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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
RESTING TIME.

The quiet days are coming: On the hills
The glows palely, while the zephyrs
wing
Their noiseIess ways. Where once the bah
bling rills
Told merry tales, now only silence falls,
And when a lone bird for some wanderer
Its primitive notes no faintest echoes
bring.
Gone are the voices that the Summer
Those gray, glad voices joining vale and
steep:
Bare are the bowers where rare hued
flowers grew,
And tail ferns nodded. while the slum-
bering trees
Whisper in dreams, to every passing
Those dear. sweet secrets that a tree
should keep
Bright were the hours of sunshine; bright
the days
When, meath blue skies, fond love pur-
sued its quest.
Now Indian Summers chastely cleaning
haze
Bathes all the earth in quiet. minor tone,
And heart to heart its many triumphs rest
Yet Summers love has come into its own,
-Lurana Sheldon, in the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
Missionary Gifts.

The ten largest missionary societies
of the Protestant church have been
tabulating their accounts for the fiscal
year ending April 1. In America for
eign mission gifts have doubled in
the last decade. Although eighteen
millions of dollars was contributed last
year for this enterprise, the churches
nevertheless found it the hardest year
they have experienced for a long time
The war and the enormous demands
for relief funds have lessened the nor
NAL gifts, and expansion work begun
within few years had greatly in
creased the expenses of a number of
the societies. The Baptists, however,
began the year with a deficit of a
quarter of a million, and wiped 1t out
with a balance in the treasury on April
1 of $1,000. The American board
ended the year with the two sides of
the ledger almost exactly balancing
But the Episcopal society is reported
to have a debt of perhaps a hundred
thousand, and the great Presbyterian
board, with a budget of almost two
millions, has a much larger deficit to
face The Presbyterian shortage is
charged to the heavy addition to cur
rent expenses incurred a few years
ago when a large number of new en-
terprises were started in China
Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

reasonable to draw the following con-
illusions: AS a general sanitary prin-
ciple it is desirable that all dwellings,
stables, etc, should be so constructed
that an abundance of sunshine can
reach their interiors. AS a general
protective measure against disease
germs, it is an excellent practice to
expose utensils for handling milk, and
milk cans after they have been
cleaned, to direct sunlight, and so
hang or spread wearing apparel.
blankets, bedding. rugs, horse blank
cts, ETC., periodically where the sun
can shine on all parts of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
En- enin g Chat
Children and Styles.
BY RUTH CAMERON


My dress is going to have a
coatee."
Mine is to be lorg-wa;sted and to
have a lot of tucks here" q sweep of
the hand indicated the region.
MY coatee is going to be trimmed
with cluny lace
I'm going to have val. On my waist.
1 thought coates were going out of
style
1t was with a mixture of amuse-
ment and establishment that listened
to the above conversation.
You don't see why?
You think it is an ordinary CONVEX
satior? As to its subject matter. yes,
but the detail which gave it its extra
pants They were two little girls of
ten or eleven in short dresses with
their hair in pigtails!
wonder how long it will be before
we have the girl babies crying in their
cradles because their bassinettes aren't
trimmed with the approved kind of
lace.
The Authorman had a tale to tell
me the other night Il was waiting
for a car he said, land little girl
who couldn't possibly be more than
twelve was standing alongside of me.
All of a sudden what do she do but
open her handbag, whip ou1 vanity
case, powder her nose. look herself
over in one OF those Olnky little mir
rors, and go through all the rest of
the motions. 1 could hardly help
laughing at her-why, the youngster
wasn't a bit too old for a doll, and
there she was, giving herself the airs
and graces Of a woman of forty.
When do girls become young ladies
nowadays? When they get into gram
mar schools?"
I can imagine some reader asking
what there is wrong about a girl OF
ten or twelve discussing styles, or u.s.
ing a vanity box? Nothing wrong, ex-
cept as all unnatural things are
wrong.
An ardent desire to look well. a
painstaking attention to her personal
appearance is a woman's natural pre-
rogative but not a child's. And at
ten or eleven or even twelve a girl
should be a child and not a miniature
woman.
The vanity that gets such an early
start as that is apt to become an over
weening one.
For a girl of that age to want to
wear dainty clothes and look as pretty
as she can, is natural enough, but for
her to be so interested in the subject
of personal appearance that she
studies styles and carries vanity box,
is absurd
ANY mother who has her daugh-
ter's best interests at heart will try to
keep her young and unself-cor scious
Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
YOUR BETTER SELF

