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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

A grudge is hatred out to win an en-
durance contest, and i: hurts.
Somehow we can never cheer very loud
upon a come on boys incentive.
1t occurs to us that the copyright law
does good deal of unnecessary work.
Neither does a man need to go east to
raise a thirst, as Mr.. Kipling intimates
We have observed that the gent who
talks much of his Life Work, loafs a good
deal.
Nearly every man has enough friends so
1T is hard to abuse him without a come
back.
Rumors travel so fast it is well they
don't carry the same deadly punch as
siX-cylinder motor car.
When a man is in love first he is likely
to study the language of flowers and other
forms of foolishness.
a bloodhound travels faster than the
other policemen, but he steers in the
wrong direction about as often.
Alb. Adkins believes he has pull enough
to connect with the paymaster's depart
ment, and is strong for armed interven-
ton.
Jude Johnson happened to predict that
big wheat crop last season, and has been
acting like the state agricultural college
ever since.
1t should flatter the men a good deal
to observe that women, who do none of
the fighting, are most worried when
warcloud the size of a mans hand looms
above the horizon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS.

bill providing for pensioning the
mothers of fatherless children mas
been reported out of committee ana
recommended for passage in the state
legislature.
In more than a dozen states whose
legislatures are in session, pensions OF
subsidies for widowed mothers with
denendent children are an issue. In
several other states such pensions are
already granted in one form or an
other.
1t is urged by advocates of sub
sidies for widowed mothers, with de-
Dendent children, that such mothers
are entitled to pensions to which the
stigma of charity shall not attach
anv more than it attaches to soldiers
pensions or to civil service pensions
for firemen, policemen and the IKE;
that in rearing their children mothers
are rendering an Indispensable service
to the state; that, regarded purely as
a matter of dollars and cents, 1t VIII
be cheaper for the state to aid a Wlo-
ow in caring for her dependent child
rem than to place them with strangers
or in institutions; that the mother has
the first right upon her child, and
that to separate her from it merely on
account of her poverty is inhuman.
Opponents of such pensions-ln-
Guiding many social workers-plead
for further investigation, for delay,
for postponement. Put the matter off
let other states experiment with wild
owed mothers pensions and we snail
Sc what the results are, they say
Mr.. Carstens, general agent of the So
cietv for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children. doubts the expedtency OF
such legislation, and he raises the
question whether the state should not
also logically pension widowers with
dependent children, and whether
motherhood may reasonably be
thought of as endowed when the Off
spring in so many cases is either il
legitimate, misshapen, undernourlshed
or diseased, a constant care and men
ace. or an expense to the state rather
than an asset or a blessing.
The problem is one of fixing the
responsibility. Where does it lie;
with the individual, the relatives, the
neighborhood, private charity, organ
izations or with the state?
1t is safe to say that of these the
state only will meet the situation and
care for it properly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
..NIExICo FOR THE MEXICANS."

Theoretical revolutionists who make
it a point of faith to find as much
fault as possible with their own coun-
try and countrymen and assail existing
conditions as if they believed that
whatever is is wrong, have been tell
ing those who would listen that the
trouble in Mexico is the result of the
invasion of that unhappy land by for
eign capital, especially from the
United states. They have argued that
nothing better could be expected until
after a revolution which would go to
the root of the ills Mexico suffers by
enforcing the doctrine of Mexico for
the Mexicans."
This means, of course, Mexico with
ont ANYTHING brought to that country
or invested there, or lent or given by
foreigners. 1t means a Mexico with
out American engineers or superin-
tendents, without American railroads
! or mines, without all the vitality and
force put into industry by Americans
and their money. And what is true of
! America would apply, of course, to
Germans, Frenchmen, Britons and all
I other foreigners and to all outside
capital.
/ The outlook for Mexico is dubious
now and the evils which exist in that
! country are many and grave, but if
any intelligent and reasonable man
wants a mental picture of desolation
let him try to imagine Mexico stripped
of what foreign capital and foreign
brains and energy have done and
created there. He will see in his
minds eye region with it's production
: of the necessaries of life greatly re-
duced and its means of transportation
and communication set back to the
conditions of the ages before steam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

