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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Do you think
1t is. possible for girl to be in love
with two boys at once? 1 am going
with two young men and when | am
with one think 1 love him, but when
| am with the other L am sure L love
him.
one of these young men is rather
shy, but he Is very thoughtful and al
very much for him l. enjoy his COM
pany.
The other young man has always
been popular and he is good-looking.
Wherever l go with him he is admir-
ed and all the other girls are crazy
to go with him. This boy gets jealous
easily and acts funny tor days at a
time. He acts as If / had done some
thing terrible to him when haven't
at all.
The boys were in the last draft and
expect to be called soon. They say
that they are in love with me and
want me to kiss them before they go
to camp. 1 don't know what to do.
I cannot kiss both of them, and L do
not know which one really love.
What shall l do?
DOUBTFUL.
A girl can like two boys very much,
but when she cannot decide between
them she may be sure she is not in
love. 1 can see why yoa like both the
boys. 1t is flattering to be loved by
some one VINO Is widely admired, but
It is sometimes more satisfactory to
have the love of a man who is not
spoiled by attention.
Do not kiss either of the BOYS since
you are not engaged.
Dear Mrs Thompson: was intro
duced to certain soldier by a friend
of mine and he seemed to like me very
much ana liked him. We spent the
day together at picnic and then he
left town. He said he would like to
correspond with me and would write
to me in a few days. It was t..ree
weeks ago that l was with him and L
haven't heard wcrd. DO you think
that he wrote and I didn't get the let
ter? I know where his camp ta
Should write to him firsty~
DOUBTFUL.
I do not think that a letter mis-
carried. Wait until you hear from
him before you write.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have a
gentleman friend in the army and he
has told me that he loves me- 1 have
received several letters from MIN in
which he says he does. have also
written him that love him. Now I
have found out that he In writing to
an Their girl the same way md she
thinks he loves her. What shall do?
BRoKEN-HEARTE
Do not write to him again, n ION
hear from him ignore his letters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
tFrom the-Atohison Globe

Words you can never spell bob up
oftener than those you can.
A ---an can be too practical. The
man who is too practical is heartless.
So far the government has made
no order concerning wife substitutes.
A wise man doesn't waste much
time wol rying about his fool mis-
takes.
A woman never gets so old she Is
not interested in how many dresses
bride gets.
A man who is misery never
makes his wife any trouble in regard
to other women.
A barber who can amuse a baby
and cut the haby's hair-at the same
time is real diplomat.
The difference between what we
believe or know and what We do is
the measure of our guilt
Two North Atchison women are in
a fierce quarrel: one of them was
selling her husbands old clothes at Sc
a suit, and the other cut the price to
So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
DINNER STORIES

The following was heard on a street
car one cold day in winter in a
Canadian city. At a corner the car
picturesque Highland uniform-the
kits Of which leave the knees bare.
On the car was a young dude still in
multi, seated with his best girl.
The girl cast admiring glances at
the attractively uniformed "kilt1e.
much to the displeasure of her Stacker
escort SO he erdeavored to make fun
of the uniform by remarking:
''I think that outfit is most ridicu-
lous. That fellows knees look as If
they were frozen"
The kiltie, overhearing the COM
ment. glanced contemptuously at the
dudes civilian clothes. then scern-
fully replied:
well. young fellow. it is sure
thing my knees aren't as cold as your
feet" The Stacker got off at the next
stop.
A well-known Englishnan was CALL
ing on an editor, when he rose
abruptly and said: "But I must not
further occupy the time of a busy
man."
Not at ALL" exclaimed the editor;
"'I am always pleased"
"Oh, I was referring to myself, was
the placid rejoinder.
I'm SO glad to see good golf
weather at hand." said young Mrs
Torkins.
81 didn't know you cared for the
game"
ct don't But I'll be glad to have
Charlie out playing the game instead
of staying hcrne talking about it.
The captain and his family were
returning to their quarters a little
late, after a Thanksgiving dinner. and
were stopped by sentry on duty for
the first time. who goes there"
Captain J, Company c, and fam
lily" was the response.
The rookie was slightly puzzled as
to procedure, but rose nobly to the
OCCASION: Advance. Captain and be
recognized; rest of family, mark
time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY K. MOULTON

