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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
War Not So Terrible.
Evening Chat
Irving to Like PeODIc.
BY RUTH CAMERON

Il JUS can't like her. said Molly,
the little stenographer lady. Il know
L ought to but 1 can't
Nonsense" said the autho1man's
wife, you've got a prejudice against
her"
mo, L haven't, honest" said Molly
Il know shes awfuIly clever and all
that and she's pleasant to. me when
we meet, and I've tried to like her, but
i can't
'"Of course you could if you really
tried" retorted the authorman's wife.
You could like any one if you tried
How about it. reader friends?
With which do you agree, the au-
thormanS wife or Nelly?
Can you like people by trying or is
liking something beyond our power to
coerce? -Ht.
Myself. 1 am inclined to agree with
Molly that sll the trying in the world
cart produce any genuine liking.
Is it meant that every one in the
world should like every one else?
I don't believe 1T is.
We may love every one in the broad
sense of loving them as brother hu-
man beings WHOSE we'll being and hap
piress we desire. but that's quite an
other thing from liking them indi-
vidual personalities nwhose friendship
and companionship we enjoy.
There are certain cOlors that do not
harmonic. One color kills another.
1t is not the fault OF either color and
no power on earth can make such
colors like each other.
1t seems to me mat personalities
have similar reactions. There ray be
two personalities each perfectly good
in itself which simply do not harmon
ize with each other. One antagonizes
the other. ThSre can be no harmony
between the coloTs. no liking between
the individuals. And it is the deep
forces of nature which are acting in
both cases.
Now do not misunderstood me.
I do not mean that one should fos-
ter and cherish ores anita goniSms.
Nor should one think that every dis
like is an instructive and uncOnquer-
able antagcnism. Many times what
we think are constitutional dislikes
really come from lack of knowledge OF
understanding of the object
And even when, after honest and
prolonged effort one cannot overcome
d dislike, one need not indulge it.
You may not be able to like a per-
son, but you can keep from announce
ing that fact to he world. You can
treat MIN with all courtesy, you can
try to sec his good points and to keep
your antagonism from prejhdicing
your judgment of his acts.
Liking we cannot impose upon our
selves; justice we can.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Question-''An Interested Letter
rieHo wants 10 hnoW' IL tIefe is
any way to overcome stage fright. I
have been n reader in a small way for
years and yet I still suffer acutely
from fear, just before and sometimes
during my performance
Answer don't know of any sure
way. Try to think that after all, your
performance is not so important TO
others as it seems to you. take deep
breaths and don't hurry yourself about
beginning. Pauses often give dignity
to q performance and u chance to get
hold of himself to the performer. EX-
ert all your will and try to treat your
self as if you were another person.
Say to yourself 3ternly, You can do
this and it's all nonsense to make such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
BUSINESS Is RECUPERATING

Mentioning the decision in the
United States Steel corporation case,
the probabilities of an outcome of
which will thrust the country into the
war, and the huge balance of trade
that stands to the nations credit as
being favorable elements or develop
ments that are favorable to the bust
ness and financial situation in this
country, Henry Clews, the New York
banker, points out in his current week
ly financial review, that the war, new
ertheless, remains controlling factor.
and whatever happens which prolongs
the war must be expected to cast their
on this side of the Allan Home
conditions continue to improve, he
goes on. Confidence. like most
sentiments is infectious and its spread
has much to do with recuperation.
Crops are late owing to the backward
season, but the country is sure to have
an abundance of grain and cotton;
much of which Europe will certainly
want at good prices, war or no war.
Industrial conditions are improving.
The whole country has been economic
ing severely for a lengthy period,
more severely perhaps than the con-
traction in business justified. Our
cotton mills are steadily increasing
their output at slightly better prices,
and the great distributors OF the west
all report growing confidence and eN-
pectations of a good trade next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
Globe Sights
[From the Atchison Globe.l
BY THE ATCEISoN GLOBE

