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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

Nurses, especially those engaged in
public health work, can do much to
prevent unnecessary deaths from can
Ger, according to a special bulletin
published by the American Society for
the Control of Cancer Many pa
.tients, especially women, it is pointed
out, will speak to nurse about the
danger signals of this disease, such as
Jumps, persistent sores, alterations
and other Irregularities, when they
would hesitate to call a doctor. At
tention to these apparently trivial
conditions, says the bulletin, often
means the actual prevention of can
Ger or at least its discovery in the early
stages when the hope of cure is great
est
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

fury the largest vested interest in
China, an interest in which thousands
had their entire wealth and from
which millions drew their living. There
were provinces in which there was
virtually no other crop, for opium has
always commanded a much higher
price than any other product. In adj
dition, the customs revenue on the
poppy imported from India and the
internal tax on the native product
have represented large proportion of
the entire revenue of the country,
more than S30,00o,O0O. And on the
personal side at least half the AGO.
900, 900 people of the country have
been addicted to the drug.
The last effort to prolong the life of
the drug has been frustrated under
circumstances that provide a fitting
climax TO the sweeping surge of IDEAL
ism that has characterized the fight
of decade. For the last three years
all China has been closed to the traffic
IN opium except the three provinces
in which. ironically enough, the for
elgn interests have dominated While
the Chinese themselves have sacri-
fIced whatever property interest they
had in the traffic, the British i'm
porters who make up the Shanghai
opium combine, forced an agreement
three years ago allowing them to sell
the drug in those three provinces I'M
til they disposed of their accumulated
stocks. The expiration of that agree
ment was fixed at March 81 1917
the date originally set by the Chinese
government for the end of the evil
thruout the country.
A few months ago the combine,
finding it could not dispose of its stock
by that time, asked the government
for an extension of that agreement I'M
til January 1, 1918. offering $4,000
600 for the privilege. That offer the
government has refused In finan-
clal straits as it is, it's treasury de-
pleted by revolution. forced even for
time to suspend specie payments,
and gotiating-almost begging-for
$4,000 900 loans in America, it has re-
FUSED. Strong political pressure has
been brought to bear; the combine
has even threatened to withhold S.
100000 of the duty on its last months
OF operation. Still it has stood firm
a magnificent stand for a principle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
SIDE TALK S
Bouquets for Oneself.
By RUTH CAMERON.

There is a young woman in our
town the merton of whose name
brings a certain sentence into the
mind of everyone who knows her.
The sentence is this: 7 really
don't know what they pay me for. /
really don't do any work"
1t is frequently uttered by the
young lady herself in a tone half
p1aintive, half coy.
1t refers to the position she holds
in a business concern where she comes
into contact with a great many men.
The young lady is rather pretty,
and, as you may have guessed, she
fancies herself rather more than a
little.
You are supposed to answer that
beauty is it's own excuse for being, or
that they doubtless enjoy having her
around so greatly that work. is not
necessary, or something that carries
that inference.
Some people make this answer.
Soma don't.
l must confess that I am among
these latter ungracious ones, for
nothing irritates me more than that
type of fiat remark which under some
gauze of pretense conceals a bouquet
for the speaker.
They make me feel the Way lnaL
last particularly rich piece of candy
makes one feel after one has already
eaten more than one should.
You know the type, don't you?
A particularly common example is
the girl who tells you that it annoys
her so to be stared at, she can't see
what makes people look at her SO.
She hopes there's nothing wrong
about her.
Men are not SO apt to give them
selves this kind of yelled bouquet.
They are usually more direct in their
methods But the other night I heard
a man speaking of what remarkable
memories newspaper men have. You
know" he went on, Il never met that
man but once, about ten years ago,
and the other day when he met a
friend of mine. the first thing he
asked was, 'How's Jim Woods?' Won
derful how those men remember"
Now, he may have told that Incl
dent to illustrate the excellent MEM
DRY of newspaper men, and then again
he may have hoped we'd draw our
own conclusions
Anyway, when the lady with social
tact said. You must have made a
deep impression he didn't look dis
pleased.-(Copyrig by George Mat
thew Adams,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison c1obe1

