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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09

about every woman being a freak who
doesn't do everything just as her
grandmother did. She says she'd love
to have husband with mind big
enough to let go of some of his preju-
dices, but she'd rather live and die
alone than to have one with a mind so.
little he is afraid to change it for fear
he'll lose it,"
We'll, don't know but she's partly
right, after ALL unused Grover.
And there she is, right this min
ute! exclaimed Lydia. ''She must be
bidding on that big mimeograph job
IN our advertising department. Goody,
She'S coming over to speak to me-"
John Grover grew red and Beatrice
Morris grew pale when they were in
troduced by Lydia, who didn't know
until afterward that they had parted
ten years ago much as she and Clar-
ence had parted only the night before.
She had her first inkling of it when
John Grover broke the embarrassed
silence which followed the first formal
greetings.
Beatrice" he began, haltingly,
I've changed my mind this morning
about several things, but I didn't lose
1t, and 1 won't you'll let me build
a nome for you now instead of build
ing one yourself two years later" OF
course, he had not meant to say that,
but after it was said it had to be an
swered. and Beatrice gave an answer
that was as satisfactory to him as it
was surprising to her. Grover turned
abruptly to the astonished Lydia.
Ring up that young rascal of
Clarence" he commanded, land ask
him to make one of a luncheon party
of four at Sherry'S at ~ o'clock to-
day.
phone conversation was this And
we're going to put all kinds of sense
in el"-(Copyright, 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
En- ening Chat
So Easy to Criticize.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

If it were as easy to construct as it
is to criticize, Rome would have been
built in half a day.
If it were as easy to do. something
worthwhile as it is to poke fun at
something worth while, we shouldn't
have to wait long for the millennium.
The girl who thinks it is clever to
criticize was turning over the pages of
a magazine, mot a story here that
isn't commonplace" she snapped.
An article on the girl in the office
came in for her disdain next, Never
read anything so silly in my life. Such
overstatementsi No girl would dream
of leaving fifteen minutes early every
night, they certainly don't in our Of
fice'' Gas if that settled it for the rest
of the world).
The column for young girls in need
of advice she fairly shifted at.
Imagine anyone actually writing in
and telling such intimate things as
these girls do 1 don't doubt they
make up the letters in the office" (she
should see my maiD.
In the housekeeping department
she ridiculed the color scheme sug-
gested for the living room with all the
cynical superiority of a girl who once
studied art for one year.
On the fashion page she picked out
one rather unattractive hat and held
up the whole page TO ridicule on the
strength of that
After she had laid the magazine
down picked it up, and oh, there was
so much good in it,
Mind you, 1 don't mean there was
nothing to criticize. Far from it. But
there certainly wasn't everything to
laugh at and criticize and nothing to
praise and appreciate l am not fool
ish enough to say that you shouldn't
criticize a thing unless you yourself
are capable of doing better. As the
criticized critic says, zone does not
have to be able to lay an egg in order
to be capable of detecting a bad One.'
nevertheless, 1 think haphazard scorn-
full criticism often arouses feeling of
antagonism in the listener, which
makes him want to say, "Of course
you are much wiser and better than
these you criticize.
Girls of a certain age sometimes get
into the habit of saying sharp critical
things about everything and every
body that they come into contact with
1t is so easy, it gives one such a feel
ing of superiority, and it is such re-
lief to any feeling of temper and an
noyance anyone may have They do
not realize how sophormoric if not
positively i'll natured it all sounds until
they meet some one else with the
same habit, and perhaps even then
they criticize instead of recognizing
the fault.
1 said girls of certain age but
that. We are all liable to it, any of
US may drift into it If we do not watch
and listen to ourselves.
Be ready to catch yourself when
you find criticisms coming too readily
to your tongue, and having caught
yourself, put that unruly member on
parole and put the probation officer
of your self restraint in charge of him
to see that he does not repeat the Of
Tense
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
QUAKER fluctuations.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record
Many a joke is il1-timed, and many
fellows watch is a joke.
No, MGude, dear; a sinking fund is
not necessarily an appropriation for
battleships.
Tell a girl she is the light of your
life and she may feel quite put out
about it.
War upsets all calculations Even
the rear admiral may be ordered to
the front.
A woman's tongue may run in sum-
mer, but in cold weather even her
teeth will chatter.
It's the little things that count A
slight misunderstanding may make a
big difference.
A manicure girl can ask for a fell
lows hand without any danger of be-
ing sued for breach of promise.
Customer-''Have you any porpoise
shoe laces?" New Clerk-''Aw, quit
your kidding. Porpoises don't wear
shoes"
married fellow to make 4 new man
succeeded, somehow or other she
doesn't seem to care for the new
man"
Muggns-"Here's a remarkable
poem in this magazine called Youth
Has Passed Me By" Buggins-
What is so remarkable about it?"
Muggins-"In spite of its title, it is
signed by a woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.]

