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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
HOME GAMERS.

Nearly $4,000 girls in the 5 south
ern states were enrolled in 1915 in
the girls canning clubs carried on
comparatively by the state agricul-
turaI colleges and the federal depart
ment The purpose of these clubs is
to encourage girls from 10 to Is years
to grow tomatoes and other vegeta-
bles in tenth-acre gardens and to can
their products for home use or for
sale. These clubs are under the SUI
pervision of nearly 400 women agents,
who represent jointly the office of ex-
tension work, south. of the state re-
lations service and the extension de-
partments of the several state colleges.
During the first year of membership,
those in charge find that caring for
one crop, preferably tomatoes. in a
tenth-acre garden and selling or can
ming the product, gives even a very
ambitious girl all the work she can do.
In the second and later years, how
ever, the girls are encouraged to raise
two or three different kinds of vege-
tables in their plots and to extend
their canning operations, as their skill
grows to other surplus products of
the farm, ana especially to the put
ting up of small fruits, orchard fruits
and native wild fruits, which make
palatabbe or marketable product
when processed. The principal object
of the club is to teach the girls how
to keep surplus fruits and vegetables
from going to waste, and by can
ming, to make them a valuable addi-
ton to the food supply of the farm
home, especially during the winter.
Many ambitious girls, however. not
only put up enough canned goods and
jars of fruit for home consumption,
but make a tidy monetary profit be-
sides. While the figures of profits for
1915 are not yet compiled. it is known
that in 1914 1913 canning-club girls
who rendered full reports of their
work put up 1.s1S,024 cans, jars and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

wise merchant often swallows
when he would like to spat.
Action speaks louder than words
perhaps, but not as often as women.
You won't know where you are go
ing if someone else does your think
ing.
No man is apt to be so quick tenn
pered if the opposition looks formid-
able.
A man will reach farther under the
stove for a penny than he will for a
poker.
Most of the Washers require a little
encouragement before they start any
thing.
Some men join lodges because they
expect to use the distress signal good
deal.
ing it wholesale has ruined many a
man.
When Young Thing falls in love
with an old man, that indicates the
old man has money.
Being fair and honorable passes an
occasional dividend period but is the
best long time investment.
A man will worry about a number
of things, but the fact that he is shift
less is rarely one of them.
Fathers have such hard times that
the average young man does not en-
gage in the same line of business.
I'm agin the organization a man
will declare, and at once start in to
frame an organization just as bad.
If you behave yourself, it won't be
necessary to neglect your work a great
deal to stick up for your Rights.
When it comes to an endurance con-
test, a speakers wind is likely to out
last the enthusiasm of the audience.
The poet pirates about eternal silence
and solitude, but would die a maniac
if he had to live on an uninhabited
island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Jdyhdwker Jots

Many a tooth has a gold crown,
which is more than its owner will
have, observes the Ellsworth Messen-
ger.
A farmers idea of preparedness,
says the Wakefield News, is to have a
lightning rod where the storm gods
can see it.
There is, of course, danger of catch
ing the grip at church Sunday morn
ing. points out the Marshall County
News. but it is perfectly safe to go to
the dance Monday night.
An unusual occurrence in the life
of Editor Turner of the Russell Rec
ord. He looked over three newspa-
pers on a recent day without finding
a picture of Mary Pickford.
If it is true that women's skirts will
be still shorter next spring, it looks
to the Stafford County Republican,
like the hosiery manufacturers are 60
ing to get a lot of free advertising.
1t tickles a good many southwestern
Kansas people, says the Dodge City
Globe, to read articles about such
states as Iowa buying corn from west
ern Kansas. Before long most of the
Iowa farmers will be drifting out this
way whore they can raise something.
Financial note, in the Lebanon
Times: Some of our amateur opera
tors on the stock market will be ready
to sell after prices get down a little
farther, so that they can buy in again
after prices get higher once more.
Related by the Clyde Republican:
Small Boy Paw. what is your def
milton of hope?" Father-"It is the
conduct of a town man who buys 10
cent corn to feed hens hoping they
will lay eggs in January when they
are % cents the dozen"
Isn't it terrible, exclaims the New
ton Journal Cheap Chinese eggs com
ing into this country under reduced
tariff measures have forced the price
of eggs down to a little less than fifty
cents a dozen in the cities.
His wife having embroidered all the
towels in the house, even the bath
towels, so exquisitely as to prohibit
family use, a Sabetha man, tells the
Sabetha Herald, has resorted to flour
sacks for his daily additions.
Told by the Lebo Star: Naomi, who
was in the fifth grade at school, had
just finished saying her prayers-the
usual Now 1 lay me down. But
her mother was surprised greatly
when she added. And please, God,
make New York the capital of Bos-
tom" why, Naomi, Why did you
ask that?" well, you see, mother, I
answered a geography question that
way today
A farmer will pay less than five
hundred dollars for an auto and will
build a house over it and paint it up
to make it look home like, states the
allow a thousand dollars worth of
other machinery to stand out in the
sun and storms without particle of
protection. Others will treat two
thousand dollars worth of cattle the
same way.
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CURIOUS MIR. CARY.

