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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
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BY RUTH CAMERON.

DOS-S 4AAAS Il ~ 4Ous
Did you ever happen to think how
many virtues it takes to make a good
card player?
You know good card players who
don't appear to have a surplus of viz
tues? Well. probably you and 1 aren't
using good" in the same sense. You
see. I don't mean the player who al
ways wins. mes3afsthe man who plays
games-I used .ca4ds only because they
are a typical and common game-as
they should be played.
Such a man does not grow slovenly
in his playing merely because he has a
miserable hand. He plays every hand
he gets, good or bad, for all it's worth.
He Is far more annoyed to have played
below what it was worth than to have
had a miserable hand, If he played
that to its full value.
Doesn't Blame His Defeat on s'IMck. ~
He does not exult unduly over good
cards or fret about poor ones. He takes
them all philosophically. He never
tries to blame a defeat on bad cards
II that is the reason for his defeat he
let's his opponentspa admit 1t or he buries
the fact in his own consciousness. He
claim for himself. On the other hand
he is always careful to mention this
opponents bad luck If they have
been thus handicapped.
The good card player always pays
attention to what he is doing. He does
not insult his companions by letting
his attention wander. While he plays
cards he plays them. He does not pre-
tend to be Indifferent as to whether he
wins or loses. In the words of Mrs
Battle, he is none of your lukewarm
gamesters, your half-and-half players
who have no objection to take a hand
If you want one to make up a rubber:
who affirm that they have no pleasure
in winning: that they like to win one
game and lose another; that they can
while away an hour very agreeably al
a card table. but are Indifferent wheth-
err they play or not"
A Good Loser.
But though he is keen adversary
he is above all things a good loser He
does not like to lose, but he can take
his losses without growing surly OF
ill-tempered. He does not blame his
partner or his cards; he keeps pleas
ant in spite of mistakes and disap-
pOintments, and not because he think.
it is only a game and so does not mat
ter after all. but because he knows
that is the manly way to take losses
of any kind.
Finally he never forgets one thing
that nothing counts. neither win
ming nor losing. nor playing well OIL
ill. half SO much as being square. II
a doubtful point comes up he is al
| ways willing to give his adversary the
benefit of the doubt, and he would
rather lose deciding game than take
| the least unfair advantage.
Surely the man who can fill al
these qualifications of a good" player
will also be a good player in the game
of life-the kind of partner one nee6
not be afraid to accept
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

opened to the world. and through Q
woman's chattering!
When he leaves her hands at
six or seven says N. de Gourmont.
he is a man, that is. he talks. which
is what makes a man. The great in
tellectuaI work of women he goes on.
is teaching language. The grammar
ians claim that they do it, which is
absurd. Children know how to talk
before they go to school. They al
ready use all the forms Of the verb;
all the shades of syntax. easily and
correctly This power Of language the
child gets from the woman. 1t is to
her honor that later he will use it as
a poet. novelist, philosopher or moral
list, or, to use Nietxsche's strong
phrase. as a creator Of values
Take this view of it-and who
shall or can dispute its truth ?-and
how infinitely more valuable to the
world is the chatter of women than
all the books they ever wrote or ora
lions they ever delivered. 1t is of that
fundamental order of things. without
which cultivation, even civilization,
could not go on"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
MUCH OF HENS LABORs VAIN.
5000. 200, 600 Worth of Her Annual
Product Either Broken or Added.

Between the hen and the consumer
there is a waste of $200.000,0O0 Of
eggs each year.
This was the testimony given at tie
attorney generals 'egg trust inquiry
yesterday by William Mann. of the
law department of the New York Cen
trail railroad, who read a letter from
the department of agriculture to sup
port his claim.
According to these figures, the
American egg crop is worth 100000
900 a year, and 100000 il los:
through breakage In transit.
The egg as the hen lays 1t Is almost
invariably a good egg, ran the evil
dence, but one out of every ten eggs
the hen lays for market Is broken on
the way there. Three Of the remain
ing nine eggs are added before they
reach the consumer. and 40 per cent
of the eggs are good only for strong
palates or tanning leather.-New Yor.
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
WHY WOMEN CHATTER.

