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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

universal incentives to labor. The rise
in commodity prices and the initiation
of profits are also factors in the move
ment. The concessions to labor are
being made with a full apprehension
of what must be expected when the
war is over. Then reactionary ten
denotes will surely assert themselves.
Our manufacturers will find that they
are elevated to high cost level COM
pared with foreign manufacturers,
who will be so much the better able
to keep US out of foreign markets, and
also better able to compete with us
in our own markets. Labor at pres
ent is securing an advantage from the
purely ephemeral rush of activity
caused by war. When this is over.
will Ia Dor be willing to accept it's share
of the downward readjustment? I'm
less prices and wages are allowed to
fall back to more normal and natural
levels, it will be impossible for our
manufacturers to escape some very
serious difficulties. Prices will prob
ably adjust themselves automatically
when supply and demand conditions re-
cover their natural sway, but no re-
duction in wages will be possible with
cut strong opposition. These tenden-
cies though some distance ahead, are
occupying the thoughtful attention of
industrial managers. Home con-
ditions affecting the market are gen
orally encouraging. Trade and indus
try are active, and the monetary Sit
uation remains satisfactory. Railroads
are reporting large earnings. The
steel trade shows no abatement of &C
tivity. Railroads are still placing lib
eral orders for rails and equipment,
and the outlook is for further con-
tinuance of munition orders; immense
quantities of the latter now being
shipped abroad"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
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st. Louis is evidently bent on having
nothing but superwomen for lady
cops. Read again the qualifications
they must possess Physically perfect,
minimum age 80, possessed of endur-
anoe. health and prepOssessing appear
ance and personality, a proper social
outlook. knowledge of the world,
alertness. courage. tact. ability, flaw
less record and an education of high
degree. But women of this caliber
wouldn't need to earn their living in
the rather disagreeable field of police
work. Countless men of means are in
the market for wives of such proper
tons. And it is no wonder that st.
Louis has so far been unable to find
more than one of the four women it
would have on its police force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Time is the kind of money a lot of people
can't see.
1t has always seemed little strange that
a man invented talking machines.
A poor man wastes lot of time thinking
what he could do if he could afford it.
No notion is so absurd that you can't get
a lot of people to accept 1T as the truth.
In the home drama, Father plays the
goat part more frequently than anyone
else
Solomon was so wise he probably never
tried to fool all those wives and lady
friends.
So much of the enthusiasm is possessed
by youngsters who don't know how to
use it.
In this country an aristocrat has to do
something more than avoid work to
prove it,
A woman will forgive her husband a
good deal, if it isn't an affair with another
woman.
The pest who never let's the conversation
lag at concert should also receive both
barrels.
Fishing is never as good anywhere else
as it is in the advertisements of summer
resorts.
Once in awhile a man takes in too much
territory and tries to fool both his wife
and his affinity.
The chronic kicker should be kicked oc-
casionally, so that he may see both sides of
the situation
There is only one best, but fifty million
American people believe they have it when
it comes to matter of Judgment.
When man talks a good deal about
what good neighbors he has. it is an in
dication that he is a pretty good neighbor
himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
ANOTHER WAR HORRoR

news from Germany indicates that
women are the sorest sufferers from
war IN more ways than one. Owing to
the rubber famine in Kaiserland there
Is such scarcity of elastic for gar
tiers that the women are being caused
great embarrassment and inconven-
lence in the rather essential matter of
Keeping their stockings up. So acute
is the situation that the possibility of
German women going without stock
1ngs is a probability, and that will
prove to be their undoing, as far as
attracting the men is concerned. The
only thing more unsightly than a bare
leg is pair of them. But maybe the
women's skirts are not so short in Ger
many as they are in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Lots of us spend all our odd moments
trying to get even.
A fellow naturally has the heart taken
out of him when he is In love.
A woman is always shy about telling
her age. In fact, several years shy.
A man isn't always sure of his ground
when he takes the word for the deed.
Mother Eve was the woman to announce
that she didn't have a thing to wear.
Fortunate is the literary man who can
ride in taxi instead of doing hack work
The young surgeon begins to carve
career for himself by cutting his patients
When the Judge hands down decision,
does he defendant take it as a handm me-
down?
One thing about the man who always
sees his duty is that he has a chance to
dodge it.
Blubbs-"That fellow Guzzler is always
full of animal spirits" Slobbs-'I should
say vegetable spirits mixed with mineral
water
Nell-"what do you think of Jack
Rapidde?" Belle-"Oh, he's awfully
spoiled" Nell-"He was pretty fresh with
me last night"
war is HE'LL said the man who has
penchant for trite quotations. That's a
SANDER on the devili' retorted the CORE
spondent, who had just returned from the
front
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Euening Chat
On Mental Tiptoes.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

