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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

a few exceptions look we'll in this style
of dressing, which has the additional
advantage OF being easily tubbed. The
straight plain blouse has a broad pleat
on the shoulder and the fullneSs is
gathered beneath a broad belt of the
material. About the neck and sleeves
are inverted friIIs of pleated lace held
on the inner edge by a row of feather
stitching in brown. The skirt is plain
and untrimmed.
A Fourth of July breakfast was
given Friday by Judge and Mrs. o. L.
Moore at their home, 1907 Tyler street,
for the supreme court justices and
their wives. The table decorations
were in the national colors, and the
flowers used were white elderberry
blossoms. Underneath the basket of
flowers in the center of the table were
favors attached to red, white and blue
ribbons which extended to each plate
Each plate was marked by a small bas-
ket OF flowers with two tiny silk
flags in it. and the place cards
On one side of the cards was a conun-
drum, and on the reverse side de-
scriptive sentence by which the guests
found their places Down the center
of the table was a diminutive battalion
of soldiers.
After the breakfast the party spent
the rest of the morning in the garden
of the Moore home.
|; and Mrs. W. A. Johnston, Justice and
Mrs. Silas Porter. Justice and Mrs.
Henry Mason, Justice and Mrs. r. a.
Burch, Justice and Mrs. A. W. Benson,
Justice J. S. West. Justice Clark Smith,
and Mrs. Adrian Greene, the wife OF
the late Justice Greene, and Mrs. A.
H Ellis, wife OF the late Justice Ellis,
and Judge and Mrs Moore.
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A house party will be given next
Usage City for a company of young
people, and among the girls who will
go from Topeka to be guests are Miss
Lillian Martin, Miss Adelaide Seeds
and Miss Anna Hughes.
Miss Martin will go to Lawrence
from Usage City, and will visit friends
on a ranch near that town. After her
return she will go to Fort Riley for the
maneuvers to be held there about
July 81.
Mrs Viola Dale McMurray of Kan
sas City, who taught aesthetic dancing
to the society women of Topeka two
years. has gone abroad with her
dancing her profession. Rhea danced
a number of times in Topeka. The fol-
lowing clipping regarding the McMur-
rays is taken from the Independent,
Kansas City society paper:
1t isn't but a few days ago that Mrs
Viola McMurray and pretty daughter
Rhea sailed away in a good ship over
the waters blue for the old country
Mrs. McMurray, as you most all know
was for many years the instructor in
athletics in the K c. W. A c., which
she has given u that she may devote
her time to the studies of Rhea who
is destined for a professional life, stage
dancing being her line.
The young girl developed a wonder
full talent in that way and made her
self famous here. but as we all know
a prophet is never honored in her own
set so the wise mother has taken the
dancer away to the other side where
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

ent were: Miss Mary Gushing, Mildred
Baird, Helen Casey Margaret Trout
} man. Helen DwenneIl, Mary Lannon,
Gertrude Fitzgerald, Mary Fitzgerald.
, Maize Weekly and Alice Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

The Prudential Trust company will
loan money on city property.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05
The King OF avn Laxatlres.

For constipation, headaches, indigestion
and dyspepsia, use DR. Kings New Life
Pills Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo. n. Y.
says they are the king of all laxatives-
They are blessing to all my family and
always keep box at home" Get box
and get well. Price 25c. Recommended by
Arnold Drug Co.-Ady-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05
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Miss Mary Houser. 1882 Clay street
entertained at cards Thursday after
noon complimentary TO Miss Pauline
Brakeman of Kansas City. Those pres
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

A bridge party was given Friday
evening by Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Beaver
for Miss Mabel Holland and Miss Ma
dora Holland. of Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, who are visitins them. and for Mrs
Thomas Wood, of Brooklyn, New York,
who is visiting her father. Mr. W. G.
Bailey. The decorations for the party
were pink and white, and the porches
and rooms were decorated in garden
flowers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

Meet me at the ARBOR, where we
can have a chat an cool drink
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

