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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Euening Chat
The Closed Door.
By RUTH CAMERON.

There are few things more pathetic
to me than the mother who wants to
know about her children's good times.
what they are doing, whom they see,
what interesting bits of news they pick
up, and who is shut out from this nor
NAL sharing of interests by the chill
dren's indifference or selfishness-
One such mother of whom 1 know
goes about the neighborhood furtively
picking up bits of information about
her children's doings. She doesn't
want people to know that they do not
tell her things, and yet she is so
eager for the information that she
often betrays herself. And then some
people smile and others feel much
nearer tc tears than laughter.
In this case the mother is a meager
little old lady who has worked so hard
all her life giving her children a
chance that she has lost her place in
the procession and consequently they
are little ashamed of her and selfish
ly blind to her eagerneSs for their
companionship. Heaven forgive them!
I'm afraid I couldn't.
In another case the children duti-
fully tell their mother where they are
going and give her the bare skeleton
of their experiences, but they never
fill it out with the flesh and color
details alone can give.
81 can't seem to get anything out of
them" she said to me wistfully once.
eff ask them questions they answer
me, but they don't seem to know how
to tell me about things the way Ruth
Can elder daughter who has married
and gone away used to-. I guess they
can't help it,
1 should think that, too, if I hadn't
heard them telling other people just
the sort of vivid, intimate things she
wants to know.
In this case the barrier between
mother and daughters seems to be
more due to lack of understanding
| than to se1fishness.
The Ruth" of whom the mother
speaks was the eldest daughter, and
she and her mother always had more
common interests.
Which brings me to the point
wished to make. There is sometimes
another side to the medal.
The confidence and comradeshir
which the mother Graves from her
grown-up sons and daughters she has
not always encouraged in them when
they were younger.
Again and again I have seen young
children checked in their excited at
| temptS to tell mother all about it, by
admonitions of one sort or another, OF
! by a crude lack of interest. Just the
other day I heard little Roger. small
friend of mine, try to tell his mother
about the telephone the boys had been
building.
| and mother, we sent messages
Roger, don't talk with your mouth
full
| Again, IT'S all the way from
Philips house to Johns. I guess il
must be three hundred feet, anyway
| do you want some more meat
Roger?''
Two more attempts met with nc
greater success. and the baffled look
| on Rogers eager face was truly pa
thetic.
That mother is shutting a door
Some day she will try to open it-per-
haps vainly.-(Protected by the Ad-
] ans Newspaper Seryice.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

day? There's a peach of a double
header to come off this afternoon"
II know it, and that's where 1 want
you to take me-
But, Eleanor, dear, you d be bored,
Pm afraid, sitting there for two or
of the game
But L do know something of the
game, for I've been going to the games
and posting myself points for a
whole month" Robert was puzzled
and surprised at her reply, and she
rose and went behind his chair and
put her arms around his neck when
saw that things outside my rather
frivolous interests were the things that
reused your greatest enthusiasm, 1
thought I'd better investigate. So L
began with baseball. 1t was your rain
check that set me to thinking one
morning. she explained
why, how was that?"
ut had become evident that before
our game of life together was even
well begun we were getting away from
each other, and it struck me that
morning that we must make our we'd
ding ring sort of rain check-sood
for new beginnings until the whole
game of life is played. While I'm not
particularly proud of becoming a
baseball fan, 1 am tremendously proud
that I've come to realize that we must
be interested together in many things
besides our love for each other in or
der to keep that love alive. Do you
understand, dear?"
Eyes. little philosopher" said Rob-
ert as he drew her down into his
arms. land I'll not only be your beau
this afternoon, but I'll be your fellow
fan throughout the game of 1ife.,'-
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

not own real estate and pay personal
property taxes only, probably do not
pay taxes on valuation of $500, that
is they do not pay taxes on $500 over
and above the 5000 exemption allowed
married folk.
The contribution of these numerous
Topekans for the new auditorium
would be five cents year, nickel
a jitney, and in many instances even
less.
1t is a paltry increase in taxes. in
deed, and one that is of Insignificant
proportions compared with the large
benefits that the city of Topeka will
reap from a larger and safer conven-
ton hall.
Furthermore, there will not be a
permanent increase in the city's taxes
on account of this much needed i'm
provement-
The rule is that when taxes go up,
they go up to stay.
But this auditorium improvement is
one of the few exceptions to this rule
For when the bonds that would be
issued for this purpose mature, they
will be paid off
The ten cents a year increase in
taxes on a thousand dollars valuation
if you paid $3.50 or 1920 in taxes
last year. see if you can figure down
closely enough to ascertain how many
pennies or fractions thereof under a
nickel this auditorium enlargement
would cost you a year-this fractional
increase in taxes for such important
purposes ceases.
It will be discontinued when the
proposed bonds are liquidated as they
will be when they are due.
Under the sinking fund system in
vogue in the city, these bonds or 9TH
ers to take their places will not be re-
issued when they come due and so on.
until eternity almost, as used to be the
case with the municipal bonds of years
gone by, and has been so extensively
the case with many of Topeka's school
bonds.
No, sir! These auditorium bonds
will be paid off when due.
And the trivial increase in taxes
that the reconstruction of the audi
forum would involve, would then be
cut off.
And mind you. this levy of 10 cents
a year per thousand dollars of valua-
ton will turn the whole trick. It will
provide the funds to pay all the in
terests on these bonds as well as their
principal when the time comes for the
latter to be paid off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Household Hints


