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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

1t 1OHl lllc AtCIlloOn 1lOO0I
The only good losers are those who
can afford to lose.
Understate your ability; friends will
do your lying for you.
No news isn't good news to the man
who is expecting a love letter.
If you want a quiet, restful vaca-
ton, that is another sign of advancing
years.
prompt man must figure on vast
ing lot of time meeting those who
aren't.
There may be some question as to
whether history repeats, or not, but
lot of people do.
The fact that Pocahontas was an In
dian weakens those historical yarns
about her beauty.
The court recognizes the difference
between accusation and guilt, but
sometimes the public doesn't.
About the first step in a freshman's
pursuit of Higher Education is that
his clothes aren't suitable for the oc-
casion.
Too many church people prefer cake
when they pray for bread, and don't
expect to receive either, as a result of
their prayers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
SIDE TAIL TX S
Those Forty 'Leven Vases.

If you were going on walking trip
and some one asked you to carry a
lot of things in your pack that you
didn't really need at all wouldn't you
think they were asking absurd and
unreasonable things?
And yet-well. 1 was calling in the
home of recent bride the other day.
On the piano were eight vases and
two bowls.
On the upper shelf of the double
mantel were eight pieces of bric-a-
brac Gncluding sixe more vases. On
the lower shelf there were nine be-
side the clock Gncluding five more
vases).
On the wall there were forty-one
pictures Think of busting that room
every day, and 1 know she does just
that, because she is a most con-
scientious housekeeper
Some day 1 expect to hear that she
has gone to a sanitarium.
They will assign all kinds of reasons
for her nervous exhaustion Chats the
latest, yau know. nervous prostration
is going out), but L shall know the
real reason-too much bric-a-brac.
How many of us carry too much
impedimenta on our trip thru life,
I have illustrated with material
possessions, but 1 don't mean those
alone
There are all kinds of bric-a-brac
besides those which we clutter up our
There's the kind we have in our
hearts and minds
There are bric-a-brac prejudices
that we have picked up here and there
and set up in our minds and that have
to be busted and aired and shown off
about once in so often.
We would be happier and freer and
predetermined without them But
we don't realize it any more than
the bride realizes that she would be
happier and freer without half of that
cut glass and china and silver bric-a-
brac.
Then there are bric-a-brac conven-
tions. the kind that don't have any
particular reason or justice but are
cherished just because they always
have been considered valuable, and
we don't have the strength of mind to
throw them away.
And then there's bric-a-brac fears
those foolish, futile fears that we
gather along the way and enshrine in
our hearts and kowtow to.
Everything, every idea and posses
sion that adds nothing to the sum of
our happiness and efficiency and
| cutters and impedes our lives is fool
ish bric-a-brac.
| It will soon be fall housekeeping
| time. Why not clear out and simplify
our lives as well as our homes p
! Copyright by George Matthew
Adams-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

The genius of a professor at the
University of Chicago who has evolved
the theory that music should be tasted
as well as heard, and who has even
gone to the extent of differentiating
the tastes that music should have and
as it comes from this or that musical
instrument-he evidently forgot to ex-
plain that perhaps one gets this taste
Of music by applying his lips to the
musical instrument that he is pro-
ficient at playing, or thinks he is. Of
course, this wouldn't explain the situa-
ton with fiddler, but possibly a fid-
dler tastes his music through his fin
gers. Even an explanation of this
sort might not be unexpected from
some professor that is one of the in
mates of the University of Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
JAYMAwKER JOTS

AS the Americas Greeting explains
it: "Perquisites' and graft are
synonymous the only difference being
that when you get the fee you call it
perquisites and when the other fellow
gets it you call it graft.
Ouch, Doc, please give us a sleep
ing powder. The Minneapolis Mes
senger sagely says: Some folk try to
act like they are freighted with re-
sponsibility just because they have a
caboose for head and can't express
themselves.
Observed by the Havensville Re
off continually is a bad habit.
An heiress and a hairless title some
times go together. A crazy
person thinks those around him
must be dippy. In womens
shoes it is a case of the survival of the
smallest. There are some
so ignorant that it is no embarrass-
ment to them. The books
that are found in running brooks
must be "racy' stories.
Observations by Obey w. Weaver,
in his Sedgwick Paragraph: When
a summer girl looks sticky it is a
sign that the weather can't get much
hotter. 1t may be that time
will set everything right. but the trou-
BILE is that our time here is so limited.
We notice from a press dis
patch that Madame Pa-squah sang
before 1900 people at the California
exposition. What's in a name?
Your lawn is beautifully moved; it
looks like velvet said a neighbor to
Josiah Jenkins. 1T ought to- re-
piled Josiah; 'I never saw velvet
that cost as much yard as that lawn
does
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DINNER STORIES

