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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Is Love Insanity?-2.

If a man in love gives indications
OF needing to be examined by an
alienist, certainly no woman In love
would escape the incurable ward OF
mad house, for women take love
harder than men do, and every woman
| in love acts crazy.
What else except that they are
daffy enough to be put in straight
| jackets, makes girls marry the kind
of men that they SO often do? Could
anything else, except a brain; storm,
account for the fact that girls rush
I into marriages that any sane person
can see are bound to inevitably bring
them lifelong misery? Yet they do it
continually. A girl in love is SO far
| beyond reason that you can't persuade
her that she can't reform drunkard.
or inspire a shiftless shirker to work.
any more than you can convince
lunatic that he can't jump off Of the
| Woolworth building without killing
t! himself.
| What else except that she Is so men,
tally afflicted that she is no longer
able to realize the nature and quality
of her acts makes a girl indiscreet
enough to write a man fool love let
tiers? What else except that she has
| taken entire leave Of her senses
prompts a girl to call a man up over
the telephone in business hours and
ask him IL he loves her just as much
/ as he did last night at IL O'Clock?
| What else except that her intellect
| is temporarily under eclipse makes 1t
possible for an intelligent girl who has
taken a college education. to spend
hours at a stretch gurgling with de-
light while some fool Romeo asks her,
loose duclsy is oo?"
| What else except being possessed of
| a monomania that clouds her percep-
tions SO that she cannot see the thing
| before her eyes, makes a woman be-
hold the hero of romance and an
Apollo Be1videre in a short man with
a bay windowed figure and a bald
head?
Yet practically all girls in love ex-
hibit these indications of an intellect
disturbed in rational funct:oning.
It's the hallucination that the man
she loves IL the handsomeet. the
wisest, the wittiest human being in the
universe and that she has snatched
him away from every other woman,
that turns this dull old world into
paradise for every girl who is in love.
1t is the illusion that her husband is
the greatest financier. the most bril-
liantawriter, the most talented artist
that ever lived, that keeps the wife
satisfied with h lot, happy in the
harmless delusion that she has mar
ried tie king and is his queen.
Love madness? Yes. undoubtedly,
but pray God that those who have that
insanity never recover their reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

IT told you 20 call me for the seven
o'clock train. Now I have. to lose
twenty-fOur hours time. Why didn't
you call me?" N-
II couldn't very WELL" explained
the clerk. cheerfully; II just got up
myself"
A president of a western bank says
a woman came up to his window the
other day with a cashiers check for
fifty dollars.
what denomination" asked the
banker in his pleasantest manner.
Lutheran" replied the woman.
What are you?"
'Is Smith q truthful man?" asked
Brown.
We'll, not exactly" replied Jones'
IF you ever caught that fellow telling
the truth he would try to lie out
of it,
A guard was repeating these words,
Corporal of the guard, post No. g."
when an officer approached him and
said, Say that again, and cut out the
post" The guard went on as ordered
and repeated. Corporal Of the guard
No. s. cut out the post"
"That is Elmer ]. Pettifog. He is
Strut, Lowder. Hooks, Skinner, Bray,
Pyffler & Snyde," said the introducer.
But the name does not appear in
the firm title
mo. but they have perfectly
equitable arrangement; he does the
work and the rest OF them take the
money"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

1t is estimated that before the war
American tourists were spending
something like 100000, 900 a year in
Europe. That was an absolute none
tary loss to this country. Now 1t is re.
ported that all the steamship lines are
flooded with applications for accom-
modations. indicating that the rush to
Europe will be many times that of the
past, il the accommodations can be
had. 1t is not at all unlikely that
American tourists will be spending a
billion dollars year in Europe when
they get a chance. The only way we
can get the money back is to produce
goods to sell to European purchasers.
In other words. we shall work to pro-
duce goods to pay for the entertain
ment of our tourists. 1t is too bad that
more people cannot appreciate the
beauties and advantages of tourist
travel at home. Btu to take another
view Of it, Europe needs the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
&~@7 II
Copyrighted. 1ef ~. The wheeler syndi'
cafa- Incl
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns of
December IL, 1898.

