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The daily sentinel., 1913-11-28
shower for Miss Pearl Shores.

A delightful surprise party was
given for Miss Pearl Shores this af-
ternoon at her home on Ouray ave-
nue., by a number of her friends, q
feature of which was plate shower.
The young ladies' all gathered at the
Barkuloo home on North Seventh
street and from there proceeded to
the Shores home, where Miss Shores
was entertaining Mrs. Howard Lam
beth for the afternoon, the visit hav-
ing been especially arranged for the
purpose of keeping the guest Of konor
at home. The surprise feature was
perfectly satisfactory to all concern
ed and apparently to Miss Shores.
who however, recovered sufficiently
to make her guests cordially well
come. The afternoon was partially
spent in making "Life-book" for
a date not far distant and much fun
ensued from the cutting out of maga-
zine pictures to form the story Of her
life and pasteing them in the pret-
tily-bound book. Just before the
dainty refreshments. which the guest
brought with them, were served, each
one present presented Miss Shores
with a pretty hand-painted plate. and
the collection proved to be one that
any bride-elect would be most proud
Of possessing. Miss Shores expressed
her appreciation Of the beautiful
plates as we'll a her enjoyment of
the whole afternoon In a most grace
full little speech to her friends. Those
present we're: Mesdames Howard
r. H. Walker. A. G. Ffdel.
]. Warren Fletcher. George Nahstoll,
]. e. Billings, Emmett Fuller. James
and Misses Annie Louise
and Margaret Barkuloo, May Rice,
Allie Rice, Hazel Ella. Alice Chester.
Merle McClintock. Eta LapAam, Jes-
sie Martin, Estells Walker. Catherine
Moore, Anna Kidder. Carrie Lindley.
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ra~,s,ns Club Afteraooa.

Th1 LaAi1 Of the Needlecraft
club epAae . very pleasant afternoon
"Wednesday - The suests Of Mrs J..
n. Kf4Geann. AZ diversion from
4s -osHsi Remington. there was a
6lzaus = turkey drawing" contest
V4SCA HrA Hickman proved the best
6flR esd wns rewarded with love-
b, eAhPe1dseed centsrpiecs. Roses
etA eAfns In cut glass vases decorat-
~ t1s eoDm and the prettily appoint
= GAoio Whegs dainty luncA was
aarvaa 10 ths dining room at $50
Esro Q co1tAFpiscs OF red roses and
kSyaD AHN the red color scheme was
DfAstIly carried throughout the de-
NAoHD menu. Mira Chambers was
tAe snly guest present and members
WHFs Mspdam0 Glellenberger, Hoe
GSi, Hsoksa, Rop, Whitney. Pettis,
HSRkUsn and Pitser.
The daily sentinel., 1913-11-28
An.1veasary Dinner . Surprise.

AAA3v0HAxy Dinner . hurprfse.
a sn1hsr OF the friends of Mt.
sHa HrA Stanley Walker gave them
a iarsay surprise party and seven
6.q8acK dinney ct the home of MT.
49, Mrs. An Paine on East Main
ElEset Ian evening which was q most
6B1OA gful ocuasion. 1t was their 26th
GnntvAIaHPy and Mr.. and Mra- Walk
q. who spectsd to dine with the
taaes family. were completely sur
pS4s1d Wtsa large Rumber OF their
Ns12s walked in about six O'Clock
- party aacludinc the following
En05s. Nr. and, Mrs c. F; Walker.
~. ona Mira H. T. Hale. Mr.. and
MA John Wallace, Mrs. Stewart,
4lv. Minnie Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
4 SA2teuck. Mr. and Mrs. Britton,
II. eHa Mrs. Harie. Mr.. and Mrs.
AHN A. Becker. Mr., and Mrs. Camp
Aep, Mr. ana Mrs. Harry B. Jones.
IL. end Mra Macdonald. Red and
WHits va1 the color scheme for the
hAaustfully appointed table and the
sapessp4ecA Has of red roses and
fefAe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
ON TEE SPUR
Or The AOMEN7
BY ROY K. M0ULTON.

