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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't tell a girl who thinks she is
getting mumps that alPs we'll that ends
swell.
The thorn without a rose is one of
the poor rules that won't work both
ways.
Lots of women wish they were men
and lots &C men wish they could have
their wish.
It's a good plan to love your neigh
bors, especially if you are given to
borrowing things.
1t isn't always poor insulation that
is responsible for shocking language
over the telephone.
In spite of the fact that milk is ex-
tracted from cows, it isn't really any
thing like beef extract.
No. Maude, dear; we have never
ence employ only mail teachers.
Nell-''Do you know anything about
botany?" Belle-Only enough to tell
blooming idiot when see him.
Even when you take everything a
man tells with a grain of salt, you
can't always catch him in a lie by
sprinkling salt on his tale.
'Babblipg brook Babbling BROOKE
tainted the river. well, notice even
you can't keep your mouth Shut re-
torted the brook.
Tommy-"Pop, is there such a
word as gent ?" Tommy's Pop-"I
suppose it is an abbreviation of gentle
man." Tommy-..When a gentleman
is short, does he become a CENT?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCKIsoN GLOBE.

If you are lazy you are apt to be the
last person to find it out.
Humanity averages up pretty well.
The few mistakes of big men are big
mistakes.
You can't measure up to important
responsibilities without trying thin ice
occasionally.
It's hard to tell what some books
about the limit.
Some peoples idea of a reasonable
person is one who will cash their
worthless checks.
Duties you dread are like hills in
you reach them.
The apex of affluence is attained by
the pampered plutocrat who can at
ford lawsuits as a pastime.
There are several ways of wasting
time, but that devoted to the upkeep
of a grudge is most hopelessly lost.
The possessor of an Industrious case
of rheumatism has a fine disregard
reau.
couldn't learn to loaf successfully, but
most of them would like to take a few
lessons.
can win reputation as a good mana
ger. whatever that may be worth in
her line of endeavor.
No man should make a vain display
of sidewhiskers unless he has an in
come sufficient to support them in
that style to which they are accus-
toned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Evening Chat
A Contrast and a Lesson.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"A CONTRAST anu d LeSSOH.
Two elderly women sat in the seat
in front of me on the trolly the other
day.
One wore rather fussy dark green
suit and a green hat with pink
feather on it.
She looked we'll enough.
The other wore a simple black suit
relieved by white collar and cuffs
and on her silver. hair little plain
black hat, lexquisitely smart. in its
perfect simplicity F'i''ft'-t
She looked adorable.
Whenever I see a contrast like that
1 wonder why all elderly women do
not dress, not in the colors that they
could wear but in the colors that they
should wear, not in the colors that
they share with all ages but in the
colors that belong as distinctively to
them as baby blue to a baby or vivid
green's to smart youngish woman
with a clear skin.
Respectable dark blues, sensible
greens, commonplace browns, a dash
of pink or yellow-any of these an
elderly woman may wear, with per-
feet propriety but without a particle
lavender and grey belong to age, they
are as exquisitely in keeping with it
as the scent of roses is in keeping
with the witchery of June night.
An old lady with silver hair in a
gown of lavender is one of the salts
flying congruities of life. It gives one
a sense of things as they should be.
1t is like stately house fittingly fur
nished forth with beautiful old ma
hogany furniture instead of with
1t is like an old fashioned garden still
sweet with tea roses and sweet Will
Hams and mignonette.
But suppose lavender is not becom-
ing, you say. I can't believe that there
would not be some shade of lavender
which would be becoming to any white
haired lady. Besides, lavender is not
the only color which belongs to the
afternoon of life. Dignified black
with the relief of as much white as Is
necessary, certain shades of grey-not
the horrible drab greys but the soft
silver greys and the greys with CLINT
of blue or pink or lavender in them
and for house gowns the softer shades
old lace, are all by right of eminent
domain the property of the grey or
silver haired lady.
Surely among them all any elderly
woman can design costumes which
while they may not make her look
young will do something infinitely bet
ter than that-they will make her look
an exquisite old lady, which is one of
the sweetest things in all the world.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Miss Stenographer wants to know
If think 1t is a good thing to read on
the trolley cars.
Reply.-I suppose you mean is it
good for the eyes. I once asked my
occulist the same question and he an
swered, It's not the best thing for the
eyes but that's where l do most of
my reading" OF course busy people
have few chances so good to keep up
with the literature of the day. If you
do decide to risk the possible harm,
choose as good light as possible.
don't let the shadow of objects you are
passing fall on your book, don't read
too long at a time, don't read through
a veil and don't read at night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
A Monument to Sea Gulls.