LFrom the Atchison Globe.
A horror seems less horrible if it -
far away.
Dignity with some men consists of 4
Prince Albert coat.
Many sardines are imported. altho
the reason for this is unknown
Some men are so independent they
want to quarrel with everybody.
Picking winners ought to be the
finest occupation, if one is good at it.
The general rule among amateur
mechanics is to oil machinery when it
squeaks.
What you tell confidentially is ant
to be told in the same way to a good
many others.
A general may become famous for
mastery retreat, but few wars are
won in that way.
That soulful look is sometimes due
to a bum liver, instead of a yearning
for the infinite.
You don't need to know a great deal
to know enough not to buck another
mans game.
Chances are your own extravaganza
hurts you more than the extravaganza
OF the government.
If you have to sell you want high
prices; II you have to buy, you want
low prices. That's human nature
Women may not be keen students
of history. but they are good at re-
membering the date of a marriage.
This country is, getting old enough
so that being born in a log cabin Is
no longer much of a political asset.
A philosopher is one who figures
out that being broke" isn't much Of
a hardship when you get used to it.
If the man is old ond the woman
young, your assumption that she
married him for money is reasonably
correct.
Almost any woman can entertain a
man without much difficulty, by get
ting him started to talk about him
self.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

Declarations that since the days of
frontier life have passed. Americans
are no longer entitled to their former
fame as riflemen are completely re-
futed by statistics, say officers of the
United States marines. These Off
GERS recently compiled data showing
that splendid shooting qualities are
still characteristic of American troops
More than 10 per cent of the Sal
members of the United States Marine
Corps who fired during 1915, on the
fourteen marine corps rifle ranges,
are qualified skilled riflemen, accord
ing to the table just compiled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
THE CHINESE WAY.

The people of the United States
might learn something from the
heather Chinee." The opponents of
the liquor traffic have been waging
war against intoxicants fer a century
and have accomplished little, when the
expenditure in time and money is
taken into consideration. The way to
abolish strong drink is to abolish it
apply the AK to the root.
Instead of asking congress to pass
the Susan B. Anthony amendment,
why don't the prohibition forces ask
that body to forbid the manufacture
of liquor? No constitutional amend
ment would be necessary for that.
China, an interest in which thousands
opium, the traffic therein and it's pro-
duction in the short space of ten years.
Nathaniel Pfeffer, writing for the
New York Independent, tells the
story of how it was done.
The last wisps of smoke are curling
from the opium pipes of China, he
says. On March 81 the last ounce OF
the poppy will be sold, on June 80 the
last pipe will be lit, and China will be
free from opium. In ten years it will
have thrown off the most terrible
bondage that has ever enslaved a ma
ton and at the same time will have
contaminated one of the finest
achievements in the history of any
people.
To realize what this has meant, fl
nancially at least, to China. he con-
tinues, you must compare it with the
effect on the United States if the gov
eminent were suddenly to forbid the
cultivation of wheat and corn. Then
imagine the people of those states not
only submitting, but burning with
elaborate ceremonies all agricultural
implements.
Opium has been for nearly a cen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
EQUAL RIGHTS ON THE ROAD.