Sour Grapes.
These here new tangled auto cars are
handy. it must be confessed,
But when it comes to pleasure I enjoy
the old bay mare the best.
When 1 go out joy ridin' with my best
gal sittin' by my side,
L know that L will git back hum, for
my Old mare is true and tried.
she never makes me walk nine miles
to find country blacksmith shop.
where L kin get her tires repaired.
I'm not afraid of any COP.
She's got it forty ways upon a snort
IN sneezin' gas machine,
ana shes the best old sparkin' plug
that me and my gals ever seen.
Her carburetor works fust rate. her
cool1n system is immense,
AND you kin run her all day long and
at very light expense
She's never laid up fer repairs. she
doesn't have to wear no tag.
she never plungeS in the ditch for she's
very docile nag.
The speed laws she don't violate and
nave never yet got pinched,
Ut sa1e and sane enjoyment, 1 have
surely got the method cinched.
No folks that walk are cussin, me T
don't scare 'em out of their boots
BY runflin' up behind 'em quick and
lettin out a lot of toots,
She don't use up no gasoline or balk
or back Or wheeze a bit.
she Kin go by a roadhouse without try
ing to turn in to it,
L didn't have to pay no mortgage on
my house when I got her.
My creditors don't stand and wonder
what on earth I bought her fer.
Snes good for many seasons and each
year she don't go out of style
spring and lose my hard earned,
pile.
She never yet has tossed me out into
a tree to break my neck.
OF course, the autos are all right b,1t
give me my old mare, by heck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

The damage is always overestimated.
Don't sell your old lawn mower. Lend
1t to your neighbor.
Most people refer to the other crowd
as certain element
Some people never think of climbing
when they want to get up in the world.
1t occurs to us that the gent who de-
vised the calendar allowed March too
much time.
Accusation amounts to conviction in
the minds of SO many people that you
should be careful.
If man is reliable he doesn't have to
devote much of his spare time to adver-
Using the fact.
You may have observed that the early
harbingers usually get frost-bitten like
the puny peach buds.
Many food faddists seem to have based
their teachings on the theory that what
is good isn't good for you.
Nature is supposed to be a clever man
ager, but the frost which pinches the
peach buds usually spares the prune crop.
AS was expected, the hatters haven't
lost their cunning, and the spring styles
in mems headgear look a little worse
than those of last fall
Subject for the coming debate of the
Lancaster Literary society: Resolved,
That 1T is better to throw cold water and
be considered knocker, than to tell a
few white ones and be hypOcrite."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME.

Supplemental, as it may be called, to
the Investigations which are going on
in Illinois and other places, to ascer-
tain why girls go wrong, some settle
ment workers in Nebraska have been
conducting an inquiry as to what
causes girls to leave the farm.
They report that there were no two
cases in some hundreds examined that
were exactly alike. One girl left home
because her fellow" became engaged
to another girl, one because she wanted
to get rid of a persistent lover whom
she could not endure, another wanted
a better education than she could get
at home where she had passed through
the grade school, another wanted to
learn some business occupation as she
preferred that to school teaching or
Homework, another left home because
she had twice failed to pass an exam
ination to enter college although she
had done her best, and so on through
the hundreds examined.
Then comes someone with the gem
eralization declaring that girls leave the
farm and seek the city because of
loneliness and want of society in the
country.
In the inquiries being made in the
cities, probably any attempt at gen.
eralization will be found just as useless
as was that among the Nebraska
farms.
It is doubtful that any basis for in
telligent legislative administration Will
be discovered Primarily girls must De
fed. clothed and provided with means OF
association with other persons of their
own age and class. 1t is doubted that
the state can find a way to do this or
to compel anybody else to do it, 1t does
not seem to be so much a matter Tor
legal enactment as for intelligent work
on the part of parents and society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
BUSINESS is SERENE.

