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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
Joyhaoker Jots

If you want a large bill for small
change, advises the Sabetha star, all
you have to do is consult a doctor.
As the Windy Hill correspondent of
the Haddam Clipper-Leader puts it:
Frank PaVlik and family "Forded''
to Klema's Sunday.
The Bonner Springs Chieftain never
could understand why the bridal
wreath should bloom in May when all
the brides bloom in June.
To say ''she has a sweet doll face
does not suggest, argues the Pratt
Union, that she has anything worth
While in her bonnet
Told by the Pratt Union: A hand
some lady came into this office Sat
urday morning with her husband. The
husband wore about a ten days
growth of beard that was very heavy
She suddenly turned to him with a low
ing smile and said, Say, dear, l wish
you would go get shaved before the
state arrests me for not paying my
dog tax"
Register: Ham Burger thinks that the
Lord shows how little he cares for
money by the folk he gives it to.
If you will inquire deeply into
the history of any Old Timer you will
find that he once took dinner" at
the poor farm. Every cloud
mas a silver lining, but. on the other
paw, the dishes must be washed for
every GrOanlnS Board The
chap who can keep his temper when
his sister trumps his ace is greater
than he that taketh a city.
Some 20 Shorts, by T. L. A., in the
Marysville acknowledgements: The
world looks bad to a bilious man.
Education may change q. mar
row mind into d big-head Many
of us sacrifice the essentials of life
for the 1uxuries. One may
be sharp but worthless-like a needle
without an eye. Some who
are good according to their light are
living by candle light. He
who does the least practicing finds the
most fault with the preachers
The straight and narrow way provides
plenty of room to- do right bus none
to do wrong.
AS some things occur to Obey Weav-
er of the Sedgwick photographic: A
smile may be the reflection OF a light
heart. A cross-eyed man may
be straight enough, but he looks
crooked. You will never
profit by your mistakes as long as
you blame others for them.
those who begin at the foot,
the bootolack is worthy of honorable
mention. Love has been
known to fly out the window while a
man at he door is having difficulty
finding the keyhole. The
is about the only fellow who
can get his hammer out and knock on
public improvements without being
criticized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
SURVEYS AND BUSINESS.

The recent Topeka Survey has just
come in for some favorabl comment,
as good publicity for this city. The
May issue of the magazine, Advertis-
ing and Selling, refers to the survey as
giving a vivid and photogra phically
exact picture of the city of as much
or more interest to advertising men
as to any one else The opinions
are expressed editorially and refer in
several places to this kind of under
taking valuable surveys" The
article should be especially interest
ing to local persons who have assisted
in surveys and who may have had
some misgivings as to results of a
frank facing of the facts of local con-
ditions- Advertising men know good
publicity when they see it. That's
their business. Hence what one of
their editors thinks of the survey as
means of attracting favorable atten-
ton away from home is worth MOTTO
ing. The article is as follows:
1.-The Russell Sage Foundation has
just completed a survey of the indus
trial conditions in Topeka. The data
gathered certainly gives a vivid and
photographically exact picture of the
city, in manner of as much OF more
interest to advertising men as to any
one else Several years ago a survey
was made of an entire county in Min
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

If you fail you can say you are in
advance of the times.
The dimple of today is apt to be a
wrinkle about day after tomorrow.
No, Geraldine, the Yellow Press
isn't limited to the oriental publica-
tions.
\ wise woman is the one who can
henpeck her husband and make him
like It.
BE it ever so humble, a home usual
ly offers certain comforts not found in
camp life.
1t may be said for the journeyman
pessimist that he avoids a lot of dis
appointment.
The man with the poorest memory
is sometimes seen performing on the
witness stand.
Most fussy people are thin, which
proves that there is no nourishment in
chewing the rag.
Alb Adkins says his wife's relatives
have the Germans beaten a block in
the matter of speedy mobilization.
In real life the wandering boy
doesn't always get home in time to
save the old homestead from sheriff S
sale.
While a woman is careful to lock
the doors, she regards a porch light
as the greatest protection against bur
glars
The patriot who is always raIIying
to the defense of the constitution
sometimes permits the weeds to take
his garden
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.