In gratitude to the birds whose
timely Intervention saved their crops
and probably the lives of many set
tiers the citizens of Utah have recent
ly dedicated a monument to sea gulls.
which bears a graceful bronze repre-
sentation of two birds lighting upon
the granite shaft. The episode which
this strange monument commentaries
is part of the early history of the
state. In the year 1S48 the pioneers
of Utah saw their crops devoured by
visitation of black crickets, which
descended in countless millions upon
the land and destroyed every vestige
of green. A second crop was planted
with the same result, and the settlers
now on the verge of ruin, saw their
promising young wheat fields once
more attacked by the pests. Acres
that were green and hopeful in the
morning were swept absolutely clean
of vegetation by night, and starvation
threatened the colony, which was at
that time so hard to reach from the
older states. 1t was then that a mir
acle happened in the shape of a vast
number of sea gulls that attacked the
hordes of insects and destroyed them
before the second crop was totally
ruined. 1t is interesting to note that
a descendant of one Of these settlers
was the sculptor of the monument,
which, in addition to it's pair of gulls,
bears bronze reliefs showing the incl
dent-"Curiosities,' Strand Magazine
for March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02

otto people. Take any route across
the wide continent and you pass
them, one. after the other. all the way
from Boston to San Francisco. Seattle
or Los Angeles. In this year, when
we are all eager to see America
first" let us bear in mind the edu-
cational value of a brief stay on the
routes of travel at the cities that are
the milestones of its progress, the CEN
tiers of industrial activity, of agricul-
tural development, and of mineral
wealth, and never before as you are
carried in safety, comfort and luxury
the debt this country and it's people
owe to those who have built the
splendid system of railways of the
United States, with the best accom-
modations and the lowest rates the
whole world affords.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
From Other Pens
THE sTANDARD BARREL.

Beginning next year the standard
barrel will contain 1855 cubic, inches,
and this will apply to all commodities
except cranberries. Heretofore, tie
man who bought barrel of any
thing could have no accurate concep-
ton of the size, or the amount the
barrel would hold, except as he might
guess from having seen it at the time
of purchase. He had come to ex
pect that his barrel of apples, il
bought, would not be of the sugar
barrel size; and if he sold, he knew
Beyond that, it was a guess. And 1t
has been about the same with, pro-
ducers, retailers and consumers the
country over. There has been no
Standardization that was followed.
though the old arithmetic told what
was the contents of a standard barrel
in cubic inches. AS a matter of fact
the size of the barrel was varied
about as much as the contents, and to
the consequent misunderstanding and
chicanery there has been no linIit.
The new law, signed by President
Wilson just at the close of the last
session of congress, attracted little at
tention at the time, but its impor-
tance promises to be far reaching,
contributing to compulsory honesty
perhaps quite as much as to stand
ardization, and perhaps helping to
stimulate the practice of buying by
the barrel.-Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
A MODERN METHOD.

Time was when the only attention
a railway company gave to the ordi-
nary citizen was to mail him a gaily
colored folder advertising summer r.
sorts, the most expensive hotels in
them, and the ways to reach them by
means of the railway, says the Kan
sas Industrialist, and it goes on: Since
that time railways have become WISER
They are endeavoring to secure pub
lie patronage not merely by advertis-
ing places in which the public can
spend its money but by giving as
sistance in lines in which assistance
is needed but in which it can hardly
be given by individuals. The Hes
sian fly train to be run by the Santa
Fe railway to carry college speakers
through the districts infested by the
insect pest, is an example of this type
of effort. A service is rendered to tho
public while also the company will be
financially benefited, as the elim1na-
ton of the fly will mean the addition
or ton upon ton of wheat to the
freight carried by railways. Rail
ways are not the only lines of bust
ness which are following the method
mentioned The newspapers, for ex-
ample, are, through their bureaus fur
nishing information on business mat
tiers which would cost millions of dol
lars if it had to be secured by the in
dividual seeking it. one Chicago pa
per answered in a year more than
100000 business inquiries. There are
possibilities for service of like char
acter in all lines of business. To en-
terrain the farmer-consumer at dinner
or to give the city-consumer a package
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Jayhawker lots

