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The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
Joy FoR sTANDPATTERs

Tho editorial in the State Journal
last Friday, entitled History Making"
seems to have created amazing interest
and commendation from the Republi-
cans who voted for William H. Taft
for president in 1912, and who have
not, until within the last few months
weeks or even days, been classed as
particularly friendly to Col. Roosevelt.
There will be printed today simply
one of the numerous messages of this
sort which have come to this paper
since last Friday afternoon. Here it is:
"ICity Deletedl April u, 1916
Your article in State journal received
this morning on Roosevelt will bring JOY
TO the hearts of all Republicans in Kansas
who love America first.
The Roosevelt sentiment in this state
is perfectly astonishing. The growth of it
in the last three or four weeks has been
amazing. The curious part of it is that
the strongest supporters of Roosevelt are
the old Stalwart standpatterS like myself.
and the reason is not far to seek. What
ever the mistakes of the standpatter. no
body can deny him courage. He does not
play for eXpediency it does not hurt him
when he gets licked he never pussy foots,
but he goes out and makes the fight that
he thinks he ought to make, regardless of
whether it means to win or lose.
THAT is the quality that we admire in
Roosevelt That is why many of us
who year ago swore never would
vote for Roosevelt, are now talking Roose
welt He is the only candidate mentioned
whose name means anything. The pussy
footers like (names deetedl delight in a
candidate like Hughes. Nobody knows
how he stands on anything. That is why
they are for him.
You want to consider another thing.
and that is having powerful influence
for Roosevelt four years ago. The bulk
of them are back in the Republican party.
but they are still for Roosevelt. They
constitute majority of the RpHublip:i1
party as it is today, and they are bound
to be powerful influence in the naming
of the candidate
Il do not believe the convention will
take the chance of nominating Il man who
might not accept the nomination, and
utterly unknown.
Il congratulate you on your article. 1t
is splendidly written, covers the subject
and 1 particularly congratulate you on
your timely courage"
SIGNATURE DELETED.1
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

Perhaps before long l shall have lit
tie shop of my own
For the time being, Blair Tuttle
thought only of himself and the eff
feet on his own plans that this in
dependence would mean. To tell the
truth, Blair had more than once be-
fore tried to get his courage up to tell
the high-spirited little girl that She
was part of his own plans for happi-
ness and that in the career he was
about to start after his graduation
from college he needed her encourage
ment more than anything.
+But, Clarice, L don't want you to
be independent. 1 don't want you to
go on this way"
Clarice was too full of the enthu-
siasm of achievement to be stilled.
Il do wish you had seen it before
it was sold, that hat of mine. The
silk was Just the color of the rasp-
berry syrup we used at the fountain
Suddenly Blair realized that this
masterpiece of Clarice's was none
other than the property hat he had
at present slowed away in his own
room. What Maud had said to him
about it came back with VividneSS.
What if Clarice knew? What if she
ever found out that this hat on which
she had spent SO much thought and
care, and on which she had banked
such hopes of future success, was
ture?. Blair tried to think of a scheme
whereby her feelings might be saved.
do you know, Clarice, my own sis
ter, the one who has been away to
boarding school. bought that hat. She
noticed it the first thing. L must get
you two girls TO meet each other some
time. / know you will be great
friends. I believe Maud is going away
visiting this summer sometime, and
she wanted that raspberry hat to go
with one of her new dresses. You
ought to have heard what she sa id
about it, 1 guess it is most too pretty
to wear around here in TruXdale. But
Clarice, you don't want to go on with
that millinery business idea of yours.
You know what am driving at. Two
or three of the seniors are going to be
married right after college closes.
Commencement is next week, and then
the senior play will come the next
night have got to stay around for
that-Tm the costumer and there is
quite bit to do-but, tell me, Clarice,
will you marry me the very next day.
And then when I start out on that new
| job of mine I won't have to go alone
Her acceptance of his proposition
helped Blair very materially out Of
the raspberry-sundae hat difficulty
| Copyright. 1916, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
Jayhawker Jots

