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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-24
Euening Chat
Having 1t Out.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


Jealousy, remorse and sense of
injustice are the three most painful
emotions in the world.
And the worst iS-the one you are
suffering at the moment.
A letter friend writes me that she
is jealous of her husbands attentions
to a neighbor-
81 don't mean that he has any Sc
cret affair with her" she says, but
that he seems to enjoy her company
more than he does mine, and that he
pays her all the little attentions and
compliments that he has grown care
less in giving to me. ] know perfectly
well that he loves me best. but 1 can't
bear to have him slight me even in
these minor things. And then, sup
pose he should come to care for her.
1 have tried not to let him see how I
feel, and 1 don't think he suspects.
That's what l want to ask you about:
Would it be better for my peace of
mind to have it out with him?''
Poor lady, how 1 wish L could help
you, But the trouble with jealousy is
that although it sometimes asks adj
vice it seldom takes it. 1t is too I'M
reasoning, too primitive an emotion
to be controlled by the inhibitions of
judgment.
Nevertheless-. 1t might be bet
ter for your present peace of mind to
have it out with your husband. He
WoulQ uouDtleSS reaSSure you TO your
hearts content. But do you think ii
would be best for your ultimate peace ?
In the first place, you give him a
sense of power by letting him know
that you are SO easily made jealous.
And power is a dangerous thing even
to the best of US. 1 don't mean that
he would deliberately plan to hurt
you, but IN moments of evaporation
and thoughtlessness that do come even
to happily married people, he might
use the weapon you have thrust into
his hands.
Again. isn't there a danger that YOU
might create an unnatural atmos-
phere? Suppose he does reassure you
to your hearts content, and proves his
sincerity by neglecting her and being
especially attentive to you? Won't
you suspect him of making an effort
to do these things of putting it on ?''
once knew a wife who confessed
her Jealousy to her husband. He as
sured her that there was no founda-
ton for it at all, and went out of his
way to be especially tender and sweet.
But to her the SAVIOR had gone out of
his tenderness because she couldn't
feel that it was spontaneous. That
made her suspicious and exacting.
which ultimately exasperated him IT
took big shock and a big experience
to finally get them back into norma
relations with each other
hesitate to say, Never admit that
you are Jealous" because there NAV
DE times when having it OUT brings
more relief than bad results, but ]
do say, TRY everything else first
Be JUST as attractive in every way
as you can, both to your husband and
to others Don't deliberately try to
make your husband jealous That's
too obvious, but show him that you
can enjoy and be enjoyed by other
people.
Keep your jealousy down. If you
let it get up in the top of your mind
you'll be showing it unconsciously.
If you win out without showing
your own hand you've won one OF
the biggest battles of life.-(Protected
/ by George Matthew AdamS)
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KEYNOTE OF RURAL PROGRESS.

