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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
New oIl.Extrac.lon Prees.s.

A process invented by an Italian
chemist for extracting essential oils
from citrus fruits is said not to at
feet the chemical properties Of the oils
in any way, and 1t is predicted that 1t
eventually will revolutionize the In
dustry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10

fumes. Aside from the fact that she
In part of the gigantic war machinery
Of France bit Of sentiment finds ex-
preston In the flowers which she
wears pinned to her working dress.
They were given to her by "poilu'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
. . 7MMun71oN woRrERs fHcE WAX DHNcERS . .

who had just left for the front. In all
or the principal countries a war wom-
en- have taken places of men. thus re-
leasing the latter for more arduous
duty at the front.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
(FRENcH MILITARY BALLOON FLYING OVER TR0UvlLLE

Some idea of the forlorn condition
into which the war has brought the
formerly gay places of Europe may be
derived from the accompanying pic
ture, made a few days\ago at Trou-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
She Sprouts.

The bamboo sometimes grows two
feet in twenty.four hours. says the In
dianapolis News. There are 80 varie-
ties of this tree; the smallest is only
six inches in height, and the largest
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10

vile France. This fashionable and
popular seashore place, which was in
former years one of the most crowded
of Europe, is now all but deserted.
The balloon is a French military air.
ship on a scouting expedition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10

He learned Of free book that tells
about tobacco habit and how to conquer
it quickly, easily and safely. In recent
letter he writes: II have no desire for
tobacco any more. I feel like a new
man."
Any one desiring copy of this book
on tobacco habit, smoking and chew
ing, can get it free, postpaid. by writ
ing to Edward J. Woods, 109 r. Station
E. New York City. You will be sur
prised and pleased. Look for quieter
nerves. stronger heart, better digestion.
improved eyesight, increased vigor,
longer life and other advantages If you
quit poisoning yourself
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
Look Pa, How
'Gets-It' Works."
LIFTS YOUR CORN RIGHT OFF.
NEVER FAlLo.

Ever in your life see corn come out
like that? Look at the true a1xin un-
derneath smooth - the palm Of your
handl~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10

Our picture shows young French
woman whose dangerous work is that
of filing the deadly melinite shells.
She is forced to wear a gas mask to
protect her from the death giving
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
HOW He QUIT TOBACCO

This veteran, ).
3. Lamphere, was
addicted to the ex-
cessive use of to-
bacco for many
years. He wanted
to quit but needed
something to help
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS.

The fossil sheils OF the early ihNer-
tebrates are OF great importance TO
biologists, according to a bulletin Is
sued by the United States Geological
Survey, for they indicate the geolo-
gic period in which the rock beds con-
tanning them were formed-in other
words, the age of the rock. Each
fossiliferous rock bed contains char
acteristic forms or groups of forms
that determine the period in which it
was mud or sand. Former Director
Powell of the United States Geo1ogi-
cal Survey once tersely explained to a
congressional committee the value of
naleontolosy by saving that it is the
+roo1o,r;s+,v cIocL ), nv which he tolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
BLOOD PRESSURE.

If for any reason the blood pressure
is raised. the blood circulates more
freely through the brain as well as
through the other parts of the body,
giving a feeling of buoyancy and con-
fidence, says. the June Popular Science
Monthly. The man who is working at
a terrific rate, however, must have a
high blood pressure, but if continued
above safe normal point, it will re-
suit in the burning up of his vital
forces, resulting in many organic as
we'll as nervous disorders High blood
pressure does not always mean one
and the same unaherable thing 1t
may be a. sign that the arteries have
stiffened to such an extent that the
heart is taxed to pump the necessary
volume of blood through the arteries
and with sufficient speed. 1t may
mean an improper condition of the
blood itself-viscosity- oId-fash-
toned thick blood" come to life again
as reputable scientific fact 1t may
mean that the heart has become too
big for its job, as when an "athlete's
heart" trained to push a big stream of
blood keeps on trying to do so when
the demands of office work do not re-
quire it. 1t may also result from ex-
cessive pumping of the heart due to
abnormal mental stimulation in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

