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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

A small school girl has written the
following essay on the duck:
The duck is low heavy set bird.
He is mighty poor singer having a
coarse voice caused by getting so
many frogs in his neck and he likes
the water and carries a toy balloon
in his stomach to keep from sinking
the Duck has only two legs and they
are set so far back on his running
gears by nature that they come pref
ty near missing his body some ducks
when they get big curls on their tails
are called brakes an don't have to set
or hatch, but just loaf and go swim
ming and eat everything in sight if
were to be a duck l would rather be
a drake they have a wide bill like
they use it for spade they walk like
a drunk man they bounce and bump
about from side to side If you scare
them they will flap their wings and
try to make pass at singing
Mrs. Jones hung up the receiver
after having finished using the phone
and walked to the counter, where she
placed a five-cent piece. She waited
few seconds, and the druggist,
thinking she was waiting for change,
said:
That's the correct amount,
madam"
Il know it, but where are my trad
ing stamps?" was the woman's re-
Spouse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
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BILLY ROBINS SHARP EYES.

Drip, Drip Drip. Patter. Patter,
Patter. How it did raini All the
morning-all the noon-and appar-
emily all the afternoon, tool
Then suddenly and most unexpect-
edly. just when everybody had given
up ever seeing the sun again, out he
popped and down on the garden he
Shone.
Five minutes before the sun came
out the garden was deserted. Mr.
Garden Toad was mapping under some
leaves and twigs; Billy Robin and
Mrs. Billy were snugged down into
their nest in the apple tree; Mrs.
Hen and all her family and neighbors
were safely in the barn. and even
Chirpy Sparrow was hiding in his nest
under the caves.
But five minutes after the sun shone
that is another story
Perhaps you yourself have watched
a garden after a warm spring rain.
+ If you have, you know just how quick
| ly the garden folk all come out to en-
joy the sun and to get a bit to eat
wouldn't you think they would be
hungry on days when the rain falls all
day-and all night too?
A half q dozen little sunbeams wig
gled their way through the leaves and
twigs and landed squarely on Mr..
Garden Toad's shut eyes. And of
course that walked him up.
well, well, WELL" said he, in sur
prise, look what's happened, 1 never
even hoped for any sunshine todayt"
And he hoped right out from his
shelter onto the garden walk. Maybe
the sunbeams will wake up a fly or
two for me- Let's see"
Some more sunbeams danced up
under the caves and told Chirpy Spar
row there was plenty of time for some
supper before sunset: some others
beckoned to Mrs. Hen through the
barn window and she and all her
brood Immediately appeared at the
barn door
Ard just at that minute Billy Robin
darted down into the middle of the
flower bed
Now what's he doing already, do
ing already. already?" croaked Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
Household Hints


National Cake-White part: Cream
together one cup sugar and one-half
cup butter, then add one-half cup
sweet milk, whites of four eggs, one
half cup cornstarch, one cup flour
into which has been mixed one tea
spoon cream of tartar, one-half tea
spoon soda, flavor with lemon. For
the blue and red parts use above
recipe, using blue and red sugar;
omit f1avoring in the colored parts.
Place the layers: First the red, then
the white last the blue. Bake in
moderate oven.
Emergency Fruit Pudding-Ta--e
enc cup mincemeat with one cup
Oess if you wish a richer pudding)
of prepared pancake flour Add caG-
tiously only enough milk to make a
stiff drop batter, which should be put
instantly into small creased aluminium
cups and steamed twenty to fifty min
utes-the longer the better. Cream or
any of the usual plum pudding sauces
may be served with these little pud-
dings. More time, proportionate to
size and thickness, would be needed
for larger pudding.
Chocolate Bread Pudding-Ingre-
dents: One cup bread crumbs, two
cups sealded milk, one square choco-
late, one-third cup sugar, one-fourth
cup boiling water, one egg, one
eighth teaspoon salt, one-half tea
spoon vanilla. Add the bread crumbs
" the ScstluSu Hllih anu allow them TO
soak until soft. Add the boiling wa
ter to the chocolate, which has been
cut in pieces, and gently cook until a
smooth paste is formed. Add this to
the bread mixture. Beat the egg, add
the sugar and salt to it Add the first
mixture to the egg mixture, then add
the vanilla and turn into a buttered
pudding dish. Bake in a moderate
oven about twenty minutes. Serve
with plain or whipped cream.
i
sugar and one-half cup lard mixed
we'll; one egg, one-half cup rweet milk
dissolve one teaspoon of soda in
milk, 31s cups flour sifted with two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

