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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News. I

from the Chicago News
Really square men are seldom
FOUNDERS
Alas for actors, who only think they
are,
Many a girl skaters her ideal by
marrying him.
Only a non-salaried office is COM
PEELED to seek the man.
An inch of performance is worth
hundred yards of promise.
Anyway, when a woman argues she
car always convince herself.
The man who is looking for trouble
invariably finds it-and more.
The youth who is unwilling to toe
the mark usually remains at the foot.
A smile may hide a mans thought,
just as paint occasionally conceals a
woman's complexion.
Honor thy father and thy mother
young man, but when they pick out a
wife for you it's your cue to kick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
If you want a girl to extend the
glad hand, offer her engagement
ring.
1t is better to take pleasure with
your work than to take work with
your pleasure.
Blessings sometimes come disguised:
in fact, in the cleverest DISCUSSES in
the world.
You never can tell. Many a fellow
with a strong pull succumbs to the
The impecunious society youth who
pawns his watch goes to three balls in
order that he can attend one.
Man wants but little here below"
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, little be-
low the average" amended the Simple
Mug.
We fight fire with water, but it is
doubtful if water bugs would triumph
over fireflies.
Many a young man is so fast that
he can run through a fortune without
getting out of breath. In fact, he can
acquire one.
The fellow who orders spring lamb
and green peas is apt to feel more
sheepish than the lamb, and greener
than the peas.
Did the dentist give you gas when
you had your tooth pulled. Uncle ST -
asked Mr.. Cityman- NO, by heck, he
didn't" snorted Uncle ST, indignantly.
THE burned fraud said he'd give it to
me, but when cum to, burned If he
didn't charge me extry fer it.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

ton. These houses are to be sold,
preferably to Argentine citizens in the
employ of the government, on an in
stallment plan whereby the purchaser
obligates himself to pay $23.65 per
month until the mortgage loan OF
ST. 500 has been repaid with interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per annum.
Houses not taken up by employees OF
the government are to be sold to 9TH
er applicants. Similar projects are
under way in Santa F'e and other
provinces of Argentina, the houses in
most cases being smaller and less ex-
pensive, thus reducing the amount of
the installments and enabling work
men with incomes of less than 500
per m onth to become purchasers. The
feature which makes the plan feasible
is the fact that the Argentine gov
eminent issues series of what
are known internal bonds
bearing interest at the rate of per
cent, which it lends to the construc-
ton companies, thereby enabling
them to finance these large projects.
Much of the imported building ma
terial is also to be admitted free of
duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
HOMES FOR woRK1NG-MEN.

These United States lead the world
in many matters, but they fall short
both individually and collectively, of
doing as much for their people as
many of the other countries. For in
stance, ten thousand homes for work.
ing people are to be built in Buenos
Aires within the next five years. &C
cording to a news item in the current
bulletin of the Pan-American Union,
which has it's headquarters at Wash
ington, D. c. The Argentine govern
ment has evolved a scheme for the
betterment of the living conditions of
the laboring classes in the larger cities
of the country by placing the POSSIBLE
ity of owning their homes within their
reach To accomplish this the gov
eminent has entered into a contract
with large New York company for
the erection of 10, 900 two-story houses
in an outlying district of the Argen-
tine capital. Each house is to have
not less than five rooms. a kitchen,
bathroom, sewer connections ETC.,
must front on a street or public pas
sage, and must be within four squares
of street car line or a railway sta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCEISoN GLOBE.

A man begins to get old the day he
is born.
No woman is pretty when she gets
up in the morning.
Some people spend all their spare
time seeking something to resent.
A dog convention never seems to
have any trouble getting quorum.
In first class restaurant, the GUS
toner also does a good deal of wait
ing.
Not all the loafers have an artistic
temperament, but there are other ex-
cuses.
The doctor isn't always Fastening to
a sickroom when he dashes by in his
motor car.
A woman's ambition to look as
young as her grown daughter is the
hardest to realize.
1t is all right to love your neighbor,
but loving his wife is apt to become a
hazardous occupation.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who said a woman was as
plump as partridge?''
Jude Johnson probably will accom-
plish one thing: Some day he will be
known One of the Oldest Inhabi-
tantS.
The stuff dreams are made of is
apt to be mince pie and other sub
stantial food taken shortly before re-
firing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
DEBATING PERPETUAL MOTION.

