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The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
rFrom the Atchison Globe. I

From the Atchison Globe
Most people abuse the idle rich and
envy them.
A denial is never as convincing as
the original statement.
Some men improve all their time,
and never have any fun.
The man who tells how popular he
is with the ladies, probably isn't
Unless you get paid for talking, de-
vote some of your enthusiasm to work
There is such a thing as a salesman
being SO persistent he will drive away
trade.
No man can safely stay out late on
the theory that absence makes the
heart grow fonder.
Possibly women crochet a good deal
because they can do that and talk at
the same time.
Then there are people who like each
other pretty well because they aren't
very well acquainted.
Papers recently said Link Preston
was critically Ill. They should have
said abusively. according to Mrs. Pres
ton.
The man who thinks he has a Mes
sage may also be listed with the other
bores without much chance of going
wrong.
Smoking makes a man nervous, and
then ne smokes to soothe his nerves.
being a contrary cuss and hard to
understand.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

With all due respect to the weather
experts who are characterizing the
present spell of unusually fine fall
weather as an Indian Summer, the
facts Of the matter are that the real
thing in the Indian Summer line does
not come along until a Squaw Winter
has put in an appearance. And a
Squaw Winter comprises a day or a
night when there is something like a
heavy fall of snow. the first real snow
OF the season, and which suddenly
melts away after it has blanketed the
earth with its quilt of white If such
heavy and rapidly disappearing
snow is followed by a few days of mild
sunshiny weather. that's the real thing
in the Indian Summer line.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Hello, Bill,''
Are your chickens all washed
away, Henry?'
Yes; but / got some ducks. and
they can SWIM
Apple trees gomez"
''well, they said the crop would be
a failure anyhow"
'I see the floods away above your
windows"
ders needed washin' anyway
As the pedestrian walked along the
quiet country road sudden wailings
broke the peaceful silence
He at once hurried in the direction
of the sounds, to see what was wrong.
and found a sturdy country woman
mercilessly thrashing bowling
youngster.
stop that" he burst out indig-
nantly, as he grasped the belaborers 8
arms. Whats the poor little chap
done?"
'sWot's he DONE" gasped the angry
woman. Well. if you must know, he
left the hen house open and all the
chickens got out"
That's not very serious" said the
man soothingly. Chickens always
come home to roost. you know
Come home to roosti' snorted the
woman Them chickens will all go
homei"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
GREATER RUMANIA.

What Rumania had to gain by the
defeat of the Central Powers has al
ways been patent writes Frank H.
Simonds in his article entitled Ger
many in Retreat-Rumania," which
appears in the American Review of
Reviews for October. Across her
frontiers in Pennsylvania, Bukowina,
and the Banat are S,5OO,OOO people of
Rumanian race and tongue, living un-
der conditions recalling the plight of
Italians subject to Austrian rule in the
Valley of the Po before the liberation
of Italy. The dream, the home, the
purpose of all Rumanian patriots has
ever been to contribute to the reinte
grafton of the Rumanian race. To the
hour of national and racial deliver
ance Rumanians have looked forward
for all the years since Rumania gained
her freedom.
But such a unification could be
achieved only after the downfall of
Austria Hungary. Over forty wears
there has been no promise of such a
downfall and Rumania has marched
with the Central Powers, as did her
Latin sister, Italy. With a Hohen-
zollern sovereign, an aristocracy per-
meated by Teutonic influence, Ru-
mania has been an ally of the German
emperors, The Russian course in TAX
ing Rumania Bessarabia after Plevna
gave German diplomatists a handle
in Bucharest. as French invasion of
Tunis gave them a handle with italy.
yet it was always inevitable in
the case of Rumania, as of Italy, that
the desire for national unity would
some day override all arbitrary and
ephemeral political alignments. Tran
| sylvania for the Rumanians, Trieste
and the Trentino for the italians. were
reasons why these nations could not
forever remain in the orbit of the Cen
trail Powers and must become their
enemies whenever the moment for the
| realization of national hopes arrived.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
SIDE TALK S
ny RurH CAMERON.

