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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28
says UNCLE CIV

Its the sparkle that gets 'em-
nothing else, son. i The sparkle on the
cover of the nifty little package, the
sparkle of the gilt and tinsel, the
Inc merit. 1 just put the sparkle into
everything / have, and it goes
I had watched the jolly old patent
medicine vendor who sold his worth
less wares from a box as fast as he
could hand them out and make
change. Being somewhat mystified
as to how he managed to dupe so
many apparently Intelligent people, /
asked him bluntly. He took no Of
Tense. Instead, he favored me with a
sparkling smile and in crude but
sparkling words proceeded to explain.
you see," he said, I'VE are all
more or less savages. We never get
over grabbing for bright and pretty
things, and we grab for 'em without
thinking. Now if 1 was smart enough,
might be selling something of real
value from a string of department
stores-if 1 knew just how to give the
sparkle to my advertising as I do to
my spiel, and if / knew enough about
things worth while to make 'em look
attractive. That's all there is to it.
81 got a bad start in life and I'm
making the best of it in getting mine
by the sparkle route. 1t doesn't cost
much to do up this little cure-all of
mine in something that looks like
gold leaf, but that sparkle makes it
go. If I were a real person instead
of a street fakir, I'd lead the life
sparkling and be a politician or d
social lion. A lot of folks who are
walking might be driving in limousines
if they'd only remember to make
their goods sparkle"
All of which sounds a good deal
like the sparkling truth. All of us
are savages grown old, as the race
runs, but savages still. We love gilt
ter and shine. Anything that catches
the light just right robs us of our
judgment. We grab for it, The
fakir and the charlatan know this
truth and upon it have founded their
fortunes. There is no good reason,
however, that this truth should be
thus perverted to base uses. A judi
cious use of the principle can be made
to work wonders in behalf of per-
Sonal success and general progress.
It's worth while to lead the life
sparkling Most of US need a little
polish and few there be who cannot
shine if the polish is applied. Drab
eXiStences are not attractive and
genius clad in rags is seldom recog-
nized. A few more smiles, a little
more sprightliness of manner, con-
versation a trifle more pointed, more
care as to personal appearance, a
keen eye for the appearance of what
you sell, much pains to present your
ideas attractively if you live by
Your brains" All these things enter
into the polishing process that begets
sparkle.
And sparkle wins. 1t wins in the
show widow and it wins in the
human countenance. 1t wins in hard =
| ware and conversation, haberdashery
and professional service. 1t costs
nothing when you get the maitland
! it brings the business.-(Copyrig
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
| dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Is there anything dirtier than dirty
white shoes?
If you write a letter that should be
burned, burn it.
A banquet usually begins late, and al
ways ends that way.
A man isn't a true fan until he learns to
sing the batting averages.
No doubt the dog in the Manager felt
he a great little reforme-.
Some men are SO busy working for a
living that they don't live a great deal.
You are losing interest in life when a
thermometer is able to qualify a pas
time
Time trips past, and that dimple so ad-
mired now will be wrinkle after while.
If you want to take a trip. your estimate
of the expense is apt to be entirely too
low.
We like jolly men. but wish Jude john
son wouldn't spit all over US every time
he laughs.
A jay town is a town where people live
happily and comfortably and try to help
each other.
On.y a few who think the Story of Their
Life would make an interesting book, take
time to write it.
If they could pitch bundles for a silver
cup many able young athletes would take
to the harvest field.
Every boy is somewhat of an anarchist,
which probably is the reason why most
men long to be boys again.
He seldom loves her enough to sit up as
late to write letter to her as he would
IL he were where the letter is headed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28
HUAOR or THE DIR