L
The average girl loves to figure in
an engagement.
It requires lots of nerve to tell a
man the things he ought to know.
Usually a girl whose front name
is Mae looks more like July or August
The spoon is an insignificant little
utenSil, yet it creates a stir in every
home.
When a man is i'll he seldom has a
nightshirt pretty enough to receive
callers in
A female diplomat is a woman who
can keep a hired girl for six consecu-
tive weeks.
There are times when even the par
son imagines there is no earthly hope
for the choir.
AS matter of fact there's very lit
tie common sense in the world-most
of it is uncommon.
A man is always eating something
he shouldn't and a woman IS always
saying something she shouldn't.
Never boast of the work you are go
ing to do. Some men work all the
time and have nothing to show for
it, either.
This is the season of the year when
a man looks in his back yard and de-
cides the one thing needfu1 is a goat
that will consume old tin cans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
EU ening Chat
Things We Do without Trying.
BY RUTH CAMERON

On a gray discouraged day Il basket
of yellow flowers came into sick
tie grayer and more discouraged than
outside.
The homemade nurse whose duties
were Superadded to the routine of an
already overworked housemother was
very tired, but her face lit up at the
sight of the flowers.
When she had hung the basket in
the window by a bit of yellow ribbon.
she stood back to get the effect. The
flowers looked lovely but the shade
behind them was crooked; she
Strengthened it and then passed about
the room picking up soiled glass,
smoothing out a disorderIy pile OF
newspapers and magazines, and put
ting a fresh towel on the bureau. In
a few minutes she had the room look
ing like quite another place.
| The patient, responding to the
flowers and to the new sense of order
in the room, reused herself from her
listless indifference to appearances to
ask for a comb and mirror and other
toilet appurtenanceS-
e. Half an hour after the flowers en-
tered the room they looked down up
| on a patient who was taking an inter
est in her personal appearance for
the first time since her illness, a Sm1l-
ling homemade nurse who had forgot
ten how tired she was, and a. tidy,
pleasant looking room.
And they had done it all.
I was standing on street corner
the other day near a group OF young
boys who were slouching about in the
manner of the boy who is at that I'M
fortunate age when he thinks it man.
ly to stand on a street corner with his
hands in his pockets.
A fine looking broad shouldered
young man drew near The boys eyed
him with the half furtive. half inso-
lent gaze peculiar TO the 1oafer. 1t
oI1 interest t.
tention when he greeted two or three
of their number and greeted them not
CURLY or patronizingly but with the
same cordially and courtesy he would
have extended to friend OF his own
age.
He passed on, but the group did not
go back to it's former slouchlng- An
electric change seemed to have passed
several of them took their hands out
of their pockets; one half smoked
cigarette was thrown away; even the
conversation took on a rather differ
ent tone.
Once more. I know little boy who
is very difficult to manage. When his
nursemaid scolds him in her high
pitched, nervous voice he seems to
grow more stubborn and more ugly.
His own voice rises and he snarls and
frets and often has 70 be sent to bed.
Now there IS a dear old fr1end OF the
family who loves this little boy in
spite OF his iiduSilIileSS, LII ie'S'' ,io
never seems to be naughty when she
is near. She talks to him in her sweet
low pitched voice and he talk pleas
antly to her, and forgetting to fret or
whine, plays about happily and quiet
ly. And yet she never has to scold or
discipline hlp-
The power of suggestion is mighty
force, isn't it? Beauty, courtesy. Sc
renity sweetness of character-how
powerfully such qualities as these
move us with their silent eloquence-
How much of the good in the world is
done not by deliberate effort but by
the unconscious influence of the good
and the beautiful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
THE COST OF THE WAR.