49,. A Queer Trick.
With the exception of very small
children, every one in the world knows
that he cannot stay in it Indefinitely.
But almost no one realizes it.
Death, in the abstract, is something
with which we are on perfectly ia
miliar terms, but when it comes to
death in connection with ourselves,
we prefer to relegate it to the dusty,
unvisited garrets of the mind.
And is it not fortunate that this
is so?
How could we be happy if we really
sensed the inevitability of death? We
couldn't.
Doubtless Nature has deliberately
provided US with this mental as
tigmatism to keep US busy and
happy in our business
All of which leads up to an aston
ishing habit, which l have noticed on
the part of otherwise loving children,
of referring in their parents presence
to the time when their parents will
no longer be with them.
III give you two instances.
In the presence of her mother, a
very devoted daughter actually said
to me, I'm very fond of travel and
some day I'm going to have my fill of
it. But OF course 1 can't do much
while mothers living
AnOtner woman once asked me If |
were to inherit family heirloom of
which I have always been very fond.
When 1 told her that the matter had
rever been mentioned, she said, II
shouldn't think you'd like that I've
made mother promise I should have
all the old pieces I'm especially fond
Of"
There may be some who think I'm
unduly finical to deprecate these ref
erences, but think the other people
will understand
1t is comparatively easy to contem-
plate death when one is young because
1t seems so remote, but older people
know that while the young may die,
the old must" and they hate anything
that brings the thought to them.
On the other hand, I DO think the
older folks owe it to the younger gen.
Grafton to anticipate anything like this
cold -blooded demand for a division of
their goods, by making a will
A failure to do this often results in
| family troubles. 1t isn't always these
things that count, but there is the
danger that if the matter is left to the
heirs to settle among themselves there
may be misunderstanding and a sense
of injustice.
A will prevents this and, besides
gives those to whom you leave your
! little treasures a warm sense of your
love and thought for them.-(Copy-
right by George Matthew Adams.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Had Allied diplomacy been little
less stupid, Rumania might have en-
listed when the Russian troops were at
the Carpathians in the spring of 1915.
at the precise n.-ment when Italy
made her decision. But that moment
was lost and the subsequent defeats
of Russia abolished all chance for
many months.
"Yet when Russia did return to the
offensive, when a second Austrian co..
lapse followed, when Bulgarian con-
quests in the Balkans raised a new
peril to Rumania, nothing could be
more certain than that Rumania
would make the decision. Not to be
another Belgium or a second Serbia.
this was the chief solicitude of Ru-
manian statesmen, but not less deter
mined were Rumanians that they
should not be another Greece and see
the golden moment pass forever and
preserve a sterile neutrality to the
hour when the lands Rumanians de-
sired to possess were apportioned
among the participants in the war or
made the price of a separate peace
with Hungary.
"A good many foolish words have
been spoken in criticism of the Ru-
manian course Yet the fundamental
men, who are Rumaniens by race and
tongue and desire to be Rumanian by
nationality, have been over long years
held captive in Austrian and Hungar-
ian provinces and subjected to the
most stupid and intolerable attacks
upon their language and their racial
individuality. The desire of men of a
race to be united is une of the most
deep-seated of human emotions. The
desire of the Italians of the Po Valley
to be Joined to Sardinia, to exchange
Hapsburg for Savoy sovereignty, sup
plies one of the fine pictures of Nine
teenth Century history The real
driving power in Rumania was the
same.
IF Rumania realizes her dream she
will be a nation of nearly 10000
square miles, holding 100000 peo-
pie, not less than 100000 of whom
will be Rumanian by tongue. Among
the remainder there will be not one
but several races and tongues and in
substantially all the territory Ru-
mania will acquire Rumanians will
hold clear majority. In the East
as in the Valley of the Po the Haps-
burg Empire drew arbitrary lines sep
arating men of the same race and
sought to maintain the lines by crush
ing he spirit of her captives Her
| failure in TfaII- uraS not
than her failure in the East, and as
she failed with the Rumanians she
failed with the Serbs"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
POINTED IARAGRPHs.


