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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04
DID HER BEST

DID HER BEST
Social Worker ito wife Of
drunksrd)--Why don't you try
to keep your husband out Of
the saloon by making home
more attractive TO him7
Wife, did try na'am.
took up the parIor carpet,
sprinkIed sawdust on the floor
and heaped up five kegs In the
corner, but he stayed away just
the san1el
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04
THUS DO WE PROGRESS

IAN DIEGO is entertaining one Of the great
- est inventors and benefactors Of our times.
perhaps.
He is Mr.. Fred Bhgland Of Pttsburg, inventor
Of self-haircutting machine. Think Of what sort
of trim you want, set the machine, press button
and buz-z-zl-the creumambent atmosphere is
full Of your hair
Moreover, Mr. Bhgand is going to give free
exhibition at the Expo with some real estate
agents as subjects.
II his machine can successfully trim South.
ern California real estate dealer, the BARRIERS Of The
country might as well burn their shears.
THE STORk AGAIN, HEY?
MS. DUNIWAY, mother" of the suffrage move.
AN ment in Oregon, Washington and Idaho calls
the prohibition suffragsts "our Pussy-wussy
Sisters"
Looks like the birth Of new party If ali
the suffragists who are after prohibition do rally
to the Pussy-wussy standard, believe US il will be
some party.
EVERY LITTLE movement may have a meaning
all its own at the Oriental dances Washington St
But it evidently didn't the part Of the
police.
IT APPEARS that the long suit Of the Yogi is not
bathing suit.
A MAN named Parrot convicted in Olympia Of
murder circumstanta evidence Probably talked too
much
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04
KISS HEB

Why don't you kiss your wife each
morning when you 20 TO work :?
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

Charley Hulen---Just found Ken
meth (his little SOM industriously
reading the Bible.
Jim Ball--That so?
Hulen-Yes, and when con.
graduated him on improving him
self he said he was looking for a
name for pup he wants.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

A LITTLE HISTORY

Bring on your nitro-glycerine:
don't think that I'm afraid" the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

and the officer promptly hit him
two or three times. II didn't look
right TO any OF us who saw IL.
A READER.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

he had used some common sense
he'd be alive today
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

A CHICAGO druggis, refused to post Baby Welfare
Week posters in his store, saying we'll babies did not
bring him money-yet we shudder at European war
atrocities"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04
THE STORK AGAIN, HEY?

1T APPEARS that the long suit Of the Yogi
athiug suit
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-04

A MAN named Parrot was convicted
on circumstantial evidence. Probal
much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
WOMEN FOR CHILD LABOR LAW

Three state declarations of women's
clubs went on record in one week as
favoring the federal bill to prohibit
the shipment in interstate commerce
of chiid-made goods. They were the
Pennsylvania, Indiana and New Jersey
Federations, representing more than
900 women. The action taken by
these women is the direct result of
the National Child Labor committees
second campaign for a federal child
labor law. The bill which the COM
mittee has drafted will be introduced
in congress early in December and is
similar in form to the Palmer-Owen
bill which passed the house of repre-
seutatives last year by an overwhelm-
ing majority but was defeated in the
Overman, of North Carolina. If the
bill passes it will prohibit the ship
ment in interstate commerce of goods
in the production of which children
under fourteen have been employed in
factories, or under sixteen more than
eight hours a day or at night, or
under sixteen in mines OF quarries.
Endorsements and offers of co-opera-
ton from organizations and indivi-
duals are daily pouring into the Of
fices of the National Child Labor COM
mittee, so it reports, and the COM
mittee is confident that the bin will
be passed by the next congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22

