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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.

The announcement of the national
child labor committees annual confer
ence. to be held at Jacksonville, Fla,
March 1916. shows as an entirely new
feature Of such a conference a meeting
for children. The national child labor
committee has prepared stories of child
labor in the glass, cotton and coal in
dustries, which will be told by children,
while stereopticon slides are shown. In
the eight annual conferences hereto
fore. there has been no attempt to
interest children who play in the con-
ditions of Children who work, but the
committee says it is coming to realise
the need of including il it's campaign
of education, the little citizens who will
make the child labor laws of the future
This is also the first time that the
national child labor committee has
taken child labor and poverty as the
general topic of it's conference.
The governors of IA states have ap-
pointed delegates to attend the con-
ference.
OF the states which will be thus rep
resented, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Michi-
gan, Arizona and Illinois have already
enacted parts of the uniform child la
Dor law, and in Arkansas and Texas
bills based on the uniform child labor
law are now pending.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
SAYS UNCLE CAV

| The other day the new president,
| who is by way of being a philosopher.
| had something to say about the neces-
sity of preserving TO oneself a service
able brain. In brief, his argument
was that if you want to amount to
anything you've got to keep body and
brain in trim for the highest efficiency.
That's a mechanical conception OF
the body and brain that is distinctly
worth while. Some times in pluming
ourselves over our superiority to the
rest of the animal kingdom, we for
get that before we can be anything
else successfully we have to be good
animals.
Economically considered, the human
body is a more or less inspired flesh
and-blood machine. 1t is highly
complex mechanism with an eccentric
wheel known as free will, which, by
the way, is seldom altogether on the
job Through the brain 1t is OCCASION
ally open to what we Cenominate as
thought as distinguished from instinct,
and what we call inspiration as distin-
guished from running in a groove. But
we are machines Just the same, and
the bigger and more finely balanced
that wheel of free will is, the more care
we need to take of ourselves.
We are wont to forget that you can
get more and better work out of a
machine that is properly treated. Our
teachers of yesterday were fond of
telling us that in our superiority to the
rest of the animal kingdom we were
also superior to the laws of the physi-
cal world. They pointed out genius
housed in a pain-racked body, pictured
consumptive saints and by a general
and thorough dissemination of senti-
mental transformation managed to set
the race back for a few centuries.
We know today that the genius
in a sickly body isn't the genius that
it could have been in a healthy one
and that it quickly burns itself out.
We know that the saint with the
pain-racked nerves would be a more
useful and workable saint If the devil
of distressed flesh wasn't constantly
ripping the stuffing out Of his good
intentions.
We know that you can't get a fair
amount of service out of a poor brain
or weakly body any more than you
can get figs from thistles.
We have also learned the saying
of the old truth about burning the
candle at both ends, which means
staying up late at night and getting
up early in the morning, with a few
dissipations thrown in for good meas
ure.
We are beginning to learn that,
judged from the standpoint of physf-
cal economy, the morning head is no
joke. Proper amounts of work play
ana Steep nave DeCOHle we
no longer believe that the man who
steals the night hours for dissipa-
ton and tries to work all day is
beating the game. We know that the
game is beating him and We know his
destination, which is the boneyard.
Long hours of work are not so fash
ionable as they once were. We have
learned that what counts Is not uuan-
tity but quality. and that the head and
the hands that have time for rest
always exceed in the one and usually
in both.
The moral is to remember the hui
man machine to keep it hoIy.-(Copy-
right. 1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.l