lFrom the Chicago News
Flirts laugh at love and love laughs
at flirts-
The reputation of many a puffed up
cigar goes up in smoke.
If a man is afraid to think for him
self he should get married.
Most mems intentions are several
laps ahead of their actions
People seldom tell you how much or
how little they think of you.
The great trouble with first love
seems to be that it's seldom the last
Differences between courage and
foolhardiness is determined by results
Luckily for the best man at a we'd
ding that he's content with second
place.
No man is ever perfectly sure of a
girls love until she declares that she
hates him.
Marriage is a lottery in which many
a girl doesn't even get a chance to take
a single chance.
Many a girl Jocks to money in n
matrimonial alliance because she is
unable to find anything else worth
having.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Fancy Cream Cheese Service.
BY BRINKERHOFF.

Cream cheese nowadays is being
seasoned in all sorts of ways after be-
ing softened a little with cream and
butter. Pimentos are dried. stuffed
with a rather highly seasoned cheese,
so prepared and chilled. then cut in
slices to serve as highly ornamental
garnish for a salad, increasing its food
value.
A pretty thing for the finish to a
simple luncheon or for a substantial
nouthful for an afternoon tea is the
following: Split Boston crackers and
cream or even with milk, put thru a
pastry tube on to each half of the
cracker, completely filling it with a
rosette. You may sprinkle bit of
paprika in the middle or put a piece
of ripe olive, cut out in fancy shape,
in the middle of tiny bit of pimento
The Table,
Poached Eggs With Spinach and
Cheese Sauce (for four people)-Cook
well-washed spinach until tender;
drain, chop fine, season with salt.
pepper and plenty of butter, shape in
nests-either on toast or individual
au gratin dishes. Set a carefully
poached egg on each nest and pour
! over each egg three tablespoons of
cheese sauce. For the cheese sauce
(for four nests); melt two table
spoons butter; in it cook two scant
tablespoons flour and salt and pepper
to taste. Add one cup milk and stir
until boiling. Add to this one half
cup grated cheese. When cheese is
melted and all is smoothly blended
pour sauce over eggs and serve at
| once.
| 2 Noodles a L'Italienne-Three table
spoons butter, one minced onion, one
half green paper minced. four Italian
/ dried peppers, two tablespoons flour,
| Ioa1f tnv fTuyn q
sugar, one-fourth teaspoon pepper,
! salt to taste, six tablespoons grated
cheese. Cook half of a large pack
/ age of noodles in salt water, boiling
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bad habits are usually the kind the
other fellow possesses.
* X y
Success is also dependent in a large
measure on ambitions to attain it,
- y X
Nobody has much difficulty in locat-
ing the silver lining to some one else s
cloud.
X X y
Almost everybody is an Isaac Wal
ton when it comes to fishing for COM
pliments.
X X X
Another lucky chap is the fellow
VINO doesn't realize it when he is down
and out.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

"a friend in need, is a friend in
deed"
Father Beaver had heard that little
rhyme many times, but he never be-
fore realized how true it was To
think that a little creature like Gray
tail should teach him such big los
soni Why he ought to feel compli-
mented to think SIeepkins and Red
head and Policeman Billy had thought
him able to do his own raft making.
Why in the world had he not thought
of that before? And how silly ne mao
been to get croSS-
q think you've done a great deal to
help me, Graytail," he said, almost
solemnly, land 1 surely do thank you.
I'll begin work right away
They started walking toward Crook
ed Creek, and as they walked Father
Beaver began to plan (I tell you, it, s
a lot more fun to plan than to sulk-
Father Beaver found that out that
very minutei) Lets see," he said, Il
have six logs cut and ready, how
many more do you think l will need %
would be all they could use, and
Father Beaver was glad to hear that,
because cutting logs is slow work.
"The thing that puzzles me the
most" said Father Beaver, sis fasten-
ing the logs together can't think
how to do it,
why, that's the easiest part of all. -
laughed Graytail. while you're cut
ting the other six logs, I'll gather
some long. tough reeds. Then we can
float the logs out on the water and tie
them together with the reeds Won't
that be easy
Father Beaver thought it would be
and he got so interested in his raj
that he could hardly run fast enough
to get TO work gnawing down those
other logs 1t didn't take him long
when once he reached the side of the
creeltl His sharp little teeth went
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Carranza has just renewed his
promises to the United States to war
most zealously on Villa and his bands.
And il history repeats itself in this
particular about all these promises
mean is that Carranza will permit Villa
and his gangs to come ands go about
as they please. And what are car
ranza's plans for the suppression of
the Felix Diaz revolution? AS mat
ter Of fact. conditions are about the
same in Mexico as they have been
since the fall of Porfirio Diaz and the
indications are that they will continue
that way for some time to come.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

