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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
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SKY NJ ERRORS.

Don't you like to watch the
earth?" asked one little cloud of an
other, as they sailed through the big
blue sky.
Don't II" demanded the other
Indeed 1 dc, There are such won
derful things to be seen on the earth
rivers ard mountains, valleys and
piains!"
Together they watched the passing
scenes and not a word was said for
some time. Then the first little cloud
spoke up: And don't you feel sorry
for the poor earth people?"
The poor earth peopie?" asked the
second little cloud, wonderingly. for
he didn't quite see what his mate was
talking about. Sorry for the earth
people2 why?"
Because they can't see all the love
" things we can" replied the first
little cloud, and he laughed at his
friends puzzled air. Think how little
they can know about the EARTH
That's So" agreed the second lit
tie cloud; but ] had never thought
about it. They can't see the big rivers
and the little rivers that go chasing
the big ones out into the sea-
Nor can they see the little hills
that snuggle up close to the big
mother mountains. Nor the plains
that stretch out SO wide and comfort
able. Nor the forests that grow. nor
nor anything that we do.'
But they can walk on the EARTH, -
said the second little cloud; they
can walk by the rivers and up the
mountains and through the forests.
That must be something"
"Of course that's something"
laughed the first little cloud, good
naturally; but it isn't as much as we
can do. Think, We can look at
everything and see all the big things
in the world"'
For a while both clouds were
thoughtful. Finally the first cloud re-
marked: Il wish we could show the
earth people all the wonderful things
we see-aIl the mountains and val
leys and everything"
Maybe we can" said the other.
Let's call all the clouds together and
see what can be done" So all the
clouds in the sky were called to d
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Globe Sights
BY THE ArCH1soN GLOBE.

A dollar outweighs ethics almost
anywhere.
You can't be white man and run
q business.
Sometimes the sympathizer is only
in search of particulars.
A political boss is a leader if he
belongs to your faction.
Most of the Friends of the People
expect to get paid for it.
One trouble with the loafer is that
he is seldom willing to loaf alone.
Until he gets caught, man rather
enjoys being chased by a woman.
If a drunk can't organize a quar-
tette. he usually can be induced to
sing a solo.
A good many HAY" crops are a fail
ure because worry keeps out the sun
shine CT life.
Men are resourceful, and many of
them will find temptation without be-
ing led into it.
Awaiting a letter with money in it
is another keen little strain on ones
supply of patience.
Be not alarmed. The tendency of
the women to wear less clothing can
not become much more radical.
When a woman says: 81 do not
talk about people as a rule but
look out: you are going to hear some
thing racy.
Procrastination frequently adds a
good deal to the joy of living, regard
less of what the sawsmith may have
said about the matter.
One needn't be an iconoclast to say
that the old home town is frequently
a disappointment when one comes
back to it after a prolonged absence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

[From the Chicago News.l
The egotist naturally leads a / nelly
life.
He isn't always happiest who wears
TIE happiesC look
Cooks as well as dressma kers show
their taste in dressing
Clothes do not make the man. yet
man may owe a good deal to his
tailor.
It's hard to be grateful to men who
fight your battles ter you and get
licked.
In the race for wealth a man always
finds himself out of breath at the fin
ish.
Even a chattering woman will give
money the right OF way when it wants
to talk.
If fortunes wheel doesn't turn to
suit you, put your shoulder to it and
give it another whirl.
Contrary to the general rule, the
street car company finds its hangers
on a source of revenue
There is one thing to be said of the
American girl who marries a foreign
nobleman; she isn't mercsnary.
Nothing pleases some people more
than to hear disagreeable things about
other people whom they don't like.
If a woman is going away on n
visit she never finishes packing her
trunk until after the expressman calls
for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
It's when a fellow makes hit with
a girl that she is most apt to miss him.
A mans age inspires generation, but
a woman's has to be handled with tact.
With the poverty-stricken aristocrat,
even his coat sleeves may shine in So
ciety.
Virtue is its own reward. Many a
man who does his level best stays on
the level.
Faith will move mountains, but in
building a railroad 1t seems necessary
to tunnel them.
Many a fellow finds it such hard
work to borrow a dollar that he feels
he has earned it.
Some women seem to feel that they
have a great deal in common if it's
only because they hate the same peo-
pie.
Friendship is wonderful thing.
Many a man keeps his friends in spite
of the fact that he can't afford to keep
a wife.
Milly-''A woman has more logic
and reasoning power than man
Billy-''Why do you think so?" Milly
-"Oh, just because"
"An the world loves a lover" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, especially the
jeweler, the florist and the confec-
TONER" added the Simple Mug.
'Give me an illustration of the
theory that every cloud has silver
lining" said the teacher When q
Teller is too sick to go to school," re-
! piled the boy at the foot of the class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

