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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.J
There is more talking enthusiasm
than any other kind.
Conflicting opinions are what make
business good for the lawyers.
The chances are that the man who
insists he is as good as anybody, isn't.
Youth is always expecting some
thing to happen, but age knows better.
A woman doesn't need much of a
vocabulary in order to talk all the
time.
A delegate always has difficulty
looking as important as the badge he
wears.
A Kuhlidge woman is so contrary
she says the crust is the best part of
the pie.
Young men learn a few things, but
seldom by listening to their fathers,
who could tell them good deal.
There are exceptions, but the rule
is that machinery gets oiled when it
squeaks, if an amateur is handling it.
A man doesn't think he is marry
ing his wifes kin, and he may also
| learn later that he can't divorce
them.
the man who knows. when he has
enough has learned something in this
world.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned family which celebrated the
merry springtime by drinking sassa-
fras tea?
| A man uses up so much patience
fishing that he rarely has an adequate
supply when central gives him the
wrong number.
| Probably ever since time began the
| old women have been complaining
| that the young women aren't so mod
est as they really ought to be.
Skirts are being worn SO short that
many men are becoming as blase as
| the London buSman, and there is no
longer any great advantage in a
| March wind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
LA FOLLETTE'S FILIBUSTER.

The unquestioned will of the United
States senate has been defeated by
that body's own rules. The failure of
the bill authorizing the arming of
merchant ships was the most forceful
example of minority rule ever wit
messed in this country. One man has
president, the people and both houses
of congress.
The only apparent excuse for La
Follette's filibuster is the senator's de-
sire for the Iimelight. 1t must have
been a terrible blow to him, not to be
permitted to make the speech which
he now threatens to deliver turnout
the country.
The immediate consequences of the
Wisconsin senator's actions are set
forth in a statement by the president.
Uncle Sans hands are tied. He is
ments of Germany upon the rights OF
this country. She may continue to de-
stroy American shipping and Ameri-
can lives unmolested.
The president has indicated a pos
sible way out by means of an extra
session. This would inevitably entail
a considerable delay. The organiza-
ton of the new house will consume
much time and nothing can be done
until it is accomplished. The prac-
teal tie existing between the two
parties may result in a long drawn
out fight on the speakership. Congress
can hardly be expected to get into
| actual operation under a month from
the time it is convened in extra ses-
sion.
In the meantime what may happier
to Americans and American interests
and commerce cannot be even ap-
proximated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
WAR RELIEF WORK.

That the channels for the distribu-
ton of war relief funds are open as
formerly, Notwithstanding the break
with Germany, and that they are ex-
pected to remain open, is the report
made by the war relief organizations.
according to a statement made by the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, which, since the
early part of the war, has conducted
campaign to stimulate war relief
gifts, especially thru the churches of
the country, to the various relief
committees. Inquiries from all parts
of the country, it is said, show that
many are overlooking the fact that
gifts for war relief are chiefly in the
form of cash and that this is sent by
cable and wireless.
| The American committee for Ar
menian and Syrian relief reports that
nearly all its aid is financial and is
sent by cable and that funds are sent
uninterruptedly to Armenians inside
and outside of Turkey. The American
Red Cross continues its work without
change in most of the warning coun-
tries. The permanent blind relief war
fund says there is no slackening in
| WOIh III TeCelpC IunQS, nor IN
remittances to the other side. The
commission for relief in Belgium says
that the latest cables confirm earlier
reports that the work for Belgian re-
lief is continuing and is expected to
continue. The fund for starving child
rem states that funds go as formerly to
| children in Poland, Belgium, Armenia
and other countries. The joint distri-
button committee, representing three
Jewish relief committees, reports that
the work of collection and distribution
is practically normal. The Polish VIC
Tins relief fund continues without in
terruption to send funds to Poland by
way of Switzerland The work of the
Serbian relief committee proceeds
without change. The same situation
applies to the work of the American
Huguenot committee which aids Prot
estant churches in France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
SIDE TALK S
Men and Shops.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