AS the Whitewater Independent puts
it: Time flies and it's fly time.
You bet I'm strongly in favor of
this cleanup idea" the Florence Bull
let1n quotes ST Clone as saying, "if It
will include those guys who take a
bath only once or twice year.
Editor Bingham of the Trego Coun-
" Reporter, wonders of some men are
poor because they nave a bunch of
dogs around them all the time or if
they have the bunch of dogs because
they are poor.
Told in the School Notes column of
the Iuron Press: Prof. Gin Science)-
IF you mixed cream and water to-
gether, it will not be cream and will
not be water. What will you call it ?''
Rose (quickly)-''SIop."
Buy pipe for a dollar" is the
current slogan of the Methodist Epis-
copal people at Lyons. But the Lyons
Republican explains that the pipe in
this instance is one for the new pipe
organ that's to be installed in the new
Methodist church.
A fine large specimen of the man
family was in our neighborhood beg
ging yesterday, reports the Pratt
Union. He was well-dressed. carried
good-looking overcoat on his arm,
came up the walk to the back Coor
humming tune and asked for a comb
and something to eat. He forgot TO
dSh 1or WOrk, ne was so care tree.
Excitement was at fever heat last
Friday morning, reports the Turon
Press, when a jack rabbit started
down through the main street with a
pack of hounds in his wake. Between
the bowling of the dogs and the yell
ing of the people, the rabbit gave up
the battle before traversing Two
blocks, evidently having been scared
to death.
The Florence Bulletin is out with its
First Annual Booster Edition that is
not only credit to the editor of the
paper, Raymond Gear, but also to the
town and its business men whose gem
erouS advertising patronage made the
edition possible. 1t comprises twenty
pages which are replete with excellent
halftones of prominent Florence peo-
pie and their institutions.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

caskets, and see the other side of the
moon. Individual man is limited by
circumstances, squeezed outrageously
in the world of custom. law. RESPONSE
bility. thwarted by weakness and pow
erty and the shortness of time. But
his soul is profuse, errant, and null
tiple, not to be contained or employed
in a career. 1t is made of contradic-
tions, some of which must go under in
the pressu- of events. 1t cannot sat
isfy itself in the restricted area of per-
missible emotions. 1t longs for things
that would kill it, and is everlastingly
adjusted to compromise and prudence.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
in the dark.
Even the leap year girls should look
before they leap.
You never can tell. Love in a cot
tage isn't all cottage pudding.
Everything has it's use. Even the
chronic kicker varies the monotony of
life.
One good turn deserves another, es-
pecially if you are going to turn over
a new leaf.
A pessimist is a man who can't for
get even the mean things he knows
about himself.
Free speech is an admirable thing.
except from the point of view of the
telephone companies.
The people who make hay while
the sun shines are not SO apt to make
trouble when it rains.
When a man has a guilty con-
science even a double chin won't en-
able him to hold his head up.
A woman is apt to pride herself on
having the latest thing out, unless il
happens to be her husband.
Tommy-''Pop, what is a pessi-
mist" Tommy's Papa pessimist.
my son, is a person who is just tickled
to death by the finger or scorn."
Nell-She looks like a woman who
has lived and suffered. Be1le-I guess
she has. For years she has managed
to squeeze No. foot into No
shoe.
anticipation is the greatest pleas
ure in Hfe,'' said the Wise Guy.
That's right" agreed the Simple
Mug. IF we could afford to buy a
lot of the things We want, We wouldn't
want them"
Blobbs=Yes, I took heT out to sup
per, and the bill came to nearly $50
Slobbs-Why, she told me she didn't
eat any more than a bird Blobbs-
Well. an ostrich is bird, you know.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
WHAT ART is FOR.

