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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

two years before. It was little worn
and at least it had the virtue of new
err having been more in style than at
present. It was pretty in a way and
demure and not unbecoming-but
never stylish. With the DOMINIC of
this Jane vanished and Jenny was re-
incarnated. The hat finished the pic
ture. But this was not enough. There
was the substitution of sensible flat
heeIed, soft black kid shoes for the
trim high-heeled pumps that Jane
wore, and then she took out of her
bureau drawer a pair of white cotton
gloves such as the Jenny of old days
had always worn to church and So
cables. Before DOMINIC this costume
Jane had washed her face vigorously
with soap and good cold water till it
shone like a June sky and Jenny in the
country frock had added not a touch
of cream or powder. The hair had
been parted and brushed back in rolls
above the ears so tight that it, too
sflone. 1t was a warm evening, SO no
coat was needed.
At first Samuel was speeches..
''But-but the buyer!" he gasped.
Don't you like me?" the girls
tones Knocked pleadingly. Don't you
see I'm dressed just like the dear old
Jenny of the Corners? I thought as
long as you were going to tell the
buyer that 1 am going to be your wife
you would want me to look the part.
This is the way l am going to dress,
of course, and you don't know how
much more demure l feel. It's funny
what a difference clothes makes in
ones feelings
Samuel was thinking now just of
business. He consulted his watch
and as he die so he had vision of
the Jane as he had seen her that aft
ernoon-the Jane whose citifled
clothes had little alarmed him; the
Jane. who, tho dressed in the best of
men who passed; the Jane whose
strikingness had called forth the lit
tie talk about the charm of Jenny
1t was not Jenny but Jane that he
counted on for that interview with
the buyer. 1t was just a quarter be-
fore by his watch.
Jane, I get the point, I see what
you mean-but it isn't fair. The joke
would be a good one if the occasion
weren't so serious. You see. 1 count
ed on your help. That way you'd
spoil everything. And now, of course,
you can't get home and into your toys
in a quarter of an hour
NO. smiled the girl, and it was
Jane talking thru the Jenny makeup,
but 1 can go to my room here in the
hotel and put back the Jane clothes
in ten minutes. They're all there in
a suitcase
And as she turned to take the ele-
vator to her room Samuel followed for
a step. Goodbye, Jenny, forever
he said. Il liked you back in Blair's
Corners, but it was with Jane here in
the city that 1 fell in love."-(Copy-
right, 1917, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
OUR SUBMARINES.

When the great war broke out, we
had 81 submarines in commission and
we have since put into commission 1 8
more. All these latter. however, were
authorized and under way before the
war. Two older boats have since been
lost: the F-4 by a gas explosion in
Honolulu bay and the H-3 off Eureka,
California, in a storm-leaving a net
addition of IL submarines today over
July 1. 1914.
This really should be reduced to T.,
says Worlds Work, for tho the gov
eminent two years ago took over the
CO and G-3 from the builders, for
reasons unexplained it has not ac-
cepted them; and testifying before the
house committee on naval affairs last
November, Admiral William S. Benson
said the GIL, CO and GA were not
in satisfactory condition.
OF the "A submarines then in COM
mission, Admiral Benson testified that
only "a were in active service; ~ were
undergoing repairs of machinery or
batteries. The remaining eight boats
were the four unsatisfactory G-boats,
three Fboats at Mare Island to re-
ceive new engines, and the E-2, re-
placing with new batteries the ones
that caused the explosion in the
Brooklyn navy yard on January Is,
1915. OF the SO submarines then cap
able of service, 10 were with the At
lantic fleet, 8 H-boats were on the
Pacific coast, K-boats were at Hon
al, ~ ~
five were at the Isthmus of Panama.
The rest were on the Atlantic coast
not with the Atlantic fleet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