Dean Jardine struck the keynote of
economic and social progress in farm
life, according to the Kansas Indus
trialist, when, in the commencement
address at Campbell college. he point
ed out the necessity of a movement
among country people to stay on the
farm.
Some years ago, when the drift from
the farms to the cities first was ne
ticed, a back-to-the-land movement
was started. Men in clerical and
other positions in cities were urged to
go to the country and engage in farm
ing. Some of them succeeded. A
great many of them failed. Those who
succeeded were men who, though hav-
ing lived in cities, were through nat
ural bent or through experience par
ticularly adapted to farm life. Those
who failed illustrated the fact that
the majority of city bred men are not
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1t is true as some of the extreme
pacifists are urging that there is no
reason for a war between the people
Of the United States and the people
Of Mexico. But it takes an exceed
ingly acute and willing lima gination to
figure 1t out that the restoration of
order in Mexico by the forces Of the
United States, which would include the
suppression OF the banditry and law
lessness IN the northern part of it that
is also such a menace to our citizens
who have their homes in this country
along the Mexican border-it is al
most ridiculous to insist that such mill
itary activities on our part would be
a war between the people of Mexico
and the people of the United States.
Have the people of the United States
gone TO or been at war with the peo-
pie Of Haiti or Santo Domingo simply
because our authorities have deemed it
necessary to use the forces of the
United States to suppress revolutions
and restore order in these little coun-
tries?
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never see it, most lkely-but it was
there nevertheless to condemns the
girl to whom he had lost his head and
heart.
he asked abruptly.
Never heard of heri"
All right 1 never did either. She's
pretty. Met her last night. Waken
me at 6, sis, will you? I'm dead
tired"
But he didn't take a nap. The
shock of his discovery was too upset
ting. He thought of every explanation,
but decided that the dressmaker's as
sistant fitted the case best. ANY
way" lie argued, "she looked too
sweet to do it wilfully. I'm sure there
is a mistake somewhere"
A week later. Dick and his sister
were waiting for the elevator of the
apartment hotel where they lived
when a girl and an elderly man ap-
preached. All were in evening dress
and Laura's cloak was open. Sudden
ly the girl came over and impulsively
touched Laura's gown. Dick wheeled
and faced Susanne!
so it was your dress 1 wore to the
cotillion and tore!'' she exclaimed.
'Oh. I've worried so about it!' Then
suddenly: Father, this is Mrs. Nor
ton and her brother, Mr.. Harper.
They are neighbors of oursi You see,
we have only lived here a MONTH"
she explained.
But 1 don't understand about the
dress!" puzzled Laura. Are you sure
you wore it? L am sure it is not
torn"
Perhaps Price fixed it then! It
was this way: My own new dress
didn't come, and when 1 te1ephoned
at seven they said it couldn't possibly
be finished, but that they would send
me model to wear instead. So when
it came put it on and departed, and
just afterward they phoned that they
had sent the wrong box and that 1
had received one intended for a Gus
toner. Father didn't know what to
do about it and when 1 came home
and heard it 1 was frantic. 1 sent it
back and told Price it was torn. but
she said she would make it all right.
I'm SO sorry, but really 1 didn't mean
to do it,
Laura laughed. 81 think the dress
has served a good purpose, Miss Ra-
leigh, and I'm glad you wore it. Evil
IDENTIFY my brother thought you looked
very NICE
And Dick instantly confirmed her
word copyright. 1916, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Jdyhawker Jots

Ernest K. Trimmer of the Cove
County Republican Gazette remarks:
This 1916 female headware makes sis
look longer and dad feel shorter
AS the Downs News and Times says:
The wise man often knows not of his
own wisdom, nor the fool of his fool
ishness. But it's nature, and will ever
be so.
Quite frequently, observes the
Shawnee Chief, the crowd is more en-
tertaining than the attraction which
draws it.
The man who wantonly Injuries a
fellow creature, says the Norton
County News, never forgiveS the in
jured one.
of the pessimists had the Kansas wheat
crop just about down and out. But
the wheat story that is actually being
written in Kansas this year is of the
usual kind and indicates a happy end
ing. For instance, the Waldo Advo-
cate reports: 1t is amazing how
wheat has come out the past few
days. Pieces that gave promise of
but very small yield now look much
better.
This isn't put out by the Stockton
Review as a suggestion why boys leave
the farm, but, possibly, it might well
have been: A Cedarvale boy, aged
seventeen, had been working for
farmer in a nearby alfalfa field. The
boy came home for supper and then
went out again. His mother thought
he went swimming. When he did not
return she got scared and aroused the
town. Searching parties went to the
swimming hole, searched the creek
and the town, but there was no trace
of the missing lad. At eleven o'clock
he was found. Overcome by his days
work he had dropped down on the
ground and fallen asleep.
This beats u.s. confesses the Smith
County Pioneer, and it goes on:
Thornburg boasts of two of the most
energetic citizens in the county. This
paper has been boasting of the hunt
ing prowess of the boys near town, but
Thornburg has us on the go this time.
A few weeks ago Chas. Harris came
down to the Hub with enough coyote
scalps to walk away home with a new
suit of clothes. Not to be outdone by
his neighbor Frank johnson got busy
at once and soon came to town with
a sack of crow heads and he took
home a new Sunday best. Will Ford
thought that too much work so just
ran his car into the garage and in a
few days he had saved enough on gas
cline to come out in a new suit, too.
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Globe Sights
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Really, very few women nave ever
stopped to conquer.
About the crankiest man in the
world is a sick doctor.
There should also be summer
schools of common sense.
One of the best ways to handle
fool is to keep away from him.
The Lord never intended that you
should have good time all the time.
You occasionally run across a man
who doesn't cut any more ice than a
lightning rod.
An old-fashioned woman would
rather have a woman commit murder
than be lazy.
There are also those who are handi-
their enemies.
time that he thinks of starvation as
the most imminent peril.
A professional gambler may be de-
fined as one who doesn't regard a.
card game as a game of chance.
If you want your conscience to be
convincing, don't start a joint debate
or other form of argument with it
Adventure, of which you hear so
much and know SO little, is apt to be
dirty and disagreeable. as well as
thrilling.
An AtchiSon woman is such a Door
bread-maker that her husband intends
to sell the 1oaves to a paving con-
tractor.
A woman may have a right 10 kill
her husband, but she should be young
and good looking before deeming
such right a vested privilege.
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1t is fortunate for the Kansas wheat
farmers that the harvest hands they
need, and who do the hardest kind
of days work in the broiling sun
from the tine it rises until it sets, do
not have to meet the physical require
ments of those who would respond to
their countrys call for military duty.
We're that the case the Kansas wheat
crop would rot in its stalks. Many a
young man who can do his trick in the
harvest fields is being rejected these
days by he recruiting officers in KAN
szs for some minor physical defect
or other. The fact of the matter is
that Uncle Sam appears to want moth
ing but supermen. physically speak
ing. for his army, and from the whole
sale scale on which applicants for en-
listment are being rejected hereabouts.
it would appear the supply of physi-
cally perfect men is not very extern
siVe.
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Household Hints
wedding Cake.


