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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago NewsJ
Minister-The best man at a we'd
ding.
Not guilty isn't always an inno-
cent remark
Most lazy men consider themselves
great politicians.
Most of us could start a brass band
II hot air were music.
If a man has dyspepsia it is his wife
who is troubled with it.
A lot of sympathy is wasted on I'M
der dogs and henpecked husbands.
A photograph also talks a good
deal, but one can change the records.
1t would be tough on some men if
they were to get what they deserve.
1t is almost as easy to call a man
down on the phone as to call him up.
Many a man seeks a job as janitor
so that his wife can do most of the
work.
A young man may be slow before
marriage, but in tying the knot he is
made fast.
The lowly egg has the best of man
kind in one respect; it can spread
itself better after it is broke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
HEALTH OF SUMMER RESORTS.

| Many of our summer resorts have
acted on the policy that a good eli
mate, charm of location and beauty
of scenery are sufficient inducements
to attract the summer visitor; but
nowadays people are more wary and
wisely look for more than this before
selecting a vacation playground. The
visitor wants clean bill of health
from the resort he has chosen, and is
entitled to have one. Vacation ty-
phoid is becoming known as a serious
hazard. The prudent recreation seek
er now finds out in advance whether
or not this infection prevails at the
place he has in mind, and further
more learns what sanitary measures
are being taken there to safeguard
the health of the summer colony. The
town of York, Maine, has recently
taken steps that at once place it in
the forefront of progress as far as
health is concerned. The way the
problem was met may well serve as
model for other summer resorts. Last
year there were a number of cases of
typhoid fever at York. No attempt was
made to conceal the fact of the exist
ence of the disease and it's extent. The
authorities very properly felt that the
way to meet any danger was to face it
III Tile OPEN An expert was lnVlCGO
to come to York and make a sanitary
survey. The chief recommendation of
the expert was that York needed a full
time health officer. The town appro-
priated $4,000 a year for this purpose
and appointed Mr.. William Eustis
Brown, a graduate of the School of
Health Officers of Harvard Technol-
ogy, to the newly created position.
The town of York is now spending
one dollar per capita per year for
health, a larger sum than is appro-
priated by any other American city
directly for a like purpose. Public
health is purchasab le," the price is
moderate, and York shows by its &C
ton that it intends to enjoy the best
attainable protection from disease.
Other summer colonies will find it to
their advantage to follow the example |
of York, and take the necessary |
measures to safeguard their citizens |
and the strangers within their gates. |
The Journal of the American Medical |
Association strongly advises the pub
lie to demand the security of health |
that only a well-ordered sanitary de-
partment can furnish. Our sea-
shore and mountain resorts can no
longer depend on nature and luck for
a clean bill of health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
A SONG OF sHoPPING,

A SONG OF SHOPPING.
Oh, glad am L with her to go
Where apple blooms are dropping
And merry birds are hopping on the
lea,
But it produces vertigo
When she proposes shopping.
No shopping with my little love for me J
She fingers over fussy things,
All satiny and silky-like;
really think she'd haggIe half a day.
She leaves heap of mussy things,
All merceriZed and milky-like,
And spends an hour to purchase ap-
pliQuei
She letters over hosiery
In manner that is shocking;
1t skaters my composure-y
To see so much of stocking;
L feel as though I'm like to throw fit!
She dotes on haberdashery;
She wants to buy me all of it.
At last she gets a flaming necktie-one!
She takes me hashery
(Alas, the awful pail of it
And lunches me on cocoa and a buni
Oh, glad am I with her to go
Where apple blooms are dropping
And merry birds are hopping on the
lea
But it produces vertigo
When she proposes shopping.
No shopping with my little love for me
Clinton Scotland, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
Kansas Comment
FARMERS