II may be of interest to those who
mt stock in straw votes to know that
one taken recently among the en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company at Valparaiso. Ind, resulted
in ~ votes for Hughes, So for Wilson.
2 for Hanly. 2 for Benson and Z
doubtful. on the other hand, straw
vote taken a week or so ago among
the employees of a manufacturing
plant in central New York resulted in
272 votes being polled and of this
number Wilson is credited with hav-
ing received 262.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

The clergy and laymen of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church have decIded
to keep the word obey in their mar
riage service for the next three years
At anv rate. But the probabilities are
thar The brides and the grooms who
join hands nder the ritual OF thls
church during this period will pay no
more attention to the injunction than
have the bulk of their predecessors
who promised so seriously to heed 1t
when their marriage rites We're
spoken.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

THE OUTCAST.
Since creations first beginning,
From a prehistoric time,
In the record book of shining
Was inscribed heinous crime.
Thieves. by penance, have been shriven,
Forgers started life. anew,
Murderers have been forgiven,
Fen have traitors proven true!
But of shame there is a limit
Charity herself would spurn
A depravity so grim it
Would make Pity, loathing turn!
Far 100 kind is Satan's laughter,
And his courts are over-cold,
In the August of hereafter,
For the Man Who Kissed and Told!
-kadra Maysi in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

What have become of the big Rus
sian drives that some weeks ago were
threatening to sweep the Germans off
their feet in the eastern arena of the
war? Maybe Russia is again suffer-
ing from a shortage of munitions and
other supplies for her soldiers. She
has the men. all right, but mere men
don't count for much in the European
war.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
~ ROY Z. HaoULTOM.

That Garden.
The garden seeds that 1 put down last
Did not send up the green stuff worth
ding.
The radish patch o'er which I worked for
Brought up a crop of dock weeds and sun
flowers.
The best 1 ever got from garden seeds
Has been a growth of swear words and
Each spring I've gone down to the hard
ware store
And blown Cor tools two months stipend
or more.
I haven't got much faith in nature now.
But what have I'm going to keep. vow.
She'll not hand me the buncombe as of
yore;
III buy my green goods at the corner store.
The HicLeyviIIe Clarion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemual Higgins an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter. Marcelia Heliotrope, to Mr..
Amasa Joshua Tibbs, the wedding to
parents next Move vember, providing the
bridegroom holds his job at the fer
tilizer factory. About 400 running let
ters will be issued for the wedding and
it is expected that the presents will be
numerous and costly
William Tibbitts, our popular and
congenial groceryman, says he sold
half pound of mixed candy to a
certain party last week, and it is
thought that somebody in our midst
is keeping company with some gal
but the names have been suppressed.
Rem Binks, our station agent, all
ways gets comps to all the shows for
handling the theatrical trunks down
to the depot so nice and is getting to
be one of our most exactly dramatical
critics. He is the only feller in our
midst who can tell off-hand whether
East Lynne is a comical opry or a
vaudeville.
The editor of the Hoppertown Ga
zette has not been able to get out and
collect much news the past week, be-
cause his wife sent his pants to the
rummage sale by mistake. Pants will
be accepted on subscription.
Grandpa Perkins is so def he can't
hear a word you want him to.
1t is feared something has happened
to Lem Higgins of this village. He
went away nearly two days ago and
nobody has received a picture post
| card from him yet.
Luke Bibbins has been appointed
deputy game warden for this district.
and will begin by investigating the
poker game in the back room of the
| harness shop.
Everything seems to have a mission
in this world excepting mission furni-
ture.
Things That Make life Worth Living.
Being obliged to smoke the cigars
the host passes around after the din
ner party.
Swatting one with your hand and
coming down on one of those prickly
| pincushions
| Getting on the car with one plug
ged nickel and having the conductor
refuse 1t right before the crowd.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