telligence. Also, it seemed probable
that He would not have wasted a per-
fectly good set of brains on a girl
baby unless He had meant her to cul-
uvate them and use them.
Nevertheless, for centuries it was
held that it was a wicked and a sacri-
1egious thing for woman to even
aspire to knowledge, or to use her
gray matter for any more worthy pur-
pose than getting around on the blind
side of some man and cajoling more
silks and ssatins and jewels out of him
than she was entitled to have. Since
the dawn of civilization there has new
er been any argument about the ad-
vantages that an education was to
man. 1t has always been admitted that
knowledge is power, and that trained
intelligence is not only sword in
mans hand to fight the battle of life,
but a garden in his soul that enriches
existence itself and makes it fragrant
and beautiful
But this human right was denied
woman, and it is only within the last
few years, and after a terrific fight,
that she has succeeded in winning the
simple rights of a human being to all
the education and culture she is capa-
BILE of taking.
It's funny, now, to think of all the
row that has been made about send
ing girls to school How they have
been derided strong minded"
when they wanted to learn anything
beyond how to read the Duchess!
How they have been caricatured as
blue stockings when they wanted to
think and talk about anything deeper
than the neighborhood gossip What
doleful prophesies were made about
women unseXing themselves and be-
coming bold and horrid and mannish
if they were permitted to go to col
lege! How outrageous was consid-
cred wofnan's demand for an educa-
cation!
Yet she was only asking for her
right to be human being-some thing
with intelligence that raised her above
the animal. She was only asking for
her hereditary right, for it was our
first mother and not our first father
who had such a passion for knowledge
that she risked Paradise to gain it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
HAMsTRUNG RAILROADS.

1t is probably just, based on cost
of living and ratio of wages being paid
in this country, says the Bache Re-
view, that the wages or the trainmen
should be raised. Yet the trainmen
comprise only % per cent of the en-
ployes of the roads. The wages of the
other rs per cent should also be adj
justed.
But railroad expenses are steadily
increasing. The proportion of expenses
to earnings is SO great that the net
earnings for a period of years do not
average enough to reimburse security
holders. This is proved by the fact
that new money will not come into
railroad investments.
In this matter the investor is the
Judge. 1t is his money. He has de-
cided that unless further expenditures
are productive of larger net earnings
he will not risk his money.
Consequently, if railroad expenses
are to be increased by raising wages
the government must see to it that
rates are raised so that the roads can
afford the increase.
has proved beneficial in many ways
but it has insisted upon fatally i'm
pairing the earning power of the roads
the one thing most vital to their
usefulness.
The progress of construction and in
creasing facilities upon which ulti-
mately the progress of the country de-
ponds, has been regulated out of ex-
istence.
1t is unthinkable that the country's
growth must stop. The remedy is
either thru government ownership, or
thru liberal rate increase to a point
where the earnings of roads are placed
upon basis providing ample surplus
to fortify credit, in lean. as well as
prosperous years.
Only so can the funds Of investors
be attracted to supply capital for ade-
quate upkeep, extension and i'm
proyement
Under an increase in earnings
brought about by the war, the rail-
roads hoped to be able to obtain new
funds on stock issues. The New York
Central railroad tried this with an is
sue OF $25,0oe,000 new stock at par.
The issue was failure The South
ern Railway tried to finance itself on
lines which would have been Iegiti-
mate with railroad securities in de-
mand, but was compelled to resort to
other methods Many railroads would
have undertaken the issue of new Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
INTO THE WAR.

President Wilson has called congress
to meet in extraordinary session April
2. two weeks earlier than originally
planned. 1t is expected to declare war
with Germany. This action will be
merely a formality. Officials and the
public generally regard a state of
hostnities as already in existence.
That the presidents action has the
endorsement of the country hardly can
be questioned. The long list of out
RACES perpetrated against American
rights by Germany can no longer be
ignored or palliated by self respect
ing nation.
The possibilities attending our en-
trance into the world war cannot be
foreseen. But whatever they may be
they will be met in the same spirit
that great crises in the country's his
tory always have been met in the past.
In the three wars which the United
States. since the establishment of In
dependence. has waged with foreign
nations she has always acquitted her
self with credit and honor.
If it be found necessary to send an
army to Europe, the men and the
means to transport them will be found.
If hostilities shall be confined to the
sea the ships and the Deweys and
Schleys will be forthcoming.
The righteousness of our action can
not be questioned. We are bound as a
nation to protect the lives of our citi-
zens. while they are in pursuit of their
legitimate callings. That is what
government is for. No war with juster
cause ever was entered upon by any
nation. Probably no other would have
waited so long before taking up arms.
1t will be worth while to have had
a part in the making over of the
world into a better place in which to
live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
wiggily's automobile were deep in the