the last session of Congress that the
immigration Commission, which
spent nearly a million dollars, had
included in it's expenses an item for
carriage hire to visit Westminster
Abbey. The question was raised
whether the United States expected
any immigrants from that abbey The
defeat of the proposed new constitu-
ton for the State of New York, which
should have been adopted, was at
tributed largely to the opposition of
the $50 or more state commissions
which cost the taxpayers enormous
sums yearly, and which the new con-
stitution sought to abolish In Cali
fornia during Governor Johnson's
six years in office, sixteen new COM
missions have been created and there
are now SO in all in the state. The
sixteen new commissions have in
creased the running expenses of the
state by S1.336,160 and the tax levies
Tor the six years of Governor Johnson
have been over 100000 more than
those of the combined terms Go
years. of his three predecessors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
The only thing many a man can
enthuse over is himself.
Most of US are willing to admit a
weakness, if it belongs to someone
else
Don't blame a man for kicking. 1t
is sometimes better to be kicker than
a kickee.
We all agree that love is blind
when our girl falls in love with some
other fellow
The shopping district constitutes
the average woman's idea of the buy
way of life.
OF course it is possible to be popu-
lar and tell the truth, if you tell it
only when it is necessary.
Cultivation is curious thing. Bad
habits have been known to grow on
people who never even had warts.
Sillicus-"Even the girl who makes
up may be as sweet as sugar." Cyni-
cus-"Yes, if you like powdered
sugar"
"Old friends are dearest" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, some of them
are dear at any price," added the Sim
pie Mug.
Wigwag = History suggests that
most of the heroes have been married
men" Oldbach-"Sure. Why not ? In
fact, every married man is more or
less a herO.'a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22

know Betty. too. We are distant cou-
sins. but she writes to me-.
Yes? Writes to Jack, too, should
say. Here's one with a return line on
it, Mrs. Batcheller Phillips, Washing
ton, D. c., Hotel Grosvenor. Break
the news to us, Jackie
Jack opened the letter with a frown.
and then smiled. He handed it to Do
lores 1t was typically Betty.
Dear Jack: I know what every
body'll say, and I don't care. I've al
ways liked Batty and I'd like to know
why I can't marry him if want, but
you know dad. So we're clipping. I'm
just as sick and tired as you are of
forever being hurled at your most es-
timable head. So I've written Dolores
she's my cousin, you know-and
told her you are at the springs, and
to please be good to you. And just
one word, Jack, if you'd had one
thousandth part of Batty's independ-
ence and initiative you'd have married
her six months ago. Any way, L wish
you all kinds of luck.
Happily, Betty
Jacks shoulders lunconsciously
Strengthened. He turned resofutely to
the major.
uncle Ted. I'd like to have you
know it first that Dolores and l are
engaged" he said. "God bless Betty.
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
THE COSTLY COMMISSIONS.

A member of the House at the last
Congress stated that since 1899 2S
commissions had been established by
Congress and the amount expended
by them exceeded S7,00O,000, writes
Thomas Logan in Leslie's. He re-
marked that the immigration Com
mission, which spent nearly a million
dollars, brought back a report that
could have been obtained by the
American corlsuls abroad without
the expenditure of an additional dol
lar. While rs commissions were
established by Congress since 1899.
there were actually SO in existence in
1914. Out of scores of reports re-
sceiyed by Congress, only three or four
of the schemes recommended by
these commissions have ever been
adopted. Someone discovered during
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
WASTING OUR RESOURCES.

AT the recent dedication of the
mines building at the School of Mines
of Pennsylvania State college, H. NJ.
Chance, consulting mining engineer,
of Philadelphia, delivered an address
on conservation of mineral resources,
notes the Iron Trade Review. and it
adds: He said that conservationists
have compiled estimates of waste that
are astounding, for they tell US that in
the production f 50O,000,o00 tons of
coal annually, there is wasted and lost
annually about 100000 tons; that
in the making of coke, combustible
gases are wasted capable of producing
100, 900, 900 horsepower annually; that
20 or so per cent of the copper con-
tanned in copper ores mined and treat
ed is lost, amounting in value to many
millions of dollars annually; that in
metaIurgical treatment of ores and in
the reduction of ores to metal there is
annually lost and wasted other metals,
amounting in value to many millions
of dollars and that similar losses
might be shown to extend to and to
include all mining and metallurgical
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
soap From Sugar.

