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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

A modest claim is egotism in dis
guise-
A soft answer won't turn away a
book agent. Here, Tige.
AS a rule, the chairman of the COM
mittee is the committee.
Who originated the theory that a
drum is a musical instrument?
A divorce trial is the most success
full method of displaying soiled
linen.
If your pipe smells you have no
business finding fault with cigarette
smoker.
unavailable" if it comes from a
publisher, is making a long story the
shortest.
If a bar tender weren't kept so busy
he could deliver a great temperance
lecture.
If a girl has no sense before mar
riage, she as apt to be guilty of Il lot
of foolishness thereafter
Neither should you devote Ill your
righteousness 20 righteous indignation,
which is bad for the digestion.
Link Preston, who is building a new
house, says it will have all the mod
ern improvements, including mort
gage.
Don't devote all the time to Sound
ing the Alarm, or people will suspect
YOU of being on the bear side of the
market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
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A GAME FOR THE sTAY-AT-HoMEs.

The family breakfast was just about
over when Jack said sorrowfully, $50
you are real certain sure that we can't
go away this summer, father?''
Dear me, yes, son." replied father
in tone of surprise. 81 thought we
had settled that long ago!'
Il guess we had" said Jack; but
L kept hoping that something would
happen to change your mind, and
you would let us go to the lake.
Father laughed. Things don't Of
ten happen that way-outside of
as they are at the office, I am thank
full each day that 1 have a job and
can earn bread and butter and a
good home! Better be glad for what
you have, and find something nice
to do here at home.'' And father
started out the front door.
Mother sat at the table with a
thoughtful look on her face. The
children looked towards her in sur
prise-usually mother was the first
work. What could be troubling her?
Children" she said very seriously,
what is it you like to do at the
lake that you can't do at home?"
claimed.
"Oh, of course I know that" she
answered; but I mean what do you
MOST like to do? What is it you
Always lilIHh VI wien you WISH you
could go?"
For a minute the three children
were silent, then Jack said positively,
"A boat is what 1 want most. If we
had q river here so 1 could have u
boat, L wouldn't mind staying at
home"
Il believe L like a boat the best,
too said ten-year old Alice. ",Zou
see, mother, 1 had planned that this
year 1 would fix some housekeeping
things on Jacks boat and we could
take our meals on the boat think
that is what 1 miss most
Me. too added six-year-old Ann.
81 intended to fix a dollhouse on
Jacks boat
Mother smiled happily Then if
you all want the same things, it's
easy! You shall have a boat"
Have a boati" exclaimed the chill
dren in a breath. But where could
we put It? There isn't a river or a
lake within ten miles,"
Never mind" laughed mother,
this boat is going to be handy-it's
going to be in our back yardt' And
then she told her plans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

The next Sunday morning father
said, why are you all in such a hur-
ry to get through breakfast? ANYBODY
would think you were going away for
the day.
1--WE are" replied Jack land how
his eyes did sparklei); land you are
going too. We arc all going boating!
Comet"
They followed Jack into the back
yard and what do you suppose they
found?
Back of the sunflowers, screened
by the tall golden CLOVIS SO that
civilization seemed far away, stood
broad, comfortable raft, 1t was
perched on rollers so that it rocked
just a bit unless you stepped care
fully. On the raft was a dollhouse.
a housekeeping cupboard ami every
kind of comfort for a long cruise
I'VE made it all ourseIves-after
mother told us how" cried the
three happy children, land we're go
ing to cruise here all SUMNER" And
so they did. and such fun as they
had you Will never know until you
make a yard=boat" for YOURSELF
Copyright, Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
CUT PRICES INJURE LABOR.

Cut prices and high wages don't go
together, declares Leslie's, and it con-
tinues: We are demanding a short day
and high wages. the abolition of the
sweat shop and child labor. and at the
same time rush to the cheap bargain
counter to buy things which could not
possibly be made under anything else
than sweat shop conditions. Note these
current prices from department store
"ads:'' Mems negligee shirts 6Sc;
boys blouses, regular 81 stock, at soc;
French hand-em broidered petticoats,
regular stock prices from 81 to 81, at
csc; combination suits for misses and
children Csc; 65c negligee shirts at
SIC. We believe in high wages, a high
standard of living and relatively high
prices. When you go to the store and
buy articles, into the making of which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES.