Jones opinion of himself as a golfer
was very much greater than his skill
warranted.
Recently he was invited to play on a
certain famous Scottish ground as
visitor. Armed to the teeth with
clubs of all sorts and sizes, he set off
and, sollowed by a caddy, proceeded
to play.
He buried his ball in every bunker
gully and bit of grass on the land
scape and muttered naughty. After
half an hour of it he turned to his
silent caddy.
Really" he murmured ingratiat-
ingly, this is the most difficult course
I have ever played on"
Hoo did we ken?" replied the lad
in quiet scorn. Eye havna played on
it yeti"
would you like to see your wife
go into politics and be a boss ?" Ger
tainly," replied Mr.. Meekton, I'D real
ly enjoy having Henrietta step in and
show some of these practical polite
ians what a real boss is like
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
A Simple Summer Drink.

n
Drinks for hot weather should not
contain much sugar.
Take two teaspoonfuls ginger. two
tablespoonful vinegar, juice Of one
lemon. Add water (about two
quarts)
A little soda put into the glass first
will make it foam, but really doesn't
improve the drink. Sugar to taste.
Also, if a small handful of oatmeal
is put into the jug of water which the
men take to the field, they will find
the water more palatable.
Frozen Desserts.
Three Ice"-Three ripe bananas,
three oranges, three lemons. three
egg whites. Put bananas through po-
tato ricer. Extract orange and lemon
juices. Meantime, boil together sugar
and water for ten minutes and, when
cool, add fruit juices and bananas.
Pour into freezer, add egg whites
beaten stiff and freeze in three parts
ice to one part salt. This makes about
two and one-half quarts.
Frozen Fruit Pudding-To one and
one-half cups orange juice add one
fourth cup lemon juice and sugar to
taste. Turn mixture into mold. To
one pint whipped cream add one-half
cup powdered sugar, one-half table
spoon vanilla and one cup chopped
walnut meats. Pour over first mix
ture to overflow mold, cover with but
tered paper, fit cover, pack in salt and
ice and let stand three hours.
Spaghetti Salad-Three cups cook
ed spaghetti, three-fourths cup chop
ped uncooked celery. one-third cup
chopped boiled ham, one teaspoon
minced parsley, one hard-boiled egg,
crisp lettuce leaves, boiled mayonnaise
dressing. Cut spaghetti into inch
lengths, add celery, ham and chopped
hard-boiled egg; mix well. Moisten
thoroly with mayonnaise- Arrange
the lettuce leaves in a salad dish, pile
the salad into a mound. Cover with
more mayonnaise and sprinkle parsley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DEFENSE LESSONS.

1t is to be hoped, writes a con-
tributor to 1.-The Progress of the
World" department of the American
Review of Reviews for August. that
we may learn the practical lessons of
a military kind that our movement
of the regular army in March, and
our experience with the National
Guard system in June and July. can
afford us if we know how to acquire
benefit from experience. The domi-
mating lesson to be learned is the
futility of our expensive and ineffi-
cient scheme of national defense. The
officers of our regular army are well
trained and afford us an excellent
nucleus. But our method OF enlisting
men in the regular army is obsolete
and worthless. AS for the National
Guard, 1t is made up of much splendid
material, wholly ill sorted, fit enough
to serve the country IN a small way
for purposes of home defense, but
wholly unfit to be transferred on
momentary notice to the national serv-
ice and shipped several thousand
miles to meet foreign emergency
We have now perhaps ninety thousand
National Guardsmen in Texas and
elsewhere along the frontier. Most of
these are from New York and the
east. Many of them are married men
with families dependent upon their
weekly wages or monthly salaries. 1t
is grotesquely uniting that they
should be kept in camps for months
n
there are thousands of acclimated
southwesterners who can ride and
shoot, and who should be made part
of a temporary force that would take
excellent care of frontier conditions.
For many of the guardsmen-par-
ticularly the young. unmarried men
this precipitate and seemingly need
less call to the Mexican border will
have proved an interesting and per-
haps valuable experience. But the
whole episode is haphazard in the ex-
IRENE, and illustrates the simple fact
that our rulers and lawmakers at
Washington have not found out what
is requisite for national defense It
will be necessary to build us, as Sec
rotary Garrison SO clearly foresaw, a
federal army reserve expressly de-
signed to meet exigencies. We have
plenty of partially trained young men
willing to go into the regular army
for period of one year, if they may
then be retired to a reserve. The
present system is undemocratic
chaotic, obsolete. A system of uni
versal training is the only one that
is Just and reasonable. Very brief
and intensive service in the army; nc
re-enlistments permitted the rapid
building up of a great reserve force
These are some of the cardinal prin-
ciples of the only plan that deserves
to be considered. Our failure to have
a good system is partly a reflection
upon our national character. We
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
AN INVITATION.