VhCh dAu oAOpos
The Wants-to-Be-Cynic had a new
The AuthOrman admired it. Where
dye get it?" he asked, as the Cynic
held it out for closer inspection.
"Oh, a little shop on B ST.
81 wish you'd get me one the next
time you're by" requested the Au-
thorman.
Sure thing" said the Cynic.
why don't you get it yourself?"
asked the Authorman's wife in the
outspoken, puncturing way wives
have.
"Oh, WELL" said the Authorman,
"he knows the ropes. It'll be easier
for him."
Sure" said the Cynic, amiably ac-
cording the ready support one man
always gives another when attacked
by female, especially a wife.
Aren't men funny that way? In
their feeling about buying things. I
mean.
Give the average man his choice
between going in town and doing an
ordinary afternoons shopping,-say
for instance, getting few samples,
matching some silk, buying a we'd
ding present, leaving some gloves to
be cleaned, giving an order for some
china to fill out depleted set, and
buying a few findings,-or two days
hard labor in a ditch, and I'll wager
he'd choose the latter.
There is something about shops that
intimidates a man.
They belong to woman; the intri-
cacies of the business of buying are
womans work. His mind recoils
from trying to understand them, just
as the average woman's mind recoils
from trying to understand the stock
market.
OF course the errands I indicated
above would be peculiarly trying be-
cause they are mostly women's err
better about their own shopping.
The Cynic had some money giver
! him Christmas. We decided to spend
it on small luxuries that he would
not otherwise have. He told me he
went shopping the other day bu
didn't see anything he liked.
What shops did you go to?
asked
"Oh, none" he said, 81 just looked
in windows"
Again, the Authorman was bewail
! ing the fact that his new suit was no
| the shade of brown he likes. .'Didn'
they have it anywhere" I asked
'tOh, 1 only went to SIS" he said
II never go anywhere else"
There is only one kind of shoI
most men really like to go into
sporting goods establishment. Ye
even in this fascinating realm a mar
will seldom visit more than one shop
And yet men think women arr
| queer creaturesi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
Ancient and Modern Coins.

The National Museum coin and medal
collection of some 5000 pieces. includes sew
eral Chinese coins of the earliest type,
pieces of this. ancient coinage are of
merchandise or Cloth" money. some of
them over 1000 years old While their
few cents. each individual is worth a large
sum today.
Another odd form of early coin is the
Chinese knife money of which several
specimens are exhibited. They resemble
nothing so much as set of very old and
thin razor blades. 1t seems that the knife
was the first article of trade in China
the aborigines bought their necessities for
so many knives. and 1t was only natural
early trade coins. Most of these coins are
of iron and copper, but some are of silver
lead. and bamboo.
These Chinese coins form part of the
George b. Glover collection which in
cludes representative coins from many OF
the dynasties of China, and a set of modern
coins dated 1907. Coins from the Ming
Tartar. Tschine, Hsia. 1uen. the Rebellion
| of Princes and other periods are arranged
in chronological order ranging from about
2254 B. C. to recent issues. Some queer
antique amulets and medals are also in
| this collection and several old money and
medal moulds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05


should like to have known you, Dear.
At the wonderful age of fifteen;
Little rosebud so white,
Opened up 10 the light,
With the innocent grace of Il queen;
With the baby lines still in your face,
And the dimples that danced just as when
Little sunbeams at play
Laugh and then race away
l should like to have known you, Dear,
then.
1 should like to have known you, Dear,
then,
When you gazed with such serious eyes
At the world that you knew
Golden gifts held for you,
And each morn brought a new-found sur
What radiant dreams, Dear. were yours
All. would one could dream them again
But the rainbow must fade,
Must it not. little maid p
l should like to have known you, Dear
then.
1 should like to have known you, Dear
then.
With your hair in two pigtails of brown
AS you launched your toy fleet,
Childhood Fancies SO sweet,
Where the brook to the river runs down
All. the brook to the river must run,
And thus, Darling. / lay down my pen,
For with heart beating high
The child life must speed by
But 1 wish / had known you, Dear, then
Paul I. Gilbert in Cartoons Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY x. MOULTON.

The Hen.
Be kind and tender to the Hen,
She's natures favorite child
She's white brown and then again
At times she's meek and mild.
She gives us eggs most every week,
That is her little chore.
And yet she's often mild and meek,
As we have said before
BE kind to natures favorite child
She has lot to do.
Remember that at times she's mild.
Sometimes her eggs are too.
Today's Sheer.
Many a car carries an eight-cylin-
der engine and one-cylinder driver.
Yes, Indeed.
never stole a bayonet
l never hope to steal one,
But l can tell you this, you bet
I'd rather steal than feel one.
A man named Sniff died in New
York recently at the age of ninety
eight The jokes about his name were
finally too much for him.
None.
Tho mans estate brings many woes
And many sorrows, griefs and fears,
Yet none of them compare with those
That every youthful urcRin knows,
When Mother scrubs his neck and ears
To Be Sure.
Optimist: This is nice place to
live
Pessimist: Its unhealthful!''
Optimist: "A lot of people man
age to live here"
Pessimist: Yes, and a lot die
here,"
Happy Thought.
And neither does the moss-covered
stone ever set anywhere.
The Poor Nut.
I met man who groaned groan
AS he went on his way;
Said /, Now tell why you moan
And why your hair is grey?
Have We lost loved ones in the wars,
Or is your wife shrew?
Have We large bills at all the stores?
Are these what worry you?"
Said he, 1--WE lost none in the wars,
My wife is not a shrew,
Nor have ] bills at all the stores,
Except, of course, a few"
Then tell me why you wag your head
And moan at such a rate.
Come tell me now" in rage l said,
Its growing rather later
And then seized him by the ears
And shook him to and fro.
The readers want to know"
He turned to me doleful eye,
His mouth did ope and shut:
Said he Il moan and this is why:
Alas. I'm off my nut!
This morning when I came to don
My clothes, 1 tried-it hurt
To put a fifteen collar
A number sixteen shirt"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
BED Time TALES
LETS TALK ABOUT FAIRIES ~
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