There has been for some time a
growing sentiment that all other We
hicles as well as automobiles and
other horseless conveyances should
display lights at night. 1t is held
that buggies and wagons should have
no special rights on the highways. A
bill has been offered in the leg1sia
ture designed to correct this Unequal
ity and as a matter of common justice
it should pass.
The January Farm and F'ireside,
commenting on this subject, says:
All persons have equal rights on the
public highways and all highways
which are presumably safe to travel
by day or night. But the increasing
amount of night travel by automobiles
requires the exercise of prudence. even
considering our rights. We drive
some of these motor cars, others are
driven by our own neighbors, and still
others by strangers, who, like our
selves. want no more than their own
share of the road
The number of reckless automobile
drivers is small. Motor cars cost too
precious for any sane driver deliber-
ately to risk an accident. The new,
inexperienced driver is always with
us. and as long as buggies and horses,
which are dark in color, venture out
on the roads at night without lights,
there will be accidents and uncom-
fortably close escapes. If you mus.
drive without light, drive white
horse: but, better. get a buggy lamp
and use it. Carry a lantern on the
wagon and small oil light or electric
flashliSht on the bicycle.
Then you may retain your half of
the road without endangering your
self or others. At the same time you
will keep your own respect as a citi-
zen who has a right to use his own
roads whenever he pleases, without
risking his life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
VAMPIRES THREE.



1 speed the sailor and whirl the mills
And make a harp Of the tree;
watt the showers that bring the foWerS
To dapple each dale and lea,
But woeful the ways that in hunger l
. choose
To blast with my awful breath,
For l shatter and wreck and naught may
check
Water speaks:
/ bear the vessels and turn the wheels
And give the desert the rose.
ripple in ri1ls and leap down the hills
Or lie in a CLASSY repose-
Tho I do mans hest without spoil or need
Coeped up in river or lake,
When I surge in wrath from my wonted
Wild ruin 1 leave in my wake.
Fire speaks:
l am vassal O. man and L do his will
In many a wondrous way.
If he chain me sure / am fain to endure
His mastery night and day.
But should l escape from my dungeon red
BY charring the bolts and bars,
chasten my master with helFs disaster
And flaunt my head to the stars.
All three speak:
Aye, puppets are we of the tyrant man
So long as our passions slumber;
But woe to the day that we make him our
All, who may our victims number?
For harpies relentless we mangle and tear
Our puny lord and his city;
Then mock at his means and jeer at his
groans,
Devoid of mercy or pity.
%. 81. Roesner, in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
BED TIME TALES
RY CLARA FMGE2 AM HTImGmM
A SURPRISING BREAKFAST.
IRA INGRAM JUDSON

How would you ike to invite thirty
people to breakfast and have $50 peo-
pie come?
This is a really true story of how
that happened to Mistress Dorothy
Hancock.
Mistress Dorothy was the wife of
John Hancock. who was a statesman
during the Revolutionary war. She
was famous for her fine housekeeping
and cooking, as well as for her beauty
and her gracious manners.
The American soldiers were trying
to get the French soldiers to help them
they were very happy when boat full
of Frenchmen came into the harbor.
The men were to talk it all over and
see what could be done.
John Hancock and his wife. Dor
othy, invited the captain and all the
officers. thirty in all, to have break
fast at their beautiful house the next
morning.
All afternoon and evening, Mistress
Dorothy and her maids baked and
brewed. making good things for the
Frenchmen to eat.
Just as everything was ready in the
morning Mistress Dorothy happened
to look out of the window.
What was this she saw coming
across the fields? This was no group
of thirty men. It was at least $50.
Instantly she knew what it meant
The captain had mis- anderstood John
Hancock's poor French and had
thought not only himself and officers,
but all of his men were invited.
1t would never do TO offend them by
turning the men away when their help
was so needed by the Americans She
must feed them all and feed them well.
Quick as flash, her plans were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Things Worth knowing.

