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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
Iind,s Diplomatic Feat.

Now that the former governor of
Minnesota John Lind, is so much in
the public eye, numerous stories illus
trative of the sturdy character of Gov
ernor Lind and his natural fitness for
diplomatic work are being told.
John Lind was born in Sweden" re-
marked H. A. Hayden, lawyer of St.
Paul, who has long known the Mime
sofa man, at the Shoreham. From
the start he made himself popular IN
his chosen state, but early in his po-
litical career he exhibited a facility
for changing his politics. He was
elected to the Fiftieth congress as a
Republican, and reelected from his
district, I think it was the First or Sec
ond, for three terms. Then, as he told
himself. he experienced a change of
faith He saw that he was wrong, and
he switched over to the Democratic
party, and was elected governor of the
state as Democrat. After serving in
the Spanish-American war, he was
elected to the Fifty-eighth congress as
Democrat During his first service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
GLOEE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GIORE

certain hookworm disciples are too lazy
1t occurs to us further that the tam
oourlne neglected to bring its excuses
Everyone should work hard enough TO
De tired enough to sleep well at night
II photographers really made them true
10 Ire they would lose their heads
When book is barred from the library
a good many people will go and buy it.
New jokes, however, are not so rare as
is Indicated by the vaudeville artists.
Considering the time it takes them to
ouy, women spend good deal of money.
Trouble is. a whole lot of graceful
dancers won't make graceful housekeep-
ers.
Patience is a great institution. and too
dustry.
loafer's apology for taking I'D busy
mans time, only takes up a little more
time.
Those who come back don't usually stav
long. Not referring to visitors, y'under-
stand.
Our notion of mighty hunter is one
who kills quail enough to give his friends
a few.
campaign speaker who only Injuries
IS voice, is lucky; so many of them also
hurt the Cause.
There is one kind of liar who will get
to heaven. He's the guy who says bust
ness is good when it isn't.
Literary women are all right but they
won't cook, and unsuspecting men should
be warned of that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
by THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

The weather is admittedly hot, but
from the sounds that come from a
yard in our block, where several
young ladies are in the habit or tax
i ing after-dark hose baths, we gather
/ that the hydrant water is not only
/ cool, but invigorating to the vocal
| chords.
Gary, Ind, flutist, when invited to
cease playing "Silver Threads Among
! the Gold" answered, Il should wor-
ry.' Quite naturally, under the cir
cumstances, he was shot by the man
who made the request. But we are
curious to know whether he was shot
on account of the instrument played,
the tune played or the should
worry retort; three grounds for
! shooting.
1t appears that England has recon
sidered the threat to refrain from
sending an exhibit to the World S
Fair. Mrs. Pankhurst is headed this
way.
Thaw has occupied such a wide as
sortment of "hoos-gows" that when
he does get his liberty he will have to
paint bars on the glass of his bed
room windows and dress his valet in
jailer's uniform to feel at home.
Call defendant Bill Allen White to
the bar; charge specified, lese majestic;
he says: Roosevelt is not Cod"
To be sure the weather contributes
it's share toward making man peev-
ish, but there are incidental helps to
the prevailing peeve. For. instance,
about the time a man resolves to for
get the weather and be cheerful, he
bites into a fair looking cantaloupe
that tastes like a cross between
jaundiced cucumber and a cake of
laundry soap.
When a man named Nut suicided
at Newkirk, Okla, the suspicious cor
oner's jury suspected insanity. May
hap a man named Poor should pull
the same stunt in the same place, they
would charge it to poverty.
Concerning the American who says
he gave Mexican federals $4,000 to
refrain from hanging him; what is he
hollering about? Wasn't it worth it?
Girls who work in the L. S. treas
ury are forbidden to carry hand bags,
on the theory that they might get
away with a wad of new currency.
The treasury department is on the
wrong scent and should be informed;
that girl doesn't carry currency in
handbag.
If the department gets that through
it's noodle, there may be a rOugh-and-
tumble fight for the job Of official
frisker'' for the treasury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
HEALTH OF EMPLOYEES.

