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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
LADY LOBBY OVERLOOKED IT
As a Result Wife Must Go to
Court for Her Rights.
Numerous Husbands Are En-
cOuntering Lots of Grief.

The 1917 legislature fixed up the
legal age law for women. Now com
plieations are being encountered. 4
woman may chose a husband when
she is IS years old. But her name to
note, mortgage or legal document is
worthless until she reaches the age
OF 2l years unless she secures a
special order from the district court.
Some Of the gIittering relief which
the ladies' lobby proposed for their
sex seems to have been overlooked in
the final passage of the law. Numer-
Gus husbands with young wives are
encountering sundry Brands of trouble
and various complications in the oPer-
alton or tbs act. Provisions Of the
law are equally embarrassing to the
wives.
When the legislature changed the
legal age limit for women. il seems
70 have forgotten several things. No
change was made in the law regard
ing the marriage Of women on their
own motion when they attain the age
OF IS years. But a woman's name an
any legal document except Z marriages
license IS of no value until she is 81
years old.
Oh, Dear!
Thus I blushing bride Of ts sum
mers may walk to the altar with the
man Of her choice without consent or
approval from parental sources.
should friend husband decide a few
months after the wedding to mortgage
the sarnn or borrow fhoney at the bank,
he Immediately meets up with compli-
cae4ens. It is necessary for the wife
TO sign mortgages notes and other
documents, but il the wife is not II
years old. her signature is worthless.
In order to make her signature valid
or permit the woman to sign papers or
transact business in her own name and
over her own signature. a special trip
must De made To the district court
The district judge must confer on the
womah rights Of majority. All of which
sometimes occasions complications
where Immediate action is necessary in
closing business tFahactiens or sign
inE papers
Under the old law a wOniau's sigma
tore 10 a legal document was valid az
ter she had reached her eighteenth
year Now she must be 81 altho she
may marry on her own motion when
she is Is. According to s NJ. Brewster
attorney general, the law as passed
last winter does not affect women
married before the passage OF the act
Thus a woman married last fail or win
ser when she was Is years old ana
before the new law became effective.
might sign all legal papers. Another
woman Of the same age; fnaFfiea a few
weeks or months later. must secure
special approval from the district
court or wait until she is 81 years old
Before her signature is valid on 2 le-
gal document and will hold water
when tested in the courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
IS LETTER, PAREE
Harriet Wilson Gets Missive
From Little French Miss.
Suzanne Is English Student;
Penned in Quaint Style.
TELLS OF YANKEES LANDING
Delighted at Fact c. S. and
France Fight Together.
Sixteen-Year.Old Would Come
to America After War.

In the act of receiving. opening and
reading letter which enc has re-
celved from a distant friend there is
a peculiar and ever recurring fascina
ton And if that friend is a native
of heroic France, a Parisienne whom
one has never seen, and who writes
charmiHgly in English which she has
learned at French school, one is apt
to look forward to the arrival of let
tiers with an interest bordering on
excitement
Harriet Wilson, the 13-year-old,
daughter OF H B. Wilson. supeFintend-
ent of city schools likes to study
geography When, last spring. her
teacher asked if any of the children
would care to correspond with school
girls in foreign countries of which
they studied in the geography class,
Harriet said she would like 70 try it.
She wrote a letter addressed in care
Of the city schools of Paris, France.
IN due time she received a reply. The
letter was signed Suzanne Paris, 1s,
Rue de Bearrl, Paris Suzanne is IS;
and writes in English, and III a beau
tifuI hand. Her quaint mastery of the
language can be best appreciated by
much older American college students.
who with more training could not do
nearly so well in French.
The Letter From Paris.
Her. first letter, in Part, follows:
Dear Friend:
Today at the English lesson my teacher
gave me letter from you 1 see that you
are Wishing for a French CORES DoIitIefIt
as I am wishing for an American one. 1t
is with great pleasure that I write to yeti.
speak very well as you see. but as I am
working this language 1 hope make some
in English and 1 hope 1t will not be too
difficult to understand my letter
In, my next letter 1 shall give you some
Z -
and about my family, but today I Shall
speak particularly OF FRINGE as you tell
me that yeu are going to study that eoun-
try.
I Shall send you also postcards in my
next letters, postcards particularly of
Paris, but also of other towns because I
have beautiful collection and also I have
made some interesting journeys l thank
you of all what you say about Kansas, it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
ANOTHER SEX SLIP WOMEN ON FARM
Last Legislature Made Life Several Lady
Miserable for the NewIyweds. LabOrers Sow wheat
Ga, r. - 1T, Cu ra1 oro- Man Sized Jobs for
Take Over Man Sized Jobs for
Nations Service.
GET 81 A DAY ON ONE FARM
Frank Huntsinger Place In
Usage Is a Model.
Operate Rakes, Balers and CO.
Devils in Fields.