crawling out of the ground like ants,
led by Ted Rogers.
Il knew every rock grade and earth
layer in that cross cut said Ted
weakly, when they laid him down on
a cot in the big provision tent I'VE
couldn't get past the rock, but we
burrowed out the other way. Awfully
sorry to have put you to so much trou-
BILE, Hanson, old man.
Hanson heard him and stared. Then
he gripped the white hand on the
blanket
Sorry. Why, you old idiot, you can
have the whole blame mine if you
like it! Don't you know when you're a
hero?''
Back at Cedar Grove, Eleanor
stared at a telegram that night:
Loving Lou caved in some hurt got
half interest in mine come as soon as
possible
isn't it just like Ted" said Eleanor
when she understood, smilingly, TO
make a failure of everything and turn
out a hero ?"-(Copyright, 1916, by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Jayhawker Jots

Some of us try so hard to be opti-
mistic, says the Lawrence Journal
World, that the nervous strain makes
US irritabl
At any rate, observes the Ottawa
Herald, the stay-at-home American
isn't involving his country in any in
ternational troubles.
This is the time of year, points out
Joe Heylmun in the Fort Scott Trib
une, when a man one moment slips
on his overcoat and the next moment
he slips on the ice.
Mrs. Wood B. Wise read the other
day, tells the Salina Journal, of
woman breaking up a poker game by
dear Wood that she would learn to
play because she liked cats.
Eleven Lebo women. reports the
Lebo Star, informally gathered at a
certain home to spend an afternoon
last week, each one declaring that she
know not of the others coming. Did
such a thing ever happen before, or
will it ever happen again?
According to the Wellington Jour
nal, its town and county. Sumner,
hold all of the Kansas championships
Hurry and furry are deadly foes of
thoroughness, explains the Herington
Sun. Thoroughness is one of the first
requisites of success not based upon
pure chance.
Sage advice from the Arkansas City
Traveller: If you listen to the fellow
who has an axe to grind, nine times
out of ten you will get into trouble.
An American in Mexico is safe, in
sists the Leavenworth Times Just
as safe as a man smoking a cheap CT
gar in a powder room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

spoon baking powder. one egg. Fla
vor with vanilla. Cream sugar and
butter. Add egg well beaten, flour
and baking powder and fiavoring.
Bake in square tin and put a Mocha
frosting on top.
Cream Sauce for Rice-Two cups
milk, two scant tablespoons corn
starch moistened with milk, pinch
salt, one beaten egg. sugar to taste,
teaspoon vanilla. Bring milk to boil.
add corn starch and sugar, salt: boil
few minutes; add beaten egg and va
nilla after removing from fire.
Cabbage Salnd-One stalk celery.
one-half head cabbage, two table,
spoons sugar. Chop cabbage and cell
cry very fine. then add sugar and
enough salad dressing diluted with a
little vinegar to cover. Cover with
a weight for about two hours.
Drop Dumplings-One cup flour,
two teaspoons baking powder one
half teaspoon salt, milk to make a soft
dough. Drop into boiling stew and
keep covered about twenty minutes
Serve with meat.
Date Pudding-One cup granulated
sugar, two whole eggs, two table
spoons flour. one teaspoon baking
powder. one cup English walnuts, one
cup chopped dates; bake in slow oven
forty minutes Serve with whipped
cream. Better if baked day before.
Things Worth Rowing.
Cheese Wafers-Spread waters with
a little butter, sprinkle with grated
cheese mixed with paprika. Brown In
oven.
For Doors That Bind during the
cold and wet weather-Dust affected
parts with French chalk or boot pow
der got at any shoe store, and notice
how much easier your doors open and
close
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
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MEMBER:

General Leonard Wood says an
enemy's force of 10000 men could be
landed on our helpless" coast and
cause incalculable damage before the
nation could act. But where, pray
tell. would our navy be while this force
was being landed? Certainly the
United States navy would have to be
defeated most decisively before any
such force could be landed anywhere
along our coast lines. And this makes
II patent that an adequate navy is this
nations major and first line of de-
Tense
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
TIE LEOPARD-LAND.

LEORAhD-LAND.
There's a leopard-land, with its yellow
spots.
Agleam with the sacred gold.
1t lures me on through the barren wastes
In the grip of the mad ming cold,
The wolf-cry voices its cruel heart
A heart that hungers fer gore.
The north wind croons through the
CHASTITY bones
That fleck her desolate shore.
Like a leopard, she turks in the shadows,
Watching a chance to spring;
You feel the greed of her vampire miles,
In siren-songs they sing.
Ever she stalks DER the naked hills,
And beckons the gold-mad hosts,
While she gloats DER the CHASTITY wreck
age,
They leave on her lonely coast.
Freighted full is the treasure-chest,
She guards with her ruthless hand
But only the strong may rend Tue vaults,
And ravish her ancient land,
For them, there is sunshine and roses,
On hills where the south wind blows,
But the voiceless bones of the weakling,
Must people her greedy SHOWS.
Chart Pitt, in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
MAKE INVESTIGATION CouNr.