If the kaiser and his six sons are
wise, they will buy a few liberty bonds
of the next issue and keep them
against an un-reigny day.
The Kansas City Star favors chang
ing the inaugural date from March 4
to a later date, because the weather
Of March is always uncertain"
On the contrary. it is the certainest
weather of the whole year. 1t is al
ways punk.
Like the fellow who had the very
even disposition
Mad all the time.
All time records broken: s5-
Miss BERTHE Adcock and Mr.. Wright
sailed across the sea of matrimony
st Sunday-Herber Springs Head
light.
The American certainly is an inven-
tive genius.
In Michigan, where the sale of
liquor is now taboo, a gentleman went
to a grocery store. loaded up on
lemon extract, acquired an eighty
horsepower jag. and landed in the
police court.
A famous London taxidermist died
in poverty. He should have have been
a taxica bbist.
The fact that the Hohenzollern fam
lily has suffered no casualties in almost
four years of warfare must be almost
painfully apparent by this time to the
German people.
You can always tell a man and wo-
man who are newly rich. They know
the parts of an auto better than the
parts of speech.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

Dispatches from the Seasons
Rheims battle front read much like
those received from Picardy in the
latter part of March except that the
conditions are reversed. Now it is the
German army that is being rolled back
at rapid rate by an advancing and
overpowering foe. 1t seems probable
that General Foch will continue his
drive as long as the driving remains
good but will halt as soon as farther
progress becomes too expensive in
lives of his soldiers. He is not the
man to place all his eggs in one bas-
ket. Unlike his adversary. when his
advance shall be checked at one point
the commander of the allied armies
will be prepared to strike promptly
at some other point. It is certain that
he has large bodies of troops in re-
serve, men who have not been used in
the recent fighting. This reserve force
is a mobile one and can be quickly
transferred to any part of the line
where the situation promises effective
results. That the war has reached
the turning point there is no longer
room for doubt. From now on the
Huns must remain on the defensive.
They cannot again react to a danger
Gus extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

all sorts of especially important gov
eminent work. This morning he had
to get after some grocers who weren't
living up to the regulations of the food
comfnissioner-sugar shortage, you
know. Don't mind If I tell, do you,
Jim?"
mo. you can't have too many warn
ings."
Josephine was frantically casting on
stitches.
But it was really a very pleasant aft
ernoon, Anne thought. Mr.. Clarkson
wind, and didn't mind at all when she
began at the wrong end of one and got
it all .snarled up.
At last came tea-aIfd the transpar-
ent sugar-bowl!
Help yourself to sugar." urged
Anne. 40 got two pounds this morn
ing. Wasn't it lucky?"
Very" solemnly agreed the aide of
the food commissioner. ANY one who
ventured out on this treacherous
walking deserved to pick up some su-
gar. 1t is exceedingly hard to lind
just now"
Norah pulled Josephine aside while
the others were saying goodby. 81
nope you don't care. because we
brought Jim,'' she whispered. HE
insisted on coming when he found out
it was you. He's been asking about
dies to the Red Cross rooms. He's all
right, Jim is, eN IN if he is my BROTH
er!" And she gave Josephine a hur-
ried little kiss.
Next day a package arrived for Miss
Josephine Bruce. 1t bore the card of
MIR. James Clarkson, and it was a
five-pound box of perfectly good
granulated sugar! Josephine was
furious.
II don't see anything to be cross
about" demonstrated Anne. That's a
valuable present in these times"
'I won't have him buying me su-
gar" stormed Josephine.
But he did, just the same, and later
he bought her flour and grapefruit
and coal and summer and winter coats
for years and years and years-but
not until a long time after the wed
ding did Anne learn the real reason
why her brother-in-law's favorite
name for his wife was-"Sweetness-
Copyright 1918. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndieate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