What did the city doctor tell you about
your complaint" Told me a lot of non
sense. Said was eatin' too much pie. It's
just fool nonsense. Why, I've been eatin,
pie three times a day for twenty-eight
years, and ort to know. Life.
SO he has broken his engagement with
herr? Yep. so hear DO you suppose
he broke it because she has to work fof
a l-ving?" mo; 1 understand that he
brok; it because she thought that having
to work for a living was a disgrace
Houston Post.
Absent-minded Man (whose wife is at
the seashore)-''Let me see. I've given the
cat some SEED, and let the bird out. 4
guess that's all she asked me 10 do
Life.
so their engagement Is on" Yes"
But thought it was case of love at
first sight with them" ut was But IL
seems that she's taken a second look
Detroit Free Press.
Bobby-'Ma, you said that I shouldn't
eat that piece of cake in the pantry-that
1t would make me sick" Mother-"Yes
Bobby Bobby convincingly)-''But ma
it hasn't made me sick."-Puck.
Don't you think peace would be pro-
NOTED if nations could be persuaded tc
talk things over deliberately before going
to war;" Possibly. But sometimes the
more you talk things over the more YOU
find to fight about."-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28

told just as it happened, as nearly as
am able to tell it. And, just be-
cause it is so, 1 want to add just
word in closing:
II spent four of the best years OF
my young life in one of the best nor
mai schools in this or any other coun-
try, trying to learn how to teach
school. My teachers were among the
best men and women 1 have ever
known, and they were all teachers OF
long and wide experience who did
their best with me to help me become
what I greatly wished to be; namely
a first-class tea cher. After they got
through with me 1 taught school and
superintended teachers for many
years; and after that it was my for
tune to travel this country over, Wis
iting schools and seeing hundreds and
thousands of teachers, of all sorts,
sexes and sizes, at work in school
rooms; and 1 am here to state that L
learned more of what 1 firmly be-
lieve to be the fundamental facts re-
garding school-teaching from that
common rat-teacher than l ever
learned elsewhere in all my life! And
i believe that, today, the real reason
why our schools are not doing any
better than they are-why they are
not educating more of the children
they are trying to teach and are paid
for teachings because they fail to
understand and comprehend these
simple pedagogical principles which
this common man simply yet fore
IDLY stated to US boys as We stood
around him, saw him feed his pets
and listened to what he said.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28

Tom Thompson of the Howard Cour-
ant, thinks there would be more di-
vorces if it wasn't so hard to get ali
mony.
Things even up pretty well in this
world after all. argues Mrs. PETER in
her Eureka Herald. What we really
get can be taken as a fair average be-
tween what we feel that we are en-
titled to and the estimate which othe"
folk place on US.
1t is well not to be too free in slap
ping the small boy on the shoulder in
expressing your affection, says the Glen
Elder Sentinel, for the chances are
that he has been at the swimming hole
the last few days and has several good
sized blisters on his back.
AN Address AS Will Be An Address
is the caption the Kansas City Star
puts over the following: Charles S..
Gleed has been chosen to deliver the
memorial address in Lawrence on the
fiftieth anniversary of QuantreIS raid.
Mr.. GIeed, like George r. Peck, makes
a speech seldom, but when he does the
welkin rings, each dropping leaf is lift
ed, Old Glory flaps itself to a fragile
and the little birds are charmed out OF
the trees.
1t may have occurred to you, says the
Atchison Globe, that many of the an
cient adages are obsolete, or at least
ought to be revised along the modern
lines of a 1913 model. Oh, very well
then, here goes: Actions speak louder
than words, but the chautauqua circuit
pays better than a boiler factory. 4.
Never look a gift automobile in the
carburetor; it will break quick enough
anyhow. knowledge is power
if you can keep the other fellow from
finding out. A rolling stone gath
ers no moss. but rolling the people
pays prodigious profits. Early to
bed and early to rise. makes a man
miss what most of them prize. {.
Look not upon the wine when it is
red; remember the colonel uses the
white kind with his meals. Dom
put all your eggs in one cold storage
plant. the arson trust might get it.
Nor in one basket, either, SO we save
the others for another shipment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28

