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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-31
EUening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.


A conductor held tt e car for me the
other day.
AS usual, 1 had over-calculated my
time q am one of those hopeless OPP
timistS who always think up to the
very last minute that they have plenty
of time) and was only half way down
my street when the trolley hove in
sight. The conductor saw me, how
ever, and held the car until 1 could
reach it.
Naturally, I was grateful. If 1 had
missed the car I should have been
outrageously late. AS it was, 1 was
only ordinarily late. What a nice
conductor l thought to myself
1t was the busy time of the day,
and it seemed to me that the car
my watch constantly. Finally we
made an unusually long stop and l
turned around. saying irr1tably to my
self, What are we waiting Tor now :!
We were waiting for a woman who
had signaled the car from half way
up her street.
Presumably, that was the way the
other people in the car felt when the
conductor waited for me.
It's all in the point of view, isn't it =?
A woman was telling me one day
that she thought it was outrageous
that the delivery autos should be
allowed to run at such high rate of
speed. Some of those men ought to
be arrested she said.
A day or two later / was shopping
with her and she asked the salesgir1
to be sure and have a certain garment
which she had just bought reach her
home that evening.
| Il don't know as we can, said the
salesgirl with a harassed air
But I must have it tonight, said
the customer. Tell them / must
"All right said the girl
Why do delivery truck rush about
the streets at high pressure?
Because the customers who must
have things tonight are exerting that
pressure
It's all in the point of view, isn't
it?
What a nuisance a telephone isl"
one of my housemaids said to me yes
terday, after she had Travelled from
the kitchen to answer a call. There's
no use talking, they certainly eat up
a lot of time"
A few minutes later she discovered
that she had forgotten to order eggs
when the order man called, and rushed
to the telephone to ask the grocer to
add a dozen eggs to her order Now if
she hadn't had a telephone she would
have had to walk half mile. or a dis
lance equivalent to twenty round trips
the telephone n time-waster or not :?
It's all in the point of view, isn't it :?
And so are many things about which
we permit ourselves to become CEN
| serious or impatient without looking
at both sides of the matter.-(Pro-
tected by the Adams Newspaper Ser
vice.)
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For some DAYS after Tommy Title
mouse and his little mate discovered
the mole tracks. they had the most
fun Never in their whole little lives
had they known such jolly times.
Every day they walked up bright
and early and they could hardly get
through their work quick enough.
they were so eager to run for the
tunnels, The little nest in the old log
was set in order in a jiffy, and long
before the birds were through their
morning meal the two little
mice were off into the tunnel in search
of food.
Maybe you wonder why they never
ran across Mully Mole-you might
think they would. But you see, Muliy.
like all real explorers, was always
finding new places to go; while the
mice only went in the well-opened
tunnels OF course they had one or
two narrow escapes, but Mully always
heard them in time to hide in little
pocket he had made in the main tun-
mel
1t was such fun to run back to the
popcorn patch. The tunnel led there
lust as straight as though Mully Mole
himself ate popcorn OF course he
didn't-indeed, no. He ate the grub
worms that were after the corn seed
Straight for hillock he dug his way;
quickly he nosed around and ate all
the worms to be found; and then off
to another hillock he bored his way
Nobody could say Mully Mole was
lazyi He worked every minute Of the
time,
And all that made easy eating for
Tommy and Mrs. Tommy. For every
time the tunnel led straight TO a corn
hilIock where five fine large grains of
corn were buried Tommy would eat
three and Mrs. Tommy two; and then
off they would run to the next hillock,
where Tommy would eat two grains
and Mrs Tommy would have her three
nobody could say Tommy was
greedy-ne liked fair play.
Now all the time that Tommy and
Mrs Tommy were eating the corn
seed, and Mully Mole was working so
industriously TO keep the bugs from
spelling the corn, the gardener was
watching for the corn to come up
through the ground
And of course it didn't come. How
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and laughter but presently Anne and
Edgar found themselves talking about
music.
In what kind of music do you find
most enjoyment" asked Anne.
All depends on my mood" said
Edgar. An hour or two ago, "a
have chosen a 'Humoresque lightly
played on a piano. but now 1 could
tolerate a whole symphony orchestra
in something soulful"
Anne's eyes were full of surprised
inquiry at his mention of the HUI
moresque," but just at that moment
the architect spoke to her.
Mrs. Mason tells me you are dom
iciled at the new Selkirk studios, my
pet architectural achievement of the
year" was his half comment, half
question.
YES" answered Anne and Edgar
in the same breath. Then they looked
at each other in wide eyed bewilder-
ment, which slowly gave way to I'M
Outstanding.
80 you are my musical neighbor ~
he almost gasped. II offer my pro-
found apologies for my execrable
singing, which was poor rapture poor
ly expressed over my escape from
boarding house life to a place 1 was
able to make a bit homelike."
'Since you didn't know my name
was Anne, 1 suppose 1 must forgive
you." she replied, blushing- Then the
architect once more claimed their at
tention.
LAS 1 recall the Ian of that build
ing" he chuckled, sit will be a simple
matter to cut a door between adjoin-
ing apartments in case more space
should be required"
A few months later the alteration
was made.-iCopyright 1916, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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as he thought. large one, he seized
on it once.
In his establishment at finding it
so heavy he dropped it, with the re-
suit that it exploded with direful eff
feet. The man was hurled several
yards away, but strangely enough
beyond lying stunned for a few min
utes he was unhurt-
'.Whewi boys,'' he muttered. when
he recovered his speech, that egg
was the stalest 1 ever ran across"
When Jimmy Martin announced
that he was going to give up barber
ing and study dentistry, his friends
gathered to congratulate him.
wal, Jimmy" said Uncle "Si'
Grannis. after a period of cogitation.
it'll be about the easiest thing you
can take up, 1 reckon. Cause. of
course, you already know how t work
the chair
Miss Boss was a settlement worker,
and one day she called at the home of
the Thompsons. She found no one at
home but q girl of about IL and a
smaller brother. After talking with
the little mother a few moments, she
said:
And does your little brother help
you at all2 What does he do all day2'
The little girl gave her younger
brother a proud glance, and said:
Say, kid, smoke cigarette for de
lady. and swallow de stub.''
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Clio be Sights
BY THE ATcHIsON GLOBE.