In the February Woman's Home
Companion Ida M. Tarbell, probably
the best known woman journalist in
America, writes an interesting article
entitled THE Talkative Woman" in
which she explains why women chat
ter and what their chatter is worth.
One of her principal points is that
women are naturally talkative because
they spend SO much time with little
children, teaching the youngsters the
language. This point Miss Tarbell ex-
plains as follows:
IF it were not for the chattering of
women, the child would never learn to
talk
There is no one, probably, that will
deny that the first words a child at
tempts to speak are mere limitations
of sounds-that they mean no more
to him than sounds do to a parrot.
When he begins to initiate there is
always. or should be, a woman beside
him, repeating. smiling, encouraging
him. The play goes on. month in and
month out. With infinite patience she
chatters to him until consciousness is
aroused. Then rapidly his education
goes on. Words are attached to OBJ
jects; facts about objects are per-
ceived: their form. their color. their
odor, their relations to the little
learner. The words for all these per-
ceptions are slowly gathered in. Then
the child learns to compare. to distin-
guish values, to remember not merely
the sounds he learns but the mean
ings Of those sounds His mind Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
From Other Pens

LAWS WRITTEN BY A DEAD HAND
The senators who are filfbustering
against the pending shipping bill at
Washington might advance one strong
justification of their course. 1t is that
this congress has no right to enact
LEGISLATION Of revolutionary charac-
ter, except in the face OF a proved
emergency of the most serious nature.
The men who are now sitting in Wash
ington were chosen by the people in
November, 1912. They reflected the
wishes of the people at that time, but
they reflect nothing of the wishes Of
the people today. Their successors.
who were chosen last November, know
what the voters want, and to them
should be left the disposition OF all
important matters. The second ses-
sion of our congresses should do moth
ing more than to discharge routine
work necessary for the conduct of the
government. AS the situation stands.
it seems practically certain that the
second session of the Sixty-third con-
gress will leave undone the very things
it ought to do and will do only what
it should leave undone. The prospect
is that the country must have q special
session to pass appropriation bills,
while this session usurps its success
| sor's right to pass important bills
Detroit Free PreSa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

An excellent bargain will have been
made by the state il the legislature
acts favorably on the suggestion of the
house ways and means committee that
$4,000 be appropriated for establish
ing a white way around the state
house square. Not only is Topeka
under such circumstances, willing to
waive its ancient paving claim against
the state, of $4,000 in principal and
as much more in interest, but it also
undertakes to maintain and light the
white way" system that the state may
set up. And the cost of this to To.
peka will aggregate a considerable
sum in the course of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

After all the professional and goose
bone weather prophets had made up
their minds definitely that the ground
hog would not be able to see his
shadow in these parts Tuesday, the
sun got on the job and spoiled their
predictions. But maybe the ground
hog wasn't able to dig through the ice
and snow over his hole so that he
could take advantage of the flash of
sunlight. Anyhow. the chances are
that the weather during the next six
weeks will be just what it was going
to be whether the grounding was able
to stage his shadow dance or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
The Natives of Alaska.

According to the government statis-
tics. the natives Of Alaska are about
$4,000 in number. and they are spread
over more than $4,000 or $4,000 square
miles OF the territory. Their small set
Elements extend along 10000 miles of
coast and on both sides of the Yukon
river and its tributaries, for a distance
Of more than $500 miles. One of the
supervision districts contains full 100.-
600 square miles; the others average
more than $1,000 square miles each. OF
the natives Of Alaska, approximately
1000 belong to six tribes of Indians, in
Southeastern and Southern Alaska. and
In the valley Of the Yukon. About II, 900
are Eskimos on the western and north
western coasts, along the Boring sea.
the Boring straits. and the Arctic
ocean. Something more than 5000 are
Aleuts and mixed races through the
Aleutian Standardization Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

Wheat isn't staging all the high
jumping stunts in the grain marts.
May corn was selling in Kansas City
the other day at S21e cents a bushel,
the highest price at this season of the
year that has been recorded in forty
years. These war prices may be great
for the producers who still have con-
siderable Of their wheat and corn
crops in their bins, but the consum-
ers. as usual are holding the sack.
Apparently there is no such thing as
a perfectly desirable condition Of at
fairs for everybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.1
A wise man is known by the company
he avoids.
Better one boy in a school room than
two in a pool room.
Give some people their pick and they'll
proceed to pick flaws.
You cannot help a woman's disposition
by putting ruffles on her temper
The day has passed when one can pre-
tend to know things. People want to ne
shown.
It's surprising how many things you
commend.
Some men refuse to take physical ex-
ercise for their health because 1t doesn't
come in bottles.
The truly 'dignified man is never
ashamed to lay aside his dignity for the
purpose of doing his duty as he sees 1t.
Young man. don't take a girls hand in
yours and tell her you could die for her
unless you are willing to earn a living for
her. -f7~' = fs3f - u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

1t seems impossible for the Demo-
cratic statesmen at Washington to
come anyways close to making both
ends meet. The governments receipts
for January failed by more than S.
100000 to cover the months disburse-
ments. If the war hadn't happened
along to provide a convenient excuse
Tor the war tax law, the financial
condition of the government would
be chaotic. And even with the large
revenue from this special tax meas
ure. a situation is developing that will
make it necessary for the Wilson ad-
ministration to do something to
bolster up the nations finances
There is little likelihood that 1t will
exercise anything like a real economy
in the matter of appropriations by
congress. so more war taxes" are
probably in order. Maybe a special
bond issue to provide funds for the
ordinary expenses of the government
will put in an appearance. That's ar
old-fashioned Democratic remedy fol
financial ills Of this variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

