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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
EVENING CHIT
Mouths.
III RUTH CAMERON.

Mouths.
Don't you just enjoy seeing a nice look
ing middle-aged woman.-a well sroomed
trim, erect woman,-who has not feI.
obliged to throw all pretensions to style
and good grooming to the winds, Just be-
cause she happens to have left the fiftietl,
milestone behind her?
do.
exceptionally fine example of this rare
species,-or rather L thought | had
She was sitting across from me in TIL.
trolley car, and at first L caught only
fugitive glimpses of her between strap
hangers. She wore the trimmest of tail
ored suits and simple but chic waist; a
right angle on her charmingly fluffe
gray hair. And then, just as / was say
ing to myself, well, that woman's hus-
band and children must be proud of her,
group of strap-hangers moved on and
gave a full face view.
Whereupon 1 changed my mind.
For the woman's face was completely
marred by a very ugly mouth.
1t was one of those tight, hard mouths
of an essentially ugly shape.-in fact Il
was probably very pretty once upon a
time,-but it had evidently been distorted
into its present condition by the tempera-
And truly that hard. repeIant lire
across her face completely marred her
otherwise charming appearance.
If you are any student of faces at ALL
you must surely have noticed how many
of the faces you see in the trolley care
in the streets, in the shops, in short
everywhere you go, are marred by ugly
mouths.
I don't mean intrinsically homely
mouths, but mouths made ugly by tie
character, habits and temperaments OF
their owners.
many tight mouths, how many
sensueus mouth, how many discontented
see everywhere. When once in while
We catch glimpse of a sweet. sensitive
beautiful mouth, it is like finding a wild
flower growing in the cracks of a city
pavement.
Have you noticed, too, how rare is a
NOUN with the corners turned up? There
are at least ten straight, even mouths
and ten others with mournfully dropping
corners, to one with the perky, upward
curve which means that the owner of
that mouth has the priceless gift of hap
piness.
We make our mouths more than any
other feature of our faces. Our lives
write themselves out in the shape of the
mouth and the lines about it With strik-
ing cIearness- 1t doesn't seem if even
child could fail to see the hardness of
some mouths Mouths advertise a man
or won1an's character blazingly and
blatantly an electric sign.
What is your mouth saying about you?
Is it a charm or deformity. an adver-
tisement or a warning?
Look in the glass and see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

up wherever it occurs He left d swell
restaurant in Chicago, the other day,
whittier J. Ham. Lewis had lured him.
because he found the charge for coffee
was 35 cents a cup In another res
taurant, he was talking to a friend
when some one laid violent hands on
him. He turned to do little whack-
ing himself, only to find that brush
boy was making ferocious passes 81
him.
The peppery governor turned on him
and said: IF you touch me again with
that broom, 1 will have you arrested
for assault and battery" The man
gazed at him in wonder. yes will,
the governor repeated, don't you know
that the laying on of hands is enough
to prefer the charge of assault ana
battery?'' In telling of the circum-
stance, the governor added: If any
person in this state is attacked by
persons with brooms seeking tips for
services which are not wanted, he may
fall back on assault and battery, II
he likes
1t is well to know this but the infor-
nation doesn't go far enough. The TIP
evil has more heads than hydra, or
rather, more claws than a deVllflsh.
All are outstretched, greedy, even men
acing The average person submits TO
this tribute rather than make fuss
or be insulted by the looks or the talk
of the offended tip-seeker.
If the governor had said a person
thus approached by boy with a
whisk-broom, seeking argentiferous
dust, could commit assault and pat
terry on him without danger of the law,
his words would have been still more
effective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rpro,, the Cbicaro News

TFrom the Chicago NeWs-]
Even a lazy man never gets tired run
ming for office.
Naturally beauty doctor likes TO de-
mand a handsome fee
An artist may paint his wife, but usual
Iy she paints herself.
The incest girl a young man knows IS
the one he is most afraid of.
It's far easier to form a good character
than it is to reform bad one
ANYWAY. the pen is mightier than the
sword when it comes to undertaking
Yes. Alonzo. there's a vast difference
between being cordial and drinking one
Every time a man gets his monthly gas
bill he's glad that he doesn't have to buy
the stuff by the ton
Occasionally man manages to remain
ignorant Notwithstanding the efforts of a
lot of women to put him wise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

