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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
SIDE T ALM S

BY RUTH CAMERON.

Styles in clothes are foolish things.
When you come down to ii they are
really nothing but the year mark that
the merchants are clever enough TO
put on their wares SO that we won't
be satisfied to wear them until they
wear out.
Just think of the reduction in the
cost of living if there were no such
thing as style, and women were salts
fed to wear a garment SO long as IL
was comfortable and in good condl-
ton.
Think of the narrow skirts that we
put into the discard two years ago,
not because they were worn out or
shabby or not as becoming as when
they were bought, but because they
were branded 1914
OF course, there have always been
styles and changes of style, but the
way the pace has been accelerated in
the last few years is alarming. once
upon a time a style used to last two
or three years. Now they change
every year Nay, more. Haven't you
heard the saleswoman say, Il think
you'll like this better than that; this
is a model we just got in, and that
was one of the early fall models"
But l did not come here to rave
against clothes styles. 1 know the
futiIity of it. AS we approach the
millennium we may also approach an
ideal in this respect Beauty and be-
comingness and durability may out
distance style as the criterion of
clothes selection. But for the pres
ent I suppose even you and I, who do
enough thinking to realize the folly
of it all, will put our thoughts aside
when it comes to action and join the
rush to get the latest model.
But what I do want to protest
against is style in faces.
Do you know what I mean?
Let me sketch the face that is in
style nowadays and see if you don't
recognize it.
The hair is strained back from the
forehead and brought down in front
of the ears. in some kind of little
f1apadoodles. The skin is clear but
unnaturally, white. What little eX-
pressiop there is, is probably one of
boredom or superciliousness; the
features are heavily regular, one eye
Cor both) is usually hidden by the
line of the hat.
In the country or small towns you
will not notice this face SO often, but
pass down the streets Of a big city
and you will see it again and again.
How do they do it?
1 don't know. l suppose the style
mania has entered their hearts, and
dominated their whole personality so
strongly. that it even impresses itself
upon the face.
Wonderful, isn't it? But not pleas
antly so. At least not to my thinking.
Copyright by George Matthew
Adams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

STORY of the Automobile" by H.
i. Barber. is a new book of about $50
pages which treats in an original and
unusual way the history of the auto
mobile. its commercial development,
and its position in finance, and forms
a fascinating story of effort and
achievement. II traces in detail the
history of the automobile from the
first crude attempt of a Frenchman,
over-l so years ago, to make a horse
less carriage driven by steam, follows,
step by step. the commercialization of
the motor car down to date. and de-
votes much space to the investment
aspects of the automobile industry,
which it analyses exhaustively. The
book is published by A. ]. Munson &
Co.. Chicago. and is for sale by lead
ing booksellers. Price $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
No TIME FOR NOISE.

This year of all others is the time
for safe and sane Fourth of July
celebration. The first Independence
day since the nation entered the war
for liberty should be ;horoly
patriotic observance. The old-time
riot of. noise, death, fire and destruc-
ton, which was supposed to show
patriotism, would be very much out
of place under present conditions.
The country needs the powder, and
it needs to protect the life and limb
which were sacrificed in the former
observance, and the millions of prop
erty which regularly went up in
smoke and flame.
The sane Fourth movement has
made remarkable progress in the past
few years, and this year should see
the end of the old absurdity of cele-
brating the nations birthday with
pistols and crackers. with their in
evitabIe accompaniment of racing am
balances and changing fire engines
The deaths from Fourth of July cas-
ualties, which were 466 in 1908, had
been reduced by 1916 to 80, while the
injuries. winch were $500 the IlTSL
year, fell last year to $50. Formerly
the firemen expected to be kept on the
jump all day on the Fourth, but for
several years, in Chicago and other
cities where fireworks have been pro-
hibited. the number of alarms has ac-
tually been below the daily average
With this record it should hardly
need the recommendations of the fire
marshaIs to secure municipal orders
and individual cooperation against
the use of explosives on the Fourth.
The United, States is likely to burn
powder enough this year without
wasting any of it on Independence
day. Its list of dead and wounded in
the cause of liberty will be long
enough without adding to it in an an
tiquated and absurd observance of the
Fourth of July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

tured into Chambers street had an OPP
portunity to ride in one of the old
time horse cars, which thousands upon
thousands of visitors to the metropo-
lis have never seen elsewhere. But it
was the last chance. A o'clock on
Sunday morning a team OF horses
drew one of the Anticipated vehicles
over from the East side thru Cham
bers street. The horses were de-
tached and an official made the in
formal announcement that the horse
car industry had come to an end on
the cross-town lines of New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