[From the Chicago News.]
Cupid never worries about results.
The average man is always paid ay-
erage wages.
Let out as much truth in as few
words as possible.
Marriage rings and prize rings often
lead to the stage.
In trying to get her rights many
woman goes at it in the wrong way.
The milk of human kindness is US
ually distributed in rather small cans.
Whiskey has caused many a man
to go to work-in order to get the
price.
The first thing young man learns
at college is how little his parents
know
A man nearly always gets married
while his brains are taking a vaca-
tion-if he has any.
A wise girl never turns down one
offer of marriage until she gets
strangle hold on a better one.
When we hear a man boasting of
his ancestors we always wonder if the
ancestors aforesaid would speak to
him if they could
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09

later on. Another reason for savin &
now is that it is the best thing nom
combatant can do to help the world
from the fate that is being brought
upon it by the war. Accumulated saw
ings are the basis of civilization. Out
of accumulated savings hospitals are
founded. railroads are built. and new
discoveries in science are made pos
sible. The accumulated savings Of the
world, in so far they exist in Europe,
are being destroyed as fast as possible.
By this destruction the world will be
set back inevitably. Any American,
living outside the zone of general de-
who saves money now will
help by SO much to counterfeit this
of civilization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
Jayh Jots
Silly Sam, the Vicker's correspon
dent of the Selden Observer sings:
Harvest time is here at last,
r,I,- 11,cfav+ Of the

Silly Sam, the Vicker's correspon-
dent of the Selden Observer sings;
Harvest time is here at last,
The busiest of the year;
Gollyi How we work and sweat,
When the headers song we hear.
Several sale bills are out, reports the
Ellsworth Messenger, and it adds; Tor
why, we don't know, as people here
raise a whole lot more than they can
eat.
A similarity between the cimeX
lectularius and the chigger is pointed
out by the Plainville Times in the OBJ
servation: Chiggers have no wings at
all but they get there just the same.
One of our town girls, reports the
Culver Record, recently sent twenty
five cents for a recipe to promote and
preserve. She received the following
advice: Mind your mother and stay
at home nights"
You'd think it would be like hunting
for needle in haystack But the
Kensington Mirror reports that one OF
the Fords that were stolen at Norton
on July 5, has been found and at
Parker, South Dakota.
Don't swat the fly-its not humane,
pleads the La Harpe Enterprise. Just
battle it daily in some good antiseptic,
or provide it with overshoes and teach
it to leave them on the porch before
joining you in the dining room.
1t is safe to assume that Marshal
Jones of La Harpe is equipped with
luxuriant growth of lengthy white
reports: Marshal Jones looked YER
table Father Time" this week as,
with a scythe, he made war on the
neglected weeds.
Some tangible evidence that the rain
falls on the just as well as the unjust.
The Jennings Echo reports: "A num-
Der of those who attended church Sun
day evening were caught in the rain
that came up very suddenly And 1t
is safe to assume that most of the I'M
just in Jennings were enSconced in
their homes about this time. So, as
matter of fact, it would seem reason
able to argue that rain, under some
circumstances, raps the just worse
than it does the unjust.
We have heard that there were a
few pretty large fish in the Solomon
river. but we had no idea that it was
necessary to use a whole horse for
bait to catch them, says the Ports In
dependent. That happened, however,
the first of the week but the fisher
man didn't land a catch for VIM. Her
ron found the bait, one of his horses,
with a fish hook in it's shoulder. VIM.
brought the horse over and had DR..
Lemon remove the hook. We got this
story from Bud Paxton.
How can a man say that a woman
has nothing to do? asks the Culver
Record, and it points out: In one year
she gets dinner 365 times, washes the
dishes 1895 times, gets the children
ready for school twice a day for $50
days, puts the baby to sleep 1,460
times, and makes 500 calls. AS she
wishes for something she hasn't every
minute, she wishes for sixty things an
hour or 525.6O0 things in year. Who
says that a woman has nothing to do?
Were there anything in a name, it
would be reasonable to urge that
there was a hot time at the picnic sup
per given this week at Manchester,
Dickinson county, at which Mrs. Alex
Mustard and Miss Mime Mustard were
the hosteSses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09