If the United states treasury must
raise $4,000, 100000 by taxation next
year. it becomes certain that the pub
lie is in for considerable increases in
rates already in existence as Will as
an extension of the taxable list. Mo-
DO 1y will object to this. but the ming
that hits the taxpayer hardest is that
for every cent added to the tax n ar
ticles of everyday consumption the
dealer adds two cents or more TO the
price. The war has afforded d pre-
text for much gouging of the ultir latc
consumer,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

cup sugar. two eggs. one-half tea
spoon vanilla.
Mix all together and drop on
creased tin and bake in quick oven.
Let cookies stand two or three min
utes before taking out of tin.
Crackers.
Scotch Oat Crackers-Scotch oat
crackers are crisp and good, as we'll
as cheap. To make, take two cups
of rolled oats, one-quarter cup milk.
one-quarter cup molasses. one and
one-half tablespoons fat, one-quarter
teaspoon soda. one teaspoon salt.
Crush or grind the oats in the food
chopper and mix with the other in
gradients. Roll out in a thin sheet
and cut into squares. Bake for twenty
minutes in a moderate oven.
Lemon Crackers-One pint sweet
milk, three eggs, three and one-half
cups sugar, one and one-quarter cups
lard, one ounce of bakers ammonia,
five cents worth OF lemon oil.
Dissolve ammonia in milk. drain
carefully to use no settings. make very
fine dough, roll thin, bake in quick
oven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

At last there appears to be force
in Russia around which the friends of
liberty and good order can rally, and
one to which the allies can give aid
with some assurance that their efforts
will not be wasted. The Czecho-slo-
vacs are active in various parts of
Russia and appear to be we'll armed.
They have taken possession of q mum.
Der of important cities. They are op-
posed to the Bolsheviki, the Huns and
the monarchy. They are largely men
who were made prisoner by Russia
while fighting in the Austrian ranks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

The condition of the American fIv-
ing service has had no more illuminate
ing illustration than that afforded in
the figures on aerial warfare during
July. London reports that eight hun
dred and forty-four enemy airplanes
were brought down by the allies last
month. British aviators accounted
for 40 planes; French, 290; Italians.
106; Belgians, 4; Americans, 8. The
Germans destroyed 316 allied planes.
Il would be interesting to know how
many of them were of American man
ufacture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

"Friendliness is the last means by
which to gain the respect of Rus
sian,ILsays one German newspaper, and
another declares: "Give a Russian a
kick and he loves you: kiss him, and
he will skin you" It may be that the
Germans know their neighbors better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

than we do and that the efforts we
are about to make to help the Slavs
may react, but with an allied armed
force in the country our policy can be
do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
TRAVELETTE
Grove Park Inn.
BY NIKSAH

Grove Park Inn.
From my early youth 1 have been
sign reader. 1 have always been
ardent in the pursuit of information,
but I confess that I am now suf-
fering from an overdose. I have been
to the Grove Park inn at Ashevil1e.
l have travelled all over the world
and this is the most unique. finest
appointed and best conducted tavern
1 ever saw, but I lost my sleep and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
INFORM ATOM
Blu RE AU
FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Director
Washington. D. G.
KEEP FIT FOR WAR.
III.-The Care of the Eyes.

These articles are special reports of
the Half Hour Health Talks" which
members of the Army Medical corps
have delivered before the employees of
the war department by order of Sur
geon General William Crawford Gorgas.
they are probably the most authorita-
tive advice upon medicine and by
giene which has ever been offered the
public in popular form. This talk was
delivered by Lieut.. Col. g. E. de
SchHeinitz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

kite-balloons-are spherical cam
tive balloons which are used for OBJ
Heryation of artillery fire from bebind
the lines They are easily handled and
up to a 30-miie wind A large nry,-
Der of these balloons are being u,eo
by the allies. both in the army ana
in the navy. ~Ao
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Sliced Peaches MIX
Fried Potatoes Poached Eggs
Corn Meal Mullins Coffee
LUNCH.
Fish Caowder Potato Biscuit
Cheese Sticks watermelon
Butter Beans
DINNER.
Mashed Potatoes
Beef Heart Stuffed Celery
Green Peas Steamed Brown Bread
Sliced Cucumbers
Sponge Peaches Coffee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