One night a little girl and her
mother sat down in front of a big
glowing fire, to talk about fairies
you know there is really great deal
to talk about concerning fairies if one
gets started.
You have lots of time now" said
the little girl comfortably, land |
want to know all about them
"An right" said her mother. 81
want to know, too, so let's begin.
What comes first ?"
live
Il wonder where they do live
pondered her mother, where would
you SUPPOSE"
Il don't know" said the little girl,
but I am sure about one thing, fairies
in the houses are quite different from
forest fairies"
Really? How"
Forest fairies answered the little
girl wisely, work and play in the
daytime and sleep in the flowers at
night. But house fairies are 6.fferent
they hide all the daytime and play
in the night
s.How do you know asked her
mother.
Il know it because / have watched
and watched. and / never saw a fairy
in the daytime-never once in this
whole house,"
MOP" questioned her mother, but
have you seen them at night"
"Oh, yes. indeed" and the little girl
dimpled happily. Many times.
i've seen them in the fire light,
I've seen them playing with the
moonbeams on the living room floor
Il know they are here at night,''
yes. I've seen them, too" said her
mother. II wonder where they hide
during the day?'
Maybe they hide behind the books
or under the piano or some place like
that
Maybe they Jo," said her mother.
only behind books and under pianos
don't seem quite like fairy places
look and see If they do
The little girl looked behind the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

joint and dip in flour. Have ready
hot pan: put in one tablespoon lard
and one of BUTTER when hot put in
the joints, brown well, add one quart
hot water. pinch of salt dash of
cayenne pepper, three cloves and one
large onion chopped fine. Cover
closely, simmer two or three hours
until tender. Then mix three table
spoons flour with one cup of strained
tomatoes Add to joints and bring
to boiling point. Serve garnished with
parsley. This recipe serves family of
five.
"Gritz''-Four and one-half pounds
pork shoulder boiled and put thru
medium food chopper; one-half pound
cheap bulk oatmeal; one-half pound
ground barley; allspice. salt, pepper
to taste. Be sure and use ground
barley. Cook oatmeal and barley in
double boiler until done, mix with
ground meat, season, put in crock TO
cool. Slice and fry. Serve with good
bread and coffee and have a break
fast fit for a king.
Onion Fricassee-Wash and peel
some onions, put them to stew slow
ly in a little boiling water to which
has been added a little salt. Cook
till tender, then add half pint milk
one dessertspoon flour which has been
moistened with little milk. one heap
ing tablespoon butter. Boil five min
utes and serve with boiled potatoes.
Spanish Steak.
A delicious dish may be prepared
from a flank or 7rump steak Cut off
most of the fat and scar over quickly
| in hot beef dripping; then lift out and
lay in baking pan. Sprinkle with
salt and paprika. Fry two peeled and
sliced onions in the fat remaining in
the pan, spread over the steak and
pour half a can of tomatoes. Add a
pinch of sugar to remove the acidity
! of the tomatoes and a little extra salt
and pepper, cover the pan closely and
| bale about one hour in a slow oven.
Basic frequently while cooking and
serve the steak on a hot platter with
| the tomato gravy poured over it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

One of the reasons why insomnia
is SO much dreaded is that it is wrong
ly conceived by many of the laity to
be a disease. There is no such disease
and in its simple form. where there is
no positive disease in the background
it is merely a bad cell habit. kent
alive by some fault il the manner of
living, some breach of brain discip-
line, or some disturbance in the func-
tions of the body that result in in
s;stent messages being sent to the
brain centres during sleep or while we
are trying to sleep Trying to sleep
is a pathetic and futile task. and,
much better results usually can be
obtained by not trying to sleep
Worlds Work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

