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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

hard every night if you come up here
and make her STOP.
Alice admonished the boy lovingly
with her eyes.
Larry found himself forgetting the
girl who had refused to marry him
that very afternoon and knew that a
finer something was coming into his
heart to take up its permanent abode
Larry was young, but it didn't take
him long to recognize a real girl when
he met one. He waited anxiously for
permission to make himself a friend
of the small family.
And Alice, with a scant nineteen
years over her sunny head. had
learned much of the world and its
men. She saw the real home hunger,
the genuine man, looking at her from
Larry's eyes and the woman in her
responded. She smiled brightly while
soft rose tinted her cheeks.
IF you enjoy simple meals" she
said shyly, you may stay tonight and
have dinner with Johnny and me"
Larry flung his cap swiftly over on
the chintz-covered couch.
"And afterward." he said, 1--WE three
will take a long spin up the Drive
it's a wonderful night"
"Say-Im glad you bumped into
my wagon" said Johnny.
Larry and Alice smiled.
wen all be gladder still-some
day." thought Larry.-(Copyright
1917, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
ETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
From Kate, in a Business Office, to
May Bond, Wife.
By ZOE BECKLEY.
October Something.

October Something.
Dear Girl May!
Glad? Why. I'm a million times
glad about the babekini Bless your
old maternal heart, Maize, it's the
one touch your life needed to light
it up from fogs of doubt to the clear
blue-and-gold of happy marriage.
The news even makes me poetize you
see.
I'm so tickled, dear, really I am!
The baby will give you and Curt the
ground of mutual interest that is, the
fatal lack in so many marriages. Itn
make sure meeting place. For no
matter how you differ on lots of
things, you'll agree about the kid. No
matter how unresponsive Curt is in
many ways he'll respond to a baby
his baby. You see if he doesn't. And
that will open the way for you more.
AS for being proud of his coming
parenthood, as all men always are"
think I know the reason. It's the old
tribal instinct for perpetuating the
line. Women are happy over their ex-
something to love, something that de-
ponds on them for life and develop
ment-
Men don't think so much about the
love part It's the glory they like,
the glory of reproducing their kind.
OF continuing the dynasty, so to say.
That's why they prefer boys.
Do you care, dear, whether it's a
boy or girl? Probably you don't.
woman is usually so glad to get it
right" and healthy, that she doesn't
care what it is
Yes, May, you're right; think
you've chosen the best thing-for you.
You never were in love with self-sup-
port. You always hated the grind and
the overtime and the stupid copying
and filing and the confinem of of
flee routine. Most girls do. They
only work as stop-gap between
school and marriage. That's why so
if we do succeed, we are paid less
than men for the same work.
It's because, no matter how capa-
BILE we are, we can't be depended on
for long and steady service. Mar
riage, not business success, is our
goal. A man goes right on working
after Undergraduates than ever
usually, poor soul.
But girl-why, bless your heart,
Mitzie Stevens threw up her fifty-dol=
lar-a-week job as old man Rains sec
rotary to marry a thirty-dollar clerk
in the customs house! Can you beat
it?
Marriage is what girls want, I tell
you, no matter how much talk there
is about girls not marrying nova
days. They postpone it a bit, that's
all. But they marry. Well, if they
can. Poorly, if they can't do better.
But loves the thing that makes the
world go round, just as it always did,
just as it always will. Nature sees
to that.
AS for me-but therei You told
me to stop writing about myself for
a while and write about you'll There
you don't know what an interest
ing bit of news I was going to tell
you. But your disappointment be on
your own head
I'm sending the babe a pair of en-
broidered pillow slips that Aunt Lu-
Gle brought from Bermuda. Paul in
sists on shipping a pap spoon, what
ever that is. Our united and undy-
ing love to youi KATE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
TRADING STAMPS ABOLISHED

