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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
we<ie's Highest Paid Woman wrissr.
Stacker Motherhood.-l.

Stacker MOtnernOOQ.-I.
A rich woman with her two big.
husky, grown up sons has just been
arrested in New York as they were
sneaking off to South America to try
to eyade the draft law.
The woman gave as her excuse for
her conduct that her mother love was
so great that IL outweighed everything
else on earth, and that the thought
of her boys living in filthy trenches,
suffering cold, hunger and other pri-
vations; being possibly shot, mangled
or killed, was more than she could
have endured. Beside that fear. every
tice and right. paled into insignifi-
canoe.
And the Stacker sons of a Stacker
mother said that the reason that they
were leaving the Job of defending their
country to other men was because
they couldn't bear to grleVe their pre-
cious mother.
1t is lucky for America that there
are not many such mothers as this in
the length and breadth of the land.
Otherwise there would have been no
khaki heroes to stand at the bridge at
Chateau Thierry, and turn back the
hosts of the Huns, and in this country
we would have known all the horrors
that Belgium and France have SUI
fered.
The great mass of American moth
ers have shown the mettle OF the
Spartan mothers OF old. They have
sent their sons away with a smile to
fight and die, il need be, for God and
country, and they have seen the high
faith and courage in which they have
reared their boys -bloom~1n such deeds
as has made the whole world gasp in
Amusement.
For as the mother is. so is the son.
ell q
Stacker sons SO the brave mother rears
brave sons. Just as the mother who
brings up her son to put his own sci.
fish good and safety before everything
else on earth rears q profiteer. or a
draft dodger, so the mother who keeps
the flaming ideal of patriotism and
duty always before her sons eyes.
rears the man who is ready to make
any sacrifice on the altar of his coun-
try. q
| This woman who was not willing
that her sons should do a mans part,
burden of-war, says that she loves her
| sons better than do these other moth
| ers who have sent their boys to the
trenches. Such a speech is almost
| blasphemous. for the weak. pusillan-
imous, flabby souls who have not the
really love anything but their own
personal ease and comfort.
They are incapable OF the passion OF
selfless devotion that the brave heart
ed and high minded feel for Those
| whom they love. 81 could not love
thee. dear. 30 much. loved I not honor
more" is the eternal cry Of those who
have the vision to see that even love
must be founded on something higher
and greater than mere selfish physi-
! cal possession. and that after this wal
is over the tie between millions OF
more beautiful than II ever was before
because each will revere in the other a
dauntless spirit, and the stuff OF
which heroes are made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

Tried Recipes.
Potato Cake With Raisins-One cup
shortening. two cups sugar, four eggs,
one cup milk, one cup hot mashed
potatoes. two cups flour, four level
teaspoons baking powder, one-half
teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves,
one-half cup crushed chocolate, one
teaspoon vanilla and one-half cup
each chopped nuts and finely cut
seeded raisins. Bake in three or four
layers. Put layers together with
raisin frosting made from one and
one-half cups sugar, three-quarters
cup boiling water, whites Of two eggs,
,Le cup ground or chopped seeded
raisins and one teaspoon vanilla.
White Bggless Cake-Two cups su-
gar. two cups milk, one-half cup
shortening. three cups flour. one ia.
blespoon baking powder. Sift flour
and baking powder together four
times.
Green Tomato Marmalade-wash
tomatoes, put thru food chopper, also
one orange and one lemon and mix
with one quart of tomato; boil twenty
minutes, then add sugar to taste. Boil
twenty minutes more and seal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

One Of the demands laid down by
the striking Brooklyn BARRIERS, as a
condition of returning to work, is that
customers who shave themselves must
be charged 81 for hair cutting, and
the journeymen paid proportionately
high wages. 1t is moved to amend by
inserting customers who apply for
hair cuts on Saturday"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint,
BREAKFAST
Cereal Whole, Milk
Scrambled EGGS.
Barley Mullins Butter
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Hot Succotash. Tomato Salad
Apple Sauce Bread
Tea
DINNER.
Dreamed Soup Sweet Potato Puff
Shredded Cabbage Barley Bread
Fruit Jello .Thipped Cream
Black Coffee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

on fair business basis. A govern
ment restaurant service not operated
on q business basis would not only
curb the profiteer but would put the
honest proprietor of a restaurant out
of business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

News coming out of Berlin Indicates
that the Huns are not satisfied or
pleased with President Wilson'S latest
note. 1t will be interesting, therefore,
to learn what they plan to do about IL.
Their choice of alternatives is ex-
trennely limited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

One of the most satisfactory items
of news recently carried by the cable
IS the announcement that Lenine has
been shot again. Russians appear to
need American lessons in shot
craftsmanship. 1t may be, however,
that Providence is saving Lenine for
the hangman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds Of men in
Americas Fighting Service

Private John p. Hunsdorfer of the
United States marines had seen a man
stumble and fall as the khaki.clad
lines swept forward--and Hunsdorfer
knew that the wounded man was his
platoon commander. The artillery was
crashing; the machine guns were ciat-
te-ing forth their steel death: there
were snipers who would kill the man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

The cables report the singing of the
Marseillaise in the streets of Berlin
Nothing could more loudly proclaim
the approaching demise of autocracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

daylight which we have been saving
all summer. Where is it stored?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

The kaiser and Hindenburg and Luz
nendorff may yet reach Paris but If
they do it will be as prisoners of the
allies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21

The dispatches indicate that the
Yankees literally waded into the Huns
at Grand Pre-.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
Painted Sport Hats.

Painted sport hats are affected by
the younger girls at some of the sea-
side and country places. They are
painted with all sorts of designs, but
perhaps those showing daisies and
peoples and the other unsophisticated
flowers that have come in for much
appreciation this summer on the part
of fashion, are the smartest. Very eff
f~ective, too, are those painted with
green and blue designs-peacock feath-
ers, for instance, wound around the
crown Gin paint, of course), or pine
needles and cones. With some of these
hats there are bags-inverted hats,
they are, with silk tops and draw
strings. And with some there are
those little straw cases, one-half of
which slips into the other, decorated
like the hats.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
Stole Sugar by eueketfuIs.

Sugar thieves employed an ingenious
method the other day at Launceston,
Australia. A quantity Of sugar had
been bought for export but, ships not
being Immediately available, it was de-
cided to store the stuff at the port. Ac-
cordingly huts were built on the
wharves, but as the decking had shrunk
somewhat, tarpaulins were first laid
down, and then the sugar bags
placed on this. The doors were
locked, and a Waterman placed in
charge. When the time came to empty
the sheds the bottom tier of bags
were found flat and empty, with a slit
in the under side. Each slit corre-
sponded with one in the tarpaulin d.
rectly over spaces in the planking. The
method of the sugar thieves was SIM
pie. When the tide was about half
way up the piles, a boat was taken
under the wharves as near as possible
to the stores, and then 1t was only a
matter of crawling over the ties, knife
and bucket in hand, until the right
spot was reached.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
lA1 2Aa1Az
New Faneles.

Some simple jersey dresses are seen
with collar and cuffs Of knitted wool
in bright colors. Crisp and summer
like and lovely are the new collar and
cuff sets. They r Of fine organdie.
not only In white, but in delicate color
ings as well. There is the fashionable
yellow, Alice blue and rose pink. They
are In new shapes and have tiny ruff
fed edges. AS though the gamut of
color had been u in the separate
vests to be used with the plain tailored
suit, we are now shown vests of black
satin.l In the colored kind bright or
candle is the newest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

C0utS 5uSSc1ion tt NJ 1u enTuSn
children to care fr and suggested that he ply his suit elsewhere. Quickly
came thu response that he was quHe willing to call quits 1t the game of love
making but for the fact that he held the widow in fear. On the bench four
little toy heads"-fnnocents'" the judge termed them-an under six years
regarded the proceedings gavey, while the older sister, Mary, sobbed con-
vulsively.
But a new life is to open for the children, a the court will take are Of
them until IN father provides a nw home and a housekeeper to carr for
them. And the housekeeper will not be a widow and mother Of four.
Anotherc of mirth was Elmer, aged thirteen. Elmer is not a bad
boy In the courts Technology, but he is possessed of a boyish mischievous
trait His father IS dead and his mother in the hospital S 10 Elmer had been
living with a family beyond the limits of the city. Now, there vas a neighbor
a physician who, OF being able to countenance boysh misbehavor, n day
delivered a "thrashfng" to hiso own protege and to Elmer So Elmer a away
TO tn city where h neWfound freedom kept him out to the wee small hours
Inn admitted to the court that he wanted to be a good boy, but the
memory of the "thrashng" still ranked, for he had "fAt uncomfortable for
three days" The boy loves baseball and when he learned that he could be
captain O. tn home, team, his tears were dried and ever the memory of the
thrashing faded as he promised to be a model boy until his mothers return
to the home.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

Here Is q representative display of
summer shoes that have proved popu-
lar with women who give thoughtful
attention to their footwear. Except
for shoes for sport wear they include
styles for any sort of demand. For
the street the choice between high and
low shoes depends upon the weather
and taste of the wearer and there Is
safety in providing oneself with both
kinds. The high boot at the left Of the
picture In black kid and the oxfOrds
at the top, also in black kid, may be
had with Cuban heels for those who
prefer them to French heels. But
French heels are not always high and
some women like them on street shoes.
At the right of the group is a pair of
white glace high boots being among the
styles that are favored above all 9TH
ers for smart dressing. Like black
shoes they go we'll with almost any
dress. But they are to be classed
among expensive luxuries for they
must be made of fine quality Of kid in
order to clean successfully-and they
are always being cleaned.
In the center of the group Is a pair
Of dressy black colonial pumps with
steel buckles. These T dressy enough
for any sort of wear. but below them a
more brilliant pair of pumps IN patent
leather has buckles In sparkling Jet.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

Many women prefer pajamas to
nightdresses and others acknowledge
their advantages over the nightdress
but are 10th to part company with the
dainty and frilly 1nishings that pa
Jamas lack. For their benefit we have
been furnished, by those who make I'M
dermuslins their special study, with q
variety of sleeping garments Of a new
sort. These include separate trous-
ers and coats or Jackets and one-piece
garments in. which trousers are fas-
tened onto i bodice. Besides these
there are full-trousered pajamas worn
under short kimono coats and for all
of them crepe de chine has proved as
practical in every way as muslin. 1t Is
easily Numbered and as flmy and
dainty Is batiste.
The figure at the left, in the picture
above, is clad in plain pajamas made
OF sateen. They are very like the
garments worn by men and are devel-
oped In several cotton fabrics, percale
and outing flannel among them, and in
crepe de chine. Occasionally a print
lowered silk or mems wear silk shirt
ings are made In this model-the lat
ter recommended to withstand wear.
The garment at the right Is also
classed among pajamas. Just now,
t~1eSh-colored batiste with narrow Val
lace and insertions or fine swiss en-
broideries used for decorations, is the
favorite cotton fabric for these gar
ments, but in the picture the choice
seems to have fallen on striped dimity.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
Brave Act Rewarded.

Arthur G. Palmer, a water tender
attached to the United States ship
OBrien was overheard and strug-
Cling In the water. A strong ebb
tide was running and Palmer had all
he could do to keep from going down.
At the moment when he was neal ex-
haustion David Goldman, a machin.
lists mate. second class. jumped over
board and, beating his way through
the rough water. reached the man and
brought him to safety. He has been
commended by the secretary of the
navy for this action. Goldman enlist
ed In the navy in 1911 at San Fran
cisco.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

The full trousers have almost the eff
feet of a narrow skirt and are drawn
in about the ankles in fascinating lace
edged frills. A beading, set In at the
waistllne, carries a satin ribbon that
gathers up the necessary width about
the waist.
Trousers on pajamas Of crepe de
chine are often banded with silk In a
contrasting color and made very full.
The simplest of sllp-over upper gar
ments is bordered with the same col
or as that used in the trousers. These
new sleeping garments will please the
woman who likes distinctive lingerie.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

There is nothing more elegant than
these and they are immensely well
liked for afternoon and evening wear.
There Is nothing more durable or
satisfactory than white canvas shoes
for street wear. They are more easily
cleaned than other white shoes and
strong linen canvas will outwear
leather. For midsummer they are the
coolest of shoes and probably the most
economical in the long run
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

"quackquaek' Of the sultan and leader sounded more like blackjack" thar
anything else. "S-ssic Iml Sssic fm 7" Kissed the four ladies Of TN sui
tan's harem, which was not at all ladylke, according to modern ethics OF
poiteness. .'.
In about a minute there were two long lines Of automobies-one going
another coming, and the lines extended for a block each way, the sultan and
his "legion of death still bidding utter defiance to the huge tanklike thing
that continued to snort at them. I"H
Presently the feathered patrol assembled in the middle If the highway
Tor a consultation. which lasted several minutes, despite the fact that the
MONDAY shoppers and occupants of the autos had been REINFORCED by several
park laborers armed with rakes shovels and miscellaneous cudgels.
Evidently the legion of death advised that discretion is the better part
of valor; anyway, the sultan staked proudly from the highway followed by
his feminine supporters, marching by "twos" By the time they had reached
tangle. " l.
"Pon me SOUL this is nor exciun than whn OF played ducks and brakes
in Oreland" remarked big Tim" Brady, as he searched for the bowl of
his pipe that had been broken off in the battle. v-HtH le %
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
HAVE QUEER PETS
Lonely Men In Signal Tower
Welcome All Sorts.
cockroach That Likes Tobacco and
Drinks Ink Is Ono VisItor-Toad
Cams Regularly for Its
Feast Of Files.

A Boston and Maine railroad signal
towerman tells this story Of pets he
has made In his lonely perch above the
tracks:
At midnight nine months ago a cock
roach crept out from under the tele-
graph desk and began to drink out Of
the inkwell /; just about that time 1 laid
my cigar down on the desk and began
to work the telegraph key.
The cockroach walked over to my
cigar and sucked at the moist end for
a second or so, then ran to the ink
well again and took a drink, then came
back to the cigar; he repeated this
performance several times and stag
gered away drunk as q lord. a
Every night around midnight for the
past nine months this cockroach has
drank from the inkwell on my desk
and either sucked the moist end Of M
cigar or some moistened tobacco I
place near the inkwell for him.
One of the boys found q tiny musk
rat In the marsh back of the signal
tower one day, and he brought 1t into
the tower. The muskrat became very
tame and proved a most affectionate
pet. BE slept or the desk near the
telegraph instruments for over two
years. Although he went out very
often, he wouldn't stay long, and
would scratch at the door until some
of US would run downstairs and let
him In. Unfortunately our pet was
killed by a freight train while cross
ing the tracks near the tower one day.
After the muskrat died we brought
In a tiny woodchuck that a trainman
had captured out on the line, and he
became very much attached to all of
us, and. like the muskrat, he became
a very clever and amusing pet.
"Shuck" stayed with us two years, and
finally he disappeared one day. Pos
sibly some dog got him, or he may
have been crushed by a train.
For the past 20 years an English
sparrow has nestled in the caves of the
tower, and this sparrow flies in and out
OF the tower at will. picks up bread
crumbs on the floor and catches an oc.
casiona1 cockroach. What worries the
tower men is that our pet sparrow may
some day eat our pet cockroach.
Last year a toad hoped up on to
the doorstep Of the tower and sat there
blinking. One of the boys fed him
a fly and the toad gobbled 1t in an
instant, and every afternoon all sum-
mer long that toad hoped up on to
the step and ate flies as fast as the
railroad men would feed them to him.
The boys took turns and fed him In
relays; the yardmaster said the boys
were neglecting their work to feed the
toad; but he became so fascinated
watching the performance that he
caught flies for an hour one day and
fed the toad.
I'm afraid the toad will go hungry
this summer If he shows up, for we're
too busy moving war supplies to both
er with feeding pets around a railroad
yard.
Every stray dog that ever wandered
into the ward has found a haven in the
tower, and several filters of puppies
AVE been born there.
We've had cats galore; one cat in
particular was q snake catcher, and
h brought In a snake nearly every
day.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

