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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
Evening Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.
On SELECTING an Occupati

I'll 0CACA1A1AA& OH NSLCukSestAOus
The folly of picking out q business
or a profession merely because some
friend succeeded at 1t or because there
some such merely external reason, has
been suggested to me as a subject by a
kind and intelligent letter friend
1t is a subject upon which can
easily write, because I feel warmly
about it.
The reasons for a mans choosing
any particular occupation should come
primarily from within and not with
out.
External reasons must have some
influence. OF course, but 1 think they
should be decidedly secondary.
What am I particularly fitted to
do?" should be the question any man
or woman selecting a life occupation
should ask himself or herself.
What way do my individual char
acteristics and abilities open to me-"
What Do You Find Easy?
We all find some things hard and
some things easy. One person can
state things clearly in a letter; an
other makes friends quickly: another
Is neat and accurate by nature and
likes details; another has excellent
taste as her strongest asset; another
likes to puzzle things out, etc., etc.
These abilities are all stock in trade.
and they should be carefully examined
by their owners before these owners
try to sell their services, in order to
determine the market where such SER
vices will be most in demand and
bring the highest price. And the man
or woman who fails to do that is just
as foolish as a wholesale merchant
would be II he tried to sell a station
er's stock In trade to a meat merchant.
Ny letter friend gave an interesting
| example of one of these ability mer-
chants who Is crying good wares in
the wrong stall.
Why Ona Man Failed.
I'VE often see failures and successes
side by side in the same business" he
says. land almost always the differ
ence is in the man, not in the business.
man who let a good property slip
through his hands keeping stores of
different kinds in various places. He
Gays, L can't see why I can't make
good. 1 attend to business and work
hard. and I've never been ut all ex-
travagant.' It IL plain to mo and many
others that he hasn't the practical
| qualities-the skill in buying or the
ability to make people pay up that are
needed in his business But he doe8n't
trouble to study himself. He thinks
because he is as well educated and in
telligent as others who do make q sue
cess. that 1t must be just bad luck
Again, 1 read of a man who shone
socially and intellectually in college
and yet found himself mediocre in
business. He studied himself and the
| business and decided that one of hie
greatest assets in college had been his
4 ability to size men up. and asked to be
| transferred to the hiring department
where he made q decided success
Know Thyself' II . maxim which
applies to many Of tho relations OF life
and not least pexttnently to busIneeu.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

DOWN IN THE DU1GPA
Say. Old MAN whafsS- the matter?
Have you taken the grumpo:
II the world all aWry?
Are you down IN the dumps?
O.! Your head aches % bad,
Ana 1yuQr mouth tastes like gall:
The WQe10 iUxau rotten
And Doomed Tor = fall?
Your stck-but don't worry
You're not going to die;
You are starving for air,
And have had too much pie, I.
Get out in the sunshine.
And drink In ita glory, XII
And soon youth be telling -.
Quite . different story. IA.
Go take . ;britk walk. tn
and breathe for dear fun: 81 q,
Your troubles WIN vanish ~
Like Ice In the sum-.
Moral: {
II thp world out Of joint9
Does It give you 4 shiver!
The troubles your liver.
DAVID BILLIARD HAGGARD
PhlllipsburH. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
Jdyhdwker Jofs

The backbone some folk should have.
seems to have accumulated IN their
heads. observes Keith Clevenger in the
Osawatomits Graphic.
The people who condemn the send
ing OF money to Belgium may not be
SO anxious to help out home chari-
ties as to buy 1915 automobile.
thinks the Winfield Courier.
Tom Thompson of the Howard cour-
ant advises that the only business or
professional man who should not adj
vertise is the man who has no goods
to deliver or no services the people re-
quire.
A Joker at Eureka. according to the
Conway Springs Star, notified many OF
the housewives to tie clothes over their
telephones as central was going TO
blow the dust out Of the phones at a
certain hour. Lots Of women bit"
The pictures of the latest style mill
tary boot for ladies. with it's loose top
Tapping about their shins. reminds
tie old Frenchman at Salina who used
to. wear tie around his neck. but
felt no need for a collar.
Hardly had the sewing machine ped
dlers cashed in on this community than
the steel range men began, reports the
Marquette Tribune. and it adds: Life
in the country like that in town, Is fast
UcCOIuluS Ju8t one song ana UauCG
after another. Agents every day.
From the Without Thinking" column
in the HOlton Signal: The mental OBJ
tuseness of the individual renders it
difficult for a man to understand how
his wife can bake pies and cake for So
Gals and exchanges. every week and
supply that requirement Of her own
table with factory cookies and bake
shop junk
Society mote, in the Sabetha Herald:
Tom Pace is entertaining his friends
with 5000 worth of talking machine rec
ords which he borrowed from the deal
er to see whether he likes any of them.
A search has been begun by the Sa@
beta Herald for the old fashioned
brick. covered with cloth and used 10
hold doors open. y
Some T. l. AS. % Shorts in the
Marysville Acknowledgement: He
who is always going to, never does.
The devil always has an easy job
for lazy man. People who are
sharp hurt themselves more. than
others. The striver gains the goal
while the yearner is wishing for 1t.
I. In the pursuit of happiness the
fastest people are not the most sue
cessful.
The Troy Chief believes that a large
heavyweight woman has a right to
marry a little runt of husband, but
SIG SiiOuAOh CAPCCI AiIA1 " PHOtcCt hSl
According to the Hiawatha Democrat.
L. G. Crawford, WHO has obtained the
lease of a ten-acre skunk farm tract
west of Hiawatha. claims he IL the
best skunk raiser in northeast Kansas.
when 1t comes to raising strong ones
Three Hans Hansens receive mail
from the jamestown postoffice, reports
the jamestown Optimfst. and the mail
carriers often have considerable DIM
Guilty in determining which is which,
But one jamestown business man
solved the problem when he nailed q
parcel post package to Hans Hansen.
the man with the new barn."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
Kansas Comment
THE HOME PAPER.

