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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
Globe Sights
By THE ATCHrSON GLOBE.

There is no such a thing as bar
gain in booze.
Everything becomes tiresome final
ly, except sleeping
A man may think a lot of things he
has no right to say.
About the easiest thing to forget is
your duty to the sick.
When to stop is the most important
lesson for the class in oratory.
The average man likes to air his
knowledge of parliamentary rules.
Gossip is the talking others do
about you; never what you say about
others.
Conversation seems to consist large
ly of talking when there is nothing to
say
Women like to be invited to after
noon receptions better than they like
to go.
An ugly person is not to blame for
his looks, but people talk about it
just the same.
OF course the umpire can't see the
game nearly as well as those up in
the grandstand.
Try to know at least as much about
other fellows
What big stories of prosperity you
hear from other towns that are not
liable to be checked up.
While the politician may not care
much for the plain people, he doesn't
want them to find it out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
Jdyhawker Jots

As the Newton KanSan-Republcan
suggests: The crop killers will now, no
doubt, begin to worry about too much
straw in the wheat.
Officer, call a cop to attend to the
Salina Journal. 1t says that the KAN
sas City man who swallowed frog
came near croaking.
sighed the Atchison Globe on Memoir
ial day, is that done on the day others
are enjoying a holiday.
After a man gets too old to play
ball says the Americas Greeting, he
puts in the rest of his life arguing the
fine points in the rules of the game.
Local Improvement note, in the
belonging to Frank Watson has new
top and the whole stand has new
coat of paint
Time and tide wait for no man,
quotes the Salina Journal, and it con-
tinues on its own hook: But then, a
mans wife isn't like time tide
especially at a. m.
An up-to-date version or parody on
Mary and her lamb, by the Salina
Journal: Mary Short-skirt had a little
lamb, and, of course, the crowd did
laugh, but not at Mary's playmate,
certainly not, they laughed at Mary's
feet.
The crop killers. says the Hutchin-
son News, has had a hard time re-
Gently, what with windy days blowing
the green bugs away and the rainy
nights making it uncomfortable for
the Hessian flies. Maybe we'll come
out much better than we expected.
This story is also being told for
the truth: A young Mulvane husband
expressed delight at having calf's liver
for breakfast one morning last week,
and the pleased young wife suggested
that they keep a calf, and then they
could have it oftener.
Shades of P1utocracyl exclaims the
Peabody Gazette-He and it pro-
ceeds to give this perfectly valid rea-
son for its exclamation: At a we'd
ding that took place in Peabody the
other night the groom wore a mono
Gle, frock coat and silk hat and car
ried a cane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02

munities, say blocks of a hundred fats
or perhaps more. standing in a COM
mon garden which win be kept up
by the estate. Each fat viii probably
have one room for each inhabitant, so
as to secure the privacy which is
very necessary even to those who no
longer believe in the home idea; it
win also have a common room where
privacy can be dispensed with It's
furniture will be partly personal, but
not very, for a movement which is de-
veloping in America will extend. and
we, too. in England may be provided.
as are today the more fortunate
Americans. with an abundance OF cup
boards and dressers ready fixed to the
walls. There will be no coal, but only
electricity and gas, run from the CEN
trail plant. There will be no kitchens,
but one central kitchen, and a central
dining-room, run-and this is very
importantly a committee of ten
ants. That committee will appoint
and control cooks and all servants; it
will buy all provisions. and 1t will buy
them cheapfy, for it will purchase by
the hundredweight. 1t will control
the central laundry, and paid laun-
dry-maid will check the 1ist-there
viii no longer be, as once upon a time
on Saturday evenings, a hundred per-
sons checking a hundred lists. 1t is
even quite possible that the central
organization may darn socks The
servants will no longer be slaves, per
sonally attached to a few person.,
their chattel; they Will be day-work-
ers, 1aboring eight hours, without any
master save their duty. The whole
system of the household will be
grouped for the purpose of buying
and distributing everything that is
needed at any hour. There will be
no more personal shopping; the COM
Inunistic window-cieaners will dispose
of every window on a given day; there
may even be in the garden COM
munistic system of dog kennels. I
have no proposal for controlling cats,
for 1 understand that no man can do
that but then there will be no
mice in those days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
Euening Chat
That Missing "Forgettery-"
BY RUTH CAMERON.

