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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09

Miracle of miracles! For once his card
case was there when he wanted it.
Robert Crandalli Why, you're not
the great Robert Crandall-the en-
gineer? Why. we know you, don't we,
mother? My brother worked with you
on the Long Harbor breakwater." -
Billy Blanding?" queried Crandall
aloud. To himself he was saying:
why didn't I think of that before!
Blanding-of course-not a common
name at allt' -
And you'll dine with US tomorrow
night" Mrs. Banding was saying.
Tomorrow? Oh, that's very good of
you, Surely said CrandaH, "if you'll
let me replace these plants. I must
do that. you know. I'll do it nowi"
I'D wash my face first" laughed
Mrs. Blanding.
the apartments. Two men were carry
ing more than half the florists shop
up to the apartment below Crandalrs.
In CrandalPs own apartment that
young gentleman was fussing into his
dinner clothes.
long-faced, a certain Mr.. Sam West
ford
Lord, but this is one lonesome
town." he began his usual plant "Oh
I don't know; I don't know disagreed
Bob Crandall
HUM said Westford In surprise.
Whats the antidote?'
my boy" said Crandall you
needn't be lonesome any more than if
you'll follow this prescription: Sit in
one window; take one snooze; proceed
to fall out
"a cure for loneliness" said CrandaH
seriously. TRY it, And say Sammy,
awfully sorry but Wen have to run
along now. I'm dining out tonight
Copyright 1913 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
THE SECRET OF BEAUTY.


There is a beauty secret, not found
in cosmetics, and which does not lin
ger in the perfume laden hangings of
the parlor of the masseuse, writes a
contributor to Leslie's. 1t is a secret
which any woman can possess, and its
magic effect is almost instantly noted.
The secret is merely a combination of
repose and relaxation.
A restful woman always appears to
advantage. There is culture in a re-
pose of manner that makes itself felt
both at home and in public. This
poise in itself is personal beauty. There
is a suggestion of reserve intellectual
strength, more impressive than the
uneasiness of the woman who feels
that her tongune or her body must be
in motion to let the world know she
is in it.
At the same time, the wear and tear
will leave the marks of strain on COM
pIexion and figure, which no creams
or lotions can remove. To grow old
gracefully and beautifully learn to
take things easy. Repose is more
identifying than rouge, and relaxa-
ton more body building than massage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
EVENING CHET
Lannching Refnrrns.
81 RUTa cAA1ERoN.

| A young friend of mine whose besetting
| weakness is her Uncomfortable tempe-,
has moved into pBetty new home.
| A group of called on her there and
| were shown the new domain by the proud
thing she said, as we finished the in
| spection. 1T doesn't show like the closets
and the open fire place, but think it S
| best of all. 1 made a resolution when L
| in this new place and L haven't yet, and
| that's four weeks ago." vigorously knock
ing on the wooden arm of her piazza
chair.
OF course we laughed and then some
one asked. May we know the connection
between temper and a new house? Is it
easier to Keep your temper in a brand
new house? 1 guess I'll have to persuade
my husband to buy me one if it is.
why, the only connection is that when
you go to any new place you feel as if
you were starting life all new, and so it's
good chance to leave your faults behind.
We've moved three times and each time
I've begun the new life with the determi-
nation to get rid of some of my horrible
temper. OF course, the other moves were
just little changes from one hired apart
ment to another, and since this is the big
gest change I'm going to try to make
more change in myself
We all laughed at the lady's philosophy,
but after all thought it pretty fine.
So fine, in fact, that having recently
moved myself. am trying to make this
of my habit of procrastinatfon. I am be-
ginning the new regime by going directly
dawdling about and looking for things to
LITER away time upon, I used to do;
and I find it much easier to inaugurate
the new habit under the stimulus of new
surroundings and conditions.
Good habits are very hard to launch,
and 1t is very difficult indeed to find the
right time to launch them. Some day, we
all think, the suspicious time viii come to
overcome our besetting weakness, but we
know it is not today. And If new re
gime of some sort will give us the needed
impetus toward finding that some day"
let seize every such opportunity. Nor
need the new regime necessarily be the
move into a new home. You have lovely
new gown. Why not make that the occa-
sion of launching a habit of more careful
grooming? You have a new desk. Is not
And why should not the new watch of
which you are so proud help you to launch
the labit of punctuality.
Perhaps these seem but slender pegs to
hang such big reforms upon, but slender
neeS have held greater changes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
Europe'S First Bankers,

