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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
THE FRIEDMAN CURE.

In this country, as in Germany, the
government has taken such interest
in the cure for tuberculosis which DR..
Friedman claims to have discovered
that it's experts can be trusted soon
to determine the full truth about the
powers and promise of the new rem
edy. In America, as in Europe, the
disease which the young German
physician is confident he has learned
how to conquer, is so terrible foe to
human life and it's treatment is so I'M
satisfactory, in thousands of cases,
every year, that there can be no halt
ing in the investigation of DR.. Fried
mann's claims, until his discovery is
thoroughly tested in the most public
manner.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is common
ly a slow disease and persistent after
it has been checked or partially
cured. In the nature of the white
plague" it will take months to deter
mine the permanent results of the
Friedman treatment. but that no
time will be lost for lack of public
or professional interest is certain. If
private investigation and experiments
were wanting the work of govern
ments of the highest rank would in
sure definite results -e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

bilities two or three times as great as
the average child, and yet must be
moulded into conformity with him. He
is habituated and disciplined in the
routine of the school adapted to the
child far below him in intellectual ca
pacity, and thus suffers retardation in
his progress just as real and even more
pathetic, than is experienced by his
defective school mate. He is given little
opportunity to grow to his full ca
pacity, to develop clear up to his
psychological and physiological limit.
1t is impossible for us to calculate at
present by any statistical method at
hand, how much society has really lost
from the retardation of the brilliant
child by our present system. Through
out the whole history of our public
schools, youths of exceptional ability
have been bored, dwarfed, atrophied;
side-tracked, discouraged, and lost
to society. 1t is at this end
of the curve of mental ability
that we should expect to find our
leaders, and our best thinkers in every
department of learning, provided there
were given in our system of education
the opportunity for such minds to de-
velop freely and fully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
says UNCLE CIV

Let me plead guilty at once. L
love the man who laughs at my
jokes. So do you and so do we all.
If you would make yourself popular
keep good hearty ha-ha on tap. Not
one of those sibilant, sycophantic
-hees, which grow from the lips
out, but \ regular stem-winding
cachination that starts somewhere in
the region of the diaphragm, rum
bles rejoicingly through the lungs
and rolls its good fellowship in an
irresistible roar against the tympani of
the company you have favored with
your presence.
The sympathetic contact, which is
the all-important quantity in human
relationship, is most effective and at
it's best in laugh that spreads it's be-
neficent contagion to all it's hearers.
Laugh with a man and you are his
comrade, though but a moment since
your fingers itched. for his throat
You may share your religion or your
politics with your neighbor and hate
him still, but you can't share your
jokes with him and fail to love him.
A good laugh starts the well
springs of sympathy, which is the
essence of love. Hate cannot abide
where laughter is.
BY the same token there is moth
ing more abhorrent to the healthy
mind than artificial laughter. One
doubts if there is such a thing. The
pink tea tee-hee is hardly laughter.
The sycophantic smoker is a weak
attempt at imitation. We may force
smiles that will pass the inspection
of the sunshine department, but no.
body has ever been able to counter
felt laugh that sounds natural. The
note of hypocrisy is always the domi-
nant one. 1t fingers extensively after
the sound has died away. 1t rankIes
in the heart that longed for a testi-
monial of appreciation in the shape
of a sturdy, Improbable ha-ha. 1t
angers the sensitive in that 1t betrays
a palpable attempt at hattery. A
forced laugh is in insult and most of
us recognize it as such.
Back in Puckyhuddle there was one
man who was Stunned as a pesti-
lence. He never laughed. He always
staggered. They said of him that If
he had two tongues one would be
lying on the other. They also said
that if he had two selves, a good one
and a bad one, instead of one self
that was meaner than Unison weed,
each would stay away at night to
watch the other. He couldn't laugh
1t wasn't in him. His stingy, hypo-
critical soul had saped the blood
from his body. When he tried to ex-
press the mirth that he did not feel
he made us shudder or see red For
he only sniggered-(Copyri 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

The second step in the plan of the
stockholders in the Hutchinson fair
association to unload is outlined by the
Gazette in the following: 1.-The fair bill
now is. or soon will become law. The
next important move is the voting of a
$4,000 bond issue, the proceeds from
the sale to be used to purchase the
grounds and buildings for the state. II
is needless to say that appropriations
for maintenance, premiums. etc, will be
forthcoming and that eventually hun
dreds of thousands of dollars will come
to Hutchinson. Therefore. no citizen
who has the interests of the coramun-
ity at heart. can afford to vote against
the bond ISSUE
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EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTA CAMERON.