IT speaks we'll for the stability of
our institutions and form of govern
ment that an entire change of admin
istration and of political power can
take place, such as that on the fourth
of this month, with so little dis
turbance of business
The effect or lack of effect on the
commercial world, OF the coming into
power of the Democrat party is strong
Iy set forth by Henry Clews in his
Financial Review as follows:
The business situation at home con-
tinues satisfactory. There has been no
abatement in the activity of the last
few months The open winter has en-
couraged outdoor work to an unusual
degree. The crop outlook thus far is
entirely satisfactory. Many industrial
establishments are running full time.
Our railroads are overpressed with traf-
&c, and reporting encouraging gains in
earnings. Clearing house returns have
for weeks past shown liberal increases
over last year. Less is now heard
about tariff discussion for the reason
that many lines of business nave al
ready amply discounted probable
changes.
The extra session of congress will
soon be called and the subject will
come up for acute discussion, which
may induce more or less hesitancy I'M
til this important problem is adjusted.
The new administration has thus far
caused no jolts. On the contrary its
policy appears to have been to avoid
disturbance. If all accounts are true
the new attorney general is likely TO
follow somewhat on the policy of his
predecessor. but the reports of more
radical policy toward Standard Oil,
American Tobacco and the Union Pa
cific merger have thus far proved I'M
founded.
I'm general trade there Is a con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
AXHAWKER JOTy