Come down to see our country, was the
words the fairies sent,
And SO / found the grass was green round
many a violet tent
The country of the fairies
Where / still delight to go
In the quiet halls of twilight
When the bugles start to blow.
Come down to see our country, and you'll
find the way along;
And don't you know, l found it by the
light of love and song.
1 found it by believing,
And 1 still shall find it, dear,
Behind the hills of heartache
And across the moaning mere
Come down to see our country, and took
the hand of child,
And down we went with merry lips and
hearts that beat so wild.
Down to the fairy country,
In the pleasant glades of CLEAN,
Where lilies soothe the eyelids
Till they velvet down to dream.
-Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Advice to keep away from bad COM
pany usually falls on unwilling ears.
X X X
The individuals who die for love
have never been so numerous as to be
noticed much.
X x X
And there are a few men who think
they are providing well for their wives
If they get them places to work.
X X X
Perhaps there is not more happiness
in life for more people because 1t is
so dependent upon goodness.
X - X
And it may be that few of the
MANY folk who have little faith IN hu-
man nature are pretty well acquainted
with themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
The Family Picnic.

There are other ways of finding
trouble than by being president of
Mexico, believes your Uncle Dudley,
who knows One of the best ways is
got one up this year. we were the
angora of the occasion.
It was an experiment in the first
place. We wanted to see just how
many of the relatives would speak to
one another We found out.
Never again.
The next time we want to spend a
pleasant day we are going to go and
hunt up some nice quiet boiler shop
where the hammering is not so loud
as it is at a family picnic If We
can't find a boiler shop, we are going
to hunt up a nice choice Central
American revolution and spend the
day on the battle field On a battle
field they don't shoot anything at
you but bullets.
Relatives who don't like one an
other are always nasty nice.
That's the way our picnic started
out. They were all so nice to one an
other that they didn't act natural and
a cloud about the size of woman's
tongue appeared on the horizon. On
the way out it was the calm before
the storm and everybody made such
a point of being polite that they made
it absolutely offensive Every good
word that was said contained 10 per
sarcasm and by the time we got to the
picnic grounds the cloud that had ap-
peared on the horizon in the early
morning enveloped the entire heaven
and there wasn't a bright spot any
where in the picnic party.
Every branch of our more or less
illustrious family brought its own
lunch basket and ate out of it, draw
ing itself away from all of the other
branches of the family. Thus when
we sat down to dinner our family
was scattered until it covered Is acres
of ground.
The relatives who were remembered
| in grandfather's will went out to the
picnic grounds in their eighty-candle
power, seven passenger Jabberwock-
oshkosh and the poor relations went
out on the street car Can anyone in
MS widest dreams imagine these two
factions getting together and having
a good time at a picnic?
The situation became so strained at
o'clock in the afternoon that two
old maid aunts who had lived together
in harmony for forty years had a quar-
rel between themselves and decided to
build a two-foot partition in their
| house.
| Personally. a pleasant time was had.
We pulled nine kids out of the river,
sat down in a custard pie, accumu-
lated a large population of chiggers
and walked four miles for water which
the relatives didn't dare drink for fear
| it was poisoned. gs
By o'clock in the afternoon every
member of the party hated us with an
undying antagonism for having organ
| lied the picnic.
Never again. We are going to bury
these clothes and forget the incident
| if we can.
Relatives will happen in the best OF
families but if you meet them in a
social way, it is your own fault
At the Country Club.
Swat the ball and walk a mile
Swat the ball; it's worth your while.
Walk a mile and swat the ball.
walk some more; nor is that all.
Swat the ball and walk-what then?
Swat the ball and walk again.
After that you walk and-what?
Once again the ball you swat.
| Keep on swatting as before.
| When as far as this you've got
Swat and walk. then walk and swat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17


