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A HAPPY Medium Between the Militant and the Woman Who
"A Resigns Herself 10 Her Discomfort Woman Must Work to
Find Happiness Club MovementWol Of Many Organi
cations Under All Sorts of CondtionsIhe Many Vocatos

extravacant, selfish. pursuing pleasure,
creating standards that. however in
noceut the intent. are corrupting and
dengcralizng society. Between these
extremes there are the women who
though they have a degree of leisure
perhaps wealth. are yet unwilling to
lead The parasitic life aud are CON
scious Of their responsibility not only
10 their homes but to humanity.
THESE women have learned to con
-ider social welfare and are establish
ing higher standards for the country
AS whole. ! remember accompany
ng Caroline Bartlett Crane on one of
her municipal housekeeping tours. She,
+, is well known. cleaned up her own
city of Kalamazoo, Mich. and did it
20 successfully that she is now recog-
nized as municipal expert. Ny
Journey with Airs. Crane was a most
thorough inspection of the city's
housekeeping.
We went TO the water supply to see
II there was any danger OF contamina-
ton from typhoid We visited the
dal1ics 10 see if they were kpreading
tuberculosis. We inspected the
slaughter houses. We looked through
the school TO see if the seats the light
ing and the general sanitary condi-
tions were right for growing children.
The butcher, the baker, the candy
maker saN US coming and were clean
1913 Up like sixty, but they did not con-
.Cal anything from Mrs. Cranes
pravticed eye.
Now taaI 50 much We cat and wear
lis made outside the home. women today
must 30 their part in establi ishing
standards Of cleanliness and helpful
ness for the municipality, which were
once established ia the independent
nome by their mothers and grand
iuojhers."
Mrs. La Toilette believes that the
still popular tradition that il is a yir-
tue for woman 10 devote all her
time TO her home is out OF date For
women 10 spend q large unit of time
on small unit of work is certainly
net efficiency As example of
wasted time Mrs. La Toilette suggest
cG lbe present system OF ma rk citing
y woman is frequently considered in
dOlcnt il she does her ordering over
the telephone, but must instead. spend
. morning selecting from food that is
being exposed not only 10 inspection
but TO di5t and infection as we'll How
much better, Mrs. La Toilette suggest
cd, IL she should spend her time in Sc
curing better sanitary conditions and
in making certain OF honest weights
and measures, and then use the tele-
phone men use il in their business
For women the task of buying. lis a
great responsibility. because 90 per
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line of employment quite thoughtlessly.
often just for pin money. They look
upon their occupation as temporary and
incidental, for they expect to marry
and to have no further use for their
experience. If they looked forward to
the possibility of employing their
leisure time after marriage in a chosen
vocation, or even to using it in case of
emergency. they would be much more
careful in their choice. much more ear
nest and thorough in their preparation.
There are instances. however, when
woman has earnestly undertaken a
vocation and is prevented from con-
tinuing in it by man who cannot en-
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ever. l do not like the expression 'eco-
nomic independence. for it suggests
separate interests of men and women-
sex antagonism. 1t overemphasizes the
money side of the question.
worthy work is next to love-is. in
deed. its complement 1t is as essential
to the highest development of women as
of men. In the future a mere butterfly
existence will be condemned for women.
j earnestly believe that when women
are engaged in stable occupations
adapted to their high service as moth
ers and homemakers. the problem of the
unrest of women will surely have been
solved"
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dure the thought that his wife should
earn money after their marriage And
yet there was time when men were
suspected of marrying because they
could not get along without the help of
a woman to do the housework and
chores on the farm,
In the uncertain conditions to which
women must adjust themselves in this
present-day world, they should be pre-
pared not only to make home. but to
earn living and to meet an Iife's con-
tingencies." Mrs. La Toilette said.
Whatever woman's circumstances,
she should have the opportunity to
nave her time worthily employed. How
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DAVENPORT. BY Charles Marriott,
author of THE Intruding Angel"
etc. New York: John Lane Company.
- TORIES of dual personality make
direct appeal to the multiple
men and women that we our
~ selves are. And when such mar
rative is developed in the ar
tistic and workmanly manner of Charles
Marriott. that appeal becomes absorb
ing and irresistible a means of at
least partial self-revelation- Harry
Pelsire. average son of country GU
rate. is the obvious principal of this
story OF an English neighborhood. The
much less obvious principal. and the
Inuch more interesting one. however. is
Davenport" or Davenport, Belsire
gradually becomes conscious as the man
inside himself. the man whom he re-
veals and conceals by turn to the mys-
tifeation of the friends of Harry Bel
sire. To the half revelations blank