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Spring poets will soon be in blossom.
Yet the Lord may not love a cheerful
giver of advice.
A woman judges letter by the length
of the postscript.
A man can have a high old time with
out investing in an airship.
Even a fur lined overcoat may not pro-
tect an actor from a frost
Many a man has discovered that he can
not borrow money on his popularity.
When some people know their duty they
manage to stave it off by asking advice.
1t is better to pay doctors bills than to
have the undertaken collect his from your
estate.
Before marriage she sits up late with
him; after marriage she may sit up late
without him.
The great trouble with the better half
is that she is seldom satisfied with doing
things by halves.
The man who agrees with everybody is
almost as unpopular as the man who
doesn't agree with anybody
Nature plans well for the needs of hu-
mainly What could be more convenient
than ears to hook spectacles over.
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| tobacco in the cafe had no tickly ef-
| feet and she rejoiced inwardly and
| decided to pay thankful visit to the
doctor who had put the idea OF sing
ing into her head.
Into my life corrected Enid. She
was making fast progress now and
Guido knew that his first pupil had
a voice of successful quality He had
many more pupils since the night
Enid had first sung and warm
friendship lived between pupil ana
teacher. They had succeeded to big
ger cafe and each was saving money
for the concert planned for the near
future.
I'VE will make our debut together"
they laugningly said.
DR.. vane looked up when the swish
of feminine garments nads known
Ends presence in his Office. She
stood silently looking at him and won
dering whether or not he would re-
member her.
Il have come to thank you" Enid
began You are responsible for the
entering into my life of everything
that is beautiful-'
Enid Warner!" The doctors voice
was joyous. You have changed your
identity from a delicate pink rose to
great flaming poppy-you did not
think I had forgotten you, surely?"
His eyes were upon her in the we'll
remembered forceful gaze. There was
that something that had kept her from
coming in to see him and which was
making her heart bound against her
side. The hand he had taken into his
own trembled.
What shall I prescribe for this.
trembling hand?" he asked her and
rejoiced that the girl whose face had
haunted his every waking hour had
gained health and happiness through
him. II want you to tell me all about
the Singing-I mean There must be
lots to tell He looked into her eyes
and added, After that I am going
to make one more command of you"
Enid laughed quickly. The thing
was all so sudden yet somehow not
sudden.
Il obeyed very nicely-the first time"
she told him. "And you see how much
good it has done me-
THAT is why 1 dare to prescribe
further, Enid. May I?' he asked.
Enid nodded.-(Copyright, 1918, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
Poles Once the Eauator2

Camille F1ammarion, the celebrated
astronomer, discussing the statement
that the Scott expedition found evil
dence that the South Pole had twice
been a temperate zone, said:
1.-THE evidence evidently relates to the
discovery of fossils of fauna and flora
such as have already been found in
the arctic regions. These are taken
by one school of theorists as proving
that the poles once occupied the posi-
ton of the equator and enjoyed a
warm climate, while the two opposite
points, now on the equator, were fro
zen poles
''The theory is that the obliquity of
the earth, which, as every one knows
travels around the sun at an angle of
% degrees, is liable to great variation.
Thus from time to time during the
millions of years the earth has existed
the poles have changed from place to
place on the earths surface
but this is only theory and one
which the exact science of astronomy
does not so far support."-New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
HVAOR or THE DIP

Good gracious, What makes you look
like that? Has anything happened ?'
We'll, had my portrait painted recently
by an impressionist and I'm trying to look
like it.''-Fliegender Blatter.
Now that you are wealthy, are YOU
ever bothered by the friends you who
had when you were poor?' II never had
any friends when was poor."-Houston
Post.
Mrs. Styles-Your friends wife evil
IDENTIFY was not around when they were
giving out good looks Mr.. Style-No nv
dear. She was at the other place, where
they were giving out money-Yonkers
Statesman.
Mrs. Wayupp-Then you think they are
really made for each other? Mrs. Blase-
Yes: he turned himself into on Episcopal
ian to catch her and she turned herself
into blonde to catch him.-Town Topics.
He's my ideal and I'm his idol said
the girl. .tAnd your love AFFAIR."" lis
an idyI''1 "And your fiance?' Papa says
he is idle.''-Boston Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
GREAT SHORT STORY NOT DEAD

