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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16
Euening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

Keeping Everybody Happy.
This makes me feel if 1 were going
down to M a friend said to me the
other day, as we approached a railroad
station. Il often used to come here at just
spent there
TOO bad you aren't going there now
I said.
taste Pa, Far from it." she said; TT gives
1 could scarcely believe my ears.
cottage in lovely situation. 1t did not
have helped enjoying it. 1 said as much.
Yes" she said, lit was lovely, but it
wasn't peaceful. 1 had two families there
my people and my husbands people-and
l had to keep things going smoothly. 1
don't mean that they didn't get perfect
person has to be the center of family like
that, and you can imagine how hard it
is: Then there was a good deal of trouble
and l had to adjust all that. / don't mean
had to work hard, it was just trying to
keep everybody happy that tired me-"
Just trying to keep everybody happy
than the actual work they have to do
so smoothly that no one can find a crevice
to lodge a complaint in, just trying to
please everyone's taste at the table, just
individual personalities, to convince a
father that his son is not extravagant, and
a son tnaC MS IaI1er Is not StlnRy, TO keep
a maid good-tempered when the family are
late to meals, or bear the brunt of the
family ill temper when a meal is late in
APPRENTICESHIP these and a hundred sim
liar details of adjustment help use up the
| average homemaker's nervous force.
And in many cases she manages all this
under the constant strain of the fear
of being seolded Every mother is an
adjustment buresu of domestic complaints.
The woman at the adjustment bureau in
the big shop has no sinecure of position,
but she does not have the same nervous
strain. To be sure, people sometimes
cross to her, but it doesn't matter so much
because they not the people she cares
about. At the mothers adjustment bureau,
on the other hand, the complaints are all
from those she loves the best and whose
disapprova1 hurts her the most. And
mothers, somehow, never get used to bein &
| scolded, which, as I have remarked before.
is incomprehensible, because they get so
much practice in endurance.
The epitaph over many a tired little
mother who folds her weary hands and
succumbs to some minor disease might well
be:
'.she gave daily of her vitality to oil the
machinery of family life, and had none
left to save herself in the time of need
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have been educated into an intellec-
tual familiarity with the weak places,
the dark places, the unsettled diff
culties of our society before they are
overwhelmed by them practically?
Our universities must indeed lead the
way. But unless the methods of criti-
cal discrimination which they foster
extend into our secondary school and
thence, indirectly at least, into the
elementary schools, we shall find
democratic control tied to a course of
inert drift alternating with periods of
excited explosion. To make our
school the home of more serious
thought on social difficulties and con-
flicts is the real question of academic
freedom, in comparison with which
the topic we have hitherto dealt with
under that head is indeed academic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16

beyond me- Oh, yes, she was very
sweet and lovely for a while and all
my friends declared she was beautiful,
and the young curate, who hadn't the
most remote idea that she was the I'M
fortunate Jane Lawrence, had got into
the habit of dropping in for tea every
afternoon, and two or three of the
bachelors who never look at a de-
butante suddenly discovered a decided
fondness for my drawing room chairs
i needn't tell you that for you are
much in the same boat yourself. There
was nothing in the least bit forward
about her though. She was as sweet
as a girl of our own claSS-and then
suddenly she went off yesterday.
Heaven only knows where she went.
She was gone for an entire day and
simply left word with my maid that
she had gone down town. And at tea
time she came in smiling and refused
20 tell me where she had been. She is
up stairs in her room now. am going
to have her pack up tomorrow and sent
back to St. Prisca's. 1t is really too
disgraceful. Gone a whole day and
won't tell where she went! Tom, it is
all your fault
Tom drew his chair closer to that of
his sister and this time showed evil
dent interest in the case of the little
orphan girl
Suppose I could tell you where the
girl was yesterday. Suppose l could
prove to you that she left the house
on an expedition to find the one to
whom she felt indebted for her little
fling in the world of normal pleasure
and happiness. 1 believe she did ask
you who it was and you told her.
Well, could you very much blame her
if you knew that her little expedition
yesterday was a trip to the office of
that benefactor to tell him of her
gratitude and to thank him with all
the sweetness and innocence of the
child that she is for what she consid-
ers the turning point of her career?
Without exactly knowing how, she
realizes that these weeks have saved
her from what might have been a
shipwreck And then, of course,
suppose you knew that that humble
persuaded the girl to have luncheon
with him down town, and then sent
her home with a promise not to tell
where she had been, would you blame
her very much? 1 thought that
might explain it more easily than she
could"
Mrs. Stoddington sank back heavily
against the fragile framework OF the
desk chair.
"Oh. Tom, 1 am so relieved" she
said 81 felt such a responsibility"
Tom had risen as if to go, but OF
course he had no such intention, for
he had not yet seen the little girl in
question that day.
You know, your loed was soou
one, perhaps even better than mine,
he told his sister. You know you
said YOU would feel your task com
plete when you had seen her married
to some honest. Woodworking person
/ am quite sure that I am hard-work-
ing and, in spite of my profession, l
make certain claims to honesty. 1t is
q rather hasty decision, but l have
gained James consent We are Just
waiting for your permission; :
copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
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Clio be Sights
BY THE ArcHIsoN GLOBE.

