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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-11

- NE of the greatest mistakes that
a girl ever makes is to pretend
- to be something that she isn't
1t is a mistake because sincerity, gen
uineness and simplicity are three of
the most charming qualities that any
woman can possess. And it's a mis-
take because no one is ever deceived
by a girls affectaton. The world IS
continually calling her little bluff.
Why does girl, for instance, pretend
to be worldly wise and blase, and a 1T
tie snort when anybody can see that
she is an ingenue in life and that her
eyes are just popping out of her Lead
at the wonders Of the world?
It would seem that any girl would
have sense enough to know that there
is no charm in the world so potent as
that of innocence and freshness. and
that the more worldweary man is
the more charming he finds this unso-
phistication in d girl.
HaIIucinatiOn.
Yet I've known girls-perfectly good,
nice girls-whO simply lOathed the
very smell Of liquor, and whose favOrite
drink was chocolate soda, sit up and
talk about how many cocktails and how
much champagne they drank at n sit
ting, and how they never could go to
bed without two Scotch highballs for a
nightcap.
men they were talking to knew it was
fib. but they never went near that girl
again. because, as one man said, he
didn't care for either women dipsomani-
acs, or Saphiras-
Then there is the girl who thinks that
she makes herself attractive by affect
ing the ways of a millionairess. Every
one knows that her father is poor and
hasa struggle to keep his family go
ing, but to hear that girl talk you
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-11
Land of Giants and Pigmies Cut Off
From Circus Agents By European War
b.
Rene Bache

Thbw LOCI Large Giants in Ar
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-11
Ten Miles of Planked Streets In
Juneau Keep the People Out of Mud
-BY-
Frank G. Carpenter
Copyright. 1915. by Frank
G. CarDenter.l

ton nd
PNpe Are HudGS
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-11
Grace Darling $ Talks to Girls
No 2-Don't Pretend to Be What You're Not
BY GRACE DARLING.

- NE of the greatest mistakes that
a girl ever makes is to pretend
- IN he something that she isn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
BACK TO The STICKS
Mayor House Wants to Run Coun-
try Newspaper.

Mayor J. F. House and Robert
Yates, police judge, were talking
about living in a small town. Since
House came to Topeka fifteen years
ago he has been talking small town
and threatening to go to some country
town to run a newspaper. He still be
lieves he would like it and Judge
Yates was trying to convince him he
didn't know what he was talking
about.
You wouldn't be satisfied over
night" he told the mayor. You
think you would but you are deluding
yourself. You are accustomed to a
different kind of life
And to illustrate his point Judge
Yates told of an experience of his
own.
when / first went to Chicago years
ago. he said, Il worked for a dollar
and a half a day and saved money at
it. Fifty cents a day was all l needed
to live. 1 knew what to buy to get
the most for my money and where to
sleep for the smallest expenditure. 1t
wasn't any hardship for me-
Il didn't go to a show I didn't
go to a ball game. 1 didn't spend any
money for a good time. But I suf-
fered no hardship because L had been
reared in the country on farm and
hadn't been accustomed to the things l
was denying myself. l was living on
| Just about the same scale 1 had lived
in the country.
And now to get back a little more
closely to your case, do you suppose
1 could be satisfied living that way
now? Think 1 could be satisfied with
| out going to shows baseball games
and eating regularly? Certainly I
could not 1 couldn't because I have
become accustomed to different way
of living-a better way. And that is
| just your situation. You're well off
and don't know it."
'.All right. all right" acquiesced the
mayor. Just as you say"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Svea male chorus is only Swedish male
chorus in Topeka, and was organized a
year ago. and consists of the leading
male voices of the three Swedish
churches, Mr.. G. Z. Malmberg, director.
who will render special selections of
Swedish folk songs
Miss Ona May Miller. a talented
Topeka girl. is rapidly gaining a
splendid clientele playing and singing
in concert, churches. musicales and
making short concert tours.
One of her most recent press COM
ments says: Her playing is marked
with the same beauty and note of
character as her charming person.
ality.
During the recent western trip of
President Wilson. Miss Miller. by spe-
cial invitation from Governor Capper,
of Kansas, went to Topeka and played
a continuous program on her golden
harp in the drawing room of the Cap
per home, during the luncheon hour.
The President and Mrs. Wilson both
expressed themselves as charmed with
her songs, given with her own accom-
paniment on the harp, and compli-
mented her very highly on her talent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
Topeka Hotel Telephone Girl
FOrgets Her Temper.
Kansas Convention Crowds
Tax Her Disposition.
MUST ANSWER ALL QUERIES
She Is Supposed to Know
Everything-and Quickly.
Miss Lula Maxwell of National
a Real Type.