If writer wishes to write book on
government, he chooses to follow the
same line of criticism. Otherwise his
book would net little or no royalty.
Montesquieu's The Spirit of the
Laws Hamilton's "Federalist," and
Woodrow Wilson's ''The State" are
dust covered and shelf worn, but
Myers History of the United States
Supreme Court is being read and elo-
quently quoted in the press and on
the platform. Criticism may be de-
serving, and the proper kind of criti-
cism may lead to constructive states
manship. We must recognize the wave
of dissatisfaction about us, analyze
the cause if possible, and seek to Grad
icate the evils from our governmental
institutions, but without destroying
constitution that is the result of the
political thought of centuries, and
which has served our country so well
during a period of national growth
heretofore unknown to the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09

In spite of the fact that Old Man
Owl had called and frightened Tommy
TittIe-mouse away from the cellar
door, he could not give up the idea of
exploring and seeing for himself the
wonders it contained. ST should not
have tried to explore at night,
Tommy said positively. "Of course
should have known better. Old Man
Owl will get me yet If L am not more
careful" Cor Tommy knew as well
as anyone, that Old Man Owl was
laying for him and would never be
content till he had caught him) Il
must stop my night adventures and
explore in the afternoon when the
garden creatures are mapping. In the
evening 1 must stay tight in my nest"
So the very next afternoon, when
the sun shone fiercely and the
garden creatures We're lazily mapping,
Tommy Tittle-mouse slipped out from
his home and ran over to the cellar
door.
I'll declare" he said to himself
after he had looked at the door care
fully, eff all those garden folk had
cellar door, 1 would be inclined to
say that it was a most ordinary
cellar door, and that it doubtless led
to an ordinary cellar. Quite the same
kind of a cellar that Mrs. Tommy and
1 lived in-but of course it isn't like
that Let-me-see-I think l can
get in this way
Tommy was just crawling up by the
side of the door ready to slip into a
hole he had spied, when who should
hop 'k-plump by his side but-Mr.
Garden Toad
Hello there, Tommy, what are you
doing so slyly2'' he asked, right out
so loud that way.
Hush" whispered Tommy softly,
please, please, Mr.. Garden Toad,
don't talk so loud. I am trying to
explore this cellar while the garden
creatures are mapping. Don't wake
anybody up. 1 want to get down in
the cellar and back up again while
they are still asleep"
Now what in the world do you
want to go down there for. I'd like to
know - asked the toad CAUTIOUSLY
Because it is a wonderful place"
replied Tommy. haven't you heard
all the talking about it? Don't you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
SAVE MONEY NOW.

There are two good reasons why
everybody should exert himself to save
a little more money now than COM
monty, urges Golfers. and it con-
tinues: A purely selfish reason is
that saving now counts more than
saving during ordinary times. A dollar
saved now will yield larger returns
than a dollar saved two or three
years ago. and more probably than a
dollar saved two or three years in the
future. Money saved now can be in
vested with as much safety as is hui
manly achievable so as to bring in 5
per cent or more. A few years ago
savings invested in securities of SINH
lar strength would yield only 3 per
cent. When this war is over the
world is going to be very poor. Per-
sons who have any money at all are
going to be relatively rich. Those
who save now will possess the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
On the Spur
of the Moment
SurceaSe.
BY ROY x. AfOULTON.