December II, 1898.
There were eighteen doctors present at
the monthly meeting OF the Topeka
Acndem. Of Medicine and Surgery last
night at 725 Kansas avenue. They were
Doctors Alexander. Pears. Schenck. Beers.
Mogen, Gilbert. Smith. Sheldon, Lindsay,
Mfnney, Wallace, Mum, wehe, W. Il. Nc
vey. r. Z. Mcvey. McCiintock. Cannon,
McCrea and Storrs.
The Capital City Republican club will
meet tomorrow evening at D. c. Tiilofsons
office.
Miss Franc Litt,efield was In Kansas
City last week.
Master Gill Updegraff has issued In
ing. -
Homer Shull. son of Elias Shull, left to-
day for Las Vegas. n. ID.
The Elks will move into their new rooms
in the Masonic block this month"; Work
was began today In hitting up the rooms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men in
Americas Fighting Service

The navy department has come
mended Henry Lawrence Doyle, c. b.
NJ, U. 8. N, attached to the U. 8. q
Huntington. for his gallant and heroic
conduct in diving overheard at 6:4S
his life in the tide which runs strong
in the North river. to save from
drowning William Schuyler Clark,
seaman second class. U. 8. r. F., who
had been knocked overheard from .
steam launch which belonged to the
Huntington. Doyle supported Clark
for q considerable time in the water
until both men were finally picked up
by a motor launch -
The navy department will endeavoe
to secure for Doyle life saving medal
Henry Lawrence Doyle enlisted In the
United States navy March 10, 1915. At
Kansas City, Mo, and his mother.
Mary B. Doyle. lives at Pieasantoa.
Kan. VIZ - = 10y -fs AS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

One OF President Wilson's final Of
fetal acts before sailing for Europe
to attend the peace conference was to
appeal to philanthropic Americans to
aid the Armenian. Syrian, Greek and
other war sufferers of Western Asia.
It is estimated that about 1000, 900
war sufferers in the Near East will
require outside help to sustain them
thru the winter. Many of them are
now hundreds of miles from their
homeland. The vast majority of them
are helpless women and children, in
GLIDING 100000 orphans. The Ameri-
can committee for relief in the Near
East is appealing for minimum of
$30.000,000 to be subscribed January
1918. 1919. with which to meet the
most urgent needs OF these people.
The ready disposition of Americans to
relieve distress wherever it may exist,
doubtless will lead them to respond to
the appeal in their usual generous
manner. 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

Chairman Hurley Of the shipping
board is in Europe. One of the pur-
poses of his visit is to seek an inter-
national agreement for the standard
ization Of seamen's wages and working
conditions. 1t Is said that such an
agreement would eliminate the chief
difficulty that has confronted Ameri-
can shipping interests in past years
in their attempts to operate
ships in competition with 9TH
er nations" OF course it is an axiom
that as the cost of operating foreign
ships increashes. competition with
American vessels will diminish and
they will be able to meet their rivals
OF other nations on ans equal plane.
Probably what Mr.. Hurley really
should strive for is the organization OF
an international seamen's union. A
body of that kind should be able to
standardize wages all right altho 1t
might fix figure which would be re-
garded as highhn certain quarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

Hostilities ended a month ago and
much has been accomplished toward
getting the country out Of war bust
ness. But very little has been done
toward getting into peace business.
The words Of the president in his an
nual message should not be forgotten.
Among other things, he said: What
the country chiefly needs is that all
Nits means of transportation should be
railways. it's waterways,
its highways. and its countryside
roads" Also: at seems to me impor-
tant, that the development OF public
works of every sort should be prompt
Hly resumed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY Z. AOULTON

