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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-21

You can depend on our snecfs
Limousine, Taxi and Automobile ser
vice for wedding and other social
occasions
City Service Co, II. ID. Camp. Mgr-
Telephone 5500.-Adv-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-21
WHY Not

Buy Japanese Incense - zoe up.
Eeach's Art shop. City Rational Bank
BldC.-AdS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
81 DE T ALM S
How to Tell a Lady.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

If you want 70 find out whether
some member of your acquaintance
is lady in the best sense of the word
go shopping with her
Observe how she treats the clerks
who wait on her.
L had a great surprise once upon a
time. l met a casual acquaintance
from our town and at her request did
a rev errands with her while waiting
for our train.
She is a woman who is delightful to
meet, she has excellent taste in her
home and her clothes, and charming
manners. In fact she has all the APP
pearance of being a lady
But she isn't one.
And this is how 1 know
She lost all her charm the minute
she spoke to the clerks Her usually
pleasant manner became cold and
sharply impersonaI.
Again, she frequently broke in on
a conversation between a clerk and IL
customer.
you" after a clerk had served her,
tho several spent some time in the
process.
You. reader friends, who try to be
decent to clerks sometimes get out of
patience when they seem disobliging
and irritable.
But is it any wonder that their pa
tience wears out when one thinks how
often they have to deal with women of
the class 1 described. women who
think they demonstrate their superior
ity by being discourteous to those who
serve?
Perhaps you think there are not
many such women.
l am afraid there are. and worse.
Let me tell you a little incident
which a clerk related to me. A ques-
ton about her being tired came up.
81 try to sit down." she said, but
some of the customers can't bear to
see us sitting down"
I said I could hardly believe that.
Her eyes blazed. "a woman and
her daughter were in the other day.
she said, land 1 was sitting down for
minute. The woman picked me out
from the rest and bore down on me,
it made her so mad to see me Sitting
down. 'Busy?' she said. OF course
sprang up and asked if there were
anything I could show her.
YES she said. we want to look at
suits and we want to try them on
oh, mother said her daughter, we
don't want to try them on today.
Yes we do she said. She needs the
exercise
Think of it.
Doesn't it make your blood boil?
Then try not to blame the next
clerk whose temper seems frayed. Re-
member she may have just had to deal
with a woman like that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Trade of the United States with
China in the calendar year 1916 was
the largest in the history of our COM
merce with that country. 1t totalled
Sill. 1851, 900 against $72.6S6,OOO in
1915. and s56.672,0O0 in 1914, having
thus practically doubled in two years.
These figures relate to China proper
and do not include the trade with
China's leased territory. which was
in 1916 nearly 100000. The ex-
ports to China in 1916, sS1.515,OeO,
were. according to a compilation by
the foreign trade department of the
National City bank of New York, larg-
er than in any earlier calendar year
except 1905, the year in which de-
mands for American cottons at the
close of the Russo-Japanese war
brought China's imports from the
United States to an exceptionally high
figure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
THE FooD SHORTAGE ALARM.

