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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
EVENING CHIT
why Can,t we See 1t?
By RUTA CAMERON.

The shoe clerk deity slipped my
foot into apair of hygienic shoes and
asked me to stand up and try them
I did so and was delighted at the
perfect ease and comfort which felt.
But they were such hideous things
with their big round toes and their flat
heels isn't it too bad they can't be
pretty like the other Shoes" I said
regretfully as 1 surveyed them.
The shoe clerk smiled. 81 think they
are much prettier," he said: why
shouldn't they be? They follow the
outline of the human foot. Now ism
the line of the normal human foot, as
nature made it, far more beautiful
than any shape that man has invent
ed? What is there more beautiful
about a pointed toe than rounded
toe? Curved is the line of beauty
you know
It's perfectly good argument, isn't
it?
And yet it only convinces the mind;
it doesn't seem to convince the eye and
the heart-at least of the average
woman.
But isn't it too bad that we can't
see it that way?
Isn't it too bad that we can't realize
that a woman dressed in a skirt cut
with sufficient fullness to permit her
the free use of her limbs, is a much
more beautiful object than a woman
hobbling awkwardly along with ridicu-
lousy hampered gait in a skirt which
is a scant three-quarters of yard
around the hem?
And yet such is the peculiar blind
ing power of fashion that the average
woman cannot help admiring the
abnormal and inartistic if everybody is
wearing it.
She may know that by all the canons
of art it is ugly, but nevertheless it
looks attractive to her.
Once in a while art and fashion
happen to agree, and we have some
mode which has real beauty in itself in
addition to the lustre which fashion
gives it. But this seldom lasts long,
for freaSish fashion soon exaggerates
a beautiful style until it becomes I'M
beautiful.
OF course we don't always realize
how large a share fashion has in max
we like it for itself, but let the fash
ion change and see how soon it grows
ugly. Look at some picture you had
taken ten years ago in a dress you
thought most charming, and see how
homely it looks today. Last summer
you thought long sleeves hot and ugly;
this year they will look very different
to you, because they are going to be
1.-The fashion"
Don't you wish there were some way
to so educate our eyes that we might
truly beautiful instead of the fashion
able?
Perhaps after hearing this TRADE
you'd like to know what I did about
the hygienic shoes. Well, then, being
mentally convinced that they were the
best thing, I bought them for walking;
but being unconvinced in my heart, L
also bought a smart pair of pumps to
dress up in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

which she met her loss, perhaps 1t
was a sudden intimacy with future
events, that made Daniel Dutton say:
u have no home to take them to
at present-if you will, I want them
to be with you until"
obj Leona cried happily, sit is too
good of you-you are letting me keep
them because you think you have bro
ken my heart
Dutton smiled quickly.
NO. he told her. 81 want you to
keep them until" Again he seemed
at a loss for words.
ST think 1 understand what you
mean" Leona put in quickly, and as
she met his eyes over the heads OF
Mary Ellen and Danny each realized
that a far greater understanding than
mere words could express was being
born within them.-(Copyright 1913, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
It isn't the captious maiden who sets
her cap for a man.
1t takes more than a matchmaker to set
the world on fire.
Don't cry over your spilled milk, or crow
over other peoples.
We generally think of belle as being a
girl, and yet there are bell boys.
Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be
one of those fellows who know it all.
You can't always tell about girl. The
one with dreamy eyes may be very wide
awake.
Don't waste all your flowers on the
dead. Throw a few bouquets to the live
ones once in a while.
Sometimes a man goes down to defeat
with a clearer conscience than he has
when he climbs to victory.
The optirnist never worries about the I'M
certainties of life. Neither does the pessi-
mist. He expects the worst, anyhow.
THE law considers a man innocent until
he is proven guilty. quoted the Wise
Guy Consequently criminal is a
who is found out" added the Simple Mug.
Now tell me why you should want to
go to heaven" said the Sunday school
teacher. That's where all the best people
co. replied the little daughter of the
social climber.
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NO MORE BOSS.

| 1.-The day of the boss is gone" is
what Secretary Bryan told the Pennsyl-
| vania legislature in an address de-
| livered before that body this week
Not only that but he predicted that
there would be no more national con-
ventions and that the presidential can
didates will be nominated at pri-
maries.
If his prediction come true, and prob
a bly, it will, it may be an Improvement
on the present system, but it is just
as we'll not to hope for too much. For
one thing Mr.. Bryan's job will be gone.
He has ruled his party with an iron
hand for 16 years. Only once has his
hold been shaken and that was at St.
Louis, where while he could not name
the candidate he did write the platform
and contributed to the party's defeat.
A presidential primary last year
probably would have resulted in the
nomination of Champ Clark and the
naming of only one candidate by the
opposition. That Clark was the choice
of the people is hardly open to ques-
ton. He had a majority in the con-
vention and should have been nomi-
mated and would have been but for
Mr.. Bryan.
The man who wrested the nomination
from him fell far short of receiving a
majority of the popular vote, so that
it seems to be about time that the
people were allowed to choose instead
of leaving the matter to the decision
of one man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
Europe,s Richest Women.

