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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

lation museum are boarded up or
draped artistically in sheets but traces
of the museums past can still be seen
In almost every room OF the building.
Even the unremantic click OF a
dozen typewriters cannot dispel the
thrill of working in the room with a
few of the choicest of prehistoric
monsters or Of having a miniature air.
to serve as a diversion. For long
time the girls in one room spent their
spare time admiring the gorgeous
brocade reception dresses of Mrs.
Buchanan and other ladies of White
best frock is hidden from the admir-
ing gaze beneath an impenetrable
layer OF board, to the great sorrow OF
the young ladies of the vicinity.
One long hallway, once a sports
mans paradise of trophies OF the
chase, is now identified with the past
only by a scant dozen animal heads
which adorn one side of the wall. For
tunate it is for the proud rhinoceros,
deer OF antelope that he is hung we'll
above the reach of a man. for other
wise he would surely be reduced to the
status of the domestic hatrack by the
ifreverent government clerk
For some time after the government
invasion, the museum still opened the
exhibits of it's upper halls to the public
as usual. Now, however, this terri
tory too is needed, and the national
museum has Joined the list of WASH
ington's buildings mot Open to the
Public"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
GLOBE SIGHTS I
(From the Atehison Globe.1

The most tireseme saying: IF /
knew anything, I wouldn't be here
There is lot Of stock yards talk in
communities that have no packing
houses.
An Atchison man is SO stingy that
they say he stole ice from his broth
er's corpse
The only way SEINE men can be
born again" is to have hell knocked
out of them. =
Giving in the hope of getting some
thing in return is the poorest specula-
ton we can think of.
A hen-peeked man: "Our schools
and colleges that teach domestic sci
ence should add domestic silence to
the curriculum"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
A NOTABLE CONTRAST.

No stronger contrast could be found
than that revealed as existing between
the Huns and the British in their re-
spective administrations of the affairs
of conquered countries. The story of
Hun destruction of property, oppres-
sion of the people and robbery in Bel
GUM and France is too well known to
need repetition. In Mesopotam mia and
Palestine the course pursued by the
British conquerors has been the oppo-
site of all this.
The British occupation of Mesopo-
tamia has been blessing to a hither-
to oppressed and outraged people. Be
hind the British lines roads have been
buiit, water courses have been
cleared out, irrigation systems have
been put in order and the people have
been put at work with an assurance
that no greedy Turkish tax collector
will come along and deprive them of
the fruits of their labor.
And in Palestine the same sort of
thing is going onlD Not only this, but
after 1000 years of exile, it is now
almost certain that a Jewish govern
rnent will be tablished in Palestine.
When General Al1enby, at the head of
his victorious army, carried the Union
Jack into the Holy City last Deeem-
Der. dream of twenty centuries be-
ea me possible. On the hills of Zion a
Jewish civilization with something of
it's old moral and intellectual vigor
may once more come into being. The
Jews have seized their opportunity,
and already an administrative COM
mission of Hebrews is at work restor-
ing the country for that race.
| This administrative commission has
program 1t intends to furnish the
necessary educational, medical and
| to the Holy Land. One of it's most
important projects is the immediate
founding of a Jewish university
Along the lines of diplomacy, the COM
mission proposes to create harmonious
relationships with the Arab and Ar
menian states which are to be its
neighbers.
All over the world, the tribes OF
Israel have waited thru the centuries
10E tHlS pTOIIllSSu udf. HelT poets
have sung of 1t. The exiles have
yearned for their native land. Great
Britain's military operations of last
winter have furnished an opening
wedge for the realization of Zion's
hopes. When Britain undertook the
rescue of Palestine, in order to strike
staggering blow at the Turk, the
eyes of Jews everywhere watched tbs
progress of General Allenby's army
They saw that little army foot by foo
and mile by mile drive back the Turl
and the Hun. Their joy grew as the,
beheld it move forward from GAIA tt
bethlehem, from Bethlehem to Jeru
. salem, from Jerusalem to Jericho
When Jerusalem fell. the delight o
the Jews was unbounded, for Britain
J had already gone on record. thru tn,
speech of Balfour. as favoring the es
| adjustment in Palestine of a natiena
, homeland fer the Jews.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