Secretary Houston of the agricul-
tural department has issued state
ment in regard to the food situation
in this country in which he says there
is nothing in it to justify hysteria,
because there is no real shortage of
food and there is no occasion for talk
of government dictatorship in con-
trolling the distribution or the mar
keting of it.
Any attempt of that kind. we are
sure, would encounter serious resist
ance, says the New York Journal of
Commerce, and over our wide terri
tory, with divided jurisdiction of states
and nation, it would prove utterly inn
practicable. There is no excuse for
even suggesting it. Not only is there
no actual shortage, but there is no
ground for the hysterical talk about
combinations to hinder distribution
and marketing in order to force up
prices for consumers. Incidentally,
where local conditions favor some
thing of this kind, it may be done by
spectators, but there is no evidence of
it on any considerable scale.
lie ISdSOIS LOT Prices are per-
fectly well known. Last years crops
of wheat and of potatoes were COM
paratively short, while there was an
unusual demand for export of those
and other foodstuffs. The meat supply
was larger than usual the official es-
innate based on ascertained facts be-
ing 100000 pounds, compared
with five years average of 19,712,-
100000. That excess was more than
the increase in exports.
The general rise in prices in the last
few months has been due mainly to
difficulties and delays in transporta-
ton and distribution. These have
been matters of familiar knowledge,
and yet have been ignored by hys-
terical agitators. Railroad trains were
overloaded and blocked on the way
from sources of supply. Warehouses,
storage places, stations for transfers
and terminals were overstocked and
the natural result was failure to sup
ply markets regularly and adequately
and to force up prices under the
stress of unsatisfied demands. The
pressure seems to be over and prices
are becoming adjusted on a lower
level
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The federal trade commission mas
commended itself to the public in the
first big case that has come before
it. Especially has it won approval
by the celebrity with which it acted
In the news print paper controversy
between the publishers and the manu-
facturers. Gagged by past experiences
it might have been expected that
months or even years of time and
hundreds of thousands of dollars IN
money would be expended in carrying
on an investigation By the rapidity
of its action and the apparent fair
ness of it's decision it has won the
bubble confidence and probably will
be called upon frequently to render
similar service to the business interests
of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
TIME TO GET BUSY.

Now that a comprehensive good
roads law has been enacted, providing
for a distribution of the expense of
construction so that it need not be-
come burdensome to any one group
of taxpayers, it seems appropriate that
the plan for a boulevard around To-
peka should be revived. Above all
things haphazard construction of
highways and consequent waste of
money should be avoided.
Definite plans for the utilization of
benefit to the greatest number should
be made at once. There is work to
be done along this line, to which the
automobile club and the Chamber of
Commerce might profitably turn their
attention. Organized effort will be
necessary in order to accomplish the
best results and these two bodies al
ready are equipped for carrying it on.
The public naturally will look to them
to take the initiative.
A paved boulevard surrounding the
city would prove as valuable an aid
to business as a belt line railroad at a
terminal point. What could be more
desirable or pay better returns than
that travellers and residents of the
surrounding country could reach the
city readily from any direction?
The summer should not be allowed
to pass without seeing the work
started. Who will make the first
move?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
FEEDING THE BELGIANs.

The cost to the people of the United
States for the support of the Bel
CLANS since the beginning of the war,
has been considerable but it is scarce
ly worth mentioning in comparison
with what it has meant to the allies,
according to a recently printed inter-
view with Lord French.
The cost to the allies is divided by
the hero of Ypres under three heads:
First, in money Britain and France
have contributed to the relief commits
sion for Belgium, not counting what
has been spent for the relief of North
ern France, something like $4,000
900. at rough estimate. This is hard
cash. spent in purchases of foodstuffs,
freights, etc.
Second. in tonnage, the allies have
reduced the tonnage at their disposal
in order to supply the needs of Bel
GUM. To give an indication of this, in
one month of 1916, ships chartered by
the relief commission made thirty
four voyages from Canadian, United
States, and Argentine ports to Rotter-
dam. and. owing to the illegal sowing
OI- UllneS ny 1eTHldnS OH the buICQ
coast, and owing to more than one
instance of the torpedoing of relief
ships, the allies have lost some twelve
ships in the course of the relief work.
Third, indirect cost to the allies has
been even greater. In spite of all eff
forts to protect Belgian supplies and
property, the Germans have taken
large amounts of livestock and food
stuffs from the country. From time to
time the neutral commission has sue
ceeded in shutting down upon the
seizures, but there have been continual
"reminiscences of these, and the Ger
mans again have begun to export live
stock and foodstuffs from Belgium.
Far more serious. however, he de-
clares. has been the gigantic financial
robbery carried on by the Germans
in Belgium. This now must amount,
at very rough estimate, to $500, 0o0,-
600.
More serious still, if possible, have
been the German seizures of raw ma
terials and machinery of every kind.
To sum up: The indirect cost to the
allies has been that Of relieving the
Germans of all responsibility for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison G1obe.I