No one has anything on a switch
board girl in hotel in a convention
city like Topeka, according to Miss
Lula Maxwell, telephone girl at the
National hotel Miss Maxwell is still
young and pretty but this state of al
fairs can't last long unless some re-
lief is afforded and the freaks of ma
ture who patroniZe a hotel every day
change their ways
There's the masher, the crank, the
nervous woman, the politician, the
delegate, the boss, the clerk, the
chambermaids, the walters, the lame,
the halt and the blind-all to be han
died automatically by the girl at the
switchboard. And they all want to
talk to her at the same time.
A regular hello girl leads a quiet
life compared to the switch board girl
at a hotel like the National. She has
14O telephones to look after while the
average hello girl pushes in plugs Tor
only 100.
Cracked Ice in Kansas.
Ice water is the bane of her eXis-
| tence-especially when the politicians
are in the city. The average politician
can drink more ice water in one even
ing than the rest of the world put to-
gether. To an innocent this might be
a strong argument for Kansas politi-
clans being tee-totalers- there is
another, an inner side, to the ice wat
err stunt.
About the mashers-there are al
kinds of 'em who want to chat with a
telephone girl but the Hebrews tao
tics are those most familiar. She car
always tell a Hebrew masher.
Say, what's the toll to New York p
is a question fired at her.
She makes it plenty, something like
81 or SIS and if he refuses, she knows
he's a Hebrew just milling around tc
start a conversation. But that's strict
ly against the rules. and anyway
there's no time for anything of thai
nature.
All at One Time.
Here's a bell hop with a card on {
tray telling her that Senator" So
and-So doesn't answer and she mus
tell long distance. Here's a delegate
wanting to call up his wife out in the
short grass and explain that pressins
business will take him to Kansas CITY
before he returns. y
| Here's the boss wanting to know
how much the tolls amounted to, here
are a dozen calls for ice water, heres
a call for the caterer. the clerk anc
dozens of other calls. So where's there
anything soft about a telephone jol
in a big hotel.
True, there's a juicy bit of GOSSIP
once in awhile but with so many Other
pressing duties on ones hands sucf
things must pass in one ear and ou'
the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Bapchild; Finley Neal as Jarvis Pun
scheon; Dorothy Crane as Mrs
Beechenor and Vera Hannah as Lady
Bapchild also have important parts.
Other members of the cast are Rob-
ert Bell, Gertrude Harling, Nally Fox,
Phoebe Bussey. Walter johnson, Mar
cellus Priebe and Violet owens.
The play is full of humorous situa-
tons and clever lines and is said to be
one of the most successful comedies
attempted by the academy. The story
is built around Georges love for Jane.
To break the affair the girl is put in
care of Mrs. Beechenor. And there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

derplay. which will be shown at the
Iris today and tonight.
Both are provided with the best
roles of their career in this feature.
There are scores of intense situations
in the story which deals with a novel
theme and is handled in mastery
manner. One of the big scenes is the
burning of factory. where more than
one thousand persons appear.
Mr.. Bushman and Miss Bayne are
supported by a strong cast 1t prom
ises to be the sensation of the season,
as it is easily the best production in
which these two notable stars have
appeared. and a crowning achievement
for Metro, a company which is setting
a pace for high standards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
At the Orphenm.

Orrin johnson. who is to be seen
at the Orpheum today and tonight in
THE Price of Power" will appear
again the first half of next week in the
thrilling The Three Musketeers." Du-
mas classic.
"Fido's Fate" a new Keystone COM
edy, introduces Charles Murray in his
first appearance on Triangle pro-
grams. Murray will be remembered
by his connection with the team of
Murray and Mack The vaudeville
program for the first half of the week
will be furnished by Fargo Wells, Elk
pressing Music"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
MANEUvERS OF JANE
Washburn Academy Seniors VIII Of
fer a Play March IL.