DR.. Pratt, chief of the United
States bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, seems to present some in
controvertible financial logic in his
suggestions to bankers that it is a
poor business policy for the people of
this country to loan their money to
the European nations at war as it will
only be helping them to continue their
wasteful warfare And it would be
an equally short-sighted endeavor, he
points out, to loan them great sums
after the war is over for reconstruct
ton purposes, as we would simply be
giving strength to our most active
competitors for the trade of the
world. On the other hand, if we loan
our surplus funds to other countries,
countries which are not our competi-
tors, and which are our customers as
we'll as the customers of Europe, we
will be strengthening our foreign tusi-
ness connections in a most material
manner. And this would seem to be
advice that it would be well foE' our
financial interests to follow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
From Other Pens

ARE WE WORSE THAN MEXICANS
MeXicans, "wops," or greasers, or
whatever you call them, do not rank
very high in the estimation of the
Anglo-SaXon residents of America. But
there is this to be said for the Next
cans: When there is any talk about
an invasion of that country by the
United States troops, all the Villas,
and Carranzas and Zapatas, and
Yaquis show their elegant white teeth,
and assure us that they will quit their
little domestic quarrels and unite to
lick us if we attempt to interfere. That
shows that in one respect, at least,
the despised Mexicano has the advan-
tage of many of our noble American
business men in the smaller towns.
The merchants in the little towns are
generally fighting each other; some
times they become very impolite about
it, and bite and scratch and cut and
slash in a most vicious manner. And
while they fight, the mail order house
and the big department store comes in
and takes away nine-tenths of the
business the little fellows are fighting
about. There's no objection to the
home merchants fighting each other
if they find it real amusing, but they
ought, at least, to have as much sense
as the Mexicans, and unite to drive
out any outside MISUNDERSTANDING
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
QUAKER fluctuations.

From the Philadelphia Record
The barroom plunger treats all
hands So does the manicure.
Many a fellow will take things for
granted, whether they belong to him
OF not.
In paying a bill some people always
wait until it is overdue, and even
then overdo it.
If you want to meet men of prom
Use, all you have to do is to become a
bill collector.
Blobbs- ':Bjones is generous to a
fault" Slobbs-"Yes; he even gives his
friends away"
The truth will out, but that is small
consolation to the woman whose age
is beginning to tell on her.
Fortunate is the man who knows as
much about himself as other people
think they know about him.
Just at present the pen seems to
have some difficulty in proving that
it is mightier than the sword.
No, Maude, dear; just because a
man happens to have a smoking jack
ct we wouldn't say he has clothes to
burn.
Mrs. naggs-"Wake up, John.
There's the iceman down at the back
door, Mr.. Gnaggs (sleepily)-"Ohi
you take the cake
Hoax-'I wonder what makes Scrib-
bier always seem so serious" Joax-
He's the editor of a comic weekly.
ter
1T takes nine tailors to make a
man." quoted the Wise Guy. Then ]
suppose on shipboard it take four quar-
termasters to make a master" sug-
gested the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
AN EPIC OF HONEST TOLL.

kansas is the worlds greatest
epic This felicitous characterization
of the state was pronounced by Gov
ernor Capper in his address at the
Kansas Day celebration at the San
Francisco exposition. And it is an
epic that has been written by the
hardest kind of honest toll. Anybody
who has an idea that Kansas has
achieved her agricultural accomplish
ments chiefly because of the muniti-
cence of Nature has another guess
coming. Kansas has literally forged
her way to the stars through difficult
ties as her motto asserts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
MUNITIONS OF WAR.

In all probability, the automobiles
and motor trucks, and their accessor-
les that the United States has sold to
the Allies have been of far more ad-
vantage to them, than the American
ammunition which has gone to them
so far Although immense Or
ders for ammunition, small
arms and small ca1ibre guns have been
placed by the Allies with American
firms, the fact is that only rela-
lively small lot of such munitions of
war have been shipped from this
country so far, or, at least, until very
recently. So the charge of the Ger
mans that the war has been prolonged
because of the American ammunition
with which the Allies have provided
themselves is absolutely unfounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

