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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

Little Mary had never allowed her
Dickey bird, the pretty little yellow
and black canary you have heard so
much about, to get out of his cage.
She wished and wished that he might
fly around the room, and she often
thought about how pretty he would
look fluttering about. But she was
afraid to open the cage door, for some
folks said flying would make him stop
singing.
But one day a friend came to visit
in Mary's house-a friend who had a
canary just as pretty. and just as good
a singer as Dickey was. And this
friend told Mary that flying would
not hurt bird one bit-that it might
even make him sing better!
Mary thought the matter over care
fully for a whole day and then, the
next morning, she opened the cage
door,
You should have seen Dickeyi At
first he didn't know what to make of
the open door. In fact, he hardly
seemed to see it at all! He ate some
seed and flew about in his cage just
as usual And then, after a while,
quite as though it was mistake. he
flew out of the open door and over
to the window curtain
There he fluttered and tried to
stand on the branches painted on the
curtain, but as that could not be done,
he flew across the room t. the radi-
ator.
Now of course if it had been in win
ter time. when the steam was turned
on in the radiator. Mary would have
covered it up some way SO he couldn't
burn himself en- the hot pipes. But
this wasn't winter; this was summer
and the radiator was as cold as cold
could be and Dickey was perfectly
safe on it.
How he did like those brightly
painted pipes, He brushed off his
bill once, twice, three times and then
hoped to the next pipe to do the
same thing over again.
Look, mother called Mary to her
mother, who came into the room Just
then .'Dickey thinks those pipes are
perches!! See? He wipes off his bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

Comes now a professor of the Uni
versity of Chicago, a hunger expert,
he's labeled, with the suggestion that
occasional periods of voluntary star
walton, say once or twice year in
the case of a healthy adult person,
may not only add to the joy of living
but also to the length of life. Mebbe
SO. But only the other day in Paris
the famous Metchn1koff went to his
grave 1t was his contention that
there was no reason why sour-milk
diet should not prolong the span of
human life to $50 years. And he was
only 10 when he died. But it may be
that he didn't practice what he
preached. He might have been one of
those unfortunates to whom sour
milk or even the thoughts of it, is es-
peeially distasteful. And the proba-
bilities are that the only diet which
will add to the joy of living and tend
to prolong life is a moderate one of
the things a man likes, provided he
is wise enough not to like too many
things that may disagree with him.
All food, like all medicine. does not
work the same way with all people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
Journal Entries

It's the good listeners who achieve
the most popularity.
+ + +
Not to do some things is quite as
essential as it is to do others.
= = =
Altogether too many people are sat
isfied with their lot, or rut in life.
i. +
Most of the stories started about
people soon outgrow all semblance of
their original form.
+
Another foolish girl is the one who
thinks all her troubles will be over
as soon as she is married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
WHEN sALLIE CAME TO uLAY.

WHEN SALLIE CAME TO ULAY.
The road to Sallies house went up
But the road to mine went down,
And Sallie's hair like the sun
While mine was merely brown;
And she was older far than /,
Quite six months and a day,
But these things made no difference
When Sallie came to play.
think the mornings all were spring
And the sand pile was of gold.
The birds all sang like anything,
Nothing was sad or old,
When Sa1lie's feet came down the road
And far-oh, far-away
heard the silver of her shout
'Hurrah! I've come to play!'
The years have gone SO fast, my dear,
I don't know how to play,
And sand is only sand, my dear,
Yet If you showed the way
If through the years your voice rang out
I'd never more be old,
We'd build again our palaces
From sands of purest gold.
George Wood Pangborn, in New York
Evening Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

On numerous occasions in times
past the east and the south have gone
out of their way to emphasize the
dangers. in the west from tornadoes
and cyclones. But such storms in the
west are pigmies when compared with
the hurricanes that of late years have
been ravaging the sea coasts of the
south and east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
why LINCOLN srUDIEr LAW.