Most of the men you see hurrying
to work are late.
How the rest of the men do hate a.
Model Husband.
Efficiency is the greatest hardship
to a shiftless person.
You are getting old when the do
ings of young folks seem foolish.
The average man has more politi-
cal prejudices than political princi-
Piles.
Old timers always shake hands
even if they meet each other a dozen
times a day.
Save your hot air for winter, and do
a little real work this spring and
summer.
1t is our contention that stogies
they don't.
Most of those engaged in making
hay while the sun shines have to work
long hours.
A woman's day of triumph is the
day she meets some other woman who
has larger feet.
About the time a man concludes he
is very clever and can't be caught a
detective is hired to watch him.
1t may be said for the correspond
ence school that it's students devote
very little time to the college yell.
Speaking of exceptions to the rule,
once in a long while a woman is pun
ished for numbering her husband
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-31
DINNER STORIES.

Now, what dc you want?" asked
the sharp woman. st called
to see if l could sell you some bakin'
powder, ma'am." said the seedy gen
t1eman with the staggering whiskers
well, you can't sell no bakin' powder
here, and amt got no time to waste
on peddlers. anyway" Come to think
Of it, ma'am." said the seedy gentle
man, as he fastened his bag, Il
wouldn't care to sell you any powder.
This poky little kitchen of yours is so
low in the ceiling that the bread
wouldn't have no chance to rise"
Some workmen on an ostrich farm
in South Africa one day found a live
shell left by some artillerymen who
had been at target practice on the
plains a few days before. Not know
ing it was loaded. they whitewashed
it and placed it in an ostrich's nest;
thinking to play a joke upon the
boss.
The next morning one of the hands
came around for eggs, and finding,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-31
Jayhawker Jots