AT any rate, it is reasonable to as
sumo that Representative Cary of
Wise onsin, who would transfer the ma
TONS capital from Washington To
Milwaukee. is in touch with the sen
timent of his constituents. He urges
this move because of pending legisla-
ton which might make the District of
Columbia dry" Now wouldn't that
jar you? And Furthermore Mr.. Cary
observes that prohibition is "a men,
ace to society and good government"
This is also excellent proof that Mr..
Cary is not familiar with the condi-
tions that prevail in Kansas, and he,
therefore, doesn't know what he is
talking about ON this score. Perhaps.
though, Mr.. C5try's motives are selfish
But if prohibition comes to Washing
ton while he is there the probabilities
are that he can have 'ft'' shipped in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Euening Chat
On Whispering.

whispering is iII-bred. Any one
who knows anything at all knows
that. And yet a great many people
who are supposedly well-bred have
the bad taste and the bad sense TO
I don't mean that they do it at
social gathering. But here's an exam
pie of what L do mean.
A woman in our neiShborhood mas
just lost a good maid through whis-
pering.
This is how it happened. If any
little thing in the food or service was
wrong, the woman would comment
upon it to her family in a whisper.
The maid would frequently be con-
scious of the whispering and of course
thought the criticisms much worse
than they really were. Sometimes the
whispers were not criticisms at all. but
merely mentions of family matters
that the mistress did not wish her
helper to hear. But the maid did not
know that. And when one is given
such an opportunity to use ones imag-
nation one usually used it to good, or
rather bad effect.
Eventually the maid left simply be-
cause of these whispers.
The mistress feels aggrieved be-
cause of her loss, says she treated her
maid we'll and seldom criticised her.
| though there were plenty of things
she didn't like.
she would have been kinder.
Women are queer that way. Many
good women can't seem to treat their
maids fairly and squarely. A man
said to me the other day: Il don't
wonder women have such hard time
to keep their maids. They don't seem
to be able to treat them in a business
like way. There's my wife, she's a
kind. intelligent woman; but when 1
see the way she nags her maids, fuses
at them and interferes with them, well
picks on them is really the best
way to express i'll wonder she keeps
them as long as she does. My clerks
wouldn't stay a week if treated them
that way"
To return to the main road, whis-
pering within the hearing of a sick
person is something that has been con-
demned a thousand times, apparently
quite in vain Just the other day l
heard of a woman who was made
sicker by hearing her daughter whis-
pering to the doctor in the hall. The
doctors responses to the whispering
were reassuring, but it was impossible
to convince the invalid that something
wasn't being concealed from her. She
was depressed, she was nervous. and
consequently she was Suspicious, and
by brooding over her suspicious fret
ted herself into a high fever.
A whisper is sign is
something we don't want you to hear
When the sign-board is put up it in
stantly arouses the most dormant
curiosity. And, as 1 said before, an
imagination thus stimulated is apt to
construct something much worse than
the actual truth.
Never whisper unless you want to
hurt peoples feelings, embarrass
them, arouse their curiosity and de-
feat your own purpose of keeping the
thing quiet Protected by the Adams
Newspaper Service.)
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other containers of fruits and vege-
tables, which were worth, according
to conservative estimates, s2S4,sSO. of
which nearly 100000 could be cred
tied to profit. 1t is estimated that
the average profit per member was
$3.50. These figures, of course, do
not include the products of many
thousands of other children who
failed to send in accurate reports but
who, it is known, raised and canned
thousands of dollars worth of prod
ucts from their own gardens and from
their fathers truck patches and or
chards. In addition. nearly 5000 girls
now belong to poultry clubs having
for their object the raising of chick
ems and particularly the production of
eggs fO- market. Several hundred
other girls, whose interest in cooking
has been stimulated by their canning
experience. have taken an active part
in the bread-making demonstrations
of the best ways of making regular
bread, as a variant from biscuit and
other hot breads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
JUSTICE PlUGHEs' POSITION.