FARMERS AND THEIR WHEAT.
Joseph Letter will have the admira-
ton If not the absolute confidence OF
the farmers of the west. In explain
ing the high cost of wheat and bread.
he declared that for many years the
farmers had been selling wheat for
less than it cost to produce it. This
the farmers and wheat raisers have
known by bitter experience, and even
this year, when wheat has been as
high as a cat can jump, the great ma
jority of the wheat raisers were COM
PEELED to sell their wheat for less than
the cost of production. The money
was made afterward by spectators
who bought it for sixty and seventy
cents and held it for $1.50, thus more
than doubling their money on the real
wheat, and making many hundred per
cent on imaginary wheat. And while
the country is weeping with the con-
sumner who has to pay cent a loaf
more for bread than formerly, some
little sympathy is due the farmer who
has for years been raising wheat at Il
loss so that bread might be cheap
Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

First there was the daintiest little
white dress with little embroidered
roses scattered over it just as though
some one had held a bouquet of roses
over the dress and some had fallen
out and dropped on it.
Carolines eyes were blue and her
hair in short golden curls around her
chubby little face
Then there was hat of white straw
incased with blue that matched Caro-
lines eyes, and the hat was trimmed
with pink roses, which matched her
cheeks. But best of all was a white
silk parasol with a border of pink
roses, rosebuds and tiny blue forget
me-nOtS.
Caroline's cheeks grew pinker and
pinker with excitement as she looked
at herself in front of auntie's long
mirror, and while she was pleased
with the pretty things she knew well
enough that the best of all had to
come. 49,
Aunt Patsy never came all that way
without some real present for her
"Car'Iine Child That Caroline
knew, and so she waited until the last
trunk was unpacked and auntie' had
almost reached the bottom, still Caro-
line did not give up hope, and at last
Aunt. Patsy said: Here she is, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
EUening Chat
That Wonderful "Some Day."
BY RUTH CAMERON.

One of the commonest of all human
decisions is that some comparatively
slight change in ones outward cir
| cumstances is going to work a big
change in ones character.
In the last few years I have changed
my living conditions several times.
to the change, I would assure my
self when 1 have settled down there
I shall have great deal more time
to myself and manage to accomplish
a great deal more. I shall take more
exercise; I shall do more worthwhile
reading; I shall get up in better sea-
son; I shall be more systematic In
short, have believed that this change
of residence would make me do all the
things 1 have long felt / ought to do.
Then the change has come. 1 have
settled down in my new abiding place.
And 10! have found myself the same
unsatisfactory person, doing all the
things I ought not to do and leaving
undone all the things I ought to have
done.
You see, the trouble is that into
each new abiding place, each new cir
cumstance, I have taken the same old
self. I could no more have changed
it by some external change than man
can leave a great sorrow behind by
boarding an ocean liner and fleeing to
the end of the world.
I think we are all deceived more or
less by this restless hope that change
of scene or circumstance will make US
over. 1t is one of the evil ones sub
tIest temptations to indulge in present
inertia that "someday'' in the future
after Christmas when we get into
the new house, when the cooler
weather comes when 1 get back
from my vacation" we shall acquire
without effort all the good habits and
virtues that come so hard at the pres
ent moment.
Listen, reader friends. You are you
You will always be you whether you
live right where you are the rest of
your life or move to Calcutta and have
native palace and fifty servants.
Good habits and a better use of your
time will always come hard and the
only way you can ever attain them is
by exerting painstaking effort Eter-
nal vigilance is the price of improve
ment.
True hope is wonderful and beau
tiful thing. 1t is glimpse of the oasis
in the desert that gives us new cour
age for the journey. But the vague
hope that "someday'' you will be diff
ferent and better without effort is a
deceitfui mirage. Refuse to look at
it or be allured by it. For the hearts
that go wandering after such mirages
are those that perish in the desert of
inertia and Indifference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
From Other Pens
SICKNESS AND CLEANLINESS

