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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
EVENING CHNT
Discounting Ones Own Opinion.
By RUTH CAMERON.

Discounting Ones Own Opinion.
eff you can trust yourself when all men
doubt you, s
But make allowance for their doubling
too"
-Kipling.
Do you discount the value of your own
opinions?
You don't know what 1 mean? Why
just this.-do you take your own peculiar
tiles into consideration when you are
reckoning the value of your own opinions?
Almost everyone discounts the value of
other folks opinions and ADVICE by the
temperament and pecularities of these
people. Not always consciously, perhaps,
but with swift subconscious process like
the reckonings of lightning calculator.
For instance, when Mr.. H, who is well
known to be of an exceedingly cautious
9re @beh rou sa aye 20 S9e 9l do
it. It's too risky. Puts your money in
the savings bank; it's the only safe way"
view at its full face value. Possibly you
discount it about fifty per cent. Possibly
more.
Again, if Mr.. B., who is equally we'll
known to be hopeless optinist. toots the
investment to the skies and assures you
why, man, I .wouldn'ts be afraid to put
every cent I've got into it; what's the
sense of taking two and a half per cent
from a savings bank when you can get
eight here and be just as safer" you do
not accept his point of view either as the
final and ultimate truth. Instead you
consciously or subconsciouSly discount his
statement by making allowance for his
abnormalIy hopeful temperament.
You simply have to discount people s
opinions If you didn't do it to some extent
you would be a fool And an ability to
discount quickly, accurately and without
prejudice is one of the surest foundation
stones of success
But do YOU carry this process one step
further and discount the value OF your
opinion? 1t is only one man out or a
thousand who fails to discount other peo-
pies points of view. 1t is less than one
in a thousand who remembers to discount
his own
And yet undoubtedly your own opinion.
your own advice to yourself, needs d1s-
counting just much as other folks-
perhaps more. :.
Do YOU know a single person who is
perfectly balanced, neither 100 hopeful
nor foo pessimistic, too cautious nor too
radical, too conservative nor too quick 10
actin short absolutely without a Single
oyerbalance which needs to be corrected :!
Probably not. I'm sure don L Iheh
why take it for granted that you are
such a person? -,
Why not use the same wisdom in deal
ing with yourself that you do IN oeahng
with other people?
study yourself. Find out where you are
oyer-balanced, whether more cautious or
more impulsive, more hopeful or more
naSsinoistic than the norm and then use
yo1Ir knowledge to discount the value OF
YOUR own advice. :. -,
No it's not the easiest thlng IN ,le
world to do. OF course not. II is meyer
easv to do great things Ana accorolhs
10 The greatest race the world mas ever
known. to know thyself is the greatest
thing man can ever do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Too many people try to eat when they
have appetite
When fountain pen won't leak 1t needs
filling. Or is your different?
Neither have the good anything on the
aviators in the matter of dying young.
Don't drive dull care away in a manner
to bring it back tomorrow with relIl-
forcements.
While no one may be his own boss, the
son of a liberal father comes nearest 10
qualifying in that class
We also kick on illustrations of the CD
Year as a decrepit old devil with a
scythe; a yearling should feel frisky.
An Atchison woman shopped for a week
without spending any money 1t IS
strange so few clerks throw bombs at the
ladies'.
Doc Robinson: ct mistrust humanit j.
and is it any wonder? The last man WHO
looked me straight in the eye sold ME
some mining stock
An old timer says dry goods bills We're
less when women wore hoop skirts tnai
with the present restricted raiment- Mar
velous is the magic of merchandise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
s1rEERAGIsTs SURPRISED.

