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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
BILLY ROBIN SPIES A STRANGER.

Wake up! Wake up, Wake up!"
sang Billy Robin at the top of his
voice.
Mornings fine, Mornings ffnel
burst of joy. But not a creature an
! swered.
VERY we'll" said Billy. not one whit
disturbed by the fact that he had to
sing alone, 'if everybody in the back
yard is too busy eating to answer me
I'll fly around to the front and sing"
He flirted his tail gaily and flew
around the house to the mulberry tree
that grew in the front yard.
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
sang Billy.
Mornings fine, Mornings fine:
Mornings fine Don't anybody want
to sing with me? Singing's very nice
work this fine dayl"
But evidently there was nobody
who wished to sing just then, for
Billy's song was the only one that
could be heard.
Where is everybody" wondered
Billy. and he looked carefully around
the yard.
He saw no creature, not a friend or
foe, but he did see something that
made him look again, and look closely
He saw funny little ridges and humps
all over the newly-rake1 and seeded
front lawn. Curious little hills and
ridges, that turned this way and that,
and that wiggled and twisted all over
the yard.
Billy looked hard. Then he turned
away, Strengthened his longest tail
feathers and stretched his neck. Then
he looked back to see if the ridges
had disappeared.
No, there they were-just as crook
ed, just as wiggly, as before.
Now isn't that the strangest thing
1 ever saw? % he asked himself thought
fully Il wonder what those little
hills are and how they came to be
there2 J am sure they were not there
yesterday. Yesterday? Let me see
wasn't around here much yesterday,
because the gardeners boy was spad-
ing the lettuce patch and 1 had such
good eating there. But I am sure
they were not here the day before
that. because I sang in the front yard
long time.
Billy studied the little hills and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Evidently the surrender of General
Townshend and his British force at
El-Amara to the Turks is far
from being decisive victory for Tur-
Key and the Central Powers in Meso-
potamia Another British force oper-
ating in that region has just been re-
Enforced by a large contingent OF Rus
sian cavalry which made an unex-
pected and daring dash through
Persia And the main army or the
Grand Duke Alexis is pounding away
successfully on its march towards
Bagdad from mother direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
WOMEN AND DIsHRAGs.

When a woman declares that she
feels like a dishrag'' she is dragging
herself down to the lowest level in still
life, writes ''Zim'' in Cartoons Maya
zine. We doubt not from the personal
appearance of that handy article OF
domestic utility that if any life existed
at all in said rag it could not possibly
fall lower or feel meaner. However.
woman should never offer herself in
comparison with so degraded an OBJ
ject, for the simple reason that man.
kind spurns the dishrag most vehem-
emily, and as woman exists solely for
man she should not seek to lower her
self in his esteem. When a rag takes
up its duties in the dishpan it has
reached the tag end of abandoned
hope, the climax perhaps of a merry
life. A black dishrag might have been
a lovely lady's hose in its palmy days,
adorned by a silken garter and sur
rounded by costly lingerie. But it is
not of its past that speak. 1t is of it's
present social standing, its vulgar en-
vironments and its utter self-abandon-
ment- lis true that you may feel IA
hgued to limp and loppy degree. but
never can you feel so utterly wretched
and beyond redemption as a dishrag!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
QUAKER MEDITATEONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some people are not to be trusted
too far, or too near, either.
You can't make a vegetarian mad
by telling him his goose is cooked.
Joy cometh in the mourning to the
widow who looks well in black.
1t is quite possible to save yourself
a lot of trouble by getting rid of it.
The love of money is the root of ali
evil, but baseball produces the rooter,
too.
The trouble about making a night
of it is that it is apt to shorten a
mans days.
Don't be rough with Fate. Many an
opportunity is labeled: Handle with
care"
You never can tell. The more 3
woman gives a man a piece of her
mind, the less peace of mind he has.
Many man who has never been
married deludes himself with the idea
that he knows something about wom-
en-.
Fine feathers don't make fine
BIRDS" quoted the Wise Guy. Eyes,
but any woman will tell you it's diff
ferent with hats" added the Simple
Mug.
Blobbs-sI have a lot of stamps to
put on envelopes. Do YOU know where
I can find a sponge?" s5lobbs-'sWel1,
there's that fellow Borrowed in the
next room.
Wigg-"Your suffragette friend is
rather masculine, isn't she ?'' Wagg-
"Oh, I don't know; she always looks
around for some fellows seat III a
crowded car
Even the man who begins at the
bottom of the ladder generally has to
shake off the fellow at the top
For the first couple of months of
married life "a fellow has some diff
Guilty in living up to his wife's opinion
of him. After he has been married
about five years he finds it compare
lively easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
body to say anything but me. and I'll