That railroads are the "autocrats Of
the coal market and responsible for
present high prices" was the charge
of II. E. willard, Ohio coal operator
before the senate interstate commerce
committee. Regulate the railroads
Make them give us cars" Willard
shouted, land you will increase the
coal production of this country nearly
100 per cent" But how can the rail-
roads supply cars sufficient to carry
on the business of the country if they
don't have them? And how can the
railroads obtain more cars if the gov
eminent prevents their earning the
money to pay for them? Blaming the
railroads for everything that goes
wrong is a favorite pastime with a
large number of American citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

Inc old LADY had recently added
graphophone to her establishment.
morning her loving nephew had made
for her a record of her favorite cor
net solo she was delighted.
"How nice of him. she said Can
1 hear it,
"Wen,' said her niece, I'VE haven't
tried it yet, but still. I'll put it on"
1t was a pronounced success. and
the old lady was charmed
But her feelings changed when. af-
ter the solo was finished, the instru-
ment brought out with fatal clear
ness:
"Phew. It that's not good for an ex-
ira hundred in the old girls Will. L m
a Dutchman,'
A member of the company seated
in d train the other day mad oeen
relating some wonderful stories of
dreams fulfillet-. suddenly he turned
on the diminutive passenger who had
smiled at one Of his yarns. You ap-
pear to doubt my word. sir. he re-
marked. Perhaps you imagine tnat
dreams have no value p"
Mine hadn't" murmured the little
Indeed, And what did you
dream?'
'sThat a big black dog sprang out
of a dark passage and took about half
Strange to say" he continued, the
dog that actually did bite me was the
dog of my dream"
There you are. them" CALCULATED
the other man. "If you'd valued the
dream at it's proper worth you'd ave
been on the lookout for that dog and
might have escaped. And yet you
say that dreams have no value."
And I repeat, sir. that mine hadn't
for, unfortunately. / met the dog be-
fore 1 had the dream!"
Il don't seem to be able to say the
right thing to women" bashful
young man confided to US the other
day. land that's why I don't shine in
society. I'll tell you an instance of it.
Not long ago I met a woman I hadn't
seen for years, and I could see that
she was trying to keep young. So I
thought I'd say graceful thing to
her.
You carry your age remarkably
we'll said /.
We'll. the moment I said it 1 could
looking chilly and getting red, SO I
said:
Don't mind my little jokes-I new
er mean what 1 say. AS a matter of
fact, you don't carry your age bit
we'll.
And then she killed me with a
naughty look and sailed away wit h.
out saying goodbye. Seems to me I
should have put it rather differently,
don't you Think"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

Edwin DENLY, age Al, probably the
most distinguished American to enlist
in the ranks at the first call to arms.
has been promoted to the rank of cor
poral I'm the United States marine
corps. Mr.. DENLY was member of
congress from 1904 to 1911. former
resident of the Detroit board of COM
merce, and a prominent attorney of
that city. His enlistment as a private
in the marine corps caused consider
able comment when he expressed the
belief that he could serve his country
best as an enlisted man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
BY Roy K. MOULTON-

Frettfng at Fate.
One has heard it oft repeated
That in Life a lot are cheated
When the sorrow and the gIee
Is assigned,
Some are given easy sailing
Some i'll woe and want are wailing.
Fate by some is found to be
Scarcely kind.
Old and ancient is the notion
That this LIES a boundless ocean
Where few in ease may fare,
Others sink;
Those who find the going rougher,
Sob of how they have to suffer,
Things are seldom just or square,
So they think.
So historic and so hoary
Is this same old fearful story,
How but few have ever had
Half a show,
Ihat perhaps we ought to mention,
Ii we've taken your attention,
We had only meant to add
Amt 1t SOL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

when much of the worlds Transport
tation business will be carried on thru
the air. An aerial transportation line
recently has been established between
Turin and Rome in Italy. The pro-
motors have been granted permission
to carry mail. Special letter boxes
are to be placed in the postoffices and
railway stations in both Rome and
Turin wherein letters for the aero post
may be deposited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

for the next three days. Then he was
noticed talking very earnestly with a
builder and contractor. That evening
he made his appearance at the room
of his friend and quietly said:
"Honore, 1 have given up portrait
painting and have contracted to paint
all the buildings which a large con-
tractor is to build in the next three
years. I guess that is where l ought
to have begun VIII you be my wife
and set up housekeeping with me-"
And she said she would. and did
Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
THE SEARCMLIGET
latest News from the Fields of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION


Acieral is the name given to new
ly discovered metal alloy prepared by
a French inventor 1t contains so or
more per cent of aluminium. 1t has
the advantages of strength, lightness
and freedom from corrosion. 1t is be-
ing used for military helmets, and is
said to be adapted to aeroplane and
engine construction. Properly tenn
pered acieral has / tensile strength
of 5000 pounds to the square inch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

y well-known society performer
volunteered to entertain a roomfuI of
patients of the Coiney Hatch Lunatic
asylum. and made up very SUCCESS
full little monologue show, entirely hui
morous. The audience in the main
gave symptoms of being slightly Dor
ed, but one highly intelligent maniac
saw the whole thing in the proper
light and. clappfng the talented actor
on the shoulder. said: Glad you've
come. old fellow You and l will get
along fine. The other dippies here are
so dashed dignified What l say is
if a man is mad he needn't put on airs
about it, ~ ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