According to the theory of the out
siders, Art is made to increase life, by
which they mean that it cuts paths for
the impulses which are not consumed
in ordinary living, says the New Re-
public. 1t enables men to be heroes
and lovers and prophets and villains
in a world where there are no prac-
tical costs, a world which is literally
immortal because death and defeat are
vicarious. In that realm they can
spend the evening in Purgatory or
know the Liebestod before bedtime,
abduct Helen and play ball with Maui
sicia, do a thousands things they were
made TO do, and still remain law-abid-
ing citizens. They can compress time
and space. and obliterate distance, be
omnipotent and free and gorgeously
sad They can live a thousand lives,
lift the roofs off houses, open sealed
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

People tell their favorite stories too
often.
1t doesn't take a smart woman to
make fool of a man.
1t is not enough to be willing to
work; one must know how.
Next to a snail, the official report
seems to be the slowest thing.
When you begin finding fault with
the young folks, you are getting old.
Some people won't take care of
themselves without the doctors ad-
vice.
A negro is usually willing to let a
white man do the worrying for both
races.
In real life, the last chapter of Il
romance is sometimes written in po-
lice court.
Keep quiet and the noisy fellow
will earn you a reputation of having
good manners.
If one is young enough, it is easy
to find an occasion which seems to
need celebrating.
A good many who do not belong to
a Rotary club put in their time going
round and round.
Gossip creates interest, but it is
gossip concerning q preacher which
creates intense interest.
A disturber attracts good deal of
attention, which is sufficient expla-
nation for most of the disturbers.
In spite of all this talk about pre-
paredness, a lot of men have to Dor-
row match when they get cigar:
The fact that lightning doesn't
strike twice in the same place IT
any hindrance to the sale of lightning
rods.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

After Yellow Puff had once ventur-
ed out into the yard and had pleas
ant walk without freezing his toes,
the other chicks were glad to go to"
1t was tiresome to stay in the barn all
the time. and they loved the fun or
pecking at the hard soil
Mary Jane hardly knew her little
chicks these days. They had lost all
their pretty yellow and white feathers
and their cunning ways. Il don't sec
why their mother keeps on making
such a fuss over them" said Mary
Jane to her own mother one evening.
They are not even good-looking any
morei I'd be ashamed to own chicks
that looked az scrawny and as skinny
as those do"
But Mrs. Hen didn't feel that way
indeed not, She was proud when
they lost their baby feathers, and
prouder still when they began to grow
bigger and more ungainly looking day
after dayi 1t all depends on one's
taste, You see; chicks that Mary Jane
thought too big for beauty, Mrs. Hen
thought very, very handsome.
And Mother Hen liked to wander
out into the yard too.
Nothing she liked better than to
strut out the barn door and walk up
and down the garden in the sunshine
with her brood of fine chicks at her
heels.
Here's where 1 get my reward" she
said to herself one day Il didn't like
sitting on my nest in that cold wealth
er, but look at my babies. And those
stupid other hens are just beginning to
hatch their eggs. 1t will be many a
day before they have chick to walk
out into the yard with. Cluck, cluck,
cluck." (If you have guessed that Mrs
Hen was vain, you have guessed about
rightD
Now today" said Mrs. Hen, when
they sailed forth from the barn in the
morning sunshine, "the air is warm
and pleasant. Let's walk clear around
the house and explore. You Will like
to see the whole yard Then. per-
haps, by the time we get back to the
garden, the sun will have melted the
! tip-top layer of soil SO that we may
dig for worms.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
Household Hints
The Table.