You're not the wrong you've committed,
You're not the fault that is past;
You're simply the good, ever present,
The good that will last
You're not the word that's called failure.
You're what you're intended to be;
Though the world pass ON unheeding,
God and the best of us see.
You're not the live Goals of SHINING,
You're not the burn it will leave;
You're simply your pure aspiration,
Your earnest desire to retrieve.
You're not the life past reclaiming,
Nor the soul too dark for the light
To reach, that place of the spirit
That is calm, that is true, that is right.
You're not the ashes remaining
of yesterdays burnt-out fire:
You re simply by life's clean hearthstone
The light that mounts higher and higher.
&c. NJ. Koehler in November Nautilus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
WHY IS ALAw. ANYWAY?

The Kansas Workingman's Com
pensation Act has been in effect for
some time but scarcely a day goes by
without papers over the various parts
of the state printing accounts of John
Doe suing the Roe Construction COM
pany to recover damages under the
statute. The law plainly specifies
that an employer shall be liable for
certain specified amount in case an
employee is injured. But in prac cite
ally every instance the employee has
to sacrifice a large per cent of what
is rightfully his under the law in pay
ing for attorneys fees. If the state
is to have the right to arbitrarily fix
the amount of damages due an en-
ployee it should also use its authority
in forcing the employer to pay this
sum without useless litigation. Why
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrOm the Chlcago News
Az long as young man can't tell
re color of a girls eyes he is safe.
It's easy to find reasons why others
don't do the foolish things We do.
It's absurd to worry about things
YOU can help, or the things you can't.
Some men think a luxurious stand
Of whiskers adds to their dignity.
Adam had his troubles, but he miss
ed the dressmaking and millinery bills.
A woman's face may be her fortune,
but men usually get by on their nerve.
A woman dressed as a nun at a
masquerade ball naturally makes a
good appearance
It takes an adept to read human
nature. Mighty few men are as good
or as bad az they pretend to be.
Sometimes a goody-good man gets
on your nerves harder than one whose
virtues can't be seen with a magnify
ing glass
You should be able to save some
thing for a rainy day by investing in
u macintosh, an umbrella and a pair
of rubberS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
Journal Entries

As soon as the average woman gets
new gown, she wants a newer one
= + =
Lots of men who sigh for easy jobs
wouldn't be contented if they should
get them.
= i. j.
The world would make much better
progress if more individuals found
fault with themselves.
j. =
Most folk have the habit of talking
longest and loudest about the things
with which they are the least familiar.
+ J. j.
It's generally the men with the
highest regulations for honesty who
bite quickest at a chance to buy
gold brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Aesthetic dancing for college proIes-
sors is advocated by the physieaI IN
structor at the State Normal coHese
at Emporia- He may be r1ght III MS
assertion that the average coHese pro-
fessor is as ungainly and clumsy IN ms
walk as a goose on land. But lsn II
a bit unreasonable to demand tnat tne
same man have both clever oralns anu
clever feet. Surely no one would eX-
pect the male tango expert to denver
the goods as a lecturer in a college
class room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
From Other Pens

SEX STORIES VS.. DIME NOVELS.
The appreciative word said for the
dime novel by Kansas professor at
the National Council of English
Teachers will perhaps shock an oldel
generation of readers. Can any good
ais possibly come out of the Nick
Carter and Old Cap Collier brand of
fiction? Yet according to this critic
yellow-back novels did less harm to
the youthful mind than the magazine
sex stories These sex Stories" he
says, which are found on the read
ing-table of nearly every family, fai!
to develop the heroic in children"
They make mollycoddles of boys,
while sit is the story of Jesse JameS
and Nick Carter that leads them tc
read Ivanhoe, the Indian and sea
stories of Cooper and the novels OF
Stevenson" This is not what old
time parents. let alone public edu
Gators. once thought of the ''litera-
ture' that was surreptitiously de-
voured by boys. But the character
of popular fiction has changed to j
degree which makes the yeIlow-cov-
cred tales of adventure appear whole
some by contrast. Bad as the dime
were not as corrupting the modern
sex story. They contained plenty of
VillalnY, but virtue was still virtue in
their pages and they were free from
sex consciousness and the insidious
influence of morbid emotionalism.
The virdication of the dime novel
comes late in the day and is only =
halfway vindication at that, it is
merely a less noXious form of juve-
nile literature than that which has
succeeded it. But ii is something to
know that it was a literature thai
made men of its boyish devotees ano
not fops.-New York World.
Whoever said that no man is a hero
his Yalet. forgot TINT rrnnd mnnr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
WE MUST GET MONEYS WORTH

