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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
ExTRAVAGANCE a VIRTUE.

That the "non-saver is now a high
| err type than the saver is the I'M
| conventional doctrine enunciated by
Professor Simon N. Patten, of the
chair of political economy in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, according to
| Current Opinion for January. Pro-
lessor Patten elaborated the idea in a
! recent much-discussed address in the
J Spring Garden Unitarian church, Phil
/ adelphia. He argued, in effect:
The non saver of earlier genera
lions was an eXtravagant individual
| without family ties or social motives.
| Non-saving today is a budgetary pres
sure forcing alterations in the family
expenditures. The non-saver is now a
higher type of a man than the saver,
just as the saver was an elevation of
| type above the extravaganza of more
primitive men. This higher family
aims to create flow of income to en-
joy and not an accommodating fund for
future support. Its striking effects
are manifest in the pressure to reduce
! the birth rate and to delay marriage
The budgetary equilibrium is attained
not by reducing expenditures but by
elevating the family to a higher social
status where more efficiency produces
the needed income"
Professor Patten advised working
girls to borrow money, if need be, in
| order to be we'll dressed and to ad-
vance themselves socially and in bust
ness. Il tell my Students" he said,
ito spend all that they have and Dor
row more and spend that. 1t is fool
ish for persons to scrimp and save. It
is argued that they are endeavoring
to put something aside for a rainy day
for old age. But it is not the individ-
uals place to do this. 1t is the COM
Tonnifu'S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
EXPORTS OF IMPLEMENTS.

More than 40 million dollars worth
of agricultural implements were ex-
ported from the United States to for
eign countries in the calendar year just
ended Ten years ago the value of
the expectation of this class of manu-
features was Is million dollars; twenty
years ago it was but million dollars
Thus the value of this particular class
of manufactures exported in 1912 was
nearly two and a half times as much as
a decade ago and ten times as much as
two decades ago.
All the world. apparently. buys Amer
lean agricultural implements. Mowers
and reapers exported last year went to
more than rs countries and colonies.
including every grand division of the
world, while other classes of agricul-
turaI implements were widely distri-
buted in the years export trade Europe
alone took n million dollars worth of
the 40 million dollars worth of farm
ing implements exported in 1912; North
America, million: and South America.
8 million dollars worth. Russia is the
largest single buyer of our AGRICULTURAL
implements, the value exported thereto
in the year just ended having been an
proximately 10 million dollars, against
million to Argentina, million to
Canada, and about million dollars
each to France and Germany. Thus
the leading buyers of our agricultural
/ implements are, in the order of mag
nitude, Russia, Argentina, and Canada
with France and Germany about equal
in the value of their purchases, though
in each case materially less than the
three countries already named-Russia,
Argentina. and Canada.
American mowers and reapers seem
to be especially in demand in Russia,
which took in the fiscal year 1912 4
million dollars worth out of a total
of IL million dollars worth of mowers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13