From the Atchison Globe
A boy who has to wear curls should
be given boxing lessons.
When man is on time himself, he
usually finds the other man is late.
If you want to hear a lot of rea-
sons, talk to the man who was dis
charged
a man who chews tobacco has no
right to scold his wife for wearing a
dirty kimono.
AtchiSon has an unusual man. He
is a poor mechanic, and doesn't blame
it onto his .ools.
Ali old-fashioned man: You car
tell by their shape that children are
made to spank.
If the family row isn't in your fam
lily. maintain neutrality in seven diff
ferent languages
If men weren't slaves to fashion.
comparatively few of them would ever
get new hats.
People are so suspicious that the
general opinion IS that the accused
is guilty as charged.
While the average lap lunch is the
smallest thing in the world it is also
the handieSt to digest.
Good help. with. some people, is
the rare kind that gives two dollars
worth of service for dollar
When people get more than 35 years
old they don't worry much about any
body's punctured romance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
Hun1or of the Day

Ethel-"Oh, Jack. be careful tonight
Papas brought home a bulldog" Jack
That's all right. The dog used to belong
to me, and l got the dealer to sell him
to YOUR father. Baltimore American.
Limitation" said Uncle Eben, 'is de
greatest flattery; but dat ain salts
faction. Chicken stealth ain less
annoyin' because it's due to overwhelm-
collection. '-Washingto Star.
''Did the locker on at the fight go home
in the interim 2" mo, sir; he went home
in the ambulance. "-BaltiInore American.
Have you careful chauffeur" Every.
He never runs over any one unless he's
sure he can make n getaway."-Judge.
''The Biffens have bought harp for
Jane" For playing" mo, posing.'-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

From the chicago NeWS-1
When good man goes in for re-
form work he begins at home.
Does your conscience ever require
an alarm clock to awaken it?
But let the sluggard attend picinc
and the ant will surely come to him.
Sometimes a man refrains from say
ing the wrong thing by keeping his
face closed.
Did you ever know any. one to speak
a kind word for an amateur cornet
player?
All that any man has to do in order
to attract attention is to make fool
of himself.
Men are judged by their actions.
women by their looks and mules and
onions by their strength.
After it became apparent that cloth
ing was the proper thing, 1t was Eve
who said: Il told you So
1t is difficult for a man to convince
a woman that she is in the wrong
when she knows she is.
Many man who has more money
than he needs takes up some profes-
sion as an excuse for loafing-
There is a lot of unconscious humor
concealed in the explanations OF a
baseball manager as to who his club
failed to make good
y woman is always telling other
women her husband says she works
too hard-but it's doughnuts to fudge
he never says anything OF the kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
EXERCISE AND HEALTH.

In Exercise and Health, an educa-
tional leaflet from the United States
public health service, a note of warm
ing is sounded. The death rate after
the age of forty is increasing in spite
of more sanitary modes of living and
greater protection against commun1-
cable disease. The expectation of life
after forty is less than it was thirty
years ago. This is due largely to in
creased prevalence of the diseases OF
degeneration. The muscles, arteries
and other organs of those who as re-
suit of sedentary occupation or indo-
Ience take too little exercise degener-
ate. Heart disease, kidney disease and
other ills follow. Take exercise
Take daily exercise. Have n hobby
that gets YOU out of doors. Walk to
YOUR business, to a walking club and
keep your weekly score of miles.
Keep chickens, make garden, wheel
the baby or play golf or any other
game but take two hours outdoor
exercise every day. Gymnasium
work is good for those who like it
and can afford it, but avoid heavy
athletics. Don't try to be strong
man. the champion athlete often
dies Young Be a moderate, persist
ent. daily exponent of exercise. You
NAV not burn the family carriage, as
Benjamin Franklin suggested, but at
least as he advised. walk, walk, walk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
rNSrNG WAR HEROES.