w. Hohenzoilern will soon resemble
Napoleon in one way at least. Ma
poleon is dead.
I Reginald-You can never hope to
be a writer until you have a good
middle name. Something like Regi-
Maid Chillingsworth Higgins. Note
Algernon Wiggleton Hawkins, Lor-
EMO Hammersley Butts, Rufus North
cliffe Smith and Lycurgus Cruikshank
Samuel johnson. Henry James. Oliver
Goldsmith. Maurice Maeterlinck and
Anatole France never had middle
names. and look how they all strug-
gled in vain for recognition.
Butter is $4.s5 a pound in Germany.
but it makes no difference there. as
nobody ever buys 1t.
Beauty and work never seem to es-
tablish an entente cordiale. They
seldom get together on anything
worth while.
A learned New Jersey Judge says:
Judging by the number OF divorces,
the average marriage certificate seems
to be a mere scrap of paper"
Some scrap. Wen say.
Bill Allen White says: 'In some
ways the times are growing better.
Fewer families keep photograph al
buns or buy crayon engagements of
ma the year the folks moved to Kan
sas. or Of pa before he lost his front
hair"
How monotonous 1t must be to be
Teuton and have nothing to toot.
An Illuminated sign in front of a
movie theater announces the follow
ing: "On Account Of a. Woman and
Fatty Arbuckle,"
When good old Queen LII of Ha-
wall passed away she said: 1.-The
Americans took my throne away, but
am content"
Yes, she got even, all right She
wished the ukulele on us for keeps.
A Jersey grocery store was robbed
of five sacks of wheat flour the other
night. The next night 1t was robbed
of five sacks of cornmeaL The groc-
er's explanation is that. the burglar,
upon finding that he had disregarded
| the $3.50 rule. was so conscience
| stricken that he could not rest until
he had conformed to the food admin
istra TONS ruling that one pound of
| other cereals must be obtained with
every pound of wheat flour.
His not to question why,
His not to make reply.
His but to buy and buy
Poor Tit Consumer
| A New York man has just invented
q new rooster for turkeys. In our
humble opinion, his il a non-essential
| occupation. Ar
| - 7a-el etng.; |
Queen Mary will accompany King
| George to Paris. Wives generally dc
T, that little thing. .s -
| A good many young men are taking
Cooks tours of Europe this season
They are in the kitchen police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
GLOBE SIGHTS
Iron the Atchison GlobA,1

A cat fight seldom il as bad as it
sounds.
Don't blame everything on envir-
onment.
An Atchison woman 10 SO sweet size
Is nauseating.
If you find fault with friend you
are not q friend.
There may be nothing in dreams,
but some of them awaken some ans
conscience.
Nothing IL 50 irritating to q gcs-
sip as the person who Is forever say
ing Nothing in it."
When q. baby looks like its father
old fashioned people say That baby's
father can't deny it."
The only time an Atchison man
gets to work on time Is when his wife
Is raising thunder at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

1t is reported that the resignation
of McAdoo continues to be the sub
ject of comment in official Washing
ton. 1t is doubted by many that he
was truly actuated by a desire to re-
plenish his depleted fortunes. 1t is
safe to say that no such motive ever
will impel Burleson to retire. He
probably never made so much money
in his life as he is making now and
could not command so large a salary
in any other occupation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

cause unnecessary recrudescence OF
all of the most bitter feelings connect
ed with the war. Its total cost has
been estimated at not less than $780,
10000
All Of these facts have been adj
vanced as reasons why the relatives of
American soldiers who fell In France
should be content to allow their re-
mains to stay in the soil of the country
for which. as well as for their own,
they died.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
WHOM SHALL WE BLAME?