form of worry, or continuous mental
or nervous strain. A device for meas
uring blood pressure, an ingenious in
strument called ''manometer," has
recently been perfected The instru-
ment records the pressure of the blood
on a diaphragm dial very similar to
steam gage dial. The scale is divided
into miilimeters. The apparatus, which
is the invention of DIR. Thomas Rogers
of Rochester, New York. is one of the
most important surgical instruments
devised in years, ranking with pull
motor, stethoscope, and clinical Their
mometer. Its operation is compare
lively simple. but it's reading requires
an expert. The best results are OBJ
tanned when a stethoscope is used in
connection with it. An air-bag is first
strapped on the subjects arm over the
main artery. and is inflated with a
bulb attached to it. The operator then
adjusts a stethoscope to his ears and
finds the pulse. The throbbing of the
pulse against the air-bag is commune
Gated through a rubber tube to the
case containing the diaphragms upon
which a vibration is set up. These
vibrations, which are synchronous
with those of the pulse, are translated
into millimeters by the delicate needle
of the dial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
HOW THE BABY CATERS HATCH.

Hardly had the young alligators
Matched out of their eggs before they
waddled down to the river and plunged
in They seemed to know by instinct
just where the water was and how to
get into it and swim in it when they
found it.
Funny" unused Miss Chameleon.
81 didn't see anybody tell those crea-
lures where the water Washer
mother was not even around" (Which
was exactly true.) when she comes
back she will be worried to death
about them
But Miss Chameleon need not have
borrowed trouble about Mrs. Cater
and her worries, for Mrs Cater, wise
mother that she was, didn't have any
worries-not a single. solitary worry.
Which was perhaps very good state
of mind for mother of twenty or
thirty youngsters, wasn't it2
After her twelve weeks of careful
watching, Mrs. Cater merely made
sure that all the eggs were Matched
out: she poked around the rubbish pile
a bit to make sure that every little
CATER had cut his or her way through
the hard shell. and then she went
down to the river to have a good time
of her own Probably she thought
that baby CATERS who had been tended
as carefully as hers had been ought
to be able to look out for themselves
Miss Chameleon ran down from her
own tree and climbed up a bush near
the river, where she could see all that
was going on. Such a scram bling and
splashing as there was, Every one of
those CATERS seemed to be foraging
for a meal-and they seemed to be
getting it. too.
Look at their funny noses.'' laugh
ed Miss Chameleon I'D hate to be
as ugly as they are, Poor little things,
to. have such looks-Em sorry for
them
--Sorry for whom % said Aunt
Chameleon, who happened to climb up
that very bush in search of her din
ner. Il don't see anybody to be sorry
for
I'm talking about those baby alli-
gators exclaimed Miss Chameleon,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
EU Chat
Not All Happy.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