body to say anything but me, and I'll
be easy with you"
So it happened that old Mary, COM
fortably ensconced in Miss Mary S
kitchen, received a message which told
her that old John had escaped the
poorhouse. 1t gave her the address
of the garage, and told her that her
husband would go to see her as soon
as his rheumatic would permit.
Time passed. One morning Mary's
maid came to her room with a serious
face. "Old Mary's too sick to get up
she announced dolefully.
AS soon as she was dressed, Miss
Mary went to her protegee's room. Old
Mary was really ill. She was soing to
die, she felt quite sure. Couldn't she
see her John once more before she
went?
Mary's dictation. 1t said Dear John,
am sick, maybe dying. Iswant you.
Come at once. Mary
The note was sent and when it
reached its destination it threw old
John into panic. Mr.. John was away,
but the chauffeur advised the old man
to go to his wife at once.
Leave the note on the boss desk, ="
he suggested. Then he'll know why
you had to go in a hurry
Mr.. John came back from a business
trip, tired and utterly discouraged.
Life, he was firmly convinced, was
dull and unsatisfactory.
But suddenly the whole face of the
earth was transformed into thing of
joyi For there on his desk he found a
note in Mary's handwriting. 1t bore
a message which could only be ans
wered in person. Mary was in trouble
and had appealed to him!
If he had not been so excited, the
maid of whom he inquired solicitously
as to Mary's condition might have
mixed matters still more distressingly.
But he gave her no chance to blum
der. He must see Miss Mary at once.
She had sent for him.
When she came in answer to the
unexpected demand, it followed, of
course, that all doubts and misunder-
standings were speedily cleared away.
When she realized just what had
brought John to her house in such
precipitate haste, Mary led him to the
little room over the kitchen. Togeth-
er they entered on tiptoe. Old Mary
lay on the little bed, peacefully fast
asleep. Holding her hand and with
his old. white head nodding close to-
wardhers, sat old John.
They must never be separated
again." John whispered. They can
live with u.s.
And Mary, her heart in her eyes,
nodded assent.-(C Copyright, 1916. by
the Mcclure NeWSDa per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
WHEAT CROP PROSPECTS.

According to the report of J. c.
Mohler, secretary of the Kansas de-
partment of agriculture, there has
been a big slump in the prospective
yield of this years Kansas wheat crop.
But even the slump his figures show
doesn't appear to be one that should
cause much worry in Kansas. The
present prospects are that the wheat
yield will approximate 10s.000,OO0
bushels. If the Hessian fly continues
to get in its fine work. this will prob
ably be reduced by the time the crop
is harvested. But the prospects are
that wheat prices will continue excel
lent, and the Kansas wheat crop of
last year, spring and winter wheat
combined, was 100000 or so and
was most profitable crop. And a
crop of such size, which this years
will probably be is a big one for KAN
sas- For the ten year period ending
with 1914, the Kansas wheat crop has
averaged about s5,000,OO0 bushels a
year, and figured in this average and
which boosted it considerably was the
remarkable 1914 crop of 177,OO0,000
So If Kansas produces a wheat crop
this year that is close to the 100000
OOO-bushel mark, Kansas will be doing
pretty well, thank you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