ooh, dear, I'm so excited" said my
little neighbor, when I dropped in to
see her one day last week.
''Why, what has happened?" 1
asked.
1 didn't know whether to expect
bad news or good, for though her
cheeks were pink and her eyes
starry, there was an anxious, strained
expression on her face.
Nothing has happened" she said.
Its Just what's going to happen-or
isn't. That's the trouble. My sister
and 1 have been talking over some
plans for the summer We have a per-
many people to be considered, and I'm
so afraid they won't all fall in with IL.
I'm trying to think how to handle
them all, and how to arrange things so
that everybody will be happy, and I'm
so excited that 1 haven't done a bit
of work this morning. Just look at
my kitcheni 1t seems as if 1 couldn'
wait for the summer to come, so ca n
be sure we can have things the way
we want them!"
AS looked at that flushed, eager
face, 1 was full of sympathy for my
little neighbor.
L know just how she ached to get
at the future, just how her brain
burned with plans, and her heart al
| ternately scared with hopes and sank
with fears.
Indeed, I'm sure no one who is or
ever has been young and intense can
| help knowing just how tormenting
| that restless, eager state of mind can
be.
If the future were a material thing
and by standing on tiptoes one could
| get hold of it, how we would strain
and stretch until we reached it and
| could mold it to our hearts desire.
And since we can't stand on tiptoes
in the body, we do it with the mind
and that's why it tires us so to get
worked up over plans.
Now if I should tell my little neigh
Dor that three months from now she
may feel very different about this
scheme of hers I know just how in
dignant and incredulous she would be
/ And yet that is true.
One spring some years ago 1 was
seized with a desire to spend the fol-
! lowing winter in a certain place In
a frenzy of planning I began to at
tack everything and everybody that
stood in my way. Several things
did and said in this frenzy 1 am now
heartily ashamed of. The way was
finally made clear-I could have what
I wanted. But the summer brought
changes in conditions and in my point
| of view, and loi when the fall came
no longer wanted it.
That has been a lesson to me, not
my only lesson, but my sharpest.
To be sure, I still get excited over
plans, but 1 try to recall that exper-
fence and have a little more patience
a little more trust that if 1 let things
work out until it is time to act they
may have partially adjusted them
selves.
''All things work together for good
to them that love the Lord" you
know. And if you think that only
means Church members, and YOU
aren't, translate it as the angel did fol
Abou Ben Adhem, into those who
love their fe1low-men."
In other words, be a little less sell
fish and a little more patient and
trusting, and see if things don't ad
just themselves pretty well withoui
so much pushing and pulling on you
part.-(Protected by The Adam:
| Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
A wINrER.s night IN FRANCE.