THE Maneuvers of Jane" a four-act
comedy by Henry Jones will be pre-
scented by the senior class of Wash
burn academy in the college chapel
Saturday. March IL.
Under direction of Miss Helen Crit
fin, dramatic director, members of the
cast have commenced rehearsals for
their production. Miss Elizabeth
F'yffe, who has been prominent in the
affairs of the class that will graduate
next June will appear as Jane. Ray
mond EStep as George Langton will
play opposite her. Gertrude Wheeler
as Connie Gage; Asa Crawford as Lord
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
At the Novelty.

Elsie Norwood and Neal Anderson
will appear in a sketch at the Novelty
theater next week. beginning Monday
and continuing three days. Miss Nor
wood is well known in Topeka. having
spent the major portion of her life
here. She is niece of Mr.. w. 1. Mil
Ter. local lumberman. and received her
education in Topeka schools, having
graduated from the Topeka high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
Is Years Ago
Topeka
From the columns of
THE STATE JOURNAL

The president of one loan company
in Topeka said that in one day this
week he had received a total of $780,
900 to pay off loans that had been
made. The amounts were in sums
of about $4,000 each and under and
above that Kansas farmers are doing
very well. Any failures in Wall street
lately?
Washburn college is a peculiar kind
of co-educational institution where
the young people are educated togeth-
er-separately. The young ladies
have a literary society and a very
good one too. Last evening they gave
a public meeting with eXtemporane-
Gus speeches and very good ones they
were too. A very pretty piano solo by
Miss Stitch and an interesting essay by
Miss Laura Mohler. and Miss Lou Par
ker with a recitation and Miss Crowell
with a piano solo were preliminary to
the debate. Even wild college boys
appreciate music and when rendered
by handsome young lady it is even
more interesting. The debate was,
Resolved, That the participation of
women in all public pursuits is bene-
fetal to society,"" The alternatives
were Miss Cowgirl and Miss MacVicar:
the negatives were Miss Ensign and
Miss Louis.
Morton Albaugh of the Kingman
Leader is in the city.
Dell Valentine came down from
Clay Center the other afternoon to
spend a day with the statesmen.
Powers national Dime Museum at
10 East 9Th street. The heaviest
person alive and other curiosities too
numerous to mention.
Today's Markets. Dairy butter 16
to 3 cents.
Sam Wood says he knows of thirty
prominent Republicans in Topeka
I who viii. not vote for President Har-
rison's reelection or any man holding
/ similar views on financial questions.
What q sensation Sam might make by
naming his voters.
The other morning Immediately aft
er Speaker Elder took his seat he
looked around him with a scowl and
( said, Where is that - prea cher -
AS there are some Is preachers in the
house some doubt was entertained by
I those who heard him as to whom he
meant. 1t transpired, however, that
/ he referred to the chaplain whom he
/ wanted TO do his praying and be -
| quick about it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

the trouble starts not to end until
those intent on driving Cupid off ths
Bapchild estate are satisfied to Les
matters take their natural course
The play is being produced under
the management of VIII Hamilton and
Asa Crawford IT,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

The Iris announces three Topeka
favorite stars in three new. delightful
plays for next week. Each will play
two days. Monday and Tuesday the
bill will be THE Black List starring
Blanch Sweet. Wednesday and Thurs
day, "Out of the Drift" with charm
ing Marguerite Clark in the leading
role, will be the offering. and on Fri
day and Saturday. William Farnum
will appear in Fighting Blood" In
addition to the regular program Mon
day. the third episode of THE Strange
Case of Mary Page" will be presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