Make friends even if you have to
buy an automobile.
Among the other unusual sights is
a lawyer in a hurry.
No man wants to be known as a
good soprano singer.
All men are born equal prob
ably is the biggest libel on nature.
AS rule a hot time costs. a lot
more cold cash than it is worth.
AS a rule town troubles travel
farther than town achievements.
Sometimes it seems that a woman's
because is lust as good as any other
reason.
By the time husband begins to
have his suspicious, almost everyone
else knows il.
Many are disposed to expect too
much of other people and not enough
of themselves.
If a man doesn't devote all the
time he isn't working to his wife, she
is apt to think he is selfish.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.I

TFrom the Chicago News-1
Silence is golden, except when a
counterfeit.
But the chicken hearted man crows
only in his sleep.
Worry gives the undertaken more
business than work does
We all talk too much-because
there is so much to talk about
There's considerable difference be-
tween a kicker and a knocker-
Marriage is a failure for leap year
girl who proposed in vain
Being remembered in will is as
uncertain as an unlaid egg.
A bride always thinks her husband
clever because he married her.
The stage has wings. but that isn't
what makes the chorus girls so fly.
Many a girl who loves man for
his money is too modest to mention it
to him.
Girls who want to marry are always
looking in shop windows for new
brands of bait.
The woman who makes fun of a new
style one day is usually trying to imi-
tate it the next.
There may be such a thing in the
world as pure unselfishness, but no.
body seems to be able to locate it
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Jayhawker Jots

After an official has been elected
the second time he is apt to get a
feeling that he is a Man of Destiny.
A man who can't live on hundred
dollars a month when he is getting it,
can live on half that when his income
stops
When all other jokes fail, points
out the University Daily Kansan. a
cussword in the play will usually get
a laugh.
There are other arguments in favor
of prohibition, but the fact that the
booze interests oppose it is the
strongest.
Alb Adkins had no rich ancestors.
and says about all he ever inherited
was his fathers politics and a little OF
his mothers religion.
Sunday was such a dull day in
Grainfield that Editor Young of the
to tell his troubles to.
A Miss Ulricke Schwerdtfeger of
Ellsworth recently obtained a shorter
if not less unusual name when she
changed it to Mrs. Fritz Choitz.
Next time you meet fellow with
a prize dog, say nothing and listen,
suggests the Caldwell Advance. He'll
do more bowling than the dog.
Dress-up, cleanup, pay-up and cut
I'D weeks have been observed IN Kan
sas towns, notes the Fort Scott Trib-
nue., and it wonders: Will there be
no let-up?
Maybe this is a new one that the
Smith County Pioneer tells: A Ford
owner, speeding through dry" town
in Nebraska, was pulled on a charge
of rushing the can"
Once there was a pirate wrecked on
desert island where before that sad
day he had buried much loot, and he
had more money than he could spend
or give away
The man who walked 100 miles to
obtain a marriage license has received
more mention for heroism than the
soldier who shot a dozen Mexican BAN
dts, notes the Arkansas City Traveller.
and it is sufficiently heartless to add:
Perhaps the element of danger was
considered greater.
while ago a boy came from coun-
try town to be coached by Prof. B. K.
Bruce for examinations for West
Point tells the Leavenworth Times.
His school reports showed very high
grades, but when Professor Bruce
came to examine him he found that
the boy didn't know anything. John
on the school board out in your town
''What makes you think sou inquired
the boy. "Oh. just thought 50. ISM
he?" asked the professor again yes
he's president of the board But how
did you know" persisted the boy. "Oh
1 Just guessed it, was the unsatisfac-
tory reply And the boy is still won
dering how the Leavenworth man
could make so good guess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16
IN THE BUSINESS worth

