
nous picture in the Louvre. Other
drawings are by Michelanglo Ra-
phael and Tiepolo. The section
devoted to the seventeenth century
has a fine drawing by Rembrandt,
representing "Diana and Callisto."
There are three drawings by Adrian
van Ostade, two by Van Goyen and
one each by Terborg, Jacob van Ruis-
dael, Solomon van Ruisdael and Ven
develde. OF the Flemish school Of
the seventeenth century are two
drawings by Rubens and three by Van
Dyck. French art Is represented by
drawings by Claude Zorrain, Cabot
n ~ Il ~.
Prudhon and others, and the Eng
fish school by drawings by Gains
borough, with four landscapes; Law
renee and Angelica Kaufman.