tatoes to fill a covered dish. Take all
of it and cut up in small pieces, then
take the yolks of the four hard-boiled
eggs, mash fine with a fork, add one
teaspoon olive oil and two tablespoons
vinegar, mustard, pepper and little
bit of sugar; mix well together, pour
into the salad, mix it and leave stand
for a half hour.
Spinach Rice-Cover one small cup
of rice with milk and cook slowly on
back of stove. Add more milk as It
boils out, until rice is about half done.
Then add one quart can tomatoes.
large piece of butter, two large onions.
and cook down thick; add salt and
pepper to taste. Serve on sailed waters
while hot.
Deviled Chicken-Make a good
white sauce, using n tablespoonful of
butter, two of flour, a cupful of
chicken broth or milk, little chopped
parsley, onion salt, pepper, and as
much cayenne as you like Have cold
boiled chicken cut in dice and sprin-
killed. with salt, pepper and lemon
Juice. Butter individual baking
dishes, put in layer of crumbs.
little sauce, a layer of chicken, lit
tie more sauce,.a layer OF buttered
crumbs, and set away until fifteen
minutes before serving, when they
can be put in hot oven and Drowned.
Quick Stew-Take one pound steak.
Pound it full of flour and cut in one
inch squares. Next place one table,
spoon lard and flour mixed in pan.
Place steak in this and brown, then
add three large onions, sliced, and
three pints water. Let this come to
boil and drop about seven large cold
boiled potatoes (Which have been cut
in dice) into this. If not thick enough
add some flour. Salt to taste. This
can be made in twenty minutes and 10
delicious. Will serve four nicely.
Apples and Oatmeal-Pare, core and
slice apples, cover with welI-cooked
oatmeal and bake twenty minutes.
Serve with cream
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
The Table.


Easter Hot Cross Buns--one cup
milk, one-fourth cup sugar. three
fourths cup raisins, one-fourth cup
butter, three cups flour, one egg, one
half cake compressed yeast, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon
salt. Make a sponge of the scalded
milk and yeast cake dissolved in one
fourth cup lukewarm water; salt, add
sufficient flour to make a batter which
can be beaten thoroughly. Cover and
let rise until very light, then add re-
manning Ingredients; the eggs well
beaten and butter softened; mix we'll,
add remaining flour. Knead well to-
gether and set again to rise until it
doubles in bulk. Shape as desired; a
double cross is cut on each, and brush
over with beaten egg and bake twenty
minutes.
Chocolate Bread Pudding-One
cup bread crumbs. one-half cup
sugar, two cups scalded milk, one egg,
one square chocolate, one-fourth tea
spoon vanilla. Soak bread in scalded
milk until soft. Melt chocolate in hot
water, stir in milk mixture, add egg
well beaten. salt, sugar and vanilla.
Turn into creased pudding dish and
bake in moderate oven until firm.
Serve with vanilla sauce.
Herring Salad-Take four salt her
ring which have been soaked over
night in water. Add four hard-boiled
eggs, mustard pickles, picked beets,
one apple, one oniol and enough po-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

TRUE LOVE.
True love is like FREELY bright
1t glitters best in darkest night.
In times of peace it burns the same;
Disaster fans it into flame.
True love is like the butterfly
1t filters low, it filters high.
If once you catch it in your net,
Its beauty you will neer forget.
True love is like the singing lark
It does not hush when days are dark.
Though clouds may come and rain may
fall,
True love is master over all.
True love is like the blooming rose
1t lends fragrance as it grows.
The rose, if plucked, will soon decay;
Let love and roses have their way.
lotto Z. Rayburn. Rose Hill, Kan, in the
Toronto Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
Journal Entries