was not even to cross the threshold
of his own house; hence arose within
Mr.. Regers's breast am unsuitable de-
sire to do just that thing. The fact
was, from glimpses he had secured
from outside, a marvellous transfor-
nation had been wrought in the in
terror of that house. Teh swiss cur
tains in the windows swaying back
and forth in the breeze, the glimpses
OF bouquets of flowers on the tables,
the airiness and spacieusness of the
house as contrasted with the stuff
ness and formality of it as it had been
handed down to him by his old aunt
and uncle five years before fairly stag
gered him. Apparently 1t had become
the house he vaguely dreamed that it
might become, yet Miss Ferris had
brought only a few hampers of fix
ings" and had made no definite change
that he knew about save to move
some of the furniture into the attic
ito make more ROOM" She had asked
his permission to do that.
No doubt Mr.. Rogers was serely
tempted; at any rate, he fell and, for
getting his promise to Mrs. Van Deu-
sen, sneaked into that transformed
house OF his, one day when Miss Fer
ris was in the orchard with the girls
and looked around. What Had been
done he could not say, but that the
house had been transformed into a
Rome he knew, and 1t was only by
dfnt Of firm resoive-and fear of be-
Ing caught by Miss Ferris, or, worse
still, by Mrs. Van Deusen-that he
tore himself from the Charming
rooms.
The experience left an impress that
seemed really out of proportion to the
Importance of it. 1t seemed to Will
liam Rogers, as if seeing that medi-
fled interior left him transformed as
hr1r
ehce. 1t left him more with a desire
TO seek out the woman who had
wrought the change than with a de-
sire to revisit it again as 1t would be
| after the eight girls had returned from
their days work. So it was that a
hired man thru the cook to Miss Fer
ris that Mr.. Rogers had important
business to discuss in the orchard aft
er the girls had retired.
| In q week more the girls had gone
| and the peaches had ali been sold,
ana thereby contributed to the natien-
81 food supply, and Mrs. Van Deusen
was telling guests at dinner parties in
her spacious house how successful
had been her work
| And you didn't know I was a
matchmaker. did you?', she would
say. There was a lonely old baehe-
lor farmer and I just made up my
mind to find a wife for him. So
worked my little plan to get her in
there to transform his house and show
| him how much he needed a wife, and
l threw them together as much as ]
| deeently could and-weI1, 1 have ac-
| tually made the match They were
married yesterday and they have set
tied down there in the old house with
| the proceeds of the peach crop that ]
| got for him."
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure News
| paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

of higher salaries te teachers. Such
payment has now become an absolute
necessity, for any properly qualified
teacher can now command a far
higher rate of remuneration than the
majority of American school boards
have been accustomed to pay. We
hear en- all hands of a shortage of
teachers. Married teachers are urged
to return to the sehoelroem as
patriotic duty. But there is no more
shortage of teachers than of brains
and hands in every other occupation.
Let the school boards offer what it is
worth for the ability they need, and it
will be forthcoming. In this day,
when millions must be trained, the
faculty of imparting knowledge is at
a premium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men in
Americas Fighting Service

In that pla ce of death and victory,
known as Bouresches, the United
States marlr es were driving the Huns
from house to house in their struggle
for possession of the town. Machine
gun bullets were cutting in every di-
rection. Suddenly one German ma
chine gun ceased it's death rattle. For
Pvt. Herbert D. Dunlavy of the ma
rines had leaped forward and cap
tufed the gun single-hended. Only
for a moment was it still, however.
Then it began to crackle out, its speed
ing death again-but this time the
bullets were travelling toward the enc
my: Dunlavy had swerved the gun
about and was sending German bull
lets after German lives That night,
the Germans counter-a6acked on
Beuresches The attack was repulsed
and Private Dunlavy played his
part in that second victory also. For
when the list of dead was read, there
was the name of Private Dunlavy,
who had dune his best. even to the
end. Dunlavy enlisted at Houston,
Tex. He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Hettie Hall. Goose Creek, Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
GERMANY is DOOMED.