A carefully prepared estimate of the
cost of the war to all the nations in
volved during its first years run,
which will soon be concluded, fixes
the figure at $45,739, 100000. That,
however, doesn't convey much in the
way of explicit information to most
folk. 1t is merely an array of figures
that describes a sum so stupendous
that the ordinary intellect cannot APP
preciate its proportions. 1t is almost
full quarter of the estimated nation
al wealth of these United States, and
which is said to exceed that of all
the other nations of the world COM
bined And where is the money or
the credit coming from to pay the
wars bill if it is to be continued on
such an enormous financial scale for
two or three years? If the war can
not be ended through convincing
and overwhelming military victory on
the part of one side or the other, it
must Soner or later be strangled by
financial impossi bilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
QUAKER NIEDTTATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record

from the Philadelphia Record.1
Virtue is it's own reward, but the
machinist couldn't do much without
his viSeS-
There may be germs in kisses, but
the average girl seems to think she is
immune.
The fellow who boasts of being the
flower of the family talks more like a
blooming idiot.
The man who paddles his own
canoe doesn't have to worry about the
price of gasoline
1t is a comforting thought that the
ship of state doesn't have to carry
guns and ammunition.
HoaN''His fortune is founded on
a rock Joax-''What is his bust
ness?" Hoax-"He makes cradles"
You never can tell. Even when a
woman has the reputation of being
a cat, she may be afraid of a mouse.
1t is better for a theatrical man.
ager to be horn under a lucky star
than to be borne under an unlucky
one
Light-fngered Larry-''Do you
think opals are unlucky?" Second
story Sam-..Sure. I never swiped one
yet that 1 didn't get pinched.''
Tottie Twinkletoes-"Do you think
marriage pays?" Polly Pinktights-
Sure it pays I'm collecting alfmony
from no less than five husbands now"
B1obbs-"Miss Gotrox has a great
memory for faces" Slobbs-"That's
right. 1 was engaged to her last sum-
mer at the shore, and today she actu-
! ally bowed to me on the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

pretty suburban town of Amber, ana
the School of Horticulture for Women
became fact. Starting with one stu
I dent and two instructors, the Schooi
now has a waiting list of students ana
ten teachers. One building has grown
to several, with plans drawn for oth-
ers already greatly needed. One
small greenhouse has branched out
into three of goodly size. America,
curiously enough, with all her vast
land resources and clever women, has
been far behind other countries in
opening this career to its women.
England, Germany, Russia, Belgium.
Italy and Denmark have graduated
hundreds of girls to well paid posi-
tions as managers of public or private
gardens, independent commercial
work, or as consulting horuculturlsts,
lecturers and teachers. OF course
many American women have made
good as florists, market gardeners,
managers of fruit farms or orchards
but until recently no adequate practi-
cal education along these lines has
been offered in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
THE OAK TREE

! JJp in the big oak tree where MI
Biuey Blackbird went to live, there
dwelt a family of tree fairies. Now
perhaps yor never saw tree fairies.
They are quite the very hardest fairies
to see of all the fairies in the whole
| fairy world. But they are there In
the trees even if you haven't seen
them-watch some time when the sun
shines brightly on the tree nearest you
and maybe you can eaten ghmpses OIL
these elusive tree fairies!
| And if you do succeed in seeing
them, you will think them quite as
lovely as flower fairies. And II you
don't see them-try again!
| Now this particular family of tree
fairies had lived for some years in the
big oak tree. AS the tree had grown,
the family of fairies grew too; for IL
takes many. many fairies to take care
of one great tree you may be sure!
What do they do? Oh, a thousand
things! They spread the raindrops
evenly over the whole tree-otherwise
only the top would get drink! They
escort the sunbeams clear In TO the
leaves near the trunk-else how would
the trunk and the leaves nearby see
the sunbeams? And when Autumn
and his paint box come for a call, they
helm him color the leaves tints of gold
and red and brown that you so ad-
mire. Oh the tree fairies have very
work so dearly they don't care about
play-which is the best way to be,
assure you.
The fairies liked the old oak tree,
for he was quiet and happy and tend
ed to his own business just as they
did to theirs-which is the best way
for friends to do.
Fs,1t this peace and happiness was
before the arrival of Mr.. Bluey Black
bird. Do you think for one minute
that peace and comfort go along with
him? Indeed they do not
He had not lived in that oak tree
two days, no, not one, till trouble be-
gan to brew!
First he wanted the sunbeams kept
away from his nest. said they hurt his
ewes, The oak fairy queen explained
patiently that she couldn't help it, the
trunk at that place needed light for
growing What do 1 care about its
growing grumbled Bluey Blackbird,
you keep the sunbeams away till am
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
OPPORTUNITY Thrown AWAY.

