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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-02
Stands during the season at the Barn

For colts sired by this stallion win.
ming prizes in all Belgian classes
shown at the necorah Colt Shows we
will give the following special prizes
$1,000 70 first: $500 to second: $500 to
third: 400 to fourth: $500 to fifth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-02
PLYMOUTH ROCK.

June 80, 1913.
A. Mithus spent Sunday al
the H. Henderson home.
Lawrence, Victor and Mary Entis
minger were pleasant callers at the
Albert Monsen home Sunday after
noon.
A few of the young people of this
place were pleasantly entertained al
the j. Fitzgerald home Sunday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martie Jones are the
proud parents of an eight pound girl
which came to gladden. their hons
June 2Sth. Congratulations.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Malek and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Monsen spent Sunday at the FranR
Malek home.
Mr.. anG Mrs. Holger Nelson and
children ATTENDED the Mission FEST
at the Fremont church Sunday.
Mrs. N. Ellingson is at the JOIN
Iverson home at present helping care
for Mrs, Iverson and the little baby
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-02
Fanor 6729

American, and 72,60S Belgian Register
numbers. Now two years old, weighed
1900 pounds at % MONTHS is a bright
bay, II hands high.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-02
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FAM

First prize winner in the yearling
class, 1912, at two State fairs and
second at the Chicago International.
Now the head of our Belgian stud.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-07-02
Your Chicago Paper.

Remember that we still club with
any of the Chicago daily papers at
the same rate as heretofore, and will
be glad to get them for our readers
at greatly reduced prices. We can
get you either the Record-Herald,
Tribune, Inter Ocean or Examiner to-
gether with Public Opinion for $4.25
per year, making the price of the
Chicago paper only s2.75. 49-ti
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
EVENING CHIT
Tastes and Incomes.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

A most extraordinary letter came to me
the other day.
A woman wrote to ask me to tell her
how to spend money.
She is a working woman between thirty
and forty years old.
She is making a little over $40 a week.
She has been self-supporting for many
years, and during the first part OF this
time she had to save and scrimp and deny
herself stringently that now when she
is earning a comfortable sum and could
dress decently and have a few Injuries,
she actually doesn't know how to spend
more rapidly than her tastes and she
wants my advice as to how to spend
money like other people.
Was ever anything more exactly con-
trary to the ordinary condition of affairs
than this?
For every man or woman whose income
has increased more rapidly than his or
her tastes, 1 wonder how many there are
in this country whose tastes have in
creased more rapidly than their incomes.
Ten thousand would probably be putting
it low.
Isn't it. indeed. one of the greatest
causes of unhappiness and envy, of ex-
travagance and discomfort. in this coun
try, that so many of us have gotten the
habit of allowing our tastes to race with
our incomes and usually win out
Let me take a typical case for example.
Six years ago Margaret, a young stenog
rapher, was earning $40 a week, and find
ing it as ample for her needs as we ever
find any sum. At this time she thought
$50 a good price to pay for a suit. -Four
dollars for shoes, So for hat, dollar
two for a blouse to wear to work, was
her ordinary outlay. Once or twice a
month she INDUCED in the extravaganza
of a rs cent manicure. but she shampooed
her own hair and looked upon facial
massage as the exclusive property of the
ladies in the society columns. One OF her
greatest extravagances was to pay ten
cents for cake of toilet soap and %
cents for good cream. In the summer
she took her vacation at a small summer
resort where she paid $40 week for
board. believe she saved 81 a week.
Today that girl is earning So and con-
stantly crying poverty. Where does Ii all
go to? Well, let's see.
Her last winters suit cost S45. 1t was
marked down from $50. She had meant
to have her last years hat trimmed over.
but the suit made 1t look so shabby that
she bought q new one for S16. For her
blouse is a special tailored model for 50.
She has so cent manicure every week.
She has her hair shampooed and INDUCES
in facial massage now and then. Sha
uses ultra special toilet soap for which
she pays % cents, and an imported cream
for 90 cents.
When she goes away in the summer she
stays at a hotel, paying SIS week for a
tiny attic room. L don't think she saves
at all.
Now do you wonder that the SO disar-
pears faster than the $40 did?
The class in this country that has
enough and can save, is the thrifty lower
middle class in which the tastes ard
standards haven't yet begun to sky
rocket Many man earning So a week
and having a family of five or six, is
putting by a tidy sum.
Are your tastes growing more rapidi,,
than your income? If they are look OUT
Happiness does not lie that way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCH1soN GLOBE.