Four cups butter, four cups sugar,
ten eggs, four pints flour, six cups
currants washed, dried and picked !;
three cups sultana raisins, three cups
citron, one-half cup candied lemon
peel, two cups almonds blanched and
cut in shreds, one-half pint brandy.
two teaspoons each nutmeg, mace
and cinnamon, one tablespoon each
cloves and allspice.
Prepare all these ingredients in
following manner:
Place butter and sugar in large
bowl. Break eggs into quart meas
ure or pitcher. Cover small tray
with clean sheets of paper and on it
lay sifted flour, fruit, citron, lemon
peel cut in shreds, the almonds
and spices, with brandy measured at
hand.
Also get ready large cake tin by
papering it inside with white paper
and outside and bottom with four or
five thicknesses of coarse wrapping
paper which can be tied on.
Having thus prepared everything,
be sure the oven and fire are right.
Care should be taken to keep a good,
even fire. Then proceed to beat to
very light cream the butter and sugar,
adding eggs two at a time, beating
a little after each addition until all
are used.
Then put in the contents of tray,
all at once, with the brandy. Mix very
thoroughly and smoothly; put into
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tain mechanical quality in our inner
most selves Our critics are constant in
generous praise Of our great quality.
generosity, ncr shall any gainsay it;
it is our one priceless spiritual posses
sion. But it may be that they are
right when they fail to agree with us
in our childish self-congratulation that
we are the best of all possible
types of people in the best of all pos
sible worlds. When they speak of
our lack of inner resources, of deep
reserve of thought and of feeling; of
a certain thinness of quality in the
American temperament; of lack If
personality, of permanence of quality
Of enduring conviction-can we wholly
deny the charges?
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QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Even the man who lives up to his
ideals may take a tumble to himself.
Lots of people are looking for
trouble who don't know what to do
with it when they find it.
Even the man who is blind to his
own interests may detect a chronic
borrower by the sense of touch.
1t sometimes requires a wonderful
amount of tact to remember a wo-
mans birthday and forget her age.
The Soubrette-"Yes have been
married IL years" The Comedian
"And-er-how many times?"
Faith will move mountains" quot
ed the Wise Guy Yes, but any rail-
road man VIII tell you it costs less to
tunnel them" added the Simple Mug.
Wigg-.That fellow Skinnum has
absolutely no bad habits, and yet 1
don't trust him." Wagon, many
a man who never used tobacco in this
world will need a smoking jacket in
the next"
The man who expects the world to
take him at his own valuation
shouldn't give himself away
A broken engagement demonstrates
that even where the exits are con-
cerned, love will find a way.
wigg-"How is Bjones making out
in the milk business ?" Wagg-"Well.
7 guess he manages to keep his head
above water"
Boys may be more destructive than
girls but at the same time you can
always flatter a woman by talking
about the hearts she has broken
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The HickeyyiIIe Clarion.

