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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01

but until I get started it is close sail
ing. I am almost afraid my capital
won't hold out And at this another
car wheeled into the driveway to in
terrupt the conversation.
Lei s put a sign up at the road say
ing that this is not an inn,'' suggested
Jane, but Bert shook his head.
Jane, I've just had an inspiration, -
he said very solemnly. You say that
you want to make money. Why, this
to make more money than we've been
making in Wall street for a week, or
than you can net from your farm for
many day The inn down the road
is no good, 1 am told, and the owner
doesn't care whether he has any pat
rons or not. There are dozens OF
motorist along here every day who
would stop for dinner or luncheon If
they knew you had good things to eat.
This road catches an unusually high
class traffic. Think about it, and in
the meantime don't write to the road
book people to change the directions"
Next morning Jane reported unfa-
vorably on the proposal.
ITS too much of an undertaking for
a woman alone. If 1 had a man to go
in with me-" She blushed in spite
of herself as she realized the full sig
nificance of these words.
Jane" he said, I've been waiting
for this chance for more than a year.
I'm tired of being a broker. I've E.
little capital, as you know. Let's go
into partnership. I'll buy out your
place here and you go on raising hol-
lyhocks and wearing becoming pink
gowns and I'll bloom forth as a coun-
try hotel-keeper. How does it strike
you, little grip
II think you would make an ideal
boniface," she laughed bewitchingly.-
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
AGAINST THE FUTURE.

How many manufacturers are TAX
ing advantage of the present abnor-
NAL situation in foreign markets to
establish a firm foctho1d which will
ena BILE them 20 meet the keen COM
petition bound to come sooner or lat
err" asks the Philadelphia CONNER
cial Museum, and it cont nues: In an
interesting article on the effect of the
war on American trade abroad, pub
liShed in a recent issue of Printers
Ink Mr.. Walter F. Wyman refers to
the groundwork which is being laid
by the wiser manufacturing exporters
in order to place their brands in a po-
sition which can be held against the
return of European competition" We
sincerely wish that we might see more
evidence of the laying of such ground
work. Too many manufacturers are
evidently availing themselves of the
present unusual circumstances with
an eye solely to immediate results and
not a few are admittedly willing to lie
down again and let, their European
competitors walk over them as soon
as the latter renew their efforts and
attempt to regain the trade they have
temporarily lost. England's hold on
many markets is due in very large
degree to the fact that she was first
in the field and established a demand
for her wares=a demand which in
many instances has continued despite
lower prices and even better goods
offered by her competitors. Why is it
not possible for American manufac-
turers to establish a similar demand?
Why not make American standards
the worlds standards? Why not
establish Anerican-made wares so
firmly in the estimation of the foreign
buying public that we shall hear less
of the cry give them what they want
not what you have to SELF? 1t can be
done by persistent effort, square deal
ing, patience, a little liberality and the
exercise of good judgment. No
amount of propaganda of the Made
in America kind will accomplish it,
but a systematic and sustained cam
paign, designed to demonstrate the
advantage and value of the particular
articles made by each manufacturer
will accomplish much. Let every
manufacturer make his name, brand
and line of goods well and favorably
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
Euening Chat
The Essentials.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