If you don't hurry" But the sympathetic waller didn't want to hurry. She
wasn't that kind.
they have to-You haven't got a bit of pity in you, jimmie BLANK"
Never you mind what 1 haven't g6l You come along with the basket
before you miss Sans cr A ms that's been working since before sunup
wants his hot coffee"
Hot COfeel What are you talking about, woman? How do you suppose
I can keep the coffee hot all this way, huhF'
you don't Sean to stand there and tell me that you haven't got a
thermOsb bottle for Sam-as good a prOvider as he is? Why, 1 wouldn't hear
Of letting ne If my boarders eat a cold lunch-not mel 1 got a thermosf for
every last one"
mo, maam, I haven't got no themos bottle, and femme tell you some
thing. The more you honey up a IA the harder he is to get along with. I
got a rasher of bacon"
fought to be ham. Bacon grease is o sort of food to give a man,
weather like this. 1 sent my men off this morning with plenty of ham, a
tomato apiece, four slices of buttered bread, a wedge Of pie and hot
coffee, for all of ZEN except old Ben, who likes his tea. I'll bet If 1 was in
your place Sam would get all the hot coffee he wanted" ..'.
But you amt in my pace-see? Sam wouldn't look at any other
woman. And he just loves blond hair" -.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

dnU5mr swT WIN u XIII Cmg DrOWn q
tobacco, well cured, offered the afabe statement that it wasn't with
quatah" She had bought one 1s mont for seventy-fy' cents ar, if wa &
chafy that before she could tunner roun' twarnt nothing but a nubbni-a1
sideways at that-an that's the Lawds trufe"
Did you soak it overnight in a bucket of sailed water to tougher tn
straw? That makes a broom last three times as long. And maybe 1t wr
the handle"
Laws, honey you knows huff bout brooms to be their own mother. don
you? Huh, huh None, deed, chile. 1 nevah hearn the fus word aor
nussin' brooms hker that an I'm oer huff to reclec' when Shumman com
marchin' down or road. But, femme tell you, we amt nair one If us too oil
or upplty to fuse good advice, an I'm gwiner soak de mex broom de goo
Lawd ees fit to SEN me-yes, honey OATS me. But 1 don't know whar II
ever gwine to git good money to throw away N a broom. Theys q doua
today an putty soon they'll be giin high enough to Jump ovah the moon
huh, huh"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

points that the slightest raise of her skirts convinced behodes she va ruff
ferng from a series of compound fractures. One thousand eve hundred
and ninety dollars in bills If small ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS most Of them are said
to have been-would look like a van load of lettuce, 10 it isn't hard to i'm
agfne Carolina looking as If she al just naturally sinking into her shoes
She alleged that while attending a party recently In the apartment of
Humicki she suddenly lost consciousness. When she revived some time later
she was stricken with a severe chill below the knees and Oh investigating
discovered hr long green wrappngs had vanished. Carolina swears she was
asked to drink son ones health in what she now has every reason to baieye
vas Knockout drops" She reported the matter to the police, with the result
that indictments for robbery in the first degree were found against her three
friends.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

WnyE Inc greatest altltuoe Sne mas
ever been able to attain is the cobweb
district this side the sky, where the
sweeping has to be done, but-these
are startling times and the first thing
that witch knows she will be topping
the COW record, because that is where
the price of brooms is soaring today.
A oma bought one and paid a
dollar for 1t without one word of
complaint because the ground is need
ed for wheat. Another woman, an
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27

special flock, with the four Mrs.
brakes, were crossing the boulevard,
headed for a lagoon just above the
south entrance to the park, when a
large NOTORIOUS, loaded with MONDAY
shoppers, came rumbling along the
highway.
With furious and %unrelenting
~quackings the sultan and his four
wives took to the middle of the road
and charged the big two-storied bus
like q band of bowling Huns. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-27
Concrete shlp IN Norway.

Commercial Agent Norman L. And
erson reports the launching of a co.
ton concrete ship from the Fougner
yards at Moss, Norway. The ship has
four ~water@dght compartments the
engine, a 220 horsepower Bolinder mo-
tor, is placed aft. The boat has two
large holds and two matches. each
equipped with q two-ton motor winch.