why do most married women take
it for granted that all single women
want to get married. and patronize
and pity them because they haven't?
Goodness knows, they aren't perfectly
happy themselves. Why should they
assume that everybody else wants to
get in when plenty of them would like
to get out, if they'd be honest enough
to admit it?''
So writes letter friend-pre-
sumably an unmarried woman.
She has my sympathy, not be-
cause she is unmarried-the gods of
tact forbid-but because L recognize
the type of woman she describes, and
know how exasperating her pity and
patronage can be.
That most married women are
like that, l don't admit, but there are
enough of them to justify her resent
ment.
Just the other day L heard mar
ried woman say to a bachelor girl,
why on earth don't you get mar
ried, Jane? You're pretty enough.
What's the matter with you, any
way"
The unmitigated smugness of that
assumption that marriage is the only
livable state and that lack of good
looks is the only barrier that could
keep a woman out of it, fairly took
my breath away. Incidentally the
woman Wild perpetrated it is not at all
good-looking herself, and is one of the
most discontinued, restless women 1
know. She certainly is no advertise
ment for the married state, and yet
she is always asking her bachelor girl
friends that complacent question.
Why don't you get married? ?"
One is reminded of the retort of
the future Madame Roland when her
mother (whose marriage had been far
from successfully urged her to marry
saying, 'Tu seras heureuse, ma chere"
'Oui. maman P" she replied, COM
me toi.''
OF course. in those days, when mar
riage was almost the only destiny for
a woman, there was some reason for
that urging, but today-well, one
wonders how even a member of the
great secret order of married women
there is no happiness for a woman
outside of marriage.
Mind you, I'm not crying down the
married state. Far be it from me-
am not saying that it is not a
happy state, but that it is not the only
happy state and that all the women
who are outside it are not outside SIM
ply because they can't find a man to
let them in
Many of them have had more op-
portunities to enter than the woman
who faunts her Mrs" in their face.
but have found SO much happiness in
work, have loved freedom so dearly,
that none but the right man could
tempt them inside.
There are women who can obtain
measure of happiness in a home
husband and children, even though
they feel no deep love for the man )
And there are other women so con-
Stituted that such a life would he nm
satisfying.
Neither type has any right to criti-
else the other.-6Protected by The
Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Easy money never admits it.
When it is labeled Pep it general
ly is something else.
The person you dislike seems to
meet you on every street corner.
Every man who smokes is secretly
convinced that he smokes too much.
Executive ability is also defined as
the faculty of inducing others to do
the work.
better if the women would agree to
dress more.
If you can get the audience, there
is never any difficulty in getting some
man to talk to it.
When you say that you compromised
matter it means that some one whip
ped you nearly to death.
You may have observed that the
man with a mean disposition thinks
he is a great disciplinarian.
If a young woman marries an old
man, no further diagram is needed to
tell what they both married for.
When a mans wife makes him go
to church, he wonders who started the
story that this is a land of religious
liberty.
The average married man believes
the statement that it is hard to serve
two bosses because he has such a hard
time serving one
Some women to build up their
homes, have to hammer their hus-
bands considerably.
If you are generally unpopular, look
yourself over; it may be your fault
instead of the worlds
You are so smart, you may be able
to tell why a caterpillar needs a fur
coat in warm weather.
An auctioreer: Whats five dol
lars? 'Tain't nothing. unless you are
giving it to the church,
There are fewer mandolin clubs
than formerly, and the world makes
other progress from time to time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
Jayhawker Jots

Singing is a fine job. points out the
Harrington Sun, if you get paid living
wages for doing it.
You couldn't make a high school
boy believe. as the Jewell County Re-
publican suggests, that the girl he is
going to marry is down in some pri-
mary room, but it's often that way.
Helpful hint to housewives, from the
jamestown Optimist: You can test a
flat iron by resting it on white shirt
bosom. If the iron is overheated, it
will leave brown spot on said shirt
front
to sound strangely strange to a
stranger.
Local Improvement note. in the
Marion Record: A new baritone horn
| for the band came this week 1t is a
| beautiful instrument of velvet finish
| silver and as fine one of its kind as
is on the market. The band now has
about eleven hundred dollars worth of
| instruments.
a nutshell as presented by the New
ton Kansan- Republican: Well cared
for dirt roads distinguish the provi-
dent community from the other kind.
Tine flowers th:.t bloom in the
spring, ira la. sings the Wichita
Beacon, are riots and battles and
raids.
! Told by the Eureka Democratic
Messenger: Billy, who had been hav-
ing trouble with his older cousin,
Ralph, came into the house. His
mother, knowing nothing of the trou-
| BIZ, said: Billy, what would you like
| to give your cousin, Ralph, for his
| birthday" IT know what I would
| like to give him. said Billy savagely,
but I'm not big enough
| In vigorous pronunciamento
| against the dandelion and a demand
! for its extinction. the Lindsborg News
argues that ''if the small, insi gnificant
| destructive Hessian fly can put thou
| sands of dollars worth of wheat out
! of commission in Mcpherson county,
| the citizens of Lindsborg can certainly
| clean out the dandelions in the city
/ limits. The Hessian fly Mas the
| energy but with our garden equipment
we can conserve bit of energy and
| still put up a good fight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
WHERE'S THE MONEY?