Corn Breakfast Mullins - Three
eggs, l " cups white cornmeal, two
cups buttermilk, one-half cup flour,
one teaspoon each of soda, salt and
baking powder, two teaspoons sugar,
two tablespoons butter. To the yolks
beaten very light, add the buttermilk;
sift into this all the dry ingredients
and stir in melted butter. Pour into
creased and smoking hot muffin rings
and bake in a quick own.
Potato and Nut Croquettes-One
cup mashed potatoes (sweets pre-
ferred), one cup broken walnut meats,
small can of peas. egg, bread crumbs.
Season the potatoes well with salt,
pepper and butter; add the walnut
meats and moisten with a little sweet
cream if necessary. Form into cakes,
dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry
golden brown. Serve hot with buttered
peas.
Cream of Rice Soup-Two cupfuls
milk, one-fourth cupful rice, one
tablespoon butter, one teaspoon flour,
one teaspoon salt, dash pepper, one
teaspoon onion juice or one-half tea
spoon grated nutmeg, one tablespoon
parsley, one-fourth teaspoon curry
powder. Wash rice, put on with one
pint boiling water and boil thirty
minutes. Melt butter in top of double
boiler, place over fire and stir in flour,
then the milk and, when it boils, the
rice and rice water; add salt, pepper,
onion juice, parsley and the curry
powder mixed with little cold water;
boil three minutes. The curry powder
adds much to the flavor of the soup,
but is not necessary.
Waldorf Salad Mayonnaise-Wal-
dorf salad consists of broken walnut
meats, green apples and celery cut in
cubes, on a bed of crisp lettuce leaves.
Fruit Batter Pudding-Use any
fruit, either fresh or canned; one
half cup sugar, one cup flour, one
teaspoon baking powder, one-half
cup milk, one egg, pinch of salt. Put
fruit in bottom of dish, pour the bat
ter over, bake half hour. This is ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Globe Sights
[From the Atchison Globe.I
By THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

[From the Atchison GIobe.1
Enthusiasm and politeness pail
when overdone.
People know each other better in
small town. and gossip more
Those who aren't led into tempta-
ton, frequently go around and look
it up.
Men who don't know the most can
succeed fairly we'll by working the
most.
One trouble with the man with a
grievance is his tendency to tell it on
slight provocation.
No telephone girl has a voice sweet
enough to cheer a man up by telling
him the line is busy.
If you want to abuse people, you
might as well be a travelling evange-
list and get paid for it.
Children vary so much that it some
times seems that teachers ought to be
partial, whether she is or not.
1t is hard for a woman to under
stand how a boy can wear out shoes
so fast, never having been a boy her
self.
Fairy tales are mostly read by chill
dren, but some of them are told by
men hard-pressed and in search of
adequate excuses.
The majority of people are born I'M
lucky: neither pretty enough to win a
prize, nor ugly enough to be put on
exhibition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
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MAGIC EARS.

What in the world are you doing ?"
asked one little fairy of another, as
he looked across at the tree on which
the second little fairy was playing
I'm looking at the moss" SAID the
second fairy, whose name, by the way.
was Shine. And, l say, Clint, why
don't you come over and see this beau
tiful moss for yourself?"
OF course Clint was eager to see
anything that Shine had found to play
with-you know how that is yourself;
so he scrambled down from the tree he
was on and ran half way up the other
one before Shine had time to expect
him.
Now. then" he cried. where's the
moss ~
Right here" replied Shine, rub
bling his hand over the dark green vel
vet that grew on the north side of
the tree Isn't it beautiful"
TITS beautiful" said Clint, "but it
it, and 1 would suppose you did too.
Don't you know that moss sends up
little branches? That it looks more
like grass? This is green, to be sure
but it isn't moss-Im sure of that"
Then maybe you'll tell me what ii
is" exclaimed Shine, petulantly, for
he didn't like to have his words dis
poted.
That I cannot replied Clint. good
humoredly; but I'll tell you what we
can do. Let's put on our listening
ears and ask the green velvet itself to
tell us what it is
''All right said Shine, his good
humor quickly restored when he found
there was something pleasant to do;
"lets,"
So the two fairies reached down into
their pockets and pulled out their
magic ears-the ears that would let
them understand the speech of ever
plant and creature. and settled them
selves down for a talk.
Now if you please" said Clint, adj
dressing the north side of the tree.
where the green lay soft and velvety
against the bark. will you phase tell
US who you are and how you live 2''
ITO be sure 1 will, and gladly, too, .
replied sweet little voice. .I heard
you talking just now and I wished 1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Jayhawker Jots