ged Jacob peevishly where is my
umbrella and goloshes, Rosa %
What for, papa?"
Il go to the police
In the morning, Jacob-husband!
Let me keep him tonight will take
him tomorrow myself-poor little one
that a mother should pawn her
babe for dollar" she crooned softly.
Jacob stamped back to his desk and
looked up his records
Ticket 1S,4S2," he mumbled did
you know the woman, Rosa ?''
mo. She looked like that Yetta
Vogel what keeps boarders down by
Hester street." Rosa threw this in
formation over her shoulder. ST go
door into the living room Slammed
Jacob sat and stared at the closed
door. He could hear Rosa's tender
voice as she moved to and fro and
gle of satisfaction.
But for the heavy years+it could
be little joey again." he sighed. He
was good son-it was his only DISC
his greasy ledger
He did not hear Rosa when she
came into the shop anC dragged Joey's
cradle from a dusty corner, nor the
as she waited upon the wait. He was
thinking of joey in all his delightful
phases from infancy to upright young
manhood.
A week later Jacob Mornitz faced \
shawl-wrapped woman. She pushed
some money and pawn ticket across
the counter. 7
Il came for it," she said briefly,
Jacob studied the ticket and nod
ded. He went to the corner and
puiled out the baby carriage. "Hcre
it isl he said.
and wrinkled and her hair was griz-
zled- Il want the baby, too" she
said sharply.
THE ticket calls for baby carriage
no more" said Jacob sternIy.
II want the baby. 1 hear him o,v-
ing now She started book toward
the back of the shop, but Jacob and
the carriage blocked her path
NO lady would pawn her baby
You are crazy he said.
Il tell you I hear it,"
What you hear is our own babv-
one I shall adopt. viii you 90 or
must I call the police % he asked 20
litely.
II will go and bring the police my
self. old man. she cried shriIly. ana
clattered up the steps.
Rosa came into the shop, carving
the baby in her arms
Jacob poked crooked forefineer
under the baby's dimpled chin. such
little rascal babee!" he chuckIed.
The shop door flew open and two
people flung inside-a girl whose face
was sharpcned by illness and priva-
ton, a young man gaunt and hollow
eyed, a ghost of dashing Joey Hornitz.
Il want my baby" said the girl
tensely, holding our eager arms.
Give her the baby mother" said
joey gently. She has pinned for it,
Silently Rosa, dropped the baby in
Rays arms. She and Jacob stared at
Joey with unbelieving eye. They
scarcely listened to his tale of pow
erty and illness and how an avaricious
and E1erciless landlady had caused the
baby and carriage to vanish one
stormy night. They had just gained
her confession that she had pawned
the carriage and relieved her house of
the nuisance of a baby guest
II am sorry for the trouble, papa"
said joey, but we will go now. Come,
Ray. Good-by, mamma
Jacob scurried down to the door
and locked it. you couldn't take
away our baby he defied them. Its
got to stay here-and YOU. Joey-and
Ray, your wife-we want you all. ElI1,
mammal
Rosa's eyes were full of tears. Joey's
arm was around her and Jacob was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
THE WARS TERRIBLE TOLL.

According to Red Cross officials,
the casualty list of the great war has
already reached the staggering total
of more than 100000. This is df-
vided among approximately 100000
dead, 100000 wounded and 100000
missing or prisoners. These figures
assuredly approach the unbelievable,
but are said to be based on most con-
sentative estimates. However, as in
all wars, the wounded are by far the
most numerous of the casualties, and
it is reasonable to assume that large
percentage of them are able, sooner
or later, to return to the firing lines.
But hasn't the carnage and slaughter
of the war been terrible? And the
end seems far away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
SPRING SONG.

Leaf of the tree, wave of the sea.
Beam of the star, and breezes free,
Light of the morn, grace of the thorn,
How can the bosom feel forlorn?
The lush warm grass, and birds that pass,
Love of the lad, faith of the lass.
over US all the suns bright eye.
In the blue of the summer sky.
Bower, tower, flower and hour
Denver of health, fame and power,
Charity. hope, and peace and rest,
Thrilling with joy the eager breast,
The day and night in happy flight,
The noon of June. a dream delight,
And life and death joyous song,
For him who knows nor hate nor wrong.
Robert Loveman in Nautilus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Maybe the strike of the Connect
cut makers of munitions of war is of
the sympathetic variety in connection
with the strikes of their trade breth-
rem in England and Germany. Ger
tainly its purpose and reasons are
the same. And it seems no more than
fair that labor, whether it be in Eng
land, Germany or France, should have
some share in the '-swag" that the war
is turning into the Golfers of the man
ufacturers of war materials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
Journal Entries

1t costs girls more each year to
keep looking as young as ever.
=
Quite as many or more women are
just as naturally homely as others are
pretty.
i i s%
Even a soldier is not acquainted
with all the terrors of warfare, if he
be a bachelor.
- - -
Nor does the rest of the world de
lay long in losing faith in a man who
has lost it in himself.
Parents are justified in being dis
couraged with a son who, at the age
of II, cannot throw an Out-curve-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

human labor has entered, at a price
barely in excess of the actual cost of
the goods, you are giving your support
to a system of starvation wages II
the public is sincere in desiring to pro-
tect women and little children from
hard labor, in keeping up wages and
improving conditions of living, the mad
rush for the bargain counter is not the
way to do it. A fair price for what
one buys is a condition precedent to
high wages and a high standard of liv-
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

With Kansas having good use for
every one of its pennies that are set
aside for educational purposes, State
Auditor Davis seems to have done no
more than the proper thing in refus-
ing to pass bill from the state uni
versity, or the education board. of
close to 500 to square the accounts
Of the alumni dinner that was one of
the events of the commencement fes-
tivities at the university
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Considering the fact that a whole
years rain has fallen in Kansas in a
little over six months, and the bulk
of it in the last two or three months,
the easily peeved rivers and streams
of the state have behaved ia Their ad-
mirably, and the old Kaw, especially.
But it must not he forgotten that the
people have been giving some atten-
ton of late years 70 Harvesting them
and keeping them in check.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
members

