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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
AXHAWKER .JOTS

A high school note in the Howard
Courant: A Junior boy wrote a note
to a Senior girl which read: Dear
Mamie: How are you today? 1 am
sick, hope you are the same.-Toots.'
There are twelve girls and one boy
high school. And as the school re-
porter for the Wilson County Citizen
says: He should either be very lone
some or very popular.
And in further defense of the hob
BILE skirt, the Haddam Clipper-Leader
wishes to express it's opinion that its
use would greatly improve the College
Girl walk which is a mixture of the
Texas Tommy and a gymnasium ex-
ercise.
News from Liberty, in the Canton
Pilot: Eli Lagree butcnered Tuesday.
49,. Mr.. Likens and Mr.. johnson cut
hedge Wednesday, Amos Becker
sawed wood Thursday. Dick I'm
ruah and wife were shopping in Can
ton Saturday.
owen Joy of Endee, n. NJ, sent a
81 check to the Rossville Reporter last
week to boost along his subscription,
notes Charlie Blakesley of the Kansas
City Star, and he adds, thus giving
the editor a double excuse to use 80
JOY in the headline when it printed
the letter.
1t strikes the Lincoln Republican
that the lesson of the Jumping CT a
Washington pink tea" soldier over
the head of General Funston of Kan
sas seems to be that the way to mill
tary advancement is now to be found
among society balls, and not among
cannon balls, as in the past.
Ask almost any old railroad man,
says the Conway Springs Star, and he
will tell you it is a fact that several
years ago when railroad tracks were
not as good as they are now, it was
no unusual thing for a box car in the
middle of a long train to jump the
track, run along on the ties a while
and then get back on the track with
out causing any serious damage.
If you think you are wise and well
Informed just see if you can answer
these questions, suggests the Glen
Elder Sentinel: You have seen hun
dreds of white horses, why did you
never see white colt? Why does a.
horse eat backwards and a COW for
ward? Why does hop vine Irvine to
the right and pea vine to the left :?
Why does a horse, when staked out
by rope, unwind the rope while a
COW winds it up? Why does a cow
get up on her hind feet and a horse
on his front feet? Why does a dog
turn around three times before lying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TFronn the

TF'rom the Chicago News
Better man who fails than one who
never tries.
Some people make light of trouble; others
keep it dark.
A fool can shatter wise mans argu-
ment with an idiotic laugh.
Truth may also be a joy forever, but 1T
is seldom thing of beauty.
Every girl has an idea that she is nJt
like other girls-and she isn't.
Many a man who is sure he is right
hasn't energy enough to go ahead.
When a man loses his heart his head
has to do lot of extra work
A marriage contract is much of a
gamble as buying futures on margin.
The man who has piled up a Torture
never wasted any time wishing he was
rich.
Almost any man can succeed If he has
a little good sense and little good nature.
man imagines his troubles would
disappear if he had all the money he Is
entitled to.
The man who attends strictly to his own
business seldom has a headache the next
morning.
Every man owes himself a living aid
it's up to him to discard his coat and
display the busy signal
If man is old and ugly and his wife
is young and beautiful. it may be a sign
that he has more dollars than sense
It's surprising how surprised a girl can
be when a man tells her he loves her
just as if she didn't know it all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
QUAKER MEDIrArIoNs.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record. I

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Dreams go by contraries. Incidentally,
the average woman is dream.
No woman will be popular with her
friends who dresses better than they do.
Nowadays when Opportunity knocks at
the door the janitor expects rakeoff.
Life is full of paradoxes. For instance.
it's a bad thing to be known as a goo /
thing.
Riches have wings, but they are prob
ably not the kind of wings that are worn
in heaven.
Some men have greatness thrust upon
them, and then they don't know what u.
do with it
Sillicus Love will find a way Cyni-
cus-"Yes, even way out, il you have
the carfare to Reno
Unfortunately the Goddess of Torture
doesn't always smile on the fellow wko
makes other people laugh
Many a marriage is failure because
the wife doesn't understand why the hus-
band should need any spending money.
Blobbs-''That fellow Longbow is the
biggest liar in the world. . Slobbs-tYes,
he's always telling what he would do il
he were in your place
Wigg smoothing out a banknote)-
How would you like to have your face
on our national currency Wagg-.-Id
rather have my hands on it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