The New York horse car is far
ahead Of the cat in the number of it's
lives. Many times in years past its
~ ituary has been written but always
il bobbed up serenely again n the
columns of the daily papers. 1t has
died again and its demise is chron-
iclcd in the Rochester Democrat as
follows: AS late as Saturday last Wis
itors to lower New York who ven
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
KANSAS,

KANSAS.
oh. | have walked in Kansas
Through many harvest ffeld
And piled the sheaves of glory there
And down the wild rows reeled:
Each sheaf little yellow sun,
A heap OF hot-rayed gold;
Each binder like Creations hanu
To mould suns, as of old.
Straight overhead the orb of noon
Beat down with birthstone breath
The desert wind from south and west
Was blistering flame and DEATH
Yet it was gay in Kansas.
A-fighting that strong sun;
And / and many a fellow-tramp
Defied that wind and won
And we felt free in Kansas
From any sort of fear,
For thirty thousand tramps Ike us
There harvest every year.
She stretches arms for them to come,
She roars for helpers then,
And so it is in Kansas
That tramps, one month. are men.
-vachel Lindsay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

Society item: Miss Katherine
AIorey and Miss Mabel Vernon, both
well known in Topeka, where they Wis
tied for several weeks last year, have
been spending a few days in the Jail
at Washington, D. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

Topeka was told that it was con-
trary to the policy of the government
TO locate a military camp at a state
capital Then Uncle Sam located one
at Des MoineS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

why refer to the American soldiers
in France as regulars All of them
are volunteers. The term regular"
should be reserved for the conscripted
army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

feurs are needed on the fighting front.
Here is another chance for woman in
the war. She may not fight but she
G. drive a car
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

1t looks now as tho the British
would capture the coal fields around
Lens in time to help out on next win
ter's fuel supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

A committee of investigation SHOULD
be appointed to find out why Japan il
not in the fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

After listening to the advice of some
of the food conservers, says the Bos-
ton Transcript. one is forced to the
conclusion that they should be canned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
DINNER STORIES

His aunt was rich and elderly. She
called, Unexpectedly. when he was
out, and his wife was trying to en-
terrain her by such methods as she
thought to be best conducive to their
fntnr.a yNelfare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

They are punctuating it different
" now: America is. too. proud to
fight" says the Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

After a lapse of some thousands of
years, Greece is once more ruled by
n monarch named Alexander.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

Strange.

The man who Freezes On to all he
can Is usually Cold Proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
Crackers.


Things are getting to the point
where one simply has to eat crackers
with his soup. Soup itself is optional,
but crackers with it are compulsory.
one goes in a restaurant and orders
soup, feeling all the while a vague.
Indefinite dread. One seems to sense
the imminence of an ordeal What is
the cause of this strange feeling?
What can it mean? The soup is
brought and beside 1t one sees a plate
of crackers. All, yes!
One has to eat all those crackers.
There is nothing to be gained by
thrusting the crackers aside. All. if
we only could. We seem to realize
a handful of crackers to MUNICH. We
always have. The thing is inevitable.
Crackers have Il way of cluttering
up the gums 1t is not a pleasant
thing to discuss, but it is better that
these things be frankly considered.
Few people are willing to speak hon
estly and openly of their relations
with crackers. And yet there are few
who would not acknowledge if press
ed that with a mouthful of crackers
they have often been in despair. The
impulse. of course, is with two or
three bold sweeps of the tongue to
clear the teeth and gums at once. Gut
this is unthinkabIe. Let us rather
suffer in silence.
There is one solution to this crack
er problem that We have hesitated to
mention. We don't wish to offend
the readers sensibilities We don't
wish to poison the minds of the
younger readers.
But of course one might break one
crackers in ones soup.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

The Lap.
One often feels that as TO laps
While we could do without perhaps,
Yet we would miss them quite lot
For laps are handy, are they not?
One merely sits-on cots or CHEERS
Or chairs-when 10! Lap appears.
SO many things lap will hold,
A pan of peas. pot of gold.
A shoe to sole, an auto tire,
Or else ii lady you admire.
Though quite Il luxury, we'd call
A lap within the reach of all.
OF all at least. we've heard about.
Save those who are extremely stout:
They have no laps and yet. though sad,
They couldn't reach them if they had
A blessing on That ancient cuss.
Who first discovered laps for us,
His wife. the neighbors and his kin
Aud others he invited in,
That wise. beneficent old chap.
And showed them how to work u lap,
Its usefulness in many stints.
We certainly have used them since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