The discovery is announced of a
method of manufacture of soap from
sugar, of which Germany has plenty,
instead of from oil, which is scarce.
1t the past is has been possible to use
sugar only in soaps that had little
value. By the new method, it is
claimed, the soap produced is not only
fire and delicate, but it acts as eff
GENTLY IN salt water as in fresh-a
fact that may make the soap valuable
for the navy.
Articles that formerly had to be
sent to chemical laundries can now be
washed with the new kind of soap.
The finest kinds of silks, it is alleged,
not only are not harmed by It, but
their colorS are brought out brilliant
ly and as new. In addition, the sugar
soap seems to be responsible for a
minimum of the wear and tear occa-
stoned by old-fashioned cleansing
SOapS-BaltimOre Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
Globe Sights
[From the Atchison Globe.]

From the Atchison Globe.l
When one refuses to affirm or deny,
is that admitting it?
Boyhood's appetite is responsible
for much of the fame won by Moth
er's cooking.
Unless they get what they are after
some people will insist they didn't
get any consideration.
Probably the pretzel industry
wouldn't amount to much if the brew
cries should shut down.
a summer resort in the winter
probably is the sorriest place outside
Of an abandoned cemetery.
Keep plugging along and remember
that a sprInter has never been re-
turned the victor in a Marathon.
Occasionally there is a man who
tries TO disguise his shiftlessness with
the theory that he is a Deep Thinker.
From time to time a good many
hicks move to town, while others are
born and reared amid the bright
lights.
Women will never agree on the
question, Should a wife take back her
erring husband if he seems really re-
pentant?
The way certain chickens are al
lowed to CAD the streets might lead
one 20 believe that their mothers are
incubators.
The idea that Americans are an
energetic people probably didn't orig
mate from watching a supreme court
The average man is so conceited
that when he meets with the sign.
Keep Out" he is sure it is an invi-
tation to come in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.J

lFrOm the chicago News.
Most of the walters in a hotel are
guests.
Some men make good by stepping
in other mems tracks.
Some men who were born to COM
mand lose out after they marry.
Bad luck causes a man to take a
mental inventory of his friends.
Gossip spends more time getting it,
self repeated than history does.
Bargain sales have parted many a
woman and her husbands money.
The man who lives for himself alone
might just as well crawl off and die
Why does a selfish man expect the
whole world to mourn for him when
he is gone?
Two men trying to entertain one
woman constitute a fair example of a
silent majority.
Never call a big strong man a liar;
it is safer to hire some other fellow to
break the news to him.
Lots of men go where duty calls,
and stand around with their hands in
their pockets after they get there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
EUening Chat
Enamel People.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


ct never saw anyone so improved"
said Molly, the little stenographer
lady.
I'm just what way?" asked the
cynic.
Molly wrinkled her nose. thought
fully. "She seems softer and more
human"
was she inhuman before?"
''Silly!'' with an intonation that
robbed it of any harshness you
must know what 1 mean. She was
always witty and amusing and in
teresting, but there was a kind of hard
finish on top of it all that made you
feel as if she were shut up somewhere
away from you. II you tried to get
close to her you felt as If you were
sliding off some hard, slippery surface.
She made me think of beautiful shiny
cold things, like enamel and dia-
monds.''
The cynic laughed heartily at
this Characterization, but even without
knowing the particular lady in Ques-
ton, I thought It very clever. You
see 1 know other people whom it fits
Don't you?
so we'll if we weren't somehow held
off and repealed by that peculiar hard
ness.
Since I heard Molly's characterize
ton l have been calling to mind
some of the people that give me that
feeling, and trying to pick out the
qualities that put that enamel on their
personalities.
It seems to me that self-centredness
is one of them; a fear of being i'm
posed upon, conceit is another, money
worship and overweenipg ambition
also have that effect. Sometimes too
much prosperity seems to put this
hard finish on a character that would
otherwise be pleasing and attract
i've. There was a woman in our town
who for years had everything her own
way She married better than her
friends, she travelled, she mad lovely
clothes and charming children. She
had been a girl Of considerable charm,
but the uninterrupted success seemed
to put a veneer of Self-SatiSfaction and
lack of sympathy over that charm.
She was brilliant, interesting, success
full but no longer as attractive as she
had been. And then, all of sudden,
there came a break in the course of
her prosperity One misfortune after
another overlook her. 1t was as If
the blows of fate broke the veneer.
She softaned and humaniZed and once
more became one of the most charm
ing and beloved women in the commu-
nifty.
We may admire people whose charac
ter has this brilliant hardness, but
we don't love them. OF course char
acter needs some hardness to give it
firmness and force, but the point be-
yond which it is a drawback is easily
reached
Would you rather be admired or
loved?
Is there any undue degree of hard
ness IN your character?
These are two questions asked my
self Perhaps you'd like to ask them
of yourself-(Protect by The
Adams Newspaper Servfce.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
A MYSTERIOUS FEAST.