In one breath the Democratic en-
thusiasts declare that the reelection
of Woodrow Wilson is a certainty, and
in the next they wonder at the reluc-
tance of the sporting element in the
Republican ranks to offer their money
freely at odds of 10 to that that Mr.
Hughes will win.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Winter is in the offing. all right, as
is evidenced by the reports of snow
storms in the northern sections of the
country. But winter. as a matter of
fact. isn't suppose to arrive officially
until December 2l. 1t is always well.
tho. to prepare for the arrival of win
try weather Ions before that period,
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Boston is reported to be the tightest
city in the United States from which
TO extract money for charitable and
benevolent purposes. And there will
be some who are sure to insist that
this is further evidence to sustain
Boston's reputation for extreme wis
dom
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

And then Graytan came back and
nelped steady the logs as Father
Beaver rolled them into the water ~
course Father Beaver had to do the a.,
the-water part of the work. becausa
Graytail couldn't risk getting his faat
wet; But Graytail handed out the
reeos ana neiped all he could.
At last the whole raft me-. L.
and beautiful one it was too Rnt
as rather Beaver stepped back 10 adj
n1ire It, he realized what An aws,,,
tning ne had done-He had made ~.
"a. C1a ABOVE the -(Copyright-
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
DINNER STORIES

During one of the Ohio floods an
old man, who had lost nearly every
thing he possessed, was sitting on the
roof of his house as it floated along
when a boat approached.
ssHello HenryI"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
BED T GmE TALES
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON
MAKING A RAFT

''nibble, nibble, gnaw; nibble, nibble,
gnaw. and down came the sapling,
and into pieces 1t went before you
would think he was more than start
ed Father Beaver was a worker, no
doubt about that
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Current reports of the activities at
the higher educational institutions
are confined almost exclusively to
football.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

Raw Oyster Dish
Hollow out the center of clean,
square chunk of ice. Into this hollow
put raw oysters and place on large
dish. Garnish and serve with sliced
lemon. The ice block makes an at
tractive dish and keeps the oysters
cold
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

until tender. Drain and blanch. Melt
the butter in saucepan, add onion.
green pepper and Italian peppers;
cook until vegetables are tender. Stir
in the flour and cook two minutes,
then add tomatoes, sugar, salt and
pepper; simmer twenty minutes. Place
layer of noodles in butte-ed baking
dish, cover with some sauce and
cheese, then more noodles, sauce and
cheese, until all is used. Have the
choose quite thick on top. Set dish
in hot oven for fifteen minutes or un-
til we'll Drowned Serve in same dish
at once.
Angel Sponge Cake-Beat whites
of three eggs stiff. In another dish
beat yolks of three eggs with a pinch
of salt, then stir in whites and beat
together. Add one cup sugar; beat
well with an egg beater; then add one
half cup of boiling water and beat
again. Add one and one-third cups
sifted flour, and, lastly. one-half table
spoon baking powder divided length
wise) and a teaspoonful of any flavor
ing desired. Bake in square ungreas-
ed tin 35 to As minutes. When done,
turn cake upside down between two
dishes until cold.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18
Oysters and Macaroni.

Use one pint oysters. three-fourths
cup macaroni (broken in one-inch
pieces). salt. pepper and flour, one
half cup buttered crumbs. one-fourth
cupful butter. Cook macaroni in boil
ing salted water until soft. Drain and
rinse with cold water. Put layer in
bottom of a buttered baking dish. COW
er with oysters, sprinkle with salt and
pepper, dredge with flour, dot over
with one-half the butter and continue.
Cover with buttered crumbs and bake
for twenty minutes.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

What has become of the old-fash-
Toned young man who lined up with a
political party just because his grand
father did2
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-18

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