What the country appears to need
more than a plant to extract nitro
gen from the air, such as congress
figures on establishing, is a plant that
will grab money out of the atmos-
phere. Senator Smoot estimates that
the appropriations of the Fffty-fourth
congress will reach the enormous
total of s2.7OO,0OO,0OO; and that those
of the present session, outside the ones
involved in the extra preparedness
programs will run over $1,000. 000,0 600
and possibly $1,000, 100000 OF course,
the United States has the money, OF
can get it from its people, but just
how it is going to be raised is pretty
much of mystery, and one that
doesn't seem to be bothering the
Democratic statesmen in the least
Maybe the Man from Egypt knows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

Certain evidence that the farmers of
kansas are alive to their opportunities
and are determined to continue and
enhance the agricultural supremacy of
1he commonwealth. They are report
Jed to be going back generally to the
cattle feeding business, after a relapse
4of several years that was induced by
poor crops. They are finding it more
profitable to feed grain along with
their pasture, and they are feeding
more cattle. This not only means
profits for the farmers, but it means
the regeneration of their farms, the
preservation of the fertility of their
soil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
And long answers turn away listen
ers.
Some people even seem to take their
fun seriously.
Matrimony has destroyed many
sweet delusion-
Never put off till tomorrow the
meanness you can cut out today.
While a man is trying to make his
fortune a woman goes and gets hers
told.
No matter how dignified a man may
be. he forgets it when he sees a ca
nine scrap.
A woman never misses an oppor-
tunity to boast of her influence over
some man.
A man who is cut out for a society
favorite is usually petrified from his
ears up.
Every time vain girl shakes hands
with a man it gives her vanity a Jolt
if he doesn't squeeze her fingers.
Even when a girl doesn't want a
young man to kiss her she may an
grily detest his lack of desire to do so.
Oh, no, Cordelia, the temperate zone
is not so called because the inhabi-
tants decline invitations to coavivi-
atty.
1t is said that a st. Louis widow
noted for her garrulity hangs the late
lamented's hat on the back of a chair
and talks at it for hours at stretch
The romantic maid who waits for a
man to come along and make love to
her after the manner of the hero in a
novel will remain single to the end
of the chapter.
Beauty is said to be only skin deep.
but many woman's beauty depends
upon the size of her balance in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
A poor excuse is better than none.
but only if it works.
Every man has his price, and some
even buy their ancestors.
There are better uses for a liquid
voice than to restrict it to a flow of
profanity.
You never can tell. Many a man
goes hungry in order that he can feed
his vanity.
Never say die is a good, motto,
unless you happen to be an under
taker. ,-.,..,..... ..l--
Would you speak of the paper a
bottle of whisky comes in as spirit
wrappings?
Don't believe all you see. 1t is al
most as easy to blacken mans char
acter as to whitewash it.
Muggins-Say what you will of
Skinnum, he always does his best.
Buggins-Yes, even his best friend.
Wigg-Funny thing about Dolittle.
He's always looking for job Wagg
Yes, as to be prepared to dodge
it if it ever comes his way, 1 suppose.
Blobbs-What sort or reputation
has Bjones for veracity? Slobbs-I
wouldn't believe him any more than L
would the oldest inha bitant of a small
town.
Tommy-Pop, what is superstition?
Tommy's Pop-Superstition my son,
is what prompts a person to think a
horseshoe over the door has more vir-
tue than a lock and key.
Blobbs-''Does your wife always kiss
you when you come home?" Slobb5
Not any more. She used to, but
since I've stopped drinking her curl
osity doesn't furnish the same incen-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