Did you ever stop to think wat n
great labor-saver the home paper
As a means OF communication witt
absent friends. Write tome often
the last command those breaking
homo ties SO often give to those ieR
behind. In the rush ana hurry Of ev&
cry day very few people nOWaday4
have time to devote to correspondence
OF the le4surely kind people OF otne
days kept up With such unvary1n
punctualtty. Aid here - where thS
1t il better han . letter. too. for
tells much that q letter would NOV
Items Of interest are In It that the
writer might not know or overlook. u
is wonderful how eagerly one devours
strange land. Even the people you
do not know intimately while at home.
become of absorbing interest to you
when you read that they have died or
married or figured otherwise promi-
some one of your family away from
home try sending them the home pa
per regularly and q letter occasiOnal-
" and see il they do not APPRECIATE
the favor of the paper.-Mulvane
News.
THE BOY WHO CAN DREAM.
It is q good thing for the farmer
bow to have an imagination. It is .
good thing for him to dream dreams
and see visions.' 1t takes q dreamer
to see the transformation that intelli-
gent EFFORT will bring to pass on the
old place. 1t takes q dreamer to see
how much more desirable that place
will be in ten years than . job in
dry goods store. 1t IL the boy who
dreams who sees field Of thrifty al
falfa where that stunted yellow corn
Is growing on the clay -. It IL the
boy who dreams who sees those hungry
looking cows with burrs In their tails
replaced by a herd Of dairy matrOns
! that tax tie capacity Of the milk cans
| at every milking. It Is the boy who
dreams who sees a waving corn field
where the ragweeds are growing, who
| sees woven wire fences in place OF the
old hedge, and q new barn where the
cow shed Is falling to pieces. We need
more dreamers on the farm.-Hiawatha
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
Journal Entries

Education is q wonderful thing. but
1t never made a man wise.
AS . matter OF fact. you don't find
many optimistS among the poor folk.
Many women who go fishing for
husbands are unlucky enough to catch
wild animals
The girls who have a hankering to
be sisters to fellows usually end up a.
old maids.
The man who won't strike a first
blow is generally to be found at the
bottom Of the heap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

3 Nor were the manufacturers and
others in this country, dependent in a
large measure on foreign. chemicals
and drugs, handicapped long through
d shortage in such supplies on account
sof the European war. Imports of
chemicals and drugs have already re-
stunned normal proportions. The No
vember imports were valued at ST.
e04,944. against $6,746,147. in Novem-
sber, 1918; $s,042.567 In November,
1912; and $5,7O2,747 in November,
1911. The importation of chemicals
drugs, and dyes has averaged $780,
900 per month during the last five
years, but in August the total fell to
$5,622,OO0. and in September to $5.-
$4,000. With a partial reopening Of
trade channels there has been q
marked increase in imports of chem
icals and drugs, which rose to 81
3S2.0s2 in October and In November
as above noted. amounted nearly te
100000. 80 @k t.s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

standards of tnebriety were miserably
low" From the standpoint Of the rum
interests, that's the trouble with q
large and important part Of our drink
Ing population. Their standards OF
inebriety are miserably low and incon-
sistent. Drinking Is no longer. az
Harry Lauder would say. q "geeft,
and considered as q talent, even. 1t n
becoming rare. The old thirst isn't
what it used to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
TOPsY-TURvY LAND.