its mean. but I'm glad. She's such a
| fiirty thing
Whats her name?' asked Dick.
I don't know and don't want to-
sniffei Adeline. shes a regular siren,
and If you begin to ask questions about
her shall get jealous
Adellne went with Dick to the station
the next morning and there was the
SIREN seeing her friend off, too. Ace
line recognized him as the man with the
umbrella of the night before When tre
other girl beheld Dick she stared very
hard
why. Dick stantonr' she calculated in
amazement "I-thought-what are you
doing here?''
49, All. how do you do. Miss Redmar E?
rms IS pleasant surprised There's the
train, This way. Addie,' he almost car
RED ed, Adeline up the platform with him.
Adeline.
She's the sister of fellow 1 went to
nose Oh the train. Mice enough but a
most tiresome f1irt. She talks of all hen
brothers friends as her conquests. You
your style
She was awfulIy surprised to see you."
suggested Adeline.
les. I guess was. she-she didn't
ing
He asked for Miss Redman first, I'm
sure I murmured Adeline. watching tn,
thought she had him, too
W men Dick was well his way he
the address scrubbed in it
hree houses from the corner. " he
reau; wen, always did love a bust
nesshke fog! What luck. I didn't brirg
chocolates"' and then. after a pause, u
nope Addie doesn't get too intimate with
that girl next door."-(Copyrigh 1913 py
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
OUAKEJ, INVITATIONS
[From the Philadelphia Record. !

[From the Philadelphia Record
No man can be popular and tell his
troubles too.
We live to learn. and only then do we
learn to live.
If you would always be sure of an audi
ence abuse somebody.
When duty calls some people always
send word they are out.
Few of our troubles are really Wort h
the time it takes to tell them.
Many a man is so skepticaI that he
won't believe his own conscience.
The average man isn't nearly so fonI
of his wife he is of his wife's husband
1t is just as well to remember that a
pint of business is worth a peck of trou-
BILE.
would rather lose friend than an argu-
ment.
Nine times out of ten success is merely
the result of a one-card draw in the game
of life.
Miss Antique-''Love is the wine of Iife.'
Mr.. Blunt-"But think of the headache
next morning.
Wigwag-'1 belong to the Don't Worry
Society" Harduppe-"I wish you would
propose my creditors for membership
''Brevity is the soul of wit quoted the
few preachers are witty" suggested the
Simple Mug.
Blobbs-"I regard alimony sort CT
gambling debt" Slobbs-"How do YOU
make that out?' BIobbs-"wen. you
know marriage is a lottery"
Tonmy-"Pop, shall we ever see the
millennium Tommys Pop-'Not unless
we live long enough to see women as per-
feet as they expect their husbands to be-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
POINTE PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.I

Marriage is a sure cure for flattery.
Poets are born, but not all of them are
paid.
A married actor doesn't care for curtain
calls at home.
It's awfully hard for a girl to get used
to a stepfather.
Every time wise man makes mistake
he learns something.
While the way of the transgressor may
be hard, it is seldom lonesome.
The little a man wants here below is
generally little above the ordinary
He is a wise millionaire who keeps his
mouth shut and lets his money talk.
After you have had a streak of good
luck. the other kind never seems worth
> while.
Nothing is clearer to a woman than
how much handsome jewels could i'm
prove her character
If a man was offered his choice of fame
or fortune, he'd take the fortune and
hope to acquire fame later
1t surely is tough luck if you are unable
to mortgage your house for enough to
get the kind of touring car you want.
And a woman would far rather have a
man stare at her than have him act as if
he thought she wasn't worth staring at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
EVENING CEAT
About Dolls
BT RVTM CAlEERON.