THE NEW MOTHERHOOD.
If she had lived a little while ago
She would be wearing tranquil caps of
lace,
Withdrawing gently to her quiet place,
Signing remotely at the worlds drab woe.
Today she fronts it squareIy as her foe,
Not from the ingle-nook, but face to face,
Marching to meet it, stoutly keeping pace,
Armored in wisdom, strong to overthrow.
This is the work she always understood
The world in terms of home. Set free to
flower
Unhindered now, her own brood long
awning
In broader, all-embracing motherhood,
Calm with the years and ardent with the
hour,
Indian summer with the urge of spring.
r. c. Mitchell, in Century Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

ening to visit the rigors of the law on
those who disobeyed. The second own
er has printed over his signature this
modest notice: This house and the
grounds about it are a home. Visitors
al invited to regard themselves as the
guests of the owner and to enjoy
themselves in any way that does not
destroy the flowers and shrubs nor en-
danger the woods by fire Which
estate, do you think, shows the less
damage when the owner returns to it
ing the spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

- Belshazzar Bryan's vision of the
handwriting on the wall that tells of
defeat for the Democratic party at the
polls this fall unless it can win the
votes of the peace element in the
Republican party surely doesn't hold
cut much consolation for President
wilson on any angle from which it
may be viewed. By peace element
Mr. Bryan means the anti-prepared-
ness element. or the peace-at-any-
Pricers, and they are not exceedingly
numerous in the Republican party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
Journal Entries

There are too many people in the
world who do not know when they are
well off.
= I. +
Some singing merely serves the good
purpose of making a listener forget
his other annoyanceS.
+ i +
1t doesn't require much cleverness
for a man to keep out of debt if he
has all the money he needs.
= = +
Most wives are optimistic to the ex-
tent of believing that they'll do bet
ter wher they marry again.
r = =
Too many OF the prophets have the
failing of not announcing their predic-
lions until after they come to pass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
mo TREsPAssING..

An editorial in the June woman's
Home Companion says: Two men
whom we know have summer places
side by side. Both estates are closed
during the winter months. and unpro-
tected except for the occasional visits
of a decrepit caretaker. Both are near
.the road and easy of access. The first
owner has posted his estate with large
signs headed No Trespassing. threat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
AUTO THIEyEs. AND OTHERS.

In Illinois, the state board of par
dons has decreed that hereafter all
prisoners sent to the penitentiary for
stealing automobiles and given indie
terminate sentences must serve the
maximum period, or more than six
years. This strikes some of the Ohio
newspapers as being such asrighteous
reform that they are urging that it
be adopted in their state, which will
probably be done. And the probab bill
ties are that the movement will spread
over the country, not because the
theft of an auto is more heinous than
the theft of anything else of equal
value or because an automobile that is
worth stealing is likely to belong to
person of Importance, but because
the stealing and misuse of motor
vehicles belonging to others is crime
that is growing more common daily
and all possible steps should be taken
to check it.
Kansas can probably be depended
upon to join in the procession that
Illinois has started on its way because
Kansas has become an automobile
state as we'll as an agricultural state,
and the rights of automobile owners
should be protected in as Jealous a
manner as the rights of all classes of
citizens should be, and every effort
should be made by every common
wealth to deter crime as much as
possible.
But before official Kansas becomes
excited over the necessity for such
reform as this it should institute
like one, a more severe one by thou
sand fold. in respect to the criminals,
irresponsible and otherwise, who out
rage innocent, childhood. and some
times to the extent of murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

What has become of General Cole
man Dupont's candidacy for the Re-
publican presidential nomination?
Gone up in smoke, possibly, as have so
many of the munition plants and
powder factories that still go under
The Dupont name even though, as he
announced, he hasn't been actively as
ISOLATED with their management for
severa1 Years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

: Most. of the baseball teams in prac-
tically all of the leagues appear to be
more in need of pitchers than any
other variety of players. But it may
be that the cold weather which has
prevailed pretty generally since the
baseball season began has worked
against Athe pitchers rounding into
form
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18

Some use for the monkey besides
having him pick up pennies for the
organ grinders has at last been found.
and by a Yankee as might be expected.
"A Maine inan has trained his simian
pet to climb out on the high and
smaller branches of trees and rid them
of moth nests.