On, dear, I've got to entertain the
Martins next week." I heard a. young
dread itr'
! think must have looked bit sur
prlsed at this inhospitable remark for
she promptly apologized. 1T isn't that
dont like to entertain them" she
SAID, but it's the first time they will
come to my new home and YOU know
they are so much better off than 1 and
nave such lovely things. OF course, our
HIue nome Is pretty and love
II, out they have beautiful china and
embro1deries and expensive furniture
ana loads of silver, and We have so
little. 1 just love to entertain them.
only | don't feel as If I had much to
Offer
How many hostesses approach enter
tainment in that spirit, and what a
travesty on hospitality it is!
Give Whatever you have to give, to
some 1t may prove better shan you
know" has been said in regard to
charity. 1t seems to me it is an equally
good description of the right kind of
hospitality.
This over-anxious hostess is a remark
ably good cook. Having been enter
! tanned by her much dreaded guests,
know she can get up far better meal
than their servant, and a meal that no
one with a palate would help enjoying
Now she knows this, too. Then, why
shouldn't she be content in having that
to give, and not fret because the sill
yer and china and linen from which
she is to serve this meal will be some
what less expensive than that to which
her guests are accustomed?
We all have different gifts in hos
pitality just as in other directions, and
the wise hostess concentrates in exer-
cising her own gift to the full. and
doesn't waste energy in fretting over
what she lacks
I know one woman who has very
shabby home and such an il1-furnished
purse that she always serves the
simplest of repasts. And yet she is one
of the most popular hostesses that I
know, because she has the fine gift of
getting congenial people together and
bringing out the best that is in them.
To another unpretentious home we
all love to go because 1T has such a
restful, old-time atmosphere, such an
aroma of serenity. as it were, that one
comes rested and refreshed in spirit
from a sojourn within its walls.
And yet another hostess wins us by
the freedom from formality and stiff
ness which is always a characteristic
of her entertaining.
Give the best you have to your guests
and give it freely, and that will surely
content any guest who is worth the
having.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCIISoN GLOBE.

Jude Johnson, who wears big diamond
ring, should wash his hands.
For instance, hygiene is taught in a lot
OF very unsanitary school buildings.
Good advice is all right, but one
shouldn't limit his generosity to giving
that alone.
1t is sometimes difficult to tell whether
people are laughing with you, or at you.
Dead men who tell no tales might be
surprised at some OF the things their
tombstones say.
If Father draws the doubtful compli-
ment that he might do worse he is ex-
pected to be satisfied.
A congressman finds it as hard to look
important in Washington as it is not to
in his home district.
If a man pays for a two dollar banquet
he shouldn't be expected to stay and
listen to the speeches.
You may have noticed that the bread
winner is also expected to come across
with the price of other viands-
Good workmanship is one of the best
known methods of attracting favorable
attention, and the best one known to keep
it.
An Atchison man has brother who is
such a poor correspondent that when he
writes and asks him how deep the snow is
at his home, the reply is apt to contain
the number of heat prostrations of the
day before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
INDIVIDUALITY OF PUPILS