One of the big ma gazines has just
started in to reprint each month, one
of the short stories that have become
classics. 1t would be interesting to
know just what purpose lies behind
this resurrection, whether it is an ad-
mission on the part OF so eminent
an authority, that it cannot get the
grade of stories it desires and hence
must revive old favorites, whether it
is an attempt to stimulate tagging tai
ent, or whether it puts these evidences
of olden skill by modern craftsmanship
to show the superiority of the present.
In this it would only be adopting the
idea of Bliss Perry, who believes that
the skill of the present-day short story
has gone so far that it cannot be i'm
proved upon At the same time, Pro-
fessor Perry gives the palm to the
cruder earlier stories because they have
a vigor, a directness, a largeness of
emotions which those of the present
cannot compass. Our world is too
smooth, too ironed out, too bloodless
he says. It lacks the pioneer spirit
which opened up new literature as it
did new lands or, rather, there is no
chance for such exploring energy to
assert itself.
No one can dispute Professor Perry's
authority to hold such opinions, though
such admission does not imply approx
ing them. AS editor of the Atlantic
for nine years. he selected short stor-
les with that fineness of taste which is
passed on to the Apostolic Succession
of the Atlantic editorship. There is no
question that his experiences gave him
this unpleasant infexible point of view.
He found great skill, unparalleled, un-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
EVENING CHAT
The Woman Movement.
BIZ RUT2 CAMERON,

" O--->N--
A group of women, old and young, one
day dTifted into a discussion in regard to
how much their husbands told them OF
their business affairs.
OF the four women who represented the
older generation, only one knew exactly
what her husbands income was, and she
was the wife of a man who has always
been noted for his progressive ideas.
OF the five women who represented the
younger school, there was only one who
did not know exactly what her husband s
income was; and she was the wife of a
man whose work is of such a nature that
he does not know that interesting fact
himself.
1t seems to me that the little incident
has a great deal of meaning in it, because
1t SO APPLY illustrates the new position of
woman in the home-or perhaps 1 should
say, the Position of the new woman in
the home.
There was a time when the man who
talked to his wife about his business, told
her his income, and expected her to plan
the proper use of that income with him,
was an exception. Today the man who
does not do these things is the one who
serves to prove the rule.
Even the men who do not approve of
women going into the business and pro-
fessional world, who frown upon the
Woman's Suffrage Movement, and look
none too leniently upon higher education
for women, are not SO dead to the new
spirit in the air as to deny their women
kind at least a voice in the home govern
ment.
1 am thanking of such a man now. He
has always been violent opponent of the
Woman's Right Movement and yet he
confides all his business secrets to his
wife and turns over every cent of his
salary to her Thirty years ago a man of
his temper would probably have kept
both his business affairs and his salary
strictly to himself.
There are many women to whom worl-
ans suffrage is the great question of the
age. While believe thoroughly in won1-
ans right to the suffrage and feel sure
that we will get justice in that quarter, 1t
seems to me that, after all, that is only a.
small part of the great woman movement
the movement toward getting ourselves
recognized as at least the potential equal
of man.
And, mind you by equal do not mean
identical. I realize that the sex differ
ences between men and women are vastly
more than physical They affect mind
and heart and character. But I do not
believe they are such as to prevent worn-
an from being responsible, intelligent
partner for man, rather than servant or
a playthfng.
And SO hail with joy every new sign
even SO slight a one that I chronicle
today-that women are being admitted to
their proper position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
OFT IN THE SILLY NIGHT.