gray suit and jaunty little toque to
match.
II am going to the city, uncle, there
are things that need doing" she an
nounced.
Then order me q box of cigars, the
last are all but gone"
I'll not forget" and she bent to
kiss him tenderly. At the front door
she turned, her brightness clouded by
a sudden mist.
If should not be back by 5 o'clock.
Miss Harris" she faltered; IF should
happen not to be back. will you read
this bit of Burns to him and see that
he's not lonely?"
At o'clock she had not returned.
The nurse had just found the Burns
book and was pushing Mr.. Mackenzie
toward warm corner of the piazza
when telegram was brought out
Read it, he ordered, indifferently.
With a heart pounding with excite
ment Miss Harris obeyed.
She's crossed the border and away
with Jock o. HazeldeenH she cried,
waving the paper high in the air.
What might you be talking about?
demanded Mr.. Mackenzie. Then she
read him the message.
Were married this morning. Ad-
dress ST. Lyons. Atlantic City, Allan
and Nora Mackenzie
There was a dreadful silence. Mr.
MackGnZl6 lace grew T0Q. IOAO ASA
time and again that the Mackenzies
were parted forever!''
"Oh. that's the old Scottish line"
interrupted Miss Harris, hurriedly.
For her time had finally come. THAT
doesn't apply to us in America. You're
forgetting the Mackenzie prophecy en-
tirely."
And she recited, as clearly as she
could for the f1uttering of her heart
the lines that she had written:
when Mackenzie leaves Dunfermline
town and sails across the sea,
Old pleasures and old quarrels shall
both forgotten be.
But the bond of blood shall strengthen
upon the foreign shore,
And there Mackenzie man and maid
- shall meet and love once more"
Mr.. Mackenzie's eyes were riveted
on her face. That's never in the
Mackenzie book he declared, sternly.
'Of course it's not in the Mackenzie
book. It's been handed down by word
of mouth from generation to genera
ton. Why, Mr.. Mackenzie. don't tell
me that you've never heard the Mac
kenzie's prophecy
There was a pause while the Mac
kenzie love of truth wrestled with the
Mackenzie love of tradition. The bat
tie was brief.
''Of course, I've heard it, he re-
torted. I've heard it all my life. Send
telegram to those children and say
that when they're through philander-
ing there'll be a blessing waiting-at
home!'-(Copyright. 1913. by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
NXHAWKER .JOTS,

AS Editor Howard of the Everest
Enterprise explains: The man who is
bound to rule or ruin will generally
ruin.
One of the local items in the Lyons
Republican: In order to outtalk his
wife {! y Alvin Long invested in one
of the finest talking machines that he
could find.
All aboard for Neal, Woodson coun-
tyi It's correspondent for the To-
ronto Republican reports: Neal is
such healthy place that it won't sup
port doctor or drug man.
They say that experience is a dear
teacher, remarks the Florence Bulletin,
but it isn't so bad to be made the
goat" once and get the experience.
The real sucker is the one who bites
at every fake game or proposition that
comes along.
No town ever went ahead without
men to push it ahead. Think that
over. Your prosperity depends upon
the prosperity of this town. Bear that
in mind. If you work for the town
you work for yourself. Give to that
careful consideration. II you neglect
the town you neglect your own best
interests. Now, where does your duty
lie ?-Horton Headlight-Commer
A couple of horses over in the Lit
tie River neighborhood became so en-
crossed in reading an advertising cir
cular tackled to the floor of g. bridge
that they refused to bulge. Other
teams were coming along and a seri-
Gus accident was narrowly averted by
the woman who was driving, getting
out of the buggy and removing the
advertisement. To avoid accidents ad-
vertisers should place their ads in the
newspapers.-Lind News.
Oh, you 33-years-ago! According
to the Jewell County Republican that
period saw eggs selling at 10 cents a
dozen, hogs at SO per hundred and
corn at IS cents per bushel. But while
the consumer was then reve1ing in
low cost of living, the farmer producer
was on the ragged edge of poverty.
And conditions all around were prob
ably worse for everybody than they
are now when so much fault is found
with the high prices of everything. AS
matter of fact, high prices are the
ladies in waiting on prosperity while
low prices are the sisters in distress
of hard times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13

and reapers exported In the group,
plows and cultivators, Canada and Ar
gentina are the largest purchasers.
Canada and Argentina each taking
about IL million dollars worth out of
a total expectation of million dollars.
The recent classification of the Blu
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce divides the group of agricultural
implements, exported into mowers and
reapers, plows and cultivators, planters
and seeders, hay rakes and tedders.
Of the 40 million dollars worth of agri-
cultural implements exported during the
calendar year. 81 million dollars worth
was mowers and reapers; million,
plows and cultivators; million, thresh-
ers; ~ million, planters and seeders,
and half million dollars, hay rakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
EVENING CHAT
A New Medicine for Regret.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