The silver lining to Bennington
cloud, as pointed out by the Ottawa
County Democrat: Bennington has
some cracker-jack horseshoe pitchers,
even if we are minus a ball team.
One of the Lickskillet Locals, in the
Harper Sentinel: Lutte Trublood mis-
took her fathers bottle of hair dye for
| toilet cream one day last week. I'm
| Gle Timothy says there never was such
a decided brunette in the Trublood
family as Lutte is now.
| 1t scares the best of u.s. as the Mar
shall County News says, to answer
| the front door bell and find a great
big policeman standing there; it
startles us as much as does the ring
ing of the telephone bell very late at
night. or very early in the morning.
Related by the Plainville Times:
arrived boarder, a young city lady,
from the train to the farm house.
when all at once she spied a small
herd of calves in a field nearby, "Oh,' -
she cried, look at the little cowletsi"
Grinning the farmer replied: NO,
miss, them's bullets
4 Paradise farmer lost uninsured
barn by fire last week, reports the
Rocks County Record 1t contained
nearly $4,000 worth of grain. And the
Record adds: How is that for hard
luck? Only a Kansas farmer could
| Sldnu II ana not Dat an eye. me 1arm-
er will now pay insurance premiums
all the balance of his life.
Another unusually queer caper of
| lightning is reported by the Roosevelt
| correspondent for the Oberlin Times
A bolt struck a barn near Roosevelt
in which were stabbed nine horses 1t
! killed three of the horses. two at the
extreme end from where the lightning
entered the barn and one in about the
middle of the row of horses. And each
of the three horses killed had a mate
in the same stall which was uninjured
| Furthermore, the lightning did not set
| fire to the barn.
Observations by Keith Clevenger in
his Osawatomie Graphic: The man
who can be driven to drink cam be
| led into anything. -. There's no
use drowning your troubles if your
cares can't swim. Though a
calendar is generally good for a year,
! its days are numbered. Those
who sow the seeds of disloyalty can
| hope only to reap the tares of de-
Struct1on. WOman's crowning
glory may be her hair, but she does
not want anybody to be at the corona
ton. The party who always or
| ders the same" at the soda fountain
invariably signs every petition that
comes along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-31

If it is true that humans can be
reached easiest through their stom-
achs. it is possible that the plan being
now for the United
States to feed Mexico to keep her
|hordes of poems from starving will
bring about the pacification of that
unhappy land. But there will still be
the politically ambitious in Mexico to
deal with, and they always seem to be
able to procure or confiscate enough
stuff to keep some sort of an army on
the job; and there will still be the
bandit gangs to cope with. the Villistas
and the Zapatistas. ct cetera. So while
Uncle Sam may be able to pacify most
of the Mexicans by feeding them, ne
will eventually have to fight some OF
them, in all probability, before peace
lis restored again to Mexico.
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QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
The farther uptown a man lives
the longer it takes him to get down
to business.
In spite of the high cost of living.
sofa pillows continued to be marked
down.
The people who say life isn't worth
living would jump from the frying
pan into the fire.
Because a vaudeville performer
does a turn, it doesn't necessarily
prove that he is a crank.
All the worlds a stage, but the fell
low who has to shift for himself isn't
necessarily scene shifter-
You never can tell. What appear
to be golden opportunities are not al
ways worth their weight in gold
It's a bitter disappointment to the
pessimist to discover that things are
not as bad as he had supposed.
Mrs. Wigwag-"I didn't see you
much at the opera during the season"
Mrs. Talkalot-''No, had such cold
all winter l could scarcely speak
above above whisper"
First Doctor-'Were you successful
with Bjones' case?'' Second Doctor
Not at ALL First Doctor-"But 1
see he is around again" Second Doc
tor-"Oh, he's around. all right; but
haven't been able to collect my bill"
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able evidence in his St. Louis speech
that he has rebukes merely for the
hyphenated Americans who have for
gotten themselves.
Such hyphenates are in a most in
significant minority.
The great mass of the German
Americans in this country might rath-
er be expected to line up behind
Roosevelt for president. for as he says,
they are as uncompromisingly patri-
otto and as loyal to their own country,
not their mother country, as are any
other class of Americans.
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a TIMELY WARNING.