The man behind the gun is usually
singled out for the honors of war and
it's victories, but to what extent could
he serve his country to advantage
were it not for the workers behind
him and at home who make the
munitions of war. 1t is these men in
Great Britain today who are being
urged on to almost Superhuman eff
forts by the governmental authorities
in order that the soldiers in the field
may give the best possible account OF
themselves. In other words, efficient
stay-at-homes are as necessary IN
times of war as are heroes who march
to the battle lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
ROCKEFELLER'S WEALTH.

Because he is the wealthiest man
in the country, John d. Rockefeller
is also the most profitable citizen that
Uncle Sam possesses. 1t is estimated
that he will have to pay an income
tax this year of approximately s3,-
500. 900, or about per cent of all the
money that the United States will re-
ceive this year under the income tax
law. Still it would be far better for
the country if the government We're
collecting such a huge sum from 1000
men instead of one. If the nation
We're not producing so much new
wealth each year, John DIS fortune
is so huge that it's natural incrementS
would absorb a big part of the wealth
of the country before many years had
naSSnG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
From Other Pens


A DANGEROUS INVENTION.
On his departure for Italy Mr. Mar
conf tells us he has nearly perfected
new invention that has nothing to do
with war, but which, on account of
the possible abuses it may be put to.
he hesitates to give to the public. In
itself in proper hands the invention
is capable of producing much good.
This is a camera by means of which n
solid wall may be rendered transpar-
ent so that anyone placing it on the
outside of building could observe
everything going on within. The po-
lice department would certainly well
come such an aid for detecting crime.
Used as universally, however, as the
telephone or even the wireless, such
an invention would render human life
almost uncomfortable. For it would
destroy all privacy. No great effort
of the imagination is necessary to con-
note the consequences Next to an in
vention for reading and recording the
uneXpressed thoughts in the brain we
know of no invention that would so
completely revolutionize civilized life
as it is lived on the globe today.
Should Marconi perfect his device its
use ought to be limited by government
to properly accredited operators.-Los
Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

venirs you will not buy for your
friends, the aches you will not have
from climbing the mountains, the
morning maps you will not miss to
climb up to see a sunrise, the stories
you will not have to tell of how many
places you visited, and the extra
clothes you will not have to buy. Then
you will have time to turn your mind
to the enjoyment of a week of abso-
lutte rest and study of nature in good
old Kansas. Besides, by staying at
home you'n save enough money TO
get your new fall suit, you will have
time to read the current literature,
row a boat along the old home river
cook over a camp fire, and possibly
learn how to catch fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

A kelek seems a bit safer than the
goofah. as the round goofah appears
to be very "tippy." But evidently
the native people think both are per
fectly safe.
The little goofah is used as a mas
senger craft on the river: used TO
carry beggars, merchants and passen-
gers to and fro from the bigger boats
which stay out in the river
The keleks, on the other. hand .ra
used as freight craft and bring great
loads of pottery. grain and skins down
the river from Mosul.
The sailors on both craft loci
very picturesque with their CAV t,,r
bans and fantastic dress. These riding
in the goofahs remind one of the ola
story of three wise men of Gotham
those same wise men didn't have =
strong goofah to ride in-then tbei-
story would have been Ioneer'
Copyright Clara Ingram JudsonI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
Jayh lots