When there is a calamity in the
United States. a great riot, civil war.
or an Eastland disaster everybody be-
gins to investigate, says the New Re
public. In Youngstown, Ohio, we
read of three Investigations. The in
vestigators overlap, conflict, step on
each other: there is for a week or
two the appearance of much activity,
then the tragedy is forgotten and the
net result is generally nil. From the
way we go about these things one
would think that labor trouble was not
a normal accompaniment of industry
Yet no body Of well-trained men exists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Household Hints
Things Worth knowing.

To bleach white goods which have
become yellow with age, wash in the
usual manner. then plunge them into
thin boiling hot starch. Allow them
to remain in the starch until cold,
wiring them out and hang to dry in
the bright sunlight. The result will
be worth the effort.
Every mother who has a bottle
fed baby knows how quick the holes
in the rubber nipples get too large.
The great trouble is to regulate the
flow of milk properly. AS a rule the
child gets it too fast. This causes in
digestion and collie. Try inserting the
blunt end of a pencil into the rubber
nipple. Heat a darning needle red
hot and scar the hole over a few
times. If care is taken, can be done
Just right. If you happen to close the
holes altogether, pierce another with
q small needle. You can also use a
certain brand of dried beef jars for
the bottles with these large nipples.
They are just right and are the ten
cent size-hold about four ounces and
are not so heavy for small baby to
hold.
Rubbers for High or Low Heeled
Shoes-Buy pair of ten-cent rub
Der heels. place them in the heels of
rubbers when wearing low-heeled
shoes. and remove them when wear
ing high heels.
The Table.
CIara's CaiSc-One cup sugar. l u
cups flour, eleven tablespoons sweet
milk, one tablespoon butter, one tea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Kansas Comment

MORE WOMEN FOR THE WEST.
There is sure to be one change, at
least, in the nature OF our immigra
ton after the war. Heretofore, from
the very beginning Of American colo
niZatiOn, men have predOminated. This
has given distinctive numerical su-
penority to the male sex. 1t is not so
marked now as it used to be, but
there are still according to the 1910
census, 106 males to 100 females in
the country as whole. New Eng
land is the section having more wom-
en- than men, the excess being about
one per cent. In the West, the pro-
portion of males is considerably high
er than the average, because of the
great numbers of unmarried male pio-
neers. During the next few years we
may expect to see distinctive change.
The men will not come in such num-
berS- Millions of young men of the
pioneering sort will nave been killed
The able-bodied males will be needed
at home, and probably kept at home
by their governments. If We put up
the bars against the cripples, the
eligibles will be chiefly women. And
because there will be far more unar-
tached women in Europe than ever
before, it need not surprise us if there
is a genuine wave of female migra-
ton to America from the bellieerent
nations. There can be no objection to
such immigration, as long rs the wom-
en- measure up to our standards of
health, morals and general desirable
ity. 1t need not be assumed that the
newcomers VIII be wholly of the ig-
norant class. There will be many
women and girls of good birth and
education undertaking the great adj
venture because the paucity Of men 81
home will make marriage for all inn
possible, and because the women's
labor market in Europe will be over
crowded and women's economic value
eapened.-Winfield Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Journal Entries

Nor are all the fat-friers in the
business of making lard.
I. = +
Many things you can't understand
might be more annoying if you did.
- Z. +
The best solution of the servant
problem is to get along without any.
+ ! +
Most of the compliments that are
passed around SO freely are not de-
served.
Many love matches, like the sui
phur kind. are easily ignited and burn
out quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

incidentally, the gas shortage In
some of the manufacturing towns of
Ohio is far more disturbing than it is
in these parts. 1t has thrown thou
sands of people out of work there, be
caiise many mills and factories depend
on gas for fuel purposes; where here
it merely results in iukewarm meals
and chilly houses, and only the latter
where folk are so foolish as to rely
on the tickle thing for heating their
homo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Kaiser Wilhelm also seems to be
chip of the young crown prince. A
few days ago and he was reported to
be so seriously i'll at Berlin that his
sister, the queen of Greece, had been
called to his bedside. In other words,
death was lowering near him. Presto
change! He and King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria are exchanging hugs and
kisses at Nish and reviewing large
bodies of troops
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