CF'rom the AtchiSon Globe.
If you can't tell a story the way it
was told to you, don't tell it.
The next reform movement prob
ably will be directed against garlic.
Some men seem to have no trouble
in borrowing money where they are
not known.
Every woman is clever in phonetics,
whether or not she knows the mean
ing of that word.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned father who wouldn't let his son
white on Sundays?
When a Young Thing is all dressed
up with no place to go, she comes
down town and puts on a parade.
The fact is. the average woman
knows more about building a handy
house than the average man does.
What's your idea of a dangerous
combination. How about a one-eyed
man with a jag and driving an auto
mobile?
People whose modesty is easily
shocked always seem to be loafing
around some place where one can see
shocking things.
Jude Johnson: knowing my wife
as we'll as 1 do, l never get excited
when I read a newspaper article tell
ing about a woman's repulsing a bur-
glar."
Perhaps your idea of Liberty is a
little at fault. 1t is the right to do
as you please without interfering with
the rights and comfort md property
of others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
DINNER STORIES

Little Timothy went to visit his
aunt Elvira, a dignified and severe
woman. who owned a parrot. One
morning. coming unexpectedly upon
Timothy and the bird, she was hor-
ribly shocked to hear the little boy
using some profane words.
why. Timothy" cried the old lady,
"I do believe you're trying to teach
my parrot to swear"
ooh, no, I'm not, auntie," the boy
replied. I'm just telling it what it
mustn't say"
Thine eyes," cried Montmorency,
the matinee idol. Thine eyes are
like the stars aloft!'
At these words of devotion Gwen
dolyn burst into tears.
And thy tears!" gasped her stage
lover. THY very tears are like pearls
to met
Polls is right, kiddo," whispered
his leading woman. averting her
breath. Then tears cost me more
than polls, when you think what 1
pay for raw onions, what brings on
me weeps. Polls is right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
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A KITTENS ADVENTURE.

One bright day tiny gray kitten
slipped out on the front porch to get
a sniff. of fresh air. 49,
Dear mel This air is fresh and
good" she whispered to herself II
believe I'll stay out all afternoon,"f
Just then her mother, a big conn
Portable tabby, strolled out for an air.
ing.
Whats this you're going to do all
afternoon she asked
Il m going to stay outdoors all aft
ernoon," repeated pussy.
Indeed you must not her mother
exclaimed, you will catch an awful
cold! Anyway, there is nothing to eat
outdoors, in winter and it gets very
cold when the sun goes down"
when the sun goes DOWN. eS-
claimed the kitten, I've never seen the
sun go down, l 10 want to stay out
just once"
We'll, you mustn't said the mother
cat firmly. 'They are almost thru
cleaning now-see they are taking the
rugs in and soon they will close the
door-it is time to go in
Now, all her life (Which wasn't very
long) pussy had been a very obedienl
little kitten, but she didn't feel one
bit obedient this day; she just wanted
to e-e.lore.
| things mother has told me about will
happen to me for l will be very wise
and careful
She didn't know, you see, that that
Is exactly what everybody says when
they disobey rules.
So she slipped slyly off the porch,
and around the corner of the house.
Now I'm free!" she purred to her
self I'll wager nobody can catch me!
First i mean TO hunt up a garbage
can and see what it is like-I've heard
so much about garbage cans,"
Around to the back she went and
began rummaging.
But everything was cold and frozen
just as her mother had said it would
be-and nothing tasted a bit interest
ing to the cream-fed kitty.
II guess garbage isn't very good
think I'll play a while,'' she decided
SO she chased some sparrows and
played with some trash. but it really
wasn't one bit of fun and her little
paws were so cold,
Il wish 1 was back in the house,
she said. IF could only get back I
would never run away againi"
But you see, the door was shut and
she couldn't get I'M
Finally, when she was so cold she
could hardly move, pussy saw her lit
tie mistress coming home from school
Quick as a flash, kitty darted across
the yard, up onto the porch and Slip
ped thru the door with the little girl.
My, but this warm house feels
good.'' she mewed. I'll never again
run away-at least not in winter!"-
Copyright 1914-Clara Ingram judi
SOM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
Some Problems.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Some Problems.
If A should live eight hundred years
And work hard all the time,
And save and skimp thro toll and tears
And scarcely spend dime
When he had gathered all the stuff.
Then would he think he had enough:
If should live perhaps as long
And study life and men
And puzzle DER the right and wrong.
The Wherefore and the When,
With mind alert and eager eyes,
Would he have Wisdom and be wiser
If C should live that long as well,
All years of welded bliss.
Perhaps some reader here can tell
The answer then to this:
Would he, with all that married life,
Be sure ne understood his wife?
Spots.
There are several different sorts o:
spots, such as building spots, spots
before the eyes and spots on the
tablecloth. Spots at times are very
useful and If there is someone you
would like to shoot it is often expedi-
ent to shoot him on the spot. The
great majority of spots are common
place and embarrassing, but there
are several of them that are of his
torical importance as the Spot where
the Pilgrim Fathers landed Some
men are so fond of spots they have
them on their vests Nobody loves a
bald spot. but in the summer time
cool spot is great boom A spot is
often used to sit all evening in or to
hang a picture over. Children make
lots of spots and so does smallpox.
The Pessimist.
The only pleasant place to be
Is any other place than here;
The only things 1t seems to me
That ever please the least, or cheer,
Are any other ones than those
That now are mine. The happy lot
Is always certain, goodness knows,
To be the one l haven't got.
The man who hasn't the least blot
on his record often hasn't much else
on it either.
True, Too.
How easy is it for to see
The faults that in another be,
And yet the same seem very well
When in ourselves we find they dwell.
note anothers clumsy way
And ask him to correct it, pray:
But when of Me the same | hear,
am a little peeved. 1 fear.
Tho confess of moral faint
l am not free-I am no Saint:
Yet when to Me the same. you tell
l do not like it very well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
WHEN MOTHER READS A STORY.