"A new 41eQlcIIle Tor regret.
One of the two most futile and fool
ish wastes of energy in the world is to
worry over the future; the other is
to regret the past,
The first is rather more comm on
the second rather more foolish. For
whereas worry might possibly spur
one on to action, regret cannot in any
way affect the past. Things done are
done The moving finger writes,
and having writ, moves on. not all
your piety nor wit shall lure it back
to cancel half a line, nor all your
tears wash out a word of it,
All of which is just a prelude to the
introduction of a medicine which may
help anyone afflicted with the dis
ease of regret.
1t is the discovery of a friend of
mine. She has always been afflicted
with tendency to this vitality sap
ping disease. Decisions are agony to
her because she knows that the mo-
ment she has decided either way she
will be seized with an attack of her
chronic disease. All the advantages
of the line of action which she has
rejected marshal themselves before
ghosts.
Recently this woman had to make
very important decision. She was
to buy house in which she would
probably live many years. She was so
fearful that she would do the wrong
thing that she became almost hysteri-
cal over the matter. The selection
finally narrowed down to a choice be-
tween two houses. She vacillated be-
tween these for about a month ask
ing everyone's advice and making UP
her mind three times a day.
When she finally took the fatal leap
/ was almost afraid to visit her for
fear of finding her in a blue funk of
regret. But to my surprise, 1 found
her quite serene.
When 1 asked her if she had felt
any regret she actually smiled Yes"
she said, Il did at first. As soon as
the disadvantages began to appear
you know there are always some dis
advantages in any house that you
don't find out until you actually live
in it began to wish taken the 9TH
err house, and to think of all it's adj
vantages. And then" don't know
how it happened-it suddenly came
over me that if I had taken the other
house. some unexpected disadvantages
would have been sure to appear in
that, and of course 1 shouldn't have
known about the disadvantages of this
one, and so 1 should have felt lust
the same about this house as I do
about that one. Since then, every
time I have started to regret the 9TH
er house I've just put my mind right
on that fact and you don't know how
much it has helped
Don't you think that's a wise point
of view?
ana not only IN regard to selecting
a mouse, but in regard to any decision.
Whatever line of action you choose
you will find some disadvantages in
it, and by contrast the course you did
MT choose will appear alluring. But
don't be deceived by this. Keep con-,
stantly before your mind that there
must be disadvantages in the other
course which following it would have
brought out. They may be less than
the present evils but then. again, they
ms " ho T1a IL
So the next time you find yourself
about to have an attack of the regret
devils after a decision. try to exercise
them with that medicine thought.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Even q modest man will talk about his
big salary to his kin.
A desk with too many pigeon holes is
like the mind of some people.
Occasionally man is So easily pleased
that he is satisfied with his son-in-law.
If the neighbors have children of their
own they are apt to find fault with
yours.
Most people, however, are better look
ing than their flashlight photo would
dictate.
Emphatic speech is necessary to drive
oxen, and even that won't drive them
very fast.
1t must be difficult for an undertaken to
look solemn as he should when bust
ness is good.
When a woman returns from visit,
she usually has few recipes to try out
on Friend Husband.
Harmony in the household may mean
no more than that the husband fully ap-
preciates the fact that he cannot strike a
woman.
Doc Robinson: I'm reading a little
summer fiction with the view of keeping
warm. The Republican hand book in par
ticular is very interesting"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
QUAKER An.DrrATtoNs.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
How are those good resolutions holdirg
out?
1.oout the only calling some people do
is to call bluffs
No man can find his level unless he
does his level best.
1t doesn't pay to make your play hard
er than your work.
Don't carry your head too high. the
giraffe gets many a bump.
+ Cork and corkscrews both enter into
the composition of life preservers.
t must be the egotist's Is that give
him such distorted view of life
Only fool would be satisfied to have
a debt paid in compliments.
It's. doubtful compliment to tell a
fat girl she's all wool and yard wide.
Even the funniest play won't keep some
fellows from going out between the ats
for smile.
acknowledge is power, quoted the Wise
Guy. AT the same time many a girl is
single because she knows too much. .
added the Simple Mug.
VEGA college education has mary
advantages" Wagg-.'Yes.~for one thing
it can generally be depended upon to
teach a boy how to spend about ten times
q much money as he will ever have"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
IMPROVING THE STAFF OF LIFE.

