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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
AXHAWKER JOTS

Related by the Atchison Globe: do
you keep your cows in a pasture?" an
Atchison woman asked the Inilkman.
Yes he replied. I'm so glad you
do she added, for 1 think pasteur-
lied milk is the best"
1t is the opinion of Editor Miller of
the Bucklin Banner that the weather
man can do more to abate the null
sance of the peek-aboo waist slit
skirt and diaphanous gown than all of
the judges in the United States.
Most people use profanity, says the
Marion Record, because their voca bu-
larry is short and they want some kind
OF WordeS for emphasis. 1t is no sign
of remarkable ability to be able to
swear f1uently. as even a parrot can do
that.
1t is getting harder and harder to
Keep the women on the farm, points
out the Hutchinson Gazette Another
or their faVorite amuSementS has re-
ceived severe blow. A Kansas man
has invented a device to prevent lis
tenlng in on party telephone lines.
Frank Brown, of Cottonwood Falls,
has a six-year old, black horse named
BIZ which has recently become a
napltual TOBACCO user, relates the
Strong City News-Courant. So keen
ly does the animal enjoy the weed
that every time his master drives down
town, the horse expects his allotment
of fine cut and is greatly disaP-
pointed unless it is forthcoming Any
variety of fine cut is has favorite but
he will chew plug tobacco if given in
place of the other. 1t is no unusual
thing for Bill to eat one or two
packages of tobacco at a time and he
would readily use up half a dozen of
them were they given him. His own
er believes that a package of tobacco
every few days will do no harm and
may be a good thing to help keep
horse healthy, which is the reason he
INDUCES "Bill' in his whim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
BICHLORID OF MERCURY.

Some weeks ago considerable public
ity was given a case of accidental poi
soning from bichlorid of mercury tab
lets. The case was so featured as
to lead the public to infer that corrosive
sublimate poisoning was not only a
sure but also a painless route to the
other world. Since this accident. the
papers have chronicled, almost daily,
cases of suicide in which bich1orid of
mercury was the drug used. There IS
no doubt that many unstable persons
who, in fits of depression contemplate
suicide. are restrained from taking the
fatal step by the dread of the unkno vn
agony they may suffer in committing
it. To such. the knowledge of a sure
and painless method of death removes
the only restraining influence left. 1t is
fitting, then, says The Journal of the
American Medical Association that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record

[F-om the Philadelphia Record.1
Many mans good luck consists of not
being found out.
Cold feet seldom materialize until th.,
game gets too hot
Some people are entirely too truthful to
ever show any enthusiasm.
you are going to bury the Ratchet
don't dig it up to see If il is growing
Unfortunately the wheel of fortune is
seldom equipped with a Self-sta-ting de-
vice.
There is no good reason why even the
chauffeur shouldn't have little horse
sense.
A man must be mighty good natured
who can be jolly when he knows he is
being jollied.
A woman is always interested in her
husbands conversation especially if he
talks in his sleep.
Blobbs-''Success is a matter of luck -
Slobbs-'How can you prove that ~
Blobbs-"Oh, ask any man who has
failed.
Wfgwag-"B jones boasts that he was
born to command" Henpekke-'.How does
he know? He has never been married"
Tommy-"Pop, what do we mean by
political activity" Tommy's Pop-'Po-
Htical activity, my son, consists of an
ability to dodge an issue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
EVENING CHAT
A Case for the s. p. G. G.
BY RUTH CAMERON

Can you imagine any group of kind
ly intelligent people banding togetnel
to inf1ict upon an innocent chlld
physical deformity which would prob
ably be incurable and would drive peo-
pie away from him all his life?
1t is quite unima ginable, isn't it?
And if it were to happen, 1t would
certainly be case for the society with
the great heart and the long name.
And yet, day in and day out, kindly
and intelligent people combine to in
f1ict the moral deformity of vanity OF
abnormal self-consciousness upon
some innocent child whose pretty race
or quick brain is its only fault.
Near our summer home there hVes
a very lovely little girl about years Oh
age. She has soft, sunshiny hair, eyes
that are really as blue as forget-me
nots and a little tip-tilted flower OF d
face that no one can heip adm Urn
Her mother furnishes perfect frame
for the little picture by dressing her
in the daintiest of white frocks with
blue bows to bring out the forget-me-
nots in her eyes.
The unanimity with which people
admire this little human flower IS
natural. The unanimity with Whlch
they say to her and in her hearing is
most unnatural.
'I never saw such beautiful child!'
isn't she adorable?" Doesn't her
mother dress her beautifully" do
YOU know you are a very pretty little
girl?" where did you get such love-
Nv eyes?' Such are the comments
which people make, either directly 10
Dorothy or over her head to each
other.
And of course the evil effects are
beginning to appear. How could it be
otherwise unless Dorothy were a Zee
BILE minded child, incapable or unoer-
standing plain English-which she is
very far from being.
Children understand what is gong
on about them much more quickly
than we realize. Even before BABY
begins to talk he can understand a
great deal that is said to him. A
BRIGHT child of 8 is probably ole
enough to be spoiled by hearing ltSell
layishlv praised, and yet child has
to be I or years old before people
stop talking about it in its presence
as freely as if it were stone deaf or
feeble minded.
Some foolish mothers find in the
sweetness of such f1attery compensa-
ton for the harm it does some are
even foolish enough to join IN IL thein-
selves. but the intelligent mother bit
terly denrecates this practice, and tries
to guard her child from it, as caretully
as she would keep him from hearing
profanity or vulgar language. Al
never go to a summer hotel with a
child again. the mother of an attrac-
tive little year old told me last win
ter ut has taken the whole WINTER
to undo the spelling Barbara got last
summer.
OF course this unwise praise is CIV
en- not by ilI-intentioned people but by
kindly enough folks who Just d1dp
think - / am glad no reader friend
of mine will have that excuse in the
future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