SICKNESS AND CLEANLINESS.
The mother is the real doctor of the
family. This does not mean she can
cure diseases or should try her hand
at doing so. 1t does mean, however,
that she can very largely prevent
them, which is a much easier task and
has no magic about it except daily at
tention to the rules of cleanliness. DR..
Hygiene, in one word, means keeping
clean. 1t is one of the happiest signs
of these times that the best aids
science can give are brought to the
door of the humblest home. But clean
illness does not mean merely washing
a chiId's face and hands. 1t must go
in downright fashion all through it's
habits and surroundings. 1t means
clean air, clean food, clean clothing,
clean things to handle with its d eft
and busy fingers. 1t means house so
Clearly from top to bottom that Il
youngster will find it the hardest job
ina ginable to get his peck of dirt
1t is no longer a sign of genius that
a child can make mud-pieS in the gut
ter. No mother wishes to see her
children pale, puny, weak and ailing.
She has genuine pride in seeing them
with eyes bright as daisies and brim-
ming over with mischievous laughter.
They can have limbs clean as fiber
and the soul of a sunbeam in their
gaze. The scientists who have swept
whole territories free of dread plaques
by sanitation tell what is good for a
continent is good for the household
Philadelphia Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a man rises in his own esti-
nation who is far from being an avia-
tor.
Some people never take anything
that doesn't belong to them except
advice.
1t doesn't make any difference how
hot it is, the painter is always willing
to put on a coat.
The lover used to say to a girl:
"WIlI you be mine?" Now he says:
"Can I be yours?"
When some people are run down
by their neighbors they square mat
tiers by talking themselves up.
Perhaps a pretty girl is seldom clev-
er for the same reason that a rich
man doesn't have to work.
Miss Caustique-'"Fhe trouble with
you men is that you can never say no.
Mr.. Blunt-"Can't, Ell? Just you wait
till leap year"
Tommy-"Pop, what do we mean
by cold cash % Tommy's Pop-''Co1d
cash, my son, must be the kind that is
cool and collected
days" whined the hobo. Here,
Tigei'' called the woman to her dog
Give this poor man bite
Blobbs-'Wigwag is rather super
stitious, isn't he?" Slobbs-.'I should
say he is. Why, that fellow would
consider it unlucky to find s13."
Muggins-"Its mighty hard to
please a woman" Buggins-''That's
right If you stare at a woman she
thinks you are rude, and if you don't
she thinks you lack TASTE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
Jayhawker Jots

The Beloit Call insists that a Cos
sipy woman has no business abusing
the men for drinking, smoking and
chewing.
There is much complaint of watered
stock, says the Anthony Bulletin, but
what becomes of stock if it is not
watered?
It occurs to the Lawrence Gazette
that about all the Turks ask for after
their brief plunge into war is a little
time and opportunity to get away.
For the entertainment of travellers,
the Minneapolis Messenger suggests
that the railroads install moving pic
lures in the waiting rooms of the
depots.
AS the Solomon Tribune says: The
man who owes a debt and persists in
spending money for luxuries is spend
ing money that does not belong to
him. And yet how often it is done"
Up at Lawrence this week the stu
dents council gave a dance to raise
debt, observes the Baldwin Ledger,
they had a debt to raise. some one
would lead in prayer and then the
students would pay up"
Some of the new slides shown by the
Lindsborg News Vitascope: G-r-a-t-i-
doesn't spell happiness.
90. Why call it common courtesy?
1t isn't so common, after all.
And then it sometimes happens that
you find a yellow streak in the char
acter of a person where you least ex-
pected it. 1t is comparatively
easy to forgive folk the mean things
they do or say to you in a burst of
anger. 1t is the cold blooded, pre-
meditated injury that is hard to for
give and forget.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Tt may be true, as alleged, that the
control of 81 per cent of all the rail-
roads in this country is concentrated
through voting trusts and interlocking
directorates in the hands of a few
men. But if this is so, how is it ex-
planned that some of the big railroad
systems of the country are admirably
managed while others have been mis-
managed in a rather disgraceful and
an exceedingly expensive manner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
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WR&A@ BY mrs EAN4LHER
BY Mrs EHW4LHER