..Some time. if you think 1t worth
the while" writes a letter friend, L
shouId like very much to have your
oninion on the control of thoughts
ssHave YOU ever experienced the de-
sire to rid YOUR mind of a train or
thought. which although not wholly
unwelcome, is foolish, and which has
become almost an obsession? II so,
vol, can understand what 1 mean.
"Perhaps there are mental exer-
cises which could be used to help push
out the undesirable thoughts. When
one is much by ones self thoughts are
an IMPORTANT factor, and II ones Work
is necessarily of a mechanical nature,
not requiring great concentration, the
mind will wander. The question is.
Can a person train his or her mind
to wander in pleasant, profitable ana
character forming paths?'
For some reason the Power that
created us didn't see fit to give US ear
lids to match our eyelids. Likewise IL
failed to give us the ability to control
our minds as easily as we do our
| bodies.
We have no forgettery to supple
ment our memory.
Isn't it weird to think that you can
never say. "I will forget such and
such a thing" and thereupon put it
out of your mind for all time? You
may not actively think of the painful
| occurrence, the unwelcome piece of
knowledge, but it is somewhere in your
brain and only death can entirely
erase it. Nay, who knows if even
death will wipe the slate quite clean?
Nevertheless, though We cannot
teach the sub-conscious mind to for
| get, we can control our conscious
| thoughts to some extent.
My letter friend says, ''Perha ps
there are mental exercises which
could be used to push out the unde-
sirable thoughts
Push OUT is good. That is the
way to get rid of anything evil. Don't
just try to throw it out with an effort
/ of the will. Push it out with some
thing good. Nature abhors a vacuum,
you know If your mind wanders in
Improbable paths, find it paths that
will profit
you meet the arguments on both sides
of big questions, preparedness, social
ism, prohibition, etc, and think them
over.
Teach yourself to think, instead of
dreaming. Don't let your mind wander
vaguely from point to point Teach
it to pursue train of thought.
muscles For instance, if you can al
most think of quotation, control
your mind until it quite gets it.
And now a word of warning-don't
do any of these things too much Be
able to control your mind, but DOM
control it too rigidly, especially at
first. Let it wander some of the
time. All work and no play hurts
minds as well as bodies. And a tired
mind is a great deal harder to rest
than a tired body.-(Protected by the
Adams Newspaper Service-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
MODERN woMAN,s CoMp1A1Nr.