Prof. E. Pluribus Jenkins, the new
superintendent of the Hickeyville
schools, will give a moving picture
lecture with 4,5OO feet of films at the
showing the working of the human
system and how to reduce the high
cost of living. He will show the hu-
man stomach running on high speed
and digesting breakfast food and
again running on secondary speed, di-
costing corned beef and cabbage. He
will also show the effects of whisky
on the thorax. A free will offering
will be taken and the professor will
get enough to pay for printing the
handbills if he is lucky. IF the pro-
fessor had lived in our midst very long
he would take time by the fetlock and
charge an admission at the door.
Anybody Need Stable Room in An
Out Building?
Want ad in an esteemed contem-
porary:
FOR RENT-Stable and desk room
in a downtown office building.
The Regular Contributor.
There's Liberty" and Justice" and there's
All ready to wage battles on affairs that
sorely yex-
But .veritas'' has got them all outdis-
For while the others sometimes rest, he's at
it all the while.
Philosopher and scientist, essayist, critic,
wit,
Most versatile of men is he. There's not a
doubt of it.
Defender of the peoples rights with sabre
ever peeled,
He does not specialize at all, the whole
world is his field.
OF course he's very seldom right and nearly
always wrong,
But life would lose a lot of spice without
his siren song.
For humor. unintentional, his like cannot
be found,
1t would be mighty lonesome with no
''Veritas' around.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

(From the Chicago News
Next to a kindly act is the appreci-
alton thereof.
A fish in the hand is worth two in
the anglers story.
Fools create opportunities that wise
men take advantage Of
Nearly every unmarried woman you
meet is in quest of a conquest.
Nothing is more unsatisfactory than
love that has to be purchased.
The child is wiser in his innocence
than a philosopher in his wisdom.
Success comes to some people by
the inch-and disappointment by the
yard.
When an employe is discharged he
experiences relief from that hired
feeling
One word always leads to another
no matter whether you are reading
the Bible or a novel.
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THE b. II. ORDER.

As long as the chickens stood at
attention. Mr.. Garden Toad croaked
his message, but he did get pretty
GREATNESS and he wasn't a bit sorry
when one hen started to talk and thus
gave him an excuse for stopping.
What's that?" he asked. for he
was so winded that he didn't quite
understand what the hen said.
Il said that's good idea. but we'll
forget it," repeated the hen
Yes, I'm afraid we WILL" said
Yellow Puff. scratching himself
thoughtfuIly.
Yes, I'm afraid we will" added
enough to have decided opinions of
her own.
Yes, we will" agreed Mrs. Hen,
who was old enough to know what
she was talking about
Mr. Garden Toad looked solemn
Here he had gone to all this trouble
(for even the fact that he really
croaking any less work.; he had made
all the chickens listen to his good ad-
vice and now they were going to for
get it Too bad, too bad What was
one to do?
rs there any way 1 could make you
remembe ?" he asked.
The chickens shook their heads.
And just then Billy Robin flew
down to the path; he could restrain
his curiosity no longer. What's all
this meeting about" he asked eagerly.
Standing here in a row as you are
you look like society, or an order of
some sort. What's up2''
Look like a society?" repeated Mr..
Garden Toad, like a society,"" And
then he had his big inspiration We
are a society," We've just now begun
the Be Kind Order and everybody here
beIongs."
Such a fluttering as there was
then,
All the chickens and the hens
thought the idea a fine one and the
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fitted for the conditions of the