''In reading an account of the Pro-
gressive meeting held in Topeka re-
Gently, which account appeared in
your paper, 1 noticed with much re-
great writes a friend in Colony, An
derson county, that in paying tribute
to the dead, some of those who have
passed away were overlooked. 1t was
undoubtedly an oversight, which
should be corrected even at this late
day. / am therefore enclosing ten
cents in postage stamps with which
flowers may be purchased, and dis
tributed as follows: Seven cents worth
to the late candidate for u. s. Senator.
Three cents worth for the Chairman
of the Republican State Central Com
nittee." And he enclosed the stamps,
too. These will be gladly turned over
to the keeper of the Bull Moose ex-
chequer. if he will take the trouble
to call for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Presumably a dull joke is one with
out much of a point.
H. j. n
Most men mean we'll, but that's as
far as it goes with too many of them.
4 = rs =.
No really sensible woman whose
husband draws muskrats salary Will
try to move in sealskin society.
A. T.
If home were a hall of justice, most
married men would be paying penal
ties all the time for being in contempt
of court.
= + +
One of the greatest surprises in
life comes to a man when he is made
to realize that woman aequalnt-
ance of long standing actually believes
a social gulf separates them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
Lucky KANSAS,

q
Representative men from all corners
of the state. chosen by popular vote,
have been celebrating in the state
house for some weeks now on the best
possible solution of the problems con-
fronting this commonwealth.
AS a matter of Fact, though, what
are these problems in comparison with
those that are demanding the atten-
ton of other bodies polite in this and
other lands? How serious are they?
These are questions that almost pro-
vide their own answers. The problems
of Kansas are really trivial when set
along side others in many states Most
of them are concerned with reforms
of the purely political variety; reforms
that aim in the direcuon of providing
more economical and efficient admin
istration of the ordinary affairs of
state.
There is no tremendous army of the
unemployed in Kansas. There are no
tenements seething with an ignorant
and almost helpless humanity where
babes in arms help earn the family
livelihood by picking the basting
threads from the garments made in
the whitening sweat shops. There are
no factories where children are stunted,
mentally and physically. and dried up
into little old men and women who go
TO premature graves without so much
as slipping at the joys of childhood.
There are no steel mills where men
must work IL hours each day for
seven days in the week in order to earn
a mere pfttanee that provides them
with scarcely enough for their daily
bread There are no convict labor
camps where unfortunate transgressors
against the law are held in a slavery
more terrible than anything the negoes
knew before the civil war. AS to the
social evil here, its proportions are
almost negligent. In fact, crime and
vice are the exceptions. not the rule
in Kansas.
The problems of Kansas People in
other states and lands would smile
at their simplicity when compared with
the ones they face.
Poverty is here and there in Kan
sas, to be sure. But it is nothing like
the poverty that is known in the con-
gested centers of this country and the
rest of the world. 1t isn't of the kind
that deprives multitudes of innocent
children of their birthright-a chance
to live. to breathe fresh air and be
warmed by little wholesome sunlight
1t doesn't cast a blight on the souls
of men and women that destroys all
of the goodness of human nature that
was inherent in them: that turns them
into beings who will stoop to any
depths of depravity and crime, out of
necessity almost that the pangs of a
relentless hunger may be assuaged.
For the most part. and for all but
an exceeding few of it's people, Kansas,
in verify, is Gods acre; a land of we'll
nigh perpetual sunshine, land, indeed,
DER flowing with milk and honey.
Throughout her rich valleys and over
her fertile plains, nature -deftly touches
the labor of Ian, and golden harvests
spring up as if by magic. There is
more than enough for all. An enormous
surplus is sent to the four ends of the
earth to make life easier and happier
for others.
The problems of Kansas-Shucks!
Kansas has none.
Lucky Kansasi
w
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
DAFFYDuS
BY o. NoALL-

If Jim Thorpe was a crack mathe-
matician would you call him an In
dian summer?
(William,i Take your feet out Of
the oven.)
If a horse can pull a heavy truck
what could the city hall?
(Lie down, F'ido, You're all wet-)
If the swift water piles the logs in
a heap is that current jam?
CAS- Oat Abar says: If you have a
grudge against your neighbor buy his
kid a drum.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Paris appears to be more than well
fixed in one respect. Estimates are to
the effect that the distinguished capt.
tai of France has an army of criminals
that numbers $4,000, of which $4,000
are thieves and swindlers, $4,000
smugglers, and $4,000 connected with
the social evil. In addition to these
delinquents Paris can also boast of
having $4,000 vagabonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

What's the matter with the mem
bers of the Kansas legislature? Here
they've had fist fights in the Wyom-
ing and Montana legislatures and the
solons of the Sunflower state continue
on their way like perfect gentlemen.
But Kansas is losing lot of free adj
VertiSing thereby
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

One of Wisconsin's legislators wants
a law prohibiting gowns that hook up
the back. Why doesn't he also intro
duce a bill compelling mems collars
to permit neckties to slip through
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press.1