The war has now reached a stage
where each succeeding day sees vic
tory for the allies nearer. Hun losses
in men and material in the past six
weeks have been enormous. The
which he cannot recover. He put all
he had into the fight last March and
he has lost.
There is now absolute confidence in
the ultimate downfall of Germany.
This confidence prevailing in the civ
ilized world, finds its reflection in the
opposite effects among the forces of
evil, and is shown in the reported
Weakening of German morale, which
is slowly communicating itself from
Germany's fighting forces to the Ger
man populace, in the degree to which
the latter is becoming enlightened as
to the. facts.
The facts are that the enormous re-
sources of America, the greatest in the
world, in men, money, food and war
essentials. are now flowing over to en-
gulf the Hun, and will continue to do
so to an unlimited extent.
IeTadpS the most Impressive TACT
which has penetrated the thick AFRO
gance of the German military COM
nanders and the rank and file of their
forces, says the Baehe Review, is the
splendid fighting qualities of the
American soldier. The demonstration
came first early last June, when the
Americans were thrown hurriedly into
the battle in the neighborhood of Cha
teau Thierry and when their magnifi-
cent fighting and far-reaching success
came like the breaking of the sun thru
black clouds, to hearten and enthuse
the war hardened veterans of Great
Britain and France, and especially to
give added confidence to the great
commander, Foch, in formulating his
counter offensive which has since
been SO continuously successful.
Otto Kahn. who has recently re-
turned from France and a visit to the
American front, says of this episode:
1T is a soul-stirring stery-the
story OF that relatively small American
force, rushing forward at a very criti-
cal moment and turning the tide by
throwing itself upon the enemy with
| irresistible dash and bravery. When
the full account of the war~eomes to
be written, it will, believe, be found
that that action, in its psychological
and strategic consequences, was
among its determining events.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS /, r.,
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMSON.

Dear Mrs. Thopmson: have been
going with young man for a year.
For my birthday present he gave me
piece of jewelry. He has one of
my rings now which I want. When
I ask him for mine should I give him
the jeweiry he gave me?
He says he doesn't know what we
fell out about and says he needs
some explanation. Should I give
him some explanation first?
WAITING PATIENTLY.
You are tired of the young man or
you would not want to give him up.
As long as you cannot give a truth
full explanation without hurting him.
simply return the jewelry he gave
you and ask for your ring.
Dear>Mrs Thompson: I am a girl
eighteen years old. 1 go out to, the
rink and skate with boys and my
fellow is jealous of me. What can
l do to make him quit being jealous :?
AT the rink you cannot refuse any
respectable young man who asks you
to skate Should l give him up or
quit going to the rink and have him
come over to my home and talk?
B. A. r. 8.
Give up the rink. A girl should
never skate with a man unless she
has met him formally. / do not
wonder that your friend objects.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
going with young man who said he
cared lot for me ano he certainly
acted as if he did. I have just learned
that he was engaged to girl who was
spending a year in California with an
auns. She has come back now and he
goes with her all the time and does
not come to see me. 1 cannot help
loving him and I don't see how /
can get along without him. In the
daytime | am all right, but at night I
cry and just feel desperate. I know
l can never forget him. What dc
you think of a fellow who would do a
thing like that? Do you think he had
any right to go with me all that time
without telling me the truth?
BROKEN-HEAR
The man was very selfish and
thought only of his own happiness
He did not do the honorable thing by
going with you without first telling
you of his engagement. You will get
over caring SO much in time if you
are determined to do SO and put him
| out of your thoughts whenever you
find yourself thinking of him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Tried Recipes.