Mrs. D. NJ. Valentine gave family
picnic Friday. Her guests were: Mr..
and Mrs Lewis Valentine. of Clay Gen.
ter, Mr. and Mrs. A. A GODDARD, Miss
Guen GODDARD. Miss Martha Valentine,
Miss Lillian Valentine Mr.. D. 4. Val
entine. and Mr.. Valentine GODDARD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

Try State Journal Ads for Results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

Miss Helen Louise Crosby enter
tanned twelve guests today at an in
formal luncheon in compliment to Miss
Elizabeth Alternately of Leavenworth,
who is visiting Miss Frances McClin-
took.
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A simple model for a linen in the
natural shade is the design shown
The extreme severity of this frock is
It's chief attraction. Young girls with
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Mrs. Edwin Knapp, of Parkville, Mis-
souri,. has been asked by Mrs. Penny
packer. president of the General FEEDER
alton of Womens clubs, to make up
scrap book of clippings from the papers
regarding the general federation and
notices of particular or personal inter-
est to Mrs Pennypacker. Topeka club
women who would be interested in as
sisting in this work, could send clip
pings that come under their notice to
Mrs. Knapp. Parkville, Missouri.
Mrs. Knapp will be remembered by
Topeka women as one of the helpers
in the suffrage campaign She gave
several weeks of her time and labor
to the work in Kansas, helping in the
suffrage Headquarters She has lately
declined the offer of a position as sec
rotary in the Indiana Equal Suffrage
headquarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

with cream lace. A new girdIe ar
rangement is shown with the sash tied
in a loosely knotted bow directly in
front and the ends weighted by pink
silk tassels. Equisitely dainty is this
frock made over its satin foundation;
the acme of girlish simplicity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05
OAKLAND NOTES.

Items for this column may be tele
phoned to 3Si5 or the State Journal office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05

Today is sketched a young girls
quaint yet modish evening frock of
white mousseline. Little garlands of
pink silk roses head the deep pleated
ffounce which finishes the tunic. Irvine
about the sleeves and serve to sup
port the quaint collar effect. The I'M
derskirt is also covered with the nous
seine. The deep w. neck is filed
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

The accompanying portrait is that OF
Miss Annie Evans, an eighteen-year-
old cardroom worker of Stalybridge,
England, who has just won the Her
bert Rhodes scholarship founded to
help promising Stalybridge musicians
and tenable at the Manchester Royal
College of Music. Miss Evans worked
until recently in a cotton mill. and 81
though she left home at $3.50 each
morning found time to devote part
Of the day to her musical studies. She
has soprano voice and is a clever
violinist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
HEoGEHoGs AS CLEANERS

Backwoodsmen. when In camp dur
Ing the winter, entertain many strange
guests-hedgehogs among them. One
woodsman. on leaving camp on Sat
urday afternoon, used to neglect. pur-
posely to close the door of his shack
In order that the hedgehogs might en-
ter and clean his fiocr.
lnasmuch as the principal constitu-
ents Of the camp menu are pork and
beans, bacon and other dishes rich in
fat. considerable grease Is spilled upon
the floor In the course Of a week, and
a hedgehog will risk his neck at any
time for a bit of fat.
Just as soon, therefore. as this par
ticular camp was deserted by its oc-
cupants the spiny gluttons would
hasten in and begin to plane off the
surface Of the floor with their chisel-
shaped teeth, eating away all the
wood that held trace Of grease. On
his return to camp the owner could
sweep up and enjoy the comforts Of
a clean house for another week.
The only serious objection to this
method of house cleaning lay in the
fact that it was necessary to lay new
camp floor rather frequently.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
1oADs7ooL PARK, NEBRASKA RosEBERY LlcKs THE BRsE