conceaIments Of this situation. to the
fiction of Davenport set up and sus
tanned by Belsire, to the companion
20 the instinct of a couple of clair
voyant women toward the truth of this
matter. TO these Mr.. Marriott brings a
al.btiety of mind and reserve Of man
nsr that move this double story forward
in an atmosphere of consistent be-
l!evability The drift of this move
reent is toward the great war. with
v-aose outbreak the story ends. Much
OF IL. in its general purpose of unfold
ing the case of Belsire plus Davenport.
H. concerned with the attitudes and
states of mind of its characters toward
those things that were to make the
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the amount of official visiting. and !
foresee the time when the club Will
be substitute for it altogether"
By her very naturalness Mrs La Fol-
lette suggests the real pleasure to be
had from the informal rather than the
formal meeting.
The question of social interchange
brought into consideration again the
married woman and the possibility for
her of meeting the world in a business
as well as a social way.
There is a hidebound prejudice
against married woman having any
profession other than caring for her
home and entertaining her friends"
said Mrs. La Toilette. And yet it is
perfectly possible for women, even
though married, to continue work along
special lines. in so far that work is
consistent with home making and
motherhood.
Most of the unstable and unsatisfac
tory nature of women's work Is due to
the fact that girls take up almost any
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struction to the Labrador current pass
ing over the Grand Banks of Newfound-
land and to ascertain and determine by
practical experiments the best means
that can be employed to induce and
create a deposit upon the grand banks
of the sand and other sediment which
is carried by the Labrador current. The
commission was to study the effect of
such obstruction in preventing the en-
croachment of icebergs and fogs upon
the course travelled by transatlantic
steamships. the effect upon the gulf
stream and other ocean currents the
effect upon the climate of countries in
the northern hemispheres on both sides
OF the Atlantic ocean and the proba BILE
effects upon the fogs of the coasts of
the United States. Canada and the Brit
ish islands and upon the waters there
abouts. The commission was also to
make a thorough investigation of the
currents and subcurrents of the ocean
which would be influenced by the pro-
posed obstruction of the Labrador cur
rent, and especially the probable effect
upon the disintegraton of the warm
north-fowins gulf stream which now
occurs by its meeting with the cold
south-fiowing Labrador current
Great students and ss-4fhorities on
ocean currents have said that the gulf
stream is undoubtedly the greatest and
mightiest of all terrestrial phenomena.
There is river in the ocean. it's foun-
tain in the Gulf of Mexico. its mouth
in the Arctic ocean; a current more
rapid, and conveying more heat than
would a stream of molten iron the size
and velocity of the Mississippi river.
Mr.. Riker has said that ninety billion
cubic yards of water at more than IS
degrees Fahrenheit pass Cape Florida
northward every hour. liberating more
heat in being cooled to 55 degrees than
could be produced by the burning, of
two million tons of coal every minute
Its warm waters says Mr.. Riker,
reach to Iceland: they flow into the
Arctic basin: toward the northern shore
of Spitzbergen and past Nova Zembla,
and into the waters of the British isles.
materially modifying their climate and
that of all northern Europe. Otherwise
Scandinavia would be uninhabitable and
Great Britain sterile as Labrador.
Wherever 1t flows it serves to regulate
all the processes of nature while it con-
tributes to the temperature of the region
of the Arctic more heat than comes to
that region by the direct influx of the
sum-"
The Labrador current flows down from
the Arctic ocean along the east coast
then passes along the coast of Labrador
and Newfoundland, bringing with 1t
enormous ice fields and icebergs. This
current meets the gulf stream off New
foundland, and part of the Labrador
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y N0NG!. BN Rupert EuENeS, duthOr
of What VIII People SAY" etc. H.
lustrations by James Montgomery
Flagg. New York: Harper 4
Brothers.
Rupert Hughes IS Il sort Of surgeon
general to the maladies OF smart So
ciety. Society on the table, this ex-
pert man, with silken slither Of
knife. az this point and at that. un-
covers with neat precision one after
another of the ailments of this af-
nicted class Once II was the dancing
madness that received treatment at
his hands. Then the clinic was lit
tered with fox-trots and bunny-hugs
and smelled up with the social poisons
Of On abaret carousais. Now it is the
money mania speculation for the men
and the reckless spending for the
women that engages this skilled and
ruthless knight of the knife. MIR
Hughes makes his full and brilliant
demonstration by way of two young
couples. one Of them married ard the
other on the road to that elimination.
such credit as they are able to con-
iure NJ. The women are sedulously
footing the shops ON the strength Of
fabulous speculative futures. The
hook is an orgy Of spending money
that exists only in the authorizations
Of these uter and women, Finally a
glimmer Of the truth strikes Daphne