Once upon a time there lived a little
girl named Meta, who never put any
Some day you viii find yourself IN
Topsy Turvy Land" her mother said one
day, after she had tried to show her how
place where little girls find themselves
when they keep their things in disorder
as you do
'"ropsy -Turvy Land" repeated Meta,
as her mother left the room: there is nc
such place as that"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
Only the women Of unlimited mean,

Is Only the women of unlimited means
swill be able to use the transcontinen-
tai telephone service when it is open
ed to the public on March 1. The toll
scharges between New York city and
San Francisco, for instance, will be
5000 for a mere three minutes talk
and 1915 for each additional minute.
The average woman doesn't get a good
start on a telephone talk much INSIDE
Of five minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
On the Sp1r,
ofhie Moment


PAYNE In rfidler.
I remenber .wsy back in y.
men rney nouced first mo increaseo
And thev have 49,, ,,<,,,.,,n. .ver s.nce.
1ney noaer 1H they SICK ana sore ana
MT I'LL.
hsv hs,,a nee sa &c Psyn JUS. sIe -. "a
,rt.-e a;..: ..,.2..ss-. r,.,,,.,,.s
ror evar., ~ 49,. tpink ~ ~
Is as cood - KS N nm enls , n.ol MndePstsnd,
1ney cAteIwaaaer ana t9sy WIPE tnen ~
x 1ut tney oonI z19en Nssung to econonls-s
IN men one Le9eT 1nss egne JImct ack n. re "
= ae.lZ ~ Sc nAHes s vS.
II this goes s., ~ 49, 80. enti Of tirns
The cost 81 lfvan: il 1rcfrie 70 climb
Fer when goa mt "a new tangled frilla,
You surely heNa GOT to pay the bills.
- -
Qa0ecefais.
1t would see4R as though the Safety
F1rst campaign IL never going 70 strlke
Mexico.
arizona mas 9p@f dry ~ was aiwaye
uuhofeos mlte@9 between drinks IN tu4e
DE- La. ......,
,ont ~, w. ~ ~ e,,ta hut
v wans "a tna1 g. MN Lltteen cents' Dus
ne hS u es. say 1ats tuo "iie "ss eost
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- .8 E t I'LL ~ -. ~ ir<,is
NJ III TF~ rsaxe. lHfk
nun. e e 80 -, go, !. ,,r.,,r
until after ~ ls,s . S;s1y Stldres, Thr
no doubt he eefs nsess 70 Il. - :
Rep, Gardner, doesns 4 believe the United
States has a larr1 senoneh sarmv to win q
Mexican bull fiefifs - - - &.
Two dollar Wheat Isl predicted 1t will
soon be hard to convince the farmers that
warts a bad thing for civilization
If a little thing like our foreign policy
shocks the colonel he should be fitted
with a shock absorber at once.
The Panama canal is not an irrigation
ditch Colonel Cocktails has placed a ban
on the use of liquor there.
Anybody who shouts prosperity right
now becomes very unpopular at Chairman
Hilles' headquarters.
a,,&c,,.oy,,pp Warns
Au. ...,a,,+,,,, ro- nv
nave xot srSa. ,neo' oA ny
car. salo me INN Inn s, ~. Mon .J,u
oprinS IL, sau '"e
stay II the rest oo. ,,,e, e,..trtc
IL rs slmpiy new nay n,.; Mr. ss,,,,
ngnune pant. salo tne tnn 1' W.,
! peneve II VIII revoIutioni1e .nans heIt
know 1 always weAr an IIstt .;da-
wen, just COnnect NY n's '...;. teI.
hgnts ana ta1lngnts WIN .nis ei s nnor;,o
wnen l am drlv.ne inSteau .,.. ,u..-a- g :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

Good news for the Kansas farmers
Is to be found in the announcement
that the Kansas prison made Irvine is
TO be cheaper this year than ever be-
fore. But better news would be a
certain knowledge that they will have
plenty of wheat on which to use it.
However, the prospects in this partic-
sll1ar are pretty good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

President Thwing Of the Western
Reserve university has laid down the
rather unusual rule that it is perfectly
proper for girls to say damn" when
an occasion arises for them to apply
II to a man. This seems to be higher
education of q rather low order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

Germany usually manages to have
the last word concerning all varieties
of military and naval engagements in
every field Of the war. She now in
seistS that in the recent naval battle in
Athe North sea one big battleship
cruiser and two torpedo boats of the
British fleet were sent to the bottom.
This is a feature of the engagement
snpon which the English reports of it
maintained a dignified reserve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

IS No wonder the government weather
forecasters, or rather the fruits of
their labor, are not held in very high
esteem. Their predictions of the ar
rival of cold waves are usually full
sfilled. The people. with the possible
exception Of the coal man, have less
-alse for cold waves than for any other
Variety of weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

s. Statistics show that there are more
amen in the insane asylums in this
Country than women, and somebody
will probably be. mean enough to
make the suggestion that woman
1ovely woman, is responsible fdr thif
Condition of affairs, even If the same
statistics place the blame on booze.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
A brief but forceful ar,