'Tis strange to lie here in the trodden snow
And watch those tiny lanterns come and go,
Yet feel no helping hand can rescue me
That dawn will find me in eternity!
Just at the last, I pause a space to think,
To link my life together, link by link,
Small links of joy and weighty ones or
oh, but t I'm glad to throw aside the
chain
For why repine? How better may one die
Than in the open, meath the starlit sky !
How bright they shine against the purple
The seifsame stars we used to see at home.
Their charge was splendid, yet we beat
And raced the bloodhounds in a roaring
To close and try the issue out with steel.
Was that tonight? Ny senses seem to reel.
1 must have dreamed it-why, I'm safe in
bed
That sweet. faint rhythm running through
Is just the lair air to which we always dance.
1 dreamed that 1 was hurt-that this was
Francei
1 dreamed her hand had led me to the
fight
Where / lay dying in the starlit night
I'll draw the covers snug about me, !
Twas not a dream-the eoverlet is snow
%. c. A. Child in the New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

Industry is the mother of good luck.
Fools often find opportunities, but wise
men make them
It's difficult to keep yodr circle of ac-
Quaintances squared
Ceremony was invented by a wise man
to keep fools at distance.
Solitude is better than company-when
the company is not congenial.
A promising young man may be all right,
but we prefer the paying one.
Occasionally a married man goes home
early because he knows his wife is away.
The self-made man is always ready to
tender himself a vote of thanks.
bright orator is one who always uses
the right word in the right place at the
right time.
Somehow man nearly always gets sick
at the wrong time-there is either a party
or a dressmaker in the house.
A woman never idolizes man unless she
is self-deceived into thinking him much
better than he really is.
Even his Satanic majesty has never been
able to devise a satisfactory for cir
cumventing a womn's curiosity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Laundry Helps.

Washing Compound-Cut fine one
bar laundry soap into two quarts soft
water. Add one teaspoon lye. Boil
all till thoroughly dissolved, remove
from fire and, when slightly cooled
stir in cup of gasoline. Put enough of
mixture into a boiler of water to make
strong suds, then plunge clothes in
without rubbing, and boil thirty min
utes. They will come out clean.
Put Spoonful or two of turpentine
into your boiler before boiling clothes
and they will be much whittier. Rinse
in two waters. Turpentine is also a
good disinfectant.
After Washing Clothes wash the
hands in vinegar, as it counteracts the
I've in the soap and renders the hands
soft.
Use Warm Water to sprinkle
starched clothes; effect will be twice
as satisfactory.
When You Need to launder a gar
ment for Immediate wear, wash and
starch as usual, but instead of hanging
out to dry, lay flat on a bath towel
roll towel and garment tightly. In a
short time the towel will absorb the
excess moisture and the garment can
be ironed.
If Your Ironing Board cover is
burned or torn and you wish to repair
it without putting on a new cover,
take piece of muslin, dip it in cold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

Now perhaps you wonder why Terry
Turtle, even though he was brave and
quick, would risk climbing up on Mr.
Caters log. For of course Terry
Mr.. Cater would like nothing better
than to eat him up for his dinner
and that he could do it tool
But Terry had not lived near by
and watched Mr.. Cater for long, long
years without learning something
about him. And he knew, and he
could tell to a second, just when Mr..
Cater was going to try to catch him
indeed, he could, And, moreover,
Terry liked his little joke. 1t tickled
him immensely to see Mr.. Cater lunge
forward, his mouth all ready for a
good meal and then-not get it!
That was Terry's idea of really good
time.
When Terry saw that Mr. Cater
was about to jump for him, he made
one quick move-and down in the
water he went, and before Mr.. Cater
had climbed back out again, Terry
was on the other side of the little riv-
err laughing in his shell at Mr.. Cater S
disappointment.
So, when Terry climbed up onto the
new log, he thought to himself, Now
l am going to have fun Mr.. Cater will
see me SO close, and he will think to
himself. Now I'll catch that turtle
creaturei' and then how l will fool the
old fellow"
And that was exactly what hap
pened.
For, even as Terry was climbing
up on to the log. Mr.. Cater was plan
ming out just how he would catch
him.
1T will be easy now" said Mr..
Cater to himself placidly. For once
in his life, that turtle creature has
taken a foolish chance. I'll just wait
till he gets quietly settled. and then
I'll nab him."
So, when Terry remarked about the
log, Mr.. Cater just pretended not to
hear and to be so sound asleep that
he didn't even see Terry Turtle
''That'll fool him.. said Mr.. Cater
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