Mr.. 'Possum lived in a tree in the
woods where Mr.. Bear lived, and one
morning just before spring, Mr.. Pos
sum awoke very hungry.
He ran around to Mr.. Squirrels
house and tried to get an invitation to
breakfast. but Mr.. Squirrel had only
enough for himself.
He met with no better success at
Mr.. Rabbits. for he only put his nose
out of the door. and when he saw who
was there, said: II am as busy as
can be getting ready for my spring
planting, will you come in and help
sort seeds?''
Mr.. Rabbit knew the easiest way to
be rid of Mr.. 'Possum was to ask him
to work. 81 would gladly help you.
replied Mr.. Postum, s'but / am in a
great hurry this morning. 1 have some
important business with Mr.. Bear and
I only stopped to say how do you do"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
Journal Entries

Another exceedingly difficult job is
to simulate cheerfulness.
= =
Not much has been accomplished
when one person merely outtalks an
other
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bird in the hand may be worth
two on the roof but it is often more
troublesome.
Children are also backward about
telling their ages when their youthful
mothers are around.
= . =
The remarkable man is the one
who never tries to tell his friends how
to conduct their business affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
Kansas Comment
rAKr ADvERrIs1N0 BILLS.


Tho lextslafure il STUCK fult. OF hills
to stop fake advertising. and most of
them are good bills-all Of them arg
well-intentioned. The fake advertising
evil is a real evil. Honest merchants
who live in town and do business ~
a town year in and year out. are the s
victims of travelling takers with fexe
stocks Of shoddy goods; these snoooy
goods are deliberately advertised e
fire sales or bankrupt sales or
ceiyers' sales or what not. ana tno
public floods in and buys old out.ol-
date. fiimsy. shoddy stun. at swindlins
prices. And as a result-honest mer-
cha nts are discredited. Newspapers az
well as advertisers should be penaliseo
for printing that kind Of advertising.
For the editor knows. II the poor dupes
of people do not know, what Is nap
pening when that kind OF a faker blows
into town. The time has come wneh
the public should be protected from
shysters. and these advertising laws
will help a lot.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
LOVE IN A COTTAGE: UP no DATE

LOVE In A COTTAGE: UP TO DATE
rented me cottage
Within q woodland nook:
bought me pans and pottage:
I captured me cook.
All life seemed rapt and rosy:
Birds sang in every tree.
Here, with my sweet, how coxy,
thought the day VII bes'
My love has lips like peaches.
As sweet ~ ever kissed;
But she is fond OF speeches
She is q feminist!
And SO my pans and p0ttage.
They failed to hold her thrall.
She said: ''Ffe on your cottage!
You'd better hire hall.'
Clinton Scotland, In Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
Naturally.

A gentleman travelling in England
was being shown over an estate by
the owner. who was a crank on land
scape gardening. They came to a small
greenhouse with young boy locked
up in it. The visitor inquired the rea-
son and his host replied that he had
caught the boy stealing flowers from
the grounds and had locked him up for
punishment.
Going little farther, they came to
another greenhouse, the counterpart of
the first and similarly situated on the
other side of the grounds, and this also
contained a small boy.
What" exclaimed the visitor. has
this boy, too, been stealing flowers?''
''Oh, no. replied his host. that is
my little son.
Then why" asked the puzzled caller
have you locked him in there?''
why for the sake of sympathy" an
swered the host.-Everybody's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
On the Spur
of the Moment

By ROY x. MOCLTON.

N/1AA 40WC1kvS1AG8t O0y8s
Hurrah for the old buckwheat cake,
Inc kind that our mother used to make.
Feuer could eat bout eight or ten:
In fact. he never knew just when
ned got enough. for they were great,
And one would cover a goOd-sized plate.
when ma came in with a good tall stack.
how all OF us kids lips would smack.
Sne'd keep on bringin em in until
everyone there had had his fill.
linen shed allow she thought as how
Twas time for her to eat some now.
And to bake these cakes thered be q
fight,
For the honor was not one that might
Be settled In any peaceful style.
And shed have to wait an awful while
6efore 1T was finally settled who
Should pour the batter and flop 'em, too.
And grease the griddle and carry 'em IN,
For this last honor we'd fight like sin:
For the first kid carryin' a stack
Would get his pay in loving smack.
1 tell you those were the good old days,
And as we back through the decades gaze,
Our eyes are, dimmed and our heart fairly
For the good old-fashioned buckwheat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