One of the strangest formations in
the west is known as Toadstool park,
in Sioux county, Nebraska. This
park" is distinctly in state of ma
ture. There are no fences around it
except the natural mountain boundar-
les and no signs of Keep Of the
Grass" In fact there is no grass to
keep off, for the region is one of
sandy aridity. The toadstools are
formed Of sandstone, tho under por-
tons having been eaten away by wind
and weather, leaving caps which make
the rocks resemble huge toadstools or
mushrooms. The park" is several
acres in extent and is part of the
formation constituting the bad
Lands" of the Dakotas. At a remote
geologic period this entire area was
covered by layer Of this soft sand
stone many hundred feet in thickness,
but the great bulk OF it has been worn
and washed way during the slow prog
ress OF the agessll9d '4nly relatiyelug
s.-3at lnnrr lVi5R-s
wonders. This singu Lars region was I.
generation or more age infested by
stage robbers and other bad men
who utilized this uninhabited portion
of the country as a retreat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
IN THE PRISON OF SILENCE

Entombed in a grim castle on the
outskirts Of Lisbon are some of the
most miserable men on earth. These
are inmates of Portugal's Prison of
Silence" In this building everything
that human ingenuity can suggest to
render the lives of its prisoners hor-
rible, maddening torture is done. The
corridors, piled tier on tier five stories
high, extend from common center
like the spokes of huge wheel.
The cellars are narrow, tomb-like,
and within each stands a coffin. The
attendants creep about in felt slippers.
The silence is that Of a grave. Once
day the cell doors are unlocked and
the half thousand wretches march
out, clothed in shrouds and with faces
covered by masks, for it is part of this
hideous punishment that none may
look upon the countenance Of his fell
low-prisoners Few of them endure
this torture for more than ten years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
PECULIAR HOBBY OF A KING

The late king of Siam had an ex-
traordinary hobby-that of collecting
empty match boxes of all nations. In
this connection an interesting story Is
related. During one of his visits to
England the king. while passing down
Bond street one afternoon, accompan-
led by two members of his suite. es-
pied an empty match box, which had
been discarded by its owner and
thrown away into the middle of the
thoroughfare.
Without a moments thought the
monarch dashed into the middle of the
crowded traffic, grasped the much
coveted treasure, and was nearly run
over by passing cab. The fact, how
ever, that he was able to add a new
specimen to his gathered
in such ircumstances-more than
compensated him for the risk which
he had run.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
BAN PUT ON MILITARY DRUM

1t was some time ago that, acting
upon the recommendations embodied
in a report by a military commission,
the French government reached the
conclusion that tho drum was no long
err a necessary article of military equip
ment. The report set forth that the
drum was serious encumbrance in
marching; that rain impaired its use
fulness; that its calls could not be
distinguished in time of battle; that 1t
consumed a period of two years to
turn out an efficient drummer; and
that by abandoning the use of the
drum many thousands Of youths and
men would be released for active serv-
Ice.
Since the decision of the French
government other European powers
have followed its example in decree
ing that the drum must CO."
The history of the drum is both an
cient and honorable The Egyptians
employed it, and 'he Greeks ascribed
its invention to Facchus. The Span
ish conqueror Piaarro is said to have
found drums in South American tenn
pies. The snakes of Ireland. we are
told, fed from the Emerald Isle be-
fore the drum-beats of st. Patrick.
The Puritans Of New England used
the drum as a church bell and 1t fig
ured frequently and Economically all
through the wars of the revolution and
rebellion in America.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

became effective only in July, 1912.
Under the act, every employed person
from sixteen to seventy years OF age
whose income does not exceed $80O
year, is compulsorily insured against
sickness, in whatever manual or other
occupation engaged, with certain
rather unimportant exceptions. Those
earning more than $500 year by
manual labor alone are also compul-
sorily insured. In British population
of AZ, 100000, the act includes, approx
mately. 14,000,000 in it's provisions.
The act also provides that other per-
sons, not included In the compulsorily
insured class, may join under certain
conditions.
"1s Cents Worth for Cents"
The insurance fund is derived from
three sources, the worker, the employ
.er the national treasury. Here arises
one of the strongest criticisms of the
act, both employer and workman
claiming his contribution to be too
large. The weekly subscription OF the
workman earning more than $S.75 q
week is IS cents, of which the work
man nays eight cents, the employer
six cents and the national treasury
four cents or its equivalent. In addi-
ton, the state pays the cost of central
administration and large grants to-
wards hospitals and medical Dement'S
When a workman's wages are less
than s3.75 a week, he pays less pro-
portion to the insurance fund and the
employer pays more. Insured women
pay one-fourth less than insured men.
The workman thus buys IL cents
worth of insurance for eight cents.
Those whose wages are less than $l.f5
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
MAKING TOn7OrrOWS
INSURlNG A NATION.
BY LUHLTER WILLIAMS, LID
Dsanefa< ooiefJosralhm effhs Jphssav Of Missouri