The biggest test of true love is snoring
When a man isn't afraid of the cook
she's his wife.
Make a man laugh and he will share
his pocketbook with you
sick because she's too tall it's because of
son1e man who's too short.
Where a dog differs from some of the
rest of the family is he doesn't want to
go on arguing thing with you after You
have gone to sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

f'The Progressive has come to
stay" declares Colonel Roosevelt. And
it is also a fact that the progressive
was firmly on deck with both feet long
before Colonel Roosevelt deemed it
necessary to organize the Bull Moose
party SO that he might again contest
for the presidency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fuli Gay
faIeeranb report of that great news Or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for TINS sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Those who are pointing with pride
to the fact that the new Progressive
party in Kansas was organized from
''the grass roots" have apparently
forgotten that that is also the place
where the destructive chinch bugs
make their homes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

If Judge Lands had dissolved the
Standard Oil company at the same
time he imposed hi sfamous $29,ooO,'
600 fine, probably it could have al
forded to pay the price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

This is also the season of the year
when each of the baseball teams IN
the several leagues has the finest pos
sibie prospects of ending the season
with a championship pennant in its
poSSeSSiOu.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Cavalieri says that although she
owns gems to the value of $4,000, 900
the thing she prizes most is the knowl-
edge how to make the most deli
cious of spaghetti. No pickles, thanks
Please pass the prunes!i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Surely the statement that the SUI
fragists are looking for a pretty wo
man" to take part in their Washing
ton parade is nothing more than
base fabrication of the enemy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Like the proyerbial mill of the gods
the Kansas legislative mill grinds eA
ceedingly slow, but there the siIni
laritY ends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

A German scientist says that the
best way to alleviate hunger is to
tighten the belt. But those who can
not find on the market belts long
enough will continue to use the old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

New York's pickpocket trust ap-
pears to be about the only trust thai
Attorney General Wickersham mas
overlooked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Is this another slap at Champ
Clark? The dogs in the inaugural
parade will be of the Virginia fox
hound breed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Won't there be a great searching OF
old trunks, now? Stock certificates
valued at 100000 were found in one
in New York recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Apply early and avoid the rush
Uncle Sam is looking for xylotomlst-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17

Right away after the Atm OF Mareh
will come the question: VINO VIII De
the next White House bride?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
From the HickcyviIIe clarion.
BIZ ROY K MOULTON-

EIOMk thte ftlCACyNAAc Ot0EAOhAs
Some culprit entered the premises
of Mr.. Abel w. Fish. very recently
and distracted therefrom with malice
aforethought one large CaruSo rooster
whose voice had long been the morn
ing tocsin in that locality. The en-
thralling song of the Chantecler had
brought up the morning sun for some
time and nobody in Mr.. F1sh's commo-
dious farm residence ever rose until
the song had been sung. On the
morning after the rooster was stolen
there was of course no early morning
call and the entire family, also the
hired man. remained in the arms @.
Morphine for three days. They were
finally awakened by a gentlemanly
canvasser who was going through that
locality expounding the charms OF
patent mop wringer. Mr.. Abel W.
Fish was SO grateful to the canvasser
that he bought three wringers. Mr..
Fish and family now sit up all night
so as to be sure and be awake in time
to go to work at o'clock in the
morning, pending the arrival OF
stem winding six cylinder, foredoor
self-starting alarm clock from the
city.
A Teller that spend his time tryin'
to teach a slot machine how to take
joke is never going to be great
captain of industry.
The statesman of tomorrow are not
found in the pool room of today.
A fashion journal says bustles have
been relegated to the background.
Well, by gravy, that's where they al
ways were.
Our Beauty Cream.
testimonials for our new Beauty Cream
| are coming in so fast that we have had
10 hire three burglars to open them There
is only small amount of territory left
on this proposition and those who desire
10 acquire sales rights should hurry. Fol-
lowing are some OF the testimonials:
Dear Sir: After using one box of
your celebrated Beauty Cream. L have
grown so young that my husband has
been arrested for not sending me to the
public schools They think / am his
youngest daughter. May blessings be
heaped upon you.
Dear Sir: 1 used your Beauty Cream
twice and met my husband on the street
| the second afternoon. He thought 1 was
some strange lady and tried to flirt with
Dear Sir; Before using one box of
your Beauty Cream had the homliest
race IN our set. Now 1 am so beautiful
that 1 have had the opportunity TO turn
down seven theatrical engagements and
am afraid to meet Nat Goodwin for I
don't want to get married, having one
perfectly good husband already.-Mrs. G.
| Y"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
AWKWARD TIME TO INTERVIEW,

And VIII" yer will may come.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-20
STOCKS IRREGULAR;
TRADING IS SMALL
German Banks Bid High for
Money, but No Loans
Arranged.

