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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
EVENING CHAT
independence in the Home.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Three young matrons were chatting
over their family affairs one day.
Said one of them, "Oh, 1 must tell
you the good news. My mother-in-law
isn't going to live with US this winter
after all. She's going to take an apart
ment with her widowed sister,
isn't that fine?" cried one of the
matrons.
'I'm so glad" said the other.
And then, being. young people with
an unusual sense of humor, they all
began to laugh at,their own frankness.
Il suppose we ought to be ashamed
of ourselves for talking this way" SAID
the young woman who had announced
the good news" But what's the
use? We all feel that way and We
might as well admit it. And I know
it isn't because We dislike our mothers
in-law either. I'm sure mine is dear.
She can't do enough for Us and I'd as
lief have her with us any any one L
know. But oh I'd so much rather not
have any Ole in our little house ex-
cept David and the baby and me. Isn't
it queer? I'm ashamed of myself
sometimes, but I just can't help feel
ing that way.
Do you think this woman had any
thing to be ashamed of? I don't.
She was merely expressing the uni
versal desire for independence of life.
Of course if the mother-in-law had
needed home, it would have been her
duty to give it and give graciously;
and knowing her, / feel sure that she
would have done so. But don't blame
her, nor the other women for being
glad that they could preserve the unity
of the family and their own independ-
ence.
1 believe that every human being, or
group of human beings, should have all
the independence possible without IN
fringing upon the rights and privileges
of others.
I believe that if we all allowed each
other more independence We should be
happier.
For instance. I think children are far
better off when they are allowed Ill
the independence of action compatible
with the rights of the rest of the fam
lily and their own best interests. IF
possible a child should have a room
which belongs entirely to him and be
king within that room. He should be
allowed to arrange it to suit himself
and should be responsible for its con-
dition. The rest of the family should
respect his rights by knocking before
entering.
Again, I think husbands and wives
are far happier together when each al
lows the other large measure of in
dependence. A great deal of unhappi-
ness is caused by assuming that hus-
bands and wives must like exactly the
same things and spend all their leisure
time together. Now two people may
love each other most tenderly and vet
each enjoy certain things which the
other does not. The conventional as
sumption in such cases is that one or
both must be sacrificed to a unity of
interests. Why should any one be sac
rif1ced? Why shouldn't the husband
read and the wife play cards with
their neighbors for an hour or two, if
he likes best to read and she to play
bridge? They viii still have plenty of
time to be together and will probably
enjoy that time much more
Chains are burdensome things even
when they bind US to those we love-
We all enjoy independence and by
that same token we ought to be willing
to give 1t to others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
THE COOPERATIVE KINGDOM.

The bacillus of cooperation, abroad
in the world, has affected nations in
a variety of ways; in some its activity
has been directed chiefly to problems
of distribution, in others triumphantly
applied to financial credit, and in still
others to agriculture, writes John
L. Matthews in Harper's Magazine for
November. In every new country 1t
invades, the social effect differs quite
as markedly as the practical applica-
ton. Denmark and Italy, to select to
countries whose conditions are oppos-
ed and whose methods in a manner
complement each other, have especial
success in production, further manu-
facture, and marketing of the things
which are natively grown: three fields
in which there is usually much waste
and loss from the limitations of the
farmer, not always caused by ignor-
ance or inexperience, but often by &c
onomic factors which are not clearly
understood.
Denmark, using cooperation only
in such manner as to separate all the
interests of the farmer, helping to
maintain his entity, has taken good
care to make her citizens individual
lists on the land and keep them so;
the several forms of society, each pro-
vided for a single detail, are quite diff
ferent from the many-purposed COL
lectiVist association of RaiffeisenS
ideal. Denmark presents today the
unique example of a government
which draws a large part of its sus-
tenance from cooperation. 1t is well
called the Cooperative Kingdom.
The coutry has long been pre-eminent
in dairying, and the Danes have spec
ialized with great success, providing
England with butter, bacon and eggs,
and reaching out toward a greater ex-
port trade. The farmers have also
erected a large cooperative beet-sugar
factory and a considerable number
of cooperative preserving factories.
This entire business, including the
immense yield of root and grain crops
and the export of fine live stock at
fancy prices, is carried on by popu-
lation no larger than that of Chicago,
and in an area two and a half times
the size of New Hampshire. Denmark
has solved her human problem by
means of cooperative mortgage cred
| it and government aid; and. best of
all, she has attacked the most trou-
blesome difficulties between the far
mer and his market with notable sue
cess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
PePiIS of Fasting.