TT is admirable to give child q
sponge bath at night. Especially IN
summer this tends to refresh him and
make him sleep better"
The little mother who is so anxious
to do things just right read that aloud
from magazine.
Her voice was anxious. 81 don't
see how L can get time to do that she
said. It's about all I can do to get
the children to bed before dinner-time
now. You see, l have to wash their
hands and faces thoroughly, clean
their teeth, spray their Threats, wash
tie weak, and rub the baby's back
with olive oil. If I give the baby a
sponge bath every night I know I'd
be late to dinner and that would make
Robert cross. He says I fuss over
them too much now"
Poor little mother
And in a lesser degree, poor Rob
ert, too.
The education, of mothers through
magazine articles in the essentials of
proper child care is surely a splendid
thing, one of the finest things the
printed world has ever done. But
done and overdone are two different
things and there are times when /
think the first has passed into the
second.
To give one child all the details OF
care recommended in our various
magazines would take most of one wo-
mans time. Obviously for one woman
to give that care to two or three chill
dren and do even the supervising OF
the housework Eve take one servant
for granted, as anything of the sort
would be entirely impossible without)
would be a nerve-racklng, heart
breaking, 1ife-Spoiling task that would
leave her no opportunity to be wife
and woman as we'll as mother.
Perhaps you read in the newspapers
not long ago of the suicide of a
young mother. Her husband said that
he believed her over-anXiety to do
the right thing by her baby drove
her to the step .'She was so afraid
that she wouldn't do everything ex-
actly right that she became obsessed,' -
he said. She would go all to pieces
if she found hair on the baby's bot
tie after boiling
This case was extreme, but know
more than one woman who is headed
in that direction They lose their
much about it all they strain at
things that should be simple and nat
uraI.
Do you remember the days, read
er friends, when children in house
hold were supposed to conform to
the routine of grown-ups instead of
having a separate routine deliberately
created and painfully maintained for
them?
That wasn't entirely right. of
course; but isn't the new regime as
much on the other side of the line ?
Wouldn't mothers and children and
homes all be better off and happier
if mothers wouldn't worry quite so
much over being mothers?
To pick out the essentials in this
cult of child care and reject the de-
tails that are good enough in their
way but that only a specialist has
time for-this is the task of the mod
ern mother.
One quality and only one will make
her equal to it, that misnamed virtue
common sense.
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Jayh Jots

The Blue Mound Sun advises that
it is better to stick up for others than
to be stuck on yourself.
The Pratt Union quotes the little
son of a prominent preacher, who
does not live in Pratt" as saying:
81 shouldn't think they'd have to pay
my papa much for he does nothing
but talk and he just loves to do that"
Observations by the Kearney County
Advocate: Some men are always
grunting-and so is hog. The dog
that ways his tail sees the bright side
make the man, but the pocketbook
greases his way through life. Every
automobile not having self-starter
has to be wound by a crank, and some
are wound by two cranks. Some men
have brains, some have energy, some
have both and some have neither. And
when they each the latter stage they
become chronic office seekers
Observations by Keith Clevenger, in
his Osawatomie Graphic: The man
whose life hangs by hair should not
be too quick on the trigger. 80. :.
Your credit is figured by your deed of
yesterday and not by your plans for
tomorrow. The man who would sell
his honor is attempting to deal in a
commodity which he has not. +.
Aviation is not such a blamed new
sport, after all. Old Man Time has
been awaiting for about a thousand
centuries. While murder and
other crimes in violation of the law
are most heinous, the greatest
wrongs are those done in the name
of the law. 49,. The chigger
might be appropriately described as
the Kansas submarine, for it strikes
without warning and nobody knows
where it comes from or goes to.
Prospects of bloodshed between
Usage and Lyon counties over which
can raise or has raised the larger to-
matoes seem exceedingly bright. Says
the usually calm and peaceful Lyndon
Peoples Herald: With more or less
pride the Emporia Gazette of one day
last week printed an account of a 10
cal gardener who carried down town
five tomatoes which weighed in the
aggregate three and one-half pounds.
We admit those were some tomatoes;
some tomatoes for Lyon county
howsoever, that is to wit: c. A Dear
dorff, county superintendent of schools
of Usage county, raised in his home
garden, plucked and brought down
weight of which was Al ounces. The
exercise of little arithmetic will show
the vegetables only one ounce short of
three pounds. The circumference of
one was 8 inches and the other Is
inches. The man who sets out these
facts in cold print is a preacher and
inclined to be somewhat pugnacious.
Any time Lyon county really has
something to report we would be glad
to hear from there.
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QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
[F'rom the Philadelphia Record