There's always something doing in
Kansas. AS the foot and mouth dis
ease retires from the state in good or
der, the horse plague that caused such
havoc three years ago, steps in to take
it's place. Still, if everything. We're
easy sailing in the agricultural arena,
the pursuit of agriculture would soon
run to decaV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal away
From home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents week or
thirty cents month (by mail only). Ad-
out of town the State journal will be to
you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save bOOkkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

AS the law meanders slowly on its
way in this country. Several of the
cases in the federal courts in this jul
risdiction are finally to be dismissed
formally. The parties to them have
long since been dead. And the suits
merely serve to clog the court records
and the files.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Brother JoSephus Daniels, Secre-
tary of the navy, evidently also be-
lieves in the theory that there is safe
ty in numbers. His board of civilian
scientists to advise with the navy de-
partment in the development of the
nations defenses is to have seventeen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Surely it was exceedingly gracious
of Colonel Roosevelt to be general in
his declaration that such things as he
might have to say from time to time
of vital interest to the nation as a
whole would not be for sapheads and
mollycoddles- But there are probably
quite a few folk who are certain to
mediate: Il wonder if he meant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Prohibition is making gains in
France, but chiefly in the military
districts in which the transportation
and sale of alcoholic beverages mas
been recently forbidden. The iInpor-
tant question is, however, as to
whether or not the European belliger-
ents will stand hitched to their prohi-
bition propaganda after the war IS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

President Wilson's Forthcoming note
to Germany relative to the position of
the United States in respect to the
methods of her submarine warfare
will be brief. But it doesn't necessa-
rily follow that it will be sweet to
German ears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

awkwardly hugging Ray and the
baby.
"Of course all our children must
stay here by u.s. she said excitedly.
Joey, you help papa. Ray, baby's
milk is warm-we must feed MIN
now
now" (Coupright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Swatting the mosquito is just as es-
sential as is swatting the fly, but it
isn't so easy unless the campaign is
yaged against breeding places as it
should be. The mosquito gets in most
of his fine work after dark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY X. MOULTON.

With Apologies to Harry Lauder.
oh, it's nice to ride out in jitney
In the good old summer time,
When our friend SOL is upon high
And the weather is sublime.
But when the snow is snowin'
And Jack Frost's in his prime;
Oh. 1t may be nice in the jitney.
But it's the old street car for mine.
-LuiSe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21
Keeping Warm in July.

Keeping Warm in July.
You have doubtless read of the
manner in which ships furniture and
cabin woodwork have been burned to
keep the fires in desperate weather.
mats nothing compared to what has
been going on around our place.
The coke gave out last Wednesday.
thursday We sacrificed two Stepiad-
derS, three washtubs and flour bin and
the lawnmower handle. The storm
house which we had taken down kept
us going Friday, and Friday was a
cheerful day. Saturday saw the last
of the carpet sweeper, three brooms.
five suit cases and three old-fashioned
trunks, while we kept warm Sunday
on the kitchen table, Webster's I'M
abridged dictionary, Kipling's plain
Tales From the Hills" and the ice
box We went visiting Monday, and
Tuesday we babe a last adieu to the
snowshovel, the old hall clock, one
folding bed and a complete set of
Dickens work
Help! We have noting left but the
dining room furniture and that about
half belongs to the 1nstallment house.
The Hickeyville Clarion.
Luke Hanks is putting barbed wire
fences all around his place so as his
hired man can't sit down. He expects
to save a lot of money in that way.
The HardsheH people are thinking
of building a new church. All of the
seats will be back seats and there will
be a brick wall latween the choir and
the congregation. Let the improve
mentS go one.
Three life insurance agents on the
trail of Hank Purdy, and it does not look
though he is going to have time to
do much of his farm work this summer.
Anse Frisby says one very superfluous
thing in the world to do is to allow your
wife to take e1ocution lessons. He never
yet woman who wasn't fluent enough
without them.
It's a Cinch.
Chicago has eaten $50 carloads of straw
berries this season, and it is a safe bet
there wasn't a shortcake in the lot
good as the ones mother used to make.
Undoubtedly.
That Texas border has been so riddled
with bullets during the past few years
it must look like a piece of old lace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Watchful Waiting also appears to
be the military policy these days in
the western arena of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

What year did the Russians have in
mind when they made plans to eat
their Christmas dinner in Berlin?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

Now that Harry Thaw has finally
Joined his mother at her home, why
not draw the curtain on him, if he is
willing And he certainly should be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-21

How the children did work that
week. And what fun they did have.
Such secrets from father, and whis-
perings and poun6ings-Oh. dear
but it was fun,