WHEN MOTHER READS A STORY.
When Mother reads a story jes' before we
go to bed,
There's not a one of all of US that in a
sleepy head;
We gather round and crowd up close about
her rockin' chair
An as she reads watch the light a-rIov-
ing her hair.
oh, Jimmy's eyes get big as plates an
Mary sometimes squeals,
An Betty sits with tear stained face he-
cause she sorter feels
Real sorry for the dragon when the hero
kills him dead:
When Mother reads a story jes' before we
go to bed
When Mother reads a story jes' before We
go to bed,
lean up close an hold the book SO she
can pat my head;
For when the giants yellfn' fierce it's
awful nice to know
That mothers arm Is holdin' you an will
not let you go,
Oh, Buddy's mouth falls open most. he
.ets so filled with fear
An He.e1s eyes glow bright like stars, an
when the end Is near
We hear the word. They happy lived for
ever-it was said
When Mother reads a story jes' before we
go to bed.
-Margaret E. sangster, Jr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Germans are reported to be leaving
New York by hundreds for Mexico. 1t
will be all right with Americans if
they will take LaFollette, Stone and
Bryan with them. The whole bunch
would be much more easily handled
down there than at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
WHATCHAMA COLUMN
BY "GM."
SQUARE MEALS.
BY "GM."

When we were a bachelor we
thought a square meal was some
thing to eat.
But since we are married we
have discovered that food has
nothing to do with it.
It's the color scheme that counts.
A man gets awful tired of pink
food. even if it does match the
blue china
Must one call in decorator to
get a change of diet?
Or is there some other way out?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
70 YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
March o, 1892 .

