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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04
DINNER STORIES

It is said that Mr.. Asquith has only
once been known to laugh outright
when on public platform. The
record-making occasion was at a po-
IiticaI meeting in Scotland. The pre-
mier was constantly being interrupt
ed. one of the chief hecklers being a
farmer wearing a large straw hat
Suddenly from someone in the hall
came a very personal remark con-
corning Mr.. Asquith-
There was sudden silence Then a
man in the audience stood up, and,
pointing to the farmer with the straw
hat, shouted:
TT was him wi the coos break
fast on his head"
The reply was altogether too much
for Mr.. Asquith, and he had to join in
the general roar of laughter.
The two weary wayfarers were
resting along the road after escaping
an unpleasant situation with an irasci-
BILE dog.
You know, Horace, I sometimes
think that what with all the walking
and the poor food in some places and
the stingy farmers wives and dogs
they chase on you and everything, our
life's mighty near as hard as if we
worked fer d Twin
There yoE go now" says the
other. Someone's always taking the
joy out o. life"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04

any craven image, nor the likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or
in the earth beneath, nor in the wa
ter under the earth; thou shalt not
bow down to them, nor worship them
3-Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain.
4-Remember that thou keep holy
the Sabbath Day.
5-Honor thy father and thy
mother.
Recommendation for these changes
has been made by the commission for
the reason that the arguments for the
observance of these divine laws are
not parts of the commandments them
selves; they were peculiar to the ma
tiona1 life of the Israel!tes, and
changed conditions have robbed the
arguments of much of their weight.
This proposal is not SO radical as it
appears on the surface, according to
its promulgators. even tho it will be
SO considered by many, perhaps. and
will stir up considerable discussion in
the religious world.
The Ten Commandments, it is
pointed out by those who would re-
wise them as outlined, were printed in
this shortened form in the first Prayer
lished in 1549, and also in the Prayer
Book used in the Episcopal Church of
Scotland today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04

eyes that caused him to close his lips
SO determinedly that mis- boyish smile
was obliterated.
That night, for the fourth and last
time, he proposed to Lydia and was
refused with more firmness than she
had shown on any of the three former
occasions. His white face and tightly
set lips as they re-entered the drawing
room from the porch made Lydia feel
sorry for him. She liked his boyish
impulsiveness, but had never relished
his teasing and his habitual attitude
of refusing to take her seriously.
Seeing Mrs. Hornsby corral Jack for
a bridge game, Lydia slipped from the
room to avoid being similarly cap
tured. She threw a soft white wool
shawl about her and returned to the
porch. The round, white moon was
Just emerging from behind the black
ness of the mountains. She stood
quite still for a few moments think
ing of all the pleasures she had en-
joyed with Jack, but felt that she had
been right in refusing him.
THE man 1 marry must have
enough seriousness to recognize what
little bit there is of it in me- she
unused. and Jack is even more friv-
olous than L.
Then she recalled how Stanley
Barnes had that morning recognized
her as she had resolved the evening
before to make him recognize her-as
a chattering society sparrow At the
sound of a step on the porch, she
turned and recognized the man who
was in her thoughts approaching her
Are you also refugee from
bridge? ?" he asked. May 1 join you ?"
Yes Lydia answered both of his
questions with one word. It suppose
it was rude, but 1 couldn't endure the
thought of bridge tonight. I seemed
to hear the bigness of things outside
calling me-" AS Stanley Joined her
where she stood at the railing, she
added, IT defy even your Mr.. Shake
speare to find words to describe the
loneliness of this night"
LAS you like it, lady fair" said
Stanley, with a deferential bow. and
so they stood there for time in
wordless enjoyment of the picture be-
fore them.
When Mrs. Hornsby's ample form
appeared in the doorway and her
voice called back to her guests that
she was going to find those truants
and punish them by making them
man the music machine they knew
that their little hour was over, but
went in without reluctance, for Lydia
had already assured Stanley that life,
as he asked her to share it with him,
would be Just as she liked it and the
very first record she put on the ma
chine was at Was Lover and His
Lass "-(Copyright, 1916, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Taking the worst of it is often a big
dividend payer.
Some men brag on themselves by
knocking on others.
Generosity is easy for those who
haven't got it to give.
Your prejudices and your opinions
are apt to be a good deal alike
Generally speaking. a demagog is an
orator who is lined up with the opposi-
ton.
1t may be said in favor of a fight
that it doesn't usually last as long as
other forms of argument.
The habit of politeness may be
formed as easily as the habit of rude
ness, and is apt to be more helpful.
No humorous effort is necessary to
produce laughter if the audience is
composed of Young Things of the gig
Cling age.
Constantly fighting for your rights
is apt to cut into the time one might
devote to enjoying such privileges as
he already has.
A good many things will happen to
cure a young man of eonceit, but in
some the malady is SO deepseated that
there is no remedy.
Denatured alcohol never accom-
plished as much as was expected of it,
but the other kind continues to do
considerable business.
1t Is woman'S opinion that many
men devote SD much patience to fish
ing that they haven't an adequate sup
Div left for the home life.
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SIDE TALK
Those Minor Faults.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