Frau Krupp is undoubtedly the richest
person in Germany, and according to
some authorizes the wealthiest of French
taxpayers is also a woman. Nine. Lee
baudy, mother of Jacques, Emperor of
Sahara, is believed to be worth at least
9S.Oo0OO0 She holds her wealth in hor-
ror, and lives under an assumed name in
order to avoid publicity. Her residence
al! the year round is a small flat in Yer
sailles, where the domestic staff consists
OF one servant who is assisted in the
work by her mistress.
Nine. Lebaudy gives away nearly the
whole OF her income, most of her dona-
tons being bestowed anonymously. 1t is
on open secret, however, that for many
years past she has made up the annual
deficit of the leading French royalist pa
per, which usually amounts to about
316,O0O. There are at least two American
women with even larger fortunes than
Frau krupp. Mrs. Russell Sage admin
listers an estate worth about ELS, 100000
and Mrs E. A. Hartman controls but
little less.-London Chronicle.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

| Needless to say, SO much is needless to
say
Outside of Utah, farmers wives can
| never hope for an eight hour day.
Link Preston: 81 am particularly bold
and fearless when hopping my kim
Still, when the weather is all right,
there is always something else to KICK
around.
What a wonderful system of highways
we would have if good roads talk made
good roads.
Occasionally a cultured creature dis
guiSes damfOolishness as Higher Thought,
and gets by with it,
For the information of many who DOM
seem to know, 1t may be said that vul-
gar story isn't always spicy"
Don participate in the parade until
you can ride in a low-necked hack; there
isn't much in it for the mixers.
A literary ambition isn't likely to en-
able you to write anything in a check
book. Many are called but few elude the
busy blue pencil
When a freeborn American heather ac-
companies his wife to church a few times,
whose wives want them to go and do
likewise.
Although labor troubles are frequently
deplcrable, we never blame miners for
striking for more pay and a brief .vaca-
ton. What, by the way. is your notion OF
the last resort in labor?
Divorces are So convenient in this coun-
try, that wife murderer finds 1t difficult
to furnish satisfactory excuse. But on
the o. h., the woman who kills her huS-
band usually gets off pretty easily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
CFrom the Chicago News.I


Put the lid on your peck of trouble.
The bottom of a hill is the easier to
reach.
When a man is drunk he forgets that
he's a fool.
For disobedience the small boy frequent
ly gets the palm.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
or as we see others.
Become familiar with the workings OF
the tariff It's your duty.
Many man who seems dead to the
world is only buried in thought.
It's fairly safe for a pretty girl to be
nice to married man in a crowd.
Confidence in the almightiness of a dol
lar has proven the undoing of several
plutocrats.
A girl can enjoy kiss in the dark. She
doesn't have to worry for fear she can't
blush.
Some men find it as easy to climb a
creased pole as to keep in the straight
and narrow path.
A poor man is always saying he would
like to be rich because of the great
amount of good he could do with the
MONEY!
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the Mormon preacher suspects have
Deen released at Dodge City, as the
eeVioence against them was poor, but it
Is generally suspected that the Nor
noning viii not be very good in that
iocaIlty for some time to come.
1t is not always the bush league that
quits playing for want of travelling
expenses. The latest explosion occur
req IN an eastern organization which
wore the rather expansive name of
United States Baseball League 1t
seems that they lost the ''pluribus''
out OF their e pluribus unum.
They may not keep Mistah Johnsing
IN Jail very long, but they will break
him, which will serve the same pur-
pose.
Woman may think she is independ-
ent, but even the British Arsonettes
mad to have male chemist to manu-
facture their bombs.
Left on her own resources, a wom-
ans destructive ability seldom gets
past breaking dishes.
No drammer being complete without
them missing papers," the Washing
ton fiction writers have incorporated
some 1nconsequential blue prints of a
battleship or coal shed or something
of the sort, in their latest navy de-
partment hoo-raw.
AS we understand it, the futurist's
idea OF art is to make a dotted line
and whirl of dust convey the impress
sion of freckled greyhound chasing
a worried jackrabbit down a straight
road at 3:45 on a summer afternoon.
1t did not require the senator's
denial to convince US that the charge
was untrue. Bale Waggener doesn't
have to buy newspapers to get his
name in print.
The Japs are now of the opinion
that friendly solution" may be
reached. Mayhap the Japs have de-
c1ded that friendly solution of the
question may be better than a satu-
rated solution of trouble.
Captain Martin says he will fly
across the Atlantic and take his wife
along. If he wants to try it, that's all
right, but these suicide pacts should
be discouraged.
Oscar SwayZe is thinking of estab-
fishing a logarithmic, and explains
that 1t has something to do with a
slide. Baseball writers will please
take note the next time Mr. Rapp
logariths to third base.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
HUAOR or The DIP