| leased from his engagement presume she
will see things in the proper light
winch will be greatly to her credit.
credit for. great deal of common sense
and pleased to find that L have made
no mistake BY the way, 1 shall take
great pleasure in handing you hun
Thanks. but L could not accept it,
Ihree days later George Coddington and
Six days later the widow Lansing sold a
piece of coal land her husband had owned
in another state and received 5000 in hand
the papers that he was one of hundreds
of easy marks that had been swindled by
the law firm. He had no room for doubt,
for his name appeared in the latest list
that shock he got another. George came
in and quietly said:
Wen, the widow got pretty fair price
What! Did she have some wild land ~,
She did. and they found coal on it and
paid her 5000 in cash for it
Jumping jiminy!''
CNo active church deacon is permitted
that expression unless he can prove thaI
he is on the verge of brain storm ana
Deacon Coddington could prove it,
George, I'm not going to get that
thirty thousand.
t'But the Widow Lansing has received
5000"
''She has
BY my ADVICE you drew the line and
Not exactly, father. Dora and I are
married.
.'Jehosaphat to jerusalem
Thev could have bounced the deacon
cut of a dozen churches for that, but his
son did not give him away. He has gone
back to his old belief that all folks are
equal, and it's just possible that he may
be county clerk some day. and be a very
humble one.-(Copyright 1913 by the NC
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
HUlAOQ or TIE DHY

A-r. Doughleigh-'I met that French no
bleman, Count de Brie, today" Douty
Observation-Disclosures Is he brilliant
converse tionalist2" Mr.. Doughleigh =
nlatism in his shoulde-s''-Judge
Il like to jump into my motor car and
speed away from troubles" I'D like TO
do that, too, if something didn't always
happen to my blamed machine so that
/ carry greater trouble with me than
those leave behind. "-Washington Times
Things in keeping.-"Can you build me
a piano and leave the bark on the wood %
II guess So" opined the piano salesman.
Il want 1T for my hunting lodge. We
rough it up there, you know."-Judge.
Here's a man went around the world
without tipping That's the only way 40
work it comfortably. You don't have to
come back over the same route. wash
ington Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
Literary Londay Today.

could not but look about-how
could l do otherwise than look ABOUT
| "a lonely American walking at last
| past all these nobly haunted door
ways and windows-for your ideallsts
or interpreters, your men VINO prlnS
| in the sea upon your streets ana the
! mountains on your roottops' Wno
still see the wide, still reaches of the
souls of men beyond the IalhI anu
tiny roar of London.
/ could not hut look for your men
of ina gination, your poets; Tor the
men who build the dreams ana shape
the destinies of nations because they
mold their thoughts.
L do not like to say it. How snail
an American, coming to you out OF
his long, flat literary desert dare to
saw it? Here, where Shakespeare
played nightly. and like great boy
with the world; where Milton, Keats.
Wordsworth, Browning, Shelley, and
even Dickens flooded the lives and re-
freshed the hearts of the people;
here. in these self-same streets, go
ing past the same old, gentle, smoky
temples where Charles Lamb walked
and loved a world and laughed at
world and even made. -one-lifted
over his London forever into the
hearts of men.
1 can only say what I saw those
first few fresh days; John Galsworthy
out with his camera-his beautiful,
sad foggy camera; Arnold Bennett,
stitching and stitching faithfully "a
hours a day-big, curious, tapestries
of little things; II. G.. Wells. with his
retorts his experiments about him,
his pots and kettles of humanity in
a great stew of steam, half-hopeful,
half dismayed, mixing up his great,
new. queer masses of human nature;
and (when 1 look again) G. K. Ches-
terton. divinely swearing, chanting,
gloriously contradicting, rolled Justify
through the wide, sunny spaces of his
own mind; and Bernard Shaw (aIl
civilization trooping by), the eternal
boy, on the eternal curbstone of the
world threw stones, and the bishop
of Birmingham preached a fine, help
less sermon-"Crowds," by Gerald
Stanley Lee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
sTRICuy BUSINESS.