| what do you suppose her name is?'
Caroline took the doll (for it was a
doll, you know in her arms and
shook her curly head. 81 do not
know; auntie; what is her name?" She
| asked.
Her name is Gretchen Won Doll"
who named her?" asked Caroline.
'"The funny little man at the store
where I bought her." replied Aunt
Patsy.
"I was looking at several dolls,''
auntie said, land when finally 1 de-
cided on this one he seemed surprised
that did not buy all of them.
You want Won doll?' he asked,
and 1 decided that her name should
be Won Doll and because she looked
so much like a little Gretchen 1
| named her Gretchen Won Doll but
! you can. change her name if you like,
dear"
But Caroline did not change her
name. She carried her home and put
her in the doll house with her other
dolls, and now 1 must tell you how
Gretchen looked and was dressed.
She had very pink cheeks and blue
eyes and her light flaxen hair was
braided in two braids, which hung
down her back.
She wore a dress of blue and a lit
tie white bonnet without strings and
a small white apron with bib to it.
Caroline thought she looked like a
nurse girl a little, but she knew
Gretchen was not a nurse for Aunt
Patsy told her she was a heightened
lady, because her name made her so.
Nevertheless, Caroline went to bed
that night wondering what the other
dolls thought of Gretchen, and wheth-
er she ought to make her the mother
of the doll house or Marie's daugh-
ter.
Marie was a French doll and had
great many clothes and hats. She
L L Il. =
house and Caroline did not know just
what to do about establishing Gretch-
en- Won Dolls position.
Pretty soon she stopped thinking
and listened. Yes, she didshear voices
from the corner where the doll house
stood.
Caroline jumped out of bed and
looked at the doll house; then she
listened, yes, some one was talking
and it sounded as though they were
angry.
Caroline tip-toed to the corner and
looked in through the doll house win
dow, the open end of the house being
turned toward the wall.
Marie was standing in the middle of
the living room looking very angry
and Gretchen Won Doll sat in a chair
looking out of the window at the 9TH
er side of the room.
why don't you answer me?" Ma
RE was saying.
But Gretchen did not turn her head
and Marie took a step nearer to her.
Are you deaf?" she asked at last.
81 want to know what you are do
ing in this room; my maids are never
allowed in here; if you do not answer
L Will call some one to put you out!'
Still Gretchen did not turn or an
swer and Marie went out of the room
and down to the kitchen.
Tomorrow L will tell you what hap
pened.-(Copyright 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate, New
York City,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
THE RETAILERS PROFITS.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside. the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio, Herbert
Quick, the editor, writes an interest
ing little article about middlemen He
says that the Business Research bu-
reau of Harvard university is studying
the retail business to see whether it
is efficient or inefficient. He then
goes on in part as follows:
ION the whole the retailer works
for less money than almost any other
member of society. If he is unskilled
he probably works for less than moth
ing and fails. Many retailers do not
keep books nor charge their business
with their own salaries, nor with the
rent OF the buildings they occupy if
they happen. to own them.
Most of the trade of tho world is
done by retailers, and always will be
The consumers cannot ask their serv-
ants to work for less than nothing,
and good workmen will not do so. It
would be better for all of us if the
retail business of the country were in
the hands exclusively of men who
would know whether they were max
ing money or not; and decidedly bet
ter if all were making fair profits
The retailers are our servants, since
they do for US work which we could
not do for ourselves 1t is not good
for any of US when the retail trade is
disorganized by the presence in it of
very many men who are losing money
or are so inefficient that they do not
know whether they are losing or not.
1.-THE Harvard people have worked
out for some sorts of trade standard
sets of books by the keeping of which
storekeepers may know just how they
stand. Let us hope that their work
may not be for naught. The farmers,
who have received a great deal of adj
vice as to how their business should
be run, are able to assure the store
keepers that while it is sometimes I'M
pleasant to be told of shortcomings it
is frequently beneficial.
THE retailer is a very useful per
son. If a university research bureau
can tell him how to become more use
full everybody will be served"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
Journal Entries

