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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
SIDE TALKS
The Disappointed Mrs. scandal-Loyer.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The Disappointed Mrs. Scandal-Loyer.
1.-The Howard Grahams don't get
along very well together" The How
ard Grahams q call them that be-
cause, of course, it is not their real
name) are a young married couple
in our town.
They have ben married only two
years, and they seem very happy.
The above delightful piece of news
was brought to me by one of those
restless women who find their greatest
happiness in discovering that other
pOple are rot happy.
She fairly licked her chops over
this. all the while pretending to feel
very sorry about it.
l asked her what made her think
they didn't get along and she told
the following story:
She had seen them coming home
one night on the trolley. He looked
haggard and unhappy and she had
noticed they were talking ver,- earnest
~. She couldn't hear what they said,
because they sat several seats in front
of her (naive detail, but she felt sure
there was something wrong And
then, all of q sudden, he got up and
left the car alone, although they were
at least two miles from their stop and
it was after twelve at night. And
then, what did she do but spring IN
and leave the car at the next stop. Evil
IDENTIFY they were quarreling and thew
must be pretty far gone to do it so
openly.
1t sounds bad, doesn't it?
No wonder Mrs Scandal Lover
licked her chops.
But wait Bit.
A rev days later Mrs. Howard Gra-
ham came to call on me- And in the
course of the conversation sha said
Il was walking past your ho3se AT
half past twelve the other night and
saw a light in your study Do you
often work as late as that?"
NO, said l. DO you often take
walks as late as that?"
81 should say mott" said she "Mv
dear, l had the most awful time that
night"
Naturally I pricked up my ears.
It's one of those things that seem
funny to look back att she went on,
tho 1t was pretty uncomfortable at
the time We were coming home late
from a bridge and Howard had one of
his spasms of car-sickness. He said
he should faint Cor worse) if he didn't
get off the car. 1 wanted to gel off
with him. but it was the last car. so
we'd have to walk, and l had on some
silly little high heeled shoes that muir
der me, and he didn't want me tc. He
said ned be all right and he wouldn't
get off at all if l insisted. Well.
knew I should be worried to death
about him, so 1 let him get off and
then 1 got off at the next stop. I don't
know what people thought was the
trouble with u.s.
Naturally, 1 didn't tell her.
/ But I did tell Mrs. scandal-Lover
the story.
She looked disappointed. at sounds
a little bit fishy to me- she said
Copyright by George Matthew Ad-
ams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
OUR HEADLoNG RUSH.

One of the most delightful things
about life in New York, says the Sun,
IL the frequent pulpit appearance of
clergymen from other cities who tell
IL. how wild a pace we are living at
One from Boston was here Sunday:
You hurry thru life so East that you
never get acquainted with yourself
Half of the men in New York who
are driving automobiles should be OPP
Grating wheelbarrows.
You complain of the high cost of
living while you eat steak three yards
long and three inches thick"
It's the same old stuff. We are
wicked too. New York is always COM
pared with two ancient citles which
are usually coupled in odium. If the
citizen took the words of the supply
preachers at half their face value he
would lead his family from the city.
cautioning his wife not to look back
with regret lest an historic fate be
hers.
The hurry myth will never die. OF
| course persons are seen kurrying in
the streets of New York. They have
been here q. short time from Ashta-
bula, or Atlanta. or Altoona, or Lon
don, or Limerick. or Lublin or Sicily
or Saratoga They have heard that
New York is the city of dreadful rush
and they are trying to catch up to
something that never was. Speaking
without slang, they chase themselves.
The delusion about motors and meat
is of the same pattern. 4 man from
Potter county, Pennsylvania, comes
here and hires a motor car to take
him to a place where he can pay
! $1.75 for steak. Two years later,
when he has more money and is an
cid New Yorker Git takes fourteen
months to become an old New York
er) he walks to q place where he
gets two lamb chops for so cents
So far as the number of its motor
cars is concerned. New York is away
behind certain counties of Kansas,
which is the real home of the three
foot steak and the ceaseless speed.
| Why don't the preachers go to Kan
sas and warn the people to slow up ?
Perhaps because the preachers are
Kansans who We're hurled east by the
| impetus of Kansas life.
| But let them preach if they will.
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1t Makes a Lot of EN-.
Ad in a Kalamazoo paper:
THE Blunders of Virtue"
At Fuller Theater Tonight.
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe
If you owe the devil he will col
What has become of the old fash
Toned person who said, plague on
you?"
E. W. Howe once said: Yesterday
belongs to you.
You can say the most by saying the
least A lot of words usually don't
convey many real ideas
Gloves must be getting cheaper, on
account of the big crop of undressed
kids around here this summer.
Some women are fair enough TO be-
lieve in equal suffrage, while some
women want all of the suffrage.
Somehow, we always feel sorry for
the students who expects to make ST.
100000 in one summer peddling
books.
In locating the biggest liar don't
overlook the man who talks about
how hard he worked when he was
young.
Probably the most scathing criti-
cism is that heaped upon the elderly
woman who insists upon dressing and
acting young.
When you see married couple red
in the faces and freely perspiring
when they enter a church OF thea
ter. depend on it that one of them
was slow about getting dressed, the
other lost patience about the delay
and the prospect of arriving late at
the church or the theater, and they
had quite a lively little spat.
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Simple Things.