women are taking up the farm
burdens where they were laid down
Inv the men called to national army
Service. Several hundred X a n a $
Irornen are this fall helping sow
wheat. cut the hay crop and gather
the corn. In some instances women
feed the cattle and take oyer the real
heavy. man sized jobs, of farm life
that compel violation of all union la
Nine women have relieved men on
the Frank Huntsinger farm in Usage
county. The women are receiving -
a day for their services and are cut
ting. rakiug. baling and storing the
hav crop on the Huntsinger meadows.
In almost every respect the women
Drovide a service equal to that of the
men. As soon as they are hardened
To intensive farm work. it is probable
the women will be able to keep pace
with men engaged in farm activities.
The Huntsinger ranch is the first
large farming project in this district
to give extensive employment to wo-
rr1n Many other farmers are ex-
women vino will enter the work are
in the main residents OF the rural dis
tricts and not unfamiliar with farm
work However, the movement may
attract a number of young women
from the smaller towns. On the
Huntsfnger ranch the new farm hands
operated the moving machines, rakes,
baIers and go-devils.
Opportunity for Women
Labor shortage in farming commu-
mites has given women an opportunity
to take up new work. The man
power is in the main sufficient to
meet demands during normal times.
Il is during the rush season when the
Maud AIuIlers will be given their
chance Because of conditions now
working out in the state it is proba-
bic that several Thousand Kansas wO=
men will next year help gather the
wheat crop and plant the corn Ex-
perieR noes on the Huntsinger ranch in
sure women a place in gathering next
years hay crops.
At the g,eB0-acre Miller ranch near
the Huntsinser properties, no women
have been employed in active farm
work Clyde W. Miller. who owns the
mammoth tract Of land, has sought
to retain married men on his land
His tenant houses are occupied by men
with families and these men have not
been lured away by offers in other
districts and in the main are exempt
ed from seIective army Service But
conditions in Usage, Coffey, Morris
and other counties are giving farmers
much concern. In a number of To-
eaIities men are loaned" while crops
are gathered in certain districts. In
many districts the shortage of man
power is seriously felt in gathering
the big 1917 corn crop and it is proba-
BILE that many women will drive sIeds
and help to shock and husk the crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
INTRIGUE IN CHINA, TOO
Important Documents Found on Dust
ed German Envoys' Vessel.

san Francisco. Cal, Oet 1s.-Docu-
merits having an important bearing on
German plots to influence China $
syrnpath4es towards the Teutonie ern-
rires in the world war are on their
way to Washington federal officials
admitted today
FHey were taken from the Dutch
steamer 9raaje, which has arrived
German officials who left china when
that country Joined the allies. The
most carefully guarded papers are
said TO be those found in possession
Of Anton Arnold. former German
financial adviser to the Chinese gov
eminent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13

~ peal and cadence sweet 1t rip
pies, sings and dances like the foun-
tain of the fairies hidden in the dis
tant hills And again like chimes of
vesper calling to a service in some
sacred aisle Of prayer far, far away
The heart and soul are filled with
perfume rare as of the evening Jas
mine
And yet. It's neither vesper song
nor bell of church, How often have
I listened to that whispering strain
that seemed to tell of other lands and
other times The faint, sweet music
of the Blue Harebells that comes upon
the gloduing soft when all the
worlds at peace The farebeIIs rlrug
by fairy hands at eyer-time 7nnoence
the fairy faast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
IN A tenement
Henry L. Doherty Didn't Like
MilIiOnaire's Boulevard.
Wall Street Magnate Moved
Back to NewsbOy Haunts.
UPTOWN HOTELS TOO NOISY
Sought Quiet of River District
So He Can Sleep.
Owner of Kansas Natural Gas
Company Once a Newsboy.