1t was in Italy that the art of bank
ing as known in our times, was first
introduced. The earliest bank estab-
lished in modern Europe was that of
Venice, which was founded in 1857. 1t
originated in a loan which the state
raised during the great war of the re-
public with the Greek empire, 1156-1171.
The Bank of Genoa was founded
about $50 years after the Bank of
Venice. Macaulay, in his History of
England, has a partial description of
the operations of this bank, which ex-
listed from 1920 to 1885,
Previous to the year 1894 there were
only four considerable banks in Europe,
but on July q of that year a charter
was granted by William and Mary for
establishing the Bank of England
which for opulence and extent of circu-
lation has for many years been the
greatest in the world.
1t is century and a third since
the first bank was established in the
United States This bank is known
in financial history as the Pennsylvania
Bank 1t began operating on July II,
1850, and since that time Pennsylvania
has figured conspicuously in the bank
ing affairs of the country. Besides be-
ing the home of the first bank in the
United States, Pennsylvania has the
distinction of having the first bank in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
B1uGARIA,s MANY FOES.

| Whether or not the fighting between
| Bulgarian troops on one side and Ser
| Wan and Greek forces on the other
goes on until it becomes a general
| war, there is no doubt that the largest
and most powerful of the four Balkan
states which waged victorious war
against Turkey is beset by many foes.
If the great powers bring about the
settlement of the boundary questions
by arbitration or by mutual conces-
sions, still the Bulgars will be
forced to contend against the influence
of Servia. Greece and probably Monte
negro combined.
Moreover Rumania, larger than
Bulgaria and with resources untouch-
ed by war, will surely take part IN the
concerted effort to cut down the Bull
garian share of the territory conquer
ed from the Turks. If the lately al
lied Balkan kingdoms engage in
fierce conflict among themselves ana
the Turks venture to reopen hostih-
ties it is a foregone conclusion that
thew will strike the Bulgarians first
and hardest. The Bulgars alone are
in position exposed to the full
weight of a Turkish advance.
These conditions create grave
situation for the hard hitting ana
courageous BulgarlanS 10 lace. 1hey
are inferior in numbers and material
resources to the Greeks and the Serbs
combined and with Rumanla in the
field the numerical odds would be
more than two to one against Bull
garia, even if the Turks did not fire a
shot.
Yet Bulgaria may risk the issue OF
so one-sided a struggle. There is deep
a Greece
and Servia and Bulgaria has long dis
liked Rumania. The Bulgars have
suffered much in the war against the
Turks, but they have also made great
gains and their confidence is as high
as their fighting blood is hot. States
men, not the populace, will prevent
war if peace has to be bought by CIV
ing up any of the Turkish territory
which Bulgaria now claims.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
HamIet's Ghost in Movies.

The evolution of the drama has
been, in a sense, the evolution of artl-
fetal lighting. In Shakespeare time
there were only flashlights. Hence the
performance had to be given in broad
day. In daylight the actors face can
not be seen at any distance with DIS
tinctness. Therefore Shakespeare had
to put most of the expression into the
lines, which grew into long speeches
and soliloquies. AS better lighting
was used, however, the speeches
grew shorter and shorter, until today,
with the human face sharply Hum
mated, the actor does much of his
work through pantomime. The next
step in lighting is the motion pic
ture, where expression is everything
Here the face is seen extremely close,
sometimes within six feet of the cam
era, and when it is thrown upon the
screen it is usually more than life
size; and we get a new and startling
intimacy. Besides, the eye of the
camera is superhuman; and the big
eye sees and registers what the hu
man eye would not notice. Are there
not possibilities here which do not
exist on the stage? For instance the
ability to visualize dreams and mem
Hamlet were acted for the movies
the ghost would be a real ghost; you
would be able to look right through
him.
They merely photograph the scene
without the ghost, taking a count CT
HamIet's appearance and acting; then
clear Hamlet off the stage and ex-
pose the same strip of film again,
with the ghost acting. The ghost acts
according to the count previously
made timing every gesture with the
acting of Hamlet; and so his image
overlays the images already regis
tered; and when the film is run off
you see the back-drop right through
him while he approaches Hamlet, and
the two act in perfect unison.--Amer-
MAGAZINE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
We all overdo our faorite phrases.
BY THE ATcH1soN GLOBE.