James A. Pollock e. Co., bankers and
brokers. furnish the following. received
over their private wire yesterday after
noon.
NEW YORK, June 1s,-In most OF the
great markets prices moved irregularly
Yesterday, with a relatively small vol
ume OF business. The changes here
were for the most part only fractional,
and without reference to the news do
velopnents. which were not calculated
to have much influence upon sentiment
as a whole. After opening at fractional
Reading eeIiRne S''h in SG1 union Pseific IN Erie
in Amagamate ted. ! in Steel and } in
Atchlson, the market became rather dull
Then there was partial re recovery
The market held the improvement until
nearly noon, when there was a further
rea ction which carried the whole list
to the lowest level of the day, There
was at no time any great pressure to
sell. and on the days trading there was
no material enlargement Of outside sup
port.
The markets abroad were even more
listless, sentiment al London being more
or less influenced by labor difficulties
and political unrest In the final trad
tremely dull. and even in the usually
active shares transactions We're infre-
quent and relatively. unimportant The
market as whole contributed ute tle tn
and at the close trading wes virtually at
a standstl.
German borrowers raised their bid FOR
money here to what was almost equiva-
lent to 81 per cent for sixty days dol
lar loans" Although that quotation was
virtually II per cent above the local
market bid for similar accommoda tions
the inducement offered was not suffi-
cIently attra ctive to secure any large
advances from New York banks. The
fact that such transa ctions would figure
as Special deposits" by New York In
stitutions with German banks OF the
highest standing. made the operation at
tractive to some bankers who are al
ways appealed TO by proposals to invest
funds in ways calculated TO reduce.
rather than to increse. the reserve re-
ouirenents OF the banks as a whole. The
real test will come a few days hence,
when 1t Will be necessary TO make re-
mittances IN time for the half-yearly
settlement on the other side.
A year ago Berlin bid g. per cent Tor
short-term loans Just before the settle,
ment was financed, and should that BID
be made again before the week rs out
It Is possible that moderate advance
viii be made by the banks here. The
Wall street banks made larger offerings
OF call money than they could possibly
employ, owing to the relatively small
INQUIRY from stock market borrowers.
No effort was made to press such offer
ings and some Of the banks made further
inYestmnets in commercial paper at
flat G Der cent rate.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-20

to the appointment OF a receiver for the
I MON Pacifcs holdings OF Southern Pa
cine, though various arguments were
put forth which In effect tended to sug-
gest that adVices as to the proba Bile &C.
ton OF the court were rather premature
We are disposed TO the belief that the
outlook has been altered somewhat for
the better, at least sentimentally, by the
rather we'll defined prospects of early
banking and currency legislation and
owing to the fact that urgent lluuda-
tion in the stock market appears TO have
run its course. Believe that satisfactory
results will accrue from purchases made
during such occasional downturns as oc-
CURED today.
Gallagher Letter, New York.-Curb
market acted tired today; some profit
taking on part Of those who bought at
low prices a week ago. The industrial |
and oil shares were quiet and closed
around low prices OF day North Star Of
mining group was the strongest speciality,
selling at 90 Balance Of list was irres-
u!ar, with no particular feature.
Paine & Webber. Boston--Mar rket con-
tlnues dull, without definite trend The
scarcity OF orders makes wide fiuctua-
tons even in the low-priced issues. Dis
couraged holders Of Lake are still SELL
ing and the stock Is being picked up by
people who are willing to speculate in It
at this level, Coppers are at a stand
still, but on the whole we think there
are more buying orders than selling
orders.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-20
UNITED T|NT|C IS
GETTING IN MONEY
Assessment Levied Is Met
Promptly by the Share
holders.

At the local headquarters OF the United
Tintic Mines company IL Is declared that
the S-cent assessment levied last month
is being promptly met by stockholders.
Encouraged by the response, the directors
are busy with preparations for the re-
sumption OF mining below the water level
The pumps are being rigged, coal laid in
and miners engaged for the work.
When the shaft has been unwatered
for sixty or seventy feet 1t will be pos
sible TO extend the crosscut north on the
$50 level 10 the Bullock vein and start
a drift along that channel, Bigger ore
bodies are expected at that depth. by
reason of the fact that the Bullock vein,
where it has been developed near the
2l0 level. always widens down to the
water line and feathers out toward the
surface
At several places on the 2l0 level
wines have gone down ten TO fifteen feet
In first-class ore until progress was
stopped by the water Where the same
shoots went above the 2l0. the ore has
narrowed to little seam. Altogether,
some twenty cars OF ore have been sold
from the Bullock vein,
The face OF the drift on the 210 level,
according TO the management, gives in
dications OF entering another OF the spo-
radio copper -silver-gold bodies. 1t is
about 450 feet northeast from the shaft
and the pay streak is said TO show
width OF ten to- twelve inches
The accounts OF the company are be-
ing checked by d local auditing company
and a. complete financial statement is
promised TO stockholders as soon as the
audit IS finished