There can't be too much of a thing
as good as good bread, and that thing
cannot be too good. That's why the
whole nation is pulling thumbs for the
entire success of the Philadelphia
woman who announces that she has
discovered a new process for making
bread which will add to its taste and
will take away the greater part of its
il-digestibility.
Like most things which women do,
this discovery had a sentim entail basis
One of the most famous patent medi-
cines of today is the chance discov-
cry of loving wife who took a lot
of household supplies and mixed them
up in an attemut to get something to
soothe the pain her husband was
enduring In a similar way, Mrs.
Lydia Cole Sharpless of Philadelphia
applied herself to taking the indiges-
ton out of ordinary bread after the
doctor had told her husband it was
bad diet for him.
He loved bread, and as fond wife
Mrs. Sharpless set about finding some
way she could produce bread that
would not have the colicky qualities of
the common kind. So she expert
mented at home and later extended
tories of her native town. But all to
no avail. The bread still laid heavily
on her husbands tender stomach.
Finally one day when she had per-
suaded the landlord to repaper a room
on the threat of getting new house,
she observe the paperhanger mixing
his paste. All was as simple then as
the discovery of specific gravity by
Archimedes when he took a bath.
Like a good old fashioned housewife,
she had been stirring her dough, long
and Justify The paperhanger, though,
stirred his not at all. Then she in
vestigated and found that by simply
putting in the flour and letting it alb
sorb water it did away with the
starchiness which was the cause of all
the Indigestion bred by bread.
Mrs. Sharpless, who is over seventy,
has invented a mixer which puts the
right proportions of water and flour
together and then blends them without
s, breaking the flour particles that
there will be portions which will not
cook when put in the oven. She makes
bread that has 80 per cent of its
indigestion breeding properties taken
out.
Hardworl<ed and harassed stomachs
will arise and call her blessed if all
womankind can be in like degree sue
cessful, but little boys, who are kin
to the ostriches, will still come in for
a slice of the old kind, as many times
day as the cook will let them, and
will still ask for sugar on it when they
think the time is propitious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
SAYS UNCLE CAV

These are the days of post-Christ,nas
regrets and the presentation of Christ
mas bills. IT'S a. solemn season in
which We begin to realize that what
we mistook for generosity is sometimes
only financial foolhardiness and the
thing we call Christmas cheer is too
often a debauch that leaves us with
a very sober and very sore morning
head that lasts well along into Feb
ruary, March, orjApril. We are still
able to appreciate the beauties of CIV
ing, but the conviction is gradually
settling upon us that we have given
aot wisely but too well.
Being in this frame of mind we are
prepared tC see advantages in econt my
that we have heretofore been unable
to perceive. The phrase living within
cne's income has a sad sweet sound,
and the opportunity of saving a dollar
a week by walking to and fro from
work comes to us with all the gladstone
tantalizing anticipation that attends,
for certain other unwise ones, the clink
of the ice in the pitcher. as the boy
comes up tie hall. There are many
points of similarity between the spend
ing jag and the drinking jag, and the
point where they most closely cor
respond is the afterclap. A feeling of
penitence of determine ton ITO take a
brace" 'never to do it again." to swear
off, quit, cut it out, adjure, eschew or
otherwise get TlQ OF the ndDlC Is the
strongest sentiment in the heart of the
victim.
Even as total abstainers" pledges
are most popular Immediately after an
Incorporate Indulgence in wine so that
S. p. U. G. pledge is greatly in de-
mand just now. If the organizers of
that excellent society desire to strike
while the iron is hot, let them bare
their arms and reach for the sledge
hammer. The gilt is beginning to wear
off the Christmas gifts and consciences
are glowing in the fires of repentance.
Now is the time to get in the good work
for the permanent protection Of the
family pocketbook.
In the course of his post-Christmas
reflections, the victim of the generosity
jag, finds himself in possession of the
following conclusions:
A balance in the bank is to be pre-
ferred above much useless junk and
twenty-three Acknowledgements of gifts
received
1t is better to dine substantially for
thirty days than to eat coffee and rolls
while remem bering Christmas dinner
with two kinds of wine.
Better a new set of furniture for the
living room than house full of GIN
cracks made only to sell and send at
Christmas time.
You can't eat handpainted neckties,
embroidered suspenders, variegated
vests, babyblue smoking jackets, house
slippers two sizes too small, nor the
assortment of bric-a-brac that recently
decorated the notion counter-neither
can you wear them.
Not all the intemperance in the world
is to be charged to food and drink
An empty pocketbook stioketh closer
than a poor relation.
.sWould you marry him If you We're me?''
I'D marry any one that asked me, If
were YOU, Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
THE LEAF FIRE.