When you lose your temper you are no
body.
Any excuse is considered a legitimate
one by the geek who needs It.
Slipping is like freezing. You don't re-
alize it until you are down and out.
The difference between Doc Robinson
and some other men is that Doc admits It.
Money invested in sleighs In this coun
try doesn't have much chance to earn
dividends.
People have SO much to be grateful for
1t is a wonder they don't print more cards
of Thanks.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boy who could always scare up a nose
bleed at school?
Giving the gossips such credit as may
be their due, there is frequently a good
deal of truth in it.
Link Preston was a reporter in his early
life but made a failure of 1t: too many
friends to protect.
knowledge is power, regardless of the
fact that a pugilst can clean up ten
thousand dollars night while a teacher
may make but forty bones a month.
A certain man has been spreading I'M
kind reports about Doc Robinson. HE
has no reason to be against me, for I
never did anything for him., Doc said
today.
so many shoes are needed in fast
growing family that I always nave a lit
tie sympathy for the motorist who is the
victim of tire trouble.''-Rufe Hoskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
DOING AWAY WITH HANDsHAkEs.

'Pinafore' Gilbert, the great libret-
fist, had no liking for this country. It
stole his "Pinafore' and sang it in
cities and towns and even crossroads
hamlets without paying him a sent.
If he had received only a small royalty
on all the performances given, he would
have been a rich man from that source
alone.
But he would have approved the ac-
ton taken by certain leaders of ST.
Louis society in barring the haudshake.
In that most interesting catalogue of
crimes which Gilbert has his Mikado
fit with proper punishments, he lists
people with flabby hands and those
who shake hands in various absurd
and irritating ways.
He was right and these St. Louis
people have much to justify them.
Handshaking has lost most of its sig
nificance. 1t doesn't stand for any,
thing vital any more. 1t is as meaning
less as the fIabby kisses which women
give each other when they meet Or
when they part.
AT the beginning it had much to COM
mend it, Then it was the recognition
of equality which one of higher birth
gave to one of lower. They met on u
level when their hands clasped. It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
AYHAWKER JOTS

The jamestown Optimist advises
the man who moves away from Kan
sas to buy return ticket.
Jess Napier of the Newton Kansan-
Republican rightly says: Nothing
succeeds like success That's why it
doesn't pay to howl hard times.
Any man who has been hit by a
snowfall, says Editor Napier of the
Blue Mound Sun, also knows that il
is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive.
Sunny Jim the North Side CORES
pendent of the Jennings Echo, reports
"a fine dirt storm in his vicinity re-
Gently And Gertrude" the Allison re-
porter for the same paper wonders if
any of the girls who proposed on Leap
Year got refused.r
Reported by the Glasco Sun: The
Methodist minister over at jamestown
last week announced from his pulpit
that on Monday the church bell would
ring as a signal for people to indulge
in a few moments of prayer at their
home. Evidently they are not accus-
toned to prayer over there, for when
the bell rang half the populace grab
bed their hats and darted for town.
They thought it was a fire.
IF should go fishing on Sunday
me about it sure" protests old 81
Chestnut in the Sedgwick Pantagraph,
but after church they get out and
spend a pleasant Sunday afternoon
driving around the country for the
enjoyment they get out of it. What
l can't see is why it is more harmful
to hunt a secluded spot and watch
cork bob than it is to burn up gaso-
line or pound an old horse on the
back"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News1
Yes, Alonzo, two can live Just as ex-
pensively as one.
No mans credit is so bad that he can't
borrow trouble.
Usually mans sense of humor goes
lame when the joke is on him.
It's awfully hard to convince a man
that he is getting a square deal
The less brains a man has to snare the
more likely he is to lose his head.
Ignorance helps to boom business when
a man orders a 50 frame for an so cent
picture.
An honest man seldom blows his own
horn-probably because he is too poor to
own one.
Even the man who wants the earth
doesn't care to have it thrown at him in
the form of mud.
When his satanic majesty hasn't any
thing else to do, he teaches woman to
smoke cigarettes.
The efforts of women to make them
selves beautiful are but vain attempts
even when successful.
There are some people who imagine thew
can't be sincere without saying DISAGREED
able things about their friends.
1t sometimes happens that when a man
arrives home at a. M and his wife COM
mands him to go straight upstairs TO he'd
she is asking the impossible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
A MODEL MESSAGE.