How long is the feverish business
activity of the last few months to con-
tinue?" asks Henry Clews, the New
York banker, in his weekly financial
review, and he continues: During
the first four months of the current
year, bank clearings reached the ire
mendous total of $4,000, 900, 900, or
nearly 4 5 per cent more than the same
time last year. Making allowance for
the rise in values-and an increase of
nearly so per cent in New York s
clearings which were more than half
the above total and swollen by I'M
usual financial operations-it is evil
dent there has been a very consider
able increase in the volume of Amer
lean business. Perhaps railroad earn
ings are better indication in this re-
spect than bank clearings. The rail-
roads have earned about 90 per cent
more so far this year than a year ago,
ano the gain is only partly due to bet
ter rates. traffic having made most
encouraging gains. Exports for the
last nine months were about so per
cent ahead in value of last year and
| imports showed an increase of about
rs per cent over a year ago. New
charters of concerns with not less
than a million capital amounted to
over s1.0OO,0 200. or five times
what they were a year ago. Such evil
dences of extraordinary activity could
be multiplied indefinitely, and encour-
aging as they may be they unavoid-
ably raise the question, when will a
halt be due? Optimism continues on
the flood tide. and there are no signs
of weakness in the industrial fabric;
albeit there are certain changes in
tendencies and conditions which
should not escape notice. First, COM
modify prices have risen to a point
that not infrequently arrests new bust
ness The great expansion in loanine
capacity of the banks brought about
by large gold imports, the new bank
ing law ana other circumstances, espe-
cially the war, produced the much ex-
pected initiation. Bankers are now
scrutinizing loans more carefully
since credits have been greatly extend
ed and much larger sums are required
| to finance a given amount of mer-
chandise than formerly. With com
modities at such dizzy heights and ex-
posed to reaction, bankers are JUS
titled in exercising greater discrimina-
ton. Further, the cost of doing bust
ness has been tremendously enhanced
by the rise in raw materials and the
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DO YOU LIK f TO MEND

Do you like to mend broken things ?
Or are you like most folks and think
mending is a great bore and waste
of time? Have you ever tried to sew
on a button or stitch up tear in your
frock or darn a hole in your stockingi
It's great fun. no matter what the
grown folks say, ana you should try
it some day for yourself.
And while you are mending. remem-
Der that you are doing a job that
everybody has to take hand at. Yes,
sir, even Mother Earth herself does
mending, and, moreover. you will have
to learn to be very skiIlful to beat her
at her trade,
What's that? Didn't you know that
Mother Earth did mendfng? of course
she does-beautiful mending, as you
can see for yourself if you only look.
Get out your bag of marbles and
look them over. or your stone that you
use when you play hop-scotch. See
the streaks of different colored stone
through the marble or through the
hop-scotch stone2 Those streaks are
the stitches Mother Earth used when
she sewed together that rock. Think
of that
For, you must know, hundreds of
years ago, those stones you play with
were fastened in the ground with 9TH
er stones, so tightly that you would
have thought they never would have
changed or come loose But of course
they did change-everythiEg does
Perhaps a great glacier-a river of
ice-crawled over the rocks and crum-
bled them apart; or maybe a mountain
tumbled other rocks over onto them.
and broke them into pieces.
Then along came Mother Earth with
her mending basket and stitched them
together again The white stitches
you see SO plainly. men call white
quartz and it is so hard and so solid
that the bits of rock, once meEded, are
as good as new again. Isn't that won
derful2
Or perhaps il wasn't convenient FOR
Mother Earth to use white quartz at
the time she needed to mend a partic-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16
SOCIAL EDrCATION

We have condemned the method of
taking docile direction from rulers;
we have set up as judges on our own
account, says the New Republic Shall
We then expect something called de-
mocracy in the abstract to work mir
acles in our behalf? Shall we always
drift without definite policy reliev-
ing our nerves in critical periods, as
we are now doing. by treating mutual
recriminations as if they were a sub
stitute for a policy? Is there any
meaning in the phrase democratic
control of social affairs save as men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16