b, ISJZ.
Signor Barabini is in Wichita where he
is in charge of the training of the local
talent that will present the opera The
Pirates of Penzance."
The Topeka Sash and Door factory ia
now in the hands of its creditors
The 30 cent store is closing out at half
price 70 make room for the increased BIZ
cycle business of VIM. Taylor.
The wind blew a sign board thru one of
the big windows of the st. Nicholas hotel
this morning.
Gen J. c. Caldwell delivered the third
lecture of the Christian church lecture
course last evening to large audience.
to that country from the United States
four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The German embargo on world
commerce has extended to Brazil.
THE Rio de Janeiro agents of the
Netherlands Lloyd, a Dutch steam
ship company, whose ships have been
plying in both passenger and freight
trade between Rio de Janeiro and
via European ports, have
announced the suspension of their
European sailings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

maintenance of over seven million
people, whom, under international law,
they were obliged to feed and main
tain in health. and whom, moreover,
they otherwise actually would have
had either to feed or to deport whole
sale. since it is impossible, from a
military point of view, to have a starv-
ing population on the lines of COM
munication of a great army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Holland finds herself between the
bikes and the deep sea. If she does
not sail her ships England will take
them; if she does sail them Germany
will sink them. 1t looks as tho The
Netherlands will be compelled to come
off the fence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
Substitute for Fresh Meat Dishes.

New Loaf-Substantial enough for
a working man, delicate enough for
an invalid-One level cup bacon fried
crisp and chopped fine. one cup chop
ped sour apples, one cup boiled rice.
one-haf teaspoon salt, one-fourth
teaspoon pepper, one egg. well beat
en-; one cup milk, one cup -four, tea
spoon baking powder Put bacon,
add milk. Sift flour and baking pow
der, beat all we'll together. Bake in
we'll creased bread tin thirty min
utes. Serve hot garnished with fried
apples, or cold, spread lightly with
mayonnaise.
Hominy and Bacon Dish-Wash
three-quarters pound hominy. soak in
tepid water twelve hours. then boil
until tender over slow fire (about
four hours), with same water in
which it has been soaking. Add more
water from time to time. Do not salt
until cooked. Cut one-fourth pound
bacon in small pieces and fry mot
too crisp. Put hominy in skillet
with bacon and fryings, stir all to-
gether and brown slightly. Water
must be all boiled from hominy be-
fore placing in pan with bacon. Sau-
sage may be used instead of bacon if
preferred. Serves six to eight people.
This is economical and appetizing,
hominy only cents per pound.
Mock Sausages-Soak half cup lima
cook in sailed water until very soft
Drain and rub thru strainer. There
should be three-fourths cup of pulp
Add one-third cup fine bread crun1b BIS.
nal! teaspoon powdered sage, a few
grams pepper, one-fourth teaspoon
shape into form of sausage, dip into
crumbs, then into beaten egg and
crumbs again. Fry in plenty of hot
TAT and serve with fried apple slices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The desire of the Republican mem
bers for an. extra session of congress
may have been due to the fact that
they did not want to wait till Deem
Der for a sight of Miss Rankin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Auto cultivators have made their
appearance in California. Probably
they soon will be seen in the corn
fields of Kansas and the chauffeur
will take the place of the teamster
for agricultural purposes. They should
be the means of saving much grain
and hay which would thus become
available for feeding cattle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Since the beginning of Germany's
Unrestricted submarine warfare the
demand in this country for "Old
Glory" has caused a temporary short
age in the flag supply and increased
the prices rs per cent. Even pa
triotism cannot escape the high cost
of living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

"A new way to pay old debts is in
yolved in the proposal of the entente
allies to remit payment of the BoxAr
indemnities if China will join them
in the war against Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The secretary of agriculture urges
economy as a means to re-
duce the high cost of living. An in
crease of the family income would be
a more effective way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The president has entered upon an
other period of watchful waiting. but
not one of his own choosing this time.
1T has been imposed upon him by the
slackers" of the United States sem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Ironing Suggestion.

When the laundry work is heavy
and some difficult piece is being
ironed, how many housewives have
been annoyed and delayed by having
to iron over a fold or wrinkle that
has appeared in the ironing sheet?
If, in covering your ironing board, the
outer cover is drawn tightly over on
the bias. it will always remain straight
and smooth, which is not the case
when the cover is put on the straight
way of the cloth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

Topeka's bank clearings for the past
week approximate two and three quar-
ter million dollars and show gain of
IS per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

The way in which the three Bills,
Hohenzoliern. Bryan and Stone, are
standing together is beautiful to see.