There is nothing of the panegyric in
Governor Hodges message to the legis-
lature. That is welcome relief There
are no professional literary pretensions
as to what he will do. But he suggests
to the legislature in terms nobody can
misunderstood that it is the duty of its
membership to fulfill the promises of
their party to the people. He makes
this point not alone for his Democratic
brethren, but also for those of other
faiths And he presses this point home
hard when he suggests to all members
of the legislature, irrespective of party,
that they JOIN in keeping their faith
with the people. It's the simplicity OF
the message which makes it one of the
strongest state documents ever issued
in Kansas. And that should certainly
appeal to the people. 1t shows among
other things that there is no mistakins
where George Hodges stands on any
question.
AS a document of Democratic ten
denotes, the message is certainly IN
class by itself. In fact, the Bull Moosers
in Kansas and the nation Will have
hard shedding to prepare political
propaganda that will appeal to any
class of people more strongly. 1t IS
as progressive as any public document
could be, and if the legislature heeds
a half-measure of it, Kansas is sure to
be a gamer or an experimenter. And
the one Outlines offsets the other.
But the real beauty of the document
as far as Governor Hodges is personally
concerned is few of the recommends
lions he has to make as to how there
can be more economy in the admins
tration of state affairs. OF course, he
advises that the tax laws be made
more equitable in a variety Of ways. in
cludine the adjustment of the inheri-
tance tax ar,4 the Ievying Of a mort
gage tax for ncnresidents. He hits a
big nail on the head, however.
when he declares for the adjustment
of a few appointive state oftlces anu
their MANY incumbents. This is move
of the reform variety that so Tar mas
never been undertaken in Kansas by
any of those who have made protesta-
lions of being the quintessence or re-
formers.
Every word of Mr.. Hodges message
shows that he has no designs or De-
oonoine a poIitical boss in Kansas; as
have the announcements of his selec-
tons for the state appointive offices
and his forceful and dignified inaugural
address. He hopes that the legislature
will do it's duty. He certainly will do
his part to make Demo- ratio doctrine
the law of Kansas, If he has the pr1-
vilege of signing the bills that he would
like to have the legislature put through
If the people, of course, are not salts
fled with the rule they have voted 1T
will be the privilege to change 1t In
the not distant future. But from every
thing that he has said SO far and from
his message to the legislators, Mr..
Hodges will do his best to deliver the
goods. according to the contracts, and I
he should al least be accorded the bene-
fits of anv doubts until he has proved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14