AS the first session of the Sixty
fourth congress draws closer. the de-
mand is becoming more insistent all
the time in all sections of the coun-
try that our national lawmakers take
steps to see to it that from now on.
a full dollars worth is obtained in
return for every dollar that may be
expended on the nations army and
navy programs, 70 matter how large
or how small they may be- There is
plenty of evidence that this hasn't
'been the case in the past. Facts and
Figures are being dug up which show
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Joyously Reddy ran toward them.
certain of his welcome But what do
you suppose those boys did? They
ran at Reddy with sticks and stones
and one boy even tossed his books
right at the frightened little squirrel
Poor Reddy didn't know what to
make of such actions. But he didn't
stop TO figure things OUT He just
scurried up the nearest tree and
stayed there till all those boys were
gone Then he came down and made
for the park as fast as his little feet
would carry him. And YOU may be
sure ne d1d no more exploring that
day--he was glad to stay at home,-
(Copyright-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Bishop Kinsolving should have with
held his observation to the effect that
President Wilson today rules the world
until it is seen what luck the president
has in bending congress to his greater
army and navy plans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Excessively loud stockings must be
the order of the day in New York
city The lady sheriff of Santa Cruz
county. Arizona, who has just returned
from a visit there doesn't like the
town at all because of the too many
short skirts on the women and the too
much noise in the streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

- It is a noticeable fact that most of
the peace talk in Europe just now
concerns the attitude of the Teutonic
allies. The only word that comes
from England. France, Russia or Italy
is that the Entente Allies are more
determined than ever to carry on the
war until they win a decisive victory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

~ Fire insurance rates on munitions
of war factories in this country should
soon reach almost prohibitive proper
tons. if they haven't already. Another
of these plants, this time in Wiscon-
sin, went up in smoke on Wednesday,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Pupils at the University of Kansas
school of journalism, who are to wear
a distinctive uniform, consisting of
corduroy trousers and flannel shirts,
so that all people may readily know
they are journalists, should also fasten
bells to their. necks in order that they
may be the more easily found when
they are lost. strayed or stolen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
SPRING.

When a fellow takes his best girl
motoring, observes the Louisville
sdCourier-Journal, ana tells her she's
= the dearest thing in the world, she
is TO be congratulated upon having SO
inspired him that he has forgotten the
2O-cent gasoline he's burning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Every man to his tastes OF course
And the one big advantage OF eatins
peanuts, which has been James " M
comb Riley's favorite pasuile Aoi
wears, would seem to be that II can
be INDUCED in either as an INDOOR OF
o.,tdOOr snort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

.1 Isn't Italy just trifle late in. reach
ing a decision to send aid to the Ser
bian armies? They've practically been
driven entirely out of their country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
~ clara h&.amJodson

ly seemed a long way to him. when
the time came for school to be dis
missed. And all of a sudden. the
streets were full of children. for Red
dy had happened on the very street
where the big schooI-house stood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Chicago also has the distinction of
having the highest burglary insurance
rates of any city in the country, which
! means, of course, that the festive bur
! glar plies his trade with great free
? dom in the windy town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

only five Wisconsin deer hunters
were killed during the season just
closed-only five. Still this IS nlg
Improvement over the record OF 1919
when there were twenty-four deaths
of this sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Germany is probably pretty well
! satisfied that history will repeat itself
in respect to the tremendous drive"
that the Allies are planning to launch
in the western arena of the war in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Congressman Richmond p. Hobson
lis just as modest as ever, if not more
so. He thinks that the United States
--should have navy larger even than
Great Britain's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

The HickeyviIIe Clarion.

The ladies' aid gave a minstrel
show at TibbittS' opry house last
week and borrowed old Cap Whip
pies cork leg to black up with. They
burned about four inches off'n it and
old Cap is walking some lopsided at
present. He has been pinched three
times for intoxication, but the ladies'
aid has come to the rescue and ex-
planned the matter each time.
Mr.. Jed Frink has invented a horse
collar that the horse puts on and
takes off himself without the aid of
human hands. There is a place to
hook a necktie on in front, and Jed
thinks they ought to go like hot
cakes.
Perhaps some day, some hero will
invent a turn-down collar that a fell
Ter kin put on without breaking seven
or eight of the commandments.
There is never a shortage in the
crop of wild oats.
William TibbittS says, although
there are a good many general en-
gagements in Europe, he don't read
of no generals getting hurt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
Is THE FARMER RELIGIOUS?