Until recently the interest of public
education. says DR.. Elmer E. Jones in
the Psychological Clinic, has been di-
rected to the great average eff child
hood with little reference to the two
extremes of the probability curve. one
end representing detectives and the
other end accelerates. 1t is obvious
that methods of education have neg
Iected at one end of the curve. a GER
tain percentage of individuals who have
Ineagre inherent capacities, and who
are eventually turned from our schools
upon society, a prey to it, and a real
drainage upon our resources. Such
children are by no means being brought
to a state of efficiency and self sup
port by our public schools, nor are
they given the training which will
make them a social and Industrial as
set to the community
On the other hand the accelerate, the
pupil of brilliant mind, is equally I'M
fortunate. He enters school with capa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
QUAKER MIzDTTATTONs.
LFrom the Philadelphia Press

IFrom the Philadelphia Press.J
Many a man has been undone through
undue influence.
No man can bluff Death into thinking
he is too busy to die.
Patience is virtue, but don't lose sight
of the fact that there are others.
A girl may not love her enemies, but
she invites them all to her wedding.
Many woman attempts to drive an
automobile who couldn't drive tack.
Some fellows are busy hustling that
they haven't time to do anything else.
On the road to pleasure mighty few
people think Of buying a return ticket.
1t is much better to have a little conf
dence in yourself than to have too much in
others.
Cleverness may, after all, be. an ability
not to attempt the things we know we
can't do.
About one man in ten million is taken
at his own valuation, for which the world
is better.
No. Maude dear; you are slightly mix
ed. The clearing house is not where the
spectators clean up the filthy lucre.
Faith will move a mountain" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, but it won't fight
a gas bill,' added the Simple Mug.
Time works wonders The summer girl,
who had such liquid eyes six months ago,
may now greet you with an icy stare.
Eve, for the first time IN their married
life. was telling Adam just what she
roast chuckled Adam. And that was
the beginning of the saving grace of
humor.
Blobbs-"Who was the chap in the Bible
who said all men were liars?" Slobbs-'I
give 1t up, but it was evidently some fell
was easier than trying to prove an in
dividual case Es.s- l,-s..e.-.t-..
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man who had piloted her ship OF
dreams and set it adrift on strange
seas.
why. Phil" she said, sit's good to
see you again" For all the stormins
OF her heart, she was outwartily calm.
Marion tactfully drew Tom into the
next room. Who is he? Where did
he come from? Is he married? Is
his wife dead?''
Zone question at a time, my dear
girl He is Phil PriestIy. from Colo
RADIO. / never heard of his marriage
Where did Julie know him?"
cion."
In the adjoining room the man
stared at Julie as if she were a wrath
that would disappear II he so much
as bllnked his eyes.
Are you flesh and blood, Julie ?''
ne stammered at last.
am, she laughed happily. Now
tell me everything about yourself,
Tell me everything." she urged.
A log burned in the big fireplace. 1t
was early spring, but there was still
chill in the air. He bent forward,
hands between his knees, as if he
sought an answer to her questions in
the dancing flames. He faced her
suddenly.
have no wife, no home, but did
make fortune out there. Julie, there
knew it before it was too late. I have
written you thousand letters and
burned them all because 1 was
ashamed. Maybe it has all been a bad
dream, those long, lonely years with
out you! Why should you be wearing
the same dress, the same flowers, in
your beautiful hair, you wore the
night /! left here? Say it's been a bad
dream!" He leaned over over What
nave you been doing since I was here
2" he asked whimsicaIIy.
Spinning fairy tale,' she whis-
pered so low that he had to stoop to
hear.
Let me play magician and try to
ma make It come true?" he dared. seeing
the light in her eyes. please, Juliet
L love you SO. May try?"
You may try" she said, softly.
And late that night Julie unlocked
a secret drawer jim her desk and took
from its hiding place the picture of
a boy in the basketball suit of a
sophomore of long ago. The brave
poylsh eyes laughed up at her when
she put the little picture in its old ac-
customed place on her desk She had
missed 1t for ten long years.-(Copy-
rlehted. 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
a GYGiE.