How much happiness married peo-
pie (and others) lose. how much en-
ergy they waste, because they do not
learn to take certain things about each
other for granted!
A couple who have been married
between forty and fifty years were
staying at the establishment where
spent part of my summer.
One day he asked her if she knew
where the book he had been reading
had disappeared to. 81 simply laid it
down. he said, land now 1 can't find
it,
isn't it somewhere in our room up
stairs?" she asked.
No" he said, i've just been look
ing up there"
She went up and came down with
the book in less than a minute. Right
on top of the trunk she said, Sin
perfectly plain sight. don't see how
you could miss it. I never saw anyone
so unobserving in my life. You must
look for things with your elbows"
She went on in the same strain for
two or three minutes until her hus-
hand got up and went into the house,
declaring that he would never ask her
to look for anything again, he'd rather
go without it.
OF course people who cannot find
things Cor will not make the necessary
effort-personally think that kind
do with the inability are exasperat-
ing. But when you have lived with a
person forty years and found out that
that is one of his Interchangeable char
acteristics, what is the use of fretting
and Tuning every time he manifests
it?
1 believe that married folks should
try to help each other overcome their
faults And mind you, I don't mean
by censorious fault-finding. but by
helping them in a kindly spirit to see
the failings and then by encourage
ment and forbearance and by noticing
and praising every effort to overcome
But when it becomes evident in the
course of human events that certain
faults are practically ineradicab1e
part of the housemate's character,
isn't it infinitely wiser to take them
for granted instead of fussing and
fretting about them every time they
manifest themselves? Especially when
they are minor faults that don't really
make such a lot of difference unless
you let them ?-(Copyright by George
| Matthew AdamS)
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Perhaps it might be just as well to
keep the record straight. A Kansas
Contemporary of the State Journals
that may be inclined to be trifle par
tisan at times INDUCED in an editorial
discussion recently of the stand that
the Woman's party had taken and
which is favorable to the candidacy
of Mr.. Hughes and antagonistic to Mr..
wilson's pursuit of a second term. In
the course of the editorial in question,
these statements are made: ITO work
for suffrage in the present cam5aign
they (the Woman's party must OPP
pose President Wilson and candidates
for congress, because the Democrats
offer them no hopes of national suf-
frage amendment. The Republicans
on the contrary, have endorsed suf-
frage and Governor Hughes the Re-
publican presidential candidate, is an
open champion OF the national suf-
frage amendment" 1t is true that
the Republicans have endorsed wo-
mans suffrage, but the Republicans
as party and in their recent national
convention assembled did not endorse
a national woman's suffrage amend
rnent. On this womap's suffrage ques-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04
JAYMAWKER JOTS