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
Baseball players can settle old
scores without changing their average.
No man is apt to judge by appear
ances, if they happen to be against
him.
No, Maude, dear; there is absolute
ly no similarity between a tea set and
a settee.
Size doesn't count for everything
Even the centipede is more than a
six-footer.
You can't very we'll blame the man
who profits by his mistakes if he
keeps on making them.
A Socialist is a person who never
sees a man rolling in wealth without
hoping he'll roll out of it.
A woman's mind is generally on
her dress, which may explain why she
changes her mind so often.
The Cynical Bachelor wants to
know if married people get quarrel
some, or if only quarrelsome people
get married.
Blobbs-'I always try to keep my
trouble to myself Slobbs-"So do
I, unless I meet a fellow who is look
ing for it,
You never can tell. The girl who
becomes young mans slave may de-
velop into an old mans darling if she
sticks to the job long enough.
Tommy-"Pop, was it st. Patrick
who chased the snakes out of Ire
land ?" Tommys Pop-"So we are
told, my son." Tommy-''Then why
wasn't he on the job in the Garden
of Eden2'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.

[From the Chicago News1
It's sometimes easier to bear it
than it is to grin.
There is a saving clause in every
miser's creed.
Don't worry-unless you can draw
a salary for so doing.
Occasionally it is cheaper to move
than to try to live 1t down.
Most fire escapes are patterned after
the straight and narrow way.
A woman doesn't necessarily fib
about her age; she may refuse to tell
it.
The beauty doctors handsome in
come is derived from customers who
are not.
There's nothing more tiresome than
a gossip who is unable to start any
thing.
Among other things that it isn't
safe to fool with are toy pistols and
platonic love.
If it is a woman and the shoe fits,
she takes it back and exchanges it
for a size smaller.
Along the road that leads to failure
we see a lot of pikers sitting on the
fence waiting for something to turn
up.
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known, and let the buyers discover Tor
themselves that they are MADE in
America 1t is a mighty wise prophet
who can foreten the eventual result
of the war on the industries of Eu-
rope, but there are few who believe
that any of the European manufac-
turing nations, with the possible ex-
ception of England, will be in a posi-
ton to carry on their foreign trade on
the same scale or with the same lib
eral cerdit terms. England's loss or
oversee trade has been remarkably
small when all the circumstances are
taken into consideration. There is no
question that the commercial aspect
of the present war is receiving quite
as much attention as any other phase
of the conflict, and that the manufac-
turers of England expect to reap a
rich harvest if the Allies are success
full. If manufacturers are to secure
even a fraction of the trade, which it
was optimistically predicted at the
outbreak of the war would fall into
their laps, they must make greater
efforts than they have made up to the
present. 1t has been said of some
markets that a line of goods well
established in favor cannot Re pried
out-they must be blasted out. We
have had the blasting done by our
chief commercial competitors and it
is up to as to fill the hole made by the
explosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
BILLY ROBIN VISITS WITH BLUEY

After Billy Robin and Tommy Spar
row had found Bluey Blackbird and
had eaten a fine little meal from the
piece of bread he shared with them,
they decided to stay in the park and
play awhile. might as well stay and
have a nice time while he is SO pleas
ant to u.s." chirped Tommy in a quick
aside to Billy. And, with a nod of
his head, Billy agreed.
Now that suited Bluey exactly.
Nothing he liked better than enter
tanning friends when he could do the
talking ana the showing off He took
Billy over to the little island where he
had a nest; he showed Tommy the
corner nook in between two trees
where one could always be sure of
finding picnic scraps; and he explain
ed to them both about watching for
discarded bait.
Then he puffed out his chest, tossed
his head and remarked with an air
of casualness, you should take my
advice and get a good place to livel
Only stupid. stay-at-home creatures
live in that poky gardenH
Billy looked at Tommy and Tommy
looked back as much as to say, ''Oh,
DEAR we forgot ne was such a brag-
garti What pity. And he can be
such a nice bird tool" But he was
too polite to say anything out loud, OF
course. Billy hoped onto the nearby
before he made any answer. Then he
said, well. Bluey, you are right, this
is a fine place to live" (And of course
that made Bluey swell up and fluff
out his feathers more than everi) But
somehow or other, the garden suits
me very well. have many nice friends
there and I feel so at home-seems
to me that I would never like another
place so weH,"
Bluey turned up his bill and was
just about to make a saucy reply when
Billy Robin spied something moving
down in the shallow water near the
shore. Look at that" he called
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1Ckasa hrGrarAJodson