Dear Sir: Your favor, recent date,
Received and contents noted,
III, as you say, I'm your 'souls mate"
No more need here be quoted.
Still, when you ask me for my hand
You pledge "a lifes devotion
Such l. O. Us please understand,
Are scarcely to my notion.
My lawyer rates extremely low
This contract that you proffer.
L am business woman, SO
1 must reject your offerl
Such poor cola tera1, you see,
My banker won't consider.
For love preferred or bonds, =" says
ne,
II cannot find a bidder"
However, If you care to make
little business journey,
The matter you may freely take
To ]. Brown, my attorney.
There half your worldly wealth assign
And your life partner make me,
Then I will joyfully be thine,
Sue Smith.
P. S.-Come take me.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many persons get a good deal more
than they deserve.
1. I.
mans success is properly meas
ured by the happiness he attains.
+ + +
As an indoor sport. fly swatting is
far more exciting and interesting than
ping-pOng.
+ + +
Most people put on sufficient speed,
with a sudden change of weather to
catch a cold.
3 j. j.
Another impossibility is to figure out
just what woman will do under any
kind of circumstances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrom the Chicago News.1

Ifrom the Chicago News.1
SANDER is flattery turned wrong side
out.
You can't always see the finish of a
Polished man.
Some women are nervous and some are
naturally nervy.
Love is the wine of life and old bach
elors are prohibitionists.
People seldom attempt to sit on the ma
who stands up for himself
If a man is obliging he is apt to be pop
ular because he can be imposed upon.
fortunate is the man who falls in love
at first sight-if he never gets another
look.
There never was man SO poor that he
some woman.
Nothing is apt to make a girl so angry
as the thought that young man thinks
he could kiss her if he wanted to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
y Total Wreck.

wv nat on earth is the matter with
your: asked the friend as Podsnap got
off the train, gave a hurried look to right
and left then tried to get through the
crowd unobserved. You look like the ia g
end of a misspent life
POdSnap was q picture of dasoair HE
clothing hadn't been pressed for two
weeks, he had a weeks growth of beard
on his chin, his collar was wilted, his
necktie was turned under his left ear and
battered straw hat sat rakishly on an
unkempt head of hair. There was dark
circles under his eyes and there was a
Wild LOOK about him which reminded his
friend OF the ancient cave of man.
There is nothing the matter with me-
SroWled PodSnap. Nothing at all ex-
cepting that l have been away taking
my vacation. I left town two weeks ago
to find cool spot where L could regain
my shattered health and the result is
what you see. / have visited seven sum-
mer places and 1 have eaten cooking that
would put rhinoceros under the table.
have slept in two-by-four bedrooms that
were like Turkish baths and have had to
sleep with my feet out of the window
when I wanted to straighten out and
get the kinks out of my legs. l have been
held up and robbed three times a day and
have been dragged out of the water twice
l have put up with every inconvenience
that could be devised by the mind of
man and l have the ailment called dyS-
pepsia. which I never had before in my
life 1 have fought mosquitoes as big
as prairie chickens and sand fleas and
horse flies until I couldn't rest.
What are you going to do now?
Foolish question, No. 4-11-f4. 1 am go
ing to stay at home. of course. Nothing
less than the sudden death of a rich
uncle will get me away from my own
front porch this summer. L am going to
go home and bury these clothes and try
to forget two weeks of my life 1 am 60
ing to stick around home until l win
my health back and then 1 going
to work 1 believe that Russell Sage was
right One vacation every forty years is
enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

public should know that there are few
modes of suicide more painful and in
which the agony is longer drawn out
than that due to the taking of bichloriG
of mercury. If this fact were given the
same publicity that was accorded the
case of accidental poisoning. there is
little doubt that the corrosive subE
mate method of self-destruction would
cease to be the fatal fad it has recent
ly become.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Prince Albert. the ruler of Monaco,
declares that he is unable to stop
gambling at Monte Carlo. Nor is it
at all likely that deep down in his
heart or his pocketbook ne wishes to
do so. The bulk of the revenues re-
ceived by the government of Monaco
and from which Prince Albert draws
down a handsome pay check, comes
from the gambling concessions at
Monte Carlo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
ON THE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
The Man Behind.
By ROY K. MOULTON.