A story has been current for many
years to the effect that Mr.. Lincoln
received his inspiration to study law
from having become possessed OF a
dilapidated set of B1ackstone's Com
rnentaries, which had been cast aside
hv some one as waste paper some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

just that way. And when he got To
the end. he promptly turned around
and hoped back again. as though he
was having the very best time of his
whole young lifei
AND then what do you suppose he
did next? He cooked his head to one
side, looked at the row of pipes. and
tried hopping two at a time-slxiu
ping one, you see. He didn't hit n
just right each lime. no, because he
just right, you see, but he kent ~,
trying. till finally he could GO tho
whole length of the radiator, skfppinr.
without miss Then he flew bacE
into his cage and ate his dinner
(Copyright,-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOCLTON.


have heered lot of singin' by the high
who 20 traveiin' round the country in
their high toned special cars
These here singers that are getting many
thousands every night,
And ] amt dead set agin' 'em Tor some
folks think they're all right.
suppose expensive screechin' is the kind
But it amt the kind Of singin' that is
music to my ear.
Now, my kind of course amt opry but I'd
surely call it grand
Just to hear my mother MARBLE once again
old "Beulah Land"
have paid my good five dollars just to
git a ringside seat
And to listen to the singin' which they say
Guess / must be some old-fashioned fer 1
didn't get thrill
through the whole grand opry bill.
I don't like this tuneless music; It don't
seem to git nowhere,
But keeps on perambulating round the
landscape, here and there.
I'm rube and an old fogy, it is very
But a song like "Annie Laurie" 10 the kind
that just suits me.
Take the Home Paper.
We once knew a man who was too
stingy to take the newspaper in his
home town and always sent over to
borrow his neighbours paper.
One evening he sent his son over
to borrow the paper and While the
son was on his way he ran into a
large stand of bees and in few min
utes his face looked like summer
squash.
Hearing the agonized cries of the
son, the father ran to his assistance,
and in doing so ran into barbed wire
fence, cutting out a handful OF flesh
from his anatomy and running "a
pair of trousers.
The old COW took advantage of the
hole in the fence, got into the corn
field and killed herself eating green
corn Hearing the racket, the stingy
mans wife ran out of the house, up
setting a four-gallon churn full OF
cream into basket of kittens. drown
ing the whole flock. She slipped on
the cream and fell downstairs, break
ing her leg and a $1s set of false teeth.
The baby, left alone, crawled through
the spilled cream into the parlor and
ruined a $40 carpet. During the ex-
citement the daughter eloped with the
hired man, taking the family savings
with them.
The moral is that every man should
be subscriber to his home newspaper.
Uncle Abner.
A town without a brass band is like
a family without photograph. 1t is
maple TO worry along ana nave q
pretty good time in life.
Bud Perkins is SO stingy that he
stole a ham so that he could be sent
to the county jail and get a haircut
for nothing.
Another thing that Job never did
was to try to unscrew the top off'n a
glass fruit jar.
There is about as much secrecy
about a courtship in a town of 1900
as there is about a magazine explosion
aboard a battleship. AS soon as a
Teller and gal are seen together in an
ice cream parlor folks begin to wonder
when they are going to git married.
Advice to Young Ladies'.
Before you give your answer,
Before you have been won,
Look him up in Bradstreet, ~
Look him up in Dun.
Marry one for love? Sure;
All young ladies do.
But while you are adding 1t,
Get the Doodle, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

Safety first also may have had
something to do with the recent pre-
diction of a famous Partisan fortune
teller that France will be among
those victorious in the great war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member nf the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization. for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka. -,
The news is received in The State journal
building over wires for this sole purpose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
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DICKEY's PATIENCE.

just as he does on his perch"
ITO be sure" laughed Mother: land
now watch-I think he is going to
hop down the whole row of pipes"
And that's just what Dickey did
Down the whole long row of twelve
pipes Dickey hoped. On one, and
another and another and another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
Household Hints
Canning and Preserving.