Bluey Immediately forgot the quar-
rel he was getting ready to make with
Billy and looked into the water. "Oh
thosep he said with his bill in the
air. those are minnowsi 1 supposed
everybody knew that"
MinnowsH exclaimed Billy. They
look more like fish to mel"
''Sillyi" cried Bluev. "tFev are fish
baby fish How little you do know.
Billy Robini''
Billy chuckled a tiny chuckle off in
a corner of his mind How easy it was
10 make Bluey good-natured if only
one cared tot Then 1 wish / was d
niDnow," he said, they have no trou-
bles-that's plain to see.'' And with
a nod of his pretty head he started off
home Copyright. Clara Ingram judi
son.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
LABOR SHORTAGE IN SIGHT.

Government statistics show that for
the year ending July 1, 1915, the num-
Der of immigrants arriving in this
country was the smallest since 1899,
says the Iron Trade Review. The net
Increase in the foreign population was
less than $4,000. 1t is probable that
the departures since Italy entered the
war will greatly decrease the net gain
in foreign population, if indeed they
do not entirely wipe it out; for it is
certain that Italians in large numbers
have been leaving this country during
the past few weeks. 1t would not be
at all surprising if the six months end
ing January 1, 1915, showed a decided
loss in foreign population in this -coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

A good deal is understood" that
isn't true.
Comparatively few votes would be
bought if they were not for sale.
You are aging a little when you
begin to appreciate a good nights
sleep.
Doubling the average mans salary
is only a temporary help to his cred
itors
Then there are women who are pa
tient because they are afraid of their
men folks
If you aren't afraid to say what
you think, it's a sign you don't think
great deal
Experience teaches that the solemn
promise is as easily broken as the
other brands.
It may have occurred to you that
an artists model might interfere with
his work a great deal.
A woman thinks she could support
= family by keeping a COW, if some
one would support the COW.
Some men are always threatening
to run someone out of town, but are
afraid Of their own shadows.
Ab Adkins says his father was so
poor that he Cab never inherited
anything but his political faith.
Speaking of all wool goods. as the
clothing clerk will from time to time,
did you ever sample a cold mutton
stew?
A cigar that has gone out isn't
much CT a smoke thereafter, and the
rekindled love affair is also some
thing of a hivver.
When mere man is sweating under
his collar and elsewhere, he is apt to
regard the thermometer as q con-
sentative institution
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Kansas Comment