Most women and good sprinkle of
men, too, like to be swindled if it is
done by peddler or swtndler, de-
clares the Wilson World, and it goes
on: They prefer to buy of stranger
rather than the home merchant. This
is proven by an incident that happen
ed here few days ago. An irish
woman came to town and went to
a lot of cent 1aces. Then went out
and sold them to the ladies of the
town as hand made lace at 25 to SO
cents per yard. 1t shows that a
stranger can sell anything if the arti-
cles are brought to your direct notice
and the bigger the Misrepresentation
the easier it is to sell it,
Over at Burr Oak, Jewell county,
last week two greyhounds ran them
selves to death chasing a jackrabbit,
mer. The rabbit also died from ex-
ertion, a quite unnatural occurrence.
Ivan MarshalPs two dogs scared up
jackrabbit on a very hot evening.
After a chase that lasted until the
dogs were so exhausted they fell over
when making the sharp turns they
circled back near Ivan, when the rab-
bit expired. 1t was picked up and
found that it had been untouched by
the dogs. Arriving at home Mr.. Mar
shall found that both dogs had died
from the heat and over-exertiOn. All
three animals were buried In one hole.
Musings of the Village Deacon in
the Osborne County Farmer: What
has become of the old-fashioned girl
who wouldn't allow a young man to
accompany her home from church if
he didn't take her there?. With
lots of men religion is all right until
its gets in front of them. Then they
put religion behind them and go
ahead anyway. When a woman
is perfectly contented' you will gen.
orally find that there is a man at the
bottom of the case. People tell
me that when a crowd of married
women get together they always talk
a whole lot more about the old bach
elors than they do about their hus-
bands. e. The women argue about
who is the best cake baker in town
just as much as the men talk about
who is the champion liquor drinker of
the community. .....I find h a
deacons can play politics all right, but
it is necessary to forget the ten COM
mandments three-fourths of the time
and the other fellows honesty all the
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

[From the Chicago News.]
A hard worker may not be the best
worker.
rooster at Growing.
The most satisfactory place for a
boil is in the kitchen.
Selling ice at profit of 200 per cent
is cold snap.
Falling in love is painless; falling
out again is what hurts.
According to history, Jonah was the
first man who wanted the earth.
A married man has troubles of his
own and lot that he doesn't own.
After a woman gets on the shady
side of 80 her birthdays run together
like moving pictures.
1t is necessary to watch some of
your friends every minute or they will
let you in on a get-rich-quick scheme.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
RUSSIANS MAY "CoME BACK"

Suppose the Germans and AustrianS
do win a most convincing victory in
Galicia, one of such proportions that
they will feel warranted in transfer
ring a large portion of their big force
there to meet the onslaught of the
Italians and to bolster up their crum-
bling lines in the western war zone. 1t
will only be a matter of time before
Russia will be coming back again with
another immense army. Her supply
of men is almost without limit. She
undoubtedly needs equipment and
munitions of war but these will be
furnished her in time by her allies.
Russia was unquestionably right in
her assertions that the German and
Austrian successes in Galicia mean no
more than the adding of months to the
duration of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02

of Doctor Somebody's medicated
breakfast food, is not the most effec-
tive cooperation. The farmer may
appreciate the dinner and the city
man may appreciate breakfast food if
he likes things of that sort. but per-
manent cooperation must get down to
more important matters. The pro-
ducers and sellers must give the con-
sumner something which he distinctly
values and which will be of permanent
service to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
ID l!e!Ea!ea6p
10y )%claua hssranshddsen 49,
&Ctaua lnSramJudson
A PANSY'S FIRST DAY.