The people of the United States have
enjoyed constitutional freedom a long
time without any conscious effort to
maintain it and many of us have for
gotten. many of us have never learn
led. that it does not come and remain
|of itself. writes Elihu Root in Leslie's.
The principles of our constitutions
have passed without question so long
that many of us have forgotten the
reasons which underlie them and the
necessity for maintaining them. Now
the principles are questioned. The as
sumptions of individuals rights which
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Household Hints
Salads.

At this time of the year, when a
persons appetite is inclined to be poor,
salads of some kind should be on the
table once a day. Mayonnaise can be
made and kept on hand for a week or
more. Here are a few salad com bina-
tons:
Vegetable Salads - Cabbage, al
monds, lettuce. Blanch and cut the
almonds lengthwise. Shave the cab
bage fine.
Lettuce and asparagus Cleft whole) +;
serve very cold.
Watercress, tomatoes and cucum-
bers.
Potatoes celery capers and onion
(scraped) in peas on lettuce.
Tomatoes stuffed with celery, and
nuts Put spoon of mayonnaise and
one-half nut on the top of each TO
garnish.
Pretty Salad for Ladies' Luncheon
Decorate plate with lettuce leaves,
then put cream cheese through a
strainer and put around on lettuce
Fill center with preserved currants
and serve.
Fruit Salad-Two grapefruits peel
ed and separate fruit from skins one
half pound white or green grapes
skinned and cut in half pieces. When
ready to serve add a few almonds cut
thin Serve with mayonnaise dressing
in lettuce cups.
Egg Salad-Slice eight hard-boiled
eggs; mix with this half a nickeFs
worth of elephant sailed peanuts. Pour
over this salad dressing and serve on
lettuce leaf.
Salad Dressing-TWo teaspoons of
flour, one teaspoon salt, one-half tea
spoon mustard, two teaspoons sugar,
dash of paprika. Mix dry ingredients,
add yolks of two eggs, beat well, add
two-thirds cup milk and stir over fire
until it thickens. Take off fire and
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. I

From the Chicago News.
And some men are nearly all pre-
amble.
Lots of men marry young because
they are.
Popularity that is purchased Is sell
dom d bargain.
Fortunate is the individual who is
both right and president.
Praising a rival may be good Chris
tianity, but it's poor politics.
When a fool holds his tongue he
isn't as foolish as he might be.
After a girl gets married she eats
fewer pickles and more onions.
Women dislike a womanly man as
much as men dislike a manly woman.
Speculation sounds more refined
than gambling, but a fellow loses
equally.
The man who isn't capable of win
ming the love of at least one woman
made a mistake in getting born.
A woman is always telling A man
that she can't understand a lot of
things that she knows more about
than he does.
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THE SONG OF THE PLoy

SUM- VI ~"
l cut through the burrows,
The brown loan springs high;
The sunlight is golden,
The blue of the sky
Brings promise of summer,
OF fruit and of grain 81
1 cut through the burrows i
Its springtime again.
/ cut through the burrows;
The flash of my steel
Is dixie, but peaceful;
How happy 1 feel!
The winter is over,
The summer is near;
cut through the burrows,
For springtime is herei
l cut through the burrows
AS if in dream
see the corn waving
The faint golden gleaE
That blooms in the summer
l hurry and hum:
l cut through the burrows
For springtime has come.
cut through the burrows
With joy in my soul;
wish the whole world
Might be happy and whole,
l wish that the swords
OF the nations might be
Just plows-and the springtime
Might come DER the sea.
Margaret F. Sangster, Jr., in The Chris
tan Herald
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underlie our system of government
are denied and it is very important
that the people of the country should
address themselves to the study OF
their constitutions and the reasons for
them. That ought to be done before
changes are made which would be
very difficult to reverse, and which
would result in giving US an entirely
different kind of government.
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Journal Entries