easy, catching hearts in the rebound,
even when they are well seasoned.
The Sunday that Grace walked into
church wearing Mr.. Cope's ring
| mother was happy enough to shout.
| But she kept quiet, merely smiling
condescendingly at the doubters. In
deed, such an era of good feeling set
up, even Ella felt it-and let SilaS
smoke in peace that whole afternoon.
When her gossip, Mary Brown, asked
meaningly, Dye think patchwork'd
look out O. place fer weddin' pres
ent 2" she answered with a smile, It
| think it would be just the thing.
Jimmy-Mr. Cope-loves patchwork.
But you oughter hear him about the
| biscuit-says if Grace couldn't do
nothin' but make 'em she oughter
have crown in this world and a
| harp in the next
rs the day set?" Mary Brown
! asked.
| vows he won't wait no longer'n
Christmas-but can't get back much
| before them
Maybe he'd manage to get back
if he knew about Billy Dorris," Mary
| commented, musingly.
Billy Doris! Grandmother" Ell
la answered severely. Who'd take
up with a lad-boy like him when they
had the chance of a real MANI"
| Who, indeed? Not Grace! She
L
| her biscuit. Yet, when Billy reap
| peared, she was the least bit stiff
\ with him. Indeed, none of the family
| seemed over cordial, on the surface.
But Papa Waldron went to his horse
with him and there whispered beam
| ingly: "Ye've got a great head, Billy.
Hurry up, though! 1 shan't draw a
real easy breath til we've made the
rifle with Maria"
| Billys conscience was not quite
| easy until after he had a heart to
heart talk with Cope. Then he want
ed to whoop and slap himself with
joy. For j. Cope, the iron-clad, who
had agreed-for a consideration-to
make love to Grace, thereby holding
| her in leash until Billy could carry
| off Maria-stuck his hands in his
pockets, shut one eye tight. winked
the other and explained: You keep
your money for a weddin' present to
your own self, little boy. j. Cope has
at last found the heart he sought
also the biscuit. Well make 1t a
double event-and pull it off in great
shape. You didn't know a good
thing when you tasted it-but me
I've cut my eye-teeth. ''-(Copyright.
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28
EVENING CHIT
What Some Things Cost.
EY KVrA CAMERON.

Every good thing in this world must be
bought at good price.
Only nothing may be purchased for
nothing.
Few people stop to realize how much an
exceptionally attractive appearance costs,
not only in money but in many other
ways L was reminded of this the other
wish 1 could wear white as much as you
do. 1t is becoming to me, but 1 simply
can't keep it clean. and cleansing costs so
much. How do you manage to keep so
Spotless?"
The other woman had worn a white
corduroy suit to functions all winter and
usually wears white house gowns in the
afternoon at home although she does her
ep spot White gown which she U was wear
ing the moment and answered, "In tell
you how | can keep things, better than
most people. 1t is because l never have
my mind off my clothes for a minute when
I'm wearing anything like this, l don't
think of other things top. but tina
is a constant undercurrent of thought
with me-"
At that answer "a new light broke upon
me-" as our friend Mrs. Malaprop says:
All al once 1 understood the preoccupied
expression which 1 had so often seen on
that woman's face.
A certain woman buyer. for a big de-
partment store always tries to utter In
her person the last word in coiffing and
gowning. Now, this woman told friend
cover the time she spends in putting on
her clothes and doing her hair. She is so
entirely point device that she really seems
over and beyond all the money and
thought and study which she expends, she
also pays one-eighth of her whole life, or
about one-fifth of her waking time, Tor
her stylish appearance
1t is worth it?
Pretty clothes, attractive coiffing and
good grooming are by no means to be de-
spised. but I think 1t is possible to pay
too high a price for them. We do not like
to pay too high in money for anything;
when we do we feel cheated; think we
should be just as careful how we pay
more than a thing is worth in other cur
rency.
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THE PARADOX

A man I know, and yet know not at all,
Is one who ever stands at beck and call,
Responsive always to my slightest whinI,
No matter what the task 1 set for him.
My friend he would be. yet most truly he
OF all my foes is my worst enemy
A riddle past all solving-loving, warm,
Yet daily in some way he doeth harm,
Control MIN? I have tried with some sue
cess,
Yet often he eludes me, and distress
Incalculable follows in his train,
And leaves me face to face with bitter
pain.
His thoughts know, and yet within his
soul
He carries as it were a mystic scroll
L hat, try how hard may to penetrate
Its meaning clear, / never can translate.
Why this good deed he does, or that of i'll,
The deeds that dull all hope, or haply
thrill
My heart and soul. cannot comprehend
My enemy today; tomorrow, friend
With joy and shame, alternately, through
life
-1e's filled my days with happiness and
My love and hatred form his worldly pelf,
This man know, yet know him not
Myself
John Kendrick Bangs, in Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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ANIMAL STORY WITH A MORAL