1t is one of the serious defects OF
our civilization that we give more
attention to cure than to prevention.
We build prisons and then stand by
quietly and watch the youth of the
land drift into them. We spend i'm
mense sums in providing punishment
in arresting their development. 1t
must be that there is a better way and
in time it may be found. Punishment
as a means Of reducing crime seems to
be almost failure besides being ire
mendously expensive.
Paul Chapman, a Brooklyn choir
boy, 16 years old and tough" Joined
his gang in q HOUSEKEEPING expedi-
ton, entered a flat at night to rob, and
murder was done. He was tried and
convicted, tho it was not proven that
he fired the fatal shot, or that he fired
at all. for that matter, and was SEN
fenced to the electric chair. He was
in the death house in Sing Sing await
ing the death summons when he was
notified that Governor Whitman had
committed his sentence to one of life
imprisonment.
The boy was taken completely by
surprise, for he was utterly without
hope. That's awfully good news!"
was his first exclamation-'it's good
news for my mother!"
Commenting editorially upon the
extension of executive clemency to this
unfortunate lad, the Brooklyn Stand
ard Union the next day said:
mo one need have sympathy for
Chapman. He chose his career of
lawlessness deliberately and must
pay for it."
The Standard Union points out that
the governors action was prompted
"by the desire to avoid taking the life
of young criminal who is rather too
tender in years to pay the extreme
penalty for his offense" rather than
by any sentiment to mitigate the pun
| ishment because the penalty was too
severe for the crime in which he
shared" '"rhe boy" 1t says, was "a
pretty bad character before the COM
| mission of his last crime" adding that
he was "a tough lad, daring and un-
mindful OF possible consequences" and
| that "he had been mixed up in numer-
GUS lawless affairs. but was not re-
garded as a desperate criminal" 1t
does him the justice to disclaim that he
expected to become involved in MUIR
der when he and his pals essayed upon
their last escapade together, but that
''at any rate he went, got caught and
is now being punished
What was society and the state do
ing when it permitted q boy OF 16 to
drift into ways that landed him in a
felon's cell? lie was recognized as a
tough" lad and the future possibili-
ties OF his bent must have been ap.
parent. A boy who could be brought
into a church choir and be induced tc
be good one day in the week certain
ly would not have proved impervious
to other reformatory influences. A
boy whose first thought was for hi:
mother could not have been altogethe,
lbad,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

1t is suggested that some of the war
1 time bureaus. boards and commissions
may prove to be like water snakes we
used to see when we were boys-you
could chop their heads off but they
went on living until the sun went
down
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

which are on the south side Of the thir
floor.
The directors of Ingleside will entertain
the barbara" company ut the home OK
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Wilson have issued
Invitations for a reception tomorrow even
ing for their daughter Ella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.

SISWeQ fTuHeS SledHlcO Eggs
Rye 81 cad ana Butter
LUNCHEON.
Split Pea Soup Rye Bread Toasted
Celery
Jelly Omelet Oatmeal Crackers
Tea
DINNER
Roast Breast of Lamb with Victory
Drowned Potatoes Halved Carrots
Gravy
Liberty Cabbage
Baked Apples Molasses Cookies
Meat Substitutes.
Eggs a la King-Melt four table,
spoons butterine, and in this cook one
tablespoon minced green pepper and
rooms When tender sprinkle with
three tablespoons flour. add one and
one-quarter teaspoons salt, few
grains pepper and a dash of nutmeg
and stir constantly until well blended.
Then add two cups of milk or one
cup milk and one cup cream. or one
cup rich milk and one cup chicken
stock. Gently add six or eight hard
cooked eggs sliced thin. Add more
salt and pepper If necessary. 1t is
best to be very sparing with the use
of nutmeg. Heat again over hot water
anu 6CIFe very lOl Oii DuttcIco tOdSt.
Mock Scallopes-Remove bones and
skin from a two-pound slice of hail.
but. paddock or cod. With sharp knife
or scissors cut the fish into cubes.
Cover with two cups of milk and let
marinate in the milk thirty minutes.
Drain off the milk, reserving it for
fish soup or chowder. Let the drained
fish soak in Wesson oil about ten min
utes. Drain, dust and bake eight or
ten minutes in hot oven. Serve with
lemon slices, creamee egg or tartare
sauce.
Peanut CroquettesOne cup bread
crumbs, one cup mashed potatoes.
one cup chopped roasted peanuts.
one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon lem
on juice, one beaten egg. Mix bread
crumbs, potato, seasoning. and add
one half beaten egg. Shape into cro-
quettes dip in cracker crumbs and egg.
Brown in hot creased griddle-
Rice and Cheese Rarebit-One-
quarter cup rice, three-quarter cup
cheese, one and one-half cups milk.
two tablespoons flour. one and sone-
half teaspoons salt. one-quarter tea
spoon pepper. Boil rice in plenty of
water When cooked tender. add milk
and the flour mixed with one-quarter
cup of water. Allow thik to boil, add
salt and pepper. and when 1t again
reaches boiling point. remove from
| fire and add cheese chopped fine:
Stir cheese thru the hot mixture until
] it melts Serve on toast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