Kip, who declares for. earning there
after what she spends. II is a vicissi
-ous buSiness for Daphne. as her
training has all been on the side Of
woman's customary grating upon her
man folks However. Mr. Hughes
makes out a passa ble case for Daphne
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-HERE is today no world move
ment more rapidly approaching
its goal. its adherents claim,
& than the campaign FOR the
equality of the sexes Popular inter
ost in the movement has produced a
copglomerate mass Of material, which
ig an attempt TO aualyze aud explain
this newly ava kened desiEo oi tine
modern woman for public life. Sut the
true principle of the struggle can best
he stated by those women who have
fe; the unrest" and rcaIized its cause.
OF these Mrs. Robert NJ La Toilette
is well suited to the task. The fact
that she comes from the great west
was suggested to her as "a possible
reason for her interes; in the progress
Of women. Mrs.. La Toilette shook hel
head
east or west she declared. with
little sweeping gesture % her
hand. who have felt the need Of
broader interests and work At the
heat Of tins much-talked-of dis
satisfaction is very sincere desire
for cOmradeShip. for co-usefulress and
for co-resDousibiiity. WITH the prog
~esS Of civilization work in the home
.iss greatly diminished 3bf "a of,ci.
ind many hours which. unless prcnta-
ny used, breed the discomfort result
ing from idieness in either man or
JorqaB.
The Federation Of Womer's Clubs
has given women all over the country
the opportunity OF such "n inter-
change of ideas that there Is no longer
the western woman and the eastern
woman. but the woman who is doing
something doing IL not only for her
o4sn immediate circle. but foi the pub
l.c welfare also.
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As Young girl she began WORK IA
real earnest After graduating from
the University of Wisconsin sne
taught school After her marriage to
Senator La Toilette she studied Law 10
III herself Tor q more perfect com
panionshtp- She believes the home 20
De the first and most Important tr-
terest of eVery woman.
To the education Of her children she
brought au intelligent ana broad scope
of f1eas insfincJiFeIy loving freedom.
she pbjerfed 10 the long period o. the
school Gay. white her children H@rc
youuG she Kept Them nome and made
their bodies strong and healthy with
outdoor play. riding. sNtmr,nH aEd
other exercise. It is her belief that
children vilI have a far greater mental
place for the discussion Of all ideas. in
stead of cprruiHg education strictly 60
the school
Mrs. La Foilette's erdeavors have
reached further however. than the wise
couduct Of her own home. As con-
trfbutnr 10 periodicals aud as cdil-esG
Of the woman's department Of her hus-
bands magazine. she has published her
progressive ideas relating 10 home.
education children. health. dress aud
preseut-dAy standards If the use OF
somen's time.
The general desire Of girls and wom-
- for freedom ,s being expressed ia "a
variety of ways" she continued There
as, however, d happy medium between
the militant aud the woman who resigns
herself 10 her discomfort, It is essen
tiaI thai women have polse as well as
courage H. entering new and broader
acld ln considering the woman move
meat one ls APT 10 forget now great a
part changed economic conditions have
had in the making of the modern
woman
lin her great u&efSiness ANA highly
developed judgment The pioreer woman
Vas, for All practical PURPOSES on an
equal footing With men But today thu
things that she found IT necessary TO 40
the weaving aud spinu ng, The MAX
ing Of candles and Il hundred other
thiuES-ha.e all become tEe work OF
factorlez. and her time has been made
icss and less valuable This decreassG. (
work 10 the home has not only crt2ted
idle hours for some women. but ha-' also
forced others 10 go into the great III
dustrial world and earn a living.
"OBt oil these changed conditions
which have SEM women into the fac
tories, bakeries. laundrias and gar
Snent shops there have resulted three
rather well defined classes of women"
Mrs. La Toilette declared, There are
those who. whether they would or no.
mast earn bread for themselves and
the families dependent upon them.
These are The women in industry
10 these S,o00.o0o are the idle rich,
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There is q distinguished American
cditor Who has said tina, future his
tory viii record the woman's cub
movement as one of the most inpor-
;ant contributions to the twentieth
century civilization II is. to me. a
plausible theory. for today women are
working through. these organizations
for the benefit of schools, Fairgrounds
parks. clean markets, garbage dis
posai. good roads, pure food. conserva-
tton. child labor legislation, juvenile
courts, prison reform. equal pay. low
er cost of living and many other sub
jects of great Importance
f''indeed. one might easily become
breathless while enumerating the vari-
GUS ways In which women are plaF ing
a part-and useful one-in the af-
fairs of public interest"
That women must work in order 10
find happiness. Mrs. La Toilette sin
ctrely believes. and she has practiced
this doctrine to her own satisfaction.
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For women the task OF buying lis a
great responsibility, because 90 per
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS
OF MIDSUMMER