Worldly wisdom is acquired only
after many a hard bout with expert
ence.
I. = &
Some folk are at their best when
they are talking on the wrong side OF
subject.
j. j. j.
The faults a man may confess he
has are generally of the insignificant
variety.
+ = !.
People who haven't anything of
value to say are never backward about
giving interviews
4 j. j.
AS a matter of fact, were it not for
the chronic "kickers" everybodywou
have to put up with more 1ncon-
venienceS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Evidently the business men of this
country are not taking advantage of
the wonderful opportunity given them
by the European war to increase their
trade with the South American coun-
tries. Government statistics show that
the exports from the United States to
the principle Latin-American countries
were less in volume and value in Janu-
airy of this year than they were during
the same month in 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

restored him to a true sense of values.
He was able, amid all his confusion
of purpose and torment of realization,
to see his failure as only a retrievable
episode in his life. He is now a sue
cessful manufacturer, his debts are
paid, and he has a happy home with
a son and a daughter in it He was
saved from being a suicide by the fact
that a woman was sportsmanlike at
the right moment. Not a bad thing to
think about in these days when unac-
customed poverty is bringing dismay
to thousands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Apparently the Japanese are not
satisfied with their opportunities in
China that their participation in the
European war has given them. Else
why their eagerness to send troops to
assist the Allies in the European
arenas of the war? Surely not for the
mere glory that might be attached to
such military enterprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
GRETCHEN Won DOLL-Part L.

Dolly Won Doll came all the way
across the ocean in the bottom of Car
dimes Aunt Patsy's trunk.
Caroline's aunt was named Patricia,
but no one thought of calling her any
thing but Patsy, for she was always
laughing and full of fun.
When Aunt Patsy came home Caro-
line watched the big trunks being
brought in and when they were I'M
packed Aunt Patsy said: Come here,
Caroline, child, and see what Auntie
has brought to her grille
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Surely there has been enough win
try weather since February 2 to war
rant the assumption that the ground
hog saw his shadow during the little
while that the sun shone on that day,
and that such a maneuver on his part
is, occasionally, at least, a reasonably
correct prediction of the kind of
weather that will follow it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Turkeys navy is just as much of an
adept at running away as her army
is. 1t retired in safe order from the
Dardanelles as soon as the Allies fleet
began to make an impression on the
Notifications guarding this famous
waterway. The Turks are evidently
bent on living to fight on some future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Vic Murdoch retires from the po
htical arena with his flag nailed to the
mast. He believes in the survival and
the eventual triumph of the Progress
sfve party. This is political optimism
of the first water, but it doesn't seem
warranted by any of the handwriting
on the political wall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

England will be getting off easy if,
as actuaries figure, her new pension
plan for soldiers will cost only
$1,725, 100000 by the time the last
pensioner dies. In the past fifty years,
the United States has paid to the pen
stoned survivors of the Civil war,
or their dependents, more than
$4,000, 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

At any rate, the members of the
Sixty-third congress can hardly be
charged with not having earned their
pay. They've been on the job almost
continuously since April IT, 1913. But
at that, their fondness for hearing
themselves talk has wasted a lot of
valuable time in that period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Nothing could be more desirable or
necessary than a spring cleanup
day in Topeka. But aren't the pro-
motors of the affair a trif1e premature
under present conditions in setting the
date for It as near as March IL. The
indications are that by that time there
will be eleven feet of snow on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

How does it happen that it hasn't
occurred to some one by this time to
characterize the activities of the Kan
sas house of representatives as "A
Comedy of Errors? Its recent faux
pas in passing it's educational appro-
priation bill without substituting it for
the senate measure on the same sub
Ject is more evidence in point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

None of the national banks in Kan
sas is in any danger of going to the
wall on account of being the f1nan-
cial hacker of brewery that prohibit
ton has put out of business. But one
did in Pittsburg Pa, the other day.