When a wound has been inflicted, the
forces of nature assert themselves at the
site of the hurt and show extraordinary
potentialities of growth and repair. Just
SO, it seems, in fasting. Starvation hurts
the cells of the entire organism. If the
wounds inflicted be not too severe, so that
ing forces are excited and, upon the re-
sumption of feeding, the patient rebounds
INTO helgihtened state Of nutrition; That
who presents in the American Naturalist
for August paper on The Influence OF
Protracted and Intermittent Fasting Upon
Growth But the intermittent or periodic
starvation he finds, results in a condition
detrimental to the organism.
Dr. Morgulis experimental with sala-
manders, starving some of them acutely,
others internationally. and feeding a Ger
We're followed by Observed processes of
ing the weight of food ingested. This ex-
cess weight, of course, was due to ex-
traordinary assimilation of water into the
Already in the eighties Kahan observed
that after seventeen days of inanitio N
per cent? rabbits gained IS per cent in
weight on diet even less sufficient than
state of equilibrium under normal con-
In the case of ten out of eighteen sala-
growth showed excess over the
amount of ingested food, while in the
"onIy about 26 per cent of the food had
gone to the building up of the body sub
stance The gain was at first slow in
the case of the starved amphibians, while
their internal organs We're undergoing
reparation; the remarkable enlargement
of the musculature and of the skeleton
ensued. The body cells become avarl-
cious," acting in very different way
from cases in which the animal is fed
normally or internationally underfed- Dr.
Morgulis thus describes the effect of acute
starvation:
1T may even exhaust the organism for
a time, but SO long as degeneration mas
not set in--degenerative changes appear
generally in the advanced stages of star
vation-inanition may produce an lnVig-
Grating influence upon the organism,
which has its parallel in the embryonlc
growth only. The temporary relief wh1ch
the organs of digestion get may con-
tribute much toward improving their ca
pacity but the resulting regeneration OIL
the organism is a composite effect or the
activity of all its cells The chief reason
for the rehabilitation of the organism ls
in the enhanced need of the cells for
nourishment
The results of these scientific expert
ments confirm the testimony of men VINO
have either voluntarily or involuntarlly
undergone the starving process IL Is
dangerous experiment to make upon nu-
man beings, and its ultimate erect IS not
scientifically known If ever the ex-
pedient of starving should be used N
medicine or dietetics. it should still De
cIassed under the head of heroic renle-
dies-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

The teacher was entertaining the school
commissioners one afternoon.
THAT is one of my brightest pupils -
she said, indicating boy who was seated
at of the desks, intent upon writing;
he is always busy studying while his
companions are wasting their time out at
play NORRIS" she said to the boy s1et
me see what you are writing, please
Nom" replied the boy, Il don't want
to-"
He is a modest boy" explained the
teacher Come, Morris, 1 want to read
it,
Morris reluctantly handed her the pa
per. and she read:
please excuse Morris from school to-
day. he is needed at home."-Harpers
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
HUNOR or THE DIP