soft stuff.
Sometimes, in the spring, you go to
school and hardly need your rubbers,
bue when you come home the ground
is so soft that your rubbers stick in it
and come off. Don't you remember?
ooh, dear! What shall 1 do: cried
the bunny. He tried to make his auto
engine go faster, to get out of the mud,
blu. he could not And he dare not
step out in the mud himself for fear
of sinking in away up to his pink,
twinkling nose.
''Oh, 1 ought to have help!' cried
the bunny. Help. Help!, he cried.
And here it is!' answered a jolly
voice, and there was the mud turtle
gentleman. Il see what the matter is.
like paving stones, for your auto
wheels to run on, so as to get out of
the mud, and not sink in. Wait. You
shall have it,
Then the mud turtle gentleman
whistled on his front paws. and at
once there came crawling along four
teen million seven hundred and eigh-
teen thousand nine trillion and six
mud turtles. They planted themselves
in the muddy road like cobblestones,
and as their shells were hard and thick
Uncle Wiggily could run his soft rub
ber-tired bologna sausage tires over
their backs without hurting them.
And he did so. So that is how the
rabbit gentleman got stuck in the mud
and ran his auto out again, over the
backs of the mud turtles They were
as thick in the muddy road as peas in
a pie.
Then the bunny thanked the turtles
for helping him out of his trouble and
soon he was safe at his bungalow
again, after his first spring ride. And
if the canary bird doesn't pick all the
raisins out of the huckleberry pudding
I'll tell you next about Uncle Wig
gily and the black animal-(Copy-
right. 1917, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Under the caption. How Good
Roads Pay" the Atlanta Constitution
says: Conservative estimates place the
met profit accruing to Hardin
county, Kentucky, during the last two
years. from its forty milo stretch of
the Dixie highway, at 5000 900 on an
original expenditure of $50.000i OF
this amount $21,000 is reckoned as
having been left in the county by the
$4,000 out-of-state tourists who have
motored over the highway during the
period under consideration, and who
would not have visited the county but
for the fact that the highway had
been made attractive. The rest of the
profit is attributed to the enhancement
in value of farm land contiguous to
the highway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.1
No man takes advantage of all his
chances to contribute.
Some detectives do little more than
arrest every stranger that comes to
town.
Some men are henpecked before
they get married, and refuse to take
warning.
Some men just swear right out,
while others take their hats and go
down town.
1t is going to be quite a while be-
fore the federation of the world is ac-
complished.
There are certain wrongs which a
newspaper cannot right; the police
station is the place to take them.
1t is an unpleasant feature of war
that the enemy doesn't sustain heavy
losses without inflicting some dam
age in the process.
The greatest danger of kissing,
however, does not lie in the possibility
of furnishing transportation facilities
for microbes and such like.
man recently got up and deliver
ed an address on Reason" and he
said some of the most unreasonable
things ever heard in the town.
1.-The most patient student I ever
knew was willing to stick around I'M
til history repeated itself so that he
could get his lesson" -Rufe Hoskins.
The Jude Johnson home is not un-
like our well known government. War
has not been declared in the john
son hame, but a state of war exists
there.
When a married woman feels I'M
happy and forlorn and catches some
woman. who tried but didn't get her
husband, looking at her she perks up
wonderfully, and assumes a joyous
look, which would fool her own
mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
Los Angeles has won her fight f