Some folks are prone to NOPE
about, and find little fault and pout
about their walks in life; they long
to do the greatest things, and soar
aloft on eagles wings, but shun 1ifes
toll and strife. They seek to conquer
worlds or naught, and that is why
they're never sought to help in times
of need; that's why they fail to make
the grade, and always linger in the
shade-at last to go to seed It's
better far to earn a cent, than loaf
till all of life IS spent in pouting
and complaint 'Tis best to do the
deeds that help to make a better man
of self, and hold pride in restraint.
One gains much more by making
wood or heaving tons of coal; than
lying idle half the year and living in
the mortal fear one will not reach his
goal. The thrifty hen that lays the
egg, is not seen standing on one leg
or leaning 'gainst a post; she's digging
busily away from early morn till close
of day, and never stops to boast. And
so the man the highest up, got there
because he'd share his cup with lab
orer or king; he didn't hesitate to do
the tasks which might appear to you
as just the simple things. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Peerless Spice Cake-Two cups
brown sugar. one-half cup butter, two
eggs, beaten separately, one teaspoon
each of cinnamon and allspice, one
half teaspoon ground cloves; any de-
sired flavoring, one cup of very cold
water; two and two-thirds cups flour
(measure before sifting), two tea
spoons baking powder. Bake in two
layers. Put together with tart jelly
and one-half cup seeded raisins; put
raisins on back of stove with little
boiling water to soften, then mix with
jelly and put between layers of cake.
Frost cake on top; also sides and let
good frosting fir this cake is: One cup
brown sugar, one teaspoon butter,
one-half cup milk, one-half teaspoon
vanilla; cook until very thick; remove
from fire and stir until creamy.
English Pork Pie is a very popular
dish in that country. Mix three-quar-
ter cup boiling water with scant cup
lard or drippings. Sift one-quarter
teaspoon salt with two and one-half
cups flour and beat into hot mixture.
Chill, roll out one-quarter inch thick
Sci two-quart fruit jar bottom end
up and shape the pastry over it Set
in refrigerator. Chop fine the meat
from two pounds lean pork chops Fry
slowly in ore tablespoon butter. Boil
the bones in one quart water and one
tablespoon lemon juice until meat
falls from bones. Pour the liquid over
the meat Carefully remove the lar
from the pastry and fill the crust with
meat. Roll out a cover for the pie
and bake slowly three-quarter hour.
Owing to its richness one slice
makes generous serving. Serve cold
with a cress garnish.
Chilli Sauce-One-half bushel ripe
tomatoes, one-half peck onions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22