In the August American Magazine
appears an interesting article about
Rats by William Hawley Smith. 1t
is a true story of a talk the author
had with wonderful rat trainer. The
author is a teacher and he reports,
in part, as follows, his conversation
with the rat trainer:
Il asked him first how long he had
been in this rat business and he re-
piled: Not so very long init rats;
but always from a boy L can do vat
effer / like NIT animals of all kinds.
For a long time I vas NIT horses and
dogs; but after a vile 1 dink l likes
rats better so I dry EN-, unit L likes
dem better
Where do you get these rats?'
"'Oh, 1 got rats effery blaze l go!
A rat don't last me so VERY long,
And l said: why don't they last
you very long? Do they run away
| from you?'
And he replied: oh. nein! My
| rats, dey neffer runs away. But L
works dem burtty hardt, unit dey vas
crowded burtty CLOSE in der box, unit
1 don't can feed dem very VEIL
| unt-oh, vell holdings lieffs so
very long if you took him away from
we're he perlongs ply nature, yeti!
How long will a rat live?' I in
qpired.
/ dot derpends on we're he is the
man replied. Now, if a rat lieffs ply
| a gorn-grip, unit he don't got caught
| in a trap, or cat don't got him, he
will left fife, seek, ten years-sone
rats dey lief burtty long. But it vas
burtty goot rat will lasdt me seek
| mondths.'
How do you catch them?' I
asked
| Nit my handsr he answered.
Don't they bite you when you
catch them with your hands?' / said.
y;
he responded. Not any animal effer
bites me. Dey know better as dot. all
kinds of DEM
well, how long does it take you
to teach a rat these tricks?' I in
quired.
"''Oh, VEIL he returned. I couldn't
told you dot eggsackly. 1t all der
ponds on der kind of rat vot you
bright rat, I deach him anydings he
can learn in two, dhree days already.
But of 1 got rat vos a tam fool
veil, 1 neffer could deach him nod
dings,
Well, I said. if you get a good
bright rat, can you teach him any
thing you want TOP
"'Oh, nein. nein!' he answered.
Some rats will learn Won dings, unit
some odder rats will learn some odder
dings. Unit dots funny ding apout
dot. You couldn't always told Ply der
looks of rat yust vat he can learn
And then he added: Unit dots
yust der difference between a goot
rat-deacher unit a school-deacher, A
school-deacher. he drinks he can deach
any schild anydings vat he bleases,
but he couldn't do it, Schildern is
yust like rats. Some schildren viii
learn Won ding, unit some odder schil-
dern will learn some odder dings; uni
ven a man vOS good school-deacheI
he will find out first vat a schild car
learn, unit deach him dot dings. unit
not waste his time trying to deaeh
him vat he don't neffer can learn
And now, good people who read
this story, please do not think that IL
is all a made-up yarn, for it is any
thing but that. 1t is a truthful tale
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REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
[From the New YORK Press

-OIrI OIIC
To err is human: also to lie out of it.
The villainous cigar is not always foiled.
The fool is fonder of showing off than
the wise man.
NO, Maude. dear, electricity doesn't come
from current bushes.
Some people never go ahead because
they're never sure they're right.
A pessimist is a man who tells you
that every rose has dozen thorns.
The returned traveller tries to put on
Tugs by speaking of his luggage"
If it wasn't for the chronic kicker things
would become rather monotonous.
One good turn deserves another, but it's
bad turn that generally gets it.
The fellow who boasts of his honesty
generally is regarded with suspicious
The emergencies that we are prepared
for seem to be the ones that never turn
up.
A fellow often wastes lot of time in
counting a girl when he could have had
her from the start.
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FROM A0THER PENS
ON THE RIGHT TRAIL.