Wherever conditions are similar, it
follows that just about the same situa-
tionS exist Max, one of the writers
for the Clay Center Economist, OBJ
serves: Some auto drivers seem to
assume that pedestrians have no bust
Is also true of Clay Center as it is of
Topeka and other places that at least
a few pedestrians appear to labor I'M
der the delusion that none of the
autom o bilists has the slightest right to
use the streets for the operation of
his car.
Volume I, number 1 of the Hunter
Herald, published in the town of Hun
ter, Mitchell county, has just put in
an appearance. Eola Thompson is the
editor of this possibly newest of Kan
sas weeklies and c. w. Wells is its
publisher. 1t begins its career as a
CURRICULUM, four-page paper, mostly
home print, and considerably more
than half of it's first issue is devoted
to local display advertising.
A real cowpuncher from Texas,
clad in cowboy raiment of the most
expensive kind a silk shirt, a fifteen
dollar dicer, a pair of hand-carved
leather boots, and good-1ooking khaki,
made a social call at the yard office
Tuesday, reports the Caldwell News.
On his shirt front blazed a carat SPAR
kler, another blazed on his hand. To
better balance himself he toted a six
shooter on one hip and dirk on the
other, all in plain sight. In one hip
pocket he carried pint of firewater
and in the other a roll of over one
thousand dollars of honest-to-go goodness
United States currency. And, Gladys,
what do you think the gentlema n s
name is? Red Eye Bill? 1 should
say not. No less a parsonage than
Mr.. Lovelady of Texas, enroute to
Kansas City with ten carloads of fat
tened ST
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04
BED t 1MlE T ALES
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON
BUsHY FORGETs TO EAT

Such a hurry Such excitement as
there was after that!
Mother Beaver ran around hunting
Just the right place to start the home
building; Father Beaver examined the
creek to see if it was deep enough, or
if he would have to begin building a
dam right away. and Bushy Beaver
took little Brother Beaver and hunt
ed around for some lunch.
They didn't go very far-dear me,
no! Bushy knew better than that
He might run into danger by him
self, but when he had the care of
Little Brother Beaver he was as care
full as careful could be, you may be
sure. He wandered only a little way
down the banks of the creek, keeping
his sharp eyes open for food on the
way.
He had just spied a c1ump of small
seedlings growing close by the water
and looking very appetizing. when a
gruff voice close by shouted, Who
goes there?''
shot, and Little Brother squealed and
snuggled close up to Bushy-
who goes there?" repeated the
voice sterniy.
Just u.s. replied Bushy meekly.
Us" said the voice. Who's us?"
I'm Bushy Beaver and this is Lit
tie Brother Beaver and Father and
Mother Beaver are close by the
creek and we are hungry and were
hunting a new home and we won't
hurt anybody, and who are you? ?" said
Bushy breathlessly. Might as well
tell all about it at once. it saves time"
Bushy whispered to Little Brother.
then, when he knows all about us.
maybe Wen see who he is.
The bushes back of the two little
beavers parted and who do you sup
pose they saw? A fine big raccoon!
Yes. sir Standing right in front of
them as big and kind as could be.
Well" said the raccoon. as he
looked the beavers over, you don't
look as though you meant any HARM
Now eat your lunch and run away
I'VE want our lunch, but we don't
want to run away" said Bushy;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04

War or no war, Russia is going
ahead with her plans for a Prosthesis
exposition which will open it's doors at
I Rue Tsatitsinskays, Petrograd, on
September IA, and exhibitors who do
not have their displays set up by the
end of this week will have to wait for
The next exposition of this sort to show
their wares, as the space assigned to
them will then be transferred to other
exhibitors who were more forehanded.
As a matter of fact, tho, Russia prob
ably would not have arranged for this
exposition had 1t not been for the
great war. Mr.. Webster's dictionary
comes to the rescue with the informa-
ton that prosthesis means the addi-
ton to the human body of some arti-
fetal part to replace one wanting, as
a leg, eye or tooth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04