1t is probably safe to remove the
ear muffs from the straw hat, advises
the Arkansas City News.
According to the Parsons Repub-
lican, some of the hardest work is
done by men who try to make a liv-
ing without hard work.
1t is a peculiar fact. says the OBJ
serving Minneapolis Messenger, that
short skirts make the girl seem
shorter and the men look longer.
The Carnegie hero medals, please,
some sort at junction City He adj
vertises in the Junction City Union
that somehow and somewhere and
someway he has not raised the price
on anything he sells.
Women are surely there when it
comes to taking chances In the May
"a issue of the Ell Dorado Republican.
Alice Murdoch had the temerity to
remark: Goodbye, winter, take
'keer' of yourself
As we are often asked, if we have
never thought of marrying writes the
bachelor editor of the Norton Daily
Telegram, we might as well answer
the question. We think of it nearly
every time a button comes off.
1t looks to the Abilene Reflector
as though the action of congress in
regard to the little brown man of
the Philippines is going to leave a
little brown taste in the mouth of
the administration this summer.
It is easy enough to turn down a
typewriter salesman, says the Amer
icus Greeting, or to dismiss an auto
mobile man. but it requires shrewd-
ness, tact and diplomacy to keep a life
insurance agent from getting the best
of you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

Kansas farmers are as hospitable as
any of the good folk on earth, but they
may be pardoned for showing reluct-
ance to entertain with food and lodg-
ing for four weeks or SO the harvest
hands who rap on their doors that long
before the cutting of the wheat begins
That's decidedly too much of a good
thing But the hoboes and others who
try to slip such stuff over are not
harvest hands, they're merely mooch-
ers, and fellows who would be likely
to make a speedy getaway as soon as
the work of harvesting the wheat be-
gan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Journal Entries

One route to happiness is to learn
to forget all troublesome thingS-ex-
cept debts.
4. i +
When a girl says she dearly loves
housework, the chances are that her
folk have a few servants around.
+ = J.
While the jack-of-al1-trades may
be master of none, he's a mighty
handy individual to have nearby.
= J. +
Few women look upon their parties
as exclusive If they feel compelled to
have their relatives attend them.
+
Occupying a prominent place among
the enthusiastic pedestrians are those
folk who cannot afford horses and
carriages, or autos.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

The New York Tribune which has
been getting large quantities of free
advertising lately because of its right
eous move in refusing longer to admit
whisky advertising to it's columns con-
tinues to accept cigarette advertising
which it usually displays on its pages
devoted to sporting news; cigarettes
being just the thing, in the opinion of
the Tribune, presumably, to increase
the stamina of athletes, to strengthen
their wind and heart-action, and to
clarity their brain for quick-thinl1ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

This whitening fire from French
gins" which has been featured so
prominently for so long in the news
shout the terrific Battle of Verdun
doesn't seem to be sufficiently wither-
ing to restrain the Germans from
frying and trying again to storm the
French strongholds. The courage
chat the German troops are displaying
IN facing this fire borders on the I'M
eanny. 1t seems to lift them from the
realm of mere human beings. unless
they are being driven by their off
GERS into the slaughter as sheep are
herded into an abattoir. But the lat
ter doesn't seem probable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
THE BREATH OF HOPE.

Hope breathes a sweetness through the day
That saves the conflict and the fray
Hope, on her wings of morning sent
To kiss once more to dreams of May
The blue void of the armament.
Then faltering hearts awake once more,
Then nereve and sinew, armed for war.
Put on the strength of golden things,
And sweeter than e'er heard before
drift of golden music rings.
The dust, the shadow and the gloom
The cark and care that hide the bloom
Then vanish and the world is green.
While spring beside her sapphire loom
Weaves a new wonder for the scene
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

Rumors of a impending break be-
tween President Wilson and Mr.. Lans-
Ing. his comparatively new secretary
of state, and because the latter is of
the opinion that the president acts too
Independently of him in carrying on
the diplomatic negotiations of the gov
eminent, is only further testimony to
support the contentious that Mr.. Will
son has the idea that he is sufficient
unto himself in all things. And in
this particular instance it indicates
that Mr.. Wilson doesn't really need a
secretary of state. About all he re-
quires is a subordinate clerk, or an
amanuensis to fix UP the diplomatic
notes he writes in the style that the
customs of diplomacy demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Ctara kgFanJudsm