well, well, WELL" said he, in surprise.
No worms there, no worms there's
cackled Mrs Hen, from the barn door
4 guess 1 can see,"
Billy Robin made no answer. He
merely braced himself for a long. hard
pull, and then-out from the ground
pulled a fine, big earth wormi
Humph." said he, when he had
eaten the worm and could talk. "Yo,,
folks have no eyesi Why don't Won
look ANY robin could have told you
just where the worms in this eood
earth are. for any robin could see
them. Watch mel" And again Billy
darted toward a particular spot ana
again he pulled out fine worm.
Guess he knows what he's talking
he knowss-Copyright Ing
ram Judson-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

WHY.
why does a chicken cross the road?"
We read on sundry pages.
And certainly an answers owed
To all these questioning sages.
Perhaps she likes Gas women do)
To coyly play the traitor.
And so she crosses, only to
Double-cross it later.
Now some may greet these views with
taunfs,
And theories deride;
They say she crosses cause she wants
To- reach the other side.
Yet this enigma, you'll agree,
From womaB's nature draws
Its answer, for 1t seems to me
She crosses just Because"
Princeton Tiger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
A woman's tongue is mightier than
a mans fist
Some men learn by doing and some
learn by being done.
Fortunate is the locomotive engi-
neer who leads a wreckless life
A man with a crouch never misses
an opportunity to advertise it.
A word to the unwise is also suffi-
cient-if it be the right word
No, Alonzo, Bunyan's pilgrims
Progress is not a treatise on chirop-
ody.
The man who hands out free ad-
vice to others always goes elsewhere
for his own.
Fearing to break into a profession
that's overcrowded, some men waste
the best years OF their lives looking
for one that isn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
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You "old men, of forty, or there
abouts. with your stiff joints and lei
surel.- strides. with a debility that
shows promptly at the slightest I'M
usual physical exertion, and with a
pretty firm conviction that the heavy
hand of age has already descended
upon you. take a slant at De Wolf
Hopper's capers in the movies. at his
vigorous sprints and remarkable all
around agility. And De Wolf Hopper
IS fiftY-eight wears old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
Journal Entries

1t is often much easier to forgive
than to forget.
+ = +
Another mere fiction of the imagi-
nation is the broken heart a girl may
think she has.
Most clippers would probably be for
given more readily by their parents if
they did not return home.
+ = =
Another disadvantage of the warm
weather is that the open windows fail
to confine the vocal and other musical
efforts of the neighbors to their own
premises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
Uncle Abner.

If you have a gold watch that will
not run you can easily make it do so
by melting it,
Amry Tibbs who is out west, is not
expected to live. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty
There is only one harder thing to
listen to than sopraner with a cold
in the head, and that is photograph
with sand in the grooves.
There will never De a shortage in
the crop of funny looking derbies.
There are still a few old-fashioned
fellers who try to make both ends
meet.
A woman cares more about the
price of lace curtains than she does
about the price of beefsteak or coal.
/ A convict out in Minnesota has be-
come a poet. In other words, he has
gone from bad to verse.
There is many man called a mer-
chant prince when he is in reality a
merchant ounce.
Whisky will never harm you if you
don't swallow it.
1t begins to look as if the shiny
Prince Albert coat has come to stay.
Lem Higgins says he nearly died of
strangulation once when he was
young man, but the governors pardon
arrived just in time.
Signs of the Times.
who would make bigger personal
hit if she would appear exclusively as
YELL mistress of Vassar football
crowd.
1t takes the English a long time to
see a joke. and yet they see a good
many American newly rich society
people.
A man with red hair. a wooden leg
and harelip is never much of a sue
cess as fugitive from justice. Even
the detectives are apt to recognize
him.
An average of seven oil stoves that
won't smell are invented in this coun-
try every day.
Talking machine discs can be used
as pie plates. This is about the most
satisfactory use to which they can be
put.
But Truth Gets There Eventually.
Scandal travels 1000 yards per sec
ond, according to Prof. Benjamin
Snow, head of the University of Wis
consin's physics department. Profess
sor Snow bases his calculations upon
observations made at the university.
Flattery has the second greatest
speed, the professor finds, travelling
from 400 to 500 yards in the same
time. Truth, however, he declares, is
slowest of all, moving only about two
and half yards per second. The
computations, he said, were based on
the speed of the sound of an alarm
clock, which is zero
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

