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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
Heart and Beauty
Problems
BY MES. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: What do.you
think of a girl who rides around with
a married man? My husband has
ma chine and he drives to work in the
morning. There is a girl who works
in the same place who waits at the
corner for him to pass. | have asked
him not to take her. but he refuses
to do as l wish. He says that it is
all right for him to take her and that
he has told her to wait for him. 1
know that l would not ride with some
body else's husband. WORRIED.
1 think i is very kind of your hus-
band to take the girl to work. You
have no cause to worry. because if he
were doing something wrong he would
not be SO open about it. 1t is GUS
tomary now for kindly business men
to take girls who work in their place
of business to and fro from work if
it is convenient and they do not have
to go out of their way to do So
Dear Mrs Thompson: Are oxfords
or pumps going to be more popular
this summer DOUBTFUL.
Oxfords are more in style this sea-
son. but pumps will be worn a great
deal.
Dear Mrs Thompson: am not
very pretty, but am considered fairly
good looking. The girls seem to like
me quite well, but the boys don't pay
much attention to me- My mother
won't let me go with boys anyway.
They stand around and talk to other
girls all the time. / am a good talk
err. but not very smart in school. Do
you suppose that is the reason they
don't pay attention to me?
KITTY.
7 can't say why the boys do not
pay attention to you. Probab when
you are older you will be more poPu-
lar. Don't worry about not being
popular with the boys--they do not
like girls who seem to be eager for
their attentions.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is a girl IA
years old too young to have a boy
bring her home from a school party
BETTY.
If the party is in the evening it is
! better to have a member of the fam
| lily call for the girl. 1t is, however,
better to have a boys company than
to go alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
-wHAgEvER YOU WANT TO .t KNoW;~

From the beginning of the war the
Hun has been able to choose his own
fighting ground. striking when ana
where he willed. Victory for the al
lies can hardly be expected until they
are in a. position to force the fighting.
A defensive campaign can never de-
feat an enemy. 1t can only wear MIN
down and place him in a condition
where a knockout blow may be sue
cessfuIly delivered. War correspon-
dents assert that the armies of the al
lies are inferior II numbers to those
of their adversaries. If this be true
il is a story different from the one told
at the beginning of the present Ger
man thrust If it be true why was
the public kept in ignorance of the
fact2 The Huns doubtless knew all
about it. The war cannot be won by
concealing the truth. The only course
open to the allies appears to be to hold
their lines as well as may be while
their number is being increased by
American arrival and the number OF
the enemy is being decreased by ar
tillery and machine gun fire. The end
of the war seems yet to be far away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

The announcement from Washing
ton that the government contemplated
fixing both the buying and selling
price of silver at 81 an ounce was fol-
lowed quickly by an advance in the
market price of the white metal On
Wednesday of the current week silver
was quoted in New York at SO ~ cents
per ounce, or within a quarter of a
cent of the proposed figure. One of
the unexplained features of the situa-
ton is the fact that Mexican dollars,
which usually follow fluctuations of
the bullion market, have remained
steady at II cents, where they were
when the recent rise in silver prices
set in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

The enrolment of more than 1922
600 boys of between 16 and 81 years
in the Boys Working Reserve for
farm work this summer has been re-
ported by six states. The states re-
porting and their totals to date are:
California, $4,000; Indiana, 1s.S45; IL
linois. $4,000; Ohio. $4,000; Tennes-
see. 1900; Wisconsin, $4,000. Rhode
Island is not only training its high
school boys for the farms but has hit
upon a novel method of inducing
farmers to accept them. An agricul-
tural training course has been opened
IN the armory at Providence and
groups of schoolboys there are given
practical instruction in the care and
handling of teams, blowing, narrowing
and cultivating, and in the assembling
and repairing of farm machinery. Pu-
pills are then taken in automobiles to
farmers in the state. and before their
eyes the boys demonstrate their abil-
ity to perform farm tasks of the most
difficult kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
NO LONGER pERIsHABLE.