war possible y fine. strong, close-knit
novel on a theme OF peculiar interest.
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DAVENPOR

DAVENPORT. BY Charles Marriott
author of THE Intruding Angel,
etc. New York. John Lane Company
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-HERE is today no world move
ment more rapidly approaching
HI its goal. its adherents claim,
q than the campaign FOR the
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THE THIxTEENTH coMMAND3lENT:
\ Novel. BY Rupert Hughes. author
Of What VIII People say etc IL
luStrationS by James Montgomery
F'lagg. New York: Harper *
i.rotharS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
BIG CROWDS OUT
National and American League
Openers Draw Heavily.
Bonnie Kauff Drives in the
First Score of the Season.

That baseball is destined to enjoy
great patronage this season and that
the national pastime has come back
in all it's pristine glory was demon
strated Wednesday afternoon at the
opening of the two major leagues
when immense crowds turned out to
see the teams get into action against
each other.
Every game that was scheduled in
the two leagues was played, which
also shows that the weather man is
more kindly disposed than he has been
at past openings. In practically every
city there were large and enthusiast
tic crowds out, according to the wire
reports. New Workers comfortably
filled the Polo grounds to watch the
Yankee Washington contest and at
Philadelphia there were $4,000 fans
on hand to see the National leag
pennant winners of 1915 trim the New
York Giants. At Chicago the crowd
was said to number $4,000, and at
Cleveland $4,000 turned out to see
iris Speaker play his first game for
the home boys.
Larry Doyle of the New York Giants
is accredited with having made the
first score of the 1916 season, having
been driven across the plate by Ben
ME Kauft in the opening inning of the
game with Philadelphia. The results
of the opening games follow:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
St. Louis. g.; Cleveland. 1.

Cleveland, O., April 13.-Cleveland
lost its opening game to st. Louis, 6
to 1, chiefly because it could not hie
Groom, ex-Federa1 league pitcher.
Groom, while somewhat wild, held the
Clevelanders to three hits, being very
effective with men on bases. Mitchell,
who started the game for Cleveland,
was lacking in control and after he
had passed the first two batters in the
sixth inning, gave way to Bagby, who
was effective after that inning. The
score: X. II. E.
St Louis ..-....-O !
Cleveland
Batteries: Groom and Hartley;
Mitchell, Bagby and O'Neill
Summary: Two base hits-Chap-
man, Pratt. Home run-Sisler. Stolen
bases-Chappelle. Shotten. Bases on
balls-Off Mitchell, 4; off Bagby, l;
off Groom, 6. Struck out-By Groom.
5; by Mitchell. 1. Umpires-Evans
and Chill.
Boston, 2; Philadelphia, 4.
Boston, April 13.-The world s
with to 1 victory over the Ath-
letics Wednesday. The usual inaugural
ceremony of flag raising with band
playing preceded the start of the
game. Mayor Curley threw the first
ball. Manager Carrigan was given a
great floral horseshoe. Run making
proved difficult for both teams and
errors figured in each tally. Notwith-
standing the wildneSs of Majors, Phil
adelphia's first pitcher, the Red Sox
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
BIG DOG RACE is ON.
All-AlasLan Team Makes Better Time
Than Last Years Record.