The trading stamp. which has been
factor in certain local retail stores
during the past three years and which
has been an annoyance to many mer-
chants and of doubtful value to most
people. even under the most favorable
circumstances. is no more.
1t has this week said its fond good
bye.
In general the merchants who gave
the stamps were, as a rule, sick of
the little coupons; most of them were
giving them. The average customer
believed he was in some way paying
for them.
The opinion passed down a few days
ago by the supreme court of the state
of Kansas, holding the anti-trading
stamp law valid, was the solar plexus
instrument, and when Crosby Broth
ers, the big, honorable merchants of
Topeka. found that the trading stamp
at their store had come under the
ban of the law that settled it with
them. Their commendabIe action in
abolishing the trading stamp business
was the death blow in Topeka to the
little stickers. No method declared
illegal can find harbor in the Crosby
store. Their business is a legitimate
business and must necessarily be con-
Quoted in a strictly legal manner, so
when Crosby Brothers were convinced
that to continue issuing trading
stamps they would be law violators,
that settled it and they promptly an
nounced last evening that they will
abolish the trading stamp business.
Today they are followed by William
Green, the grocer, who was the main
stay of the premium stamp business
in the grocery line as the Crosby
Brothers were in the drygoods line.
Paxton & Paxton have today an
nounced they have discontinued the
issuance of trading stamps.
Others announced the same thing.
And so goodbye, little trading
stamp. In your day, which is now
gone in Topeka, you have caused
much grief.
The Topeka merchants. than whom
there are no better, will continue to
give their patrons the best values for
their money and the customers will
have another evidence of the fact that
they must pay for what they get and
can not get something for nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

support is prevented from earning a
living by wounds or disease contracted
or aggravated by the war. Illegiti-
mate children are included, and SO are
children of other nationalities, whose
fathers have fought for France.
Children already in colonies or
schools under the supervision of pri-
vate charity are automatically trans
ferred under the control of the gov
eminent, while the claims of indi-
vidual orphans are filed in the courts.
If a court decides that a child is eligi-
BE to be ward of the nation, he
is at once sent to the state commits
sion of guardians in the province in
which he lives. where his case is con-
sidered.
The case of little Rene, for example
is significant. Rene Lad lived in a
pensione with his mother while his
father went to the firing line. His
mother was in feeble health and
when the news of his fathers death
came it killed her. Only Rene was
left and he was years old. The
laundress who used 10 launder the
family clothes finally came and took
him, seeing in Rene an GRAND boy
and a government pension. Suisse
qnently local philanthropic institu-
ton came and got him, having learned
that the laundress beat him, and filed
his claim for adoption with the court.
By dint of much investigation it
was found that Rene's father had left
enough money to educate him.
Providing for Guardians.
Under the new adoption system
when man is killed or wounded OF
the firing line the government at once
ascertains if he has any children. If
SO, a member of the local commission
of guardians<is sent to investigate tbs
fanily's conditions, and to look after
them.
The italian law contains the same
working plan as that of France, with
the exceptions already cited, and GER
tam minor differences. The head of
the Italian war orphan commission,
for instance, is the minister of the in
terror instead of the minister of pub
lie instruction, and the membership of
the local Committees is different 1t
includes the project as chairman: the
guardianship judge of the court; the
physician of the province; a delegate
of the provincial commission of pub
lie charity; the school inspector; two
representatives elected by the pro-
vincial council: two officers in service
or on leave, one from the army and
one from the navy; one delegate from
each national institute and one ap-
pointed by the various charitable in
stitutions of the province caring for
children These members will guard
the interests of the Italian children
Thus the two governments have be-
COAiAO AaIHoiS u lAe younger genera
ton. They are building the future
France and Italy from the very foun-
dalton up, and incidentally setting a
new example for other nations In
this country. for example, the gov
eminent chiIdren's bureau is making a
study of these laws.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation. should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin. Director
Washington, D. c.. with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Dried String Beans Dishes.