Listen, mother" she exclaimed,
they're talking 20 met
They both listened and watched tin
the fire died down and the fire fairies
vanished up the chimney.
Il know all about 1t now said the
little girl happily They told me.
THE fire fairies said. Don't worry
about where the fairies live, tust
watch them and enjoy them when
they are here. and If they go away
why = never mind they'll come
again. And really. mother, just to
know there are fairies-that's sofue-
thing I don't care where they live :"
.eCopyfight 1917 = Clara Ingram
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, reports
that on the announcement, at Wash
ington, of the break with Germany,
hundreds of the $4,000 Japanese re-
servists on the Hawaiian islands sig
nified their intention of responding
to any call that might come from the
United States, and these are the people
that citizens of the states are trying
to keep out of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

At three O'Clock this afternoon the gov
ernor committed the sentence of Carl
Jockheck and Bernard Tuchman.
Ewing Herbert has had his hair cut. He
feared some one would take him for an
Alliance man.
Col W. H. Rossington has presented 1874
volumes of the Bohn standard library to
the State university at Lawrence.
1--WE don't sell half as much liquor as We
used to-" Kansas avenue druggist said
today. 1T is all the result of the Kelley
sanitarium established here"
Mrs. S. J. Crawford and her daughter
Florence have gone to Washington, d. C.
In eight blocks in Fort Scott there are
III dogs. This almost equals West Sixth
street in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

From his winter home in Miami,
lila. Col. Henry Watterson has writ
ZEN for his paper in Louisville, the
Courier Journal. characteristic edi-
torial ending with these words: The
problems of the United States will
reHd all parties asunder. The is
SUES that divided parties are measnr-
able, dead and gone. They are main
~ domestic The new issues knocking
at our door are foreign and interna-
tionaI, drawing a line between Ameri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

Germany has leak" problem that
puts ours in the shade. Uncle Sam
has an investigation commission of
Experience and in good working or
der which he might lend to the kaiser.
He at least should obtain the services
of Tom Lawson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

The bone dry law appears to afford
an incentive for the possessor of liquor
to consume it promptly. If he be found
with it on his person he is subject
to imprisonment. It he have it with
in his person he does not come within
The new act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

II has been the custom in the past
for professional reformers to lay all
the ills of humanity at the door of
alcohol. Now that this source of woe
is rapidly disappearing, they are turn
ing their attention to the cigaret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

cans and rnongrel-Americans and Mr..
Wilson will make no mistake if he
throws himself unreservedly into the
arms of the Americans, wherever they
may be found and by whatever party
name they use to call themselves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

The longer the war continues the
harder it will be to frame a satisfac-
tory peace treaty when the time for
negotiations arrives. The issues have
changed greatly and many new ones
have been added since hostilities be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

Reduced to its lowest terms, the
program of Germany appears to have
been: to form an offensive alliance
with Japan and Mexico, which would
become active in case the United
States declared war; then to set about
forcing the United States to declare
war. All this is made plain in For
eign Minister Zimmermann's discus
sion of the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
WHATCHAMA COLUMN
EARS,
BY "GNf."

Our ears are all wrong.
They got up on the side of our
heads in the first place because
there wasn't room for them any
where else. And there they sit,
wide open all the time. The worst
of it is, they'll listen to anything.
Insurance agents, Sunday sermons,
bum jokes, bill collectors. wrang-
the same to them.
There's no escape, If you don't
want to listen, go deaf. And even
then there are trumpets.
Elephants have all the luck They
can let down the flaps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

The coming of Ernest Harold
Baynes to Topeka. to tell the people
how to win and keep the birds will
fail of its purpose if he omit to sug-
gest some method of eliminating the
cat menace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

A bill is pending in the senate which
provides for sending drunkards to the
hospital for the insane. In view of
the enactment of the bone dry law,
legislation of this character seems
wholly unnecessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

There are now in Asia, three armies
headed toward Constantinople; one
Russian in the region of the Black
sea, one British near the border of
Palestine and the force on the Tigris
which has the Turks on the run.
Lloyd George is producing results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

Now that the Federal bone dry bill
has become law the railroads should
have more cars available for trans
portation of commodities other than
whisky and beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

With two dollar wheat. dollar corn,
fourteen dollar hogs and twelve dol
lar cattle. the farmer should find no
reason to complain of the high cost
of living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

I Peary's prediction about the aerial
bombardment of Washington should
Bring forth some sort of expression
from old Doc Cook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

1t appears now that when the next
national house assemblies. it will con-
sist of PA Republicans, PA Demo
Gratis. independents and Miss RAN
kin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

books and she got down and looked
under the piano. mo" she decided,
those places are not where fairies
hide wonder where they do stay"
Just then the fire glowed and
sparkled brighter than usual and
whole row of flame fairies came out
and bowed to the little girl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05

Germany's explanation of the Zim-
.mermann note sounds plausible but
does not free it from the odium which
is attached to it.