Justice Hughes letter to Congress-
man Slemp, who also happens to be
chairman of the Virginia Republican
state committee, is scarcely anything
more than a reiteration by the dis
tinguished New Yorker of his now
well-knOwn attitude in respect to the
Republican presidential nomination.
In brief but emphatic words Mr.
Hughes declares hat he is entirely out
of politics and knows nothing per-
sonally of any matters that might
take the form of a movement TO press
a presidential candidacy on his behalf
Il am totally opposed to the use of
my name in connection with the NOM
nation" writes Mr.. Hughes, land to
the selection or instruction of any
delegates in my interest, either di-
rectly or remotely" To put the mat
ter differently, Justice Hughes is in
no sense of the. word either an active
or a passive candidate for the Re
publican presidential honor. This has
been his position all along and is so
understood by his friends and adj
mirers who are urging him as the most
desirable man that the Republican ma
tional convention could nominate.
Justice Hughes letter as to what
would be his position in the event that
this convention rendered him the pres
idential nomination, without his being
a candidate. 1t seems clear that JUS
tice Hughes does not wish the norli-
nation but whether he would decline it
or not is another question, and one
that is still open. Until Justice Hughes
makes clear his position on this score,
it IS likely that the general movement
among the rank and file of Republi-
cans that he is the most available man
for the nomination will continue and
take on added strength. And at that.
would it really be fair to expect JUS
tice Hughes to take a pre-convention
position on this question, no matter
how politically important it may seem
Just now 1t might be gratuitous for
him to assert that he would not ac-
cept a Republican national conven-
ton decision that might not be made.
There is, also, the question of his
moral right to decline the nomination
If the representatives of the Republi-
cans voters, normally a majority of the
voters of the country, consider him
to be the fittest man for their presi-
Dental candidate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Household Hints
Butter-Saving.

Buy two pounds oleomargarine at
81 cents one pound creamery butter
at SO cents; spread butter in wooden
chopping bowl, spread oleo over but
ter, and add coloring. Mix well with
wooden potato masher or ladle. Put
in a small aluminium bread pan which
gives it the appearance of brick but
ter when cut for use. The amount saw
ed is 32 cents on every three pounds.
and even more when one watches the
sales.
To Keep Butter Good for Months
Salt and work butter well, and pack
in jar about three-fourths to an inch
thick in layers with granulated sugar
one-fourth inch thick in between.
Pack solid, and butter will be good
in three months as the day you put
it away.
Fancy Dessert.
Charlotte Russe-Place about two
good tablespoons whipped cream on
center of small plate. Separate two
lady finger cakes, using the four
pieces to stand around whipped cream,
coming together at top tent fashion.
Now take some whipped cream and
put down sides between the lady fin
gers around. the bottom and a cherry
on the top.
Peach Melba-In a sherbet cup put
a dipper of vanilla ice cream. Place
half of peach on this, pouring over all
a little raspberry sirup. Stick four
sweet waters in sides of cup.
Biscuit Fortoni-Vanilla ice cream,
a little whipped cream and a couple
of macaroons that have been dried in
oven until crisp enough to crush them
easily. Mix these all together. Place
in sherbert cups with little whipped
cream on top, few crumbs of maca-
rooms over that and maraschino
cherry on top. You can use your own
judgment as to the quantity to use,
but one dipper of ice cream and one
dipper of whipped cream and two
cakes will serve two persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
A rREAsuRE or rHE HuMnLE