The proposition of Congressman
Griest to reduce the cost of small
money orders is a step in the right
direction, although it is only q sug-
gestion of what the government should
do. The fun utility of the postal bank
service will not be developed until il
becomes something more than a saw
ings fund, and is developed, rather.
into a general banking facility for the
people. Postmaster General Burle-
son already is seeking to extend the
efficiency of the postal banks by pro-
viding means for deposits and with
drawals by mail The transfer OF
funds should be made as simple and
inexpensive as possible, giving to the
patron of the postal banks, If not
eventually to everyone, a check ser
vice equivalent to that which is now
afforded anyone capable of maintain
ing an account in the national bank
ing system. This is the natural de-
velopment of the postal bank, with
ample precedent and experience af-
forded by European nations which
have found the postal fiscal service
an important utility, and moreover is
the complement which is necessary to
make the parcel post the agency Of
direct buying which it is expected to
be as a factor in the reform of eco
nomic merchandising. The checking
system of the national banks is a
means of expanding the currency sup
ply of the country, without which
business could not continue. A sys-
tenn of bank checks available for
small users would afford relief in
kind. The postal banks have drawn
from personal accommodations many
millions of dollars which are now
part of the circulating fund of the
country, and it is a fair prediction
that double this amount would be re-
covered and put into circulation were
a system of popular checks, certifi-
Gates of deposits, or money orders,
as they might be termed, available
for general use. A certificate of de-
post in postal savings bank ought
to be the small users bank check,
and as available and as simple and
inexpensive as is the check of q de-
positor in any national bank.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin. -. ..--
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KANSAS CO4MENT
KANSAS CITY,s FIGHT.

Kansas people are watching with
a great deal of interest the fight
which the believers in right and
decency are making in Kansas City
for the restriction of the saloon. In
principle, the fight is the same that
has been made by the temperance
people of Kansas for years with the
exception that the citizens of Mis-
rallied the strength to legislate it out
of business, as have the citizens of
this state. In all other respects the
fight to establish saloons in the resi-
dence districts has all the essential
elements of any fight the Drew
ers have made in the last 80 years to
make the prohibitory law in Kansas
a dead letter. Whether the efforts of
the liquor interests be to re-enter a
territory from which they have been
barred by the best judgment of the
citizens crystallized into law or wheth-
er it be to enlarge their territory IN
a place where they have been granted
certain rights and privileges the same
characteristics are manifest. Unqual-
flied greed is most strikingly charac-
teriStic and 1T matters not on what IT
feeds. In Kansas, the liquor interests
would be satisfied to have a regulated
saloon with proper hours for closing.
with fine revenue for the city and
with iron-clad provision about selling
to minors. THE devil he was sick.
the devil a monk would be; the devil
he got well, the devil a monk was he.'
In Kansas City, where the saloons are
licensed and subjected to some of the
regulations which the 1awabiding
liquor dealers would be only too glad
to comply with in Kansas, they are
not satisfied but are trying to establish
| themselves in the residence districts.
where the temptation will be right at
home, near the schools. where the
children will become accustomed to
the evil and more apt to fall into the
| snare. With these privileges granted.
there would be still greater demands
at the expense of happiness, homes
| and character. The safest plan is the
Kansas plan-giving the boys and
girls the fullest protection from the
nal.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who trusts to luck usual
1y annexes the bad variety.
+
Most people make sure of what the
return will be before they cast bread
upon waters.
D T. j
Few persons can get much conso-
lation out of the fact that they might
be considerably worse off.
= + E
Neither do so many folk need the
advice that all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.
=
AS a matter of fact, love is seldom
too blind to choose poverty instead
of riches If the opportunity is pre-
sented.
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COUNTRY CLUE LIFE.

One of the pleasantest features of
modern summer life is the tendency
to build country clubs in the suburbs
of cities, where golf, tennis, and other
sports are played. The money and
time spent in games that keep ones
muscles active are lot often wasted,
even from the mere pecuniary view
point Many of these clubs maintain
a delightfully."- simple and informal So
cial life But in others the desire for
social parade asserts itself. The mem
bers gather on the piazza in their swell
clothes for bridge and like diversions
that occupy their time in town. Some
of these clubs would seem more fifty
to be named "City club" rather than
Country club" People of course
should do the things that interest
them. But any club for country out
ing purposes would seem to accom-
plish the most when it encourages men
and women to engage in active out
door sports, and to enjoy green grass,
trees, blue sky, and clean air.-Win-
field Courier. I'd