1t is beginning to look as if the Saw
ages are not going to be favored with
anything that has a semblance to good
weather for any of their games at
home. And the Topeka fans are so
anxious to show the team that they
appreciate it's class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

England failed to reach Bagdad, but
the Grand Duke Nicholas and his Rus
sian hordes are less than one hundred
miles away from it and are travelling
strong What the Entente Allies ap-
pear to need is a few commanders of
the type and ability of the Grand Duke
N-ioboIaS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

From the number of Ginn Feiners
England is executing, it is apparent she
is determined that if there should ever
be another revolution in Ireland it
will have to be conducted by brand
new set of leaders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
Dinner STORIES.

William J. Bryan was occurring on
temperance recently in a small Ne
braska town.
my friends" said the eX-secretary
of state, chow can we stop the sale
of liquor?"
Give it away" came from the rear
of the hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

Idaho has finally become a Compel
itor of California at least in the mat
ter of experiencing earthquakes. But
old Mother Nature plays no favorites
at that. Every state in the Union, or
some OF its localities, gets swatted
more or less regularly with one sort
or another of her commissions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

teaspoons cream of tartar. Roll very
thin, put filling between two cookies
and bake. Filling: One and one
fourth cups ground raisins, three
fourths cup graduated sugar mixed
with one tablespoon flour. Cook UNI
til it begins to thicken, then cool.
These are fine with afternoon teas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizatiJn. for the exclusive afternoon
Huhlication in Topeka.
Tho news is received in The State Jour-
Bal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

ENGLAND is reported to be ready to
prove that her blockade measures are
strictly in accord with the principles
of international law, but she'll never
be able to do so to the satisfaction of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

Washington has apparently re-
lapsed into its comatose condition of
Watchfui Waiting in respect to the
Mexican situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
Clara lrGrsmJodaen

Garden Toad in his most puzzled voice.
Anybody can see that the garden is
soft and moist and that. after while.
there will be a lot of good worms
there. But Bi1ly's too soon. too soon"
What you doing down there % ask
ed Chirpy Sparrow curiously. II don't
see ;-ny worms"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

According to the Atchison Globe, a
new form of sport consists in betting
on whether the next CRISIS will be
Mexican or German.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

As Colonel Roosevelt most peril
nently Suggests, why should the United
States have one policy for Haiti ana
another for Mexico?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15

If you haven't the price to pay for
what you eat these days at the res
taurant at Gridley, you don't eat, as
these notices or advertisements in the
Gridley Light indicate: Hereafter
terms Will be cash at the Restaurant.
We need your trade but we must have
the cash. Owing to so many
strangers during the hay season. we
must treat all alike. Cash talks at the
Restaurant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
TERMS on Subscriptions.

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suburbs or at the same price in any Kan
sas town where the paper has carrier
system.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