We all overdo our faorite phrases.
A cough is bad enough without
cough drops.
A loafer can't understand why a
busy man is busy.
When politeness costs a great effort
it doesn't help much.
Many indulge in talk of whipping
the umpire who couldn't do it.
An expert may make mistakes, but
it is harder to catch him at them.
A man frequently is inclined to put
day.
We still contend that a bank state
ment probably is perfectly lucid to a
banker.
1t discourages an earnest fly swat
ter to look at the screen door on a
rainy evening.
Your friends are apt to find fault If
you are economical, but don't let that
discourage you.
No man is particularly anxious to
beat the life insurance game in a
legitimate manner.
Judge Johnson has the faculty of
being under the weather during all
kinds of weather.
Daughter, you may have observed
can dress up a good deal easier than
her mother can.
Beyond selling them to a sucker
most of the schemes for making
money don't amount to much.
Fewer people take castor oil, and
life at this time offers other advan-
tages over the good old days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
QUAKER NEDITATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

LFrom the Philadelphia Record1
Every horse that wears shoes isn't
on it's mettle.
Experience is the tollgate on the
road to success.
Some people expect conscience to
use megaphone.
The man who jumps overheard is
usually OVERLOOKED with life.
The hairdresser must expect to dye
an old maid once in a while.
A slip of the tongue is often more
dangerous than a slip on a banana
peel.
The girl whose fingers are loaded
with diamonds is fond of wringing her
hands.
The one redeeming feature about
castles in the air is that you don't
have to pay rent for them.
Many a fellow who's anxious to
come out on top objects to the upper
berth in sleeping car.
A stylish man likes to have the la
test wrinkle, but he doesn't want 1t
located across the middle of his back.
Girls, don't place too much faith
In flattery," warns the Manayunk
Philosopher. Just because some fell
low calls you an angel it isn't neces-
sary to begin taking lessons on the
harp
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

lFrom the Chicago News
Neither does it pay to crow over IN
spilled milk.
Trying to be a good citizen has
made many a man unpopular.
Just the same, it's a poor rule that
refuses to work our way.
The aeroplane chauffeur hasn't
anything on the flight of time.
Seek and We shall find" but not
necessarily the political office desired.
Cheap people are always looking
for something cheaper than them
selves.
Never put off till tomorrow what
any one is willing to do for you to-
day.
Every dog has his day and every
rooster takes the morning for his very
own.
Occasionally a woman can tell a
man what she thinks of him without
thinking very hard.
The Lord pays more attention to
short prayer from the heart than to
long one from the lips.
And many a mans idea of being
stylishIy dressed is to wear a necktie
that would start a riot at a funeral.
If a woman ever does find her ideal
man she almost invariably discovers
that some other woman has a prior
claim on him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Summer resort air can scarcely be
classified with the free variety.
j. u j
Arguing with a woman is as fruit
less as trying to fill a sieve with water.
+ 4 4
Nor is the heat anywheres near so
annoying as the people who insist on
talking about it continually
= + +
Broken matrimonial engagements
nave this to commend them. They
undoubtedly make less work for the
divorce courts.
+ = p
Most of the amateur gardeners
should be ranked with the philan-
thropists, they work so hard for the
benefit of their neighbors' chickens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
HUAOR or THE DAY

I'VE are somewhat musical, and now
the family next door is having the daugh-
ter take singing lessons" Emulation
eh?" Looks more like revenge."-Wash-
ington Herald.
Aren't you going to say your prayers
Tommy mo, mamma. There amt
nothin' 1 want tonight Wait till Christ
mas Then I'll have long one."-Judge.
eff your daughter must take music les
sons. let her learn the organ why the
organ instead of the piano?" Because
organ playing does have some stops about
it.''-Baltimore American.
JakeS-"Norway has a midnight SUM-
Rakes-"That's nothing. So have H.
Baltimore American.
''The gems of literature are in this Ii
brary'' 81 see most of them are uncut
gems."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
AYHAWKE.R JOTS