After Tommy Titt1e-mouse made
the acquaintance of Worker Ant he
never lacked for something interesting
to do. Many and wonderful were the
secrets and customs of the ant family
and though of course the Worker Ant
was busy creature, still he liked
Tommy and would often take time to
answer a question or drop bit of in
formation.
Not that Tommy deserted his old
friendsi Dear me. no! Tommy Title
mouse was not that kind of a creature
be sure of that But you see the ants
when Tommy could not go to Mr
Spider or Mr.. Garden Toad or Billy
Robin did not happen by Tommy's
home he crept to his back door and
had a visit with the Worker Ant; or
mayhap just sat for time and watch
ed him work.
You may be sure that Tommy was
relieved when all the eggs were laid
and the tiny nests closed up and
Friend Spider was still alivei Tommy
had really been worried about Mr..
Spider. OF course he told the Worker
Ant about his friendship for Mr..
Spider and urged him to spare him,
please! But one can never be surel
And the ants seemed to care so little
which spider they killed, just SO it was
good onei No wonder Tommy was
thankful when that danger to his
friend was overl
one morning Wnen IOHIly looked
out of his back door, he was quite
surprised to see the Worker Ant
crawling down the side of the log as
though he was going visiting. Tom
my just guessed the visiting-perhaps
because the ant didn't seem to be in
his usual hurry
Good morning. Worker Ant" he
said pleasantly. Where are you go
ing today?"
I'm going for the fine feast 1 al
49,,
ished,'' said the ant. Just watch me
and you'll see what I do"
/. That invitation suited Tommy ex-
actly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
soUARING THE ACCOUNTS.

Commenting on our large export
balance for September, due to war or
ders, the New York Journal of Com
merce observes that a principal means
of paying it off is through the sale
of American securities now held
abroad. The Journal then calls atten-
ton to the fact that There is no rec
ord of that or means of estimating
it with accuracy. That it has fallen
far short of providing the means of
payment for our exports is proved by
the exchange situation and the neces-
sity of establishing foreign credits to
be drawn upon over here, which is
equivalent to borrowing money in the
United States, the money to be paid
back with interest when normal times
return. Sooner or later those pay
ments will be made in merchandise
form. which means that our imports
must greatly increase while our ex-
ports will undoubtedly diminish Then
will come period very different from
that through which we are now pass
ing and some views of foreign wars
and domestic prosperity will have to
undergo revision" And it doesn't
seem that a tariff law of the free trade
proportions of the present one is the
best possible sort to meet such sit
n tiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
A Recipe.

A Recipe.
To make a pleasant neighborhood in
which to live, take the following in
gradients and mix them thoroughly:
Five goats.
Three horseless pianos.
Four young women who take vocal
lessons.
Nine monographs.
Six bulldogs.
Three squeaky law
Young man who p cor
net
Seven gossiping women.
One amateur tenor.
sincerity.
Give me the everyday sort of a man,
The Teller who laughs when he's glad
Give me the open-faced, big-hearted man
The Teller who weeps when he's sad.
Give me the man who says just what he
The Teller who's word is pure gold.
Give me the man who can always be
The Teller who's not bought and sold.
Give me the man who stands up to the
The Teller who's spirit ne'er bends;
Give me the man who is there with the
The Teller who stands by his friends.
A Love Pome.
Love is a busyvbee
InaC mas you PWnen you re young,
That's plain you will agree
For like as not, you're stung.
TSo True.
I didn't raise my boy to be a cabbage,
1 didn't raise my onions to be beans;
l didn't raise my carrots to be pumpkins,
1 didn't raise my rhubarb to ba-greens.
But that's the way they turned out in the
garden.
But when 1 start to plant it in the spring
I'll bet that seed store guy,
I'll black his other eye,
If where l plant squash l pick a cabbage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
THE nIRrArIoN.