Maple Sugar Cookies-Cream to-
gether half cup lard, half cup shaved
maple sugar and half cup granulated
sugar. Add one wellbeaten egg, one
tablespoon water, one teaspoon bak-
ing powder sifted in "a cups flour.
Bake rather quickly
Beet Salad-Cook two punches of
beets until tender and remove skins
Cone can of beets will do). Slice
them very thin and round. Put them
in a salad mold (au angel cake tin
will do). Take one cup water, three
fourths cup vinegar, one-half cup sug-
ar, four whole cloves, two whole all
spice, two bay leaves crushed. one
teaspoon salt, one and one-haif table,
spoons gelatin; put all together in
saucepan and boil gently five min
utes. Strain and pour over beets.
Set in cool place to harden. Unmold
on a dish and surround with lettuce
leaves placing the heart of the let
tuce in center ring, so it looks like
rose. Serve with boiled dressing.
Cut in thin slices and serve on let
tuce leaves covered with a generous
spoonful of boiled dressing.
Knitted Dumplings gs-Pare and core
six apples. Fill the holes with any
firm jam or marmalade- Make good
suet or butter crust with teaspoon
of baking powder in it, roll thin and
cut into squares. Cover each apple
with paste and tie into square of
white scrim; boil one hour Qess if the
apples are good cookers). When
these du1nplings are taken up they
look much prettier than the old rough
ones and will be better to handle.
Oranges are good cooked this way.
only without the jam and pared neatly
with plenty of sugar.
Cosmetics for Toilet Table.
Most sensible girls keep a lot of
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
EOening Chat
Painless Giving
BY RUTH CAMERON.

NhhANSo OAfAhe
Every now and then a letter friend
writes me a letter SO much more in
teresting than anything have to say
that my column belongs to him or her.
Today it belongs to the letter friend
who has the story of good habit to
tell.
'I wonder If you'd like to tell your
readers" she writes, about a habit
which 1 formed some years ago and
which meant a great deal to me?
Il call it the habit of painless Civ
ing. Six years ago, I think it was, 1
decided to put aside a tenth of my
salary for charity.
There is nothing new in the habit
of giving a tithe to charity. 1 be-
lieve it dates back to Moses, if not
farther. And the merit from the
ethical point of view has been suffi-
GENTLY dwelt upon. But 1 want to
say something about the satisfaction
the habit gives to the person acquir-
ing it, its advantage from a personal
1 might almost say from a selfish,
point of view.
Before I laid aside any definite
sum for charity every charitable de-
mand was pull upon my pocket
book. 1t meant a painful struggle
between my sympathies and my self
ishness. I had usually planned how
I was going to use all my income and
if 1 gave, some plan for spending or
saving had to be given up. And
hate to give up plan.
But the moment set aside a defi-
mite portion of my income, L ceased to
think of the money set aside as be-
longing to me. When anyone asked
me for funds for some charitable
organization, or when I came into
personal contact with case of need
1 could give without the slightest
sense of effort. The money was there
to be given my only problem was how
to give most wisely.
There may be people who might
give more if they gave by sympathy
instead of by system. I don't think
that is true of the average person
and I know it is not true of myself
l am a working woman, with COM
Portable but not large salary. I am
not absolutely sure when it was
started to give a tithe. but if it was
six years ago, as I believe and if my
circumstances permit me to give as
much for another year. 1 shall then
have given away about a thousand
dollars.
Il feel sure I should never have
persuaded myself to give as much if
1 had not acquired the habit of pain
less giving and I wish more people
could know the happiness which such
a habit brings"
1 certainly say Amen to that last
wish 1 want to add one word Too
many people, feeling that they cannot
afford to give a tenth, give up the
idea of putting aside any definite pro-
portion. That should rot be a bar
Have a seance with your conscience
and your account book as to what
proportion you can give, and then
definitely decide to give that, no mat
ter how small it is.-(Protected by
the Adams Newspaper Service.l
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

An American dollar doesn't even
buy az much at home as 1t use" 10
but it is far and away the best money
in the world these days, and is now
worth six francs of French money
where in normal times it was worth
but five francs. And the Russian ruole
that used to be as good as so cents IN
American money is now worth only 81
cents. But, az suggested, TINS en-
HANGED value of American money IN
the worlds financial marts is of no
particular advantage to the average
American citizen.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