Oft in the Silly night,
Ere slumber's chains have bound me,
Just when I've neatly tucked
The flannel blanket round me,
There comes the alarming thought,
With possibilities dire;
/ know that have forgot
To fix that blamed furnace fire.
1 scramble out in the cold
With every nerve fibre quahng;
Ny nasal appendage is blue:
My elbows and knees are shaking
I stumble DER rugs and chairs
And make a terrible noise
BY falling downstairs head first
I've tripped on a pile of toys
I strike tin railroad train,
And slide DER the hard oak foor
On elbows and shoulder blades:
My head bangs against a door
When 1 reach the basement depths,
I'm sick and I'm sore and la1ne'
1 open the furnace mouth
lid seek for the tongue or 1lane.
1 find that the fires all right;
That it's just as it ought to pc
To last through the entire night
And that's where the jokes on me.
I remember when it's too late,
AS rub each lame bruised spot,
L d fixed the blame thing all Tlgnl-
I'd fixed it and then forgot
Fl Roy K. Moulton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

City and completes it's five day tour
Saturday afternoon at Paola- -Four
lecture cars will be used on this train
one car for children, one for wom-
en-, and two for men. The speakers
will be Miss Frances Brown, MISS
Florence Smell, Mrs. Mary Simmons
of the extension division, o. E. Reed,
professor of dairying, A. S. Neale, G.
c. Wheeler, c. d. Steiner and II. L"
Kent of the extension division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
NO ELECTIVE POSTMASTER.
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

L u
There is quite difference between a
close friend and a close-mouthed one
When we speak of a delicate situation
we generally mean an indicate one.
How can there be safety in numbers
when we are told that too many cooks
spoil the broth?
1t is quite possible that the world is
happier because one half doesn't know
how the other half lives.
The pessimist divides his time between
wanting what he doesn't get, and getting
what he doesn't want.
Blobbs-"PolIy Peachleigh looks like a
perfect poem" SIobbs--'Yes, but if you
try to kiss her, you'll find that she is
not ayerse-''
Miss Yellowleaf-"A great many young
men have entirely false idea about
marriage Miss Caustique-''Ye some of
them actually exnect to have their own
way about it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
FROM OTHER PENS
MR.. LEIsHMANs ERROR.

| John G. A. Ieishman, am bassador
| OF the United States to Germany de-
MES only part, and the smallest part,
Of the charge that is made against
him. He has been sued by American
brokers' for losses sustained by them
| In carrying his stock gambling trans
actions on margins in Wall street.
Mr.. Lelshman's most emphatic dis
Chalmers do not cover the main point.
He says that he has not abused dipIo-
matte privilege. He denies that he
has refused to accept service in court
proceedings Almost as matter of
course he repudiateS the charge that
he attempted to use on the stock ex-
change for his own profit the official
knowledge that came to him. But
he is exceedingly careful not to deny
his activity in Wall street
If we can think of a president of
the United States or a chief justice of
the United States betting on the UPS
and downs of the stock market, per-
maps we can reconcile ourselves to the
TACT that the American ambassador
in Berlin is thus engaged.
1t is pity that any consideration
of personality party or obligation to
the Pittsburgh steel interests should
extend for single day a shame that
has become Observation-Disclosures York
World.
WHERE ONE TARIFF TAX GOES.
ne One-uOllar freight rate on lemons
shipped from California to New York has
been sustained by the commerce court
The one-dollar freight rate on lemons is
one of the dismal jokes of the Payne
Aldrich tariff.
BY that act the customs tax on foreign
lemons was increased in order to enrich
the California growers. On the face of
things it looked like a great victory for
home producers at the expense of home
consumers. But the tranScontfnental rail-
roads Immediately increased their freight
rates so as to absorb the new bounty, and
it is this proceeding which is now sus-
tanned.
Those who hope to profit by the tariff
must take many things into consideration.
If a railroad can appropriate the graft
by increasing its rates, why maintain
costly political agencies to boom tariffs?-
New York World
NO ELECTIVE POSTMASTER.
The proposed remedy would be
much worse than the evil attacked.
Elective postmasters would be more
political and less efficient than ap-
pointive poStmaSters. What is needed
is the placing of postmasters under
civil service, so that they can and
must devote their attention to public
duties and not to politics.
Senator Bristow is father of this re-
dictionary proposal surprising sit
uation for a militant progressive Re-
publican. He does not seem to real
ize that in this he is progressing back
wards. Some short ballot missionary
should be sent to labor with him.
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