Harvard, Princeton and Yale re-
Gently debated the advisa bility of "a
prompt and substantial increase in our
army and navy" notes the New Re
public. and it continues: Here we
might look for enlightenment on a
troubled question; for the fresh and
Systematically treated minds of the
undergraduates presumably our flu
ture leaders, should be above the mists
of tired congressional intellect. 1t is
therefore disconcerting that on the
same evening when Yale successfully
defended the negative of the question
against Princeton, she won judgment
for the affirmative against Harvard.
The fact that Harvard, speaking for
the affirmative, defeated Princeton,
might weigh down the balance a little,
unless one contemplates the case of
Princeton, which showed an impartial
ity more gracious than Yale's by being
defeated on both sides. On this same
evening Williams. Brown and Dart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
Evening Chat
Billy's Mothers Lesson.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The little boy who was born dis
orderly had received a very severe
talking to. He was told among other
things that he must not leave his rub
bers in the kitchen where the cook
would stumble over them He must
put them in the clothes closet.
Two weeks and three days later, his
mother met him with a frown.
You've left your rubbers in the
kitchen again." she said, Il am very
know YOU promised to do better.
But I did do better retorted
Billy. Just think how long l haven't
left them there, and you never said
anything about that"
You never said anything about
that'-the sentence struck a chord of
self questioning in his mothers heart.
He had tried. There was no doubt
of that. And he had done better. Yet,
true enough, she had never said a
word until he had slipped. Was that
the way to help boy who was strug-
CLING against a tendency that seemed
to be born. in him, she asked herself?
Being one of those rare people who
are honest with themselves, she an
swered, NO" And being that even
rarer parsonage, mother who is
willing to acknowledge to her chill
dren that she is not omniscient, she
said to Billy, You're right. Billy. I
guess L didn't say anything about
didn't. I'll do better next time
Whereupon, Billy, who, like most
boys, could appreciate a square deal,
threw his arms about his mothers
neck and answered in a voice that
pierced her ears, but sounded good to
her heart, so will t.
And he did.
L wonder if there aren't a great
many mothers who could think. over
BiIly's lesson with advantage.
Could your little son or daughter
justly accuse you-"You never said
anything about that"
Do you remember to blame the fail
ures and forget to praise the attempts
to do better?
Some parents object to rewards.
They say the children should obey be-
cause that is their duty and not for
rewards. They expect more of the
little folks than most big folks can
attain-that is to do duty entirely for
duty's sake and not because they hope
for happiness thereby.
The big world Is 1ul of rewards as
we'll as punishments. Why should
their little world be different?
L read the other day of two sales
men who brought in a week of rec
ord business to their respective firms
One firm telegraphed congratulations;
the other made no acknowledgment.
The first man stayed with his firm
until he went into business for him
self; the second left at the first op-
portunity. Moreover the first firm
grew and thrived: the second went
down hill.
Enough said.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Question: Do you believe in taking
children to the theater &c. F. c.
Answer: That's something like ask
ing, DO you think mushrooms are
good eating?" 1t depends on what
you pick out. 1 think
there are many plays which are excel
lent entertainment and education for
children. But there are a good many
l wouldn't want to eat and
a good many plays that would be bad
to child's intellectual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
Kansas Comment
scuoo1. IJINCHEoNs.