treesi'
Then he turned his head a little
| lower, as all pansieS do, and looked
| round the garden that was his home.
! He saw green leaves, growing thing
and oh! so many interesting things!
1t took him all the whole day just to
look at the many things there were
to see,
kind sunbeams warmed and fed him
spread open his petals a little wider
colored his tints little deeper, till he
was dark and beautiful-quite as the
most beautiful pansy in the world
should be,
Then as he watched, the sunbeams
softly said good night" and vanished
away into the land of nowhere" The
birds disappeared-they said they
went to their nests to sleep, but of
course the pansy couldn't quite under
stand what they meant by that-he
didn't know what nests were The
earth creatures, the snails, the beetles.
the toads, and the bees-all the crea-
lures that he had enjoyed Watching
went away. They said they went IN
their homes for rest, but of course the
pansy didn't understand that. How
could he when he lived all the time
in his home; when he couldn't go
anywhere even If he wanted to; and
when he surely didn't want to go
away from the roots and leaves of the
plant?
CUT
At last all his new-found friends
were gone away. Darkness brooded
over the once bright garden and the
pansy was afraid. He snuggled down
close to the roots of the plant; he tried
to hide under the leaves; but he
couldn't. pansy bloom is too big to
hide down tight where the tiny bud
once livedi
And all the while the darkness grew
deeper, and the pansy was more and
more afraid.
Finally he called out in his fear
won't somebody stay with me? I'm
afraid In this big new world of dsrk-
ness. Won't somebody stay with me p,
out of the darkness a soft voice an
swered, Don't be afraid am corr
ing to stay with you"
Across his upturned face the pansv
felt warm moist caress and was ~
longer AFRAID The rain drops had
come = Copyright = Clara Inersn,
Judson.) an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02

Surely the observation of Memorial
Day took on an added significance this
year, because of the terrible conflict
across the waters. And it probably
helped to strengthen the purpose of
our people to shun war as a viper and
to use every honorable means at all
times to keep from getting mixed up
with one. Still. if we are ever forced
to fight we will accept the burden
with resignation and a determination
to make our power felt once more and
for all time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02

Presumably Chicago has had a Sum
day closing law ever since its organza-
ton as a city, or since it attempted
to deal. in any particular fashion.
with its liquor problem. But May
80. 1915, was the first Sunday since
1872 that even any of the Windy
City's hotels closed their bars, and
then only six of them saw fit to heed
the Sunday closing law, a vigorous
crusade for the enforcement of which
has recently been begun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02

One lone pansy opened a prlsnt
purple blossom and looked around to
see what this world was like. Nat
urally he wondered, for all the time
he had been at work, making petals,
forming his seed box and getting ready
to open, he had heard the roots and
the leaves talking about the garden
world He had heard about the sky
and the trees and the birds, so it was
no wonder that he, wanted to see all
the wonders for himself at the very
first minute he could.
He first looked at the sky. The sun
was shining with all his early morn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Journal Entries

Few women seem to be satisfied
with what nature has done for them.
+
When a man sings while at work, 1t
isn't often he does either job we'll.
+
Rowing is a more delightful recrea-
ton when some one else is doing it.
+ + +
If a boy is kind and polite to his
they soon get the idea they
can lick him.
+ + =
Some people seem to live and work
on the theory that they should be
helped along at every turn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
FRAUDULENT WHISKY CLAIMS.