Il dunnuh how-come," ruefully unused
shuckless old Brother Soggy. II dess
nach'ly KANT make out bout dis: / owns
eight dogs-keen, able-bodied varmfnts "a
ever yo' seed, sahi-and yit, bless good
ness! KANT keep de wolf fun de do no
way I kin figger?'-Judge.
Twill this income tax make and differ
ence in your affairs?" Yes" replied tho
prominent theatrical star. TT Will ne
something dire If / have to make good fo
mentions in the advertising '-Washing
ton Star.
Briggs-"I hear that old Roxleieh has
made a new will" Griggs-"Yes: his doc.
tor advised a change of heir. "-Boston
Transcript.
Knight of the Road-"I wish I WIZ in
Mexico, Bill" His Squire-''Wot fer?S
Knight of the Road-"Oh, just to get me
transportation back ez an American citi-
zen."-Puck-
Il have a vague yearning for some
thing. murmured the poet "a constant
yearning for something; know not
what" Maybe it's tripe." sugge sted the
any for a long time. Her
aid.
why are you complaining so much
about the high cost of lfving?" Il have
to feed nine Children why, L thought
you had only two children?' ITS true
that / have only two children, but NV
colored cook has seven.'-Birmingha
Age-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
JAYHAWKER JOTy

No wonder the price of ice was higher
this summer. A glacier operating un-
der United States protection slipped
away and went visiting Canada. 1t
has returned home just at time Wnen
we could have spared It,
A most unusual man lives in Cove
county. He presented the editor OF the
Cove County Observation-Disclosures with
big mess of spareribs, but only on
condition that his name be not printed
in the newspaper in connection with
the gift.
There is intense rivalry between
Lyons and Geneseo as to which place
shall have the honor Of producing the
latest beans of the season. The Lyons
Republican set up a claim for this
record by announcing that one of its
fair gardeners picked a fine mess OF
beans from the vines in her garden on
october 10. But the Geneseo Journal
tells of a mere man in it's neighborhood
who picked a mess from his vines on
October % and still had another mess
to pick that the frost had not then
bothered.
An accident insurance story, as told
by Bill Cunningham of Arkansas City.
Not long ago an engineer on the Santa
Fe out of Arkansas City purchased an
accident insurance policy. A few days
afterwards he was out in his yard Civ
ing attention to a hive of bees, which
he had recently purchased. One of tho
bees for some reason, not disclosed, in
jected his singer into that portion Of
the engineers anatomy which might
have warmed a presidential chair, but
didn't. The engineer claimed the in
jury was so painful that he could not
sit down to run his engine, and that It
was impossible for him to run it
standing, and therefore he was dis
abled from following his usual calling.
He made a claim on the insurance
company for disability and within
few days the company forwarded their
check for tn amount claimed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
BY TIE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Magazines are now full of Helpful
Hints for the construction OF lucent
Christmas presents for an expenditure
of only $2.4S.
Judge Lindsay of Denver, refuses to
go on the stage, but from his pictures,
we gather that the stage mas not loSl
much by his refusal. He doesn't look
like he would make much OF an eX-
hibit.
Jack Supp says it is about evenly
divided-that there are about as many
Republicans trying to get out OF the
pen as there are Democrats trying to
get in.
They must dilute the bootleg goods
in Hutchinson with Cow Cr1ck water.
A citizen of that burg froze to death
while filled with it. In Topeka 1t is
blended with suIphuric acid and wood
alcohol, non-freezing liquids, ana a
"souse" could sleep in snow drift
without even catching cold.
The schoolteachers of the state Will
be in our midst next week, and owing,
probably to the fact that ABOUT ~ per
cent of them are girls, the local girls
half-nelson on the available man sup
ply before that time.
Women may live longer than men,
mere conjecture. No one ever secured
the correct ages of a sufficient num-
Der of women to strike reliable aV-
erage.
There are other brands of optimists,
but the choice nut of the bunch is the
man who will buy hair restorer from
a baldheaded druggist.
Susan B. Anthony was campaigning
for womans suffrage in Kansas 40
years ago. The fad went out of style
for a number of years, but came back
stronger than ever Maybe there is
something to the report that hoop
skirts will be worn again.
The Bavarian senate is thinking
seriously of canning the king on the
grounds that he is mad. Mayhap
they think it will put him in good
humor to pull the throne out from I'M
der him.
And the more we consider the mat
ter, the more apparent it becomes that
Senator Stilwen should have taken a
receipt from Sulzer.
Filling Fuller thinks the meat deal
ers are in a conspiracy to make the
Common Pee-pul think they like liver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