The provision of warm luncheonS
in school houses is one of the new
ideas being tried out in many cities.
1t is costly, but the results are no
doubt worth it if a city can a11ord IL.
The subject of luncheons for schooi
children has long been problem Tor
narents AS towns increase in size,
schooIhouses multiply. Probably a
larger number of children walk nome
at noon than formerly, where the Two
session plan is used. They should be
encoura ged to do so. A cold luncheon
is a depressing element in the life or
a growing child. Many youngsters
have been coming up pale and
scrawny from the lack of a substantial
noon meal. If there are pastry shops
and bakeries near by, parents are apt
to give the children little money Tor
their noon meal. This may all go for
ice cream candy, or thin waters. The
substantial cold ham sandwich from
mothers pantry was far better. In
school, the schoolhouse was apt to be
fairly near the names, an no large
proportion of the pupils had to carry
fairly near the homes, and no large
portation of pupils and consolidation
of schools, a great many cold lunches
are carried Where this is being done,
it would seem as if parents at least
would want to subscribe to provide
some hot soup or cocoa, to go with the
cold hand-out from the luncheon bas-
ket. Children's eating needs close SUI
pervision. The hungry boy or girl at
the home dining table will eat plain
bread and butter with avidity and rel
is little complaint. Give them ten
cents for luncheon, though, and more
than half of it goes for pies or cake.
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

mouth held a triangular series of de-
bates on a similar resolution; but we
shall spare the reader further COM
plexities. We cannot rbear to say,
however, that in the latter series there
were two victories for the negative in
stead of two for the affirmative as in
the major league. Thus was proved
the value of collegiate debating,
which enables the student to espouse
all sides of every question with equal
conviction. 1t reminds one of perpet-
ual motion, but not less of the two
party system, which makes it incum-
bent on our legislators not to consider
the facts and accomplish the desired
result, but to justify platform before
an electorate of loyal partisans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
Jayhawker Jots

1t is noticeable, to the Atchisor
Globe. that the war dispatches mem
ton only the other country's losses.
According to the Woodson County
Advocate, man went to church the
other night and listened to a sermon
from the text, He giveth His beloved
sleep" says that all the beloved were
present.
Are these words in the dictionary,
and if not why not? asks the Clay
Center Times, Taw, boiler, roundin's S.
knuckle- down, fudge, overs, keeps,
vents, dubs, .vent-dubs, back-to-taW'
picks.
mother writes to the Kansas City
Star that she has little girl who
sucks her left thumb and wants to
know how to break her of the habit
Jerry Piffle is quoted by the Mime
the mother keep a thin coat of black
berry jam on the little girls right
thumb and watch the results.
Evidently. No. 10 ladies' rubbers are
scarce ana therefore valuable in De-
catur county. Editor Kennedy of the
prints this notice in the current issue
of his paper: My wife lost a number
ten rubber between the Acton and
Eiler farm Sunday. The finder will
ton to the Booster without any further
red tape or preliminaries.
A great many men cannot under
stand why a country editor so soon
forgets the injuries that have been
done him by men, remarks Conner
he explains: Well, it's this way. If
he cultivated all his opportunities for
paying old scores, he wouldn't have
enough friends when he died to form
q complement of volunteer pail bear
ers His family would have to hire
mon tO do the lob.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
THE ELECTION.

Now is the time for all people, good
and true, to rally to the support of
their mayor and other commissioners
upon whom the city of Topeka has
decided to place the work and respon-
sibility for making the capital city
better place in which to live and do
business.
Four of the five commissioners
elected were favored by the State
Journal because they were men who
had been tried by experience, and,
by virtue of their past good service for
the city of Topeka in the respective
departments, were entitled to promo
ton or reelection as they desired.
]. Z. House, who has been chosen
as the or-commissioner, although
without experience along the specific
lines which he will now pursue, is a
man who has made a success in his
calling and who rallied to his sup
port good and strong friends, among
whom there were no better people in
Topeka.
While Mr.. Blakely had a clear rec
ord as always having been friendly to
the prohibitory law, it is evident that
this phase of the issues was not para
mount and the effort by bit of over
zeal, tempered by high strung bitter
ness in one instance. to make that is
sue the distinctive one was not effica-
cious, especially in view of Mr..
Houses announcement that he would
make Topeka tight as drum
If Mr.. Houses administration is as
bright and brilliant as his paragraphs,
and as broad and sound as his popu-
larity and good fellowship he will not
the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
Journal Entries

Often, a pleasant smile covers an
extremely bitter thought.
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Any number of people are like the
sea in that they are never still.
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Is there anything more narrowing
than a laugh with hollow sound to
it?
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When all is said and done, most of
the opportunities which come to
man are developed by him.
4 + =
Surely there is great satisfaction In
the thought and fact that most men
and things are not as bad as they are
painted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
HELP wAsHBURN GROW.