A hint to the bachelors from the
Abilene Reflector: Income tax will get
you if you don't get married.
According to the Great Bend Trib-
une, the man who doesn't get all that
Is coming to him is generally lucky.
A weather forecast in the Ottawa
Republic that has a reasonable ring
to it: Still, there is no immediate pros
pect of a snowstorm.
A woman contributor to the Pratt
Union makes this suggestion. Before
you smile at the thought of what kind
of a man your neighbor married, you
had better turn and take a square
look at the specimen you have in
captivity"
A young lady, says the Augusta
Journal, Indignantly declared that she
wofe Aer own hair only. She told the
trut4l. She paid her own money for it.
Certainly a woman hates to tell a
secret. remarks the Leavenworth La
Dor Chronicle and Resubmissionist but
what else can she do with it.
Some lively hogs, these. Justice
Wright, reports the Junction City
Union, who last week shipped in sew
eral cars of Arkansas and Missouri
hogs, is going to have a hard time to
keep the critters within the radius of
the Wright farm. The place is fenced
with wire fencing. but many of them
can take a standing jump and clear
the top wire.
One of the good stories going the
rounds tells of a Kansas editor who
published an item saying: "a certain
prominent business man was seen
hugging his stenographer." The next
day five different business men of the
city dropped in for a friendly chat
and left copy for an ad. for the paper.
The editor is still wondering if this
was simply a coincidence.
Some "Sunbeams'' from Verd Ma
piers Blue Mound Sun: Being a
crouch is harder on the system than
tobacco. Dreaming about what we
might have been will not pay for the
groceries. Most men are smarter
than you would naturally think. If
you don't believe 1t, ask them.
If you must tell your troubles to some
one, hunt up single man. Few mar
ried men will be interested.
The first time the stork visits a
home the proud father sends out a
dozen kilograms and sets up the cigars
to all his friends. The second time
he merely writes a couple of letters
and sets 'em UP to his close friends
After that he goes UP the side streets.
doesn't go near a cigar store for two
weeks and the relatives know nothing
Of the rAw arrf-pI un+'I +1-1-- come
for a visit.-Jamestown Optimist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
WHOM THE GODS LOVE.


Time was fretted lest the envious years
Should steal away some dear familiar
grace
OF his strong youth; and that beloved
face
Should change-that all life brings of
smiles and tears,
The loss that deadens. and the sin that
sears
Should on his beauty set their dirnnning
trace;
s. The Future bring me, wheeling up apace.
A stranger for my bUy.-Thus ran my
fears.
Poor silly fears! How foolish they look
now
Foolish as dreams in the cold light of
truth,
Change touched him not. Life stayed to
break no vow
OF promised joy. Grim Age that knows
no ruth
Spared his bright soul.-Death kissed him
on the brow
And lowered him with imperishable
youth.
Eva Dobell, in London Outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09
FROM OTHER PENS

WHO WOULD BE A MILLIONATRE7
AS the thermometer mounts and the
avalanche of monthly bills comes
sWoop1ng down and every hour invites
20 Ioaf, there will be few spirits bold
euUush 10 dismiss a million dollars
WIN unklnd words. Yet the more one
reflects upon the young man from
CoIunola who grew weary of Ioafing
around in the east with a million and
quarter the more sense he appears to
,,f t.rs SHOWN. AFTER all, why isn't he
uIterlng the simple truth when he ay-
plalns his preference for his Arkan-
sas job: out here life is real. I fou,,d
II was the man that counted. ana T
got INTO touch with life and work for
the flrst time. The work was hard
put L enjoyed it, for 1 was maITinr
gooo- We agree that this is a bad
season to make the glory of work the
LEX Tor sermon-however short. All
the same, the words of the voung
arkansas railroader seem worth brinse
ing to the fore against a more favor
ing hour Million or no million WORK
Is the best thing in the world and
tne most p1tiable object in all 1nanLjnd
IS me ne man VINO hasn't the gumption
or the training or the sense to work
we hurI this cheering thought in the
teeth of a holiday which we weak1v
confess in the same breath, is far. far
TOO orief.-New York Tribune.
FORCING MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM.
BY placing an embargo on ice which
Cincinnati tried to get from other
cit1es: the ice manufacturers of that
CITY FORCED the experiment in munici-
Cities must have ice. A similar situa-
tlon might be brought about with re-
gard to coal, if the coal dealers resort
co TO such tactics. The very men who.
ownership and management Of indIiso
tries that should remain a field for
private enterprise, will compel nubIic
ownership OF such industries by ignor-
ING the public need and managing
them without regard to public service'
st. Louis Dispatch. VICE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09