The first step towards the establish
ment of municipal and county farms
to take the places of jails for the i'm
pounding Of misdemeanants was an
easy one. Representative Birds bill
authorizing coutnies and cities hav-
ing populations of 10000 and over to
institute such a most desirable reform
passed the house of representatives
by an almost unanimous vot~. Surely
the senate will do as well by it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

A start has been made in the right
direction by the local board Of educa-
ton in it's decision to open the new
auditorium in the high school building
for community meetings. But the plan
might we'll be extended to any of the
other school buildings that any group
of citizens might care to use for this
PURPOSE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

Dimpleton-"What, Bobby! Do you
mean to say you paid twenty five cents
for that top? Why. it's a great deal
more than its WORTH Bobby-"But
father: I'm acquiring a monopoly of
all the tops in the neighborhood, and,
of course, I'm paying several stimes
more than they are wofth."-Life.n RS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

How is it that the German air raid
ers generally manage to drop their
bombs on school houses and hospi-
tails as happened in France again the
other day. Surely it must be through
accident and not design.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04

Winston Spencer Churchill, the first
lord of the British admiralty, is quite
right in declaring that the sea is
free" The unimpeded activities of the
German submarines demonstrate this
fact conclusively every few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
TELEPHONES
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganixation, for the exclusive afternoon
publicat ton in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Dose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau OF Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

No doubt about the luck of some
folk. An adequate thaw Immediately
followed the ultimatum from Mayor
Cofran that the snow must be removed
from the sidewalks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
The DAVIS News.

The Days News.
What's the news: Not much. but that
Edison has come to bat
With a theory astounding.
Yes. theory confounding.
Says the human needs no sleep,
Says we, all of us, should keep
Right on working day and night.
Plugging on with all our might.
He who sleeps is naught but lazy
And his think tank will grow hazy.
Sleep is for the idle sinner.
Not for one who'd be a winner
In the everlasting strife
That We call our daily life.
System does not need repose.
Some day sleep will be no more;
1t will be a crime to snore.
Day will come, it is quite near.
When no man will pound his ear.
He's in earnest. It's no bluff
News today? Guess that's enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
Uncle Abner.

Uncle AbneF.
often wonder what the Turks do when
they are not fightin'
Hank Tumms says he is goin' to get his
wife machine next spring. A sewin'
machine
The man who used to have barn has
put gasoline can behind it and called 1t
q garage.
There is one thing that no man ever
made a success of, and that Is the drink
habit.
One of the cheapest ways to get a repu-
tation for great wealth is to stand IN
front of swell cafe with toothpick in
yer mouth.
About the most useless specimen OF hu-
manity is a boardin' house keepers hus-
band.
There is too much education and not
enough larnin' to the average college
course.
When man lets his 12-year-old kid run
big touring car 1t just goes to show
that there are still lot of fools in this
world.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-10-08
Court Grind Begun

The fall session of ths Stevens
county district court opened Monday
with Judge Stephen Flaherty on the
bench. The first day was devoted to
preliminary matters and on Tuesday
the petit jury was summoned. Only
a few important cases are on the doc
ket and the term will be very short.
Only one case has been called so
far, that of F. A. Mullen VS.. the OF
ter Tail Light and Power Co. The
suit is the outcome of the fire
which destroyed the Mullen store and
much of the stock. The plaintiff seeks
damages because of the alleged negli.
gence of the light company in shut
ting off the lights in the store before
the stocks could be removed. A large
number of witnesses have been called
and it is probable the case will not
reach the jury before late today. Or
mond and Murphy represent the plain.
tiff and Field and Spooner are looking
after the interests of the defendant.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-10-08
COMMITTEE WANTS
CORN AND ALFALFA
Farmers are Asked to Furnish
Specimens for Purposes at
Ortonville Fair

A committee recently appointed by
the Morris commercial club to arrange
for Stevens county corn and alfalfa
exhibit at the corn and alfalfa ex-
position at OrtOnville next week is
anxious to secure a few more speci-
men to complete the exhibit. These
specimens are wanted not later than
Saturday this week. (tomorrow)
Farmers who can furnish a small
quantity Of nice alfalfa and corn are
urgently requested to bring their
samples to the Kruger drug store in
Morris on or before Saturday morn
ing. Any farmer who has one or both
but who are unable to deliver to the
store will confer favor upon the com
mittee and a boost for Stevens county
if they will call Mr.. Kruger by phone
and he will send a man out to get it.
This is a. matter that corn and alf-
alta growers in Stevens county should
not overlook. Stevens county has
some nice corn and alfalfa this year
and neighboring counties and the rest
of the state should be told about it.