; that she had put in Stanton's way two
years and more before.
Il have one thing that 1 must tell
you, Polly, before ask you to marry
me he said one Sunday when he was
visiting her brother, and her brother.
knowing how the wind blew, had left
them alone for the afternoon.
Polly opened her dark brown eyes
tnquisitively. She was practical even
in love and she could not overlook any
possible objection. TELL me all about
it, she said. But first have some
thing that 1 suppose you ought to know.
have been engaged before, two years
ago.
My confession is going to be more
amazing than that said Roberts,
laughing, amused that Polly should
have regarded a previous engagement
very serious my name is not Roberts.
That is, it is Robert Smith. Your
brother said before he brought me out
that first time that he wanted us to
be good friends, and that, for some rea-
son, you probably wouldn't speak to
me If he told you what my name was.
Can it be that you should be so preju-
diced against the name? Come, Polly,
don't be ridiculous"
Polly was laughing quietly to her.
self. leaving Robert Smith in complete
mystification. Her mind had been
working fast. She had already, in her
imagination. taken out the folds of
white satin, as milky white as ever, and
now she had all that embroidered
linen closet somewhere in their new
home-her home and Roberts. Her
eyes were dancing and she seized Rob-
ert impulsively.
81 am so happy" she said. ''Oh,
please come. let's tell mother that those
initials will do, and I will tell you all
| about it later."-(Copyright, 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
TURKEY.

E'anatical, ignorant, clinging
10 old superstitions;
BIND to the changes the years have been
bringing,
A slave to traditions
Ine rich In their arrogance taking
NO thought of the poor and the weak;
Ignoring the light that is breaking
Ger fortress and peak;
Jealous Of wiSdom's intrusion,
Woman degraded, a chattel,
Sentenced to lifelong seclusion;
The toilers regarded as cattle,
Inc scholar frowned and condemned
to privation:
children debauched and denied
The glory of high aspiration
The warnings of progress defied,
A smear upon History's page;
A relic of darkness remaining
To shame and to sully our age.
All that is righteous disdaining;
Secluded, benighted, besotted,
A heritage left from the past;
1ntolerant, cruel and spotted
With the leprous corruption of caste!
Why is there still federation,
Wherefore is Progress kept waiting?
The Lord has pronounced condemnation
Why must there still be debating?
s. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
EVENING CHAT
Our Kind Relatives.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Why is it, 1 wonder, that the aver
age relative regards it as one of his
ties to frankly criticise everything
about her closest relatives.
If you show a new gown or hat to
friend, she will pick out all the best
points about it, all the allurements
that induced you to buy it, and warm
the cookies of your heart sby COM
menting upon them.
Isn't it a wonderful COLOR she will
say, land what cunning buttonsi Try
it on and let me see how it looks on
you. What a pretty skirt, and SO be-
coming to you. Makes you look so
slender. Yes, it certainly is a bar
gain
Show the same gown to your rela-
tive, and though she may see the good
points, she certainly gives no sign of
having done so. On the contrary she
kindly points out any disadvantages
which she fears may have escaped
your eye. The waist is a little too
small across the back, isn't it, and
the sleeves are too short. Queer how
they almost always make the sleeves
too short. 1t is a lovely color, isn't it,
can wear it. That lace is cheap, but
| then, they always put cheap lace in
ready-made things. That's one of the
reasons why L like to have my things
out and put in something BETTER
The closer the relationship, the clos
er is the degree of frankness, of
course. By the way, have you ever
happened to notice how the word
frank" like the word ''criticise,'' has
been given an unpleasant meaning by
usage. '-Criticise'' originally meant
Ito pass judgment on the merits or
qualities Of" Evidently the judgment
was usually unfavorable, for criticism
is now generally used in the sense of
pick flaws The first meaning given
for frank is free in uttering ones
real opinion" For a that, the opin-
ion might be the most favorable in
the world. But somehow, when any
one says, Il am going to be frank with
YOU we don't usually anticipate praise
nor get it, either.
To return to the original subject
the other day I showed a new gown to
q very close relative, and she deliver
ed a monologue somewhat like the
above upon it, One or two things
she picked out flaws. Well 1 sighed
to myself, as L laid it away in its it's
sue paper bed of state, I'm sorry she
doesn't like it, for she has good taste"
What was my establishment to hear
later from a mutual friend that she,
my critical relative, had been praising
my gown to others as one of the love-
Hest she had seen. She had even
compared it favorably to a Partisan
creation of one of her wealthy friends,
which she had been praising to me-
actually thought she didn't like it.
Is unfavorable criticism really a
duty we owe our relatives?
Must We keep all our pleasant
words for our friends?
wonder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

One of the welcome visitors to this
Office is the Almanac and Year Book
published by the Chicago Daily News.
The edition for 1913 has just arrived.
If anything, it is even more valuable
than many excellent issues of 9TH
er years. 1t is complete compen-
dunn of auth 1ritative statistics on all
matters of interest and Importance. 1t
is also replete with a wide variety of
useful information, including interest
ing chronicles of the big events that
have happened in this country and
throughout the world during the past
twelve months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

were compelled to show their teeth, the
real culprit would be discovered.
There could be another and a more
agreeable plan. The cake-baking
mother could be called upon for several
sample cakes and then in the presence
of the postmaster. to provide against
fraud, each clerk might be obliged to
bite into his cake. The marks of
the teeth could then be made into fresh
molds to be compared with the incrlm-
mating ones on the original cake
If justice were meted out in this way
there might be hope that the railway
and express companies, in whose
charge perishable and edible things Of
ten reach the man to whom they are
sent, largely short of their original
measure, might take steps to catch the
criminals.
At all events, man can pat the
Flushing woman on the back for her
intention to get her rights. And they
are rights in which he would like to
share
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
HUNOR or THE Day