conoa of the suffragist mixers VINO
.1l,oa from New York city to Albany
to attract public attention to their po-
1;+ioa1 mission, have been much sur
nrised by the physical effects OF 1heil
long tramp. Before they met cover
nor-elect Sulzer several or them ieit
repaid. whatever their reception mlght
he at the executive manson OF the
state, by the personal benefits expert
enced on the road.
II appears that these women, mill
tant and strenuous though they WERE
expected to lose weight and run down
physically. On the contrary they all
gained flesh. AS one of them said at
Albany Imagine getting fat on a
tramp, but we ate like camels all the
way. It was terrible the way we de-
voured food at every crossroads. Beef,
oatmeal, eggs, apples and even pork
and cornbread; anything that was
given u.s." Another of the suffragists
said that she expected to lose flesh,
but although she had weighed only
ZIG pounds all her life, she found on
reaching Albany that she tipped the
scales at $50.
All of which shows what good exer-
else walking is, and how good for
| health and strength it is to have good
exercise. If more people had personal
experience of long tramps there would
| be fewer doctors bills to pay, and the
undertakers would shortly find them
| selves facing hard times.
Especially for women of the suf-
fragist type, who take life and its
cares seriously and subject themselves
to a good deal of mental strain in
connection with the cause dear to their
| hearts, it is a great thing to go out
| into the open air and take enough real
bodily exercise to get tired and sleepy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
AYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. George Taaffe, of Cherryvale. is
undoubtedly most popular with the fair
SEX
Kieth Clevenger is of the opinion that
there is a question as to whether Henry
Allen went to Washington as a COR
respondent or a prophet.
A request goes up from the Fort Scott
Tribune that the jay-walxing ordinance
be so arranged as to include women
who wear long hatpins and turn around
quickly.
Twas ever thus. An out-of-t town
man, relates the Hiawatha World, who
was engaged to a young lady, wrote her
very affectionate letter, and three
days later married another girl.
As Editor Osterwold, of the Ho1ton
Signal suggests. The subject of the
high cost of living which was laid aside
couple of weeks ago will be taken
up with renewed interest the first of
the month.
There is suggestion that the state
ought to loan money to farmers, notes
the Hutchinson News, and it adds:
But it is probable that the farmers are
in better shape to loan money to the
state, out here in Kansas.
Says the Sabetha Star: Thomas JEFF
ferson's we'll known fondness for the
violin is in danger of further compli-
eating the discussion of his rights to
veneration by bringing up the suspicion
that he was non-union musician.
And the Silver Lake Mirror is unkind
enough to suggest that it would be
eminently proper for Mrs. Myra Nc
Henry to obtain a place as state house
guard under the Democratic admins
tration on the theory that it will need
watching.
Somehow or other these two items
in the Formoso Spirit do not seem to
jibe: Nearly everyone has visited some
one or done something the past week
and we have found it impossible to keep
tab on all that has happened. If
you don't read the Spirit you don't get
the news.
Another protest goes up from the
Wichita Beacon that the world doesn't
appear to be taking forward strides
when murders are committed with such
crude implements an axe. which was
in vogue centuries ago. In fact, as
the Beacon points out, murder by any
means isn't much indication of increas-
ing civilization.
An excellent Suggestion from the
Hiawatha World: 1t wouldn't cost the
ereat state of Kansas much to send
the survivors of the Battle of Gettys-
burg to the reunion that is to be held
on, the battlefield the coming summer
and all could afford to favor the idea
of the legislature paying the cost-H1a-
watha World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
Danger to T. r. in Bullet.