He sat beside me in a crowded surface car,
And II knew what love was at the
sight of him.
Our ride together was, alas! too short oy
far.
Time is relentless-but we loved in spite
of him.
1 did not hesitate to be the one to WOO,
Though I'm not prone to place affect1on
Tightly,
But just one side glance from his eyes Of
matchless blue,
And +! surrendered-which amused him
nightly.
He glanced with favor. then, upon a e
l wore;
1 offered it, and he accepted charmingly.
And when he went he stopped a moment
at the door
One backward look-my heart beat most
alarminglyi
I'd boldly search for him, without a trace
of shame,
Had 1 a clue that would reveal his
whereabouts
course 1 could pursue, and be exempt
from blame,
Since he, you see, was only two-or
thereaboutsi
Beatrice Barry in the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
GETTING ON OUR OWN FEET.

GEI1lNCI YIN Jun OWN GAA1A'
If the European war continues long
enough, American ingenuity, under
the spur of necessity, will probably
have developed the ways and means
to provide all or most of the Ameri-
can industries with all of the ma
terials that they need for the making
of thear wares and we will no longer
be dependent upon Germany, or any
of the other clever nations for our
supplies of many of the essentials of
a wide variety of manufactures. An
other straw which shows the way the
wind is blowing in this direction is to
be found in the announcement that
as result of experiments conduct
ed by the United States bureau of
standards, American glass manufac-
tuners who have felt the necessity of
depending upon foreign clays will be
able hereafter to assert their indie
pendence of such foreign material.
The Pittsburg laboratory of this gov
eminent bureau, which is located near
one of the chief centers of the glass
industry in this country, working in
cooperation with the clay-pot indus
tries, has learned that glass refrac-
tories (the pots in which glass is
melted) can be prepared from Ameri-
can clays, with resulting better quail
ity than that of the article manufac-
tured even with the addition of Ger
man plastic clays, which have hereto
fore been considered to be superior
to all others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
Jayhawker Jots.

You can't make small boy believe
that his father hates to punish him,
insists the Shawnee Chief.
Cecil Jones declares that most men
will choke to death before they'll draw
a pail of water without being asked.
1t is just as well to confess weak
ness, advises the Augusta Bugle.
Sometimes it enables you to conceal q
greater one.
The Yates Center News declares that
if you ask many questions you will
find out whole lot of things that are
ugly and untrue.
There are some people, points out
the Spring Hill New Era, who limit
their patriotism to standing when the
national anthem is played.
What the country needs at this hour,
insists the Norton Champion, is a
dust meter to measure the quantity of
pulverized soil that passes over any
area in an hour.
Now that Luther Burbank has be-
come q eugenics advocate, maybe he
can explain, suggests the Ashland
Clipper, how it is that peaches and
lemons often are raised on the some
family tree.
An exceptionally sound observation
by Mrs. Tom Thompson of the How
ard Courant: Nine times out of ten
people would be satisfied with what
their own means can provide but for
seeing what somebody else has
The writer OF the S1nSletonS store
Items in the Wilson County Repub-
lican says that the man who is always
wanting to know where Cain got his
wife would generally be happier if he
paid more attention to his own.
Herb Cavaness of the Chanute Trib-
une is of the opinion that a political
party is going to have an old-fashioned
landslide victory some day by putting
a plank in its platform favoring muz-
zles for the people who are eternally
sticking their noses into other peoples
buSinSS.
Observations by Obey Weaver, in his
Sedgwick Paragraph: When man
is paid for playing he calls it work.
-. It's a wise man who can be
silent on any subject. Are you
really as glad to see people as you
pretend to be?. Peace OF mind is
often the result of not knowing any
better. Nothing is so dangerous
foe to ambition as the flattery of
interiors. Young men who work
too diligently at sowing wild oats will
in time look seedy. The individ-
ual who sits down and waits for the
world to appreciate him will discover
after the race that he was left at the
post.