A geranium blossom has been per-
fected measuring six inches across,
says Golfers. Where? you ask
Where but in California. To see
/ achievement with all that grows, one
turns to that state. However, it was
not of California, but of the geran-
ium. that we started to sing We are
not eager to see peony geraniums.
When one thinks of geraniums, he
thinks of bloom modest in size. but
brave in scarlet, the color of good
cheer. For the geranium is a treas
IRE of the humble. In countless pots
it fills the sunny south window of the
sunny housewife. The little country
school marin can see it as she gazes
across the heads of her plodding schol-
ars out the school window, and may
take heart thereby. Then there is the
geranium which thrives and blossoms
from its battered tin can on the win
dow sill of the slum tenement, not
only Frightening the cell of it's owner
but lifting the hearts of jewellers
across the air well or alley. What is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
THE WIFE,S WAGE.

The cheapest paid labor in the
world may be that of the wife of the
average American working man, as a
Kansas City labor organizer asserted
in a recent speech in Topeka, but
these women have not devoted much
attention as yet to organizing a union
or threatening a strike. AS a matter
of fact, the wife of the average Amer
lean working man gets as large per-
sonal return from the family income
as does her husband, and not few of
them get larger one. And in most
instances. it's to be doubted if her
work is any more exacting or onerous
than is that of the man whose humble
portion she shares.
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QUAKER MEDITATONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Time IS money, but a good bit of it
is counterfeit.
It's a good plan to be on the look
out for things that are worth looking
into.
Where shocking language is con-
cerned, it's a good plan to be non
conductor.
You never can tell. Some advice is
been used
Perhaps the good die young on the
principle that we should come early
and avoid the rush.
Executive ability is knack of earn
ing your bread by the sweat of other
peoples brows-
We are told that a rolling stone
gathers no moss, and yet lots of people
are just rolling in wealth.
1t doesn't necessa riiy follow that
man ought to have a keeper just be-
cause he is guarded in his remarks
1t is possible for a few enemies to
boost a man into prominence more
quickly than a multitude Of friends
can.
This precipice," explained the
guide. is known as Lovers Leap"
Same old bluff, eh?" yawned the
blase tourist.
Milly-"Yes. she used to say she
would never marry. but she did,
Billy-"Of course. Any woman would
rather be married than be consistent"
Il declared" exclaimed the absent
minded man as he rushed into the
railroad station, L know 1 should
What have you forgotten, DEAR"
asked his wife. Il forget what it is"
replied the aosent-minded man, but
1 know its something
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
AFRAIDs

Afraid of Age? All, no. there is no truth
In that for mel am afraid of Youth.
Afraid that it will pass and leave no trace
OF loved things worth remembrance on my
face.
Afraid that in its golden mead of hours
1 may neglect, too oft. to use its powers.
Afraid that in its laughter III forget VS.
How many hearts bear grief and eyes are
wet.
Afraid, alI. most afraid, may not know
Loves countenance, and. blind, may let him
go.
Youth conquered, all its strife and strength
and stress
Accounted for-then, only. shall 1 press
Forward to Joy, with Age as guide and
b, friend
Fearless and sure whatever Time portend
Edna Mead, in st. Louis Globe democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11