less, are that we have listened too
long already to the doctrine illustrated
by the old soldier who says: II am
going on 80 years old, but l could fire
a gun yet if l had to-
What has become of the old fash
toned man who would neither drink,
smoke, chew Dor swear, but waste
fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Sometimes it gets most mighty gol-
Darned hard to fill up a whole col
Umn of this bright and sparkling
prose,
AS anyone who tries well knows.
We comb the daily bugleS through,
For some old gag in raiment new;
We WOO the muse with pipe and Gig
Arctic; for copy madly dig.
The o. f. M. a good old scout
We've played till he is most worn out;
The ladies, bless 'em, we have ex-
Plotted the foibles of their sex.
The movies too, and vaudeville
We've worked impartially until
The editor. with pencil blue.
We fear will do some working too.
The fast set, once a fertile field.
Its crop this time has failed to yield.
We've trained our guns on clubs and
cults
Till thoughts of them bring no results.
No matter how we try, sometimes
The peaches just will look like lines,
And from the old and faithful bean
No hopeful, helpful thought we CLEAN.
MORAL
It's hard to even make a bluff
A moral from this tale to draw
With you, we also feel such stuff
Should ibe prohibited by law.
We are willing to let congress work
out the plans for the national defense,
but our personal feelings. quite value
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
Two German Officers Dead.

Two German OFFICERS Dead.
Amsterdam, Feb. 26.-The Cologne
Gazette, announces the death of
Rear Admiral Zimmerman at Will
helmshaven and of Lieutenant General
Hans Won Prittwitz Und Gaffron, at
Brig.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Starting Monday night East
Lynne" will be presented. 1t will run
the first half of the week with d mat
inee Wednesday afternoon. The last
half of the week, starting Thursday
night. The James Boys in Missouri"
will be presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Mischa Elman, the Russian violin
list. recently was presented with a
complete set of string quartets. The
admiring donor is one of the finest
amateur musicians in the United
States and a wealthy art patron of
New York. The volumes comprise the
complete string quartet literature of
Beethoven, Schubert. Haydn. Mendel-
ssohn. Schumann, Brahms and the
other great masters of music.
Elman has always been looked up
on as a soloist of unapproachable at
tainments. and he unquestiona bly, IS
the violin genius of the present sener-
alton. But few of his admirers real
ize that the young wizard is an en-
semble player of exquisite taste and
remarkable artistry.
To he recognized as an ensemble
performer as well as solo artist is
a remarkable achievement, and in
presenting Elman with the volume Of
quartet music. his great admirer paid
the highest sort of compliment to the
young artist Each volume is specially
bound in Morocco leather and en-
bossed with Elman's name.
This genius of the violin is booked
for an appearance in Topeka March
at the Grand opera house, closing
the Radcliffe series.
a Little Girl in Big City" a new
four act play of New York life, writ
ten by James Kyrle MacCurdy, will
be seen at the Grand March is. The
story is that of a young girl pursued
by adventurers, a man and a woman
The Los Angeles Times Says:
Twin Beds" are made up quite like
what used to be called a Palais ROYAL
farce.
They are none the less very com ?
Portable: full of laughs, and all mussed
up with situations that kept the Ma
son audience roaring last night.
1t is all very piquant, but qualified
with due propriety: so no one mas TO
resort to bushes while laughing
The lines are always bright. often
brilliant. and the cast is excellent.
Mrs Hawkins is played by Juliette
Day. a beautiful young woman with
very charming traits of gesture and
pose: possibly she overworks these a
hit, but they look nice always, and no
one can complain about Miss Days
art: she's like our days now-all sun
shine.
Paul Forecast is the Monti: a capital
bit of acting, with never touch Of
burlesque. and yet boldly big in meth
DDS. He makes it n wonderful satire
on tenors: not gross. but with Just the
proper touch of eNaggeraton.
petent.
II is all stage set with discriminate
ing care, and if it fails to make you
laugh it must be because you are
single.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Francis Y. Bushman and Beverly
Bayne, the two great stars of the silent
drama, have the stellar roles in Man
and His Soul" the latest Metro won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

program by the Svea male chorus
of Topeka, assisted by Miss Ona May
Miller, harpist, contralto, reader, I'M
der the auspices of the Norden Benefit
association, will be given at the
knights and Ladies of Security hall,
Monday evening. March 6, 1916. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Miss Norwood will be seen in what
Else Could He Think a comedy by
Fred j. Beaman. She will be assisted
by Neal S Anderson. who was come
dian with the North Brothers Stock
company at the old Majestic theater
other acts on the bill will be George
Brown, the worlds champion walker
who will be assisted by Billy w. Wes-
ton, champion boy scout walker of the
world.
Mile: Olga is a discovery Music is
her whim and she plays the violin
and dances to her own music.
Devine and Williams have the sing
ing and dancing and joke telling all
their own way the first half week.
The picture offering will be a five
act Essanay feature. The Alster
Case by Rufus Gilmore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
AT THE THEATERS
Mischa EIman, Russian Violin
ist, to Close Radcliffe Series.
News and Gossip of StagedOm
and the Movie World.