WaShburn'S campaign to raise $780,
600 in Topeka of the half million dol
lar addition that it hopes to obtain
for its endowment fund by the end of
the year, will soon be under full steam
ahead. The preliminaries, now being
arranged, forecast that it will be of
the whirlwind variety. short, sharp
and decisive effort. And the indica-
tions also are that it will be crowned
with the success that it deserves.
Washburn college is Topeka's most
distinguished asset, and also it's most
valuable one, from a purely material
standpoint with the exception, of
course, of the Santa Fee plant here.
1t has played a major part in placing
Topeka in a forefront position on the
educational map of the great western
section of the country. And Topekans
should have, as they undoubtedly do,
a great pride in the fact that their
city is the home of such an excellent
educational institution of the higher
class, and one that is laden with I'M
usual possibilities for growth and de-
velopment. Because of the competi-
ton that such college as Washburn.
has to meet from state supported in
situations, it cannot live and grow as
it should unless it has an adequate
endowment fund. A larger Washburn
means a larger and more prosperous
Topeka. But 1t is unnecessary to di-
late upon the advantages t at would
accrue to Topeka were Washburn
placed on sound financial feet, and
given the means to expand. They are
patent. And the best evidence of this
is the enthusiasm being shown by the
business and professional men of To-
peka over the endowment campaign,
and their willingness to give of their
time as well as of their money to
make it a success. Every Topekan
should contribute something of his
means to this endowment fund 1t
will be a gift to Washburn. it is true.
But it will also be an investment for
Topeka that will pay most remunera-
tive dividends, even if they are of the
indirect variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
That Wise Mr.. Owl Took Billy Rae
coon Down to the River.

Because 1 never knew they did"
replied Billy, turning back to talk.
and anyway 1 don't know as 1 think
so much of what my relations do. How
do they get them ?"
Mr. Owl seemed to know that Billy
meant get the crabs. not the relations
and ne explained all about how rae
coons elsewhere sometimes fish for
CLAIMS and crabs instead of eating corn.
Billy was interested and thought fish
ing might be fun. So-would you be-
lieve it?-that wise Mr.. Owl took Billy
Raccoon down to the river and taught
him how to fish, And stranger still.
Bill found he liked fishi:fx: and
every night thereafter he went 10
the cornfield for corn and then to the
brook for lab dessert-wasn't he a
funny old Billy 1915.
Clara Ingram Judson.)
TomOrrow-Pansy Faces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

unusual faculty for getting in bad.
He has just been expelled from Bel
GUM by the German authorities in
control there. The news dispatch on
the incident is brief and fails to give
an mixing of the way in which this
more or less distinguished gentleman
incurred the displeasure of the Ger
mans But the chances are that Gift
wasn't at all satisfied with the way
the Germans were managing things
and insisted that they change their
method to conform to his IDEAS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

China has finally submitted to all
of the demands of Japan. But moth
ing else was to have been expected.
China is the champion submitter
among the nations of the earth Ac-
cordingly, she has been imposed upon
by nearly all of them. It's only the
dead worm, though, that doesn't turn.
And when China finds her strength
some day and has developed the intel
hgence to use it, business will pick up
for some of those who have been us
ing her of late years just about as it
has suited their fancies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