If President Wilson is as clever a
politician as some give him the reputa-
ton of being, he'll bring his bride with
him on the campaign trip that Will
take him through Kansas next sum-
mer. 1t is safe to assert that most OF
them are 'just crazy" to get peep
at her. to see her in the flesh and how
she wears her clothes. And the wom-
en- of Kansas now have full suffrage,
xxott IrnnU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

have called you all here to see il We
cannot plan some way to show the
earth people how beautiful their
home is-we are afraid they do not
quite know"
That's an easy task il we are will
ing to work" spoke up an energetic
white cloud. Instead of Just aim
lessly drifting here and there in the
sky. let's make ourselves into pictures
of mountains and valleys and plains
Ihen an the earth people who care to
look. can see the beauties of their
earth"
The clouds thought that a wonder
full idea, and they set right to work
making pictures. And to this dav
those VINO are wise enough to look
may see in the sky mirrors the won
ders of the earth.-(Copyright-
Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

In the event that the United States
senate is in quest Of a facer to ask
President Wilson, it might inquire as
TO why he sent the Funston expedition
10 Vera Cruz. This is one of the adj
ministration's secrets on which not the
slightest light has yet been shed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

If words were as costly as bullets,
the diplomatic battles that have been
incident to the European war would
have brought it to an end long ago
through the utter financial exhaustion
of those involved. And not few OF
the neutrals would be bankrupt, too
and from the same cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Evidently, Uncle Sam would have to
go some to develop navy of the size
of Great Britain's. as some OF the
naval enthusiasts are urging. She mas
added no less than fourteen super
dreadnaughts to her fleet since the
war began
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Notice how almost every person
claiming American citizenship who
may be arrested these days in any part
OF Europe. and especially in the capt.
tails of the belligerents, also claims to
be at least a distant relative or a close
friend of Theodore Roosevelt?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member or the
Associated Press and receives tn full DAY
telegraph report of that great news or
ranization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Italy has offered to aid in the re-
organization of the Serb army. And
she will probably be particularly gen.
erous with her advice. But why didn't
she lend Serbia a hand in the brave
fight for life the latter put up. Italy
was in a position to have given enough
aid to Serbia to stay the Teutonic ad-
uapra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

These big floods that are doing so
much damage in many widely scat
tered sections of the country are I'M
usual for this season of the year, to
say the least. Spring, seemingly, used
to have a mortgage on the floods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
The Solution.

The District of Columbia courts are
hearing a beer case Just now. But
the thing to do with the case of beer is
to drink it, not hear it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
NClaa lnSramJudson!

meeting. They came by the dozen,
they came by the score, till the fright
ened earth people. not knowing about
the meeting. thought a dreadful storm
must be coming up.
Now" said the second cloud, when
every one was ready to listen. I'VE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

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On the Spur
Of the Moment
Uncle Abner.
BY ROY K. MoULTON.


Lem Higgins allows as how he ex-
poets to go to work next summer if
he kin find something to do that will
allow him to spend most of his time
out in front of Hilliker's grucry on
a soap box.
Abe Hicks says he amt daffy about
havin' prosperity. 1t makes him
work too hard.
Every time his wife's relatives want
to take a ride, there is suthin' matter
with Anse Frisby's oatmobile.
A Teller who has got the gift of CAB
gen'ally lands somewhere even if it is
only in Jail.
Some of the poetry a young Teller
writes to his gal certainly sounds fine
and dandy when she pulls it on him
ten years after they are married.
Like a 81 horse, a pettyfoggin
lawyer is a vain thing for safety.
somewhere in France"
An English school teacher one day
took France as the subject of the
geography lesson.
I'm this terrible war" said she.
who is our principal ally?"
France" came the chorus.
Right" said the teacher. And
now can any one of you give me the
name of town in France? ?"
Somewhere, promptly shouted
one small boy.
1t will be noticed that the fellers
that knock the automobiles the hard
est are the ones who do not own one,
never will and never get an invitation
to ride in one.
Hi Perkins says he can't see that
prosperity in this country, and he
never finds it hard to get along. His
wife has got her job teaching school
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Woman's suffrage is spreading. We
saw hen chasing rooster.-Logan
CIV. Va Banner.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

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celfts q week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs or at the same price in any Nan
sas town where the paper has a carrier
system ., co
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ImpOssibilities.

Once upon a time a person made
a famous remark that nothing is inn
possible Here are some things that
person never tried to do:
He never tried to convince his wife
that she didn't need new hat.
He never tried to cut pane of
glass with a 10-cent glass cutter.
He never tried to unscrew the top
from a glass fruit jar with his bare
hands.
He never tried to look dignified in
a cellulOid collar.
He never tried to hook his wife's
dress up the back in a hurry.
He never tried to make league
baseball pay in a town where the
grass grows in the middle of the
street