STARVATION IN MEXICO CITY.
Red Cross reports state that TWEEN
ty-five persons die daily of starvation
in Mexico City Meanwhile the
Mexican factions quarrel over prece-
dence, obstruct all plans for the re-
storation of order and prolong the an
archy that prevails over the greater
part of the republic, paralyzing it's in
dustries and reducing the population
to the dsrest want. Mexico City is per-
hapS only an example of the condi-
tionS elsewhere. No one can tell how
many scores of people, perhaps hun
dreds are starving in Mexico daily out
side of the capital. The United
States has done it's utmost outside of
actual independent intervention, to re-
duce the conditions in Mexico to a state
of order. 1t has Joined with certain
Datin-American governments to APP
peal to the belligerents to compro-
mise their differences in the inter-
estS of the people of the country.
From one of the two chief factors has
come an indication of agreement, and
from the other, perhaps the major
faction, at present in control at Mex
leo City, has come a refusal to partici-
pate in any peace conference. Re-
SponSibility for the preva lence of the
atrocious conditions in the capital is
thus placed squarely against that fac
ton. How long the pstn-American
countries now Joined in an effort to
bring about peace in Mexico can wait,
with regard for the requirements of
humanity, may not be stated with ex-
actness. Daily, however, twenty-five
are dying in Mexico City, and, per-
haps, hundreds are perishing else
where, for lack of food. This is an
intolerable condition. 1t is a disgrace
to the civilization of the western
hemisphere.-Wash Star.
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try. This means that if iron, steel
and other industries continue to oper-
ate at the present rate or to the full
employing capacity, there will be a
serious labor shortage in this country
1t will be well for manufacturers to
look this prospect squarely in the face
and discourage emigration to native
lands by increasing wages as rapidly
as business will Justify and by max
ing certain kinds of labor more at
tractive. Other things being equal,
the companies which make it possible
for employees to take shower baths
and change their clothes before start
ing for their homes will attract and
hold better class of labor than will
concerns from whose plants workmen
must go with soiled clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-01
THE COMMON WAsHRAG-UGH,


The United States public health ser
vice and the various state and local
boards of health have taken adequate
measures for the abolition of that dis
tributer of disease germs, the common
towel. Now comes the news that the
common washrag is even a greater
menace to health. The hotels and
public hostelries have recognized this
for some time, and have supplied their
guests with sterilized wash cloths in
Individual sealed packets. The damp
sour smelling washrag still exists.
however, in many private bath rooms.
Imperfectly washed out after use
frequently not wrung out at all, it is
often hung over a rack or a radiator
near an open window, there to collect
dust and dirt Frequently the same
washrag is used by the entire family,
thus affording an easy means of trans
ference of mouth secretions from per-
son to person. In many households
each individual has his own wash
cloth and his individual towel, but
these hang so close to one another
that there is ready Interchange of BAG
terra. Each individual should have
his own wash cloth. 1t should be
thoroughly washed out with clean hot
water after use. 1t should be then
wrung as nearly dry as possible, and
if possible hung in the sun to dry. It
should not come IN contact with other
wash cloths. In the Investigations
the U. S. Public Health Service is con-
Quoting in regard to the prevalence of
trachoma it has beer found that COM
mon towels probably acted as a me
dunn of distribution of the germ of
diSea
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Journal Entire S

The ideal lover is usually worthless
at anything else.
= Z.
New neighbors seem g BILE tc find out
all about each other before they get
acquainted.
= !. !.
Many a woman considers it great
luck to be out when some of her par
ticularly dear friends" call.
= 1. =
Children don't have any more fun
pretending than their elders do, nor
do they indulge in it so much.
j. j. j.
There can be no good objection to
a man taking his time" if it does not
also involve taking the time of others.
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WHAT OF THE AUsrRIANs?

In the news from Berlin of the
operations in the eastern arena of the
war, so little is said of activities on
the part of the Austrians that it would
seem reasonable to suggest that the
Germans hold them in the light of
nothing more than bat boys and water
carriers. But when the real history
of the famous Teutonic drive against
the Russians is written it will likely
show that the Austrians played a no
inconsiderable part and played it well.
The Austrians are pretty good soldiers,
even if they do run to fancy uniforms.
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A6EMBER3
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Evidently the tremendous armies
which Austria has in the eastern
arena of the war are without the
services of generals and field marshals
and other high officers. At any rate
You never see any mention of the
names of such in any of the news dis
patches about the military operations
in that war zone
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Presumably Labor Day would have
come along in its usual course and
been celebrated as it generally is even
if Governor Capper had not Issued an
official proclamation in the premises
But tie clever politician seldom over
looks an opportunity to toss bouquets
in the direction of those who vote once
in a while, and the holiday proclama-
ton is one of the neatest of agents to
utilize for this purpose.