[From the New York Press.]
Appearances are so deceitfuI girl past
Is can be fooled by her own age.
Maybe the devil didn't himself make
the piano in the flat below, but he surely
bossed the job.
The bigger a woman gets around the
waist the smarter it is for any man not
to let her think he thinks so.
What makes a man so proud of all his
children is maybe he won't be able to be
of any of them when they grow up
There isn't money enough in the world
to buy the furs a woman would give any
thing to have even in a summary winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

A lecture train to teach dairying will
be run on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway lines in southeastern Kansas
March Ills. The agricultural college
will furnish lecturers. r. w. Hocka-
day. industrial commissioner for the
katy will be in charge of the train.
The itinerary will include Junction
City. White City, Council Grove, En-
poria. Burlington, Neosho Falls, Hum
boldt, Chanute, Parsons, Coffeyville.
Oswego, Chetopa, Columbus, Galena,
Walnut, Fort Scott, Erie, Moran, Kin
caid, Paola and many intermediate
points. The train starts at Junction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

1t is announced that President Will
sons secretary of the treasury will
have authority to change the designs
of the half dollars, dimes and half
dimes, because in 1915 the present de-
signs will have been in use for 25
years. The secretary has the right, it
appears, once in % years, to make
changes without the sanction of con-
gress. Some of the treasury officials
favor the change in these coins be-
cause they consider the present de-
signs inartistic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

IJnterrified by the experience OIL
Pennsylvania in that line. Indiana IL
about to pass law prohibiting the
cartooning of candidates for office ny
newspapers. BY communicating Win
former Gov. Pennypacker Hoosler poi
iticians might learn something 10
thar advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

Tho state will not go into the life
insurance businessmen yet. But an
idea of that kind once started is likely
to keep bobbing up until something Ia
done along that line as IN the case
of publishing the school textoooKs'
The people want time to thlnk over
these modern innovations They can
he hurried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

Senator Davis bill proviuIng for the
lending of money by the counties at
6 per cent interest on long time seems
to be needless and uncalled for. Farm
ers now can borrow all the money
they can give good security for at s
per cent and the lenders are not par
ticuIar, about repayment as long as
the interest is kept up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

The Journal of the American Meol-
cal Association has discovered the
prevalence of ''autoleg. PresufnaplS'
saws the Denver Times, II Is VI
longer than it's mate. due to the IN
selfish efforts of auto agents. supply
dealers and old John Doe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

Governor Hodges has performed no
more commendabIe act since his in
auguration, than his refusal TO sign
the ''garnishment bill" 1t took haro
work to get the law into Its present
shape. 1t has been on the statute
book so years and to change it in the
manner proposed would be to take a
stem backward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
approve.

The woman who spanked Carnegie
when he was a boy is receiving pen
sion of SO a month. Probably any at
tempt to discipline him after he grew
I'D would not have been similarly re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

It is said that women will wear
sleeves this year so tight that they will
not be able to shake hands. Even
that may be regarded as an improve
ment. For some years they have worn
No SJeeVeS at all,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

Reforms come slowly but many OF
them finally arrive. A man has been
fined by the police judge for splitting
on the floor of a street car. Probably
the offense will not be, repeated. The
nI-ice S15 is high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member OF Ine
Associated Press and receives the full Gay
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal brildirf; over wires for this sole pur-
nose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

Judge Taft can look back on his
handling of the Mexican crisis as on
duty well done. It was his business
to protect the lives and property OF
Americans in the disturbed country
and he did it without a fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

The income tax law soon Will De III
operation, but there are lot or peo-
pie who will have no cause Tor worry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07

The Omaha Bee drags out the word
Holocaust and puts it into service
in a reference to the recent hotel flre.