So you don't believe in fairies, and
you think all this fairy business is all
silly girl talk?
Suppose 1 should come to you and
say. Here, Jack, I'm going to give
you this magic box. In it is something
as high as a fence, a big fence and
as brilliant as can be- What would
you say the?
Listen and I'll tell you the story of
one boy and the fairies he didn't be-
lieve in.
Once upon a time there lived a lit
tie boy whose name was Dick. He
lived with his father and mother and
grandmother in a pleasant little house
that set in a yard big enough to play
in. So Of course Dick had a very nice
time all the days.
But one day a little girl cousin came
to see him and this little cousin be-
lived in fairies. Moreover, she liked
to read Arabian Nights" and that sill
illness Gas Dick called it) made Dick
very angry
Nobody but a girl would believe
such stuff" exclaimed he. "And,
big as that genie seems to have been.
tucked up tight in box, is the worsti'
Now it jest happened that Grand
mother was sitting on the porch near
by and heard all that Dick said. She
got up and went into the no Sc and
then. when she returned a few min
utes later. she called Dick to her
Il heard what you said about fairies
and the genie of the box, Dick" she
said. -and l want to ask you a ques-
ton: Suppose / gave you black
box OH a tiny little black box and
told you that it contained something
big and wonderful Would you be-
lieye me2"
"I-wfly. why-wiiat do you mean.
Grandmother? asked the puzzled
boy.
Grandmother laughed. II mean
that boys should not say they do not
believe when they really mean they do
not understand" And then she
reached her hand into her pocket. It
have here a magic box" she added as
she laid in Dicks hand a tiny little
black object -Tt contains something
that is tail and green and yellow,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
ON SPUR OF
y THE MOMENT

~ ROY x, MOULTON.

just Buying Things.
A stranger came to see me,
He was a pleasant man,
And so l bought phonograph
On the installment plan.
OF course, 1 didn't need 1t,
But when his terms got
1t really seemed much cheaper
To buy the thing than not
Another stranger reached us,
He had lawn mowers to sell
On easy-pay installments,
And so, of course, we fell
One more had pianolas-
And they were very cheap,
Ten cents a month or Whereabouts,
And we took one, to keep.
Twas that way, too, with wrlngers,
Gas ranges, fancy clocks,
And with vacuum cleaners,
And shirts and pants and SOCKS
And SO the thing continued;
In our installment greed,
We bought wheel chairs and crutches
And junk we did not need.
We're not gay and light-hearted,
And not inclined to brag,
AS we did ere we started
On our installment jag.
We have no peace and quiet
That we enjoyed of yore,
There are nineteen collectors
Each day before our door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
STRIKES AND PUBLIC OPINION

In labor disputes which would af-
feet, if strikes should follow, any
large public interests, we have to rely
upon the force of public opinion, says
the Bache Review. to prevent eventual
strikes Law is of little assistance. If
arbitration were compulsory under the
law, a great obstacle to prosperity and
to public interests, comfort and safety
would be removed. vital legal RENE
dies, however, rarely come except after
some great calamity which they are
Intended to ward off. 1t took the
panic of 1907, with its fierce destruc
the Aldrich-V reeland emergency law.
The damage of the time had been
done. but the law was the financial
salvation of the country seven years
later, when the war broke out. If it
had not stood upon the books, de-
struction would have been far greater
and more widespread than in 1907.
1t was the coal strike of 1907. out
of which the Canadian industrial ar
bitration act grew; there, too, it was
the disaster first and the law after
lie OdDdQldn act HdS QOIfc
much as a preventive, but has not
worked in every case. It requires
under heavy penalty that there must
be no strike and no lockout until an
arbitration board has investigated and
reported. This produces elaboration
and delay, which in itself is often eff
fective in preventing final crises. The
decision oF tho hoard When piyau for
one side or the other. is powerful in
influencing the side at fault to give
way. This is where investigation only
is conducted. But if both sides have
agreed to arbitration. the majority de-
cision of the board is final and its
awards are made operative under pow
e. of severe punishment for non-com-
pliance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22

sity, DIR. Alexander Lambert. Chairman
Judicial Council of the American Med
ical association, Miss Lillian D. WafdS
president of the National Organization
for Public Health Nursing. and DR..
Henry ]. Harris of the Library of Con-
gress. AS a result of their work the
committee has drafted the model
health insurance bill which, the sec
rotary, DR.. John B. Andrews an
nounces will be introduced into more
than twenty state legislatures next
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
PRECES.