Baked Potatoes With Bacon-Pre-
pare large potatoes for baking; cut in
halves, lay on each half a strip of
bacon, lay in pan and bake.
Hungarian Red Cabbage-One red
cabbage, two sweet red peppers, one
fourth pound sliced bacon, one cup
vinegar, one cup of water. one tea
spoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pep
per. Slice cabbage and peppers (care-
fully removing seeds and white parts
of peppers). Cut bacon in narrow
strips and fry until crisp. To the
bacon add vinegar and water, salt and
peppers. Boil about thirty minutes.
adding water if necessary to keep from
burning.
Spring Apple Pie" (new)-Make
apple pie in usual way, filling under
crust with quartered apples. Add one
fourth cup sugar, then take one-half
cup of any leftover fruit juice or the
canned fruit itself, such as peaches,
pears, pineapple; pour it over apples,
put on top crust and bake. You not
only have a delicious pie but also a
use for small amounts of leftover
canned fruit and a saving of sugar
when fruit is already sweetened.
Apple Rolls-Two cups flour. one
teaspoon salt, one tablespoon butter,
one tablespoon lard, one cup sweet
milk (scant), a little cinnamon, three
large tart apples chopped. Sift flour.
baking powder and salt. work in but
ter and lard. add milk. Place on
board and roll or pat into sheets one
half inch thick and longer than wide;
brush with butter, sprinkle with brown
sugar and cinnamon, cover with ap-
pies; roll and cut like rolls. Sauce:
One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter,
one tablespoon flour, one-half tea
spoon salt, one and one-quarter cups
hot water, lemon juice. Pour over
rolls to half cover and bake. Per-
fectly delicious and easily made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY K. MoULTON

Preparedness.
Look over your toys
And mend your waders:
Throw care to the dogs,
Ye trout stream invaders.
Rig anew your lightest tackle,
Tie another catchy hackle,
Inspect each leader with due care,
For experience has taught
That the big one can be caught
On tackle sound in good repair.
The glowing camp fire brightly burning,
Spreading odors that cause yearntng,
Coffee fragrant, trout just right
Poatoes in jackets, out of sight
Then your pipe and your dream
OF the beauties that CLEAN,
And waters that dance
e. ]. 4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

This big merger of independent oil
companies that has been effected and
for the announced purpose of waging
a war on the Rockefeller Oil concerns
might it not also be a trust or COM
bination under the ban of the Sher-
man law? The Standard Oil, be it re-
membered. is no longer a trust in the
eyes of the law. 1t was officially
busted" some time ago. But it's frag-
ments have been doing better than
they ever did when they were working
together as one company-in the
open
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Did 1t Ever Occur to You?

Did you ever ride on train and
when you put your head out of the
window have the pleasant experience
of getting a good hot cinder in your
eye? Then, when you drew your head
back mighty sudden hit it on the
sash and knock a piece of hide off as
big as a half a dollar from the place
where the hair hasn't grown for the
last 10 years-from your head. not
the sash-and while you were rub
bling the injured spot, have some old
lady in the back seat ask If you had
Just as soon as not put the window
down, and then the train draws into
your station and you go out leaving
your umbrella in the seat? If you
ever had any such experience, please
keep it to yourself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
STICK TO WEATHER BUREAU.

A good deal of fun is poked at the
government weather bureau but it is
one OF the best friends of the farmer
and OF everyone engaged in transport
ing perishable products, says the Kan
sas Industrialist. 1t is worth while to
rely on its predictions rather than on
any new and unauthentic systems Of
forecasting. The weather bureaus
Predictions are not always exactly full
filled. but they do come true in the
.Fast majority of cases. Most people
have lost their belief in almanacs but
1hey are still ready to accept systems
& uite as unreliable. The latest pro-
fesses to be able to forecast weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Journal Entire s

Pessimism and popularity seldom
walk together.
= E +
If you don't take yourself seriously
nobody else will.
A man without a purpose in life is
like a fish without tail.
= + =
Sometimes, too, when a fellow gets
in the path of a busy bee he is likely
to be stung.
Speaking of rare ombinations, how
about finding the good, the true and
the beautiful in one human being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Easter Thoughts.