Uncooked Food.
Every meal should contain a por-
ton of un looked food, such as raisins,
figs, prunes, dates and nuts. These
articles supply the mineral salts which
the system needs.
The way to prepare prunes SO as
not TO lose the salts they contain is
as follows:
Sterilize prunes with scalding water.
then place in IA deep vessel. cover with
hot water ana let them stand from ten
to twelve hours
. Dry on a napkin and serve with
unsalted butter. whipped ;ream or
cream cheese.
One pound of prunes will serve four
people for breakfast for several days.
Cookies.
Cocoa Barley Cookies - Delicious
wartime cookies are made from one
cup sour milk in which one table
spoon cocoa has been dissolved, one
cup sugar, one-half cup chopped
raisins, one-half teaspoon soda, one
half teaspoon f1avoring extract,
enough wheat and barley flour, equal
parts, to ma, a soft dough.
Ginger Cookies-Eggless. BUTTERFLIES,
sugarless and milkless; fine for these
war times: Two. small cups shorten
ing, two cups dark molasses. two cups
water, two level teaspoons ginger. two
level teaspoons baking sofa dissolve
in water), two level teaspoons salt.
two level teaspoons cinnamon. flour
enough to roll thin.
Delicious CoSkies-A recipe which
is very good and useful while flour
is go scarce. Many people have
thought they were coconut maca-
rooms:
Two and one-haf cups cornflakes,
one cup dry shredded cocoanut, one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

tcopyrghtsd, 1n1T. BY The Wheeler syndi
cate Incl
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
VARIETY IN PIE o

Since war activities demand the
materials we used to use in u fav-
orite old-fashioned pastries we find
the novelty Of the new dishes Of
fered completely dlspels any feeling
of disappointment we might ever
have suspected some Of the worst food.
standpatters ever had. e4sA
Children and grown fo1ks.S with
supersensitive digestive organs are
often denied the enjoyment of pie be-
cause the crust is hard to digest. A
friend told me how to use rice as a
substitute for pie-crust in all lemon
and cream pies, and I have found it
most satisfactory.
Put one-fourth cup Of clean. pack-
age rice into one cup of water: with
a pinch of salt, and cook until soft.
1t is best to use a double boiler. Press
the boiled rice into shape Of an un-
der crust in the pie pan and let it
stand until it jellies. Make the lem:
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
MORE NEW BOOKS
FOR CAMP in SOUTH

Camp Kearny, San Diego, CAL, June
21.-Deposits of books and magazines
from the camp library here, the San
Diego free library and the San Diego
county free library have been made at
a number of isolated military posts in
this section. particularly along the
Mexican border line, and will be re-
placed from time to time with newer
volumes.
This service is the western link in
the chain Of travelling libraries set up.
along the Mexican border by the.
American Library association as part
Of its war work. The service went into
points SO little known hat most men
here did not know military posts were
there. Many never had heard of some
of the towns j. II. Quire, camp IL
brarian visited in his distribution
work.
One. new aviation field was supplied
with books. the officers thinking so
much of the work that they set aside
a special ten for a library to house
etry was the volume most in demand
at this place.
"Have you got a picture of General
Pershing 2" was asked by q dozen cav
alrymen at one border station. The
men who crowded around the library
truck cheered. when the librarian pro-
duced a photosravure portrait Of the
American leader.
Officers at another station demand
ed French readers, which were sup
piled, that they might refresh their
knowledge; of that language.
Other extensions Of the library serv-
ice are being planned, one Of which
Lis a. library station at the new naval
aviation Held at North Island. near
San Diego.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
HOME rule IS
FAILURE, SAY
LONDON PAPERS.
Of Curzon Taken as
Admission of This
Fact.