The leaf-fire glowing redly in the gloom
Throws quiv'r ring shadows Iengthwise o er
the room;
A flash upon the northern window pane
A flash, flare, and all is dark again.
But with the passing of the fire or
leaves,
My heart bows low, and sobs, and softly
grieves.
l think that I. in ages past and gone.
Have roamed the world at autumn-tida
alone,
And chanted dirges by some fun'ral pyre
When saint-souls mounted skyward in
the fire;
For with the passing of the lives OF
leaves,
My heart chants dirges low, and sobs,
and grieyeS.
June Bellman Henthorne in the How
ard Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Mistakes are not always as serious
as they seem at first.
- j.
Few persons have opinions of their
own. They generally come from other
sources.
Among other intricate matters that
some boys learn at college are foot
ball signals.
= j. =
No matter how wise man may be
he is apt to put on a foolish stunt
occasionally.
+ j. j.
An automatic device that would pre-
vent people from speaking, when
angry, would help a whole lot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13


From the evidence at that time, it
OF the Httle-neck variety, and that his
neck should have been stretched.
Would enquire. in nonchalant way;
what edition of Ell. Hubbard's maya
zine contained the indecent paragraph
that won him a Federal indictment
We suspect a certain friend of keep
ing file of the Hubbard publication.
and the same malady that is alleged to
have killed a cat is epidemic.
when I have to mingle with a big
crowd of strangers" says Jack Supp,
II prefer that it be a full dress affair.
When every man on the job is wearing
tight white kid gloves, the chance of
having your pocket picked is reduced to
a minimum"
The work of breaking Jack Johnson
seems to be progressing nicely. 1t is
stated that Chicago Society and john
sons Attorneys, associate contractors
on the job, hope to complete their I'M
dertaking before spring
The squirrels are starving in Wich-
ita. Considering the number of nuts in
Wichita-aw, say it yourself.
The South Carolina case, wherein a
lodge applicant became alarmed at tne
initiation and shot the leader of the
degree teams, should be a warning to
degree team in general. The pest sys-
tenn is to precede the initiation by
stripping the candidate and tying his
hands behind him.
At a late hour this afternoon. the
Union Station was located in North To-
peka. But all of those who are boost
ing for Tecumseh and Pauline have not
been heard from, and the location may
be changed before supper time.
A certain young man in this village
has chance to marry a rich girl. He
is considering the proposition, and
weighing it against a chance to buy on
easy payments, half interest in a
plumbing business.
People who eat buckwheat cakes
eventually charge coffee with the re-
sponsibility for their Indigestion.
Good afternoon for quite g while.
This department will now adjourn to
the state house and try to write nice
things about the lawmakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

Are the chances of the New York
Highlanders- improved since they have
become Chances Highlanders?
(Nor is there any telling what that
fellow will do. He's the boob that put
the kick in kickapoo)
If your type writer borrowed So
would you think she was studying
touch %
CAS- Oat Abar says: Some folks are
like cider--sweet enough until it's
time to work.l
How can perfumes be expensive
when none of them is any more than
a scent?
(whoops. my dearl I am the ex-
allied ruler in our lodge.)