Fort Scott is looking forward to an
interurban connection with Pittsburg.
In LaHarpe five of the twelve norni-
nees for city offices this spring are
women.
Frank Allgood has started a bakery
at Edna. Something suggestive in that
name.
Chase county claims the proud dis
junction of having no criminal cases on
her court docket
News of a new ten million well comes
from the gas district. Gas, gas every
Where, and not a bit to burn, at times.
Manhattan is complaining that some
OF her citizens are keeping her in the
junction City class. Neighbors should
not be so sarca site.
Tom Morgan perpetrates this one:
The government ought to feel as
sured of making one Judgment stick
II IT gets it. In the nature of things
the Banana Trust ought to slip up on
appeal"
Everybody in Kansas will be almighty
glad. says the Lawrence Gazette to
learn that Tom Cordry, of the Parsons
sun, has been elected the editor and
publisher of the Workman, the official
paper of the A. o. U. w. for Kansas
How about the subscribers to the Sun?
Two women disputed the ownership
OF a. prop to clothesline at Curran-
vile One had the other arrested. When
the case came to trial in a Curran-
vile justice court six women were sum-
moned as jurors. They heard the case
and promptly rendered verdict of not
guilty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Any man can succeed who gets des-
perate early enough in life. There's
nothing very mysterious about the fact
that most of our successful men hoe
the hard rows of poverty in boyhood.
Fate very kindly put them up against
a game so hard that they got tired of
it-good and tired. desperately tired
before they learned anything of the
lazy life. Their desperation gave them
the impetus that carried them to the
goal Fifteen hours work a day, with
a hot supper and clean bed at the
end of it, looks pretty good to the ma
jority of men who have come up by
that road. 1t lool-s like dire hardships
to the boy who has already that kind of
a supper and that kind of a bed. Hence,
he doesn't get the shove that circum-
stances give to the lad who doesn't
like his present condition. Therein lies
his handicap, and it is very real one.
Hard work repulses him while it at
tracts his apparently unfortunate
neighbor. Hence the invincibleness of
the Self-made man.
Desperation is wonderfully clarifying
to the vision. You can see farther and
better through a cloud of hard luck
than through the biggest telescope ever
built if the luck is thick enough and
hard enough. You can do what you
have to do. If you feel that you
have to get out of the ruts of shiftless
habits, have to climb from the slough
of defeat or attempt the mountain of
ambition, you'll do it. And you won't
do it until you are afraid to do other
wise, until you have shut from your
mind every suggestion of possibility
of any other course.
Nothing multiplies human strength so
greatly as a crisis. But crisis never
does you any good unless you recog-
nize it. In order to get its shove into
action, you have to know that your
case is desperate and just what is go
ing to happen to you if you don't make
good. That is the superlatively dyna-
mic frame of mind. There's more en-
ergy in that mental state than dyna-
mite or the faith that moves mountains.
Faith may fail you, but the knowledge
that you've got to move or get smashed
never does. In the latter case, you
don't consider any alternatfve-you get
up and "gitr'
Most of us would be better off If we
could occasional feel that cold trickle
of desperation along our spines. 1t
never fails to do the business It's
the greatest accelerator of human en-
ergv known. You can do anything in
life if you get desperate before you get
acknowledgements 1913, by the Nc
CIure Newspaper Syndfcate)
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love me?" Dolly was repeating ques-
ton of Billy's. Most certainly not.
If the love had to be all on one side,
I should prefer granting the privilege
of it to the man. I simply could not
endure anybody's pity. and that is what
one-sided love affairs always come to
in the end
Then if a man loves a woman I"
Peter heard his own voice putting the
proposition, land she in turn comes to
pity him, won't she eventually love
him? Hasn't somebody said pity is
akin to love?''
with a woman, yes, but that theory
would not hold if the woman loved the
man and he came to pity her. He would
grow to despise her.
How do you known again ques-
toned Peter
st have observed such cases"
They were not your own affairs, I'll
wager" interrupted Billy. Every man
I know is or has been in love with you.
Dolly. You can have any one of US
here, at this table. Can't she?" He
looked around the circle of faces for
approval from the male members.
Every man was quick to respond in
an emphatic affirmative, all but Peter,
and he was strangely silent, although
nobody noticed but Dolly.
II am going home in the morning, so
if any of you think of proposing to me,
you had better be in a hurry to do it,"
laughed Dolly, avoiding the look of
quick terror that showed in Peters
eyes.
When the men were left to their
cigars, Peter could stand it no longer.
The very air was Sitting. He pushed
through a side entrance. and made his
way into the rose garden. He strobe
toward his favorite bench, where he
had always taken Dolly, and there, in
the moonlight, in her soft gown. she
looked like a crumpled corn flower
when the wind has blown over it too
hard. She was crying, and although
Peters own heart was torn with the
agony of losing her. he forgot himself
in his effort to comfort her.
Dolly, what is the matter? Is there
anything I can do?"
mo, nothing quavered Dolly.
Peter sat down and put his arm
about her. '1 love you. I can't bear to
little Billy Carter don't brace up and
quit drinking, If he tries to break your
heart, I'll break every bone in his body.
Oh, Dolly, love you so.''
'Oh, Peter, you are just beginning to
pity me. That isn't love-"
why didn't you tell me you loved
Billy? I would have gone away
Peter, do you love me?" Dolly lifted
her eyes to his and there in the frag-
rant garden, with the moonlight max
ing fairyland about them, Peter saw
in her blue eyes that wonderful light
that illumines the path to Already.
Many a traveller has failed to see it,
and so wandered forever through a
desert land.
1T isn't Billy" breathed Dolly softly
tits you, Peter
why have you made me suffer sop
cried Peter, holding her close.
ut was the penalty you had to pay,
Peter, for making so many women love
you" laughed Dolly.-(Copyright, 1913.
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
POINTED aRAGRAP-.
IFrom the Chicago News.J

A singed cat breads an open faced stove.
It's poor road that can't acquire a
gasoline odor-
An ounce of done is worth more than
a ton of going to do.
1t doesn't take very big compliment to
swell a small head.
No great length of time is required to
give a young doctor a wise look.
Two young people no sooner fall in love
than they begin to fall out.
This is a hustling age and the lunch
counter habit will help you to hurry
through.
1t takes the average man half as long
to get hot under the collar as it does to
cool off.
When a girl meets a young man after
her own heart she hopes that he Will
ask for her hand
1t takes a clever man to sidetrack a
widow who has made up her mind to
annex him, and he must be hard hearted,
too.
Did you ever notice with what fiendish
delight a woman emphasizes her superior
knowledge over man every time she gets
a chance?
The average woman asks her husband
If he loves her in the same tone that
she asks the grocer if the eggs he has
in stock are nice and fresh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION.