The opening of the spring drive for
a further development of potato pro-
duction in the United States was made
the occasion of recent discussion of
the worlds potato crop and it's future.
in a lecture before a class in econom-
les in the educational department of
the National City Bank of New York
Recent developments, said the lectur-
err, promise greatly to increase the i'm
portance of the potato as a world food
crop.
While the potato supplies more
starch food per acre than almost any
other crop, it has been until recently
considered of comparatively little i'm
portance in international trade, or as a
food which could be stored for per-
manent use and widely distributed.
But the exigencies of the war have
sharpened the wits of the scientific
world, and now it is found practicable
so to preserve the potato by grinding
and drying that it is transferred from
the list of local and perishable crops
to one which may be produced in al
most unlimited quantities in certain
the world.
While the potato can be grown in al
most any temperate zone area, nine
tenths of the worlds crop of 6,00O,-
10000 bushels is in fact produced in
half dozen countries, and almost ex-
clusively in Europe and North Amer
lea. Germany, Russia, Austria Hun
gary. France, Great Britain and the
United States produce in favorable
years about 5000. 100000 bushels of
potatoes, while all the remainder of
the world produces but 1000, 900, 900.
Yet these six countries producing
five-tenths of the worlds potato crop
have only 450. 100000 people, while
the potato1ess section of the world has
a population of over 1900, 100000.
Thus fully two-thirds of the popula-
ton of the world lives outside of the
area growing that extremely impor-
tant food plant, the potato.
The people of that section producing
the worlds potato crop have at last
learned how to put 1t into condition
| in which it can be readily distributed
in condensed form and available for
food at any time or place, a great for
ward step in supplying the food re-
quirements of the rapidly increasing
population of the world-for the
worlds population has more than dou-
bled in the century in which the ap-
plication of steam to transportation
developed new producing areas and
power to Interchange their products
with the already densely populated
sections of the old world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
A GERMAN VIEW OF GERMANY.

The New Yorker Volkszeitung, So
cialist daily printed in German, ex-
pressed its opinion of the first great
battle of the German offensive on the
Somme in a powerful editorial, from
which the following is an excerpt.
The Volkszeitung editor takes for his
theme the lines, of the poet Herwegh:
You have won the worlds foremost
place in murderous infamy Ger
ma mia, 1 shudder at the mention of
you." After reviewing the cynical dis
regard of the kaiser and Hindenburg
for all moral laws and human decen-
cies, the editorial continues:
The worst battle of the great war.
the bloodiest battle in all world his
tory, continues. Aggression con-
t1pues. Murder continues ~Rut
it is by no means certain that the
German armies will succeed in OPEN
ing the way to Paris and in throwing
themselves upon the capital of the
IN fortunate country
II the military masters of Germany
believe that the advantages they have
| already won in this battle-yes, and
even if they should come out victor
| ious in this greatest of all battles in
| history-that this would bring nearer
conqueror's peace for them, they
| will be greatly disillusioned. The re-
sources OF the allies are well-nigh in
exhaustib1e. The marauding march
OF the Hohenzollerns into the heart OF
revolutionary Russia has changed the
views of all friends of peace in the
allied countries. The nations are
aehast at thought of the outlook in
this war and at the ruthlessness with
which it is conducted. Sharpened Cd.
position will be the only outcome of a
| German victory.
And the worst feature of this great.
est battle in world history is that il
will undoubtedly serve to set back tbs
| thought of peace with the German
people. The greater the victory the
| easier it will be for the military mas.
tiers Of Germany to spread the view
| among the people that the German
army is uncomfortable and that al
| that is required is patience and en-.
durance and then peace will be at
tafned-a conquefor's peace. A grea
victory at the western front now viii
serve to weaken the growing opposi
ton or the German people to the mil
! itary caste. Thru such victory tn,
| tunkers and predetermined will ge
the upper hand more than ever. and
the reasonable and peace-loving par
of the population. and especially tn.
working classes. will have their influ
ence curtailed.
All this the Hohenzollerns and thef
tunker companions know very we'll
And that is why they stake everythin,
to make this worlds greatest BATH,
into worlds greatest victory. Thi
is the objective for which they ar,
ruthlessly sacrificing upon the alta.
of the fatherland" the sons of Gerrnal
mothers and the fathers of German
children. 1t is for this objective tina
the blood of German soldiers flows il
streams into the rivers of northern
| France and thence into the ocaa
This is the objective for which tn
flower of the German nation is bein;
slaughtered. for which a whole gen
Grafton is being wiped out
And the kaiser thanks his God 70
the help which He presumably is Civ
ing him in this stupendous murder
ing.
And the German people?
Germania, I shudder at the mention
of you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