To Clean Art Squares and Rugs
Take them out of doors and lay them
wrong side up in the snow; beat
them well, turn over, sprinkle thickly
with snow, sweep off. roll up and
take into the house Immediately.
This brightens them, and they look
like new.
To Keep 1917 Diary-Purchase
day calendar, and when you tear
off a leaf write on the blank side
what you did on that date, names
went, who called etc. File them
away. Good for future reference.
The Table
Poached Apricots-Cut round or
square slices Of mot too dry) any
cake not too sweet and put one piece
on each plate. Moisten slightly with
the juice should be reheated and
sweetened into a nice thick strip.
Place half an apricot on each slice of
cake, round side uppermost, and sur
rounded with circle of nicely favored
whipped cream, to look like a
poached egg. Or, use beaten white
of egg with powdered sugar if han
der, forming meringue, and set in
oven to brown for just a moment.
This is a very attractive novelty; also
inexpensive.
Apple Tapioca (serves six)-Three-
eighths cup graduated tapioca, two and
one-half cups boiling water, one-ha1f
teaspoon salt, seven apples, one-half
cup sugar. Cook tapioca in boiling
water until clear, then pour over
sliced apples and other ingredients
and bake in oven until apples are ten
der. May be served plain or with lem
on sauce.
Favorite Macaroni (serveS siX)-
Boil until tender in water to which
one-haif teaspoon of salt and one-half
tablespoon butter has been added one
box macaroni Cor one and one-half
pounds in bulk); then drain. Melt
one tablespoon butter add one table
spoon flour, one cup milk and one-half
teaspoon mustard. salt and pepper to
taste; stir until it comes to a boil.
then add macaroni and two table
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
We Ought to Knaw.
81 coy 2. MouLToN.

We Ought to Know.
bard was he upon a daily paper.
The motley muse he wooed. He often
sat
Late with his work, beside the lonely
taper,
And wrought thereat.
Full oft he sighed, How weary is the
mortal
Who hopes with wit or japery to please,
Who seeks to chase the lone, elusive chortle,
The subtle wheeZe.'
And he would sigh, What other souls that
be have
So dire a lot as l, so sad a chore?"t
despair would come and he would sigh, as
we have
Remarked before.
How sad perhaps you murmur, thus
revealing
Some. sympathy with one in woeful
plight.
But let Us add with somewhat greater
feeling,
How Sad is rightt'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

1t appears from the comment of the
European press that President VIII
sons peace speech has fallen on will
ing ears. No more cordial endorse
ment could have been given it than
that Of the Manchester Guardian
The general sentiment appears to be
that the presidents IDEAS are all right
but there is skepticisln in some quar-
tiers regarding their acceptance by the
rulers of the warning nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

The bill introduced by Jackson of
Anderson to amend the garnishment
law so as to permit the creditor to take
20 per cent of the debtors wages every
pay day should not pass. The law is
bad enough as it stands. The law
should be wiped off the statute books
entirely. Nothing is more absurd in
the mass of absurd legislation burden
ing the statute books than that the
legal machinery of a great state should
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
After a moment the editor growled


Then" demanded the editor, what
is it makes you stand so close to the
door?"
r. G.. Knowles told a good story re-
Gently of an actress who is taking Il
minor part-a very minor part-in a
certain well-known musical comedy.
One day, fearful and trembling. she
burst into the managers room.
My diamondsI" she gasped. They
have been stolen from my handbag"
The manager smiled ever so slightly
Then he remarked soothingly:
"Oh. we'll, I shouldn't worry about a
trif1e like thatl''
But replied the actress ruefully,
there was a two-dollar bill in the
bag, and that's gone, tool"
The managers face became sudden
ly grave.
THAT'S a different natter said he.
s-We'li send for a detective at once"
Doris was rather backward in her
studies. One day when her mother
was. inquiring into her standing at
school she admitted that she was low
est in her class
why, Doris, I am ashamed of
you!" her mother exclaimed. fWhy
don't you study harder and try to get
away from the foot of the class2'
1T isn't my fault Doris replied in
tones of injured innocence. THE lit
tie girl who has always been at the
foot has left school"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

In the kitchen. hot breads were
hastily stirred up and omelets made.
When the men at last arrived at the
house, Mistress Dorothy was at the
door ready to greet them, and with her
own hands served all the tea and cof-
fee, altho one brave Frenchnan is said
to have had eleven cups.
The captain was So pleased with the
way they We're treated that he prom
ised his help to the American army
That is the way one patriotic wo-
man helped her country.-( Copyright
by Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