A brief but forceful argument
against the literacy test in the immi-
lgration bill comes from John Mac
sDonald in his Western School Journal.
sas follows: Better admit one illiterate.
honest man at our ports than ten edu-
seated rascals. The night schools can
make the ignorant man Hterate. and
If he has a family of children the pub
lie and other schools will take care of
them. Boys and girls from the right
stock will be a source of strength in
severy one of our states. Let them
come in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

- Such jokers are the Germans. The
Krupps make an announcement that
their first 42-centimeter gun. the big
gest surprise of the war, was built in
1856 and that a specimen of it was
exhibited at the Chicago worlds fair
In 1893
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal il q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
sanitation, for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news 10 received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

r Ono legislative forecast that has a
reasonable ring to it anticipates the
Introduction of 1900 bills by the end
Of the week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. who
appears to be the only British naval
aIohnny-on-the-job in the North Sea.
has an American wife. All of which
may help to explain his efficiency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

Possibly the best evidence that the
business wheel in this country has
begun to turn rapidly in the right di-
rection is to be found In the estimates
that fully 100000 men have return
ed to work since the opening Of the
new year in hundreds of factories and
mills which have reopened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27

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The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-08-05
WOMAN SCULPTOR is FARMER
Can Do All the Work on Place When
Help Is Not Otherwise
Available.

Grass Valley, Cal.-Among those
who have added to the orchard acre
age Of this section this spring is Miss
Amanda Austin at Apologize.
Miss Austin is widely known in the
world of sculpture and artistic paint
ing. The last two years she elected
10 live on a farc4 at Apologize, where
the surrCuDu.-gs are pleasing to one
of her tastes and ajgaiuG2nts Her
abode is large two-stoTy i:ame house
on an eminenCe near the station and
overlooking the orchard and pine
covered foothills, With the snOW-uapped
Serras for background. A more
slightly spot could hardly have been
selected. In her chosen home MISC
Austin has not lost sight of the pTac-
teal side OF life.
Her Iarm is too large to be cared for
by one person alone, and when the
necessary help is not to be had she
takes a hand herself. And there is no
work about the place she cannot do,
whether it be setting out fruit trees
or shingling the roof Miss Austin put
out 1900 young pear trees which,
when grown, will add to the revenue
as well as the appearance of the
place.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-08-05
LIVES IN PRESENT
Centenarian Doesn't Long for
Good Old Times"
Mrs. Alice Harrison, Just Turned 100,
Keeps Up With the Times and
Has No Special Formula
for Longevity.

Denver.-Mrs. Alice Harrison
reached the century mark of life re-
Gently. Mrs. Harrison has no formula
for the use Of those who wish to live
to be one hundred years old. She has
lived just an average sort Of life. And
at the age OF one hundred years she
is a fairly regular church attendant,
takes occasional strolls about the
neighborhood of her home, waits on
herself and entertains her many
friends when they drop In to see her.
She sews ON patchwork quilts and
makes fancy work for amusement,
and reads the war news. Perhaps
she still retains a trace of youthful
vanity, because she has always re-
fused to have her picture published.
Mrs. Harrison has made no espe-
cial effort to take care of her health.
Neither has she refrained entirely
from the use of medicine and the
patronage Of doctors. She has led a
sedentary life, which Is generally con-
sidered less healthful than a more
active existence. Her chief occupa-
ton has always been sewing, and read
ing has been and is her chief amuse-
ment.
Mrs. Harrison was born in Ken
lucky, May %, 1916, the year of the
battle OF Waterloo. The greatest war
that had ever been known was con-
vulsing the world at the time of her
birth. But she has lived to see Eu-
rope engaged in another war which
makes the Napoleonic conflicts seem
puny.
Mrs. Harrison moved to Missouri
with her father and mother when she
was ten years old. She grew up and
married there, and was the mother of
eight children. She has outlived
four of her children, and may outlive
more of them If she continues to hold
her age in the future as she has for
the past few years. She came to
Denver forty years ago to make her
rison. Since that time she has made
many friends here. She has always
liked Denver, but says she can be
happy anywhere.
Perhaps the secret of her remark
ably long life is that she doesn't live
in the past as much as most old peo-
pie do. The present time suits Mrs.
Harrison and she enjoys the comforts
of advanced age instead of pining for
the candlesticks and feather beds of
her youth.
She takes an interest in the Euro
pean war and reads the news of the
sinking Of the Lusltania without re-
marking that such things never hap
pened in her day" She doesn't care
to meet strangers, but she takes
strong interest in the doings of her
friends. se..
She can remember the Mexican
war. She has lived through the time
Of the invention of the telephone, the
telegraph, the automobile. the phono-
graph and the wireless telegraph. She
has seen the candle replaced by gas,
kerosene and electricity. She has
seen the marvel OF an earlier age, the
ironclad battleship, made useless by
the invention Of the submarine.