1t would be a mistake to conclude
that because the government has asked
for but 100000. 900 in the third
liberty loan that it will not need much
more money. The amount is small
because Uncle Sam is not spending so
much money as he expected to spend.
The small size of the loan measures
our failure to do all that we promised
at the beginning of the war. The war
business now is being speeded up and
much more money soon will be
needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27


The mule, while one of our greatest
blessings, in many ways has become
positive menace to his friends along
the western front.
1t is an unfortunate habit with the
mule to raise his voice in song about
every SO often. Over in France he has
quite unintentionally revealed the
whereabouts of our troops by his
Ct-rusoeque Interpretations.
But science is wonderful. 1t has
come to bat with a cure for braying.
A slight operation is performed on the
nose of the mule, and he can no longer
emit loud tones He may sing, but
his song is song of twilight
hushed and we'll modulated Groom, not
at all penetrating.
OF course, there is the old way
that of tying large rock to the tail
of a mule. That operation stops his
songs because no mule can sing when
his tail is fastened down, But the
trouble has been that the American
mule has volunteered for service in
such large numbers that there are not
enough rocks in France. Hence the
invention.
Great is science.
The best way for a man to show that
he can manage the affairs of this land
is to get out first and successfully
manage a backyard garden.
A good many young men who start
out to set the world on fire find that
it is made of asbestos. There are
very few convictions for arson.
One of the regiments in an eastern
cantonment-one on Long Island, to
be explicit-was very anxious to go
over to France and get busy. The
men of the regiment were very much
disappointed at the likelihood of hav-
ing to undergo several more weeks of
training.
Two of the boys managed to have
themselves transferred to a command
that left for France at once.
Then the regiment hoisted a new
| service flag with two stars on it.
They are wondering what the Rus
slams need most.
We mildly but firmly suggest soap.
The kaiser's scrap with America is
not a mere scrap of paper.
| We live in an apartment and will
raise all our vegetables this year-on a
dumb waiter.
| AS the old lady said: IT am glad my
son is going to one of them army con-
tentments. He ought to be very hap
Ply there"
The car (deposed) has been set to
work making garden.
| Addenda: THE average annual rain
fall at Tobolsk is forty-nine inches
The car will probably have to raise
vegetable oysters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
HOUSEHOLD Hints