"ANOHASN WOAAN'S COMPLAINT.
The modern complaint of woman
Is that the care of the house has di-
vorced her from growing interests.
from literature and, what is more i'm
portant, from the newspaper, partly
from music, entirely from politics.
writes W. L. George in Harper's Mag
azine for June. TT is a purely ma
ter1al question; there are only twenty
TOUR hours in every day, and there are
some things one cannot hustle. One
can no more hustle the English Joint
than the DEGREES of the supreme court.
Moreover. and this is a collateral fact,
an emptiness has formed around
woman; while on the one side she was
being tempted by the professions
that opened to her, by the interests
ready to her hand, the old demands of
less organized homes were falling
away from her. Once upon time she
was slave; now she is a half timer
and the taste of liberty that has come
to her has made her more intolerant
OF the old laws than she was in the
ancient days of her serfdom. Not
much more than seventy years ago it
was still the custom in lower middle
class homes for the woman to sew
and bake and brew. These occupa-
lions were relinquished, for the distri-
button Of labor made it possible to
have them better done at a lower cost
In the 'fffties and sixties the great
shops began to grow, stores to rise of
the type of whitley and Wanamaker
Woman ceased to be industrial, and
became commercial her chief occu-
patton was now shopping. But of late
years even that has begun to go; the
great stores dominate the retail trade,
and now, qualities being equal there
is hardly anything to pick between
universal provider No. l at one end
of the town. and No. 2, equally uni
versal, at the other. Also the stores
sell everything; they facilitate pur-
chases; the housekeeper need not go
to ten shops, for at a single one she
can buy cheese, bicycles and ele-
plants That is only an indication of
the movement; the time will come
probably within our lifetime. when
the great stores of the towns will have
crushed the small traders and turned
them into branch managers; when all
the prices will be alike, all the goods
alike; when food will be 20 graded
that it will no longer be worth the
housekeeper' while to try and dis
cover a particularly good sirloin-in-
stead she will telephone for sew n
pounds of quality AT, No. 1852.
Then, having less to do, woman will
want 20 do still less, and the modern
rebellion against house and home will
find in her restlessness greater
impetus. conceive the future
homes of the people as separate COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
QUAKER fluctuations.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
You never can tell. The easier a
job is, the harder it is to get it.
The proper mourning for a grass
widow ought to be lawn dress.
Lots of animals multiply very rap
idly but the only adder is snake.
Turn about is fair play. Admire a
woman and she will admire your good
taste
The bum on a park bench is some
times pinched by cop just to see If
he is awake.
No, Maude. dear; just because the
mails are late we wouldn't advocate
female letter carriers.
Some people go in for high living,
and some for the high life. There
seems to be a difference
Just because you see scales on a
railroad platform, don't jump 70 the
conclusion that it is a way station.
Mrs. Gnaggs-"'So you don't believe
in clubs for women, Ell % Mr.. Gnaggs
"A club is much too gentle for some
women. 1 prefer an AK
Blobbs-''What a dainty little hand
kerchief she carries 1t looks like a
cobweb." Slobbs-'+Yes, a thing like
that isn't to be snezed att
Sillicus-"Oh, all women are the
same" Cynicus-"Don't you believe it
same for any considerable length of
time.
Tommy-"Pop, there are no pirates
and highwaymen in these days, are
there?" Tommys Pop-'Uh-weIl,
my son, am afraid you are too young
to fully grasp the modern methods of
concentrating capital"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
ION THE SQUARE" OR

Col. Roosevelt can support the Re-
publican ticket this fall, even should
he not be nominated, if the ticket and
the platform are on the square.-Ex-
tract from interview with Republican
National Committee Chairman Hilles
in Chicago.
Using the above for an editorial
text, the New York Evening Mail pre-
sents the following:
Emphasis should be laid on the last
clause of Mr.. EIilles' statements
the ticket and the platform are on
the square"
He is quite right in assuming that
much depends on whether events at
Chicago are ION the square" No
doubt he recalls that four years ago
they were not ION the square," and
that 4,150,00O voters, chiefly Repub-
licans, rallied around the man who
had the courage to resent and de-
nounce a ticket and platform not ION
the square,
There need not be the slightest
doubt in the minds of the Republican
party managers at Chicago that an
other convention not ION the square"
would be met with precisely the same
spirit from the same man, backed up
by ali the voters who stood by him in
1912, plus many who did not do so
then, but are ready to do so now.
The Republican party can make a
considerable addition to the eight
votes it polled in the electoral college
four years ago from Utah and Yer
mont if it acts ION the square" at
Chicago.
"On the square" may not neces-
sarily'' mean Roosevelt as the Repub-
lican nominee and platforn-for in
his case the man would be the plat
form-but in view of the country it is
difficult to see how the convention
could square itself with the people if
it permitted its prejudices to outweigh
it's sound common sense.
1t is as plain as a pikestaff that
the people want Theodore Roosevelt
as the successor of Woodrow Wilson.
Only those without eyes to see and
ears to hear can doubt that fact.
Perhaps the Republican delegates
at Chicago will be without eyes and
ears-in which event it is also pos
sible that not necessarily Roosevelt
Will Apply 10 the fbepuDnCdn CAM
paign as well as to the Republican
convention.
If Roosevelt is not necessary to the
convention he may feel that he is not
necessary to the campaign.
We sincerely trust the issue will not
be raised at Chicago. We share Mr.
Hilles's hope that everything will be
ION the square
We do not want to see another Re
publican national convention that il
just law honest" We want next
weeks gathering to be really honest
honest with the people, honest with
itself-not honest only to influences
that are selfish and dishonest.
Let it be ION the square"-let il
name the man who has formulated
the issues and whom the voters want
and all will be we'll.
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Journal Entries