A little friend of mine had three dolls
at Christmas. Two were of the old
fashioned type. They had flaxen hair,
absolutely regular features and staring
blue eyes. They wore fussy unreal
clothes They were the kind of crea-
ton that has given the adjective doll
lace to regular, pudgy, meaning
less face.
The other doll was the new type, a
dear funny little creature with a face
as near like that of human child as
the artist could make it. She was
dressed in little Bingham dress such
as child would naturally wear, and
she wasn't bit pretty, but she was
just as cute and human as YOU can
imagine. And though my little friend
admired her two doll-faced dolls. it was
easy to see that she loved the homely,
human dolly the best
Undoubtedly you must have seen this
new type of doll which is so tremend-
ously popular this year. And didn't it
make you wish you We're the doll age
again so that you might have one?
That's the way it affected me.
And now perhaps you'd like to know
why I'm writing at such length about
doll. I'll tell you. Because it seems
to me that the popularity of this new
type of doll is a manifestation of one
of the most interesting tendencies of
the present age-the tendency toward
humanness.
What is the most popular actress on
the American stage today? Ask that
question of five people and at least
three of them would speak a single
name-Is she so beautiful, such a won
derful emotional actress? No, she
isn't beautiful at all. at least not in
the old acceptation of that word Nor
is she a wonderful emotional actress
at least not in the way the older favor
ties were. Maude Adams popularity is
founded on her humanness. Her plays
and her ways are simple, natural. HUI
man. She does what you or I would do
under similar circumstances. And box
office receipts show that most of us
really enjoy seeing an actress acting
actress.
human tale is more common and more
popular today than the wild tale of
romance and adventure that was the
favorite generation ago. Could any
thing be more simple and unexciting
than one of Mary Stewart Cuttings
stories of middle class people in every
day situations? And yet they are very
popular. Why? Because they are hui
man and that's what people want now
adays
Look about You and you will see
other WAYS in which this tendency is
manifested. We have less and less use
for the artificial. the strained and I'M
natural. and more and more apDrecia-
ton of the simple. the real. the human.
Is it to be a lasting condition or just
a swing of the pendulum? I wonder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
From the HickeyviIle Clarion.

The Hotel Hickeyville had a grand fish
dinner the other night and the bill of fare
consisted OF sardines and Goldfish. Miss
Pansy TfbbittS is taking a correspondence
school course in stenography and type
writing. She has taken piano lessons so
long she doesn't expect to have any diff
Guilty in learning to run a typewriter
pretty rapid. Old Man Purdy says he
don't know which is the fastest type
writer made, but there is some pretty
swift blonde ones around this town
Grandma Perkins who has been at the
point of death for ten years, has bought
a new bicycle to ride over TO West
HickeyVille, where she has accepted the
lucrative position of foreman of the flour
and feed mill.
Elmer Jones went to Tecumsah last
spring to accept lucrative position with
the ball team short stop, but the CAP
tain said he wasn't short enough. Elmer
is six foot four in his stocking feet when
he wears EN-. which is not frequent Ell
mer expects to go back into the crayon
portrait business. A crayon portrait ar
fist ought to make good vaudeville at
traction providing he draws well.
Renfrew Binks, the station agent, says
the heat expands the rails much that
it is nine miles farther from here to PurdY
Junction in the summer than 1t is in the
winter. Miss Euphemia Nudge went into
drug store down to the city to get some
complexion powder. The clerk asked her
what color she wanted and she said flesh
color of course. The clerk gave her some
red ochre.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

He will be able to find in a survey OF
such Mexico practically complete
lack of large initiative and stagnation
in business of every kind above the
level of barter.
And with such material conditions
would come more savagery in civil war
and more chaos in government, be-
cause the pressure of poverty would
be heavier and there would be less to
lose by the use of force to gain power
and it's perquisites. The outlook for
education and everything worth while
in civilization would be much worse
than it is now. If the doctrine of
Mexico for the Mexicaps were strictly
enforced it would soon make a Mexico
that not even the natives could find
we'll worth possessing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
.AXHAWKER JOTS