A stove hospital has been estab-
lished in Topeka. 1t might add greatly
to its business it it could cure the flu
as we'll as the flue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12
DINNER STORIES

It was nearly noon when the irate
travelling man found the night clerk
of the little hotel in North Carolina
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

W. Hohenzollern will soon resemble
Napoleon in one way at least. Ma
poleon il dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

A good many young men are taking.
Cooks tours of Europe this season.
They are in the kitchen police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

A New York man has just invented
q new rooster for turkeys. In our
humble opinion, his il a non-essential
occupation. ~ .rr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-12

Queen Mary will accompany King
George to Paris. Wives generally do
that little thing, -
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-04

fortunately discoverin gthe car soon
after it's arrival here. The sherin Of
Big Stone county, Mimi. started back
last evening with the party.
Information was received q few days
ago Of the death Of the mother Of
Fred j. and William W. scholtz, Of
this city. The deceased had been
making her home with a daughter,
Mrs. Mary Ludwig, at Stevensville.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-04
Local Happenings.

Local Happenings.
Nj. and Nh. ". b. Aidous, ofHens
y. were u the city Saturday,
Geo. H. Marquis, Lawyer. fExsJudse
circuit court Heegaard Block. 21tf
Attorney John H Hanten has been.
wrestling with an attack Of pleurisy
during 4 portion OF the week.
Frank Smith, of Sheldon, Ia, wal
an oyer-sunday guest at the home 81
Mr.. and Mrs, John Gallisath 81 Fuller
township.
For Sale-Two horses, weight 1900,
well matched, both are good family
horses; two delivery wagons, one Ford
delivery car, n automobile. H.F. IN.
Schaller
Nh. and Mrs. Il. 4. Morris returned
last week from California, where Mrs.
Morris had spent the winter, MI. Nor
ris having joined her some time in
January.
w. F Robson. superintendent Of
agents and agencies.for the Dakota
Life. has returned from i business
trip to various points in Minnesota,
including Duluth and the twin cities.
EtssSHE I'D N|tsSFNts
Ben Lortz departed last week for
Rockford, Ill, to Join the railway
provisional regiment, enlisted for
service in France. Mr.. Lortz was
formerly a conductor on the ST. Louis
road.
Rev. 0. ]. Edwards, pastor Of the
Scandinavian Lutheran church, left a
few days since for Montana where he
expects to spend a couple Of weeks.
During his absence the regular sery-
ices will be continued.
George Talon, agent for the North
western. returned the first of the week
from Minneapolis. where, in company
with Mrs. Talon, he attended the
funeral of Miss Wayne Madison, sis
ter of Mrs. Talon. The latter will
remain in Minneapolis during d por-
ton Of this week.
Douglas Sheldon. son of MI. and
Mrs. S. B. Sheldon, departed a few
days since for Fort Mcpherson, Ga,
where he will join the University of
Minnesota base hospital unit, This is
the branch in which his brother,
Charles, is serving. Pending this call,
Douglas having enlisted some time
ago. he has been employed in the
First National bank.
Those aspiring local vocalists who
hope to become singers of note are
reminded that there is an income tax
to be reckoned with. For instance, ac-
cording to the Youths Companion Of
April f. Mr.. Mccormack, the noted
American singer, paid an income tax
that vas as large as the usual salary
of the president of the United States,
and Mr.. Caruso paid one almost as
large. IF we only had enough art
lists of that calibre,n adds the Com
panion, I'VE could pay for the war
without Issuing any bonds at aIl!!'
Harry i. Hill, who came here from
Montana to take an examination be-
fore the exemption board with q view
to enisting In the railroad regiment,
was accepted for the position applied
for and will be or the8way to France
in the near future, it Isl assumed
Harry vas rejected on account OF
Observation-Disclosures when he enlisted
originally for military service, but fol
the railroad work he was found to
pass sufficiently high to get in.