Youth-Can you tell me which is Mr..
Ponsonby? Lady-The man with the gray
hair, talking to those ladies over there. I
am Mr.. Ponsonby's wife. YOUTH know
you are, that's why / asked you, as
thought you'd be sure to know.-Punch-
ct would suggest giving our new mayor
three cheers" announced ST Wiff1etree at
the first meeting of the new Town Council.
Make it two cheers" suggested Hiram
Waffle Remember, we are pledged to
economy all along the line.'-Wa shington
Herald.
"What became of that malefactor of
great wealth who was sentenced to serve a
year?'' He got out of the tangle in
unusual way" Some new techhicality?'
mo, he served his time."-Washington
Herald.
"Our new citizens quickly pick up Amer
lean ideas" .'How now?'' ct asked the
Greek bootblack our block If he wasn't
going home to fight, and he tells me that
he is paired with the Turk who runs the
fruit stand. washington Herald.
II suppose you are among the early
shoppers" said the man of genial holiday
mood NO" replied Mr.. Meekton at
away behindhand. L haven't Vet
caught up with the shopping my wife ex-
pected me to do for last Christmas"-
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
THE TooTHMARKs IN THE CAKE

Feminine militancy does not sit
easily upon the mind of the masculine
world when it takes the form of the
English outrages and the like, but no
man will object to the stand which
was taken the other day by a Flushing
woman. Rather, he will commend it,
for her action may lead to methods
which will help him redress kindred
grievances.
This woman called on the Flushing
postmaster "all het up over the action
of some postoffice employee, presum-
ably in the department of the parcel
post. Her mother, who lives a short
distance from Flushing. is a famous
cook and her sponge cakes are dreams,
while they are being eaten and have no
aftermath of dreams, at least of the
happy dream of eating them right
along till the crack o. doom.
This mother, knowing her daughter's
fondness for her sponge cakes, baked a
large and especially attractive one and
then sent it by parcel post. That was
her undoing, or the undoing of the
cake rather. When it reached the
daughter it was just half-size. Then.
with blood in her eye and acid il her
tones, the daughter called upon the
postmaster and demanded that he look
into the matter and punish the man or
men whose taste for sweets had led
them into rifling the mail.
At this long range, it is hardly fitting
to lay down the law to the Flushing
postmaster, but it seems that a modi-
fication of the thumb print method of
modern sleuths would prove highly eff
ficacious. If plaster casts of the teeth
marks in the remaining half of the
j cake Were taken and then the men who
handled the cake while in transmission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

You'll buy if you look long enough.
There are SO many repeated objections
You aren't modest if you brag too much
about your nodesty.
Frequently, also, statesman is Boss
who belongs to your party.
Ii you want to fight, go into the ring
where you will get paid, win, lose or
draw.
Whine the Lone Bandit gets no hero
medal, he isn't apt to be accused of cold
feet.
If there is no piano in the home, Father
probably thinks his Daughter has great
Talent.
If the ordinary funny papers don t
amuse, get fashion magazine of ten or
twenty years ago.
Hospitality is q pleasure to some peo-
pie although a majority may view it as
an unpleasant duty.
1t is our theory that the fiction writer
overworks the Square Jaw as an evidence
of superior Will Power.
1t seems quite proper to say doctor
practices medicine; some of them even go
so far as to experiment with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
NOT A BAD WORLD.

There can be no business without
basis of confidence, writes John A.
Sleicher in Leslies. A man under sus-
picion will not succeed. People who
distrust each other will never pull to-
gether. A quarrelsome family will be
a divided family.
If the masses of the American peo-
pie put the business men, the bankers
and the captains of industry under
suspicion, every hope of prosperity will
disappear.
The strong tendency of the business
world is toward making things better
and more comfortable for the toiling
masses OF course, all cannot be salts
fed and some will do better than 9TH
ers. There are inequalities in human
life as there are in human nature. One
man will be tall and another short;
one woman handsome and another
ugly. 1t is a wise dispensation that
provides for differences and inequali-
ties, for it would be a tame world if
all were alike in stature, temperament,
ability and accumulated possessions.
We are not a perfect people. Those
who c1amor most for perfection are
sometimes themselves the farthest from
it. But on the whole, it is good
world. The masses of men and wo-
men, high and low, rich and poor, are
honest and mean to be right Criminals
are the exception and not the rule
The churches still outnumber the jails
and millions still respect the Sabbath
and yield obedience to the Ten COM
mandmentS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
says UNCLE CIV