Old men weave memories, sitting In the
sun,
OF a world grown vain, whose one-ttme
Wanted scars
The soft moss covers. and whose rare
baZaarS-
That sold them Truth-new, hayward
chafferers shun
For strange and impious markets One
by one,
Dimmed by an alien flame, the unwink-
ing stars
That cheered their vigils fade; TIL Death
unbars
To tkeir bruised eyes his kind pavilion.
o glory of the young days harhingerl
Yet. lest our kindling pride too madiy'
burn
Ano lusty boast our sicklier deeds cut
run,
Mark we the portent, and forbade the
year
When dazed and blind we likewise in
cur. turn
Old men. weave memories, sitting in the
sun.
Phil ]. Fisher. in the Spectator.
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HVf0R or THE DRY

Book CanvaSSer-In these volumes Won
have the whole sum of human knowIedg e
in convenient form. Mr.. Meek-Thanlxs
it's no use to me. Book Canvasser-3ut
your wife, perhaps Mr.. Meek-Oh she
knows it all already!-Sydney Bulletin.
Fond Mamma-Here's a photo of NV
little boy when he was a baby, and want
you to make one of him as he is now
Photographer-But haven't you brought
him with you? Fond Mauma-No T
thought you could make an enlargement
from t1is.-Pele Mele.
I, Ted-Do you believe that woman should
hold the reins? Ned-It is all right when
you have the girl out in a sIeigh-Judge.
A Prudent Customer-'You are the
proprietor and a pharmacist of the first
ciass?" yes, madam" And you know
ton" That is well. Give me 3 cents,
worth of gum drops."-Je Rire.
Serious Grounds.-'Judge, why did you
adjourn court for five minutes just now?''
Il felt that 1 had to sneeze." "Yes?"
''And feared If sneezed on the bench
the lawyers would make that the basis
for n new trial.'-Kansas City Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

A statewide protest is being made in
Oregon against sending the battIeship
Oregon to the scrap heap, as just rec-
commended by bureau chiefs in the
navy deartment. Already the Oregon
legislature, now in session, has passed
a memorial asking that the famous old
fighting ship be preserved while thou
sands of school children of the state
have only just completed long petitions
asking that the Oregon lead the naval
parade through the Panama canal
Commercial bodies of oregon, organiza-
lions of militia, veterans of the Spanish
war and many other societies are about
to take action protesting vigorously
against breaking up the Oregon, and it
is hoped to prevent the destruction OF
this historic vessel If whose remark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
a Modern Parable.

Once upon q time there was a man
who had good job in the government
service, and he was healthy and mar
ried and out of debt and contented.
He thought the world was a very good
one, as worlds go, and he liked every
body. But ole day a peripatetic
magician came to this man, whom we
shall call Smones, and he says, says
this magician: Fool! Your grinning,
idiotic good nature gives me a pain!
You do not see things in their true
light. I have here a pair of green
goggles that will enable you to see
things as they really are, and I'll make
you a present of 'em if you'll promise
to wear 'em year. So Smones prom
Used, got the glasses and put them on.
immediately he perceived that the
world had deceived him. It was reveal
ed now as a place hideously distorted
and full of hateful people. There was
no real friendship or love or unselfsh-
ness anywhere. So Smones quarreled
with all his friends, divorced his wife,
lost his job, sold his home, took to
drink and to abusing things in general.
But he stuck to the goggles One day
a former friend smashed Smones be-
tween the eyes and broke the goggles
to smithereens. Instantly Smones saw
things as they had been before and
set about repairing his broken fortunes
not the broken goggles This did not
take long, for it was a lovely little
world now. Well, then, Smones had
everything back when the magicion
returned That worthy upbraided the
grinning Smones, and demanded the re-
turn of the goggles. S-lones explained
what had happened. But I'll make
you another peir," he said, because
/ examined the pieces and learned the
secret The glasses were really mir
rors that reflected. not the world as it
was, but what my shutin ego thought
about it, "Foiledi' Missed the magi-
clan, and away he wenti-Chicago
News.
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.AYHAWKER WTS