They all replied "Cheep. cheep!"
just as though they did understand
and they followed their mother wher-
ever she went.
So much was there to sec, and SO
many things that must be pecked at
and tested, that the whistles blew for
noon just as the family turned into
the back yard.
And at that very minute Mary Jane
ran into the yard from school.
'-Oh, mother. look at my chicks." she
cried. May feed them right here q"
And of course mother said that she
could. So the chicks were fed their
first back doorstep meal and they
liked it-dear. me YESi-(Copyrigh
Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

Mule kicks are also rated as nlgh
as some kisses if the parties RESPONSE
BILE for~tne mule is possessed of funds
And this may help to explain the suit
for $40, 600 damages that has been
filed against a substantial company
dealing in mules by a Missourian be-
cause one of the mules belonging to
the company kicked him three times.
But doesn't a man who is so careless
as take employment with a mule COM
panv assume the risk of being kicked
by one of the long cared beasts?
Mules and kicks always go together.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

STAR DREAMS
So pure, so ineffably bright,
So friendly, so benign
In silence of night.
The stars upon us shine.
That sometimes I dream when I see
Their glory on me shed,
That the stars Gods heaven must be,
Where the souls of our dead.
In lands of 1ight-living. may still
Look on US from above
And commune with our souls at will,
Loves deathless power to prove.
A sense felt within US, thrill
Tells us that they are near,
Having come-for they love us still
own from their starry phere.
MY SOUL when dream haunted at night,
Wanders from star to star
And seeks the one within whose light,
l dream my loved ones are.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

Some convincing evidence of the
red tape that is used so freely in the
administration of the affairs of the
federal government and which ham
pers it's activities in petty as well as
large matters is to be found in the
necessity of army officers pleading
with congress for an appropriation to
provide funds to feed six dogs, trained
to locate wounded men on the battle
field. that some patriot recently pre-
sented to the army's sanitary corps.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
On the Spur
of the Moment
The Space writer's soliloquy.

The Space Writer'S SOliloquy.
The birds are singing in the trees,
The swallows note is on the breeze.
'ris rumored there's anthem choice
Abroad these days in Natures voice.
l say. It's rumored," for I've lacked
The time to verify the fact.
You see the only sound I've heard
Has been one single haunting word,
A word of threatening command;
4 word of urgent, stern demand:
-Copyi.r'
'Tis rumored autos ehug and snort
Down at the stylish lake resort;
That gasoline yachts puff and pant,
But verify these facts, L can't.
l feat that Gabriel in vain
Will toot his Iorn with might and main
Providing that he toots for me.
I'll never hear it, for you see
I'll be hemmed in by copy boys,
Who with this world will drown his noise
"Copyi!n'
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17
Journal Entries S

Prominent among the necessary
evils is the alarm clock
- = =
Many successes are not worth the
fights that were made for them.
+ = =
A husband can easily have the last
word with his wife if he is willing to
agree with her.
= j. +
Rich relatives are never lost sight
of. It's only the other kind who are
permitted to fade from view.
+ = 4
Maybe all the world loves a lover
because it also gets so much keen
enjoyment out of reading the proceed
ings in the divorce courts.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

News reports of engagements be-
tween Portugal and Germany, either
on land or sea, have been as scarce as
hens teeth since these nations de-
clared war on each other. Possibly
they've been entirely suppressed by
the censors. AS a matter of fact,
though, the declarations of war
against each other on the part of both
Germany and Portugal comprised one
of the few jokes of the big war.
Neither of them is in a position to get
at each others throat.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

A small company of the proletariat'
at any rate, is to get smell OF the
gasoline profits that are rolling IN
such volume into the dough bags OF
the oil magnates The Standard on
company has voluntarily increased
H., ten per cent the wages of the 3'oOO
EMPLOYEES at its whiting, Ind, plant
The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-17

German losses in the battle of YER
dun have been enormous but the re-
1narkable defensive staged by the
French has also been costly. Ihe
German estimate is that the French
casualties have numbered 15O'Oou'
AssuredIy, the battle of Verdun has
been the most terrible in all history.