There is a bad effect about a bullet
being in a persons body that the aver
age person does not realize. 1t was an
old theory that a foreign object COW
cred up in the human body and not
giving pain was safe, and that it did
not have any effect on the person, but
that theory has gone the way of many
old beliefs.
The bullet that lodged against Col.
Roosevelt's rib is more serious than
MANY believe. Even though the wound
normal, there turks a danger that
should be considered most seriously.
There is always danger of infection, OF
course; but, outside of this, there is an
even more serious danger. 1t is men
tai rather than physical.
1 remember a patient of mine who
had two bullets lodged near his
shoulder blades. The man was in
good physical condition, but, after he
had been shot. he became subject to
mcrose spells, seemingly without any
reason. Business and life were going
all right with him, but he could not
keep his mental outlook clear, and
every week he would be mentally
depressed that nothing in the world
seemed good to him. After an ex-
animation 1 decided to remove the bull
again. Medical records are full of
such instances
1t is dangerous for Col. Roosevelt to
go about with the bullet in his body.
OF course he might become infected
in a year and be taken down. but the
greater danger is that he will become
mentally depressed Nature abhors
foreign substance in the human flesh.
and if it cannot make the physical self
revolt against it, nature sways the
mental body. The nervous system is
very highly organized and a leaden
weight in the body is constantly ir-
ritating it and dragging it down. The
nervous system is constantly reporting
to the brain if anything goes wrong.
and when there is a leaden load on 1t
the nervous system becomes irritated
and fretful AS the years slip by, the
nervousness increases, so that the final
result may be very serious. 1t is a
dangerous chance to leave a bullet in
the human body. 1t is a mental and
physical menace--Dr. Frank e. Miller
in Leslie's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
It's a poor fool that can't be worked
both ways.
The bore is not necessarily person or
deep penetration.
Fame is a bubble, and every man has
to do his own blowing.
MANY a man who chokes over fish
bone will swallow fish story without
any inconvenience.
There is food for thought in the reflec-
ton many a good dinner is wasted on
poor appetite.
Love may be blind, but there is noth-
ing the matter with its sense OF smell
where orange blossoms are concerned
skinnum-.It's no easy thing to be
honest in these days of keen competl-
ton" Wigwag--Oh, it's easy enough
after you get used to it,
Tommy-.'Pop. what is contentmentt
rTonmy's Pop-'Contentment, my son, is
generally feeling that only comes when
we have more than we can possibly use.
The ocean liner was nearing port, and
the Fnglishman scanned the sky line crit
icslly I'm London he remarked, we
have none of those beastly skyscrapers.
.sOf course. not replied the American
IN London you haven't any sky 10
Scrape.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
HUMOR OF THE DAY

DIR. Steiner. the immigration exper-.
tells the following story on himself. He
was his way home one time when he
saw in a window a picture of an ocean
scene, underneath which were Tenny-
sons lines:
Break. break. break, on thy cold gray
stones. oh scar
He was very hardup. but admiring the
picture much, he couldn't resist the
temptation to have it sent home.
His wife's was of the practical temporal
ment. When she saw the picture. and the
bill. she said nothing. but taking a piece
of paper wrote the following and pinned
it on the frame:
Eyes, break, break. break, on thy cold
gray stones, oh sea-
For no matter how much you break,
you'll not be as broke as WEI
Observation-Disclosures Captain Waiter
what do you call this? Waiter-BouilIon
Sea Captain-Well, well, must have sail
ed ON bouillon all my life and did not
know it.-Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Sornethlng in It.-Willie-Paw, what is
q stable government? Paw-When the
party in power displays horse sense my
scn--Cincinnau Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06

OF course, it was eminently fitting
and in accord with precedents that the
United States senate should take a
special adjournment out of respect to
the memory of the late Jeff Davis, of
Arkansas. It would have been better,
though, had many of the members of
this distinguished body accorded Jeff
Davis a little more respect while he was
in the land of the living and one of
their colleagues. Jeff was coarse in
speech and had the propensity of a
firebrand. But such faults as he had
assume the proportions of virtues when
they are lined up against the tendencies
of some of the more genteel and re-
fined senators to misrepresent the peo-
ME
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06

of me. And you had said more than once
how you hated a drunkard--
ST do. But one swallow does not mak e
a drunkard any more than a summer,
Miss Maxwell said with a lurking smue
II sent you away Joe-because was Just
like Elinor, in need of master-I thought
you wouldn't 60
II never will again" Uncle Joe sa'o
penitently.
Fielding hurrahed hushedly.
Elinor tok his arm and hustled MN
away, her face very tender. leave MN
alone-they have lost so much, she WINS,
pered TT makes me sorry through ana
through"
80 you have hearth spite OF Aunty
Bab,'' Fielding whispered leading her oul
into the old-fashioned garden so as 70 Kiss
her in the midst of the roses-tCopyrlsin1 NJ
1918, by the Mcclure Newspaper Synui-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
CLOTHES ON DANCING GIRLs.