Wallace county lays claim to the
highest spot in the state.
A Junction City merchant pins his
faith to the grounding to the extent
that he is advertising straw hats.
Lynn Bloom has been in the news
paper business but a short time, but he
has already acquired 5000 libel suit
Here is where Kansas gets into the
Mexican game An employee of the
Salina Journal went to school with
Felix Diaz.
A farmer near Thayer cleared 800
an acre on his watermelon crop last
year and is planning to increase his
acreage this year
After a man has made fizzle of
everything he ever tackled, says Bert
Walker, he generally turns militant re-
former, which is the one great handi-
cap under which real reform labors.
The sheriff at Kackley is hunting
two runaway boys who skipped out
after attending the chicken show, one
evening recently. Probably they are
hunting another collection of chick
ems.
An Emporia young man has been
touched for $35 by an eastern song
publishing concern and Walt Mason
not only bawls him out but uses the
circumstance for a hook on which to
hang a moral
hands of the legislature, says the Law
renee Gazette, but the people of Kan
saS will continue to go to Topeka
when they want to attend a state wide
exhibition of that sort.
The Wichita Beacon already has be-
gun to find fault with the corpora
ton tax law. Here is what it says:
state sovereignty got solar. plexus
blow when the state put a fine upon
the state oanks which can not be COL
lected from the national banks The
national banks, enjoying a federal
charter. are not subject to state de-
pletion.'
Brother Philander,'' said I to our
head deacon the other day, ST notice
that our minister no longer has any
thing to say about the rich man and
the camel going through the eye of Il
needle?'' NO. replied our church
treasurer, they have all paid their
subscriptions and promised an in
crease next year if times are good'
Philander is so practical that he some
times appears irrelevant.-Bert Walk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
According TO Uncle Abner.

The house of representatives tried to
sing the star Spangled Banner" the
other day and fell down disInally, but
congressman are not elected to sing. They
are elected to distribute garden seeds.
From the manner in which the Turkish
army is being persistently put to flight.
it ought to be able to graduate a remark
able number of aviators.
Rhode Island is figuring on spending Il
large sum for good roads. but she cannot
spend very much and keep the roads in
the state
The public drinking cups have been ta-
ken off all fountains in Kentucky. No
body ever used them, anyhow.
Noah Webster plays safe on almost ev-
cry word by allowing the public to take
a choice.
England is to build twenty-one dread
noughts. but probably all will be several
years out of style before the last one is
completed.
A nerve specialist is thinlIin' of settling
in Hickeyville. but he will starve to death
if he does. There is nothing the matter
with The nerve of anybody In this town
that We know of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.J

, lrTon Ihe we" orh ffeSS-I
The cost of living problem is just a
family matter
What you like about a rich man is
maybe you can get some of it.
The reason a woman could always re-
spect princes is they never could them
selves.
There's hardly any man that could
make a choice between visit to his wife's
relatives and jury duty.
What makes man tired from bust
ness as to have to take a nap after din
ner is to be home with the family in
stead Of out with the boys
The reason a girl wouldn't miss saying
her morning prayers for anything is while
she's saying them is the time she decides
what she's going to wear
What makes it SO dangerous to our
political institutions for woman to
have a little brains is it makes it SO
much more evident her husband hasn't
any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
CowPUNCHER PHILOSOPHY

This worlds SO doggone big and bright
I'd like to pack my grip
And start out from the ranch some nlgh
On some wide, endless trip;
d like to go and never stop
Until, when came deaths call.
I'd simply sigh: '-All right old top
I've seen it aIl,''
RMS life is such thing of joy
Why some folks kick beats me;
How kin they find heart to destroy
me good in all they see?
/ d have each day stretched to week
Each week into a year.
But JOY and some folks never speak
1t sure is queer,
This thing called Me, it often seems
Amt mine little bit;
It's jest part of Someone's schemes
And amt ownin' it:
But while this thing called Me is here
I'm going to treat it right
ana work to keep it's record clear
With all my might!
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