New York, Oct I3-Columbus, O.,
has the distinction of giving TO New
York the only man in the entire length
and breadth of Manhattan Island Who
lives below Fulton street. He is Henry
L. Doherty, banker, of No. SO wall
street
Doherty, who started out in life as
a newsboy on the streets of Column bias;
and who now is a millionaire banker
and owner of some zoe pubic utilities,
has. a unique home at the corner OF
Bridge and Broad streets on the lower
tip of Manhattan Island.
Across the Street is the old Fraunee
tavern where Washington bade fare
well 40 his troops. To the south IS the
New York harbor with its nyridd of
Doherfy, an interchangeable worker;
formerly had a home on Riverside
Drive, but found that after working
until past midnight it was a long trip
home in his automobile. So he looked
about for a place in the neighborheod
where ne could sleep until the next
day. There are no hotels below Full
ton street-save perhaps for FEW
longshoremen resorts, 50 at last Do
herty discovered an apartment in the
streets.
Fixed Apartment Up SVEN:
He rented two rooms and had them
refitted in keeping with his Station
in life. The lower end of the Island
after midnight is practically deserted,
only the staccato beat of the night
watehman's stick and the chimes of
Trinity. break the Silly air Doherty
found he could sleep better away from
the noise and after two weeks rented
the entire second floor Of the building
There are large living rooms, guests
rooms and one music room in which
is installed a large pipe organ Where
Doherty amuses himself after a hard
nights work on the .studendous de-
tails of his enormous business
The apartment is lighted by a sys-
tenn of flood lighting that gives. added
charm TO the rare bric-a-brfc and
costly fittings A negro servitor acts
as cook and general factotufn- There
is no elevator. but the visitor, after
a walk up a tiny pair of stairs, finds
himself in one of the most tastefuily
decorated and quiet homes in the city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
How to Reduce
Cost of Living

when butter sells az over so cents
pound. flour at 81 a barrel. and other
foodstuffs in proportion. any hint to re-
dnce the cost Of living should be Welcome
The great trouble il that rats and mice
destroy many dollars worth Of food a
fubnth- .Exterfninate tnese pests with
Stea<as Paste. which has been used with
great success by national and local au-
thoritfes TO kiH rats A smaI box cost
ing only n few cents, will often rid the
home or Barn Of a family OF rafs or mice
in a single observation-disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
RINGING OF THE HAREBELLs.

Sometimes, when the sun has gone
down behind the hills to his nights
rest and the stiI, dim. twilight is
stealing gently over garden and mea-
dow and field, if you will be quiet
and listen you may hear a low soft
strain OF the sweetest music ever
heard ike the vesper hymn from
some distant, holy church As II
rises and falls and swelIs and dies
away with the gentle wind that blows
Ger dale and vale with light caress-
ing touch, you will wonder whence
such heavenly music comes and
whittier goes
Anon, the music changes 10 a mer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
stranded Ship Frees Herself.

An Atlantic Port. Oct. 13.-An
American. steamer in the coastwise
passenger service ran ashore off the
New England coast last night and was
noated today. apparently INDIANA ged-
The ship pulled herself free from the
sand without assistance and proceeded
on her way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
Topeka Helps Pay the Rent.

Henry Dof1erty is owner Of the
Kansas Natural Gas company. Since
he acquired the property the price of
gas in Topeka has been raised Thy
court decisionl to so cents So To-
pekans may feel assured that Mr.
Doherty's rent on his tenement fiat
probably will not run in arrears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
WEDNESDAY.

one hundred and fifty Knights
TempIar hel great field day at fair
grounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
Emporia Editor Makes 1,4OO-
Mile Auto Tour Along Front.
Passes 100000 Soldiers-Al
Singing-Riding in Trucks.
MI[LINERS SHOW BLACK HATS
That Alone Tells SOfrowful
Story of La Belle, France.
HumOr and Laughter
Bore French Officers.

letter in Emporfa Gazette from its
editor, William Allen White. now
on tour of war zone for the Red
Cross with Henry Allen, editor of
the Wichita Beacon.)
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
To The Cressat.:

God Love,\ is natural or true
10 human existence. Devil.
(Hate, falsehood or ignorance) is
not natural or true TO human ex.
istence, Without God Love.
Truth, Intelligence Human is not
man. Christ called them bulls
of Bashan. God and Satan, are
at antipodes, they are the names
Of good and evil, They are light,
and darkness, intelligence, and
ignorance. God, is love Truth.
life light. intelligence, and good
ness. Devil, is hate, falsehood.
death, darkness, ignorance and
evil.
As intelligence is better than
ignorance, just so God is above
the, devil, as truth is better than
falsehood, just so il heaven
above bell. AS light is better
than darkness, just so, Is one
high, and the other low. in ones
estimation. cod, love. or intel
ligepce is the producer and pre-.
server of things essential to
human existance. whereas, devil,
hate, or ignorance is the distroy
err of things essential to human
life. They destroy human life
as Is shown in Europe now.
Europe is taught to believe lie
and is damned to destruction
until it grasps the truth or God
or intelligence,
Why stand We here looking in
to the clouds? Just as We see
him gn away. So will you see
him return. Christ went away
lin a cloud of sin, ignorance false
hood.
The Light, as it were, was
overcome by darkness ana OBJ
scured by the clouds whict
overhung the peoples minds
just so will the light appear
or just so, be will return. Where
ever you loose anything there
you will find it. Blood cost Vi
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11

the truth, Christ, and light, at
the cruci6xion. Aud in blood
we will gain, Christ, LovsHLlght
and the truth. Just as Truth,
or Christ, was overcome by false
hood and sin. So will ialsehood
and sin be overcome by truth
and intelligence.
A little leven leveneth the
whole lump The leven was
used nineteen hundred years
ago, Humanity will grow, in
truth, and intelligence, and Love-.
as the earth is fertilizsd blood.
~-Thos. Coonce,
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
r. Z a DER

The Baryphone is a new inven
ton which is on fair way of
revolutionizing the telephone
system. AS is we'll known the
American telephone is often.
very unsatisfactory but the
drawbacks are wholly eliminat
ed by the Baryphone Which
makes conversations On the
longest distance just as clear as
on short circuits rs the sound is
carried to both ears and all
noise excluded. Person hard Of
bearing who hitherto have been
prohibited from using the telep.
hone can now use it with the aid
Of the Baryphone which also
will permit Two persons to hear
the message without the use Of
double telephone, The Barry.
phone is the only simple, practi.
cal and effective sound intensifi.
er in existance and Is incompar-
able superior to al! others espec.
tally as it leaves the hand free
forannotations daring the con-
versation. See the ado on the
1st. page!
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
TheCRE!SsET
MOUNTAIN GROVE MISSOURI.
r. F, D. NIB, Caudle 6 rove,
LOrAL LORE.

BIO. George Johnson was over
al the Colony meeting on last
Sunday.
The Colony people are hauling
wood ut presant for Mr.. Schoield
of Norwood.
There is times when, we think
we know men, when it turns out,
that we have been mistaken,
Mr.. Chester McCaskey is
getting some better but very
poorly yet.
Love worketh no i'll to your
neighbor but will go down to the
needs of human distress.
If the CRESSET does not ap'
pear at your homes mkt week,
know that it is because we could
not put 1t out.
Mr. Peter Absher called at
the Editors, and cnated with
him some time, on last Tuesday
The CRESSET may not come
out next week on the account Of
circumstances unavoidable.
Mr. Richard Jarretts barn is
nearing completion, the Colony
is putting " up for HIM,
We have an article from III
AlDin Perkins of Mt. Grove tha'
will come out in the next Issue
it's an attack against us on th
real old LltiIl language.
lite said that BULL Elton 4
OF the Federal Bureau of health
suggests tina a third OF tn
American families are below tn
poverty Line.' Aud be!ieve i
the real truth Was Known ther
would be one half,
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
DEAR BRO, GARRETT.

am sending you fifteen cents
please use Them to Sena 10 u
friend of mlne whose name | am
sending you; the CRESSEl as
long as IL lasts, Sister Molly
Paruu Is q line woman, but lOvly
CRES SET aud Two Man Theory
amt blessed ner home as yet.
Please pu. 10Y name on the
Honor Roll because Bro. Orr
says | amt memoer OF Chicago
CRESSEI C.uU until my name
is on Honor RJli, ouI,l say | am
q MEMBER ana so does Bro.
Goodwin wuo is nice man.
Bro. Or thinks he Is smart
because he t)OB GRE 5 SET
before US, and because Sister
Lillian and Sister Matlie didn't
kick but they agree with me,
being sensible people.
Sister Helen and | is sending
you a tOx which we hope you
can use with Lhe Dear Friends
at The Colony, We wish the
CREoSLT AMI the Colony good
luck all tue year: and hope that
Thousand of nCRESSET Clubs
may be founded as torches
among the darkness OF the word
| forgot to tell you Sister
Alette got fine talking machine
for Christmas, which the CRIES.
SET CLUB enjoys very much.
Please send CRESSET as soon
as possible, to Miss Mary B.
Pardu, 70 Sterling Court Madl
son Wis. who hope enjDys IL.
Yours Devoted to The CRESEET
LOWS Olson,
Peas have a little mercy or
Bro, Orr as he takes up so muct
time u help the CRESSET,
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11