A new Santa Fe hospital has been
opened at Mulvane.
Cherryvale will have a tag day to
raise a fund for improving the parks.
Woodson county commissioners are
planning to take the kinks out of the
Neosho and the Verdigris.
Erie is preparing to take advantage
of the new law allowing cities of the
third class to pave their streets.
The office of mayor is chasing a
Hum boldt citizen so hard that he has
been forced to declare that he will
not serve if caught.
Since assessors are directed to assess
everything of value, J. r. Burton
points out that the snow is one of the
most valuable things in Kansas.
When farmers wife brings in a
basket of eggs, says Bert Walker, you
a mistake in the count if you argue
with her four hours.
The probate judge of Douglas coun-
ty announces that he has made a list
of the families in Lawrence who are
able to take care of children and
ought to have them He is going to
assign the infant charges that come
into his court to these families. He
further says that the list is not going
to be kept alphabetically. Whenever
he hears of a family he is going to
write the name down.
On the Neosho Falls rural routes
says the Toronto Republican, the
rural carriers are given showers such
as are bestowed upon newly married
folks in other parts of Kansas. Last
week a carrier received from admir-
ing patrons the following goods: A
corned beef roast, half a shoulder of
pork, spare-ribs, Sausage. dressed
chicken, sweet potatoes, peanuts
eggs, pickles, spiced peaches, plums
cake, pie. jelly, potatoes, mince pie, a
pint OF cream and a generous dona-
ton of sauer kraut.
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POINTED PARAGRAPH
CFrom the chicago News.I

Sound Judgment is usually noiseless.
A man hardly ever marries for love
more than once
The farmer who raises objections is sure
of large crop
No doubt the loafer thinks his is the
only genuine simple life.
All men may be equal, but women are
superior-so says a suffTagette.
Some men never think of flirting-u unless
there's a pretty woman handy.
If a woman's ignorance is her bliss, he
is a mean man who will put her wise.
Money talks, but it is tight SO frequent
ly that it's conversation is seldom worth
repeating.
There is redeeming feature about hav-
ing one big worry; you don't have time to
bother with a lot of little worries.
Occasionally a young man marries a girl
to reform her-thinking he can break her
of the habit of pointing out every ice
cream and oyster sign she sees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06
RKFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR,
lFrom the New York Press.1

lFrom the New York Press.1
Buying experience is doing business at
a total loss.
What makes a girl specially afraid she
might lose her complexion Is if she's al
ready done it.
The reason the guess of woman is so
often right is she backs it against her
husbands judgment
One of the most comfortable things for
rich people must be how they don't have
to keep Up appearances.
Nothing makes a man feel so unselfish
as what he would do for his family with
his money if he didn't need it for him
self.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

President Taft has RENTED the SEN
tence of one year in prison of S. H.
Snider, convicted at Kansas City in
1909 for use of the mails to defraud in
connection with the promotion of the
Two Queens mines in Arizona. Snider
was commissioner of insurance in the
first Populist administration in Kan
sas. He has made long hard fight
to keep out of Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

The eye of the school master will
be on congress in the future. The new
president proposes to spend a part of
each day at the capitol while the ma
tional legislature is in session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

able cruise during the Spanish war.
when the battleship steamed to the as
sistance of SIMPSONS fleet at Santiago,
everyone in the country is proud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

Inc publc-serVice commission in
New York has ordered the height of
street-car steps reduced for the con-
Venfence of wearers of hobble skirts.
Powerful are the laws of fashion, says
the World. But if feminist influence
can accomplish such a reform without
the ballot, to what length may it not go
with it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

Why all this fuss about Mr.. Wilson's
plans to spend part of each day in the
presidents room in the capitol? Per-
haps his only object is to get his usual
afternoon map
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

Nordica gave song recital in Los
Angeles last week and Adolphus
Busch, the millionaire st. Louis brew
er' who is spending the winter there
was too ill to attend. The next day
the diva went to his home and sang
Tor him. One persons guess is as good
as another's as to how much she was
influenced by the Busch millions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-06

The dictators of fashion in New
York have decreed that the hem of
women's dresses shall be only one inch
from the ground. But that won't
make them keep it there if they are
wearing those new, handpainted silk
stockings
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives. the full 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 brildiny over wires for this sole puT-
pose