Does the fact that two-thirds of
rural churches have ceased to grow
and that SO per cent have a member
ship of less than 100, indicate that
farmers are not religious? Most stu
dents believe rather that the ordinary
rural church has failed to fill an ex-
listing need for community leadership.
1t has been too insistent on sectarian
distinction. 1t has been able to pay
for only the partial time of minister,
and has made it physically impossible
for him to do anything but preach
weekly or occasional sermons. The
result has been the development of
multitude of small, weak churches,
whose aggregate membership in most
country communities is less than 40
per cent of the population Now
comes along a big nationwide inter-
movement promoted by
the commission on church and coun-
try life a branch of the federal coun-
Gil of churches, to help the country
church save itself In every state this
commission will plan campaign for
the cooperation of churches within a
townsite or other natural community
Three of four neighboring churches
must work together under the super
vision of a committee of delegates
from each church Possibly in the
end they will merge. This is an IN
terestiing proposal for the solution of
the rural church problem 1t will be
worth watching when the commission
of church and country life hold its ma
tional convention in Columbus, Ohio,
Dec. 8, and 10, with President VIII
son and Clifford Pinchot on its pro-
gram for addresses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

that enormous profits have been
made by private concerns, such as
steel plants, powder plants, shipbuild-
ing yards, ct cetera, out of the moneys
that the government has expended
for military purposes. These profits
have averaged about 20 per cent and
in some instances have run as high as
60 per cent. This helps to explain
why the United States hasn't more of
an army, or a better equipped enc,
and more Of navy in proportion to
the immense sums that have been ap
propriated for them by congress dur
ing the past decade. And, without
doubt, these private Industries which
have so profited in the past on cur
military expenditures are licking
their chops over the much larger APP
preparations for the future that would
be necessitated were the prepared
ness for defense plans that are being
urged by the administration adopted.
Through divers agencies, they are
probably among the loudest and most
enthusiastic supporters of these same
plans and the backbone of whatever
militarist movement there is IN this
country. But the time would seem to
have come when congress should put
a stop to such an unwarranted dissi-
patton of the public funds that may
be devoted to the purposes of the
army and the navy. If the manu-
facture of all war munitions from
powder and bullets to big guns and
battleships exclusively by the gov
eminent is the only way out, that is
the way which should be taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
On the Spur
Of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Those Hats.
When father bought his new fall hat,
1t sure took mothers gimp;
She sized it up and told him that
He looked perfect simp.
1t was a round affair. high crowned.
A gay drab band ran all around;
1t made kid of him.
She said: Il hadn't heard that you'd
Gone into vaudeville.
1oT look like a ribbon-counter dude.
Said pa. Il am no mossback zap,
Aud you can bet your pile
1 wear this fireworks thing, mayhap,
Because it is the style"
When mother got her new fall hat,
1t was a scream, Il screech,
And father up and told her that
u She LOCKED bnrlesque peach;
That he had ever seen.
1t had pink and yellow wing
said he tr nine mi fhae wn must grf be-
Insane, there's not a doubt,
Go to the window instantly
And throw the blamed thing out"
You brute" ma screamed, iii tell you
You're my most aching trial,
I've simply got to wear this hat
Because it is the style"
Hints to Hunters.
Deer do not wear red hunting
Rabbits have no horns and do not
wear COW bells.
The words mo Trespassing' some
times means just what they imply.
If the gun is used as a walking
stick, it should be trailed' muzzle
down.
The habit of carrying the gun cock
ed sometimes leads to accidents
If there is any doubt as to the iden-
tity of a moving object. the hunter
should not shoot before he looks
Cows, sheep, pigs and poultry are
not put on the open season list.
the cartridges fit than some field far
out in the country.
A hunting knife may be needed in
fighting with the wounded rabbit.
When shooting into a flock of wild
ducks, the hunter should be careful
to have his shots scatter so to hit
none but those indicated in the open
season list.
In shooting birds on the wing, the
law is not specific as to which wing
is intended. All holes in the ground
are not grounding burrows. Some
may be coal mines.
When Russia Goes to War.
With twenty-five ks" and dozen of rs"
A Russian name sounds like n good hearty
SneeZe.
The way to pronounce one is to take some
Then sneeze until evening. and that is
enough.
A list of those who have in grim battle
died
Reads like a whole column of type that
is pied.
And war is exactly what Sherman once
When Russia is in it, and that's on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Whoever said that no man is a hero
to his valet. forgot that a good many
men their own vnlets.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Official state Paper.
Official Paper City OF topeka.