This much can be said for weariness
1t plays no favorites. 1t settles on
every one occasionally.
+ = =
Real happiness is so cheap that ev-
erybody could we'll afford to invest
trifle more heavily in it.
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1t may be wrong to fish on Sunday
but the fishes are particepS crlmlnis.
They bite the same on that day as any
other.
+ r =
Every man ought to save some
money for his family, but the trouble
is that most families make it i'm
possible for him to do SO.
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brown eyes and framed with brown
hair. Then the little white hands COW
cred the now crimson face, but the
next instant they snatched the big
bonnet from her brown curls-
'-Of course I'll have to explain now,
she said, with a defiant toss of her
head and a twinkle in her eyes. You
see, l slipped on one of dear Aunt
Letitia's gowns just for comparison
with the new styles. You clicked the
door, so 1 thought it would be fun to
go on and make believe 1 was real
ante-bellum lady. But I've made a
SAD failure pretty little pout ac-
companied the acknowledgment of
failure
You succeeded admirably until you
let me see those hands, Bruce wanted
to reassure her. Until 1 saw your
hands 1 feared you were an ancient
lady whose mind was off the key" he
admitted
Poor Aunt Letitia died three
months ago and left me this lovely
old place with the request that 1 give
to it and to the town some of the
brightness she might have given them.
She came to feel very keenly what a
mistake she made not to enjoy what
she had and share it with Others So,
my idea is to establish public and pri-
ating new ideas with the name of
Leutia Arlington. As soon as l can
get into some other clothes we'll go
over to the public square
But really confessed Bruce, I'm
only buffer myself. not a real land
scape gardener, at ALL" And he pro-
ceeded to explain his presence there
so, we're both takers. are we? But
we've already found that we have the
same ideas about gardens, and a pro-
fessional would probably stifle every
suggestion I'd make, so why not bluff
| it out together after alp
Bruce looked his delight at the sug-
gestion, and it proved to be an in
stance in which the bluff worked sat
isfactorily for all concerned.-(Copy-
right, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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AN OFFSET TO M111rAR1sM.

In pointing out how we may recon
Gle universal military service to a
democracy, Ralph Barton Perry writes
ia the New Republic: "Since military
Service itself emphasizes the central
authority. increases solidarity, and
promotes loyalty to whatever is tradi-
tional or established, it is important
that it should be offset by agencies
tending to Independence, individuality
and criticism. The greatest of these
agencies is education. Over and above
the education for livelihood and the
education fer service, it is indispensa-
BILE that there should be the education
that emaneipates. There, could be no
Greater disaster in free country than
that a national educational system
Should be contrived merely to mobi-
4i@e the intellectual and moral re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
DINNER STORIES.

Did that last snowstorm cause you
any inconvenience?
Some. I wasn't able to ct into
town for week, but then our cook
couldn't get away. either. She stayed
with us a whole week longer than we
usually keep them
Has the scientific study made
much difference in your boy, JOSH
Not as much as you might think"
replied Farmer Corntossel. "Out in
the garden he calls everything by its
botanical name. But when he's sit
ting up to the table, passing his plate,
he's careful to use the kind of wors-@
we all understand -Washington Star
Hello, Is this the grocer" asked
a voice at the other end of wire.
please send me up half a pound of
butter at once, and have the boy bring
the change for a fifty-dollar bill. as 1
haven't anything smaller in the
house"
Excuse me, lady" said the grocer,
but if 1 had that much money in the
store I'd be down in Wall street specu-
lating in war brides"
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"Cheep. Cheep. Cheep, cheep,
cheep! Has anybody seen my nuts?"
said a distressed little voice.
No answer.
"Cheep, cheep, cheep, Has any
body seen my nuts? My nice, sweet.
juicy nuts that 1 had so carefully
stored away" repeated the same
voice.
"Oh, dear, now" cried Chippy Chip
Surely somebody will come around
here-somebody that knows what has
happened to my nuts!"
But though he called and called
and looked and looked, not a creature
did he see.
VERY we'll. them" he finally said,
If nobody is around here, 1 shall find
somebody. And 1 shall find those
nuts. Nobody shall steal my nice good
nuts-so therei"
And Chfppy Chipmonk started on a
hunt for information.
First, he climbed UP a tall tree near
at hand and found wise Mr.. Owl TAX
ing his early mornings sleep.
please wake up, Mr.. OWL said
Chippy eagerly, and in such distress
that Mr.. Oowl Immediately did as he
was told. Il want you to tell me
Wnere my mus are
your nuts asked Mr.. Owl
What do l know about your nuts
Your nuts are most likely just where
you put them-juSt there. Why
bother me ?'
"Of course I'm sorry to bother you,
Mr.. OWL" said Chippy: but my nuts
are not where 1 put them-that's
just the trouble / put them in the
old tree stump yonder. They were
there last evening just as safe as
could be, for / looked at them just
before 1 went to bed. But this morn
ing there is not nut there-not a
mutt Not a nutf' And Chippy shook
his head sadly
We'll, well. WELL" said Mr. OowI.
this is interesting, very interesting.
1 don't usually like to be bothered in
the morning: but a mystery is worth
looking into, even in the DAYTIME
the stupid daytime. Now let's see
what well do first And he
scratched his head and shook out his
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about it.