II. c. Ruegar. - gold dust twin" Be-
sides these there were numerous
devils clowns and witches
Among those present were: Mr..
and Mrs. Etarks Hare, Mr.. and Mira
n. G. RueFar, Mr.. Lincoln. Mr.. and
Mira H Anderson. Mrs. Harris, DR..
and Mrs J. r. Blair. DIR. and Mrs
]. q, Trant Or. and Mira b. /. Phil
| lips, Mr.. and Mrs. J. It. Kuester.
Misses Grace. Elmer and Roberta
F'urrh, Misses Trant, Martin, Crane.
! Points, Atkinson. Misses Eggieston.
Miss W. Maxey. Miss ID. e. Thomas,
Miss Carter, Misses A. Kuester, Humid
| ley, McCue, tho Misses Nails, Miss u,
Blunt, and II. Southwark, Drs. Weiss
| iger, Boyle Goodwin, Cloyd. Messrs
Ballard Gundlock. Hood. Portia.
Rogers, c. Davis, l. Davis, Anderson,
TAFT, Gilman and Wingheld.
Church Entertainment.
There will be a novel entertainment
given by the West End N. r. Church
Aid Society Mt the home of Mrs. r. r.
Roper, 3T14 Lawson Street, Monday
night at s o'clock. There will be an
auction OF old maids to tho highest
bidder. All are invited and q good
time assured.
Southern Society Bafl.
An interesting event of carly No
vember Is the Southern Society ball,
which viii take place In New York
on Tuesday evening. November .. at
9 o'clock, in tho ballroom Of tho Aston
Hotel. This is an annual affair, and
attended by prominent southerners
who make their home In New York.
Supper will be served during the even
ing. and the patron esses Of the Suwa-
nee bail are; Mrs. Stuart G. Gibboney,
Mrs. John N Moore. Mira H Grant
land Rice. Mrs, Lindsay Russell, Mrs
w. P. DeSaussura. Jr.. Mira Julian
p. Beatty. Mrs F. Graham Cootes,
Mrs. Walter I. McCorkie. Mrs, WILL
liam r. Pagan. Mrs. Bright Wilson,
Mrs. A. w. Haywood. Jr, Mrs St
George r. Tucker. Mrs George b.
Covlngton, Mrs, Robert G. Myles, Mrs.
Theo. II. Price, Mrs. william r. Nc
Combs Jr., Mrs, Ernest NJ. stires. Mrs
r. w. r. Elliott, Mrs, J. 2, Lowe, Jr.,
Mrs. w. c. Sheppard. Mrs. Junius
Parker, Mrs. II. l. Borden. Mrs. Fl. c.
Cowles. Mrs. A Marvin Carr, Mrs.
Hunter Wood, Mrs. Albert Massey,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

, Mrs. Charles Baskerville. MIRA 81
Clair Hester and MIRA John Randolph
Page.
Dtnner Dance Nexs Tuesdsy.
A number of tables have been re-
served for the dinner dance at the
Country Club Of Virginia on Tuesday
night Among. those who win snter-
tain are Captain Mckee Dunn NJ
and Mira Belvin. Miss Josephine s,zer.
Robert w. Dashiell. william Todd.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry HArwood. DR.. r
Allison Hodges. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Z. Craig. Mr.. and Mrs. William p.
Wood, e. g. Higgins, George o. War
den, J. Kent Rawiey. Charles Mar
shall, William Donaldson. N. I. Mas-
sey, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith.
Election returns will be one OF the
Interesting features Of tho evening.
and dancing will continue until mid
night
Miss Heck Entereatne6
| Mr. and Mrs. James Branch Csberl.
OF "Dumbarton Grange" rave dinner
at the Country Club Of VIRGINIA last
night at 7 o'clock In honor OF Miss
Genc Gray Heck. tho debutante niece
OF DIR. and Mrs. J. Allison Hodres
The table was arranged with a center
piece OF pink and yellow roses, while
oorsage bouquets Of the same kind Of
Ac"CAs hcu Zig place. OF each girl
there also being boutonnieres for the
men Mr.. and Mrs. Cabell invited to
meet Miss Heck the Misses Martha
Buckner Wall. Dorsen F1tzeerald.
Frances Darlington, Mary McCaw
Hawkes.. Katherine Ecalsa. Mary Tom
lin Anderson, Nellie Rennolda, Kathe-
rtne Hamilton Cabeil. Anne Warren.
Emily Rogerson; tho MesarA Frank
Blankenship. John Aiken Branch, VIII
liam Oppenhtmer, William LAwton.
Robert Neal, Wilbur sydnor. Charles
Harris Cassius II. Chichester. Cary
Wingheld, DR.. MoCaw Tomphins and
DR.. William Hopkina
Colonel Joseph r willard. United
States ambassador to Spain, Mrs VIII
lard and Miss Elizabeth willard. who
sailed from Spain October 81. arrived
In Havana, Cuba. Friday, and will
come at once to Richmond. They will
arrive In this city Monday and be es
tabllshed at the Jefferson Hotel. being
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