Jack threw the book he had been
with bang.
What's the fun of reading all about
great men and great women and great
everything when a person has to do
lust common, ordinary things all the
whole timer" And then, because Jack
was in the habit of being careful, he
nicked up the book he had thrown
down, Strengthened the cover neatly
and laid the book on the table.
81 do wish 1 could do something
great lust once, That's what 1 wish
Jack wandered idly out onto the
front porch and then, tempted by the
pleasant shade of the big oak tree,
he strolled out and sat down under
its broad branches
ct do wish 1 could do something
great l do / mean to sit right here
till 1 think of something that will be
wonderful enough to startle everybody
in the whole world So there" And
with that declaration, Jack leaned
back against the tree trunk and began
to think
The warm sun spattered down
through the branches; the bees
humrned in a nearby garden and
gentle breeze peeped round the edge
of the tree trunk
Il wish 1 could do something big
that's what I wish," said a very en-
phatic voice close by Jacks ear.
why wish that?" asked the kind
voice of the big oak tree. Don't you
like doing the work mat is yours
to do2"
"Oh, well enough" replied the little
voice, fretfully. But 1 want to do
something big, What do I do that
amounts to anything? Tell me that"
The oak tree laughed Seems to
me that the work done by little breezes
is pretty important. Who dries the
dew and plays with the sunbeans every
morning."
81 do" answered the little breeze,
but that's nothingi"
who opens the rosebuds and fans
the posies when the hot summer sun
burns their beauty?"
'I do that" answered the little
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Ali sorts of plans are being talked
about by those who have elected them
selves to be interested in the Kansas,
and local, gas problem ror reorgauiza-
tons of the company. perhaps, or one
thing or another on kindred lines, and
If they have their way they will prob
ably continue to do nothing more than
talk on the subject until the present
time has waned so far that it will be
too late for any solution of the gas
problem to increase the gas supply
for the coming winter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY x. MOULTON.

C0ntentment.
l do not care for riches.
/ am not built that way;
All that l banker after
Are three square meals day.
l do not care for mansions,
/ long for no steam yacht,
I'm pretty middling happy
With comforts l have got.
1 do not care for riches,
Or great power-heayen forbid!
The reason is that 1t would make
No difference if l did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Yes, 1 do all that" said the li,,,a
breeze; but 1 want to do sometime
bigi"
No job is bigger than the wor,s
that needs to be DONE" replied ihs
gest thing anybody can do Is to do ven
the thing that is their duty. Remem-
Der that, little breeze. remember that >,
And the little breeze, much com
forted, slipped away to open a iIv
bud--and Jack walked up.
He rubbed his eyes. looked AZ ~
kindly big oak tree, at the little breeze
who was even then working on ths
llly bud. and then said to himself
softly. Maybe they're right, And
maybe I'm wrong. I'll do what can
well, and not try to plan something
wonderful. "-(Copyrigh = Clara In
gram Judson.) AL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Nothing should be so encouraging
as the declarations of the government
weather observer, the local one in
these parts, that there is mo relief in
sight" or. perhaps, mo hope of re-
lief or anything along the same line.
Everybody can surely recall the sim
liar predictions that have been cur
rent of late and which invariably pre-
coded such breaks in the heat wave
as have been vouchsafed US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Even with wheat selling at $1.45 or
$3.50 a bushel, or Whereabouts, the
Kansas farmers, or some of them are
reported to be holding onto the sup
plies they have in their bins, or in
their fields. And a few of them will
probably keep on holding so long
that they will be glad to sell it for
perhaps $1.25 a bushel. But this,
of course, is the wheat farmers bust
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

is many a farmer who would find
some way of moving his acresS IL he
could put them in a place where he
could hear the raucous tones of the
bullfrog and go to sleep, and to the
sleep of contentment and bliss, under
their soothing influence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

squander public money enough to
train every boy in the United States
to be a good citizen :-nd one capable
of defending his country. But block
heads. local politicians and selfish lob
byists have great sway in this country
of party machines and self-seeking
tendencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

More evidence that everybody wants
Something he hasn't and that new folk
are pleased with what they have An
Iowa man is suing his neighbors for
damages because the 1atter's bulifrogs
keep him awake at night. And out
here in some parts of Kansas there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Reports the Olathe Register: Lin
Berger, father of our townsman Ham
Berger, and who is visiting his illus
trous son, Ham, says that he is get
ting pretty used to wearing those
rubber collars in the day time, but
he will be ding-busted if he can get
a good nights sleep with one of them
an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

The housewives find it hard to get
a square meal without garden vege-
tables, reports the Havensvi1le Re
view, and it adds: Potatoes seem
pretty plentiful but one would like to
relieve the monotony
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Everybody who has had the privi-
lege of experiencing the present sum-
mer in these parts, and who may sur
vive it, will, at least, have a memory
of what a real summer is like
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
ULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
CAuizat1on for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Journal
building over wires for this sole purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

1t seems out of place to the Mar
quette Tribune to hear an educated
person playing a mouth organ, or ar
athlete playing a piccolo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

The Peabody Gazette-Herald de-
eiares that some people are not hap
py unless they are weeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

The worlds largest artificial har-
Dor. 766 acres in area and % feet
deep. is planned for Rotterdam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
BED 7 HME TALES
IWVTHQ V Ii SVM
BY CLARA INGRAM .TUDSON

Y Ii SEM
breeze, but that's nothing-anybody
could do that!''
And who sails the children's boats
and scatters the seeds when the seed
time comes 2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

1t occurs to the Ottawa Herald that
IL the Rev. I. Hicks prophecy of rain
for Kansas this week comes true he
can have Kansas vote for president.