To Can Peas or Any Vegetable
First sterilize jar perfectly. Shell,
wash and drain young peas. place in
glass jar, cover with slightly warm
water and one teaspoon table salt to
a pint can. Place on new rubber
(also new cover if not glass jar) /,
fastening lightly. Now place jars on
a false bottom Excelsior will do) in
a wash-boiler, filling in cold water
till jars are two-third covered with
water. Cover boiler tightly and light
fire. Let boil two hours when using
pint jars ard four hours when using
quart jars. One bushel peas in pods
equals twenty pints of finished prod
uct. One pint can holds just two
cups-enough to serve four persons
and the liquid is delicious to use in
serving. Twenty pint cans fill wash
boiler.
Things Worth Knowing.
To Keep Peas for WATERSHED
peas and put in boiling water with a
little salt added; boil five minutes
drain in colander, afterward dry on a
cloth, then place them in alright bot
ties. When you want to use them
cook until tender
For Easy Labelling of Jelly Glasses,
Fruit Jars, etc.-Go TO a dealer in
artists materials and buy a china
decorators pencil. With it you can
write on the glass itself or on the tin
lids and mason caps as easily as with
lead pencil on paper. Washes off at
end of season. leaving jar ready for
another label.
Jelly Bag-Take piece of cheese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

In Chicago, the birthplace of the
safe and sane" Fourth of July cru
sade, no less than 134 persons have
been killed by reckless automobile
driving since the first of January.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20

cloth twenty inches square, fold it
three-cornered. French seam one side.
Around the top sew four or five loops
to hang it up by. You will find it
handler than Using a cord.
When washing and rinsing colored
materials, add one teaspoon Epsoni
salts to each gallon of water and even
the most delicate shades will not run
or fade. Serge or merino dresses
which have been dyed black can be
safely washed in. this way without any
risk of the dye running.
When your fronr-laced corsets
won't lace tightly to give the straight
front effect, cut down the back, sew
two pieces of strong goods, one on
each side (cut smaller at top the
seams down the back to insert the
small whalebone. You will have q
pair of corsets to lace tightly in front.
Remove Fruit Stains-Put one
ounce chloride of lime in bowl, pour
over it one pint Of boiling water.
strain through muslin, add three pints
cold water. Gather up stained spots,
put in this solution: in a short time
the stains will disappear. This is very
successful in peach and grass stains;
also mildew.
Fit for a King.
Half cup butter, one cup sugar.
one-half cup sweet milk, two cups
flour sifted, one teaspoon baking
POWDER whites four eggs beaten
stiffly. Steam fortyfive minutes in
cups or buttered pan. Roll in pow
dered sugar and serve with following:
Cream, one-third cup butter, one cup
powdered sugar. Beat into this grad
ually one cup crushed strawberries
This dessert can be made in the morn
ing or day before serving, warm up
in steamer and have sauce melt down
over.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1916-08-03
PLAY DRAWS GOOD HOUSES.
Continued from Page y

The handsome silk costumes of the
young ladies will be given them as
souvenirs. All costumes and proper
ties were purchased especially for
the play and the properties, curtains
Lfootlights. platform at back, stage
enlargement, etc, are all on hand
and stored for future use. The pro-
ceeds are being used to repair and
paint the library building, final pay
ments on the piano, cleaning and
painting walls and ceilings inside and
trimming up the grounds. The Ii
brarian has also been paid her salary
The cast:
Billy Pearson, Robert Denpster;
Percival Gale, Vickary Leeman; Bill
ly Brown, William Smith; Henry
Dudley, Chester Sinnett, Jr.; Mrs
Moffett, Flora Gardner; Alice Moi
felt, Irene Pinkham; Dorothy Dudley
Beatrice Doughty; Florence Hunt
Margaret Sinnett; Mrs. Caldwell
Hannah Munsey; Ginger Caldwell
Marjory Johnson; members of cho-
rus, Charles. Dexter, Harvey and
Perle Sinnett.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1916-08-03

y certain kniI',, growing Old, his
E''ir foil OH anu he became bald, 10
hide which in,'Crfcction he wore ror-
iwig. but us hc was riding out with
come others n-lnmtins Il sudden gust
ut wind blew OF the rcriwig and ex-
posed his bald pute. The company
co'il! not forbenr laughing Mt the acct
dent anl lie himself laughed as loud
as anybody, saying: How was IL to be
expected that ] could keep strange
hair upon my hcad when my own
would not stay th|rc?"
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1916-08-03

Isn't 1t funny thnt your husband, or
male office running mnte, is always
the one to retail tho very latest piece
of gossip with the remark that 1t prob
ably started with the women servants
and went from thence to the wives,
and, "of course, you know what awful
gossips women IRE i''--I1xchangc.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1916-08-03

White Hemp Hats, $1.49, s295, "Eus-
tis."-Adv.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1916-08-03
Not 10 Be Expected.