Why wilt thou ever tend Minerva's shrine
When thou art fashioned in the Cyprian
mold?
often wonder such weft of gold
Crowns like a diadem that broad brow
of thine
And luminous depths of hazel eyes.
Divine.
Too. is the summons from her affairs cold
To loves own fields. the laughter and
the old
Sweet music and the roses and the wine,
pray thou learn, dear. ere the long
night find
Thee Sitting desolate in the empty house
Amid thy broken dreams No book can lure
The secret of the world. Fame's but
the wind
Crying, and knowledge is a wintry
spouse
And youth is brief. and only love is sure.
Harold kellock in Century Magazine.
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NEW DREAMS FOR OLD.

NEW DREAMS FOR OLD
Is there no voice In the world to come
crying,
New dreams for old.
New for Oldi''
Many have long in my heart been lying,
Faded, weary and cold.
All of them, all. would give for new one.
Is there no seeker
OF dreams that were?
Nor would 1 ask if the new one were a
true one;
Only for new dreams.
New for old
For 1 am here, halfway of my journey,
Here with the old
All old
And the best heart with death is at tour
ney,
If naught new it is told.
Will there no voice, then, come, or VISION,
Come with the beauty
That ever blows
Out of the lands that are called Elysian?
l must have new dreams,
New for old
&C. L. Rice, in Century Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22

The real, mellow New Yorker, sitting
at his parlor window. nov reading
King Lear" now clipping the dead
leaves from his favorite geranium, de-
lights in being told. every so often,
that he lives the headlong life
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DINNER STORIES

Hello. George! I was just talking
about you with Miss Van Peach. She
said some very flattering things about
YOU"
shes a dear, sweet girl. and she
thinks lot of me-more than 1 real
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A RIighted Romance.

1t was long ago 1 met her.
Gosh 1 never will forget her.
She was pretty,
She was witty,
And a vision, on the dead.
But she turned me down completely
And informed me very sweetly
That another
LovelOrn brother
Was the one that she would wed.
Then I thought of suiciding
And for days l kept in hiding.
l was crazy,
l was hazy,
And the world was nought to me-
But before l pulled the trigger.
| just strted into figger
l would inger
Till the finger
OF old Fate was kind to me-
Now I'm glad 1 didn't get her,
And I'm very glad 1 let her
Wed the other
Lovelorn brother.
Though the sentiment sounds mean.
For she now is suffragetting
And her husband is just getting
Ger fracture
So they tell me
Where she soaked him on the bean.
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BED TIME TALES
you DON'T ..ELIEvEIN FAfRIEsg
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDs0N

Il
Dick looked unbelievingiy at the
little thing she held
Grandmother laughed again and
then she said in a very kindly voice:
L don't ask you to believe without
proof. Tafe this box, bury IT one
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men deep foot in front of the back
renee; In six weeks tell me if 80
right" Al am
OF course Dick hurried a,,a
as ne had been told, and of cas, ~ uo
watcned that spot where the rnaajc
ooA was buried every day Of r.
Wn9ie SIX weeks that he was 20 wait
Maybe you have gucssedi - a,
was the magic of sun and raj, ar,d
summer heat. that in six weeks, tar.e
tnere biossomed from that little bIanE
sir. big one. les,
Dick ran TO his grandmother. and
with her looked at the big bl,ss ana
fa Ana ;. si Know what you mean by
we can't quite explain. fairies1..S eiii's
And Grandmother nodded
'eopSrignt-ciara Ingram Judson.1
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IF we lived in former times. my dear.
this baby of ours could have filled i'm
Dortaut pubifc position What kind of
a position, my lover" Town crier.r-
Baltimore American
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ly deserve, I'm sure. What did she
say?"
II hate to tell you. I'm afraid it
will make you awfully conceited.''
"Oh, come on. Be a good fellow"
'WeI, if you insist She said she
thought you were half-witted.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22