her with a queer light in his blue eyes.
Miranda felt peculiarly warmed, even
though her garments were dripping cold
lake water. Your father told me all
about it, He even commissioned me to
fish near you so that might be on hand
when anything like todays events hap
pened. He looked again at Miranda and
this time her eyes dropped.
Papa is very thoughtful she found
voice to tell him.
They had reached the shore and the
man leaped out. He waded first along
side Miranda's boat and felt the dropline.
he Is here all right" he cried out and
held up a great shining fish, land he has
swallowed hook, line and bobberr'
We will go fishing again tomorrow"
exclaimed Miranda from her new found
happiness, that was also the bronze
Apollos.
Tomorrow and the next day and the
next" he added and helped the sun
burned, freckled and no longer tickle
Miranda from her boat--(Copyright, 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
THE NIGHT PATRoL.

THE NIGHT PATROL.
Between the shadows and the stars
All night alone / Keep
My vigil through the silent hours
When other people sleep,
My bullseye buttoned in my coat
My nIght-stfck in my hand,
All ready for the prowling bum
Just aching to be famed
The rain of summer soaks me through,
The snow upon me falls,
But still look for lurking shapes
By stoops and doors and walls.
from dusk to dawn my weary eyes
Must watch and never rest,
Unwinkfng as the silver shield
That glitters my breast.
But while I guard the dreaming town
from dangers of the night,
ring up from tedious hour to hour,
And long to see the light
Know that in a darkened house,
Behind the curtained glass;
Is one who wakes and thinks of me-
And waits to hear me pass.
-Minna Irving, in LeSlie'S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,
TFrom the Chicago News.1


An egotist is an ''I' specialist.
Even the union dentists believe in an
open shop.
It's as hard to make a hero as 1t is easy
to unmake one.
If all men were to get justice, more of
them would be in jail.
After gossip tells all she knows she
gets busy and tells more.
A woman never has much use for man
that she can't teach to be jealous.
Marriage is never failure-but the
contracting parties frequently are
Uneasy lies the head of a bache Ior
There is always danger of his getting
married.
Often the dimple in girls cheek
means a corresponding dent in some
mans heart.
Never size a man up brute because
of the sad look his wife wears He may
be a humorist.
When a bachelor falls in love with a
young widow she can be just as surprised
as if she hadn't pushed him in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the youthful prize winners
fail to repeat.
4 i +
Harmony would be impossible were
it not for the second hddlers.
j. i i
Nor does the mere possession OF
hunting license make man hunter
4 J. +
Every one is more or less concelteo
about the quality of his judgment, US
ually more.
4 + =
There may always be turn in the
long road but countless unfortunates
fail to get that far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

He made him to the likeness of God.
Male and female He created them
The revolt against the order of being
and the blurring of natural and newt
able distinctions by a world-be new
species of women-men and men
women is surely a melancholy sign OF
decadence both intellectual and moral.
The Universe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

Erasmus Hardscrabble, a prosper
Gus farmer, had a hired man. Said
H. M. was of very sleepy DISPOSE
ton, 1t was a habit with him to
sleep. He went to sleep with the
chickens, not exactly with the chick
ems, but at the same time the chick
ems did, and he was wont to lie abed
in the morning scandalously late
sometimes as late as 5 o'clock. Farmer
Hardscrabble had a large rooster
which used to crow Justify at exactly
o'clock every morning.
When he heard the rooster crow the
H. M. would get up.
One day Mr.. Hardscrabble sold the
rooster to a man five miles down the
road and, while the rooster crowded
Justify at o'clock every morning
thereafter, his voice did not reach the
H. NJ. The rooster seemed to be the
only thing that could rouse him from
his slumber. Mr.. Hardscrabble tried
everything else, and let it off three
mornings in succession, but in spite
of this the hired man slept peacefully
on until ten minutes after 8 o'clock
or cen later. This was not to be heard
of, SO Farmer Hardscrabble tried
loading the old musket and shooting
it up the back stairway. This was
without avail and he placed two
pounds of dynamite under a dish pan
and shot it off under the hired mans
bed. This did not have the desired
effect. Nothing but the rooster seemed
to fill the bill and he tried to buy the
rooster back, but the man five miles
down the road refused to SELL
FINALLY Farmer Hardscrapple
thought of a brilliant idea. He bought
a photograph, went to his neighbours
five miles down the road and took a
record of the ROSTERS crow at 5
O'Clock one morning. Thereafter at
o'clock every morning he placed the
rooster record in the phonograph out
in the barn, turned the phonograph
on and the hired man was awakened
as if by magic. The H. M. hasn't lost
a moments work since -. -,
Grandma Whipple, who is beginning to
show her age and is past the ninety-five
mark, is unable to do strenuous work of
anv sort any more. She has just accepted
the position of baggage smasher at the
depot, where her work will be easier than
it has been in several years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