And the batting of John d. Rookie
Teller, ir., by Chairman Walsh, of the
federal commission on Industrial rela-
lions, is about disgraceful a thing
as public authority has been guilty of
in this country in a long time. In
deed, the indefensible tactics that Mr..
Walsh has used in the prosecution of
the inquiries of the commission have
already destroyed in a large measure
its usefulness. They were many. But
Mr.. Walsh has ignored them with his
apparent use of the activities of the
com omission as a personal vehicle to
carry himself to a place in the ma
tional limelight. And there will be
little of value to any report that this
commission may make because of the
objectionable prejudice t h a Mr..
Walsh has shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN.

Four years ago a small group of
prominent club women in Philadel-
phia caught n vision of a practical
training in horticulture for women:
one to include theory with actual day
by-day, month by-month practice
with the growing things. writes Kath-
crime Speer Reed in an article entitled.
New Open-Air Vocation for Women
in Horticulture" in the American Re-
view of Reviews for May. The out
come of their belief in their vision
was the purchase of seventy acres
of excellent farm land about sixteen
miles from Philadelphia, near the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

In vain they explained that the tree
around his nest was thirsty in vain
they sheltered him all they could with
their gauzy wings; he grumbIed and
ragged till they were quite ashamed to
have him in their tree
Then the next day, when he beyan
to scold because his nest was dry and
dusty the tree fairies decided that
they could stand him no longer. Very
politely, but firmly, they invited him
to move.
Mover" exclaimed Bluey RlacLbira
in amazement, indeed I'll not, / like
1t here as well as anywhere. And here
1 mean to stayi''
"All right them said the fairy
queen, well move ourselvesi"
So that is the reason why the vvboIx
family of oak tree fairies moved from
the big old tree to the tiny oak tree
by the corner of the garden.-(Conv-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
DON'T BE TOO HAsTY. FARMERS

Kansas wheat farmers should give
careful consideration to the sugges-
lions of j. G. Mohler, the secretary
of the Kansas department of agricul-
ture and of the experts in United
States department of agriculture that
they should not be too h a S y
in blowing up the wheat fields that
have been attacked by the Hessian
fly 1t is frequently the case, as
these authorities point out, that this
pest doesn't always do nearly as much
damage to a wheat field as appear
ances may indicate. Even fields that
have been injured to a marked extent
by the Hessian fly often return yields
that are well-worth saving. And the
present prospects are that ten BUSH
els of this years wheat will be worth
as much at harvest time as was TWEEN
ty bushels at the same time last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
THE VOICE OF PROMISE.