Down at the far corner of the lake,
where the water lilies and the mos
ouitoes abounded in the warm sum-
mer time, lived Mickey Mink and his
family.
No such polite and kindly person
as Bushy Beaver was this same
Mickey Mink-not hei Nor was he
content to live on grasses. water plants
and tree bark. Silly stuff, not good
enough fer a real animal, he called
all that as he ate his dinner of fresh
animal food. To tell the truth, Mickey
liked a good many things. He liked
fish. and crawdads, and musk-ats, but
most of all he liked the chickel-s he
caught in the farmers barns-wasn' I
he a naughty fellow?
To be sure, there were not many
farmers nor many barns full of fat
chickens in his neighborhood. for
Mickey lived in the lake and forest
region where farms were few and far
between. But even So, there were
chickens to be found and Mickey was
surely the one to find them-he could
scent a chicken long way off.
I'D at the head of the lake. where
the road turned off to go towards the
city many miles away, there was n
barn that Mickey had long Intended
to raid Though he had never quite
decided how it was to be done.
But one cold winter night, when
the wind howled through tie tree
tops and filled Mickey with a desire for
excitement he set out towards Farmer
Browns barn. -.'Um-m. um-m," he
said to himself as he slipped along the
bank of the lake, Its fine meal I'm
going to have tonighti'
Around the point, over the ice-cov-
cred creek that met the lake Just
there, and up towards the farmers
barn he made his way. And all the
time he was licking his chops and
thinking of the feast that was
coming
their roosts in farmer Browns barn
what of them Don't worry about
themi For somebody would protect
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.
One short year of matrimony turns
auburn tresses a deep red.
There is a pleasure in being cranky
that only a crank can. know.
Bitter words may result from biting
a persimmon before it is ripe.
Seeing is not always believing. We
see a lot of people we can't believe.
Many an excellent man is discour-
aged by the thought that the world
will have to wait until after he is dead
before it finds out how good he was.
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he wants church unity, of the kind
which comes from. likemindedness.
Any other kind is vain. A church
with one mind-and that the mind of
schisms and strife. The proposed
World Conference on Faith and Order
cannot surpass PauPs programme for
real Christian unity.
In two pregnant phrases the Apos-
tie strikes to the root of the new
world order that the gospel is bring
ing to pass: Not looking each of
you to his own things, but each of
this mind in you. which was also in
Christ Jesus" In this Christian un
selfishness lies the only hope of hu-
man brotherhood Not by laws i'm
posed from without, but by an in
spired spirit within is the made-over
social order to come. Once people
are fired by the mind of Christ, all the
ills of society will disappear, for sell
fishness will have gone to its own
place.
iVeness and force were even more
rampant than today, Paul held up the
picture of a Christ whose glory was
that he had made himself of no repu
and had assumed a slaves task, all
for the glory of God. AS did the
Master so should the disciple do. 1t
is the eternal mystery of sacrifice, the
triumph of which has been demon
strated As Thomas a Kempis cried,
when Thou. o my God, wouldst show
Thy love for the world Thou gavest
lit Thy Son. When Thou wouldst
show Thy love for Thy Son Thou
gayest Him a Cross" Whereupon t.
H. Darlow comments, in his wonderful
little book 1.-The Print of the Nails
I'VE can only say, Herein is love-
we have no other words to use
Herein is love. and awful consolation
and almighty healing and hope
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On the Spur 1
of the Moment


The Handy.
Bill Simms was quite a handy man at any
sort of trick; e, .
Could tinker UP a balky watch or Tx
windmill quick; ,.-
Could whittle fancy ornaments or DOCTOR
up calf :, -, ~
OR since a horse with lightnf speed OF
a photograph. ...
An artist too. with chalk or brush, quite
wonderful was he.
The only thing Bill couldn't draw WIS
just a salary.
Bill Simms could make a dandy churn
that surely did the work.
Could build an automobile that would run
without jerk -,
Could make a set of bobsleighs that would
ALWAYS run as slick a grease
Could cut a pair of trousers that woulu
always hold their crease.
But one thing that Bill couldn't make at all
to save his life
He couldn't make a Twin for himself and
kids and wife.
Bin Simms could play the violin and al
most any horn:
Could initiate each bird or beast that ever
had been born.
The folks kept him busy doin' odd JOBS
and all SIGH,
He had no time to settle down in order
to get rich
His neighbors all asked favors, and he
never turned one down;
And Bill spent his declinin' years in Twin
on the town.
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Journal Entries

High society isn't always a synonym
for good society.
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Courage is the spirit possessed by
the man who tries and fails and tries
again.
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What is the ratio of the ambitions
that are realized to those that are
not? Ts
Experience may be a valuable asset
but most folk undoubtedly prefer
money.
Probably a surgeon never considers
an operation entirely successful until
it is paid for.