The Roman Catholic church moves
slowly, but when it once gets in mo-
ton it keeps on moving. There is
something of glacial quiet and glacial
strength about its operations. So,
when after years of study, 1T has come
to the conclusion that something must
be done to purify the stage of today,
it is safe to assume that something
will be done and done well.
In this move Cardinal Farley, the
head of the movement, will have the
cooperation of all the decent people
who go to the theater irrespective or
RELIGIOUS beliefs. And he will have, as
well, the firm support of the big men
of the stage, who have always kept
their skirts clean because of their ma
tive sense Of propriety, and the mer-
cenary ones who will see that it will
be bad business to set themselves
against such a popular movement.
Then, too, the actors and actresses
who play parts against their better
natures, or wear indecent clothing be-
cause they have to live just as much
as the architect or the well-digger, are
in active sympathy.
These will welcome any reform IN
deed, they are welcoming 1t already.
Men like Weber and Fields, whose
shows, though light and trifl1ng, nave
always been clean, and George conan
who has never put a suggestive hne
or situation in anything he wrote
have come out strong for the cleaning
up. And Marie Dressler said one of
the truest things. of them all, IN
little talk in New York last week.
Miss Dressler is a big, breezy woman
whose fun is of masculine breadth. She
romps and cavorts about the stage.
Sometimes she is coarse, from mere
overplus of animal spirits, but she
never is suggestive.
.'I believe" she said, there are
many immoral things on the stage to-
day, but none quite so bad as the man
ner in which girls are allowed to ap-
pear in public with few clothes on.
This evil has grown from year to
year, until there seems to be no limit
nowadays"
Sometimes this feminine nakedness
is Wanton as in the case of the Z1eg-
field productions. Others seek to ex-
cuse it in the name of art, like the
dancers of the Maude Allan and 1sa-
dora Duncan school. But nakedness,
in this connection, is no more art than
the profanity and directness of drama
lists who seek the punch is strength,
There is a too-prevalent idea that you
have to be outspoken to be dramatic
and unclothed to be esthetic.
Cardinal Farley's society should
look to these things first. The public
is with him and it will be with him
in the further reforms of clean plays
and clean performances.
This does not mean an emasculated
drama. There are certain truths that
have to be told, certain questions that
may need discussion. But their stage
telling must not be licentious. They
must be legitimate means to a health
f,,1 ND
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
WILLIAM, THE PEACE-LovER.

When William II assembled the Ger
man throne, Europe expected nothing
less than to see a new Barbarossa
burst into the arena of European poll
tics, writes Ferrero. the noted historian
in the January Atlantic. Strange leg
ends were current about him; some
said he had sworn never to drink
glass of champagne until Champagne
should be annexed to the German EN-
pire; others, that his one ambition was
to cover his name with glory, and that
his warlike aspirations were boundless.
This was common talk, and the news
papers of the day printed it. Twenty
four years later the emperor could
boast, as he did not long ago to a.
French friend of mine, abiding to the
Morocco incident and the crisis of 1905,
History will recognize that Europe
owes her peace to me- And history
will, doubtless, recognize this pacific
disposition of his in the future more
than his people do now. For the past
few years the German emperor has not
been so popular as he was during the
first ten years of his reign The rea-
sons would be too many to give here,
but one is his constant and deter
mined pacific policy. He has invariably
tried to reconcile himself with France
rather than to seek occasion for an
other war. On this account a potion
of his people accuse him or loving
neace oyermuch and therefore of fol-
lowing a weak and vacillating policy,
letting slip opportunities which might
never present themselves again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rrrnm the Chicago News.