corporated under the national bank
ing act Charter No. 1 was given to the
First National Bank of Philadelphia.
That state is also the home of the first
trust company. In 1909 the Pennsyl-
vania Company. a corporation to write
insurance on lives and grant annuities,
was organized in Philadelphia. In 1886
this institution was authorized to exc
cute trusts. Not until 1853, however
was it empowered to act as executor
and inistrator.-National Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-09

Great news for those who have
ideas that there is nothing so attrac-
tive as any old kind of a govern
ment job. The interstate commerce
commission needs a vast army of men
for the appraisal of the property of
the railroads
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ON TIE SPUR
or THE AOMENT
Woodrow.
By ROY X. MoULTON.

WOOUrOW.
..d-sot an ldee," said Farmer Brown,
Tor after all has been done and said.
mat teller has got somethin in his head.
He's got lot of old-fashfoned sn,nL
And his mind amt crowded with fsds ana
junk. -NS anu
he doesn't tremble and SILVER and shaka
W men any decision he's got to make
When anyone mentions the Japanese.
lie don't go skylarkin round about
He amt a hankerin' to see the sigf1ts.
He office is open, yes, days and nights
he amt ta-knockin' no golf balls round
" Hen business ls waitin', I'll be bound.
He's tackled in earnest big mans fob
And it amt no place fer an onery lob.
He's tackled the thing as a big man
should.
And I got idee he's goin' to make
good"
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for owning a shotgun in Kansas.
OF course the barrels might be used
as an extension for the garden hose
or to Tram the dust out of the rugs
but since it is forbidden to discharge
the family firearm on July the one
excuse for owning shotgun is gone.
But at that. the split skirt has moth
ing on the X-ray skirt in the matter
of exposures. In fact, the split skirt
exposes but one of them.
Seventy thousand quarts of it were
consumed in Topeka last month.
That's a quart for every man, woman,
child and poodle dog in town, but it
is generally suspected that some of the
women, children and poodles didn't
get theirs.
The recall of public officers, as
practiced in Cuba, is performed with
bullets instead of ballots, and bullets
are cheaper.
The man who thinks there is money
in raising chickens is closely related
to the man who thinks it possible to
trim roulette wheel
Having stopped in Washington long
enough to make arrangements for the
next election in Kansas, Hon. Stubs
is now at liberty to move on to Europe,
be bad.
ST. Louie paper is offering 500
for the best ten reasons for leaving
some other state and going to Mis-
souri, Filling Fuller intends to enter
the contest by filing this answer:
THE first reason is that you can't
get cold one in Topeka, and the
other nine is that you can't get nine
other cold ones"
1t might be suggested to Mr.. FARRELL,
who expended lot of fractions in
proving his case, that the object was
not to save the consumer 3S one
thousandths of a cent, but to mace the
railroads for SIS
And, speaking Of fractions, Japan
has national debt of 1, 400,000,O0
yen. Hondo Murphy suspects that
would be about $14.79 in real money.
We used to think that those stories
about golf balls being loaded with q
deadly acid were printed for the pur-
pose of keeping caddies from dissect-
ing them, but the story about the Chi
cago boy who ate one would indicate
that the filling of a golf ball really is
not perfect substitute for fruit.
They have established night mar
rage license bureau in Chicago, so the
girls can nab 'em without giving them
time to think it over next morning.
But there ought to be a. law
against it," says Jack Supp. Its too
DANCED easy to get married now