when we left Miss Peacher said, 'Au
that means? How did she look when
sweetly." Maybe 1t means Come
again. "-Birmingham Age-Heraid.
Helter-"IIolmes gets a gigantic salary
from that Mining Corporation" Shelter
Able to locate gold mines, is hep Heller
MOT much. Able to locate stock pur-
chasers."-Life.
do you realize the power of the mother
tongueE asked the young man who pro-
fessed interest in literature. Yes: and
SO does father replied the young woman
Buffalo Express.
why don't you take a wife, old champ
''Oh, 1 don't know" You must have a
reason" We'll, the fact is, couldn't AZ
ford 1913 wife on my 1902 saIary.'-
Washington Herald.
us your daughter musicaI7'' "Weu,,
replied Mr.. Cumrox, "'she seems so In
conversation, but when she sings opinfons
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Lady Reformer-"My good girl. do vo,,
believe in q minimum wager" The S,irI
Worker-'Why shouldn't I? Amt 7 eet
ting it?"-Life.
Mayme-'I have so many callers. can
scarcely satisfy them ALL" Kate-"TIov1
long have you been a telephone operator p.
Baltimore Americae.
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RUSSIANS ONLY IN NAME.

On the face of the figures, often
among the most treacherous Of pit
falls, Russia is sending more immi-
grants to the United States than come
from any other country. In the nine
months ending with last March the Of
fetal record shows that 1882 persons
entered American ports from the Rus
sian empire The Italians came next,
with $780, 1887. All the rest of the world
sent about 100000.
No doubt these figures are correct,
but let no one suppose that they indi-
cate the injection into American life of
a strong element naturally pro-Russian.
They are far from indicating any ad-
mixture, on a large scale, of new-made
Americans whose natural leaning is
toward the empire of the cars.
ION the contrary" as the French
man said when asked, one rough day
at sea, if he had dined- The great
majority of this army of immigrants
that come to America, from Russia look
back upon that country as land ruled
by tyra1ts and cursed by race and re-
Iigious persecution. They are glad to
be done with it forever. and thankful
that they have escaped from a gov
eminent which they could never feel
was their own.
For these immigrants from Russia
are mostly Jews who have suffered
from Russian injustice and cruelty and
Poles who hate Russia as the chief de-
stroyer of Poland as an Independent
kingdom These two elements-the
Catholic Poles and the Hebrews-con-
stitute the vast majority of the null
titude of immigrants from the Russian
empire. Only in the narrowest tech
nical sense are they Russians, for in
spirit, feeling, point of view, hopes and
ambitions they are far from being
typical Muscovites.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

1912 260. In the entire German Empire
there are, including the travelling shows.
about 1000 motion-picture theaters.
Paris has 200 such establishments,
which are visited on each Sunday by
about 100000 people. London has about
400 and the rest of England $780, New
York is stated to have 40 and the
nine largest cities of the United States
more than 400 motion-picture theaters,
whose annual consumption of new films
costs about ST.. 900. 900, with receipts of
about $55, 900, 900.
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FROM OTHER PENS
TIME WANTED TO CATCH UP.


| James J. Hills desire that congress
might adjourn for ten years is not to
| be accomplished, of course, but more's
| the pity. What interest would suffer
if congress and the law-making bodies
| of the states were to close their doors
for a decade and let the nation run
| along on the code of law at it stands
today? There is law enough on the
| statute books at present to be invoked
successfully against every crime or
every individual. The chief trouble
| is that there is too much law in exis-
tence at the present zine, SO that
large percentage of it is not in USE and
is not even understood.
Ten years rest from law-making
would give the courts of the country
chance to catch up, for a large
percentage of the new business which
is crowded in on them is due to the
perpetual making of new laws which
run counter to the old or to customs
which have grown up under them, or
which create new bases for litigation.
Business would have a chance to re-
adjust itself to the law and become
obedient to it with a certainty as to
what is required, without fear that by
time one new order has been estab-
lished some progressive 1awmaker
would secure the enactment of another.
Those states are fortunate that have
their legislative visitations but once in
TOUR years, ana even Lnen nnd IL I'M
necessary to prolong the quadrennial
sessions to the extent that the biennial
legislatures of other states inf1ict
themselves upon their constituencies
Philadelphia Bulletin.
%
HOW ABOUT FLINN?
Mr.. Munsey, who contributed many
thousands to the Progressive cause
and used his magazines and newspa-
pers for the benefit of the movement,
advocated an amalgamation of the Re-
publican and Progressive parties by
means of a holding company, and was
severely chided by those whom he
served so faithfully after the colonel
decided to become a party.
Dan Hanna, owner of a newspaper
and q barrel, who Joined the Progress
sives early and gave literally for cam
paign purposes, believes that the Re-
publican and Progressive parties
should get together, and he does not
ask for holding party.
How about Flinn-the arch Progress
sive of Pennsylvania-the man who is
living evidence that a statesman who
has been up to his eyes in Pennsyl-
Vania contracts may turn reformer and
lead the lesser reformers? Let us hear
from Finn. Announcement by him
that he wants to rejoin his old allies
would help the Democrats amazingly.
There are Progressives who should re-
main Progressives for the good of the
parent party.
There are some of them in Massa-
chusettS-not many but some. They
are Progressives merely because they
couldn't get what they were looking
for from those who have known them
longest and worts-Boston Traveller.
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courts.