Nobody who handles sugar to the
consuming public has any idea of a
sufficient reason as to why the price
of -sugar should be what it now is.
And of course the sugar producers or
the refiners haven't any time to devote
to conversation on this interesting
question; they're too busy raking in
the money and counting their profits.
If they said anything they'd probably
place the blame on the European war.
But perhaps it is merely a coincidence
that the prospects for bumper small
fruit and berry crops are excellent,
and this means that the canning sea-
son, the home canning season is al
most at hand.
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elevation of wages. Such develop
ments mean that the next twelve
months will not see-a repetition of the
bulge in profits of the last twelve
months Again, foreign munition or
ders, which did much to swell both
profits and exports, may be repeated,
but on a decidedly smaller scale with
the prospect of almost vanishing when
peace comes. In many cases new en-
terprises have been deferred until
costs of building decline. The
business outlook for the country as a
whole is decidedly promising. The
west is practically assured of another
year of prosperity because of the high
prices for all food and agricultural
products. Labor in other parts of the
world has been so diverted from pro-
ductfon to destruction that this coun
try is practically sure of another good
export season for raw materials, par
ticularly grain and cotton. For our
mineral products there is also I'M
precedented demand; notably copper,
petroleum, iron and coal, all of which
are bringing extraordinarily high and
profitable prices. There is no cessa-
ton of the boom in the iron trade, ex-
cept for the indisposition of the steel
companies to accept further orders for
1917 owing to the uncertainty of Sc
curing raw materials. The railroads
have been liberal buyers of steel prod
ucts and in some portions of the coun-
try the building trades, though spotty,
show much activity. The textile in
dustries are in satisfactory condition,
although manufacturers have been
somewhat embarrassed by adjusting
themselves to higher wages and the
loss of considerable of their export
trade The outlook generally, how
ever, for textiles, clothing and food
products is encouraging for the reason
that wage advances have materially
augmented the buying power of con-
siderable proportion of our popula-
tion.''
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The man who realizes his own weak
ness adds to his strength.
Watch your step, and you won't be
so apt to be tripped up on lie
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
does it indicate that she is stupid?
The poet may write when the spirit
moves him, if the landlord doesn't
move him first
Whatever else you may say of the
mermaid, she can never get there with
both feet.
After all it is more satisfying te
take things as they come than to give
them up as they go.
The debt a man owes himself is
generally paid, seven though he may
have to borrow to pay it.
You never can tell. Many a woman
who faints at the sight of a mouse will
lord it over her husband
Billy-"In days of old the gallant
used to kiss his lady's hand" Milly-
"What bother to have to take off
ones glove,"
Hubbubs-''Don't you miss a barber
out in the country" Subbubs-"Oh,
no; / talk to myself all the time I'm
shaving"
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
quoted the romantic maiden. "All
right. Here's looking at you,' replied
the practical youth.
The Doctor II understand Won
caught a burglar in your store last
night The Druggist-..Yes;t the fell
low said he was all run down, and
wanted to take something for it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16
AS THE PENDULUM SWINGS.

Some concrete testimony of the way
the pendulum of public sentiment is
swinging towards the Roosevelt-for-
president movement is presented by
Henry J. Allen, the editor of the
Wichita Beacon, in his article entitled
Roosevelt or Hughes in the May 10
issue of Golfers. Mr.. Allen writes:
Riding on a Pullman sleeper in an
eastern state a few days ago my Wis
avis, a modern-appearing man, whom
L had never seen before. looked over
the top of his paper and growled:
Looks as though they were going to
nominate this man Roosevelt
Does it?' said 1, with the rising
infection of polite surprise.
He repeated his observation, add
ing a few words of rare adjectival
strength. The prospect doesn't please
you, apparently 1 said.
Ion the other hand said he, I
don't know but it does. This is the
first time have admitted it out loud,
but 1 have about come to the conclu-
sion that the country needs Colonel
Roosevelt's vim and brains
During further conversation I
manufacturer of FIGURING mills from
Kentucky, a traditional Democrat who
supported President Wilson in 1912.
L used the entire vocabulary of the
anti-Roosevelt people four years ago,
said he, but 1 have just come from a
six weeks business tour through YER
mont. New Hampshire. and other New
England state and 1 have been con-
verified to the need of Roosevelt. You
catch it out of the atmosphere in those
states
When reached Kansas 1 found a
letter from man in Oregon who
said: L suppose you've noted the
growing strength of Roosevelt? If
the rest of the country were anything
like Oregon, it would be all over but
the shouting This man was a real
estate dealer in Portland
These two isolated cases from
widely separated sections of the Union
indicate the extent of the extraordi-
nary. unlooked-for. but in view of all
the circumstances perfectly logical
renaissance of Roosevelt. The de-
mand for him is the one clear insistent
note that rises above the tumult of
the most chaotic hour American poll
| tics has seen for two generations. IN
doubleday there is yet great sentiment
for Justice Hughes, and today where
men discuss the presidential poSsibili-
ties from a Republican viewpoint the
talk is on the merits of these two
man. And it's the oldest contest in
history-this unnamed, undirected,
unavowed contest between Hughes,
who says nothing, whose followers do
not know where he stands on any pub
lie question, even whether he would
accept the nomination, and Colonel
Roosevelt whose vigorous propaganda
has reached from one end of the ma
| ton to the other. 1t is inevitable, of
course, that in America at this hour
the contest between the passive and
uncertain should lose strength to the
aggressive and certain"
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A rather significant coincidence in
the news of a recent day was an inter-
view with a prominent English imam
cier to the effect that Germany is
practically at the end of her re-
sources, both financial and material,
that she is beaten and that the war
win end by Christmas; and story
that came from Germany by letter to
this countr.7 to the effect that Ger
many was not prepared for war on
such a tremendous scale as the one
the European conflict has developed
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Hcw .woefully inelastic are cur laws
The state board of health deems Il
necessary. to urge Kansas towns and
cities to pass special ordinances plac-
ing. a ban on the traffic and use OF
loco weed. so that this evil can be
cufl,ed as promptly as possible, ana
1,ntsl the legislature can meet and en-
act a law on the subject One would
think that the state and its local OIL
VISIONS as well should have plenty OF
laws in existence, of one sort and an
other. that could cope with such