1t also costs considerably less to be
decent than otherwise.
+ I. =
Some debtors evidently put in prac-
tice the theory that time is money.
= ]. +
Regulations are most fragile things.
indeed, nothing is smashed more
easily.
+ + +
Expert alienists have testified under
oath that self-conceit is symptom
of insanity.
There may be time for all things,
but frequently there doesn't seem to
be enough of it when said -hings are
of the pleasurable variety.
i. j i
Edivendts abounds on all sides to
show that an excellent education is
not a necessity in the piling up of for
tunes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

grow right in front of him. Doesn.t
IND, seem queer He couldn't see =
Ana yet, at the end of the nearest
ridge, a little pile of freshly dug earth
grew and grew and grew.
IL looks Just as though somebodv
was pushing it no from under the
grass. thought Billy wonderinriv.
but that can't be, because noboaS Z;
there,' -
And again he looked around at thu
empty garden. ~
This is too much like a rnysterv
watched the still growing earth -
for several minutes. Pm going tc
the back yard where my friends ara
and where such things don't hammer y
And back he flew. leaving the rnvs.
terry unsoiyed--(Copyright-Clarai In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
Carranza is now facing a crisis that

Carranza is now facing a crisis that
is all his own. And it is pretty SER
ious one, too, inasmuch as it takes
, the form of a food famine. What's
going to become of Mexico and its
hordes of non-combatant people who
have been reduced to restitution and
helplessness through the constant
ravishing of their land these few years
back, while we, these great United
States. sit comfortably upon our
launches along the border and watch
and wait?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

Possibly the keenness of the desire
that was exhibited by the Kansas Bull
Moosers at their state convention to
attend the national convention of their
party at Chicago was stimulated by
the opportunity that would thus be af-
forded them to take in the main pol
iticaI show that is to be staged in the
Windy City on the same dates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY x. MoULToN.

RecollectiOns.
Backward, turn backward, -
o time in thy flight,
Make me a boy again,
Just for tonight.
Give me one slice of
The BURBERRY pie
My mother once made, to
Enjoy ere l die.
Please knock off three decades
And give me one chance
To strut once more in my
First pair of long pants
Just let me play hockey
And stay out of school,
And plunge once again in
The old swimmin' pool
Please loosen one moment
Your lettering chain
And let me enjoy my
First circus again.
just let me go back to
A joy that's immense,
To that old knothole in
The center field fence,
But fathers old trunk strap,
| care not about,
And if you don't mind, You
Can just leave that out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

And the big need, apparently, in
Kansas these days is to swat, not the
house-fly, but the Hessian fly And if
the swatting is to be effective it must
be of the preventive variety, not after
the pest gets busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

Possibly peace Sunday wasn't gen.
orally observed in the churches be-
cause of the fact that so many Sundays
for special services of one sort and
another have been placed on the cal
endar by interested organizations that
if the churches recognized all of them
faithfully there wouldn't be many
Sundays left for the regular church
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

What will these May showers bring
forth? June bugs? What an inept sug-
gestion! June roses and June brides,
of course, and the domestic infelicity
that will follow in the train of the
Ia tier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

This has also been mighty mean
spring season for fishing. Which is
incidentally an excellent reason why
the fishes should have waxed enthu-
siastic over it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

'-Ita1y's great hour has struck" is
the slogan of the stay-at-homes in
Rome. But the news of the big adj
vances that the Austrians are making
along the Italian front would seem to
indicate that Italy is about to be
struck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

Another of the words in the Eng
1ish language that is being over
worked these days in this country and
elsewhere is "crisis."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
Household Hints
The Sunday Dinner.


Cream of Corn Soup
Crackers Pickles
Roast Pork Apple Sauce
Drowned Sweet Potatoes
Cabbage, Baked Blanc Mango
Strawberry Shortcake Coffee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph renort of that great news or
ganizati5n. for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
%ctara lnsranJudson

ridges from the mulberry tree, then.
as he saw or heard no one. he flew
down to the grass to investigate
closer.
And just as he touched the ground. n
funny little pile of earth began to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

AS Mrs. Homer Hoch of the Marion
Record says: Some people who do a
good deed always accompany it with
a criticism of some one else who did
not help them do it.
This is the last week of school, saws
the Americas Greeting, and the kids
VIII take pleasure for the next three
months in tormenting their mothers,
ropolng birds nests and running off
fishing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
The HickeyvilIe Clarion.