The committee appointed by the sec
retaries of the department of commerce,
the department of the treasury and the
department of agriculture to draw up
regulations for the enforcement of the
new net weight law, announces that it
is now ready to receive recommends
tions and suggestions in writing. The
first hearings for manufacturers, deal
ers and others interested will be held
in New York during the week of June
8, and other hearings will be held
whenever and wherever there is suffi-
Client demand. The law requires that
the quantity of the contents of food
packages be plainly marked on the out
side of each package in terms of weight,
measure or numerical count.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

SOULS.
My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things,
Scarlet and gold and blue;
And at her shoulders sudden wings
Like long flames flicker through.
And she is swallow-fleet, and free
From mortal bonds and bars:
She laughs, because Eternity
Blossoms for her with starsi
oh, folk who scorn my stiff gray gown,
My dull and foolish face
Can you not see my soul flash down,
A singing flame in space?
And, folk whose earth-stained looks
hate,
Why may not divine
Your Souls that must be passionate,
Shining and swift, as mine?
Fannie Stearns Davis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Business conditions all over the coun-
try have been inquired into by the
United States Mortgage & Trust COM
pany of New York, resulting in the
conclusion that most of the crop pros
poets are favorable, and normal con-
ditions exist in manufacturing; but
there are signs of slowing down until
the future shall be more definitely
known. There is approval of or resig-
nation to- tariff changes, except a few
that are believed in the localities most
affected to be too radical and almost
universal Indifference to or approval
of the proposed income tax, due to the
relatively small percentage of people
personally concerned in it's operation"
Move that the report be adopted
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that is the practice in other countries
and other states, the proposed land bill
in California sinks into insignificance-
In fact, the situation, he declares, has
an element of the ludicrous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

The Duke de Montpensier has an
nounced that he will not, if invited,
be the Prince de Albania. Which is a
perfectly good way for the Duke de
Montpensier to make known the fact
that there is such a person as the Duke
de Montpensier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

If the debtors courts prove to be a
success and there seems little room for
doubt that they will, it may be found
advisable to extend the principle tc
other courts already established
1t is not improbable that the
administration of justice would
be enhanced and accelerated if
lawyers were barred from all the
courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Probably no other business ever
moved forward with such giant strides
both in this country and in Europe as
that of the moving picture shows. In
1900 there were in Germany's 33 largest
cities such theaters; at present there
are 500. In Berlin alone there were. in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

President Huerta promises action"
Which is unnecessary, since Carranza
and a few more insurrecto generals will
see to it that he gets it anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Congratulations to Haiti on the death
of a president from natural causes
were a little premature. 1t turns out on
later information, that he was poisoned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Just to enliven the occasion, Uncle
Joe Cannon ought to arise and make
a few heartfelt remarks about Gov
ernor Hi. Johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Maybe Scutari was burned by spon-
taneous combustion due to friction
among the five languages spoken by
the allies. $50
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the state journal Is q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fuil Gay
@eIegranh renort OF that great news 1r-
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
pubfication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
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London, on account of that grape
Juice dinner, calls our national cap
ital "Wishy-washing-t After this
we shall refuse to be indignant, no
matter what the London suffragettes
No
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

The government doctors report on
Doc F'riedmann's discovery may be as
enthusiastic as could be expected of
doctors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

A Washington preacher says young
men calling Sunday evening should be
led to church. But suppose the girl
prefers a home wedding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

Secretary Bryan has not only buried
the Ratchet but the corkscrew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16

"Y our constituents are giving you trou-
ble2' "A great DEAL yet you used to
say you depended on the wisdom of the
plain people, Eyes. But I'm beginning
to fear that my election represented not
what you would call wisdom. but lucid
Observation-Disclosures Star.
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OF course. the fly cops are expected
to take a leading part in the swatting
campaign
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The election in Mexico is set for Oc-
tober 26. This affords all the time
needed for smuggling in the necessary
arms and ammunition.