At the Grand.
March 6-Mischa Elman, Radcliffe
series.
March 1S-A Little Girl in a Big
City.
March 23-Al G. Fields Minstrels.
March 25-Ruth st. Denis.
March 27-2s-Garden of Allah.
March 31-Twin Beds.
At the Novelty.
Vaudeville and Feature Pictures
ut the Orpheum.
Triangle Productions and Naude-
lille.
vt the Iris.
Photo Drama.
At the Hip.
Oliver Players.
At the Movies.
Crvstal-Motion Pictures.
Gem-Motion Pictures.
Cozy-Motion Pictures.
Aurora-M Motion Pictures.
Best-Motion Pictures.
Motion Pictures.
Motion Pictures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

The Hutchinson man who wants the
moving picture theatre music regu-
lated by the state is off the track. The
music should be let alone, it's the 9TH
er stuff that should be killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Everyone should literally applaud
the home talent show. but we do not
believe they should be encouraged to
the extent of taking it on the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

By "Zeke"
By "Zeke"

Chaplin may cause more laughter in
the movie theaters than anything else,
but when it comes to tears you will
have to concede the kitchen cabinet
to the various ramifications of the
theme first made famous by the cpl
sode of Uriah the Hittite.
1t is getting harder each day to tell,
when you start reading your morning
'bugle," whether you are going to
wind up with a breakfast food,
brand of chewing tobacco, a book of
popular old melodies, or how some
body in Delaware got rid of a hard
cough.
The next to the most uninteresting
thing is the result of a straw vote.
We were going to place that first
but shifted after reading the post
norton statement of a defeated can
didate for national committeeman.
The excitement that prevails in
Hiawatha over the fifth successive
seasonal return of a robin has for
tunately been confined to that city.
If they are seeking a remedy we
would suggest young and active cat.
At least three speeches by that
many prominent people have been
made this week and written up in nice
shape by newspapers, covering the
proper method of raising and hand
ling children. They have all en-
phasiZed the gentle but firm atti-
tude.
This department has dire need of
q set of rules for this famous method
of control but to date has failed to
find any We are open to correspon-
dence on the subject. Replies not
limited to maiden aunts and bach
elors.
From the harmonious spirit mani
tested in both the recent Republican
and Democrat gatherings held in To-
peka, the Bull Moose muster" should
be worth the price of admission.
That is, if Henry Allen can get
somebody to go with him.
| Some men waste time playing pool
| and others waste it remembering
street car schedules
| In order to keep from showing
| favoritism it might be said that wom-
en- answer puZzle-picture contests.
Everybody has learned that nobody
| laughs at the joke on the nearby
small town, but the vaudeville artists.
| 1t always dtscoura ges us when we
go to a vaudeville show and the men
| in the orchestra start yawning during
| the first act.
Assayers have probably shattered
as many golden dreams of wealth as
any other class of Investigators.
The what's-in-a-name theory got an
awful Jolt when a pair of boys named
Reggie and Eddie won the six day BIZ
cycle race.
We should say that riding a bicycle
for six days straight would be about
the hardest way in the world to kill
that much time.
The contest to see who can plant
the earliest garden seems to be on.
The Hutchinson man who wants the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
At the Hip.

The Woman He Married" will be
presented for the last time tonight at
The Hip theater by the Oliver players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

The contest to see who can plan
the earliest garden seems to be on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

We should say that riding a bicycl
for six days straight would be abou
the hardest way in the world to Kill
that much time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

We are willing to let congress work
out the plans for the national defense
but our personal feelings, quite value
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Sometimes it gets most mighty gol-
Darned hard to fill up a whole col
Umn of this bright and sparkling