fitted for the conditions of the
country.
Similar has been the experience of
farm boys who have gone to the city
Those few whose mental bent has ex-
actly fitted into urban life have sue
ceeded but the majority have not, and
it is even harder to succeed in the city
nowadays than it was few years ago
The inference is not that we need a
back-to-the-farm movement to I'LL in
the country the places of those who
have gone to town, but that we need a
stay-on-the-land movement to keep on
the farm those whose qualities make
them best adapted to farm life. There
will always be men in the country-a
few of them-who should go to the
cities to develop their capacities, and
there will always be some men born
in the cities who ought to go to the
farm. With modern specialization,
however, the tendency will be for men
brought up in the city to find their
lifework there and for country bred
men to find the best realization of
their capacities on the farm.
This condition will not exist so far
as the rural districts are concerned,
however, until educational, religious
and social advantages in the country
are on a par with those in the cities.
The advantages will not be precisely
the same as those in the cities-for
simply to ape urban life would be dis
astrous to the country-but they will
be equivalent. And that is the end
toward which lovers of agriculture
and rural life will work
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AS OTHERS SEE US.

The typical American has come to
seem to many people of other nation
alities a handy man." quick with
muscle. nimble in the execution of
practical projects, but lacking in depth
OF personality, writes Margaret Sher-
wood in the June Atlantic A swift
intelligence. with all the latest modern
adjustments, is there; but 1 have
heard it limited that there is more vi
bration of machinery than of ideas
IN our minds; that a distant echo of
piston and of whistle, insistent and
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HEALTH INSURANCE.

No less than twenty-five out of
every 1000 employees in American in
dustries, according to recent statistics.
are constantly incapacitated by sick
ness, the average worker losing ap-
proNmately nine days each year on
this account This "non-effective
rate" for the great army of industrial
workers in the United States barely
pIoyers and employees. The lessened
efficiency, the effects of reduced
earnings in times of sickness, as we'll
as the cost of medical attention, and
the economic loss from deaths. swell
the cost to industry and to the nation
to almost ircalculable figures.
That much of this loss is nothing
less that preventable waste and that
this waste can be largely reduced by
a properly conducted system of gov
ornamental health insurance for wage
workers are conclusions set forth in
Public Health Bulletin No. rs, con-
tanning the results of a study of
Health Insurance-Its Relation to
the Public HEALTH just issued by the
United States public health service.
The preventive value of health in
surance is given especial emphasis in
this study. ANY system of health in
surance for the United States or any
state Should at its inception have pre-
vention CT sickness as one of its fun
damental purposes says the bulletin.
This country should profit by the ex-
periencc of European countries where
prevention IS being recognized as the
surance if health insurance is to at
tain its greatest success in improvins,
the health and efficiency of the in
dustrial population
Such a system, it is pointed out in
the bulletin. would
1. Provide cash benefits and medi-
cal service for all wage earners in
times of sickness at much less cost
than is now possible. Adequate medi-
cal relief would thus be placed within
the reach of even the lowest paid
workers who are most subject to ILL
health.
2. Distribute the cost among en-
ployers. employees and the public as
the groups responsible for disease
causing conditions and afford these
groups definite financial incentive
for removing these conditions. This
can be done by means of small week
ly payments from employees, supple
mented by proportionate contributions
from employers and government at a
rate reducible in proportion to the re-
duction of sickness.
8. Become an effective health meas
ure by linking the cooperative eff
forts of the three responsible group.
with the work of national, state ano
local health agencies, and by utilizing
these agencies in the administration OF
the health insurance system.
4. Afford a better basis for the CO.
operation of the medical profession
with public health agencies.
5. Eliminate the elements of pater-
nalism and charitygiving by making
employees and the public, as well as
employers, joint agents in the control
| of this fund.
"A governmental system of health
insurance" concludes the study, ''car
be adapted to American conditions
and when adapted will prove to be q
health measure of extraordinary
value"
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time OF the meeting. And then they
began wondering what name rhey
could choose
Be kind is all very well for
motto, said Billy: but / think We
ought to have something else for
name"
oucn scratching Of heads and roll
finally Billy himself solved the difff-
Guilty by saying, What's the rnarfer
with B. K ? Isn't that a good name -
And everybody agreed that it was.
30 the famous B. K order was
IN everybody who wished to beIon@-
tCopyrisht-Clara Ingram Judsou.S