Why doesn't Uncle Sam charge US
ing the mails to defraud and prose-
cute accordingly the whisky houses
in other parts that spend SO much eff
fort to increase their mail order bust
ness in Kansas and other prohibition
territory. The patent medicine quacks,
and some compounders of drugs that
it is hardly fair so to classify, are held
pretty close to the Ines these days.
The government is active against
them if any curative or other claims
for their connections, which are ridi-
culous or deceptive. are made or sug-
gested in their advertisements, liter
ature or labels. They are usually
proceeded against for violations of
the pure food and drug law, because
they don't use the mails to any ex-
tent. But the least scrupulous of the
patent medicine quacks have moth
ing on some of the distillers when it
comes to making outlandish claims
for the merits of their wares. A
Kentucky whisky house, for instance,
is busy these days in a mail campaign
for trade in Kansas with letters that
characterize their product as YER
liable elixir of life. "It (their whisky
brings a wealth of sunshine, health
and happiness" say the letter-appeals
for business that this concern makes,
sends dull care scurrying to the
tall sycamores and prevents flag, fret
and frown. Just let the little carrier
pigeon enclosed "a postcard order)
flutter back to US and we will quick
ly dispatch four quarts of this bully
little builder of brain and brawn."
Could any claims for the alleged vir-
tues of whisky be more fraudulent?
Instead of building up brain and
Drawn, whisky destroys them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Kansas Comment
INDUSTRY FINDS A MARKET.


DR.. Henry Coe Culbertson in his
address TO the graduating class OF the
high school this week urged them not
to be for sale; to be above the price
pleasure and crookedness are willing
to pay 1t was sound advice and
came from a man who has had exper-
fence with Young manhood and wo-
manhood But while the young peo-
pie are careful not to be Tor sale
they must not be drug on the mar
ket They should have some value
They should work so that their ser
vice will be in demand. 1t isn't the
Industrious young man and young wo-
man who sell themselves tor pleasure
and misdirected gain. 1t is the loaier
and lazy man. Laziness breeds an in
difference to morals and convention
which are easy for corruption to over
come. The young workers who pound
at their task with all of their vim Will
not sell themselves but they will find
the world bidding for their services
because they are industrious aud cap
able of assuming responsibilities
lima Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
CIVILIZED WARFARE.

Going back a thousand years, Dave
Leahy, pro-German, finds justifica-
ton for the Lusitania incident in the
burning of Joan of Arc at the stake.
Less than two hundred years ago the
British hired the Indians to scalp
women and children and paid for the
scalps Less than seventy-five years
ago the Turks in Crimea skinned
their victims alive. A million dol
lars worth of German property will
be destroyed and confiscated in Lon
don before this thing is over. and Ger
man civilians will be lucky If they are
not killed. Men who go to war go
mad. The essence of civilization is
communal kindness. The essence, of
savagery is communal cruelty. War
always is bestial, cruel, insane. There
is no such thing as civilized warfare.
and may God help US to keep peace
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOTION.

The Pirate-1815.
He sailed his ship DER the bounding
main;
Like an eagle he waited to sight
his prey
He fought in the open and for ais
gain;
To him it was business to get his
this way
1915.
He sails meath the sea, on mission
bound,
And sights by his periscope peace
full Ship;
Let's go his torpedo, it's mark it has
found
In the depths are the people
twas their last trip.
Fl " W
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
Life's Little Annoyances.


Life's Little Annoyances.
Dipping the mucilage brush in the ink
bottle by mistake.
Receiving a hammer in the neck when
your wife has thrown it at the cat.
Getting note addressed in fine fem,
mime hand and finding it contains a bill
Getting dinner invitation after friend
Boiled beef and cabbage for dinner when
you have had the same thing downtown
Finding for the first time that you have
spot.
Efficient Chewing.
From a welfare report:
We found Mrs. Bonham a pleasant
little woman whose husband had
earned her pretty new sewing ma
chine by chewing tobacco. I reckon
method of earning anything, but some
tobacco has tags which are redeema-
BILE, and the machine was one of the
premiums. Mrs. Bonham just beamed
with pride as she rolled out her ma
chine. II never had a machine be-
fore" she explained. Il just went to
the neighbors when I had to sew. So,
of course wanted machine awfullv
bad. So Frank Just chawed and
chawed and I saved every tag till we
machine. Frank is chawin' out clock
now; but that won't take him so long
as the machine did,
Why MilIiner Ladies Have the Gol1y-
WOggles.
You'll find my face is very hard
to fit"
I'm a very hard customer when it
comes to buying hat
DO you import Fisk hats?
my face can't stand hard lines"
That's just a little more than I
want to pay"
"Oh, you can wear any hat; they
all look we'll on you