Strangely enough, one lesson of the
Titanic disaster has apparently been
learned by at least one skipper of the
seas. On a warning of icebergs ahead,
the Teutonic on recent trip, was sent
forward by her captain at slow speed
Out of the fog there suddenly doomed
a giant iceberg. The lookout was
working on his job. He sighted 1t,
and the Teutonic was easily swung
clear of it, but missing it by not so
MANY narrow yards. Had the Teutonic
been going at full speed under these
circumstances, a collision would have
been inevitable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

John d. Rockefeller seems to be
getting careless in his old age. He
distributed glittering Lincoln pennies
to the children who attended service
at his Cleveland church on a recent
Sunday. But the news stories on the
subject fail to state whether the dis
tribution was made before or after
the contribution box was passed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
ON TIE SPUR
or The AOMENT
BY ROY X. MOULTON.
His Job.
BY ROY K. MOULTON

Oh, where is Fitzhugh Cecil Gray,
A 1913 graduate,
Who read upon commencement day
A thesis that was simply great?
He told about success in life,
And how to win it right offhand.
He solved financial problems grave
And whooped it up to beat the band.
He juggled mighty fortunes in
The paper that he read that night.
He labeled Poverty a Sim
And set the whole blamed world Alright.
You ask where F'itzhugh is right now.
He's holding down a job that's swell.
He's waiting table, so they say,
For beans in some resort hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

President Wilson announces that
there will be no more nd-grabbing
on the part of Uncle Sam in the Latin
American countries. But suppose
Colonel Roosevelt's cherished ambi-
ton to be president again is gratified.
What will the Wilson dictum amount
to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

Not to be outdone by the courtesy
of Uncle Sam in permitting Mrs.
Pankhurst to stay in this country.
John Bull announces that he has no
intention of deporting Harry Kemp.
And if John will only arrange to keep
Kemp in England permanently, the
greater will be the qualification in this
country. No doubt, England. would
also feel the same in respect to Mrs.
Pankhurst being detained here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

With their experiences of last sum-
mer fresh in mind, the Kansas agri-
culturists in attendance at the Inter
national Dry Farming congress, can
give expert testimony of the disad-
vantageS of one kind of farming of
this VARIETY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
Too Much Sex in Literature.

Literature is oversexed. If we We're
to believe the f1ctionists and the play
wrights, sex is the one morbid, alb
sorbing and exclusive topic of thought
and conversation. 1t is misrepresen-
tation of fact. When God created man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
Signs of the Times.

That peace palace at The Hague cost
Sl,5gO,oOo Some time in the future it will
make dandy military academy.
A photograph is much better than a
regular singer in that one can choke a
monograph off anv time.
Placing fiddle strings the free list is
no particular boon to the common people,
About the most forlorn creature in the
world is a vegetarian's dog.
The husbands of them English suffra-
gets must be able to spend lot of even
ings down at the poolroom while their
wives are out s.nashin' around.
One of the delights of this life is to sting
one of them clever old-fashioned boss
traders on a secondhand oatmobile.
1t seems though the more the horse
goes out of style, the more money it takes
to buy one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30

No, Speaker Champ Clark isn't out
of politics. He lately refused chau-
tauqua lecture engagement and now
has refused to accept a $1,000 govern
ment automobile
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TELEPHONES.
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Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news 6-
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose