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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23
ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS

The following are some interesting
answers to correspondents who wrote
for information to the Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. WASH
ington, d. G.
What shall do to . veil that has be-
come wrinkled?
ANSwER-Do not iron the VEIL but foll
it smoothly on cardboard and steam over
kettle. Let 1t dry on the card.
How can I clean, white straw hat?
ANSWER-Try mixture of sulphur and
lemon juice. Mix to a consistency of
cream and apply thin coating. Leave
this coating ON until dry enough to brush
off easily.
How IAN I remove odors from dishes
which have been used to cook fish or cab
bage?
ANSwER-Odors from fish and cabbage
may be removed by first washing the
dishes and then rinsing them with powder
ed charcoal.
Was there ever any internal revenue on
matches?
ANSWER-In 1864. 3sth congress, a reve-
nue. Of cent was placed on box OF 100
matches; cents on 100 to 200. and 1 cent
OH each 100 thereafter. This law was re-
pealed on March 3, 1885,.
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IMPORTATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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The war has forced so many changes In
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Write your request briefly; sign Your
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23

worked diligently. When the time
came for the club party. James es.
corted Inez there.
You may be sure &c did not lack
partners for, beside being we'll
dressed and good looking he was the
best dancer among the men.
He danced many times with 1nez
and with quiet self-possession guided
her thru the crush.
Inez looked happy.
James danced with -argery and
Alice. The wallfiowers and the fat
ladies were not forgotten either, Mar
gerry said to Alice:
IT must have been mistaken about
James. I'm going to ask him to din
ner when my New York cousin comes.
I've asked him for Sunday night
supper" said Alice.
On the way home from the dance
James looked down at the sweetly
brave little wo1- an at his side and
said:
"Inez, Mr. Wilmer has made me as
sistant cashier of the bank"
Inez looked up alarmingly.
You have been SO good to me,
dear" he went on, land I love you SO
-could-could you possibly marry
such lout as II"
You're a great, big. splendid
prince, and I love you."
Later. when James was leaving. he
said: Til come for you tomorrow
night and We'll go to the movies!"
Copyright. 1919. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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WHERE OUR MONEY GOES.

While subscribing cheerfully to the
fourth liberty loan many may have
wondered what the government does
with all the money it obtains from
the people in the form of loans and
taxes. It is known to all, of course,
that we have loaned more than
100000 to our allies. The re-
mainder has been spent and is being
spent in the prosecution of the war
on our own account.
An employe of the Guaranty Trust
company of New York has compiled d
few figures showing certain of the or
binary expenses of war and here they
are:
The average cost OF drafting a man
is s4.9S, and the cost of drafting
100000 men will be approximately
s24,O0O,o0O.
The cost of the average cantonment
about 100000. There are forty or
more army posts. recruiting depots,
training camps, etc.
Each American soldier costs the
government on an average $1,000 a
year. The average pay for each SOL
der is $3.50 a year. The full outfit of
clothing for a soldier before he sails
overseas costs $3.50 and many arti-
cles must be replaced several times a
year, so that it costs about 5000 a year
for service clothing alone. A private
in the infantry carries fighting equip
ment which costs $67.29. 1t costs
$156.95 year to feed each man in the
American expeditionary forces.
A light machine gun, or automatic
! rifle, such as the Browning, costs
SIPS. The Lewis type costs about
$500.
The average rate of production of
rifle cartridges in this country is 49,
100000 day, and these cartridges
cost the government $40 a thousand
The average cost of tanks is about
$4,000 each; aeroplanes cost from
$1,000 to 100000 each: base hospitals
with 1000 beds\cos s50O.OO0; and
transports cost from s1,50O,oeo to
s1O,ooo,Ooo.
| The cost OF seven days lombard
ment by the British in June, 1917, was
$6S,791,235 for ammunition alone
The preliminary curtain of fire, laid
down for six days, required 1,250,54I
shells of all sizes, which cost s43.-
166,5S5. On the seventh day./when
| the attack was made, 7O7,S34 shells
were fired, at a cost of s20,424.70o. A
| barrage laid down to repel a small raid
may cost as much as 100000.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Three Good Desserts.


Banana Sauce Dessert - Prepare
this dessert in three ways, the foun-
dalton being the same. 1t is called
banana sauce"
No. Ito one-half cup of granu-.
lated sugar add one and one-half cups
of water. When boiling thicken with
one heaping tablespoon of cornstarch
When cold Gust before serving) add
the juice OF a snail lemon, two ba-
nanas diced very small and a few
drops of pink fruit coloring (same os
used for cake battery. With a fork
beat all thoroly until smooth. 1t is
then ready to serve.
No. Use sugar. water and corn
starch as above. Instead of lemon
juice, add one-half of a small pine
apple (put thru the food chopper) and
bananas as above. Coloring can be
omitted. as this only adds to appear
ance, not to flavor.
No. Add the yolk OF one egg to
sugar (same as other recipes): il too
dry. add a few drops Of water beat
thoroly, then add one and one-half
cups water; boil and thicken with
cornstarch. When cold add lemon
juice and diced banana.
Beat the white of the egg until stiff
and fold lightly into sauce. If bananas
are very ripe they are fine crushed
and beaten with the white of egg.
Carrot Pudding-One and one-half
cups Hour, one cup sugar. one cup
suet, two cups raisins. one cup grated
raw potato, one cup raw carrots
grated, one teaspoon soda, a little
salt.
Steam three hours.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY x. MoULroN

The Turkish offer of peace was sent
thru Spain. Spain seems to be send
ing Jus a lot of punk stuff lately, in
Guiding the FLU"
A new world language to take the
place of English, French, Esperanto,
Restaurant, Brakeman, Switchboard
and all other languages, is called "Ro."
Here is a sample of it: AT kaiser
cikel tef un adj yek TX at menavu I'D
vel selebot ut adj vel ciko ris. Abs
yemi Wab Id ad avit abiz heb abb" Take
it home and try 1t on your piano. 1t
was before the war. What shall we
do with him when we get him.
Suggest that. when we get him, we
force him to learn "Ro."
One can obtain war by sending a
forty ~ ht-hour ultimatum,'' but
peace Is more coy and reluctant.
The sisht-seeing>car paused in front
OF a large church in Second avenue
yesterday and the announcer was
heard telling his audience, This,
ladies and gents. is the church where
Tony Pastor used to preach"
The Rochelle Herald announces
gravely that the dry-bone order will
remain in effect until the troops are
brought home and demoralized."
Several of our citizens are Begin
ming to plan for the annual fall trip
to the Maine woods to hunt guides.
Myrtle H. sends in the following in
the way of a sign she has discovered
in Harlem: "a Jones Undertaken and
Dye Work"
See by the dispatches Trotzky has
r. a-t -
1t is time for somebody to do some
serious shooting over there.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
81 MRs. ELlzABErH rHoMPson.

Dear M.s. Thompson: ! am man
81 years old and ! have lived in this
town two years. but 1 am not ac.
quainted with any girls and / get
lonely in the evenings. I either have
to attend shows by myself or work.
ject ito military duty l try to do my
bit by helping the other fellow.
Can you tell me how to get ac-
ouainted9 Sometimes go to>dances,
but the girls refuse to dance with me
because l am a stranger. 1 do not
attend church.
LONESOME BOY.
Surely you have men friends. Ask
them to introduce you to some girls.
They are probably thoughtless and
do not realize that you are not ac-
quainted. II you enter class at
dancing school the dancing master
will see that you are introduced if
not attend church there is no other
way can suggest.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am en-
ployed in store. During inventory
worked very hard during the day
and late into the evening. One night
1 was standing on a corner waiting
for q car and l noticed a woman with
a suitcase who was smiling at me
UIOddIS. AZ tFel uIo HoI pay ally
attention to her, and then I winked.
but didn't go over and talk to her. A
minute later a man came up to her
whom I recognized as a business man.
who helped me to get located where
l am. 1t was his wife I noticed and
| evidently he had pointed ME out to
her and she was trying to be friendly.
I can't get-this little matter Off my
mind and it worries me constantly.
Do you think 1 ought to make an
apology? NORMAN.
You should let the matter drop. To
bring 1t up again would make bad
matters worse. 1t shows such low
taste to wink at woman that l hope
you have learned your lesson.
Dear Mrs. thompson: I have had
the blues because miss the best boy
friend I have ever had, since he has
gone away. How can ! keep from
being blue all the time?
JUST BLUE.
Keep too busy to be blue. Make
| new acquaintance. II you attend
school and feel blue after school hours,
get job or find some kind of work
that will keep your mind and body
active. A person who gets plenty OF
exercise and is active every minute
does not think of being blue. Your
condition is an abnormal one. per-
son having this tendency should try
to get away from it by exercising,
working and mixing with other young
people. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23

Cuba has found a labor problem
hardly less serious than that of the
United States. The Cuban govern
ment has been obliged to act in the eff
fort to relieve the present great short
age there, and has agreed to advance
half the cost of bringing the labor to
that country. In 1917, there were
S7,097 immigrants entering Cuba, 34,-
795 of whom came from Spain and the
Canary Islands. Just as the United
States department of labor is bringing
Porto Rican labor to this country,
Cuba has drawn upon the islands of
the West Indies, 1916 Haitians and
1889 Jamaicans having entered Cuba
during 1917. The countries of the
western hemisphere may yet be forced
to turn to that inexhaustihle supply of
workers in China in order to meet
their needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23
LOCAL MENTION

A petition was filed in the office
of the district court this morning by
Emma Sheldon, asking divorce from
Marion Sheldon, who she says aban-
doned her about October 1. 1915. She
says they are joint owner of 100 acres
of land in Thomas county. and asks
for1 such a share of it as the court
may deem just and right. They were
married IN 1856, the petition states.
Thru an error the name of Mrs. FL
len r. Bradfield. 1914 Madison street,
was included in n list of deaths. Her
name should not have been on this
list. she told the State Journal this
afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid woman Wtitsk.
Stand on Your Own Feet.

Stand on Your Own Feet.
The one greatest source of happi-
ness in the world is independence.
There is no other thrill that ever ami
mates the human breast that Is SO
completely soul satisfying as the feel
ing that one is adequate to cope with
ones destiny, and that one has the
strength to stand alone.
The bread of dependence is bitter,
no matter how freely it is given. We
are never at home in another's house.
be our welcome-to 1t ever SO cordial.
When all is said. the clinging vine
Is nothing but a poor. floppy, weak.
spineless pi--~site for which we all
have a secret contempt, because it only
lives by hanging on to something
stronger and with more backbone than
it has itself.
People who are dependent are in
variably miserable, discontinued and
dissatisfied because their knowledge of
their dependence robs them of self
respect. Worst still, dependence de-
I-velops in people . host of the most
contemplate viceA They become
servile puppets of the hand that feeds
and clothes them.
All of the sturdier virtues have their
root in independence. 1t is only those
who can look the world in the face,
secure of their ability to fight 1t and
take what they want from it with
their own good right hand, who do
not have to lie or steal. or get the
things they need by devious ways.
So interviewer with our well being,
temporarily and spiritually. is inde-
pendence that the first duty of parents
is to teach. their children to stand on
their own feet, metaphorically as well
as physically. Strangely enough this
is a duty that most fathers and moth
ers absolutely neglect, and stranger
still. they neglect it thru love.
Their parental passion makes them
that their children look to them to
supply every want, and depend upon
them for their every need. that they
cannot deny themselves the pleasure
OF playing Providence to them.
They never give their children any
responsible. They never let their
children pick out their clothes. They
never permit their children to go into
any enterprise on their own account.
They never let them take any author
ity or any risk of their own Judgment
Father and mother pull all the strings
and the children are just marionettes
that dance to atheir parents whims.
All of us know men who have been
so completely managed by their faith
ers that when they are middle aged
| they are still, In mind and character.
nothing but little boys. We all know
maiden ladies fifty years old who have
been SO dominated by their mother
that they have never even bought a
pocket handkerchief without mothers
advice and assistance, and who still
have to ask mothers permission to go
down town, or have a second cup of
tea.
In keeping their children dependent
on them, these parents do not realize
what a cruel thing they have done,
and how they have robbed their boys
and girls Of initia tive, and suppressed
their originality. and made them the
sport of chance. For in the end the
parents must die, and then these old
| children are left helpless, with no
body to guide them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23

There are few loyal Americans who
do not feel that Germany should be
severely punished for her crimes
against humanity and her many and
persistent violations of the laws of
God and of nations. One hears many
suggestions regarding the character
and degree of the punishment which
should be inflicted. But there is moth
ing, perhaps, that would be more
painful, humiliating and sink deeper
into the soul of the German nation
than to compel the Hun armies to
submit to unconditional surrender. 1t
is this form of punishment that Ger
many now is seeking to escape. by
making appeals to President Wilson
for a peace which shall not be cir
reconcilable with German honor and
Justice The Hun leaders knew well
what they would get IL they applied to
France or England for terms. They
hoped to do better with President
Wilson. If the president has had his
ear to the ground. he must know by
this time that nothing short of un-
conditional surrender will satisfy the
American people. If he wishes to do
a kindness to the Huns he will tell
them this at once and relieve their
suspense.
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Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From he eolun,ns -
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
October IS, 1898.

October SO, 1898.
The Imperial club met last evening and
decided to begin the seasons festivities on
the 3rd of November with party at
Library hall. 1t was decided to admit
new members to the as association. The col
lowing officers we're elected: President.
Frank Edison; vice president, Chas. Nc
Cabe. secretary, Thad Hopkins; treasurer.
Harry Ashby.
Mrs. w. W. Gavitt gave a o'clock lunch-
con yesterday for Mr.. and Mrs. X. r.
Brown of Los Angeles. and the following
friends were invited with them: Mr.. and
Mrs. E. G. Noon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stout,
Mr.. and Mrs S. NJ. Crow. and Mrs. NJ. j.
Stevenson Of Pasadena. Calf.
The Rev. DR.. Archibald went to Chicago
today to meet Mrs Archibald who has been
spending the summer in Nova Scotia.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. s. Bird have gone
to Chicago. Mrs. Bird has lately returned
from the Merrill Springs much improved
In health.
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there is something wrong about our
system of forest fire control.

there is something wrong about our
system of forest fire control.
The area in national forests is be-
ing slowly but steadily extended.
Within the past year national forests
have been created in New England and
in the southern Appalachians. 1t
seems certain that the national for
ests will in time cover all OF the prln-
cipal watersheds in the country. But
this exte 1sion will necessarily be slow,
and it will always leave immense
areas in state and private ownership.
Unless some adequate system of fire
protection for these is devised. disas-
tiers like the one in Minnesota are
sure to occur.
Some of the states have worked the
problem out pretty well for them
selves, Oregon, for example. has a
law which allows the owner of timber
lands his choice OF three methods of
protection from forest fire; he may
himself install an adequate protective
system, which meets state require
ments; or he may join a state associ-
alton of timberland owners. which
has a system of protection approved
by the state; or the state will pro-
tect his lands for him and charge
him for the service. The practical
effect of this law has been to make all
the owners of timberlands join the
association. This state association has
one of the finest fire-fighting organi-
cations in the country, having OBJ
tanned many OF it's men from ,he ma
tional forest service by offering them
more money than Uncle Sam cared to
pay. Similar systems are in effect in
Washington and Idaho.
II congress would amend the Weeks
law in such a way that it would give
the federal government power to .es-
tablish such systems in all of the
forest states, the menace OF forest
fires to life and property and a great
natural resource would be reduced to
a. minimum,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23