TFrom the ChlcAgo 1NeWS'I
And a lot of modesty is only SKIN oeep.
Hope deferred has given many a man
cold feet
Death is the nurse who will one day
put us to sleep.
If you have too much money you car
easily acquire more.
The path of failure runs along the
stream of procrastination.
Mechanical kisses are the KIND tnal
women bestow on each other.
The wise man bottles his wrath ana
then proceeds to lose the bottle
A woman can't help looking 1ndlgnasst
every time she sees a chicken lncuoalor
Tho bright baby its mother tells about
usually has an off day when you meet j.
when a man gets engaged to a girl al
the other fair maids of his acquaintance
begin to talk about his poor taste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06

Such fooIishness! Several thousands
of dollars were expended by the Pujo
committee investigating the money
trust, in an effort to serve a subpoena
on William Rockefeller. There was
much grandstanding on the part of
the employees of the house of repre-
sentatives who were entrusted with
this job. They laid siege to the Rookie
Teller home just as if their quarry
was a hardened and ferocious Grim
inaI. No one would have been sur
prised had they dynamited the house
to force Mr.. Rockefeller into the open
SO that personal service could be made
on him. But while the government
sleuths were camping around his
premises and telling the unsophisti-
Gated New York reporters what clev-
er gentlemen they were, Mr.. Rookie
Teller, through his attorney, notified
the committee that he would be quite
willing to appear before it Isn't there
a lot of bunc staged by the public
servants who have a fondness for
standing in the linfelights glare. but
with no sufficient ability to do SO ex-
cept through the medium of freak
stunts?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-06
FROM OTHER PENS
THE BRITISH INSURANCE ACT

THE BRITISH INSURANCE ACT.
When the terms of the British insur-
ance act were first made known %, 400
doctors signed personal pledge not to
accept service under it. The profession
is still bitter about it, but the revolt
is now less vigorous, and there seems
an improving prospect that the doctors
may cooperate with the government
after all. The ground of their standing
out was that the government requisi-
toned their services without making a
bargain about it. The opposition suf-
feed to compel the government to in
crease it's original offer of $1.08 an
nually for each patient served under
the insurance act to 500 At this
rate, two thousand patients would pro-
duce an income of $4,000 gross. The
necessary professional expenses would
leave the net income inadequate for
personal support, and the number of
patients is so large that the service to
them would be poor. On the other
hand if the doctors were to be paid bet
ter the financial balance of the bill
would be upset. The hospitals as we'll
as the doctors are disaffected, and are
in better position to make their pro-
test effective. Since the peoples health
is to be cared for from tax money, the
hospitals declare that they will with
hold charitable assistance heretofore
rendered to the poor. The amount al
ready paid under the act is 500 900, 900,
and Sir James Barr has calculated that
the cost of the bill will reach $3.50 900, 600
This is the cost of fifteen dreadnoughts,
which would save the life of the ma
ton, whereas the working of the act
will not save the life of a single person,
not now already better cared for. The
singular thing is that this great piece
of legislation. with beneficent intent.
is a gratuitous offer. 1t was not asked
for by those who are to be benefited
by it, and they, or many Of them, are
as hostile to it as the doctors. The
doubt of it's popularity is so great that
already there is being brought forward
another great piece of progressive 1egis-
lation, which is likely to be so much
talked about that the insurance act Will
fall into the background. In a few
days Mr.. Lloyd-George is to bring on
his land tax reform. Every one who
does not pay land taxes is sure that
this is the very way to make the rich
bear the burdens of the poor. Taxes
come ahead of mortgages, and IL the
taxes are large enough the land is like
~ to be cheapened enough to bring it
within the reach of those able to profit
by sacrifice sales. Somewhere there is
an end to happiness through taxation,
but the end does not seem yet to have
been reached in England.-New York
Times.