Ladies' White Felt Crushers, 49c,
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The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
film PRODUCERS WILL
fight HUGHES BILL
D. W. Griffith Says Five Federal Cen
sors Cannot Inspect All Screen
Plays Made in This Country.

An the big, reputable producers of
motion pictures are unalterably opposed
to a Federal board of censorship to pass
on all motion pictures before they are
exhibited" was the expression yester-
day Of D. G. Griffith, who put on The
Birth Of a Nation" and Is regarded as
one Of the wizards in staging moving
picture plays.
Furthermore" said Mr.. Griffith, I've
are going to fight this thing to a finish.
We have no objection to the enactment
of the Towner bill, which would put i'm
proper and obscene pictures under the
provisions Of the-eriminal code forbid
ding the interstate shipment in any form
Of any other improper picture, newspa-
per, or book. This would put a stop to
the manufacture, by irresponsible and un-
scrupulous parties, of films that are OBJ
jectionable.
But the creation OF a board of five
commissioners to pass on all the NOV
ing pictures manufactured in this coun-
try proposes a task which no five men
four hours every day. 1t has been sug-
gested that under the Hughes bill which
proposes the board of censorship, the five
censOrs may appoint deputies to help
them. But. in the first place has any
body calculated how many deputies
would be required? And is it fair to the
educated American public to have such
work passed on by men who would be
willing to take a job at the usual salar-
les paid to deputies by the government?
The ToWner bill would put out of
business the only kind of pictures 10
which anybody can possibly object, those
dealing with improper and shocking sub
jects. And 1 feel sure that this is ex-
actly what the American public wants"
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
TARBELL PAINTINGS
PLACED ON EXHIBIT
Thousands View Collection Of Paint
ings of Famous American Painter
at Corcoran Art Gallery.

Showing an almost intense daring in
originality OF subject. in sharp contrast
to the subjects of the old masters, but
comparing favOrably in technique with
the most famous Of world-knOwn artists
the paintings of Edmund c. TarbelI,
plGc2d on exhibition at the Corcoran Art
Gallery yesterday, were the mecca OF
thousands Of visitors who passed through
the building in a seemingly never-ending
s;re-m.
The subjects Of the famous American
painter placed on view yesterday, while
modern In every sense OF the word, cover
every phase OF life, from the portrait of
the most well-knOwn men and women If
today to the pattern-cuttIRg girl of the
factory through the various walks of
life in home and street.
The collection covers a total OF thirty
one pictures gathered from the many
museums, where the works Of Mr.. Tar
bell are among the permanent collections,
and pictures loaned from private gal
leries. Throughout the portraits and
paintings show the remarkable versa
tility in expression of the author.
In the latter-day portraits Of the COlIec-
tion are the pictures of Mrs. Samuel
Cabot. jr., Mrs. John s. Lawrence, JUS
tire John w Hammond. Franklin D.
] oCke. and numerous others designated
merely with an initial The other sub
jCcts include. a Girl CrochetinE." "A
Girl Cutting Patterns" The Coral Neck
lace" The Golden Crescent" The Sum-
mor IdyH"
Mr.. TarbeIl was born at West GrotOn,
Mass. He is a pupil Of Boston Museum
School and OF BOulanger and Lefebvre in
Paris. His paintings have won the dis
tinCtiOn OF first prizes and medals OF
honor at exhibitions throughout the
United States. His pictures were award
ed the first William A. Clarke prize at
the COrcOran Art Gallery exhibit in 1910
His first pictures were shown at the Ma.
tiOnal Academy Of Design, New York, in
1890. where they were awarded the Clarke
prize.
The pictures will be on exhibition un-
til February e.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
WILL GIVE HISTORICAL LECTURE
Woodward to Discuss District Boun-
dary and MIIestones.