A clergyman in the east end of
London recently presented a ragged
little urchin with a new suit of clothes.
More than a week passed before they
met again, when the donor was pleas
ed to see that his gift was still in evil
dence. The lads father drank and
the clergyman had feared that the
suit would be pawned to buy liquor.
"Ah, Johnny, still wearing your
nice suit, see!'' said the kind-hearted
old man, approvingly-
And there was a world of pathoS IN
the lads reply:
yes, sir; rye slept in it,"
In a little bush league town out
west the ball club considers itself
lucky if, at the end of the season,
gate receipts have been enough to pay
expenses and there is enough over to
buy a round of cigars.
During a recent game a biplane was
observed lowering low over the park,
and the manager was just wondering
whether airshipS were to be added to
house roofs and knotholes as a med
ium for beating the gate, when the
machine lurched and dropped rather
heavily into the outfield.
Presently the birdman opened his
eyes to find the manager bending So
icitously over him. That official gave
a sign OIL 1elleI the SLIdIlSCI lCNuI II
to life, and remarked cheerfully:
Feeling all right, now, old fellow
Then you can just give me your quar-
ter ard We'll go on with the camel"
The clock had chimed one.
From the dark lower hall came
sounds which might have been made
by a cautiously departing visitor, Their
silence.
From the head of the stairs sleepy
voice asked, with motherly solicitude:
did you land that boob tonight
Sally?''
For a moment there was again ST
lence, broken only by little gasp, then
spoke a voice strangely tinged with
dawning doubt:
'.She did!'' it said.
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Young Heffron was overjoyed when
Ruby Jackson promised to be his wife
and presented himself before the rich
ciG father to obtain his consent.
what do you want a wife for when
you can scarcely support yourself?''
queried the old gentleman crustily.
why, sir, my daughter would
starve."
We'll, sir" replied Heffron, with
great dignity, eff you are the kind of
man to let your daughter and her hus-
hand starve, 1 don't wish to enter the
family"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-01
SCHOOL DAYS

~ ALLS for clothes for the
III .tots." We many ma
- terials to make these
clothes Of special interest
will be noted, Red Seal Book
Fold Ginghams at 15c. York
Book Fold Ginghams at 12Lzc,
Kiddie and Romper cloth at
zoe, Simpsons Galatea, at Zoe
and 25c, Imported Juvenile
cloth at Csc, Ensign Percales,
yard wide, at 15c.
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First Christian Church.

$50 a. m, Bible school, James B.
Perkins, superintendent, expects a
full attendance preparing for the
Hobab Rally day. Don't have your
seat vacant.
IL a. M, preaching service and
Lords Supper. Sermon, Come Out
of the Cemetery"
p. M, Christian Endeavor Soc
iety, Miss Marie PARCEL, president.
$50 p. M, evening Gospel service
Good singing, good songs and SIM
pie message for everyone. Subject OF
sermon, Ghosts"
Wednesday evening, $50, prayer
service. Topic, "a prayer for the
peace of Jerusalem"
The Hobab Rally day of the First
Christian church will be held on octo-
rher f5.1Keep the date open. Frank
B. Holden, minister.
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Gadsden Street Methodist.

Gadsden Street Methodist.
Rev. Herbert w. Rice, pastor.
Sunday school rally service, $50
a. m.
Preaching, 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m. by the pastor.
Epworth League, $50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30
p. m.
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Lutheran Church.

Lutheran Church.
Anniversary services.
Sunday school, 9 a. m.
German services with Holy Com
munion, 1890 a. m.
Preparatory service, 10 a. m.
Communion collection for the
Students Fund.
English service, 7:3o p. m.
The thanks we owe God for our fell
lowship in the Gospel.
Church offering in all services.
Vestry meeting after close of Ger
man service.
]. F. w. Reinhardt, pastor.