III Spring comes to ar end officially or
according to those who divided the
seasons for the purposes of the calen-
dar, on June 20. Ergo, the time is
growing short in which the English
forces in the western war zone can
launch that promised big spring drive.
However. it was first promised for the
Spring season of last year and it is
barely possible that history will re-
peat itself in this particular. And, of
course, the terrific onslaught of the
Germans against Verdun can be
blamed if it is deemed wise to postpone
this drive for another year.
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himself. It may. be written down ur-
quahfiedly that the claims of charity
an religion upon ones purse, in this
day of brotherhood, are as real and
urgent as the claims of the grocer and
the landlord. Not spasmodically, but
systematically and proportionately
every man should lay aside a share of
his income for the worlds needy, thus
proving himself to be a citizen of the
twentieth century. and not an
anachronism.
Money that is Transmitted into char
acter becomes eternal riches.
A man is turned into a semblance of
the idol he worships.
Who gives himself with his gift feeds
Himself, his hungering neighbor,
and Me.
Lowell.
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Mr. Owl to hunting them-just that
much faith had he in Mr.. Owl.
So the nuts were there last night"
repeated Mr.. Owl thoughtfully, ..and
they are not there this morning
somebody must have taken them.
Yes, I'm sure somebody must have
taken them"
"Of course they did," said Chippv.
of course they did. 1 told you that
myself But who? That's what 7
want to know-who2"
Now Mr.. Owl didn't like IN n.
talked to while he was thinking: n
made him very cross. So he said to
Chippy. You go and find the tree
toad and ask him who took the nuts
Ask him. S-
So Chippy, glad to find sonoetbi,
to do, ran off to find the tree to-
and Mr. Owl was left in peace -
Inquire out the mystery.-(Copyri-h
Clara Ingram Judson)
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4 In view of the emphatic declarations
Of the Entente Allies that there can
be no peace in Europe until victory
settles on the standards of their ma
lions and also the observation of a
high German official that there is lit
tie chance for peace until Allies try
their offensive and find Germany I'm
beatab1e. it is apparent that peace talk
and moves on the part of neutral
chiefs at this time won't have even
much political effect at home, in case
any of them might be made for that
purpose
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sources of the community for the pur
poses of the state. Cooperation.
patriotism, and all the civic virtues
must indeed be impaired, but without
killing that revolutionist and nom
conformist that lives within every free
mans breast. Nationalistic education
must never displace that universal or
personal education which Goethe
said only noblemen enjoyed in his day,
but which in a democracy must open
to all eager minds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
THE RECKONING.

I could have thought a million swords
would leap,
White as the northern lights across the
sky,
Ere one American were left to die,
The Devils plaything in the Devils Deep
did not know my country held so cheap
Her children, that she still could hear
them cry
Unheeded, SO she kept her Circe's sty,
Forgotten, she took her golden sleep.
And you, who smiled and said that this
was well,
That honor was a toy for wanton Peace
That child more less would
nothing mar
How will it be with you when unclaimed
Hell
And black armed Death shall tread down
your increase,
Shall crush your seed in the red watts
of War?
Earl Simonson in New York Tribune