Any quantity of the surprise that
people show is feigned.
+ - +
Some of the people who are blessed
with caution are accused of ccwardice.
4. + J
Considerable of the freedom ami
liberty in this land is of the imaginary
sort.
= I. =
Something of a rarity among hu-
mans is the person whose head is not
turned by success.
+ j. !
The married man who takes an op-
timistic view of life must have a per-
fectly wonderful wife.
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How inconsiderate of the New York
|ers who are agitating the adoption of
'the extra hour of daylight plan for
the little old town. Were it in opera
|tion many of their neighbors among
the merry villagers of the metropolis
would almost invariably meet them
selves coming home from their revels
begun the night before when they
started for work in the morning.
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H stands for Haiistones as we'll as
|Hessian fly, and the latter hasn't much
on the former when it comes to dam
aging wheat. Reports have it that hail
storms which recently descended on
Barton and Rush counties damaged
|the wheat in those states to the tune
|of a million dollars.
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Possibly there will now be a change
in the attitude of the United States
toward Mexico Maybe something
will be substituted for the Watchful
Waiting policy. The oil interests
around Tampico in the hands of
4 merican citizens have made a vigor-
Gus protest TO President Wilson against
the treatment that is being accorded
them by such authority as there is in
NTavioo
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And isn't this the cruellest blow
of all? The employees of Uncle Sam
AT Washington cannot celebrate Flag
Day this year as has been their Gus
tom by wearing little American flags
in their buttonholes. The supply of
these little flags, so those who deal in
them say. is exhausted and there is no
way of replenishing it. The flags are
made in Germany.
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Did you ever hear of such thing
Somebody is spending money for
Roosevelt" OF course. nobody is
spending any money in the interests of
ANY of the other presidential candi-
dates
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that every bit of seed was gone-every
mitei
And then he noticed the mole
tracks. He hadn't noticed them be-
fore, because in the rough ground of
the garden they did not show plainly
as in the front lawn.
'Of course my corn doesn't come
upi' said that gardener Grossly. THAT
wicked mole has eaten all the seed.
I'll get after him this very day-
naughty fellow that he ISL
So the gardener planned to run
Mully Mole out of the garden. Wasn't
that too bad when all the time M,,IIv
was working his best to HELM ths
gardener?
That only shows" said Mr.. Carde,
Toad. who heard all about it. that
nobody should judge by appearances ;.
-(Copyright-Clara Ingram Judson ,
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Restoring LinoIeum.

When the pattern of linoleun OF
oilcloth has been worn off, it can be
made as good as new or better, as
follows: Give it one or two coats of
flat yellow or ground colod. let dry
thoroughly, then apply one or two
coats of quick drying varnish and
stain combined. 1t is easily cleaned,
dura BILE and neat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-31

Probably the most astonishing
come back" of the great European
war is the temperance of a Serbian
army. fully equipped and ready in
every way for such business as may
como to its hand.
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Gentle Spring may not have shown
much of her form this year, but the
summer that has nosed her out of the
.limelight appears to be delightfully."-
gentle enough to suit even the most
III stidio,1s
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Frosting may be put on a layer cake
with a paint brush. Buy the simplest
kind of a soft brush and keep it for
this purpose alone and spotlessIy
clean. You will find that you will
save time and the frosting will be
smoother
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Oh, say! How inconsiderate of the
British newspapers They are char
|acterizinG President Wilson's peace
talks as "electioneering speeches"
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could it, when the mice had eaten
it up?
AS days went by and still there
were no corn shoots. the gardener dug
open several of the hillocks and found