| If we were all judged by the gram
mar we use, as the Minneapolis Mes
senger says, most of us would be in
the minus column.
| AS Ruth Alexander People suggests
in the Erie Record: If catalpa bios
SONS grew in a green house at so much
per. wouldn't they be beautiful?
Quite a number of our exchanges
are very neutral, says the Phillips
County Post. They don't care which
one of the Allies ticks the Germans.
quette Tribune: If opportunity to Ego
wrong never Knocked at your door
how do you know whether you are a
good man or a good woman?
! Mrs. Tom Thompson of the How
ard Courant suggests that some of the
ihenpecked men would be very gloomy
and lonesome if the hen should be de-
ported. And besides being helpful, her
cackle is always a warming.
They say a farmer is the most con-
tented man on earth, remarks Casa
way the Gas Gulch correspondent of
the Wilson County Citizen, and he ar
CUES: He should be. He gets all the
water he can use, and then some, and
all the sunshine, when he doesn't need
it.
The Marysville Advocate Democrat
muddy bank and wait four hours on a
fish that doesn't intend to bite with
nary a complaint, but he won't wait
five minutes for his wife to get ready
for church without bawling her out
loud enough to disturb the neighbors.
An Iowa man suggests that the
roadSideS of every important highway
should be adorned with flowers. 1t
is a fine idea and we might add that
it would be nice to tie pink ribbon
to each fence post along the road and
wrap the wires with bunting, but with
wheat at dollar and a half a buShel
no farmer is going to waste any time
or ground decorating the highways.
Things look pretty good in Kansas
just they are, thank you.-Iola
Register.
Some of the Potpourri served by
Tom Thompson to the readers of his
Howard Courant: The output of mush
does not necessarily depend upon the
corn crop. If you fail to see the point
of this. just read the magazines.
Next time you pass man and woman,
see if the woman isn't doing the talk
ing. 1t is all right to teach your
boy to save money. But do not over
look the Importance of also teaching
him how to make, money. An
artistic temperament on some fool acts
just like a bilious fever does on some
others. A man can be broad
minded and liberal and still ride in
the front seat on the water wagon.
Being a piker is not the way to be
popular. but some folk save a heap of
money that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

OF course it was all very courtly
and chivalrous for TopekanS to extend
the hand of hospitality to the pretty
girls who travelled through here Mon
day on their way to the California ex-
positions, but to characterize them as
1.-THE rs most beautiful of American
women" was going a trifle too far and
also doing a grave injustice to that
many or more of Topeka's own fair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
Journal Entries

Every man makes mistakes but 1t
is only those of large caliber who
acknowledge them.
+ j.
1t is quite as important for a per-
son not to tell all he knows, as 1t 10
for him to know anything.
! j.
Maybe fashions change so often be-
cause of "a desire to dodge some of
the people who insist on following
them.
/. Il +
An interesting contemplation is as
to what men would be like If they
had the power to make themselves
over.
+ j j
Hot weather probably doesn't an
noy fat folks nearly much as it does
those who are continually asking
them about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

An excellent argument for the most
thorough medical supervision of school
children by public authority is to be
found in the fact that the epidemic
of measles which ragged to a consider
able extent in Topeka this spring has
had the jinx applied to it by the clos
ing of the schools for the summer.
Not a single new cose of measles has
been reported to the city health de-
partment since the schools closed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

At any rate, Winston Churchill has
all the British and other European
statesmen beaten several city blocks
when it comes to bombastic talk and
Boosting. His recent predictions of an
immediate and overwhelming success
for the Allies at the Dardanelles re-
call those that he made many months
ago to the effect that the British navy
was about to dig the German navy
from its base as a rat is dug from a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

Neither does the spring driving in
the western arena of war appear to
be of a satisfactory sort for any of the
parties engaged in it. The armies of
France. England and Belgium seem
to be locked in a Veritable death strug-
gle with those of Germany. All they
are apparently doing is killing each
other off without getting anywhere in
toy-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

This is also the beginning of the
season of the year when boating and
bathing will take its usually heavy toll
of lives in this country. No better
argument could be presented of the
desirability of teaching all boys and
girls to swim. The great University of
Princeton now demands proficiency in
swimming as one of the qualifications
for its graduates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

No doubt about the ubiquity of
Kaiser Wilhelm. One day the news
papers tell about him on his way to
Austria to take charge of the defen-
sive of the Teutonic allies against the
invading Italians. and on the next they
report him to be supervising the Ger
man operations in the western arena
of the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

II the Industrial Workers of the
World, or some of them, are wise, they
will make themselves exceedingly
scarce in Kansas during the wheat har-
vest season. They have been appro-
priately dubbed the 'I-Won't-W ork-
ers.' and there is no room in Kansas
at harvest, or any other time for that
matter, for gentry ofi such a type.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

Wages Are Going Up" say the
newspaper headlines, but this desira-
BILE novelty appears to prevail only
among the zinc miners, whose num-
bers are not of extensive proportions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