The first national conference on mar
keting and farm credits will meet in
Chicago April 8. and 10. 1918, at the
Hotel Sherman. ito devise remedies for
the evils now existing in the distribu-
ton and marketing of farm products
and the financing of farm business. and
to unite upon a plan of constructive
action This announcement bears all
the ear marks of proposed trust Per-
haps one of the good" kind is con-
templated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

1t seems to be the idea of some of
the planters and waterers of public
buildings legislation in congress that
giving every town which wants it a
public building will put an end to the
famous county seat wars in the West
ern states. Raiders may have no COM
junction about carrying off a $4,000
county courthouse on wheels, but they
will hesitate to incur the wrath of the
federal authorities by kidnapping a
S75 OGO postcffice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
ON THE SPUR
OF The AOMENT
The Rudiments' of PoIler
By ROY X. MOULTON.

Who bluffs a hand and gets the pot
may live to bluff and win IL not.
One good player deceives another.
A card in time seems fine
The man who laughs last stacks best.
The Insignificant pair gathers no moss.
Discretion is the better part OF poker.
A little full house is dangerous thing
A player is known by the chips he
keeps.
A card in need is a card indeed.
There are just as good cards in the deck
as ever caught.
Whom the gods would destroy they first
give a fourflush.
lever count your chips until they're
caShed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
HUAOR OF THE Day

Bacon-What did your boy learn at col
Iege? Egbert-Says he can't tell me. Ba-
con-Why not? Egbert-Says it's secret
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT! Egbert-No, you know
he learned the football signals.-Yonkers
Statesman
Il explained to George when he pro-
posed that of course, he could not expect
me TO cook" What did he say?' THAT
he only expected me to try. "--Buffalo ok
press
willfs-Did they give you any new
books for Christmas? Gillis-Yes; a let
of the haIf-baked kind-either illustrated
by the author or written by the artist
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

Twenty state legislatures already
have ratified the proposed amendment
to the federal constitution providing
for the direct election of United States
senators. But 16 more are needed. The
attention of those states which have
not adopted the amendment is called
to the situation in Illinois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

After all Hutchinson did not get
much out of her state fair fight. She
obtained official sanction for a title
which she had already appropriated.
But fair may be just as great under
any other name. Topeka will have a
bigger and better fair than any other
in the state as she always has done,
and the people will come because they
know where to find the big show.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

Texas, unsatisfied with being the
largest state in the sisterhood, has just
been awarded slice off the side of New
Mexico. Not many years ago she took
a bite out of Oklahoma Now she
would like a hunk from the Aztec
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

Probably there never viii be any
thing approaching unaninity of senti-
Inent regarding the point at which
street cars should stop in order to
properly accommodate the public. II
the city administration is going to
undertake the regulation of the mat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

ter it will find it's days full of trou-
BILE. The recent complaints regarding
the near side stops are due largely to
the absence of front exits on the cars.
If cars shall continue to stop on the
near side, but with the rear platform
ON the crossing, it is not unlikely that
objections would be reduced to a mini
mum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

Moving pictures of Mississippi
crevasse have been prepared for con-
gress. The Globe-Democrat suggests
that a second reel showing congress
making an adequate appropriation
should come next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

The following from the Nebraska
State Journal is respectfully submitted
10 woodrow Wilson: Few men elected
to high office escape the embarrass-
ment of having to apologize for ante
election pledges which they find them
selves unable to carry OUT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01

1t is claimed in the Boston Journal
that the progressive committee in that
state will enter the political campaign
next fall with a fund of 100000. Now
look out for a rush of the moose herd
to Massachusetts,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member or the
Associated Press and receives the fuil DAY
telegraph report of that great news Or
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state Jour
nal brildin<s over wires for this sole pur-
pose.