To the housewives who took heed
and paid attention to the United States
bulletins and other recipes and have
now a store of dried string beans to
go to. this will be some help.
Proportions: One-fourth cup dried
string beans to each person for one
meal. Mash beans and put to soak
in 1ukewarm water over night (never
throw out water they are soaked in:
it is all food.)
Meat substitute: Put dried strins
beans on to cook in water in which
they were soaked, with a little more
hot water, one small onion cut fine
and plenty salt; cook slowly until very
tender. Blend one tablespoon butter
substitute with two tablespoons Hour
and some chopped parsley and celery
leaves (green or dried) and add to
dried string beans.
Make toast. butter it and cut in
three-corner or long shapes, lay on
a platter and serve dried string beans.
Meat substitute: Just cook dried
string beans with salt and when ten
der drain all water off. Take out some
of the beans and use when cold for
a salad; the rest sprinkle with pepper,
add a niece of butter size of walnut, or
oleo will do, and shake vigorously. 1t
Is then ready to serve. This dish or
any other from dried string beans
tastes like mushrooms. There is the
taste which fingers from these beans
The water drained makes the fin
est SCUM stock; it looks and tastes like
consomme.
purchase a piece OF beef rib and
notatoes on top. This is another
good soup stock, which can be canned
for future demand If convenient, as
beans need no dressing with meat
flavor.
The Table.
Bran Cookies-Mix one pint each
of bran, cat flakes and white flour
with three teaspoons baking powder
and one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon
each of nutmeg, cinnamon and gin
Rub through the mixture one scant
cup shortening. Add just enough
very cold water to bind the fngredi-
ents; roll thin.
CornmeaI Cut1ets-To two and one
half cups hot water add one teaspoon
salt and one and one-half cups white
cornmeal. Stir constantly three min
utes. Cook twenty minutes, then add
one and one-half cups chopped cold
pork (cooked), one onion minced
fine. one beaten egg and little pep
per or a dash of cayenne. Shape into
outlets. then fry in hot fat. Sausage
meat may be used in place Of the pork.
New Dessert-Bring one pint milk
While milk is heating put half cur
sugar in clean saucepan and melt to a
brown liquid over rather slow fire.
Stir all the time to prevent scorchInR-
When all Is melted pour into hot
milk, stirring rapid to dissolve the
sugar, which will stiffen and cling
to the spoon. When sugar is all melted
into the milk. add a pinch of salt ana
one and one-half tablespoons corn
starch dissolved in a little cold milk.
Cock ten minutes and remove from
fire. A'oiii
Bread Dumplings-Soak pint braad
crumbs In water, mix with o,a ho,.au
egg, two teaspoons baking porder
ADD little milk and enough flour 81
II VIII drop from a spoon. Coos,
these nearly one-half hour. Wbe1
zone tnsy WIN rise to the top. They
tato soup or with sauerkraut. p"-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Among the many awkward ques-
lions which are being asked from day
to day, here is one by the Christian
Science Monitor: There are some
things about those alleged shortages
of necessaries in the United States
that nobody seems to be able to &C
count for with any degree of satisfac-
ton. Take the single item of anthra-
cite. More of that commodity has
been mined in the last year. and more
of it has been carried by the railroads
than ever before. Yet dealers every
where inform consumers that their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

It is beginning to look as tho the
Industries of the country will ultl-
nately be conscripted by the labor
unions or by the government In that
case it is an easy guess who Will DO
the conscripting. Those workmen
who are threatening to strike or en-
raeine in strikes for higher wages
may find themselves working Tor IN
Gle Sam at whatever rate of wages ne
chooses to pay. Just like the boys in
the training camps. Too many per-
uons are trying to make a profit out
of the war. They want to get theirs
while the getting appears to be good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
THE SEARCHLTGHT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION


At the federal bureau of standards,
in Washington, most of the import
ant tests on war materials are made
The bureau has completed a testing
chamber for airplane engines, where
in can be duplicated the conditions
met with in service The chamber is
alright, and by exhausting a part of
the air, the pressure is brought down
to correspond to that met with at high
attitudes. BY means of fans, all sorts
of air currents can be brought to bear
on the propeller being tested. A re-
frigerating system allows the temper
allure to be varied at will Heavy glass
windows permit observations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The news dispatches relate that the
Rebel Yell' is being taught in Camp
Gordon, Atlanta, Ga, and at other
environments to northern and south
ern troops alike, and that it is to be-
come the American battle cry in
France. 1t is still believed in this
meek o. the woods" that nothing
could equal the Rock Chalk of the
K. U. football squad as a war cry. If
anything could strike terror to the
hearts of the Germans it is this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Dimming the white way is poor
substitute for the cheaper coal that
the people have been promised. 1t is not
smaller consumption of coal that is
wanted but more coal to consume. The
business of the fuel administrator
should be to get more coal and leave
the saving of what there is to those
who are called upon to pay for it.
There is plenty of coal in and out OF
the ground and it should be some
body's business to get it to the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
GLOBE SIGHTS

LFrom the Atchison GlobeJ
Most of the women who can, marry
for money.
America is the land of free speech
except in war time.
Your future will take care of itself,
if you take care of it.
There would be more rebellions if
people had more nerve.
Remember the time you had steak
and onions at the same meal?
If you don't know much you have a
lot of company, some of it illustrious.
Women knew a lot about this cam
outage business long before the war
began.
A married woman is a person who
regards a wedding certificate as a
deed to her husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

f1uence. sir, to restrain my platoon
from referring to me as Legs. he
said.
"Sure, my lad, sure" replied the
colonel solemnly, eff you'll use yours
to stop my whole battalion calling me
old Badly"
Derrigan lived in an old cottage
which stood in field near the high
road to Dublin. The foundations of
through which ran great water
main. AS the living floor of the
house was raised on posts to make il
level with the highway, it left a large
cellar underneath, where Derrigan
kept several hens. One day the
water main burst flooded the cellar
and drowned the hens.
Derrigan Immediately put in a
claim for damages After long de-
lay and much trouble influential
friends assisted the old man to get $40
in settlement of his claims.
That evening he saw Mrs. Cassidy,
his next door neighbor. sitting on
her back steps.
"I got me money from the district
council" he called to her.
Did yez, then. Mr.. Derrigan? It's
glad I am. How much did yez get %
Two pounds"
GLORY be! An hev' yez the
money!
ST hev not. but I had it,
what did yez do with it?'i
sure I bought SO worth of ducks
wild it,
What a brilliant conversationaIist
young Mr.. Jenkins is. Do you know
him? Really. it's an education to
listen to him talkine''
YES" said gentle Mrs Smith, 81
have met him"
You must have found him very
entertaining. He can talk cIeverly and
wittiIy for an hour at a stretch"
Then when / met him. said Mrs.
Smith. sit must have been at the be-
ginning Of the second hour"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The war will soon be over. An
Ohio man will end it. He has sug-
essted that aviators drop potato bugs
over Germany. He declares there are
no potato bugs in the kaiser's realm
and since the "spud' is absolutely es-
sential to Germany's economic well
fare. the dropping of bugs over the
Rhine country would quickly termi-
nate hostilities. His plan is as sensi-
BILE as many others that are being Of
ferad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
ON SPUR 4 4H MOMENT
By ROY K. MOULTON