While it is essential that the Topeka
jitneys should be regulated, the
utmost care must be used that none
of the features of their regulation
shall SAVIOR of strangulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

There also seems to be pretty con-
elusive evidence here and there that
this wave of prosperity which the
Democratic statesmen see rolling over
the country is missing q few places;
probably on account of the European
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

They are also celebrating a Fathers
Day now, but the day when Father
is most popular is pay day. Once or
twice a month. or weekly, as the
ghost may walk for him, Fathers
sun is in the ascendency-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

British officers evidently don't drive
their men into battle. They must lead
them. The British casualty list for
the last week contains the names of
800 officers along with those of 10000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
At any rate reform and remorse
both have the same beginning.
The lazy man and his theories are
both alike in that as rule they won't
work.
n woman generally has more diff
Guilty in cracking a joke than in break
ing a man.
Perhaps the most satisfactory way
to elevate the stage would be by low
ering the seats.
the imagination as to hear the first
baby trying to talk.
The mother of manageable daugh-
tiers is probably called mater because
she is a match maker -.-,-.
You never can tell. Just because
a mans name is Francis. don't jump
to the conclusion that he is frank.
You don't have to consult shoe
maker to discover that it is better to
be well heeled than on your uppers.
Blobbs-"It's mighty hard to be
poor" Slobbs-''Yes, but on the 9th
er hand, it's about the easiest thing
in the world"
Wigwag-''They say the sailor has
a wife in every port Henpeckke-
mo wonder he spends most of his
time at sea-
wigg-"Blooblud is a great stickler
for ancestry, isn't he?' Wagg-"Y es,
when he gets to heaven he will prob
ably snub poor old Adam because he
had no grandfather"
'"AIl the worlds a stage" quoted the
Wise Guy. "Yes," assented the Simple
Mug, land judging from the people
who are always giving advice, most OF
US want to be the prompter.'
''Why, Tommy" exclaimed the Sun
day school teacher, don't you say
your prayers every night before you
go to bed ?" Not any more,' replied
Tommy. 81 ulster when 1 slept in a
folding bed, though doB- sl a7gu -
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On the Spur
of the Moment
Yes. 1t Surely Does.
BIT ROY X. MOTION.

Yes. 1t Surely Does.
Why did those old Egyptian kings
Build pyramids and other things?
why did they proudly carve or paint
An opelsk with figures quaint?
why DID some Roman monarch raise
A circus in those good old days?
Or keep a poet under hire
10 sound complimentary Tyre?
w ny did old Caesar late at night
Sit up describing every fight?
Or Alexander make that bluff
And say, The worlds not big
enough p"
And see how wealth is wrung from
fame,
The answer need not cause surprise:
1t always pays to advertise.
Uncle Abner.
There is only one class of people
that gossip as much as the wimmen,
and they are the men.
never yet see a foreign nobleman
who didn't look the part.
A model husband is a Teller who kin
make his wife believe his excuses.
Deacon Stubs has got mewl
which is the stubbornest critter in our
township. When the deacon wants
the meWl to stop he hollerS, "Giddap,"
and when he wants the mewl to start
he holIers Whoa" SO the mewl does
just what the deacon wants him to
without KNOWN it, The deacon uses
the Same system on MS WIe-
If you don't put anything in the
bank of Life. you won't draw any
thing out.
War Not So Terrible.
One of the benefits of the war so
far as We are personally concerned, is
the fact that we no longer get folders
in every mail from the Ham burg
American line advising delightful
ocean trips that we can't afford to
take.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08

Italy adds to the equipment OF the
Allies a gigantic aircraft of the aero
ane-destroyer variety. But what
they need more, and Great Britain IN
particular, is a submarine destroyer
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MORE ABOUT QUEER BOATS.
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mats. The skins are sewed tightly
and then inflated with air. The sew
eral skins Git takes dozens to make
one kelek) are fastened in place on
poles woven croSsways. This raft
is then covered with straw mats and
the boat is ready for use