war yelping in distance these
United States would not Of been
free and equal and they would Of
been ne spirit OF. 20 Or 30 "a Q such
number. Shame to Bro. Richard.
son for not taking arms against
sister I Helen. ',,..6s, 'a',.is .,;iii'''.'
Sister Johnson been loyal to
CRESSET and I am glad, she is
strong writer and you got .
mighty good protagaoni st or
something or other in her.
Called on a English dude other
evening name Barron '~told him
about CREssET be said my word
a more extraordinary sheet more
extraordinary heres a shilling
for the Brighter tel l him to post
his blooming sheet to ms each
week, 80 | enclos Q the shilling,
or as we sane Americans say,
two bits. ,e.- },
Bro. Barron went and got
married last fall and lived happily
ever afterward him and her is
now members Of CRESSET Club
though they AIT took sides in
Olson quarrel and hope they
wont fer what's the use?
Now Bro. Garrett we want
this here CRESSEr Club with,
big monogram &c GO" 70 keep
going along peaceful like without
ripples or waves of dissention
amp prejudise in great ocean of
metropolitan life where vice is
king and all we its slaves and we
want to fight it so will you please
speak peace to Sister Helen tel
her where to get Of;
With new year wishes and so
cialism from bible point of view
Put Bro. Barron inahonor roll.
f. B. Orr.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11

We are proud Bro. Orr that
you are such a great peace max.
err. God said blessed are the
peace maker, tell the sister who
was hurt so bad that the Cries.
SET is a balm for all hurts and
will heal the broken hearted.
Especially in the CREssEr
Clubs. 1t willlead you on The
life boat.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
C, C. G..
Chicago CREssET Club
Office of the Press Agent.

Office of the Press Agent.
Chicago III. Jan. 6 1917.
Dear Brother Garrett: Great
cheer to my heart to know the
Dear Ed. missed me, Club amt
gotten best OF me, no, not that,
but ] been hustling around 'get'
ting it organized as it should be
and picking up new subscribers
hither and yon, Then when l
get it going, I found Club threat
ened with fractional quarrel,
They was Sister Helen Olsen
Bro, Horace and Sister johnson
on one sida and me and BRO.
Good man and Sister LOWS Olson
on other side, Sad it is, Bro.
Garrett, see sister agin sister in
club fight. 1t come about in
this way; Sister LOWS she come
in and Gays to Bro, Goodwin, do
you think it right for Sister
Helen to get her name in Honor
Roll of CREsSET and to get talk
ed about so much by Bro. Orr
and he only mentioned me once,
for if it had not of been for me
sister Helen would not of had
two bits to get dear CREssEI
for I gave her the money and she
amt paid it back neither.
Bro, Goodwin with heart like
a chicken felt great pity for the
sister and blubovred a bit ane
said he would see -she got be-
; rights, 50 he comes to me ant
says Bro. Orr sister LOWS ha
great heaviness of spirit siste
Helen owes her quarter sh
loaned her to subscribe for GRE
ssET ct ceteray, Then | had tall
with sister Helen kindly bu
. firm as Bro. Goodwin would sa.
, but the sister flew inro spasm o
anger and we don't speak nov
only when we meet which ain
often and now is great battle o.
in gala array in CREssEr Gu
but | think with your help Bro
Garrett we can smooth matter
out. Sister Helen as ! toll yO1
is irrascable person but will
susceptible cents abilities il
facts IL is her is abilities tina
sister LOWS raised row abou
for which we all mourn an,
constantly peak out into din
future for dawn of CREoSE
peace,
As for Bro. Richardson h
kept out of scrap peace at an
price says he and Oeat it for hu
house, Where ask with m,
right hand majestlckIy slippe
beneath the folds of my prime
albert where | ask would we, Q
r been today ii our jDrefather
beat it when they saw dogs q
MIMI
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1917-01-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Meeting at the Caudle Grove
in the Colony Tabernacle, every
Thursday night, Saturday
night and Sunday a. II and
at 8 O'clock. Except 4th. sunday.
Come all who love to hear the
truth.