| The health of the worker is an es-
| sential element in the problem of in
| dustrial efficiency. From the point OF
view of the employer this should be
| considered, if in no other way. at least
| as an economic question. Failure OF
| the captains of industry to recognize
and act on this fact is a reflection on
| their capability as managers of great
| enterprises. Recently the Importance
of the welfare of workers has been
pretty generally recognized among the
| employers of labor in an awakening
not altogether selfish, it is believed;
and the, efforts made by employers to
| improve conditions are most crafty
ing An interesting record of meas
ures and methods adopted by num-
Der of great enterprises in Chicago to
attain greater efficiency and to safe
guard and improve health conditions
among employees is found in a special
number of the Bulletin of the Chicago
tuberculosis Institute. This private
philanthropic organization in 1911, in
pursuance of the purpose of its or
ganization, considered a plan for the
early detection of tuberculosis among
employees and appointed a speclal
committee on factories, which marked
the beginning of systematic cam
paign for the medical examination OF
employees in Chicago. Emphasis was
at first laid on the detection of tuber-
cuIosis, but later the campaign was ex-
tended to the general medical exami-
nation of employees for any causes OF
deterioration in health and efficiency,
and a definite scheme for the examina-
ton for tuberculosis, as well as an
outline of a method for the general
medical examination of workers, was
prepared by the factory committee.
Efforts to enlist the employers of Ia
Dor in the plant met gratifying re-
Spouse. and through conferences be-
tween the committee and lay medical
representatives of individual compan-
les increasing interest in the subject
has been created. The Bulletin con-
tains articles by the medical chiefs of
seven large employing concerns IN
Chicago setting forth the organization,
plans and methods of each in securing
greater health efficiency among en-
ployees and giving a summary of the
results so far attained. Among the
COMPANIES represented in these articles
are two large mail-order houses, an
agricultural implement factory, one
of the packing companies, a telephone
company, a lighting company and
railway company. The experience Of
these representative companies con-
stitutes an interesting record and may
serve as an example and a guide to
other industries in the development
of efficiency through improved health
conditions among the workers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
Slap Breaks Neck.

JTriah Washburn, Waterman of the
Keystone Type Foundry, is in the
Chester hospital with his life despair
ed of because James Wilson slapped
him on the back and broke his neck.
Once before Washburn had his neck
broken, but it was sutured together
with silver wire. g
When Wilson slapped him on the
back Washburn fell to the ground un-
conscious. At the hospital it was
found that he was paralyzed. An X
ray picture was taken and then it was
learned that his neck had been broken
at some previous time. Five years ago
he fell from an eight-story building.
The broken portions of the vertebrate
We're brought together at the German
hospital in Baltimore, and his neck
held together by a slender cord of
silver.
The surgeons will operate on Wash
burn again in the hope of sewing his
neck onto his spine for the second
tine.-Chester (Pa.) Dispatch to the
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
EVENING CHAT
Nothing Too Much"
BY Ruth CAMERON

The other day I was told of a husband
| of married existence had been away from
eacn otner but once, and then only for a
dentlv thinks they represent, the acme of
devotion and romance. I 60. !
somehow can't see it that way
To my mind they represent a very fool
ish point of view.
They may have been happy in their
constants companionship, but that does NOT
still happier, and surely would have been
munity, If they had occasionally taken a
complete vacation from each. other,
breathed in the mental ozone of new ideas
and points of view, expanded into separ.
ate Municipalities once more, found each
others full value by missing him, and
into each others lives.
If any two friends lived together for
from each other they would Surely grow
narrow and their friendship become stag
n but soM Thed Is aTrea love- after
When any two people are happy togeth-
err they ought to value that happiness too
it-for YOU know it is possible to overeat
of happiness as well as of material food.
And by any two people, I don't neces-
sarily mean husband and wife. 1t is fool
ish for any two whatever their relation
Wf frene to TO riends aeer M
saturate themselves with each others
company.
II every iiotner OF young cniluren coulu
take a good vacation from them at least
once year. / believe she would be better
able to give herself to them the rest of
the year.
L know three sisters who live together
and are wonderfully happy in each others
companionship. And yet, when vacation
time comes, each goes her separate way.
1 suspect that is one of the reasons why
they enjoy each other much the rest of
the year.
A father of five children tells me that
he is sending each one to a separate col
lege because he believes that will broaden
their family life more than if they all
went to the same college.
OF course. any two people who are hap
py together are bound to miss each other.
But isn't the joy of reunion, wl..ch they
could never have had if they hadn't
parted. worth the pangs? Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, who a most ardent lover
husband. evidently found it so. Every
separation gives a taste of DEATH he
wrote in a letter to his absent wife, but
every meeting gives a foretaste of the
reSIlrrectiOO.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
HUAOQ or. THE Day

Towne-"Do you make your cook pay
for what she breaks?" Suburbs Tin
say not. Why, every month, besides pay
ing her salary, we reward her literally
for what she didn't eak."-Puck.
Girl-"What color eyes dye like best,
Billy" Bashful Boy-"Geei / dunno.
What color are yours supposed to be?"-
Life.
How do you like our kitchenette?"
Rather small. isn't it?'' "Oh, no, it's
plenty large enough We take all our
meals out.''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
your taste in music is improving" said
Mrs. Curnrox. Yes" replied her hus-
bano, you and the girls getting me
SO that / don't enjoy anything that I can
spell or pronounce aSdngton Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
Hints for Muggy Weather.