The Profiteers.
Gosh durn it, Bill, these profiteers
Are bleedin' US to DEATH
Said Farmer Brown down at the store.
They take away my breath.
You have to take an airship now
When You go out to buy. -
Us farmers can't touch anything.
These profiteers now, in the fall
And also in the spring
They get together and they boost
The price of everything.
They're grabbin' everything around
And pay the price we must.
If there's one thing l really hate
1t is a gol-dong trust
whats that you say-half-past eight?
Great Scott! our meetin's on.
What sort of meetin: do you say,
Just pass that demijohn.
You don't mean to tell me, Bill
You haven't heard the plan
To. get together here this fall
And get all that we can.
''Pertaters, they are far too cheap,
And butter amt too high.
Us farmers, we control the stuff
The city boobs must buy
The city folks can't pillow and hoe
And milk and rake up hay.
They'll always have to come to u.s.
Wen tell em what to pay"
One solemn contrast thru the land
makes a man bewail his lot. The
autumn leaves are falling, but the
And Then the married Life, Writers
Queer 1t All.
This is the way they start out on the
sea of matrimony in Steumen county.
Ohio, according to one society editor:
Eyes gazed into eyes flaming with
love as they knelt at the maria ge
shrine, while the minister's words
which blended their loving hearts fell
like the dews of heaven on their
bowed heads. The froom was the
strong, majestic oak; the bride the
tender, clinging ivy. Her Iuxurant
tresses were garnitured with jewels
and she was a radiant queen of love.
joy and beauty, and he was a cavalier
in whose heart she had become en-
shrined.'
Well make a small bet the minister
didn't say a word about the high cost
of living.
We have read recently a great deal
about the Cheaper cuts of meat" We
decided to buy them.
Then the trouble started. We To-
Gated the Cheapest cuts on the COW
in the chart, but we haven't been able
to locate them in the meat market.
The butchers we have interviewed
never heard of them.
Pretty soon we will be reading that
little Woodrow Jones has written the
prize third-grade essay. Tempus
Fugits.
win the war in the kitchen.
Herbert Hoover.
It can't be done. Herb. We have
had a war in our kitchen ever since
we had our first maid, and we can't
win it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The censure which Lord North
ciiffe hurls at Lloyd George is in the
nature of boomerang. It is not yet
forgotten that Northcliffe was largely
responsible for the fact that Lloyd
George is occupying the most impor-
tsnt office in England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Hoover has demanded that the big
number of turkeys in cold storage be
sold. There is said to be an immense
turkey crop in the south and the pub
lie seemed in a fair way to obtain at
least one article for the Thanksgiving
dinner at a reasonable price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

stocks are too low to permit more
than minimum alIotments. And prices
are apparently regulated according to
the scarcity. What has become of all
the anthracite mined and shipped
from the mines in 1912"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The dispatches from the Mexican
border indicate that the Mexicans
fight like gentlemen. They are using
no big guns, no hand grenades' no
gas. 10 liquid fire; just plain old
fashioned rifles The casualties might
be still further reduced If they would
arm themselves solely with broom
sticl,s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Kerensky. Korniloff and Kaledines
form a triumvirate that it will be
hard for the anarchists of Russia to
overcome. It promises for the Slavic
nation law. order and the prosecution
of the war until the central powers
are defeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The White House pickets have
Joined the ranks of the food conserva-
tionists by going on a hunger strike.
One may do her bit toward winning
the war even in jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The man or woman who had not
$50 with which to buy liberty bond
will now be permitted to lend to the
government in a sum as low as rs
cents by means of the war saving GER
tificates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
DINNER STORIES

A tall, thin lieutenant reported in
Flanders to a Canadian battalion COM
manded by a bald, elderly colonel.
After a few days he approached his
commander and asked permission to
air a grievancre.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

There is one thing to the credit of
General Cadorna. He did not call it
a strategic, retreat"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The L w. w lumber workers of Mon
tana, Idaho, aud eastern Washington de-
mand food served in porcelain dishes,
spring beds and mattresses, free hospital
service, and minimum wage of So a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

to afflict him with the stories of all
of her trials and difficulties.
Besides the money that the man
gives towards making the home his
other gift should be spiritual. He
should help make the home cheerful
and happy and brave, and that will be
a far greater help to his wife than if
he washed the dishes or peeled the
potatoes.
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