Roosevelt Of New York. who Will also
be at the Jefferson. Mrs. Roosevelt
was formerly Miss Belle Willard, and
her marriage in Madrid several years
ago was a brilliant event. This Is her
first visit to Virginia since her we'd
ding. and a number of interesting en-
tsrtainmcnts will be given In her
honor and also for her young sister.
Miss Elizabeth willard, who was re-
Gently presented at the Spanish court
Mira Julia Todd Ellyson. of Q North
Third Street. has issued invitations
for . supper party at the Jefferson
Hotel the night OF November Is at
10 o'clock. Miss Ellyson Is to enter
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

BoosA" o. . Halloween dansantI all
incorporating in GORGEOUS costumes
and meskA az they were received by
the host, assisted by the chaperone.
Mrs. Starke Hare, OF East Richmond.
An elaborate program having been
prepared. the grand march was begun
almost Immediately upon arrival. upon
. floor especially prepared for the oo-
oaston, and the varigated colored
costumes produced beautiful har-
mony with the reflected lights. Dance
after dance WAS continued with only
pleasant Interruptions. such as vocal
selections rendered by talented voices,
and exhibition dances. As the hour Of
midnight approached the toliing of a
huge bell could be heard In the dis
lance. interrupted only by the strains
Of a nandolin rendering q dbue. to
whose metre there beat the heavy
tread OF four devils carrying q huge
cask ct containing the remains of Old
John Bsrievcorn. whose floral dssfg gins
were made of corn and rye, and over
whose remains there was delivered a
rather impressive and lonx-renemh Der
ed eulogy by q myrteriously appearing
AfephistocleS After much weeping
and many groans @ song was sung.
tn ps were sounded, salute was fired.
and a sumptuous luncheon was ser-v-
ed by the devflA
Dancing was continued until rscrn-
ing. when at the stroke of three tho
cock crew. ''Home. Sweet Home" was
drummed and danced, and the guests
departed. forming procession OF
eighteen autos. Among the many
magnificent costumes which elected
comment were those worn by Mrs.
DIR. Herring, "a Colonial girl"; Mrs.
Or. Trant. n fady Of the old regime;
Miss rurrh, ~ Puritan maid" Mrs.
Fl. G. Ruernr. "a Dutch lass" and Mr..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

tain after the rehearsal for the we'd
ding Of her sister, Miss Jane Ellyson,
to Mr.. william James Garner. Only
members of the bridal party have
been included In the list of invitations.
Covers are to be laid for fifteen.
Mrs George Cunningham Bidrood
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

has issued invitations for = tea m
honor Of her debutante niece. Miss
Maude Alvey Slater. OF Redlands. CAL.
who Is in Richmond for the season
Mrs. Bidgood will entertain at her
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

Continued on Seventh Pase)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05
Price $500

We have assortment OF such q Richmond has
never seen-advanced styles fabrics that all the
try Is demanding and not able to superb wooex
notwithstanding at s3s covering all the
TO SIS and $500
Street Coats Dressy Coata Motor sport Coats
Town Coats Country Coats
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-05

CapA collars, chin-chn coars-pelts ha1f-bef%, cr,.,
reefs chiffon broadcloths zbenea soft biowy chevtota
shrings-fancy trimmings galore: rurs loads furs-
scores of novel ideas in the delightful soft f,h
rics Bolivia cloths novelty velours camels hair et
fees chiffon broadcloths. zibens bowy cheytot.
rich velvets4n Burgundy mustard hunters green nayr
black taupA '''
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-03-30
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tAs . hA' SSA NA$$
 ' ONDON, March 3o.--Reu- ter's correspondent, wiring from British headquarters on tho west ern frcn today says: Although the long anticipated hour of the British may be close at hand, it is not yet struck nor is there any reason to believe that the Ger mans will succeed in forcing the British to precipitate action. Neither is it anticipated that they will sucessd by their terrific at tacks along the Nerdun front in upsetting the pre-arranged strat- egy of the great coming offen- sive." The correspondent de clares that the efforts of the Ger
 mans to take Verdun in the face of ali losses indicates nothing but a desperate attempt to draw the allied fire The allied lines have not been changed in any degree and the Verdun positions have been held by the French without drawing on the 'eserve forces from other sections of the battle front.