Los Angeles has won her fight for
abolition of the billboard nuisance.
This leads the Times to exclaim:
THANK goodness. the billboards are
doomed in Los Angeles! Nobody ever
wanted them in the first place, except
a few commercial firms that insisted
In expanding thousands of good money
for useless advertising. When a man
starts out for a ride into the suburbs
and sees the green hills are all hidden
behind great walls advising him to
buy So-and-so's soap he naturally
turns away in disgust and buries his
head in his newspaper"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

While railroads have complained of
hard times and not a few have gone
into the hands of receivers in the past
few years the Chicago & Northwestern
since 1901 has earned and paid per
cent dividend steadily. Earnings on
the common stock in 1916 were 1139
per cent. For this fiscal years
months, its indicated annual earnings
are at the rate of 1914 per cent. The
company has an accumulated surplus
of $41,000.000. 1t owns and controls
1880 miles of trackage in nine west
ern states, including Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

GFrom the Topeka State JournalI
For the first time in the history of the
state the degree of doctor of medicine will
be conferred tomorrow night at the First
Congregational church by the trustees and
professors of the Kansas medical college.
An interesting program is provided, con-
sisting of music by Prof. Watson's orches-
ira, and addresses by Judge Martin and
Drs. Mitchell and Minney.
L. NJ. Crawford is now part owner of the
Grand opera house. The deed by which he
obtained quarter interest of Mr..
Heron, was filed with the office of the
register of deeds this afternoon.
The Standard OIL company formally dis
solves.
When Orlando rushed on the stage with
sword outstretched in ..As You Like It,
last night, little boy in the gallery shout
ed: PLEASE don't stick him, mister"
James W. Orr, prominent lawyer of
Atchison, is in the city looking after legal
matters.
The last cold snap caught the coal deal
ers mapping. One firm did not have a ton
in its bins last night.
A Topeka man has leased hotel for
ninety-nine years. This is almost as last
ing a thing as some of the clerks in the
capitol building have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
DINNER STORIES

Philadelphia divine was enter
tanning a couple of clergymen from
New York at dinner. The guests spoke
in praise of a sermon their host had,
delivered the Sunday before.
The hosts son was at the table and
one of the New York clergymen said
to him:
MY lad. what did you think of
your fathers sermon?''
Il guess it was very good" said
fine places where ne could have
stopped"
The flower seller ard Mr.. Karker
engaged in conversation.
BUY flower. sir2"
mo, thanks"
Buy one for your wife"
Haven't got one"
For your sweetheart, then"
Haven't got one"
well, buy one to celebrate your
good luck
He bought.
Jimmy had not come up to his
studies at school and an explanation
was demanded.
why is it, inquired the irate par
ept, that you are at the bottom of the
class ?'
'T can't see that it makes any diff
the bottom" replied Jimmy pacifical-
ly. You know they teach just the
same at both ends"
Nora began Mrs. Newliwed tim
idly, L don't suppose-er-that you
would-er-object to my getting an
alarm clock2'
Not at all. men," replied the
sleepy one; them clocks never dis
turb mel"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

When European monarchies become
republics there will be little need of
a world league to preserve peace. The
Carnegie palace at The Hague can be
rented for a hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

The Democrats, in their Baltimore
platform promised to reduce the high
cost of living. But politicians always
are promising things which they can
not perform, be they ever so willing
to do so. The voters of Topeka are
being treated to a lot of that kind of
pledges right now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

ready are being heard IN Germany. 1t
would not be surprising any day to
hear news similar to that which re-
Gently came out of Petrograd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Now that the corn planting season is
at hand. perhaps it is not amiss to re-
mind the farmers, that last years crop
is selling around $1.15 per busbel in
the western markets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Statistics show that last year pro
hibition America turned out 60,000,0O(
barrels of beer; more than twice as
much as beer drinking Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Evidently the German military COM
manders desire Italy to fight harder.
They promise that it's end will be an
obituary notice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY X. MOULTON.
Safety First.