"a week are insured without cost to
them. Contributions are not paid by
the workman during sickness or unem-
ployment and cease entirely when he
reaches the age of seventy years. The
act makes 1t Illegal for the employer
to deduct his own proper contribution
from the workers wage; he must de-
duct only the workers share. A spe-
cial provision modifies contributions in
cases where employers maintain their
workpeople In sickness. Men and
women of all ages up to sixty-five
years are treated alike In respect to
contributions. Insurance cost is no
more at forty years Of age than at
sixteen. The age handicap, necessari-
ly imposed by private insurance COM
panies, is entirely absent from the
British scheme.
What are the benefits?
The member Of parliament from
Northampton, H. B. Lees Smith, and
the managing director Of a great
wholesale establishment of London,
Wilkie Calvert (brother of DR.. Sidney
Calvert, professor Of chemistry at the
University of Missouri), summarized
these benefits:
Sickness and Other Benefits.
The workman pays eight cents a
week or less. His benefits are the
same whatever he pays. These bene-
fits include free medical attendance
and free medicine, sickness benefit.
disablement or invalidity pension, ma
ternity benefit, sanitarium benefit.
Free medical attendance and free
medicine are provided to the worker
who becomes Ill. This provision has
been sharply attacked by the British
doctors. The sickness benefit varies
in amount. Ordinarily it is $3.50 a
week for men and $1.75 week for
women for 26 weeks Sickness bene-
fits cease at seventy years Of age,
when the old age pension becomes
payable. If sickness continues long
er than rs weeks, S1.25 week is paid
during the remainder Of the sickness,
however long it may be. Provision is
made for certain reduction in benefits
when members are in arrears with
their contributions, but no one is sus-
pended from medical, sanitarium and
maternity benefits until more than 26
weeks in arrears. Insured women,
married or unmarried, and the wives
of insured men, whether insured or
not, receive a maternity benefit of
$3.50 in addition to sickness benefit,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

and, relief from payment of contribu-
lions. 1t is estimated that when the
scheme is fully at work a million
mothers in Great Britain will each
year receive this benefit at cost
to the nation, on this account
alone, of $7,5OO,0O0, Under the sana-
torium benefit the state provides. for
free treatment and care,in sanatoriums
or at home, of persons who contract
tuberculosis. The insurance commits
sioners may schedule other diseases
also for institutional treatment. These
are the minimum benefits. Other ben
efits, possible with prudent manage
ment of the insurance funds, include
larger old age pensions and higher
sick, disablement and maternity pay
and convalescence allowances.
Administered Through Fraternal soci-
etles.
The administration of the act Is
through the government, which util-
ICES the friendly societies. trades
unions and other approved organiza-
tions-and through the postal savings
bank for deposit contributors whom no
friendly society would insure The
friendly societies correspond, to de-
gree to mutual insurance companies
in the United States. The insured thus
control the working of the scheme
The act makes safe and solvent the
fraternal or friendly society and in
creases Its benefits, provided upon re
pcated examination the society OF
lodge sh.>ws approvable management
But how does the insurance act ben
eft the employer? What does he re
ceive in return for his contribution Of
six cents week?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
ADVERTISING IN TOXIC