(shine grinned happily and made
signs to Clint to notice.
am SO tiny that nobody can see
me M IN q thousand OF my family are
pied one upon another. do not
grow as moss does. no, indeed. am
just tiny round creature ana
grow by cutting myself in two
mats the easiest way to grow, let me
tell you, 1 live on air. 40 The 80
bark makes good home for me. hut
am always careful to select the
north side OF the trunk. for 1 am nc
Iriend OF the sun-it is a bold sun
guess that's aili''
Clint and Shine pulled off their
ears and looked at each other. "Next
time look at the north side of 4
tree, said Shine. I'll look for nv
new friend - Protococus. "-fC,ory-
right-Ciara Ingram Jueson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
nddress at the rate of ten cents week or
thirty cents n month (by mail only. Ad-
ont of town the state journal will be to
xou like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save bOolxkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

Many of the volcanoes that are scat
tered here and there over the earth's
surface appear to be doing their best
these days to attract a little attention
to their eruptive powers. But the ter
-rific commissions that are being staged
BY mere men, the Germans and the
French around Verdun, make the eff
forts of the volcanoes take on the
semblance of dried prunes in com
barisOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOULTON.

The 1916 Model.
"Oh, mammal cried the young offsprinG
In terror and despair,
"Oh, what can be that awful thing
That's standing over there?
Is it some strange wild animal
Brought from foreign shore?
Oh, tell me, ma, for I've not seen
A thing like that before.
The mother soothed the little lad,
Who in grim terror shook,
And said, ..Those things are not so bad
Now, really, as they look.
He will not bite, my angel child,
He's harmless as toy;
The thing you see is nothing wild,
But just college boy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

Most of this talk that the Republic
can leaders are for anybody but
Roosevelt for the Republican nom
nation seems to come from the direc-
ton of William Barnes, jr., of Albany.
N Y Perhaps when Mr.. Barnes
reaches Chicago he will awake to the
fact that he is not the Republican
party of these United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

How appreciatIve the Rockefellers
and the other Standard Oil magnates
must be of the ust-busting activities
of the federal government. The Stan
dard Oil company of Ohio, one of the
present individual concerns that vas a
part of the big oil trust that was de-
stroyed by the government has just
declared a 100 per cent stock dividend
amounting to S3,5OO,OO0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

What has become of the crisis in
sGreece that put in an appearance
every day OF so for such a continued
period? Evidently Greece has solved
The problem of keeping out of the war;
and this has not been an easy problem
by any means for the few European
nations who are still on the neutral
fence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27
Uncle Abner.

Uncle ADncr.
If there is anything narrower than
circus seat it is a Hardshen dea-
cons idea of who's goin to get into
heaven
One good thing about a pianola is
that it don't have to be teased to play
and will stop whenever you want
it to.
Hold Peters says every time he
looks at the palm garden on Miss
Amy Frisby's hat it makes him think
of the time he was in Milwaukee and
he hastens over to the saloon to keep
the memory green.
There is no loss without some
small gain. Hank Purdy's wife cooked
a round steak for him that he
couldn't eat, but instead of THROWN
it away he cut it up into harness
laceS.
Be good and you'll be lonesome, is
an old sayin, and most of the fellerS
around this burg seem to have a con-
slant laundering for company.
1t takes a millionaire's wife to
wear a 81 gown and not be talked
about by her dear feminine friends.
A poor mans wife has got to wear
the real goods.
The main difference between a
genuine calabash pipe and an imita-
ton cafabaSh pipe is the price.
There amt no man who kin offer
you as much advice on how to run
your business as some Teller who has
A Teller with thick eyeglasses is
purity hard to beat in a business deal
or in poker game.
Oh, Yes, Indeed.
The Hiawatha '1ong and dreary
winter called to the mind of at least
one Bible reader the reference of the
haraSSed, hen-pecked Job to snow and
ice; also to the Psalmist's suggestive,
significant question, who can stand
before His cold ?" Lest we be tried
beyond ability to bear" there were
providentially provided by marvellous
wisdom and immeasurable power old
King Cole, 'black but comely," and
the slow stored carbon of the wood
land trees which, heaped high on
hearth, impress the truth that 1T is
pleasant thing to see the fire -
Woodbury. Herald
What Drives Clerks Crazy.
81 want to buy shirt for my nus
| band I don't know what size the
neckband is, but he wears a 6 Is hat"
MY wife wants me to get her some
ribbon to trim a dress. What shade
do you think she would Hke?'
my wife has just got back from
the east and doesn't like the overcoat
1 bought here six months ago. Will
you take it back?''
Huh, they amt wearin' them hats
in New York now. You don't see 'em
in any of Bud Fishers cartoons"
What kind of a necktie would my
husband like for his birthday"
Are those 1929 cuff links solid
gold? If not, I don't want them
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