We have heard the ringing praises
OF the man behind the gun,
How he's made our nation mighty
With an aim A No. 1.
We have heard in song and story
All the fattery that goes
With the job of fighting blazes
TO the man behind the hose
But there is another hero
Who is never lauded high.
Though he has a job of climbing
Ever upward toward the sky.
Both the other two we've mentioned
He has beaten by rod:
In the building of the nation
It's the man behind the bod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Those who put little stock in the
theory of the law of supply and de-
mand are predicting that there will be
further increases in the cost of living
because of the hot and dry summer
Evidently they are not very strongly
impressed with the promises of the
Democrats to reduce Hving's cost
through the medium of a downward
revision of the tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Now is the accepted time for the
examination of the breast bone of a
goose for the purpose of determining
beyond peradventure just what kind
of winter is in prospect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Iowa now has the largest dam in
the world. And in all probability some
of the southern Democrats who have
failed to land government jobs would
like to borrow it for a while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Senator Thompson fought for a
high tax on large incomes, and his
vote for the tariff bill also places him
on record as favoring a tax on
bananas, which is a tax that will fall
heaviest on the poorest people in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Governor Suffers trouble has now
been duly diagnosed by the courts as
total loss of gubernatorial power, but
rot necessarily chronic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Dayton shouldn't plume itself I'M
duly upon having a city manager. New
York has had one a long time in the
person of Charles F. Murphy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

WelIs after all our solicitude, here is
our old friend, DIR. Wiley, again. He
arises to announce that Eve was
created before Adam. Let the pro-
cession move on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

A London burglar broke into a
house to take a bath Stealing an
Englishman's bath is the worst crime
that can be perpetrated upon him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
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 d.
ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

That California woman who broke
her hip while tangoing in a tight skirt
promises to tango again, but says
nothing as to the skirt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Holidays often lead to extrava-
sance," says Mr.. Rockefeller. Too
true. But what good would a holiday
be otherwise?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

For some time past there hasn't
seemed to be much difference between
time and eternity on the New Haven
railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Probably Mr. Sulzer is in a willing
mood right now to second thea motion
of Governor Hodges that legislatures
be abolished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Secretary McAdoo holds that re
fusal to resign is conduct unbecomine
Il collector of customs and calling fol
dismissal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Connecticut's governor wants the
state to pay all campaign expenses.
And all the campaign cigars come
from Connecticut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Why not have prayers for those who
60 up in the air in ships as we'll as
for those who go down to the sea in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Coaticook is again enabled to de-
vote it's entire attention to the weather
ard the work on the new barn that
the mayor is building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

And the revival of the Charley Ross
case suggests the query: What has
become of DR.. Wiley?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Huerta can put up a pretty goot
bluff anyway. He is building a new
residence in Mexico City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Argentina has adopted the old-age
pensions for workers. But Mexico
doesn't need them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Mr.. Glass currency bill seems to b.
as persistent as the kind the collecto
carries about with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Germs can get into fresh eggs,
declares a scientist. And they car
also get into scientists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

DO / understand that the home team
won by defauIt?' asked the visitor in the
outer office es: by de fault of de home
pitcher explained the office boy.-Buf-
falo Express
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16

Love laughs at locksmiths, but
mother often proves an effectual sub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
KANSAS CONNENT
TELL MOTHER.

On the body of a 15-year- bride
of three months who shot herself
near Westminster, Md, the other day,
was a letter to her mother telling the
ending with these bitter words:
Throw me in an old ditch" No. Edna
Nichols, mother won't throw you into
an old ditch. Though her heart is
breaking, she will see that you get
tender burial, with songs and sermons
frequent tears of remembrance. In
deed, she will do for you, dead, even
more than she did for you while, in
WaywardneSS, you were Straining her
heart strings. For a mothers love is
infinite. 1t forgives all and never
wears out. You made a mess of your
life, you say-and the proof is in the
way you ended it. The great price
you paid makes Gliding untimely. But
other mothers have daughters just
the influences that caused your ship
wreck; maybe your sad example will
prove of service to them. You didn't
tell mother all the secrets of your life.
Had you done so she would have saw
ed you from the infatuation which
swept you, a mere child, into mar
riage you soon found was not a sue
cess. And when, disillusioned, you
awoke from your dream, again you
didn't tell mother, but tried to carry
the burden all alone. That, too, was
a mistake. Poor old mother mightn't
have been able to undo all your trou-
bles, but her sympathy her wise coun-
sci, her planning and her patient care
might have made enough difference
to keep you from suicide. In big trou-
bles, or in little, there's one rule no
girl can go wrong on. Tell mother.
1t may be at the risk of your life and
of hers that you fail to tell mother
WOOQSOn County Advocate.