1t is announced that Bob Fitzsim-
mons is about to turn evangelist, prob
ably attracted to that course by the
success of Billy Sunday. Time was
when down and out prize fighters and
baseball players turned to the profess
sion of barkeeping, but the advance
of prohibition threatens to close this
+. Id of endeavor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
The Evening Hour,

When homeward wends the weary
dad to eat, to read and hit the hay,
to romp awhile with lass or lad, that
is the season of the day! For tho the
daily stint may vex, when shades of
night begin to lower, forget the trou-
bles that perleX, enjoy the pleasant
evening hour. When we were only
little tads did we not then with joy
await the home-returning of our dads
and romp to meet them at the gate :?
Who has a cheerful wife and kids to
meet him when the day is done, tho
he must buy them shoes and lids, tho
he must hump to get the mon, tho
he hath not pile of kale, tho many
are the bills he pays, his are the joys
of this sad vale, ne has, indeed, the
happy days. How desolate and sad is
he, how must he often sigh and moan
and what a wretch the man must be
who lives his life unloved, alone; who
never at the close of day has cleared
the worries from his brow to home
ward wend happy way, cheered by
the thought of kids and frau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

While the neutral nations are as one
in their solicitude for peace in Eu-
rope, they continue to sell arms, mu-
nitions and other supplies to the bel
ligerents, thus helping them to con-
tinue the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

The Ohio legislature listened to
William Jennings Bryan for two hours
while he told it what to do. And still,
says the Cleveland Leader, the coun-
try wonders why Ohio acted the way
it did in the election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

Before the arrival of the cold stor-
age warehouse, people got along with
out fresh eggs when the hens quit lay
ing in the fall. but they didn't call it a
boycott.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

he set in motion to enforce a verbal
contract between two individuals IN
volving a few dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
Our Just-Like-That Club.

Sir: Our small son had been missing
most of the afternoon, tho / happened
to know he had gone to call on his
auntie. My wife noticed his absence
and turned to me to ask, What can
that child be up top Whereupon I
replied, quick as 4 flash, Hes up to
mis- aunt si"-Groyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

1t has been found that alcohol can
not be substituted for gasoline. The
reverse of this proposition is not so
we'll established.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
The Kent City Correspondent.

(In the Casnovia, Mich, Herald.)
N. J. Hook, so it has been limited,
lost a hen by death last week. Prob
ably laid an egg and scared herself
to death.
Where there is a girl there is a
bi1l-Bill Smith.
Did you ever see hog that tried
to keep all of the rest of the hogs out
of the trough? But when there are
two troughs, then that hog has some
thin on her hands all right. Moral:
There is more than one daily. TIE hei
Why not be neighborly and shovel
the snow off of your neighbours wife's
porch?
If we got our phiz slapped every
time that somebody tells US that
somebody is going to slap it for us,
gee whiz, we would look like a pretty
well-red Teller.
Health Note.
Never in a frenzy,
Soak your head in soup.
You'll get influenzy.
Maybe, or the Group.
Sure.
This much at least in life is true
When everything Is said,
The fellow who agrees with you,
He has level head.
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AIaat

Sometimes. alas, a tooth must ACHE
And woeful things must come to pass
The hopes we have, the plans we make
Must come to grief. sometimes alas.
We take cold or take a wife,
Or long unsettled bills betide.
Sometimes, alas, the bread of life
Must fall upon the buttered side!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

How can New York expect to make
"open-window week" a success with
the price of steel bars where it is?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

New South Wales reports many new
industries since the outbreak of the
war. Leather goods, almost all of
which were previously imported, are
now made in domestic factories
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
This Day in History.

Thirty-eight years ago today the
inventor of the car-strap died a 1inger-
ing death after hanging on for several
weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

In the plan to enforce peace the
presidents idea seems to be to first gel
your peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
DINNER STORIES

Among the callers upon a certain
grouchy art editor in San Francisco
was very timid young men who diff
fident1y laid a cover design before the
great man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25

made. She sent out for permission
from the neighbors to milk the cows
then in the pasture, and to strip the
trees of their fruit.