SurceaSe.
We're tired of the bloody strife,
OF European prunes
Who care no jot for human life
And chant their warlike tunes.
We've had our fill of Kaiser Bill,
And George, Poincaire and Nick;
The Sultan and Franz Joseph, too
They really make US sick.
And Italy and Belgium,
And ServiaE and Greece,
We're weary of their very names.
For Mikes sake, give us peace.
OF crowns and titles we have heard
Enough to last for years.
We've had sufficient blood and crime
And suffering and tears.
The melodrama is too long,
And we find ourselves wishing
They'd lower the asbestos and
Let us folks go a-fishing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

1t must be awful to wear a tight
corset curing a long sermon.
Which is the worst, militarism,
chigres, CIR the piano next door?
While other people never talk about
anything except condolences.
Some lawyers are so smart they
can get paid for a case settled out
of court.
Tcni cats are so frequently criti-
cized it is strange more of them never
get killed
No man should chew tobacco while
conversing with the pastor of his
wife's church.
An Atchison married man admits
that he is well-behaved only because
he talks in his sleep.
If you have an enemy, it probably
is due to your fool talk rather than
TO any mean act you performed.
On the other hand, some investiga-
tons are made just to give the report
erS something to write about
A good story is, of course, a splendid
thing, but a reporter must have an
item now and then instead of a good
story.
Are there any fashioned people
left who thought they could prevent
mumps by rubbing their necks against
hog troughs2
When a man has to announce, with
his chest protruding, that he is rum
ming something, he probably is run
ming it into the ground.
Surgeons say the most difficult oper-
alton is taking the jaw out of a
woman In this respect all men are
willing to accept the word of the sur
geonS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
ATTACKS ON THE CONSTITUTION.

A few Athenians, writes Lem J.
Dare in the August Case and Com
ment. became tired of hearing Aris-
tides called THE Just" and united in
movement to ostracize him. Some of
our citizens evidently have become
tired of hearing the constitution
praised and reverenced by so many
millions of free people, and have de-
termined upon it's destruction. Rant
ing politicians and demagogues are
directing their energies in arousing
the passions and prejudices of the
masses, in stirring up class hatred, in
expounding sophistries of government.
1.-THE rich are growing richer and the
poor poorer" they say, land there
fore we should have the recall of
judge who supports that ignominious
document, the constitution of the
United States" This is about the kind
of a syllogism they employ. They
have no hesitation in changing the
laws of thought in their bold attempt
to destroy the Constitution. With
Them, any means will justify the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
. KNoCK AN a BOOST,

A KNOCK AN BOOST.
When Ezra Timkin took the prize
On corn, down at the County Fair,
Old Hiram Crouch screwed up his eyes
An spit, an said, with scornful air:
Now things have reached a pretty pass
When kids like you Guido their dads
A.raisin' corn an wheat an grass,
For prizes wasn't meant for lads.
70 be ashamed, SO help me Ike.
Most like you irrigated, too"
An when old Hiram hit the hike
He left the lad a-feelin blue.
But Nathan Cheerful met the boy
An shook his hand an said, by gum
This shore does fill my heart with joy
At raisin's corn you shore are sonnet
L like to see you lads pitch in
An make US older fellers hump;
If we expect a prize to win
1t shore will keep us on the jump.
Jest keep 1T up an, some fine day,
An when old Nathan turned away
The boy was feelin' gay, an proud.
Harry j. Williams in Farm Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
From Other Pens
THE JOY OF LIVING.