THE VOICE OF PROMISE.
/.
When the blizzard was Albumin,
Heard voice in whispers say:
There's picnic train a-comin'
through the meadows O. the May.
There's song o. jubilation
where the sky is gold an blue
And your sweetheart's at the station
An she's kissed a rose for you
II.
Then 1 said to wintry weather:
You may blow your blighting best,
BUT well yet go hands-together
From the golden East to West
Cheerless with your child creation
Life full soon will cease to be,
For one rose is life's salvation,
And Loves kissed rose for me-"
FRANK l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitu
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

Germany can be no more solicitous
about continuing the most friendly of
relations with the United States than
the United States is in maintaining
them with Germany. The last thing
the United States is looking for is
trouble with any nation. Uncle Sam
is not given to walking around with a
chip on his shoulder. And if Ger
many can see her way clear to meet
the no more than reasonable demands
that the United States has made there
will be good reason for general re-
joicing all around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
Journal Entries

The longest way around is also usu-
ally the most expensive way there
i j +
Some people who are blessed with
caution are accused of cowardice.
j
Another rare human is the one
whose head isn't turned by success.
j. i
There being exceptions to all rules
in some families everybody loafs but
father.
i + j
A mosquito is about as busy as
bee but it doesn't get any praise for its
activity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
This preparedness agains

This preparedness against war"
which erstwhile peace protagonists in
this country are now urging with
such vigor is really no more than an
advocacy of a preparation for war
on such a scale as to breed war. The
terrible conflict in Europe is the best
proof that this is So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

A 1ong-felt want is about to be
filled. Uncle Sans weather prophets
in-chief are collaborating on a text
book that will endeavor to instruct
the local forecasters in the weather
bureau in the tricks of the trade. But
at that, the big fellows in the weather
department guess wrong as often as
the little ones. Indeed, this weather
forecasting business is pretty much Of
a joke, except to the gentlemen who
make a reasonably good living out
Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

nesota-and intelligent farm adver-
Users have ever since used it very
gratefully. Why is it that business
cannot secure from the government
SUCH valuable surveys? Is there any
wonder that business men growl at
the government when II per cent of
all the country's expenditures are, not
for valuable surveys like these, but
Tor wars past, present or to comet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

The Trout Fisherman.
Ny y, father is truthful man,
Eleven months each year
He tells the truth, no matter whom
He can't abide chicanery,
Straight out and out is he.
Equivocation he abhors
He's plain as plain can be.
His fish tales makes one stand aghast,
1t really does not seem
That fish as big as he has caught
Had ever swum a stream.
He puts the stories over, too,
rhss fsfn I'm n!m ot fSF t9gs
He's strictly on the square
me and eloped with a actor. oh, I can
never stand al OF this trouble
Trouble: Huh. What do you know
Surprising you had three kids with the
measles, the mortgage on your farm was
about to be foreclosed. you had a boil on
down on the 0 credit, oe yog had four Hat
tires and surprising you had five install,
oTerdraw Ie your CUBA bank account @cen sas5 sup
posing your neighbor on the right kept a
goat, your neighbor on the left kept
a vocal teacher. Surprising you had
dyspepsia, govt, jumping neuralgia, SPAWN,
and shingles at the same time. Then you
might begin to talk about trouble. You
ought 10 De ashamed OF your H.
The BOnehead Contest.
My entry for the contest is the old
tad who dyes his hair and mustache
and imagines he is fooling somebody.
Mrs. J. T. r.
Can't Offend Sam.
Samuel G.. Blythe says there will be no
war between the United States and Japan,
and far be it from either nation to go
against Jingle Sans best judgment in the
matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

More evidence of the worth and
efficiency of the higher educational
institutions that Kansas maintains
No less than ten states are represent
ed among the members of this year
graduating class at the state univer
sity. And wouldn't it be a short
sighted policy for such a wealthy state
as Kansas to deny such institutions
the means for a reasonable and
steady DEVELOPMENT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

That terribly pernicious thing
know as corporate influence" came
close to getting in its fine work in the
final stages of the Barnes Roosevelt
libel suit. A motorman in the employ
of a street car company nearly hung
he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

Possibly the success OF the Italian
army in the field will depend in a
large measure upon the adequacy
with which it is supplied with maca-
roni and spaghetti. The Italian doesn't
live who is able either to work or play
very we'll unless he can connect with
yards upon yards of this stringy food
whenever the spirit, or rather the
stomach moves him.