Nome, Alaska. April 13.-Two
hours ahead of last years time and
running neck and neck, four of the
five contestants with their racing dog
teams in the All-Alaskan sweepstakes
arrived in Haven Wednesday, 147
miles from Nome.
Those who arrived at Haven were
Robert Brown, Fred Ayes and Fred
Delzene. each with fourteen dogs, and
Leonard Seppala with seventeen ST.
beriaE wolf hounds. Brown and Del
zene are driving Malmutes and Aver d
team of fox hounds. Paul Kiegstadt
with his fourteen bird dogs had not
been reported at Haven.
The course is from Nome to Candle
and return-412 miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
Is Years Ago
in
Topeka
From the columns of
THE STATE JOURNAL

April Is, 1891.
Miss Carrie Garrison will give a card
party at her home, 1927 Tyler street.
S. w Naylor, who graduated from
Washburn last spring and is now at
tending the NJ. Z. Theological Seminary
at Boston writes that he has cleared
over $500 on lectures in Boston and
three nearby towns.
The Sieber & Co. circus gives a matt
nee Thursday and Saturday afternoon
The local bakers of the city are en-
deavoring to form a bread trust and
are confident that before many hours
every baker will have signed the con-
tract placing himself under a $500 bond
TO raise the price Oh bread at retail
from 21a cents loaf to > cents and at
wholesale TO dealers % loaves for j
dollar.
All but two of the bakery firms have
signified their willingness to enter the
combination.
Did the Kansas men who picked out
a site for the Kansas building at the
Worlds Fair look well TO it that there
was no saloon in sight?
More and more sixteen story build
ings are being built in Chicago. The
town will soon he out Of sight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
TODAY'S
ADJUSTMENTS

IRIS-Kitty Gordon in LAS in a
Looking Glass and Paramount
Photographs.
ORPHEUM - Norma Talmadge
and Tully Marshall in Mar
thas Vindication" and Fred
Mace in The Oily Scoundrel."
Also vaudeville.
COHY-"The Galloper" by Rich
ard Harding Davis and the fifth
episode of the Iron Claw"
BEST-Motion pictures.
GRAND - The Battle Cry of
Peace"
AURORA - Paul Gilmore in
Houses of Mystery" and Ham
and Budd comedy "Snoop
Hounds"
CRYSTAL-"For the Love of
Mike and Rosie" and Saved
by a Song"
INCESS-Motion pictures.
NOV ELTY - Thou Shalt Not
Covet" and vaudeville.
APEX-Motion pictures.
HIP-Dark.
For prices and particulars. see adver
isements elsewhere in this paper.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
DIPLOMAS GOOD IN 20 STATES.
Kansas Normal at Emporia Recog
nized by Large Part of Country.

Emporia. Kan, April 13.-Kansas
Normal certificates are now recog-
to a statement by w S. Bixler, reg
istrar of the Kansas Normal at EN-
poria- This includes the Normal life
certificate, three-year certificate re-
Movable for life. three-year certificate
renewable for three years, the two
year course and the four-year course.
The state recognizing Kansas Normal
certificates in full are: Indiana. Iowa,
Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri. Ne
braska. New York, North Dakota,
Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsylvania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

Rhode Island. South Carolina. South
Dakota, Utah, Vermont. Virginia,
Washington, Alabama. A r a a s.
Georgia, Idaho. Illinois, Kentucky,
Maine, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming
and New Jersey. States recognizing
Kansas Normal certificates in part
are: Arizona. New Hampshire and
Montana. States that do not recog-
nize Kansas Normal certificates are:
California. Colorado, Connecticut, Del
aware, Florida, Louisiana, and Mis-
sissippi- Several states made no re-
port
kansas diplomas mean more every
year" says Mr. Bixler- I'VE hope soon
to have them fully recognized in every
state in the Union-'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
AGGIEs EXPECT WINNER.
Elimination of Tigers From Track
Schedule Makes Prospects Brighter.

Manhattan, Kan, April 13.-The
heavy track schedule which the Kan
sas State Agricultural college faced
this spring has been materially cut
down by the inability of the manage
ment of the school to arrange a sat
isfactory date for the dual meet with
Missouri university.
The elimination of Missouri, al
ways a strong contender for cham
pionship honors and winner of sew
eral Missouri valley championships in
track, will give the Aggies a chance
to develop speed to be used against
the University of Kansas, Kansas State
Normal and Oklahoma university
track teams, it was pointed out, and
Coach Merner expects his team TO
make a creditable showing