We are told that happiness comes
by pieces, and that it is these small
bits linked together that make our
lives worth while. Some of us are not
content to take our happiness by de-
grees or at intervals. We want it all
the time in big pieces, and if we can
not have it that way we think that we
are deprived of our natural rights and
look upon ourselves as injured beings.
1t is a rather singular expression of
human nature how happiness affects
the individual. With some of us il
makes us friendlier toward others and
anxious that they should experience
like joys; with others it makes us too
satisfied with ourselves to think very
much of our neighbors. Perhaps those
of us who know what the joy of living
means have experienced both of these
attitudes at different periods of our
lives and are in position, therefore, to
appreciate a varying viewpoint, but
even so it is only after we lose some
thing of that joy of living and have
found out for ourselves that there are
shadows which no amount of sunlight
can dispense that we can really APP
preciate the blessing of whatever hap
piness may find its way into our lives.
The little things that count so much
in our intercourse with each other are
not always, regarded as highly as they
should be, and for this reason we pass
by much that would give us joy if we
only knew how and where to find 1t.
Chicago News and Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
DIET UNDER WAR CONDITIONS

The European war has changed the
supply of readily available foods, and
brought about an enforced movement
toward a partial vegetarian diet, in
place of the more extensive use of
meats, eggs, butter and wheat pro-
ducts. These changes, being the sub
ject of governmental regula ton and
enforcement, place new restrictions on
the dietary of the sick. 1t sounds
strange to our ears to hear that pa
TENTS are actually required 20 have a
prescription or permit to enable them
to procure wheat flour or wheat bread
for the preparation of toast. The re-
finements of cookery, along with the
modern milling of the various grains
and the preparation of dried vege-
tables, are likely to eliminate in part
the wide distinctions between animal
and vegetable products. This is in
harmony with the success of numer-
Gus sanatoriums conducted on vege-
tartan principles in matters of diet
The various devices of the German
army for furnishing suitable food to
the troops in action are responsible for
the unimpaired health of many per-
sons. Fresh meats, potatoes and
vegetables poorly cooked by the in
dividual soldier under the stress of
army conditions are certain to lend
to dyspeptic diarrhoeas and irritations,
the forerunnors of infectious inva-
sion. Experience in former wars
abundantly verifics this statement,
says the Journal of the American
Medical association. But the present
field kitchens of the German army,
the aschkanonen," as they have
been fancifully called, have furnished
foods that are cooked with great thor
oughness. so that they are readily
comminuted and then easily digested.
The lessons of this diet service may
well appeal to US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09

and laughed and laughed and laughed
TIL Tommy was almost offended. at
don't see anything FUNNY" he said.
But the toad ONLY launched .he
harder. ITO think you, who till two
months ago lived down there. should
be trying 80 hard to explored H.
too funny and he laughed again.
10 you mean that this cellar door
my CELLAR"
To be sure it does" replied the
toad; this is merely the other side Of
the house. You know all about that
ceilar without exploring-oh, dear.
simply tell what you know alrea dv7s,
Tommy gulped his surprise and ran
back nome-and that evening he fold
an ne knew of the cellar and was
quite nero after -(Copyrieht-
Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-09
FARMERS INSTITUTES.

Both the number of farmers in
stitutes held each year and the atten-
dance at these meetings is steadily in
creasing, according to a report on
farmers institute work which has just
been published by the United States
department of agriculture as bulletin
No. 269. During the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1914, the report states,
1928 of these institutes were held
throughout the country, with a total
attendance of 3,656.3S1. This is an
increase in attendance of &c per cent
over that of any previous year. On
the other hand, the expense of con-
Quoting the work was nearly $4,000
less than last year, the total cost for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1914,
being $447,S97.51. The farmers in
stitute organization conducts it's work
under many different forms so that
it is almost impossible to summarize
its activities briefly. For example, in
addition to the ordinary meetings,
there were movable schools in 10
states which had a registered atten-
dance of 112,498 different people.
Field demonstration meetings were
also held in Is states although no rec
ord of the attendance was kept. Spec
ial railroad trains were organized in
II other states for the purpose of CIV
ing lectures and demonstrations.
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Journal Entries

Questions decided on their real mer-
its are few and far between.
= j. =
Many men have the idea that they
could shine as comedians if they only
had the chance.
i. i i.
Unjust suspicious are at the bottom
of a good deal of the trouble in this
old world.
Most of the people who discourse on
the beauties of economy don't have to
practice it.
p - -
In all probability, the head of many
a family would like to have the power
to veto a few bills.