The following advertisement Of a.
Toxic bookseller is worthy of being
passed on:
THE advantages of our establish
ment: l, prices cheap as lottery; 2.
books elegant as a singing girl; g.,
print clear as crystal; A. paper tough
as elephants hide; 5, customers treat
ed as politely as by the rival steamship
companies; G. articles as plentiful as.
in library; 7, goods dispatched as ex-
peditiously as cannon ball; s, parcels
done up with as much care as that be-
slowed on her husband by loving.
wife; 8, all defects, such as dissipa-
ton and idleness, will be cured in
young people paying us frequent Wis
it's, and they will become solid men;
10, the other advantages we offer are
too many for language to express"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

enacted 1t into law. 1t will ruin the
nation, assert In public the Conser-
vatives, who opposed its enactment.
In private all parties appear commit
ted to acceptance of the general prin-
ciples of the National Insurance Act,
as it is popularity called, though as to
some Of its practical workings there
pear probable that the act will be re-
pealed, though 1t will doubtless-to
quote Bonar Law, the Conservative
leader-be "drastically amended" If
his party, turning out the Liberals,
is placed in power at the next general
election.
The insurance act became law De
cember 16, 1911. 1t was a government
measure presented and supported by
the Liberal government. Such a
scheme" said Worthington Evans, M.
p, one of its most vigorous critics,
could never have been brought in ex-
cept by one with the pluck of Mr..
Lloyd-George, and with the help of
those connected with insurance" In
many respects the original measure
was crudely drawn. showing the marks
of haste in its preparation. Some of
the crudities have been corrected by
supplementary legislation.
Compulsory Insurance Against Sick
ness.
What is the purpose of the insur-
ance act and what are its practical
workings since it has been British
law? While the act was passed in
December, 1911. the insurance features
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26
BED AS a PUNISHMENT

No more fantastic punishment can
we'll he conceived than that melted out.
a while since, by a magistrate at Ben,
nington, Kan, to man charged with
being intoxicated The prisoner was
sentenced to seven days in bed, and
was conducted home by policeman.
who stood by while he undressed him
self, and then tucked him up snugly
between the sheets
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

London, Eng
land. IAN Act
to provide for In
surance against
LOSS of Health
and for the Pre-
vention and Cure
Of Sickness, and
for Insurance
Against U n 9 M
ploy m e n t"
such is the COM
prehensive title
of the most am
bilious measure
for social reform
yet attempted In
Great Britain. 1t
will make over
the United King
dom, declare the
Ii b 9 rails and
their allies. who
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-26

When Lord Rosebery visited Selkirk
re s.S.s to take part In the celebra-
? 0ost' ~ n - set Cd lryitth tha four hum
Flodden Field, be received I en-
of the burgh with the usual forInal-
ties, including the clicking OF the
birse," shoemaker's thread with
bristle point. This serious custom Is
survival of the time when nearly all
the burghers of Selkirk we're shoema-
kers.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-05
HONOR ROLL INCREASED.
Sixty-two st. Johns College Stu,
dents Merit Reward.

The students of st. Johns College
yesterday assembled in the College Hail
to hear read the names Of those placed
on the roll Of honor
After the preliminary exercises, Francis
Fannon read a paper treating OF the
federation in the Maryland colony during
the Anglican regime.
The following have had their names
placed on the honor roll: Francis Fan
non, James O'Donnell, William Mack,
Maurice Weschler. Francis Hannah,
james Manogue, Edward Sullivan, Joyce
McGinness. Richard Shea, Harry Nash,
Francis Walsh. John Chase, John Cos
tello, John Abel. Ambrose Cannon,
William De Lacy, Charles Murray. Harry
Hatigan, Cornelius Naughton, Raymond
Madigan, Joseph Springman, Oscar
Luckett, Patrick KERN, Thomas Riordan,
Louis Jacobson, Cornelius Hill, Thomas
McGrath, John Began, Cornelius Reidy,
Bernard Benson, Chester Fannon, John
Horrigan, David Cox. Abner Drury, John
Stahl, Nelson Graves, John Murphy,
Richard Walsh, Paul Clements, Eugene
Auldridge, John T. Hill, Dennis Dugan,
Ambrose German, Bernard Rogan, John
Nolan, Charles Muldoon, Jerome Rupert.
Thomas McGrath, William Drury,
Thomas Younger, John Hill. Paul Cough
Ian, Romulo Naon. Joseph McGinness,
Joseph Arias, John Keliher John Dugan,
John Chilly, Thomas Reidy, William Har-
low, Ralph Weachler, John Keane.