London. June 21.-Earl Curzon's
speech in the house of lords last night,
Immediately seized upon In the lobby
as an admission of a breakdown IN
the, governments Irish policy, indi-
eating, as 1t did, the abandonment
for the present at least. Of any at
tempt to introduce a home rule bill,
is treated in the morning newspa-
|pers ais a sensational development
and Is made the theme Of sharp COM
ment.
Home rule is dead; Irish con-
scription is dead" says the radical
Daily News. and the whole Irish
policy OF the government has fallen
crumbling to the ground.
From the opening to the close of
this last wretched chapter in the his
tory Of the Irish question, the gov
eminent has been consistently disin-
genuous, vacillating and dilatory. Out
Of it all one result has emerged,
black and unmistakable - the de-
struction OF the power Of the con-
s~titutional party and the enthrone-
ment of the anarchy Of the Sim
Fem
The Unionist Morning Post says.
"The government n more has
burned it's fingers very badly by q
mixture of rashness and inconsistency.
What will be the effect of this AFFECT
surrender to the intransigeance of
Irish discomfort and the arrogance
of the Irish Catholic hierarchy, re-
mains to be seen. Every new de-
parture and experiment in the Irish
policy brings us back to the bedrock
fact-the necessity and the Inevitable
ity of the maintenance Of the union"
The rigidly partisan newspapers
are hardly less severe.
Irish priests and bishops have
a pn - ~--k L. AZ
home rule n conscription," says the
Daily Express.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
YELLOWSTONE RIVER
RISES EIGHT INCHES

Billings. Mont. June 2o.-while
there was an eight-inch rise in the
Yellowstone river today, due to high
waters in the Big Boulder, saltwater
and Rocky Fork rivers, there is little
change in the situation here tonight.
The high waters had wreaked about
all the damage possible and the. rise
today simply sem the torrents into the
old channels.
Repairs to the city water works
were effected through the use Of tur-
bines in draining the cofferdam and
filtered water is again being furnished.
Forsyth citizens who came here to
secure more convenient quarters, esti-
mate the loss in that city at half a
million dollars. The waterworks and
lighting systems are out Of commits
sion, and both the business and resi-
dence sections are still inundated.
Most Of the and children have
left the stricken city.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
WOMAN'S. B HAS
DOUBLED IN PRICE

Rome, May 2S.-woman's labor
has doubled In price during the past
six. months, partly due to the employ
ment given by the government to
women in, factories directed by the
war. department or manufacturing
materials for it. In order to be sure
Of employment a woman or girl must
have a husband, father, son or broth
er at the front. Their lowest pay is
z lire per day. or q to 4 lire above
mans wages paid before the war.
Many earn double this sum by over
time. The wage is not now consid-
cred unusual because in the same fac
tories skilled men workers earn as
much as 100 lire per day, a sum once.
equivalent to $50 and before the war
the average pay per month Of a book
keeper. ~
Women not working in such gov
eminent supply factories have lately
struck for fifty per cent increases in
the dressmaking and clothing estab-
lishments, and obtained their de-
mand, nov receiving an average of 4
lire per day. Unskilled women and
girls are also so highly paid ON the
farms that servants are difficult to
find. g
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
ARMY EXHIBIT AT FAIR.


Salt Lake City, June 21.-vistors
at the Utah state fair this coming fall
will inspect samples Of practical arti-
cles being used on the French battle
front by American troops. The ex-
hibit belongs to the United States
government and the state fair %aEsocia-
ton will be placed under q bond Of
$4,000 for its safe return. Many Of
the articles, which include types Of
guns, ~projectiles, helmets, gas masks,
wireless outfits and other parapher-
MALTA. have been brought back to this
country from the battlefields. 1t is
said.
In addition there are to be inter-
esting and elaborate displays by the
agriculture, interior and commerce
departments and by the food admin
istration and committee on public in
formation.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-21
RED CROSS AUCTION
HAS NEW FEATURE

-. #-- -f LrL ~
A lively big auction sale at La
kota last Saturday netted the Red
Cross more than $4,000. Quanti-
ties Of farm products and other ar
ticles were donated for the sale by
farmers and residents Of LAkota,
and several hundred people attend
ed the sale, which was highly sue
ceasfnl. The auction, which netted
a good shareYof the sum raised, was
in charge 6f Frank Hyland Of
Devils. Lake and "A, n. Smart Of
Lakota. ~
Mr. Hyland introduced . new
feature which, proved popular. and
materially .swelled the Golfers Of
the Nelson county chapter. This
was the purchase Of q large Amert-
can hAg, upon. which persona may
have their names embroidered on
the starr, after the payment Of $2t;
to the Red Cross The nag has Al
ready brought 1880 and there IL
4 sufficient number Of 'persons
waiting for tho privilege Of having
their names on the flAg. TO swell
tha4<{und to . much large amount.