To avoid getting hot in the summer
time, you must keep perfectly cool.
Go out for long drives in the country
every evening in your touring car. If
you don't own a car live next to some
man who does and bet him that it can't
run four miles an hour until he gets
mad and proves it to you.
Don't spend your money fooliShly for
beer. Wait until the wagon stops at
your neighbours and then go over and
call on him.
Very good hot weather underwear
have been discarded. Every attic
with enough material to supply the
whole family.
No gentleman can weigh more than
119 pounds in hot weather and remain
a gentleman. To reduce your weight
ten pounds a day put on five sweaters
seal skin underclothes and walk twenty
miles day. If you tire of walking,
run a while.
Don't do a stroke of work all day
long, but Just sit in the shade. When
the inStalment man comes with a wag-
on and takes your furniture away you
can sleep in the park.
Don't worry about anything because
worry makes you all the warmer. If
the cat falls into the well, borrow wa
ter from your neighbor
When everything else fails hang onto
an eavetrough on the shady side of
the house and make a noise like an icf-
Gle
Above all things keep cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
The Diary of a Bonehead.
BY ROY Z. MOULTON.

The Diary OF BOncnedu.
The lady sat disconsolately and alone
in the big touring car three miles from
the city and 1 pulled up my car and
asked her why she was so sad and why
she didn't move on.
There is something wrong under the
car and it won't run. 1 think it could
be fixed in a moment but don't know
what to do. am terribly upset about
it, too, as 1 want to keep a luncheon
engagement in the city,"
Perhaps L can fix it," I replied gal
lantly.
Perhaps she agreed.
She was a pretty lady. 1t always
seems to be the pretty ladies who need
the most help. L climbed down out of
my car, and all unmindful of the new
two-piece suit which 1 had donned that
morning, crawled under her car on my
elbows and shoulder blades like a soft
shelled crab going to war.
I puttered with the thing for ten min
utes and got enough grease on my face,
hands and clothes. off from the univer-
sal. to oil all of the locomotives on the
Erie system for week. However. I
didn't mind that, as I had succeeded
in making the engine start.
AS crawled out a battered up road
ster, coming from the city appeared
over the hill. 1 recognized it at once
as a service car from a garage. In it
were two men.
'Oh. here they come now" said the
lady
Here who Gomez" inquired.
MY husband and the garage man.
she replied. MY husband went to
town to get the expert. He could have
fixed the car himself but he didn't want
to get his clothes dirty. He is very
particular about his appearance. Thank
you so much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a mean man has a good eX-
cuse for being that way.
i
Excellent credit is also fine breeder
of extravaganza.
J. i J.
You can't convince a woman that
there are two sides to an argument.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed uncle who paid his nephew's debts?
Regardless of the fact that it isn't
leap year, the girls seem to be doing
pretty will in the matrimonial arena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

From the Chicago News1
Few students of human nature ever
graduate.
Most men are too polite to adhere strict
ly to the truth.
After the husband goes shopping the
wife goes swapping.
An apartment isn't the only place IL
Which marriage is flat failure.
A correct guess passes for wisdom-with
the man who makes the guess.
Nearly every woman dislikes flattery-
when she hears it applied to others.
Our neighbors seldom say mean things
about US unless we have it coming our
way.
The dollar dad earns looks three times
as big to him as it does to the son who
blows it in.
Occasionally a woman does a man a
favor by making fool of him instead Of
marrying him. $3.50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
@ month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal will be
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

A couple dived under water with a
minister in Virginia and came up mar
ried. This is all right. providing the
groom doesn't find out he has gone in
over his head permanently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
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 'r-
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pun
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Professor David Starr Jordan says
woman never invented anything of
benefit to the human race But what
about that raspberry shortcake that
mother used to make?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

we think is right" says Mr.. White. 1--WE
will stick to him, but the party will
stand by its principles As almost
every one knows, Colonel Roosevelt
does the thinking for and promulgates
the principles of the Progressive party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