Four-in- One War Dish--Boil and
mash as many potatoes as needed.
Add on cup OF Boiled onions chopped.
a small amount of cream, pepper ana
salt to taste ana a small piece of but.
ter substitute. Wet a small ringee
mold, press potato mixture In ana
bake ten minutes. Turn cut on q hot
platter, fill center with hot cooked
spinach and garnish with cooked peas.
This meal is very rich in iron ana
starch and makes a fine substitute fer
ms
Pork Chops With Escalioped Pete-
toe. (from above menut.-Pare pota-
toes and slice thin, Put layer in
baking dish, season with pepper. salt
and small piece butter and grated
orion or onion sliced very thin. Then
an. her layer of potatoes, onion ana
seasoning Do this until the dish 10
ne1 ly full. Cover with milk. Place
pork chops seasoned with salt. pep-
r md butter. sprinkiing of poultry
seasoning on top. Bake about ono
hour good hot oven. When chops
are brown turn them and brown on
the other size.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MoULTON

Have You Seen One?
Sir-I am positive 1 saw a U-boat
captain in Park row today. He
kicked a newsboy' out of his way.
MRS. J. w. D.
Dear Sir-The one 1 saw was in a
Third avenue street ear. He had his
legs crossed and triPPea up three old
women. JERRY w.
Turkeys are $3.50 a. pound in
France.
And the kaiser knows what a whole
Christmas dinner costs in France even
when one doesn't get it.
Paper trousers are now being made
for wear in this country. More bust
ness for the strike-on-the-bex match
manufacturers.
After seeing six-feot pelice-woman
we ask again:
Which is the weaker sex?"
cordiale OF anything like that, we
must say that, personally. we are
about fed up on G. K. Chesterton's
expert opinion of George Bernard
Shaw.
The first thing to turn yellow in the
autumn is the straw hat.
Miss Marguerite Clark of the fillums
has our most distinguished consider
alton. At the marriage license office
the other day she confessed to thirty
one years. This makes her the oldest
screen actress in the world. No other
has ever acknowledged anything like
thirty-ene.
All Israel was looking for sugar
The government had just promulgated
an order that every family should be
allowed two pounds per month fol
every member.
The mob surrounded the Israe
Grocers, Ltd, and the manager wruns
his hands in despair.
Give us sugar." screamed the mob
'1mpossible!" shrieked the man
ager. Solomon was here early, go
his quota of 4.s00 pounds for his wivel
and children and cleaned US out"
Expert. who has been looking int
| the matter, says: 'It costs a grea
deal more to travel than formerly"
He should add that it also costs
| great deal to stay at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
WoEld's Highest Paid Woman Winter.
When Mother Was a Grill.


DO you suppose Mother and Father
were ever young, or were they born
grown-up, or was it SO long ago when
they were young that they have for
gotten all about how young people
feel, and what young people want to
do?" Maud anxieusly asked me the
other day.
You would think that Mother had
never been a girl herself" she con-
tinued, ''if you could see the Mortified
way she acts over every little thing l
do. She doesn't see why l care for
the boys, or would rather go with a
and Father. And she thinks it is per-
fectly silly for us to laugh and giggie
over nothing. And she can't under
stand why I don't want the family tag
ging me every minute of the day and
night And Father acts just the same
that Father was born fifty years old
and had all of his wisdom teeth as
well as the dyspepsia.
IF Mother and Father tell the truth
about how they acted when they were
young. and how they felt when they
were in their teens, the young folks
certainly were different from the pres
ent generation, believe me!
Mother says that when she was
girl her mind wasn't set on fashion
and frivolity as mine is. She says
that of course she always wanted to
look nice and neat, but that she
actually preferred good substantial
them to thin, perishabie materials,
Just think of a real girl who would
rather have Jaeger underwear than
pink and blue ribboned lingerie. and
who would pass up chiffon for a wool
freek! MT
ed her gowns made very high in the
neck and very long in the skirt, be-
cause she was so terribly modest, and
that she always let her mother pick
cut her clothes for her and was per-
fectly satisfied with what her mother
bought her, even If it was about two
years behind the style.
ALSO that when she was a girl she
found happiness in her own home, and
didn't care to be running around to
places of amusement. That is why
she is so opposed to my going to the
! movies, and belonging to little clubs.
Her idea of the end OF a perfect day
when she was a girl waste sit around
the table reading improving books, in
company with her parents and her lit
tie brothers and sisters and she
doesn't understand why I find that
slow. She thought it wildly exciting.
| Mother insists that in her young
days, all the young people talked in
the most intelligent and dignifieu
/; manner. and they used the most ele-
CANT language. Nobody condeseend-
| ed to employ anything so vulgar as
| slang. and they didn't gable about
| tennis and golf links, and batting aver.
| ages. and new cabaret stunts, but they
disceursed about literature, art and
| the higher life, and they never, never
giggled and squealed as we do.
| She almost weeps at the aeterier-
alton in the manners and conversation
of the young since she was a girl"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