He tries his best, does Wallace ill,
Yet somehow-can you beat itf-
Though he may run and run a bill
He never seems to meet it,
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-27
DISTANCE AND DIVISION

The length of time necessary to canvass the Alaskan election object lesson in the size of the territory and may tend to bring the scheme to divide it into two terri tories to a focus.
 From the viewpoint of local interests there are two distinct and natural divisions to Alaska, the lying north and the other south of that greatest expanse of ice outside the polar regions in the world Maaspna glacier extending southwest from Mount St. Elias This fact alone warrants the suggestion provide different centr of government for the mountain and the glacier form impossible barrier to anything but water cOmmunca- tOn between the two sections Of course musher may make it around the beach with portable canoe but per manent construction the quicksand flats below the ice where glacial floods sweep from time to time is out of the question:
 The division of the territory may not come during this administration but it is evident that will with in few years for with increased population the pres en plan of governing the greater section of Alaska from
 center of population in the lesser where conditions are wholly different from those in the greater will become in creasingly unpopular.
 Whether not this unpopularty is based on facts is neither here no there the distance is the thing Long distance government from Washington bad enough but to have added "lOca" control anywhere from three days away by boat to two months away by trail and boat is rather rubbing 1t in.
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-27
BRING ON THE GUNS

Fertilization of Resurrection bay will cnch the work accomplished by those who have spent many days during the past F years endeavorng recognition for this, the most valuable transportation and military base the continent north of the Canadian boundary of the United States proper on either ocean.
 Only those who have been here, travelled over the peninsula and visited its GOV es and harborS its glaciers and its mountain peaks can realize what natural Gi blatar Malta, KrOndStadt and Heigoand all thrown into One Is this harbOr only 1t presents difficulties Of cap ture after proper forcaton existing any of the fOrtreSSeS above mentioned
 Given ample supplies at the start with the necessary machinery to produce its own ammunition from the nat ural resources available within reach along the govern ment railroad and with garrison of 250OO to start with dhe interior of Alaska to draw from, and the enemy whoever it might be, would give this place wide berth else land west of Cook inlet and commence long over land campaign. But this could not be accomplished until the fleet had been accounted fOr and with nice lit tie squadron (maybe it's "SchOolD of submarines at base within this bay the Gulf of Alaska would be un healthy for all but friendly powers
 General WeaverS interest in immediate action to- ward erecting the necessary Notifications most gratfy ing. Today fleet, sansforS sans submarines sans everything but the old Russian cannon down at the com miSsiOnerS office, Resurrection bay is gift from the Gods" to any power which to send cutter with fifty men and few machine gunS-prOvding, of course that has the ships and the to occupy what can easily take.
 Easy picking" is always temptation to conquest and the sooner Resurrection bay is made unpckabe the the rest of Alaska is safe from possible invasion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-17
l.

The whist club was entertained on
Saturday by Mrs. Ruby II. Gates. Re-
freshments were served and a very
pleasant time was enjoyed by all.
The Christmas club will meet with
Mrs. Annette I.ampSon at its next
meeting on March %.
The Laihin Soap club was enter
tanned Wednesday night by Mrs. Edna
Webb. Dainty refreshments we're
served and a pleasant time reported.
The next meeting will be held at Nc
Coy's Crossing with Mrs. Melvin Ham
lin.
Edward Wyman and family have
returned from Hartford, Conn. to
their home in this place.
Edison Hamm son of Nh. ana Mrs.
George Iiamm is a victim of the
whooping cough.
Madeline Gates was u guest recently
at Grassmere the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. VI. Gates.
Miss II. Alta Tracy from the Aroos-
took is visiting her aunt Mrs. George
Ira viss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-17
HALLOW ELL.
Church Notices

First Universalist church. Rev. p ".
Weber pastor: Preaching service AT
0.3o; Sunday school at n.4o' MRS. i1aI-
morning sermon. different views OF
Life" ~.
Old South Congregational church. IeV.
A. c. Townsend pastor: Morning wor-
ship at 1890 with sermon by Rev. Miss
Gwynne in exchange; Sunday schooi AT
1L45; evening worship at sun1ec''
Mount Gerezib. or True Worship.
St. Matthews church, Rev W.; L.I.
Morning service at O.30; Sunday school
at 11.30 A. NJ: evening prayer at ~,
Methodist Episcopal church; Rev: w. r.,
Brokenshire pastor: Morning worship
with sermon by the pastor at 1870; sun
day school at Il NJ; gospel service at !.
p. NJ; mid-week meetings on wednesday
and Friday evenings.
First Baptist church. Rev MISS A.J:
Gwynne pastor: Morning service WIN
Old South church in exchange. with Miss
Gwynne: Sunday school At Las with Z