There will have to be a revision of
the theory that the rain falls alike on
the just and the unjust. New York
received three and one-half inches the
other morning and Kansas got none.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Theoretically, oysters ''r' good in
September. But the people in these
parts will show wisdom if they don't
eat fresh" ones until the weather
cools off perceptibly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

And the interstate commerce COM
mission might do well to interrupt it's
Investigations of railroad wrecks long
enough to consider ways to prevent
those that haven't happened yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Mr.. Tumulty, the presidents secre-
tary, has had the degree of doctor of
laws conferred upon him. Probably
due to the fact that doctoring laws was
his principal occupation while in the
New Jersey legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Having been told that sulphurous
smoke is a preventive of tuberculosis,
Pittsburg can proceed to smoke herself
bIacker in the face than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Colonel Henry Watterson says the
people of New York are incapable of
self government. He's a little slow.
Tammany found that out long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Secretary Burleson never talks in a
cabinet meeting" Probably, by the
time Mr.. Bryan is through, the dinner
hour has arrived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

incidentally. William Travers Jerome
achieved his first notoriety through the
medium of personally conducted raids
on gambling houses in New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Russia's new torpedo boat that has
established a worlds speed record for
vessels of that class was built in Ger
many. So the glory of Russia is not
exceedingly extensive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Drouths are bad enough. but they're
really trivial things when compared
with a storm and flood that wipes out
millions of dollars worth of property
and many lives within few hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Those little social journeys of
Personal Representative Lind and
Rear Admiral Fletcher-it is to be
hoped that they will not be marred
by any little casus belli.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08
FROM OTHER PENS

PICKED BEFORE THEY'RE RIPE. /.
American national, state and municipal
inspection of table supplies has apparent
ly made little progress in the matter of
assuring ripe fruit to the consumers.
Some of course, are especially favored,
because they possess the means of OBJ
tanning the best the market affords, but
the great majority, and to as great an
extent in 1913 as in 1903 must at present
put up with fruit that is picked unripe.
may be safely picked unripe and ripened
on shipboard, in railway trains and in
warehouses, but fruit of the temperate
zone that is subjected to ARTIFICIAL rlpen-
ing processes is unfit for use. Great
quantities of melons, berries, peaches and
stands of cities would never have passed
faithful inspection. There would be less
ground for complaining of the flooding Of
the markets with unripe fruit if the old
conditions of shipment prevailed. This
is an age of refrigeration, of perfect re-
frigeration. Shippers, transportation
agencies cold storage men and others
never tire of telling the public how much
it has to be thankful for in the progress
of refrigeration. 1t makes possible ship
meats from Argentina and Australia. 1t
makes possible the distribution of butter
and eggs from Sweden and Norway and
Denmark throughout Europe. Lack of 1t
used to explain why the southern or
western American grower was compelled
be made for the transportation of the
products to distant points. But this does
not hold good now. Ripe fruit can be
shipped to almost any distance 1t 1S
certain demand. Inspection should be
such as to render impossible the shipment
Of unripe fruit to meet any form of de-
mand.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

That Choctaw who killed himself
when he learned he had lost So
100000 unearned increment failed to
show the red mans traditional stoi-
raic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Kansans have another advantage
over New Workers these days. They
are not being annoyed with leaky
roofs,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

William Allen White confirms the
general opinion that the relations be-
tween the Progressive party and Colo
mel Roosevelt are to be of the perma-
1ent variety. LAS long as he does what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

What New York and a few other big
American cities need are few New
Hampshire sheriffs on their police
forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Alarming thought: What if it
should occur to the Pullman company
to charge something extra for rides
in steel cars?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Have You ever noticed how the icepox
door hangs open. One of them is ever
lastngly open and the hot air from the
outside Is just eating up your good ice
that you have paid for at taxicab rates.
We have an opinion upon this subject.
We believe that the ice trust holds stock
in the refrigerator factories and that
every icebox is so made that at least one
door will hang open.
A bolt of lightning made an Illinois
man walk Betting on the horses will
make almost any man walk.
One of Professor Taft'S chief consola-
tons is that he doesn't have to live in
Washington in this kind of weather.
Henry Few Sessions of Georgia ought
to be good man for the supreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Just to show that a real Democrat
is no respecter of persons, the new
ogrevnor of the Philippines has ar
ranged to call on the emperor of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-08

Another problem: Who is going to
wear the tons of valuable jewelry re-
ported as stolen this summer?