Menu Hint.
BEAKFAST.
Compete of Fruit
Fried Cornmeai Mush with Cneese
and Pimentos.
Coffee
LUNCHEON
po+ato Pie Squash Biscuit
Wa tercress Salad Cheese Cak41r
DINNER
Bouillon in Cups
Broiled Salmon Steaks
Potato Cones CeIery
String Beans
Cup Peach Puddings
Desserts.
corncoke-One cup flour, one-halt
cup cornmeal, one cup milk tsweet''
two teaspoons baking powder, one
half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon sh-
gar. one well-beaten egg. two Ia pie.
spoons melted butter or lard. Beat II
thoroly and turn into CREASED pan
Bake in quick oven twenty minutes
Aunt Nabby's Rhode Island Johnny
cake-Cut up piece of nice fresh
beef suet to about half a cupfui MIX
thoroly with one quart cornmeai anu
one-balf tablespoon salt Scaid mea,,
with hot water and stir till 1t is wen
wet to the consistency OF mush. Srease
a long bakepan and spread the
johnnycake in it very thin; bake IN
oven till brown and crisp. Eat this
hot. with jam or any fruit butter. and
there isn't better dessert
Honey Drop Cakes-One-haf cup
extracted honey, one-half cup sugar.
one-haif cup lard. two and one-half
cuDs flour fmay need more). two eggs.
one teaspoon soda in one-half cup hot
water Drop in weif-greased pan with
spoon.
dough, using two cups flour. four tea
spoons baking powder, one-haf tea
spoon salt, two tablespoons butter and
about three-quarters cup milk Ron
out dough about an inch thick. Brusf'
top with the melted butter. Bake iF
hot oven about twenty minutes. Then
strain the juice that has been cooked
with the prunes until tender and al
lowed to cool, in a pitcher stone
prunes put in dish. then pour over
the Juice; sprinkle with one and one
half cups sugar, let stand until ready
to serve. Cut shoTtcake carefully to
make two layers. put prunes between,
then another layer on top; cover with
prunes and juice. Serve with cream.
One pound of prHnes makes this DELI
cious shortcake to serve six persons.
Chocolate Pudding = One quart
milk, four tablespoons of cornsta rch,
four tablespoons sugar. four table,
spoons scraped chocolate. two table,
spoons boiling water, two eggs, one
teaspoon vanilla and pinch of salt
Reserve one cup milk and put re-
mainder on to boil. Put chocolate.
sugar and water in saucepan and stir
until smooth and glossy Stir in boil
ing milk. Mix cornstarch with cold
milk, beat eggs and add to cornstarcf1
and milk; stir into boiling milk and
beat about three minutes. Turn into
mold and sorve with whipped cream
or vanilla sauce.
Baked Cheese OmcIcts.
Beat the yolks of the eggs until
light and thick and fold in seven
tablespoonfuls of grated cheese a
scant half teaspoonfuI of salt a
quarter of a teaspoonfu1 of paprika
and one large cupful of milk Beat
well; add the stiffly whipped egg
whites and pour into buttered tim
bale molds or custard cups. Bake in
moderate oven until well risen and
Drowned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

The unification of the allied COM
mand under General Foch has made
no change in the custom which has
prevailed from the beginning of the
war of fighting in but one place at a
time While the opposing armies on
the western front are engaged in a. life
and death struggle the forces of the
allies on the Italian and the Mace
DOMAIN fronts appear to be marking
time. If the present Hun offensive
hall to make the progress intended
probably the Teutonic attack again
will be shifted to one of the other
fronts as has been done before. 1t
looks like the armies of the allies in
the east are missing a great oppor-
tunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
rFrome the Atchison GIobe.I

from the AtehisOn GLOBE.
A church lives and thrives on debt.
Some of the poetry about the kali
ser is almost as crude as he is.
After some people have done their
duty they act as if they expect people
to cheer.
Ever notice that some people can't
give a compliment without mixing it
with quinine.
Freedom is all right, BUT now and
then is misdirected, and that is why
we have to have police departments.
A man in politics has the same
haggard look that a woman has when
she is engineering a rather unsuc-
cessfuI love affair.
You must do five good deeds to one
had one for a bad deed is remem-
bered five years longer than a good
one Ask any ex-conyiet or fallen
woman
THAT fellow" said a Missourian in
speaking about a neighbor whom he
does not like, would get up at night
and burn his own clothes to make a
light to steal corn from \ blind cow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
ON SPUR 4 FL MOMENT
BY ROY X. MOULTON

1t is customary for actor folk to
speak of their salaries in -four fig
ures" a week, and it is the ambition
of every man to become a "four-fig
ure" artist.
The other day we met our old friend
Nick Stark on the street. Nick has
played everything from Uncle Sam to-
DR.. Lavender. and has played every
thing well, but has never been better
than a 'three-figure" actor on the sal
airy list.
Well" he said, II am finally a
'four-figure' actor. 1 have new part
in a vaudeville sketch. and get $47.50
a week. Four figures, do you get
me?"
One German spy arrested says:
There is no justice in this country"
If there were, he would be decorat-
ing a lamppost.
The Huns advance in waves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in
Americas Fighting Service

Five days in an open boat on the
North sea were spent by members of
the crew and the naval armed guard
from the steamship Rochester, which
was torpedoed by a German subma-
rine off the coast of Ireland. When
the survivors were finally picked up
by British patrol boat, one of them,
Ernest H. Gragg, a seaman of the
armed guard, had died from expo
sure He was buried in Ireland His
mother, Mrs. Cora Gragg, lives in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