Safety First.
A trip to Europe we would make,
But just before we sail,
Well be quite certain that we take
At least one suit of mail.
Youngstown Telegram
Now, If you go to take sail
From little old New York,
Forget your weighty suit of mail
And wear a suit of cork.
-Yonkers Statesman
We need as much rs that or more,
One adds in words of heat,
Not when sail for Europe's shore,
But lust to cross the street!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

The Beggar and the Fat Dame.
There was a beggar who sat at the
gates of the city crying, Aims! Aims!
and making piteous moan. And there
were many of great riches who saw
him daily and merchants laden
and potatoes going their way to the
city markets to barter, but they gave
him little heed and few aims
Cometh a day when a fat dame
paused to give him her pity, to spend
moment and pay him her regards,
but to give him of coins and of pieces
of gold not any.
And she inquired of him, saying,
Lo, thou art in rags and the blight
of sloth is upon thee. Thou takest
little pains with thy personal appear
ance and thou art lazy as no man was
ever lazy before. Hast it ever been
thus with thee or how didst thou come
to such?
And he made answer, I once had
a city political job and I've never been
able to go back TO work since.
Happy Thought.
did, but there are lots of added at
fractions.
Many big Shine thinks he has lots
of Polish.
The Happy Days.
In youth 1 envied most I know,
Not, on the whole and as a rule,
The lad whose waists were white as snow,
Nor him held very bright at school,
Nor him whose father owned a coach
(They had few autos then, my dears),
But most 1 envied Arthur Roach,
For he could wiggle both his ears!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Altho export trade practically has
been stopped by the activity of the
German divers wheat again has hit the
50 mark in the western markets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


For Beating Rugs at House Clean
ing Time-String clothesline a de-
sired length. Take a clothespole, lay
it on line. then throw rug over line and
pole and beat. You will have no more
sagging of line.
ped in is fine to clean gas range
Range should be slightly warm for
best results. Much better than news
paper, as it gives a nice polish.
After drinking water has been
boiled it has a fiat and insipid taste.
Pour the water rapidly from one
pitcher to another, holding pitchers
some distance from each other This
restores the natural taste
When making crochet edges for
towels, pillow cases, undermusIins.
buffet and dresser scarfs, in fact. al
most everything except handkerchiefs,
make the edge on tape, which may be
had in various widths, then sew the
tape by hand to underside of article.
Inc lace always outwears the article
used again
To Clean Mahogany Furniture
one teaspoon turpentine and one tea
spoon ollve oil to one quart warm
water. Take soft cloth and 90 over
furniture just like you would if wash
ing with soap and water: then take
clean soft cloth and polish. Beats All
furniture poI1sh and preserves your
furniture. You will never use any
thing else if you try this.
The Table
Date Cake-Two egg yolks beaten
into one cup sugar, add one-haIf Gun
nut meats chopped, one-fourth Gun
desiccated cocoanut, three-fourfI,
pound dates cut in pieces Add one
third cup flour in which has been
sifted three teaspoons baking powder
Lastly fold in stiffly beaten whites of
two eggs. Bake in a shallow pan
about twenty-five minutes in a mod
crate oven.
Baking Powder Bread-For two
loayes of bread pass together thru a
sieve six cups whole wheat flour, five
level teaspoons baking powder, and
one teaspoon salt: add one quart of
sweet milk and mix thoroiy; then beat
vigorously and turn into a buttered
bread pan. Bake forty-five minutes
in a moderate oven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Kings who believe that they rule
by divine right must feel that the
Divinity is taking poor care of his
proteges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

It is proposed to enlist women in
the naval service. Time for a song
entitled: 1 did not rear my girl to be
a sailor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

If Holland. Denmark, Norway and
Sweden want to be in at the death,
now is their time to join the chase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

Uncle Sam to other neutrals: Come
on in; the waters fine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22
Dorothy DlT Says
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

The much discussed feminist move
ment is nothing but a struggle that
women are making to be recognized as
just plain, ordinary human being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

The last cold snap caught the coal deal
ers mapping. One firm did not have tol
in its bins last night.