In driving for the village Miss
Madge had to face the blizzard. The
pony soon showed his dislike Tor H.
ahead. He was within a half mile
but was given the whip and sent
of the depot. and the storm was so
bad that neither he nor his driver
could see five feet ahead. when
horse and cutter, driven by man ana
coming from the opposite direction
brought about a collision. Both horses
went down and both cutters were up
set, and their occupants thrown out
1t was young Dr. Disbrow, who was up
first and assisted his horse to rise, AND,
after a brief inspection, said to him-
self:
Not much damage here. but how
about the other party? By George.
Cutter crippled, too. Here's a JOB
for met
He unhitched the Rayburn pony
from the cutter and headed him for
home with slap. Then he turned
his own animal around and put the
insensible girl in the cutter. and
drove off. After half an hours
struggle with the storm he carried
her into a house and said to the
gray haired woman who came for
ward:
It's a woman, mother. and ran
over her in the storm. We must get
her to bed as soon as possible"
1.-The poor dear!"
1t was the third day before the doc
tor could push through to the Ray
burns to tell his story and 1t was a
fortnight before the patient could be
moved home.
Didn't dat gypsy dun say sol" whis-
pered Linda as soon as she could get
the ear of the girl.
Yes. but you said It was all non
sense"
But I knowed better all de time.
De storm come along?"
yes"
"And de man?"
yes"
"And de romance and de Tub. and
matrimony am cIus by?"
Linda, you've got pies in the
oven, and 1 think they are burning
up!" answered Miss Madge; but she
didn't fool old Linda a cents worth.
-(Copyright 1913 by the Mcclure
Newspape- Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many public spirited man hasn't time
to mind his own business.
Some people are so narrow that they
won't even use the broad a
If love makes the world go round, it's
no wonder there are so many dizzy girls.
A hero is frequently merely a fool who
rushes in where angels fear to tread.
Many a man has killed himself from
overwork inventing a labor-saving ma
chine.
wife is apt to think of her husband
either as a treasure or a treasury.
ALREADY I begin to feel that my DAYS
are numbered" remarked the 1913 calen-
dar.
If we could see ourselves as others see
us most of US would make a bee line
for the oculists-
You can generally tell pretty much what
sort of people your neighbors are by
listening to their monograph selections.
Blobbs-'The Bible tells US we should
love our enemies" Slobbs-'I wonder if
that is why women kiss each other?',
Wigg-"Is Bjones a good business man ?''
Wagg-"That depends whether Won
would put the accent on good OF BUSH
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
FROM OTHER PENS
A DESIRABLE SITUATION.

1t is now evident that little business OF
priation bills will be transacted during
the current session of congress. 1t is
usually difficult to secure important &C
ton at short session, but in the present
case the obstacles are greater than usual
Ihere is the same trouble in securing a
party majority on any significant bill
much as the newly elected members have
not yet taken their seats A special in
fluence has been seen in the fact that the
of the election last autumn, naturally
feels that 1t is no longer commissioned 20
represent the people. The Archibald trial
In the senate has taken large proper
ton of the time of that body and has
consequently produced congestion in rou-
tine business. Altogether there will be
little federal legislation this winter. This
on the whole, is desirable situation
New York Journal of Commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
WHAT CoNvICTs READ.

Tommy Try and What He Did"
and '"The School Girls Garland"-to
cite actual titles-are poor prison diet
for men who ask for books on trades
and English grammar. Florence
Rising Curtis of the University of Hi
nois library school. in the Survey
makes an interesting plea for the in
teIIigent use of libraries as instru-
n1ents of reformation for the $4,000
men and women in the state and ma
tional prisons, of whom three-fourths
are confined for from one to ten years.
"a study of the catalogues of TWEEN
ty-three prison libraries shows that,
with few exceptions. they are far be-
low the grade of the average public
library of the same size; the classes
of history, biography and travel, which
should be especially strong, are often
filled with out-of-date and unreliable
books. 1t is surprising that detective
stories figure largely in the fiction
lists, for it would seem dubious policy
to furnish stories of crime which sug-
gests ingenious plans and point out the
weak spots in the method of their
execution.
These libraries have received in
bulk a large number of the old Sunday
school collections of out-of-date reli-
gious and temperance books; they are
decidedly lacking in readable informa-
tional literature photography, travel,
science and books on present day in
vention and progress. Such literature
is especially needed here, for it is the
experience of those in charge that
prison men tire of stories, and crave
more solid reading
The prison libraries need, first of
all, trained librarians, who know how
to select books which provide informa-
ton and recreation; how to care for
these books, and how to get them
read
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14