Who would suppose that the for
eign trade of the United States in fruit
and nuts would approximate $780,
000,0 a year? Yet government sta
tistics show that its value for the
twelve months of 1914 was $92,S4O,-
1T2. And this is double what it was
ten years ago. The imports were
$50, 231, 1914 and the exports S33,6OS,-
IT'S, including in each case trade with
Hawaii. Porto Rico, Alaska and the
PhilipDineS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

why, she's one of EN-"
docs she want to buy them dun
ming letters. or the old letters you
wrote me afore we were married ?''
mo. She's after bugs
Good lands."
II couldn't make out exactly what
she wanted of them, but when they
asked about crickets 1 sent 'em over
| in the pasture"
Are they goin' to fry the grease
out of 'em for rheumatism"
Dunno 1 couldn't understand half
their big talk
And as the two collectors walked
Slowly across the field they warmed
toward each other, as was natural OF
the millions of people in the United
States, they alone, very likely, were
the only ones working for those who
were to be cavorting around when the
Falls of Niagara were worn out like
an old dashboard.
Two lawyers would have been in a
wrangle in five minutes as to who
should have the crickets after they
had been captured.
Two editors would have dragged
politics into it and called each other
liars.
Two poets would have wrangIed
about the moonlight and dubbed each
jinglers.
recognized each other at once and
ciasped hands, as it were.
Mr.. Blanchard and Miss Day were
SO long on their way to cricket roost
that the farmer grOwled to himself.
III !! was after an insect I'd hurry
up and get him by hind leg and then
sit on the fence and do my talking!"
But the collectors reached the spot
grass, with a bush growing in the
midst of it.
There were no crickets to be seen,
but 1t was the hour of the day when
insects nd
ready for the business of the evening.
IL was right and proper that Mr..
Blanchard should get down on his
knees and paw around in the grass
and he paved with energy and de.
termination. He found insects after
minute, but they were not crickets
The farmer saw Mr.. Blanchard leap
Day utter shrek and saw her run
ming away.
Then he saw Mr.. Blanchard running
Then it was Miss Day who bounded
around and fought something with
her field net. Then the farmer said
to himself:
nest that 1 was saving for a wire
fence man, and perhaps they'll need
help. Queer that these bug folks can't
tell a cricket from a beef
There was need of his help. Both
collectors were( tearing around in the
grass. both emphatic and woeful
Armed with a broken bush, the res
cuer fought the bees to a standstill
but they had done their work The
wife came from the house to lead Miss
Day to it, and the husband brought
up the procession with Mr.. Blanchard
1t Will be three or four days be-
fore you can CO." said the doctor who
was called.
1t turned out to be five, but after
the second day time passed joyfully.
With their heads and hands bandaged,
oh to
their way, the collectors sat on the
veranda and talked of birds and eggs
and manuscript and insects and-love
Yes, they talked love to leave a record
of how it was done in last America in
the twentieth century. And when they
departed for their homes the farmer
said to his wife:
They orter make them bumblebees
a present of 500 for singing the fads
outer 'em!"-(Copyright 1915, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndfcate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

All kinds of anathemas will be
heaped by the small boys of Kansas
upon the foot and mouth disease and
the restrictions that are necessary to
prevent it's spread, if they are respon-
sible for keeping all of the big cir
cuses out of the state this year. And
some of the old boys, fathers and
grandfathers, who have" to take the
youngsters to these shows will join
voices in the eXcoriation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

Why was it necessary for a New
York court to inquire into and estab-
lish the sanity of man who has
amassed a million dollars through
trafficking in apples, even if he does
happen to be 80 years old? Design
ing relatives. probably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
MEMoRY.s CHAIN.

What are hours of absence
When know that you will come?
L string each one on memory's chain
While with joy my lips are dumb.
What are the days of darkness
When / know the dawn will add
bead of Hope to my golden chain,
song on my Hps-be glad.
What are the nights of longing
when know your heart is true:
cherish each gem of constant love
That holds my Faith in YOU
katherine Ward in National Magazine for
March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07

When William Lorimer was before
the bar of the United States senate,
there was presented in his behalf as
evidence of his moral rectitude the
fact that he lived at the Y. NJ. c. A.
And it's to be wondered if this will be
emphasized again in his present court
trial on charges of conspiracy to loot
one of the defunct Chicago financial
institutions with which he was con-