Americans are reported to have
captured $4,000 Huns since our en-
try into the war. Since we are COM
PEELED to feed these men why not
bring them over here and put them at
work? There are more prisoners
than are needed in France to per-
furm the labor necessary. Returning
transports If loaded with Huns might
be safer from submarine attacks than
they are at present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

Railroad earnings made encourag-
ing returns in July. Pennsylvania for
example showed a gain of $12, 100000
gross and 100000 net; Southern.
100000 gross and s2,S00.000 net;
Santa Fe, sS,2O0,o00 gross and $4,000
O0o net; Union Pacific, s2,30o,000
gross and $1,600,000 net; New Haven,
s2,700, 900 gross and s1,2o0,8oO net,
and Baltimore & Ohio, $4,000
gross and $1,940,000 net. Other roads
made correspondence good reports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

tered the establishment. He was q
stranger, but the venerable waiter.
after a quick survey of the new pa
tren, felt no doubt. He approached
with a napkin over his arm and
bowed low and politely.
Good mornin'. gin'raL" he said
tentatively, in greeting.
81 am not a general" snapped back
the customer.
''Scuse me, admiral" cried the old
negro; what kin bring you. sah?"
II am not an admiral, either"
well. sub, I knowed you wuz up
amongst de face cyerds somewhars.
Kin 1 have the pleasure of orderin'
you some ham and waffles-bishep Z"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

Once more Mr.. Garfield swats Di-
rector of Railroads McAdoe with the
information that coal production is re-
duced rs per cent by car shortage.
And again Mr.. McAdoo assures Doc
tor Garfield that he can have all the
cars he needs If the heat thus being
engendered could be conserved 1t
might greatly alleviate the situation
Of q shivering public next winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

The dispatches announce that at
last the city of Lens is completely in
the hands of the British. More than
q year ago the Canadians battied their
way into the edge of the town and
have hung on to their position ever
since. 1t is a station on the famous
Hindenburg line and its fall is an i'm
portant feature in the great struggle
now in progress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
TRAVELETTE
BIZ NIKSAH
The National Museum.

In its desperate search for office
quarters in Washington. the govern
ment has taken over markets, private
homes, stables, even the national
museum, and turned them into con-
ventieHai business establishments by
installing shiny office furniture and a
retinue of clerks and messenger boys.
OF all these imprevised offices the
national museum Is undoubtedly the
most interesting.
Valuable collections of the hundred
and one articles that make up a regu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

Huns in the United States are re-
ported to be sending information back
home. That's all right. Let them go
ahead. The more information the
Teutons receive from this country the
worse they will feel and the sooner
they will see the futility of continuing
the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

The trustees of the Carnegie endow-
ment for international peace, at their
annual meeting, declared their belief
that the most effectual means of pro-
noting durable international peace is
To prosecute the war against the i'm
periol German government to find
victory for democracy, in accordance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
DINNER STORIES

There used to be a little restaurant
in Washington famed for it's southern
breakfasts, where the chief waiter
was an aged darby of beautiful man
ners and unshakable dignity, says the
Saturday Evening Post
One morning rather severe ap-
pearing elderly gentleman, with a
snowy mustache and q keen eye, en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

The latest news from Lenine, the
Bolshevik premier, who recently was
shot twice by an assassin, is that he
may live to be hanged later. He.
Trotzky and the kaiser should be
swung up together. No greater viii
lains ever lived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

The Huns have been kept SO busy
recently that they have not found time
to lombard Paris with their long
range gun. They still are seeking
safe spot on which to pitch their tents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

1t is reported that it was the farm
ers' vote that defeated Jeanette Ran
kin in the recent Montana primary.
Which tends to prove that the Nom
partisan Leaguers and the I. W. w.
are a minority in the Mountain state,