The milestones on the road to life
Are not the battles fought and won;
Are not the monuments of strife.
The foe repulsed, the grand work done
For every triumph, great small
Is bordered black with some regret
The memory of foeman's fall,
Some brave mans sun forever set!
What glory has a battle won
When he who lost must lie supine?
What pleasure in the swift race run
When thousands never cross the line!
The strong, the swift, SO richly blest
That winning seems a baby's sport
Their laurel is sorry Jest
They do not love the flattering curt!
They do not heed the songs of praise.
They scorn the laurel and the bays
A crawling crowd is quick to bring.
A kindly word. that saved a fall,
A loving smile for one in tears
These are the milestones they recall
While looking back across the yearsi
William F. Kirk in Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Tribune.
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Governor Hughes is quite as handy
with words as the next man, and ne
nuts the force of conviction behind
them when he writes them or speaks
them. But his entire public career
has also been one of deeds as we'll as
words. He has always done the things
al hand as best he could and his &C
commandments in the public service
have usually been signal and decided
" worth while. In his speech accept
ing the Democratic presidential NOM
ination President Wilson observed:
'.There is no means of judging the
future except by assessing the past.
Applying that rule to the campaign
,;tterances of Governor Hughes. it is
70 more than reasonable to suggest
that the people have every cause to
be confident that the Republican
presidential candidate will dc what he
Navs he will do. And when he says,
as he did in Topeka: SHOW me an
abuse and 1 will do my share toward
cutting it out" it would seem unwar-
ranted for any one, even political
enemy of the distinguished New York
err, to assert that such an observation
or declaration is nothing more than
mere campaign buncombe.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

Butter and cowardly soldiers de-
velop like reactions If exposed to fire.
Some things in moderation are
worse than others in excess.
There is nothing quite so uninterest-
ing as a human photograph.
You may Judge a woman's charac-
ter by the men she does not know.
There is more money to be made by
humoring people than by handing
them advice.
A man with a single idea is a crank.
a social success.
A spinster says if there is truth in
the axiom that man proposes AND God
disposes many men fail in their duty.
Three hundred years ago any man
absent from church on Sunday was
fined a shilling What a war revenue
that would produce nowi
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

These fat men that nobody is said
to love seem to have pretty jolly
time of 1t.
y X y
Marking time is also worth while if
it be preliminary to a start in the
right direction.
* X =
Pooling all of the people any of the
time is a much more difficult job than
it used to be.
X * X
Honest poverty probably has larger
attractions for those who do not have
to worry along under it
X X *
1t is all right for the theorists to
urge cheerfulness in adversely, but
would they show such goods them
selves if an occasion gave them the
opportunity.
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Another accomplishment OF the
xv,1son administration that IL decided
w worth while is the enactment by
press of the national child labor
h,u and its contamination into law
e the land thru the medium OF the
presidential signature. But 1t woulo
be unfair, perhaps, to give the wilson
full credit for this most
desirable piece of legislation All
measures of such progressive and I'M
portant caliber take long time 10
make their way finally thru congress,
and this particular piece of legislation
has been almost on the edge OF sue
cess in preceding congresses ana
after all, perhaps the real credit for
the accomplishment of this legislation
tslones with national child labor
committee whose efforts in its behalf
have been as untiring for many years
as they have been intelligent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

BY BRINKERHOFF.


Recipe-Mix two cups granulated
sugar. one cup lard, two eggs, one cup
sour milk. Sift in batter three cups
flour. One-half teaspoon salt, one
teaspoon soda, two teaspoons baking
powder and little nutmeg.
Put part of this batter on Toured
board and mix in flour with hands I'M
til stiff enough to roll out thin. Use
cake turner to lift up in pans
Make a cooked filling of one small
cup seeded raisins one-half teaspoon
vinegar and two tablespoons sugar |;
then thicken with one tablespoon flour
and let cool off.
Put one teaspoon of filling on each
cookie than place another cookie on
top. Bake in rather quick oven. The
cookies will bake together. with a de-
licioUS filling in the middle.
To Make Candy Off the Fire.
Candies made without cooking is a
form of sweets that many will well
come, especially when the weather is
hot Here arc some favorite "fireless'
bonbons:
Lemon CreamS-Grate the rind of a
lemon into a bowl; add the strained
juice, a pinch of tartaric acid and
enough sifted confectioners sugar to
mold into small balls; then press into
flat cakes.
Orange Cream Drops-Prepare in
same way as above, using grated
orange rind and juice instead of the
lemon.
Pineapple Whip-Take a cup OF
grated pineapple, heat with a cup OF
sugar and a cup of cold water and let
simmer for fifteen minutes. Soak a
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ton the current Republican national
Platform reads: THE Republican
party favors the extension of
the suffrage to women, but recognizes
the right of each state to settls this
question for itself" Governor Hughes
has come out flat-footed in favor of a
national woman's suffrage amend
nent, but it does not appear that the
Republicans. or the Republican party
has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04