While it is true that many men tax TOO
much, man ever talked too Weh- b uS.
ness ness nowaday 81, depenn e,e Of oSganiza-
ton is confidence. And confidence lmpnSS
the recognition of strength. Inc WoIau
would be much better balanced, "ea..a
and influence would be much more
evenly distributed, il strength were a.
ways recognizable at first glance. Osuans
it isn't. In this hairtrigger age, time ~
of the utmost value and il your aoihuss
aren't recognized at first glance, tne
second glance may be everlastinsiy u"
late.
A glib tongue may get a man into n
thousand different kinds of trouble, DUE
a hesitating organ OF speech rs mi
ties. There is no worse liar IN the ~oll1
than the incompetent tongue OF a com
ticularIy a hesitation in utterance, is al
most invariably associated in the aver
age mind with weakness of character,
The man who mumbles never MAKES .
good impression. Dignity is beyond the
widest dreams of the stammerer. Care
less utterances stamp man as a fool.
Inaccuracies of language usually De
spetk unreliability. Embarrassment In
conversation presupposes selfconscious ig-
norance il the general, practical every
The man with the bungling tongue is
lost in the business world. He Is much IT.
the same fix as a merchant would De
toners only when they rang. Nobody
would take the trouble to ring.
We're in a hurry nowadays and haste
is responsible of lot of errors. We
judge largely by first impression, to the
detriment of ourselves and others, but
we judge just the same. We take it To-
granted that the man who hesitates. lacks
confidence in himself and and his porpost-
ton. a hardship on another mans race
may cost us good hard dollars because we
haven't time to listen. but we charge IT
up to profit and lose and let IL go at
that. We miss a good many large OPP
portunities, perhaps, because it is pain
ful to bear with an embarrassed man
who has an idea, but we prefer to take
the risk and show the stammerer out
In these rapid fire times, a man S
mouth is his show window and it's sad
truth that a hesitating tongue never
bespoke confidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
KANSAS COMMENT
THE LAST ,1a.

THE LAST '13.
The last '13 year, 1913, was one of
the big years of the century. James
Madison was inaugurated in 1913 for
his second term, as woodrow Wilson
Will be inaugurated in 1913 for his
first term Europe was at war. That
year saw the inception of the alliance
and the mighty operations which re-
suited in the overthrow of Napoleon.
The battle of the nations" at Leipsic
foretold Waterloo and a long period
of peace and prosperous development.
In that year Argentina threw off the
yoke of Spain and established her in
dependence. The resources of The
printers art were enriched by the
process of stereotyping. There were
born that year, among millions OF
others who exercised more or less in
fiuence on the resultant line of human
progress, Richard Wagner, Henry
Bessemer, David Livingstone, Isaac
Pitman, Stephen A. Douglass, Ad-
miral Porter and John c. Fremont,
the pathfinder. Such is part of the
record of a thirteen year that did not
turn out very badly on the whole for
the world We live in. There is going
to be lot happening between now
and New Years day of nineteen-four-
teen; and we violate no confidence
when we announce that the planet is
going to be better off at the end than
at the beginning of the twelve m onth.
-Galena Times.
GOODNESS IS ABUNDANT.
One cannot but be struck with the
optimistic character of Sociologists'
clergymen, and others who have spo-
ken recently on the outlook for the
future. Those utteranceS ought to act
as tonic to people who have the idea
that this world is fast sliding down to
perdition. And the best of it is those
men are right. If one should form his
nr1in Of from
what he sees in the headlines of the
metropolitan press he would reach the
conclusion that evil and crime are fast
making Roadway. But for every wrong
act publicly recorded there are a dozen
good acts unrecorded. Goodness does
not f1aunt itself while vice does. The
truth is there are millions of happy,
virtuous and reliable people in the
land, but they do not publish the fact
from the housetop, and because they
do not undiscerning people often reach
wrong conclusiOns--Formoso Spirit.
FIXING CASTERS DATE.
AS result of a peculiar astro-
nomic situation, next Easter day will
be the earliest for years, and it will
not be SO early again for a hundred
years. I'll comes this time on March
%. The fixing of the date each year
is based upon the changing phases of
the moon. Easter day is always the
first Sunday after the full moon,
upon or next after the 21st of March.
If the full moon happens on a Sun
day then Easter day is the first Sum
day following. This year there is a
full moon on Saturday, March %.
Sunday, the next day, is therefore
Easter day. Astronomy foretells of
no less than five eclipses this year
There are total eclipses of the moon
early in the morning of March 22d
a nfny, hnr-
tial eclipses of the sun on April 31st
and September goth. but none of tho
latter eclipses will be visible in North
Misunderstanding Bulletin.