No matter how large the oversub-
scription to the third liberty loan may
be the government has arranged to
take care of it. Subscribers who do
not get in on the allotment will have
first call on the next issue of bonds
Let us make this campaign answer for
two. Let Uncle Sam know that the
money is awaiting his call.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

central powers instead of with the
allies, this little discrepancy would
have been discovered in time and
corrected. With their usual fore
sight, the Germans had it all arranged
long before the war occurred.
Thus the fate of i. nation in this
war was decided by a bit of glass, or
the lack of l.. American troops must
never suffer from such a lack. No
American must die. for the lack of
a periscope. a leveling tube, a search
light or a pair of field glasses.
Names in the News
Curtain-fire is military term
Signifying a wall of shell fire, 6i-
rected upon the enemy communica-
ton trenches. Its objective is to pre-
vent the bringing up of men and sup
plies.
Questions on the above or any sub
1ect upon yhich the reader desires
Information, should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau. Frederic ]. Haskin, Director.
Washington, D. c., with Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

Every candidate for office is COM
PEELED to carry some sort of a handi-
cap. Henry Aliens is the support of
the Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
DlNNER STORIES

A golfer had with him a caddie
who was noted for his irony and sar-
casm. 1t was a day on which the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
Suppressing the Mule.

The Huns advance in waves.
But Britannia rules the waves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

Like the United States, France had
imported great deal of optical glass
from Germany before the war, so that
it took some time to get the Industry
on a large-scale working basis The
end of the war, however, will see
France one of the greatest manufac-
turers of optical glass in the world.
The importance of optical glass in
modern warfare is illustrated by the
following incident concerning the
Rumanian army, told by an American
army officer. The world was aston
ished at the ease with which the
Runanian army was defeated, says
this officer, and not until long after
ward was the real cause actually
known. 1t seems that before Rumania
joined the allies it had been in the
habit of importing many things from
Germany-even German ordnance
from the Krupp works at Essen. And.
curiously enough, these German guns
| refused to work when turned against
the Germans invading the Dobrudja
1t was really quite a simple me-
ckanical defect in the guns which
should have been detected by the
Rumanian artillery officers, but un-
fortunately it waSnt-at least not
until too late. Then it was discovered
| that the delicate 1eveling instruments
| we're filled with plain water instead
of the salt solution which resists a
freezing atmosphere. In the cold
| mountain Businesses of Rumania
these little glass tubes promptly
burst and the guns were practically
useless.
Had Rumania allied itself with the
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-08-22
POSTAL SYSTEM IN Dlsl?EAY
to Stop Thievery From the
Goods in Transit.

Extraordinary steps have been taken
by the German government to call Il
halt to the thieves within the postal
system. 1t was claimed that out of
ten parcels sent three would disap.
pear. Packages to soldiers at the
front containing food delicacies and
clothing would disappear more fire.
quently than any other shipments. All
appeals to the patriotic spirit Of the
thieves were of no avail. The per-
ccntage of thefts increased steadily.
Finally the government was compelled
to take drastic and systematic meas
ures. The military branch was called
in and stations of control manned by
nont commissioned officers and soldiers
were planted at principal railroad
points in the empire. The employ
ment of mere youths is blamed for
the deterioration of the postal service.
Practically I'LL the employees of mill
tary age had to join the army and
their places were filled by boys and
girls. Besides. the scarcity of food
teinpts many to steal.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-08-22
EMiNEN-TL-Y FITTED FOR JOB
Society Mstron, Trying to "Do tlsr
Bit" Had Distinct Laugh on iii.
Natured Farmer.

Society is having a delightful giggle
over story now going the rounds and
of which Mrs. Mackay is heroine.
Seems that with several other promi-
nent women of the 400, she went in
for farmeretting on Long Island, and
the brigade was assigned to farm
whose owner had always had grudge
against the rich. He thought that now
was his opportunity and approaching
Mrs. Mackay said: "The first thing I'd
like you to do is clean out the pig
sites. Think you can manage it,"
Imagine his Amusement and chagrin
when the multimillionairess social ar.
bitter smiled and cooed: "Certainly;
at home always attend personally to
cleaning out the bird cage" -,