Billy stared Wiggleiskskens. Chief
of police. He had never heard of
such things,
The raccoon saw his surprise and
said, Maybe you think this is a regu-
lar country and that anybody can
come and go as they please" Bushy
nodded Well, it isn't" continued
the raccoon; this is the land of the
Wiggleiskskens. Better take me to
your father"
Yes, I'd better" said Bushy meek
ly, and the beavers led the way back
to Father -(Copyright-
Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04

AS the hero of the occasional, old
fashioned melodrama used to say
BACK to the mines. men! Thereh De
no strike today"
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tablespoon of gelatin in a little cold
water while the above is cooking. Mix
this with the hot pineapple on taking
it from the fire and cool. Then add
the whites of two eggs beaten stiff
and beat all until it begins to harden
Pour into a mold. Serve with whip
ped cream favored with a little
lemon.
Grape Juice Parfait-Boil one cup
full of sugar with o1e-third cupful of
grape juice until it threads Pour it
slowly into the we'll beaten whites of
two eggs. Add one-half cupful of
grape juice and the strained juice of
half lemon and beat till cold. Fold
in two cupfuls of whipped cream and
put into mold. Let stand packed in
equal measures of salt and ice for four
hours.
For Invalids.
Beat the yolk and white separately
until extremely light Add a pinch
of salt and pour into a china cup,
which is afterward placed in a sauce
IAN of hot water. Stir constantly un-
Ill scalding hot but not cooked. When
this is done slowly the egg thickens
slightly and puffs up until the cup IL
almost filled with a creamy custard
Set in the oven for minute, and serve
at once.
The Table.
Tea Cakes-Four cups flour, six
teaspoons baking powder, one tea
spoon salt sifted with flour. three
tablespoons butter, one cup currants
three eggs, one-half cup brown sugar.
Mix with enough sweet milk to form
dough stiff enough to roll out. Flour
the pastry board well and roll about
one-half inch thick. Cut in round
cakes. Bake to light brown.
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we're going to live here
'What?" exclaimed the racceon. ct
guess 1 have something to say about
that! This ground belongs to the Wig
gleisksk ems and I'm their chief of po-
lice. Have you a permit
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No Kick Coming.

When a man complains about the
high cost of living, go at him as fol-
lows: Your dad used to drive a yoke
of steers and linkpin wagon; you drive
a pair of roadsters hitched to a top
buggy, your son drives a six-cylinder,
40-horsepower automobile. The steers
ate buffalo grass and made three miles
an hour;the roadsters ate 15-cent corn
and IS prairie hay and made nine
miles an hour; the motor car eats rs
cent gasoline and makes rs miles an
hour. More speed costs more money.
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ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY x. MoULT0N.

The Genus Hobo.
He pays no rent, he pays no tax,
He buys no coal or ice;
He doesn't worry when
He hasn't got the price.
He doesn't lie awake at night
And try to figure out
A way to meet the grocery bill,
And never has the govt.
He doesn't have to entertain
Or go to parties that
He doesn't care a snap about
In some kind neighbours flat
He doesn't have to worry lest
His clothes are not in style;
The weather is a question that
He doesn't think worth while
He simply seeks another when
A climate doesn't suit.
He isn't interested in
A single blamed dispute.
He doesn't have to work at all
And is a happy lad,
To lead the genus hobo's life
Can't be so very bad.
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Trouble.
You do not have to hurry down the
highway just to meet it,;
Just stand right still and it will
come to you. aA 3
II you are wise and have a chancea
you'll beac it
AS soon as old man Gloom comes
into view.
1t isn't very difficult to find batch
of worry,
Because it's never hidden out of
sight.
When a man is looking for it he can
grab it in a hurry,
If he hasn't sense enough to fly his
kite