Kansas has five state schools of col
1ege rank. These schools mean more
to Kansas now than they ever did.
They will mean more and more in the
future, after the war. The Kansas
legislature of 1917 submitted a consti-
tutional amendment providing for a
definite permanent income for the
state schools which would set aside
and hold sacred the money for them
so that they might plan economically
and efficiently for the future as well
as the present. At the approach
ing election Kansas voters are urged
to give their approval to this amend
ment by marking yes on their bal
lots. It has the approval of educators
thruout the state. Investigation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23
GERMANY'S PLANS.

We should be a very naive people,
indeed. quite as stupid as Won Papen
declared, writes Frank H. SimoRds in
the New York Tribune. if we did
not understand exactly what the Ger
man campaign of fire and explosion in
northern France means. The German
is getting ready to make peace; and
this is his idea of the fashion in which
to prepare for the end of hostilities.
In German logic the situation is
this: At no distant time hostilities
will be over and then the business of
manufacture and trade will begin
again. When this business begins the
German will once more have to COM
pete with the rest of the world.
Among his competitors are the manu-
facturers of northern France and of
Belgium. This being the case. it is
his duty. while the power remains in
his hands, to abolish all chance of flu
ture competition.
Against such an eventuality he be-
gan his preparations long ago. In the
winter OF 1914-'15 he removed all the
machinery from the great manufac
turing centers of Lille, Roubaix and
Tourcoing and transported it back to
Germany. He has continued this sys-
tematic spoliation of the industrial
establishments of France and Belgium
ever since. Now he is going one step
farther and destroying the buildings
in which the machinery was originally
installed and the cities in which the
industries were conducted.
The region thru which the German
is now retreating is one of the great
industrial districts of Europe. Lille,
Tourcoing and Roubaix, practically
constituting a single city of over 4oo,-
900 inhabitants, are the great indus
trial towns of France. Cambria, Douai
and a score of smaller places now in
the war news are similarly busy cep-
ters of French manufacture. Lens,
whose complete ruin has been report
ed. is the chief coal mining town of
France. Scattered about it are the
smaller villages which, with Lens, sup
ply almost all of the coal essential to
French industry. Among these vari-
-
useful in the transportation of ma
terial.
Now the factories, the mines. the
canals, are all being systematically de-
stroyed, together with the cities in the
district. Everything of the smallest
value which could be moved has been
moved back to Germany; what could
not be moved is being ruined or de-
stroyed by fire and dynamite.
1t is the Germans calculation that
when he has completed this work of
systematic deliberate destruction in
dustrial France and industrial Bel
GUM will be wiped off the map and
that it will be a matter of years before
either can be restored. In these years
German manufactures will profit BY
the absence of French and Belgian
competition, and in this way the bur-
den OF the war will be transferred
from German to French and Belgian
backs.
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MORE HUN ATROCITIES
Additional Proof Comes of Their
Acts Toward Civilians.

Washington, Oct. 23.-While Presi-
dent Wilson today considered his reply
to the TeutoTi peace moves. additional
proof Of German atrocities in territory
being evacuated by the kaiser's troops
reached here. AS
One of these was q tale of horror.
dispatched from the British front.
tellRg how the Germans drove civil
ians into territory under allied shell
fire, many being MANNED and killed.
This and other outrages reported.
are regarded here as giving the lie to
the latest German cry that such
crimes were not being committed by
their soldiers and that orders had gone
out TO prevent them and punish those
guilty.
1t was declared by those who have
known OF Germany's barbarous tao.
tics in the field, that any nation that
would permit the vile crimea upon
Belgium. may be expected TO continue
them elsewhere in the battle zone ana
the word honor" of the nation
spokesman to prevent them will be
seen in its true light and worth.