bridged the distinctions of Ca ste. 1t
was kindly and friendly. 1t took moth
ing from the one who gave it and 1t
added to the content of the one who
took the Offered hand 1t was pretty
custom but it has suffered, as have
other pretty customs of the past. 1t
has become concentrated, SO to
speak "Everybody's dom it, and
that robs it of any distinction
Fashion, though, has to be charged
with much of the decline of h6ndshak-
ing. 1t instituted all sorts of -hanges.
each foolish and some even grotesque.
What, for the matter of that. could be
more absurd than the fashion which
ragged a few years ago, among those
who wished to be set high and apart
from their fellows. of sticking the hand
high in the air and making short people
carry around stepladders to get up to
it? AS this was accompanied by cold
stare, it graveled the more.
Then, from time to time. there have
been changes in the way the hands
should be clasped and the points of the
compass at which they should be
waved. Now it was wiggle and then
it was a waggle. There even was a
time when the motion of a pump
handle was authorized. Now it is
anathema.
For all this meaningless handshaking
at parties and in cases OF
casual introduction-the st. Louis idea
is to substitute a bow. 1t means just
as much and 1t is more graceful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
KANSAS. COMMENT
INDIANA'S CIJL-DE-SAC.


After some years of patient and po-
Ht1cal research Vice President-elect
Marshall, now governor of Indiana,
announces that Indiana has a Guide
sac. He intimated as much in his BIZ
ennlal message to the Indiana legiSla-
ture and up to the time of going to
press no impeachment proceedings
have been started against him. Why
he should make such a serious charge
is not known. Time was, (and this
is even since the days of Blue Jeans
Williams), that if an Indiana states
man, governor or otherwise, had
charged the Hoosier state with cod
ding cul-de-sac in its bosom, he
would have been ostracised. And 1t
would nave been good enough for him.
But since George AIDE and other In
diana literary sharks began picking
out the big words and hurting them
at an unsuspecting public, politicians
also claim the right. Consequently
sac on Indiana and her exasperated
citizens are probably standing aghast
at the effrontery. But other Indian
ans have stod at Armageddon without
getting away with it, SO kicking on
Governor MarshaIPs new charge may
get them no farther. There seems to
be no particular reason why Marshall
should so SANDER Indiana. If she has
been buncoed and cul-desacked that
is something that ought not be told in
the mixed company of other states;
rather should it be a closet skeleton
a secret to be hidden and forgotten.
Marshall would better withdraw his
ask it to be expunged from
the records and fumigated. 1t will
be more profitable for him in the
nd.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14

When Governor Click was inaugur-
ated 80 years ago, the Republicans said:
He got there,-but it will be a cold
day when another Democrat gets that
job
And it was
However, no one was frozen during
the inaugural services. The warm en-
thusiasm of the assembled Democrats
drove away Group and chillblains- 1t
is said that the snow melted in several
spots around the state house. 1t was
lovely blowout, and among those
who enthused without restraint or fear
of arrest, might have been observed
large number of neutrality-suspicious.
patters, of course. IT was something
like the return of the Crusaders; the
many years in regions far removed
from the pie counter, and when they
got their return tickets, joy was uncon-
fined.
But it is really remarkable, the num-
Der of colored Democrats that have
Matched out in this town since last
week. Judging by visual evidence,
there are very few colored Republicans
left in Topeka. From the collection Of
applicants for jobs, each senator and
representative could pick section crew
and then have a few subs on the bench.
And the beauty of it is that they are
from Topeka, fair Topeka on the Kaw.
They seem to think that the opening of
a session of legislature is equivalent to
cutting a watermelon.
And the candidates for page; with
number of them, the truant officer has
no business wha tever. They speak bass
or baritone, and need the services of
safety razor Others are of the
handy pocket size that has tempted
many newspaper writers to refer to
them as paragraphs" Among them
was one stray,-a little red-headed boy
from out in the shortgrass who wants
position in the senate. He will I'M
doubtedly get it. The senate will keep
him just for the novelty Of the thing.
The page rush is what might be termed
a rampage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor is her mind all that the average
woman makes up.
+ + +
Many day laborers wax fat by using
working hours to sharpen their tools.
j. j. -
Some girls measure their Importance
by the number of proposals they've
had.
]. j =
Time undoubtedly works wonders be-
cause it is on the Job continuously
j. j i
People who expect summer weather
in the winter time should beat it in the
direction Of the equator.