Polite society turned out enmasSe
last Thursday evening at the home of
Deacon Stubs to attend the marriage
of his daughter, Mrs. Ana Stubs
Perkins Peabody Pringle Pettibone.
to Mr.. Ezra Hand, our popular village
constable, also notary public with seal,
lawn mowers sharpened, signs
painted, real estate and conveyancing
and calling cards wrote with neatness
and dispatch. The bride was given
away by her father, who was not
very nervous, as he had given her
away four times before, but she came
back every time. Mendel & Sons
wedding march was played by Miss
Pansy Tibbitts, who presided at the
piano. and the fatal words were spoke
church. The Rev. made the service
very short, as the fee was only a So
bill. The bride wore the family Jewels
and carried bouquet of brides roses
and didn't catch cold.
The presents were numerous and
costly, consisting of Al little gold man
tel clocks and 179 glass pickle boats.
Little Lutte Bibbins acted as ring
bearer and the entire ladies' aid acted
as tale bearers.
The happy couple left the house for
the railroad depot amid a shower of
bride received an abrasion behind the
left ear and the groom was struck
five times on the nose. Mrs. Hand
is one of our most successful spring
brides and her husband is one of our
astute business men. Both were
wished many happy returns of the
day. Extensive refreshments, con-
sisting of red and pink peppermint
waters were served. Ye editor and
wife were not among those invited.
After the honeymoon the couple will
probably reside with the brides
father, If they reside at all.
Our Own Recipe Book
Musical Comedy-Take two dozen
fresh chorus girls and add a handful
of ribbon clerks who know how to
wear dress suits. Scramble thoroueh-
ly and add one joke every five minutes
until done Add one naval lieutenant
with a tenor voice, one prima donna
and a light comedian who can balance
feather on his nose and repeat at
intervals: "She is beautiful, is she
not? Yes, she iS-not." Mix a bit of
spice in the shape of dance that will
make the public sit up and take notice,
one song about moonlight, also an .au-a
tomobile, bathing scence and one
spotlight Stir the whole Thoroughly
and serve it hot. If it is at all under
done the critics will roast it to a turn.
Then it will probably be one of the
successful productions of the season.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-12
MOVING PICTURE ATTRACTIONS.
At The Colonial.

The foremost dramatic star Edmund
Bresee in the absorbing drama The
Master Mind. - Pledging to revenge
the execution of his brother whom the
District Attorney caused to be con
victed, Richard Allen,a quaint individ.
ual who takes delight in concealing
his identity by playing the role of a
valet to an extravagant Young man in
New York. plots for the downfall of
the prosecutor and educates his clev-
crest female crook, Three Arm
Fanny" with view to having her
fascinate and marry the District At
torney.
The Master Mind" under various
DISCUSSES, informs the District At
torney that he will receive the four
aces at certain intervals and when he
receives the ace of spades, the end will
be near Richard Allen, known as
the Master Mind" conceives many
diabolical plots looking forward to the
ruination of his enemy. the District
Attorney, and finally succeeds in arous-
ing his anger and jealousy, and is
about to crush the unsuspecting At
torney when "Three Arm Fanny"
who has really fallen in love with her
husband, pleads with the master
Mind" to withdraw and the Master
Mind" who has come to love Fanny,
himself does withdraw through love
for her. and disappears, to be seen no
more.
The powerful gang of crooks. over
which he held a FORMIDABLE leadership.
is disbanded and the District Attor-
ney, not knowing that Fanny is re-
formed crook, goes on in his own way,
becomes Governor of the State. 1.-The
Master Mind" ia a picture that will
prove intensely interesting from the
very start showing the clash of emo
tions, demonstrating the incorrigible
on rush of the passion for revenge.
An extremely amusing" Mutt and jeff"
cartoon also tonight. Tomorrow.
Lenore UIrich, in 1.-THE Heart of
Paula"