The message which Governor
Hodges submitted to the legislature
shortly previous to its adjournment, in
. which he suggested a change from the
present system of state government to
the commission form is attracting
much attention throughout the coun-
try.
Many newspapers comment favor
ably upon it and few make serious OBJ
jections except in the east where there
appears a disposition to regard 1t as
one of what they call the "vagaries"
of Kansas. 1t seems on the whole to
be much more favorably received than
was the plan of commission govern
ment for cities when it first made its
appearance.
The system as applied to cities has
been a marked success and few there
are perhaps that would return to the
old way.
The view that government OF towns,
counties and states should be conduct
ed more on business principles than it
has been done in the past is gaining
ground steadily and the commission
plan of managing certain departments
of public affairs is being extended in
states and in the nation.
One of the strong features of the
system is that those responsible for
good or bad results always can be To-
Gated and come at and another is the
tendency to eliminate partisan politics.
The people will have two years at
the least in which to think over and
discuss the proposition and to decide
whether or not they want it. 1t is al
ready being considered seriously both
in Colorado and Oregon.
The feeling is widespread that there
must be better way of carrying on
public business than that pursued in
the past and it has manifested itself in
demands for the initiative, referen-
dunn, recall and other socalled re-
forms.
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
WOMAN WINS.

I'm for patient, loving woman, whether
poor or rich gown,
She is on the road to glory-and you just
can't keep her down.
There's my little wife Roxana; she's as
artless as can be-
Yet she's not so simple. mark you, but
she gets the best of mel
If you try to best a woman when dis
cusSfng something grave
She'll come bobbing up in triumph like a
cork on the wave.
Then before you've time to meet her with
sermon on her doom,
She'll have floored you with an adjective
and chased you from the room!
Man has sense, but woman senses of a
kind to cause dismay,
And tell a. mans chief weakness
when he's half a mile away.
She can scent winter bargain with the
cunning of a fox,
And best all her male contenders to the
shop by twenty blocksl
That is why bow to woman, noble, pure.
and sweet withal-
Bow before her gentle wisdom, kneel and
knuckle, aye, and crawl!
Los Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IRON the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Record
Quite naturally an empty head is most
easily ratified.
Matrimony has caused many a man to
drift with the tide.
When a girl marries for money the
devil generally acts as best man.
We all have an aim in life but most
of US are mighty poor marksmen.
All the worlds a stage, with at least
a thousand understudies for every star
Ever notice that the girl with a brok-
en- heart always manages to save a few
of the pieces?
Many a man attracts no more atten-
ton in the world than a thermometer on
a pleasant day.
The only married man who ever lived
up to his wife's ideal died the day after
the wedding.
girl always feels sorry for a fellow
who gets engaged to some other girl when
he might have had her.
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show the density of the traffic, in
creased more than the mileage did,
and what may be called the output of
the railroads increased more than ten
times as fast as that of farms. The
purchasing power of 1000 bushels of
grain has increased rs per cent, while
the purchasing power of the receipts
from a given ton-miIeage of railroads
has declined substantially. The Wall
Street Journal has shown that the in
crease in the value of farms was much
greater than that of the value of
railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Giving Him a shock.
Observation-Disclosures

miss Observation-Disclosures stam-
mered wimbledon nervously, Ger
wow-will yuh-you mum-mum-
marry me?''
Don't you ever ask me a question
like that again, Reginald Wimpleton,"
replied the girl, proudly.
"Bub-but whuh-hy, mum-Mari-
etta?" suffered Wimpleton. 'I lul-
lul-love you dud-devotedly, and
Because" the fair girl answered.
firmly, because it will not be neces-
sary for you to subject yourself to
the nervous strain. I will.
Weekly.