The Boundary and Bfilestones OF the
District of Columbia will be the subject
of an illustrated lecture on Thursday
night at s o'clock, in New National Mu-
scum, by Fred E. Woodward, under
auspices of the D. A. r. committee on
preservation Of historic spots and rec
ords.
Addresses also will be delivered by
Col. w. w. Harris, officer in charge of
public buildings and grounds, and Mrs.
George T. Smallwood, vice president gen
eral Of the national society, Daughters
of the American Revolution. Mrs George
2. Conway, chairman, will preside.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

date having the largest number of votes
| in the entire contest.
Second Grand Prize-ss15 Saxon Six"
fully equipped, to be awarded the candi-
| date having the second largest number Of
votes in the entire contest.
Third Grand Prize-sssO 1916 Maxwell
touring car, "25," fully equipped. to be
awarded the candidate having the third
Largest number of votes in the entire
| contest
Fourth Grand Prize-sS50 Upright Brad
bury Player-Piano. to be awarded the
candidate having the fourth largest num-
Der of votes in the entire contest.
Fifth Grand Prize-$55O Upright Chick
ering Piano. to be awarded the candidate
having the fifth largest number Of
votes in the entire cortest
Sixth Grand Prize-s35O Baby Grand Co
lumbia Grafonola. No. $50 to be awarded
the candidate having the sixth largest
number of votes in the entire contest
District Prizes.
| After the six Grand Prizes have been
awarded the candidate having the largest
number of votes in each of the eleven
respective districts will be awarded the
First District prize, an order for 800
worth of furniture.
The second largest number OF votes
in each of the eleven districts, second
prize, an order for $50 worth of mer-
| chandise.
The third largest number of votes in
each of the eleven districts, third prize,
| an order for SIS worth of merchandise.
| The fourth largest number Of votes In
! each of theNeleven districts, fourth prize,
an order for s12.5O worth of merchandise
All active non-prize winners will re-
ceive a cash commission of 10 per cent on
every dollars worth of new subscriptions
| q f1Ir
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

hike was led by c. A. Gambs, assisted
by Loring c. Wood.
They left the bridge at 80 o'clock. re-
turning at $50 O'Clock. They walked
back from the river along the ridge, the
trail being about two miles long Later
they returned to the river walking along
the shore. The tran crossed the Lees
burg highway several times and took
them through the estate Of Joseph
Letter. Several minutes were spent in
viewing the blooded stock on the Letter
property.
The party will be led next Sunday by
Walter Paige, who this week will walk
over course TO LAZY out the route. II
probably will be from Chevy Chase Lake.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
Cured His RUPTURE

was badly ruptured while lifting trunk sew
eral years ago. Doctors said my only hope Of cure
was an operation. Trusses did me no good Final
ly got hold of something that quickly and COM
pletely cured me. Years have passed and the rup-
turs has never returned. although am doing hard
work as a carpenter. There was no operation. no
lost time no trouble. l have nothing to sell. but
will give full information about how you may And a
complete cure without operation. II you write to me-
Eugene NJ. Pullen. Carpenter, i3B Marcellu,
Avenue, Manasqusn. N. ]. Better cut out this
notice and show 1t to any others who are rup-
turel-you may save life at least stop the mis-
cry Of rupture and the vorJ and danger of an
operation
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
WANDERLUSTERS WALK
ALONG POTOMAC SHORE
Party Views Blooded Stock on Joseph
Letters Estate on Its
Virginia Hike.

Wanderlusters to the number OF l5i
yesterday walked eight miles along the
Virginia shore OF the Potomac from
Chain Bridge back to the bridge. The
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

Don't let that property OF yours lie
unrented and unprodUctive just because
1t is Winter. ADVERTISE IN THE
WANT COLUMNS Renters and buy
ers read this newspaper the year
round, and they are always looking for
attractive opportunities.-Dsn SSyles.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

tons count for just one-half the num-
Der of votes shown above.
Important.
A new subscription is one given by
any person whose immediate family
was not receiving The Washington
Herald by mail or carrier on January
l, 1916.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

The members of Mount Vernon
Council, Daughters of America, will
go to Washington on the 1920 o'clock
train tomorrow night to take part in
the rally of the State Council of
Washington, to be given in honor of
Virginia and Maryland members