Gather round, fellows, here's some
swell stuff about the Easter scenery:
Don't if you're more than five feet
six, get up and down stripes. Don't
if you're under five three, get round
about trimming. Don't get a jacket
that has sleeves too short or too long,
for misfit sleeves spoil what may 9TH
erwise be a very attractive jacket.
Don't if the family Bible has you
down for over 40-you needn't admit
it-get a suit because the saleswoman
tells you it's too girlish. Don't be a
flapper at 40. Ring off. Give us the
mems department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

for a long time ahead by means of the
riffs and spottedness of the sun and
its shafts of solar radiation. All scien-
tific authorities agree that the weather
can be predicted only for a short time
in advance and everybody interested
in the weather will do well to stick
to the conclusions of the weather bu-
reau, which are based on the most
careful scientific Investigations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

II the pursuit of Villa has been
brought to an end. as the dispatches
from Mexico and Washington would
seem to indicate. why keep the Amer
lean forces in Mexico, as there is also
evident intention of doing? Is Wash
ington of a mind that there will be
other business for American soldiers
in Mexico before long, and that it
wants to have them on the Job?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

Nebraska also seems to be as much
in need as Kansas for a system that
will facilitate the counting of votes
cast at general primaries and elections
and collecting the returns. All of the
results of the primaries held in Ne
braska on Tuesday of last week are
not yet determined.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
Household Hints
Removes Squeak"

To take squeaking out of new
shoes take a platter of some sort, a
big pie plate will do, and pour a little
hnseed oil in it. Let the soles of creak-
ing shoes rest in this over night, and
in the morning you will find that they
not only do not make any more noise,
but that the oil has made the soles
impervious todampness as well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

Speaking of courageous politicians,
how about the PIG members of the
Chinese national assembly who have
resolved that Yuan Shi Kai should be
tried on charges of impeachment and
also for high treason? Yuan doesn't
stand for foolishness of this variety
whether he be serving his country as
an emperor or as a president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

- Kansas is a great state. indeed. in
many respects. But the recent report
on the conditions that prevail at the
-Osawatomie state hospital indicates
that the care she gives her dependents
IS not one of them. And more's the
shame to Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

He made one quick move-and down
I'm the water he went.
he played his own little game at the
same time.
TN pretend 1 don't notice him."
said Terry to himself, land then wen
see what will happen"
So he settled down in the warm
sunshine and pretended that he had
forgotten all about Mr.. Cater.
1t wasn't half an hour (Which is q
very short time to alligators and
turtles) till Mr.. Cater made a big
lunge forward and snapped his great
Jaws shut-on nothing at ALL Clever
Terry Turtle had felt him coming and
had slid off into the safe shelter of
the water-just in time to save his
life And Mr.. Cater went dinneriesr
that -(Copyright-Clara Ingram
Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

: And the fact that the price of golf
balls in this country was not in
creased on account of the war can
only be taken as evidence that some
body overlooked bet and a little easy
,oora,-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

And now the French are advancing
in the Verdun maelstrom and in the
vicinity of Dead Mans Hill. And an
ether wonder is that there is anything
left of this hill but its name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

How Mexican! Yuan Shi Kai and
his coterie of private advisers are re-
ported to have feathered their own
nests with funds of the Chinese gov
.ernment to the amount of 100000, 900
4aels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
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TERRY TURTLES JOKE.

gloatingly "And just think what Q
dinner ] am going to havei"
But dear me! That didn't fool Terry
Turtle one Bit He knew perfectly well
just what Mr.. Cater was thinking and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

!. A diplomatic break with Germany
would also open the way for Uncle
sam to conserve his supply of note
Daner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

starch, place it over the torn spot
and iron till it is dry. You will have
an iron surface as smooth as can be
desired.