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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: have quite
a few blackheads- around and on my
nose. Could you give me some pre-
scription that can apply myself?
SLIM MULLIGAN.
Try the green soap treatment,
which is made from two ounces of
tincture. of green soap and two ounces
of distilled witch hazel.
Let the mixture stay on only a few
moments. then wash off with hot wa
ter. II the green soap irritates the
skin, as it sometimes will, use 1t every
other day. Apply a cold cream.
Green soap may be purchased at
any drug store. 1t is not a regular
cake SOAP" but is of about the con-
sistency of custard.
Open each acne with the point of a
fine needle. The hardened mass must
be pressed or picked out. The empty
sac of the gland should then be bathed
with a little toilet vinegar and water,
or with very weak solution of car
bolic acid and water. Sterilize the
needle before using it by dipping into
boiling water, as the use of any instru-
ment, unless it is thoroly cleansed. -
always dangerous.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: l IN a girl.
/ have good education and am de-
sirous of becoming a canteen worker
"over there" Can you give me in
formation as to how l may become
one? RUTH.
Inquire at Red Cross for Informal
ton. There is very little possibility
that you will be accepted, but 1t
wouldn't hurt to try.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

attorney solemnly read the charge in
the indictment to him.
Then the prosecuting attorney put
the question: Are you guilty or not
guilty?"
The negro rolled .uneasily in his
chair We'll. bess.'' he finally said,
''ain't dat the very thing we're about
to try to find out?"
A Canadian soldier in the region OF
Vimy Ridge met a swanking English
officer. whom, according to good Ca.
madam custom. he did not salute. The
officer stopped him.
Look here, my man." he said,
don't you know I'm an officer? Why
don't you salute?"
oh" said the Canadian. ARE you
an officer"
Yes replied the officer, and then
noticing for the first time that the man
was a Canadian. he added with an.
Boyance. "Oh. you're a Canadian,
aren't you? Well. do you know that
you Canadians give US more trouble
than the whole rest of the English
army put together? ?"
Yes, replied the Canadian with Q
slow smile. That's what Fritz thinks
too"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

Business as a whole in the United
States probably never was better than
it is today. The report of R. G. Dun
& Co. on failures in the United States
and for the first half of this year is
the best, both in respect to number of
failures and total of liabilities since
1907. The table shows a decrease of
about FL per cent Of liabilities, as
compared with the showing for 1917.
The total commercial failures for the
first six months of this year are re-
ported as $3.50. as compared with
7,@ss a year ago; and the liabilities
fell from s94,721,35s in the first six
months Of 1917 to $87,793,562 this
year. The totals since 1915, which in
the first half year marks the high
mark for the period. have shown an
unbroken and progressive decrease.
The total of failures for the month OF
June last was only 804-the smallest
reported in a single month for II
years; and the total of liabilities for
that month was $10,6o6,741, which
was the least of any single month
| sine May, 1910. The business mortal
| ity l. the second quarter of this year
was the smallest in ten years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

If any evidence were needed that
modern civilization" has taken a
firm hold on Japan, 1t may be found
in the reports of extensive rioting in
that country. One of the marks of
progress in any country is that the
people discover they have certain
rights and begin to assert them, in
the only way that is open. Soon or
late Japanese statesmen must recog-
nize the evils of which the people
complain and remedy them. Japan
will hardly incur the danger of a
French Terror" The dispatches In
dictate that conditions make 1t posi-
Bile. When an entire people becomes
aroused it is time for governments to
take notice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

Two proposals in one week for a
woman who had reached her thirty
eighth birthday without any, We're not
conducive to calm thinking. Rodne
came over to her.
Listen, Helen. I've been thinking
a great deal about what you told me
that other day-about making some
thing of myself. You're right. I've
been in a rut.'
Helen showed her comptorneter to
one side. This was a new Rodney.
so / went and stuck the six hum
dred I've saved up in the cutest little
delicatessen you ever saw. It's got
cans of stuff on the shelves and cheese
on the counter and cakes in the case
and flour in the bin and" he ran on
excitedly without stopping for breath
as Helen grasped his coat sleeve in the
contagious enthusiasm. there is a
good trade. It'll be slow plugging at
first, lots and lots of work. but-but
it's q. CO."
He leaned toward her with arms ex-
tended. "All it needs-alf need is a
wife-that'll mako everything COM
plete."
Helen could not speak. Something
was choking her.
I'll be good to you,' he pleaded.
taking her silence for refusal I'll
do alfthe work. Honest I will. just
want you to encourage me. Won't you
please. 1t me6nS-on, II means ihue-
pendencei"
Rodney stopped. Helen was crying
again He sat down on her desk and
with one hand about her shoulders
he patted her head with the other.
"Jiggers. the boss!" he called as the
door opened.
But they weren't in time. Mr.. Jo-
seph Q. Hattisbury had seen. He
brought one foot down after the other
with a ponderous thud.-
Miss Bently," he snorted in high in
dignation, latter my talk. what does
/ this mean? I cannot give you week
to decide. Choose now
| Helen stopped crying and looked
from her opinionated employer tc
Rodney with his deep set eyes still
pleading his cause. The one held prom
| Use of comfort and of submission; the
| other, work-and independence
"Oh, I'll take chance" she said
l"I choose the delicatessen."
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A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men in
Americas Fighting Service

Among the American fighting men
In France whose deeds have been mem
toned in general orders, as being well
worthy of emulation and praise, is
Private Edmund Joseph Fons, at the
front with the U. S. Marines Young
Fons volunteered his assistance in
making repairs to important COM
munication lines under gas-sheIl bonn
bardment, at night, while forced to
wear a respirator for four hours. He
was one of the marines wounded in
this engagement Fons enlisted in the
marine corps at Milwaukee, Wis, on
April ri, 1917. His mother, Mrs. j. N.
Nowak, lives at Edgar, Wis.
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TRAVELETTE
Asundon.
BY NIKSAH


Paraguay is rival of Mexico In its
belief In revolutions as a cure for all
social evils. Asuncion, the capital. is
the center of the revolutionary activi-
ties where plots are evolved in elabor-
ate secrecy. and mystery is the key
note of every transaction.
When you enter Asunciou. you are
a stranger and. therefore, dangerous,
for, according to the reasoning and
experience of the police, the most in
.nocent looking traveller may hold
plots and state secrets safely in his
head. If you look behind you as you
are going about your prosaic and
peaceable affairs. you may see blue
coated policeman in the offing. or a
thinly disguised secret service man
trying to make himself invisible be-
hind a tree of inadequate proportions.
The prison is one of the most i'm
portant buildings in the city and I'M
doubtedly the most unpleasant 1t
plays a leading part in revolutionary
times and has a history worthy of
the torture chambers of medieval
Spain. You may glance for a minute
or SO at this grim edifice. but to
study its architecture too closely
might indicate that you feared being
placed within its walls and that you
were investigating the chances of es-
cape.
Asuncion has an unstable air in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Giobe.1

There is lot Of gangrene IN the
words of some people.
A man who has a deep base voice
is always sure to use it.
And a girl with pretty teeth is sure
to cultivate a broad smile.
The more worthless the man, the
more difficult it is to satisfy him.
= A knock is bad enough, but when
it comes from a pretty and petted
young girl, it is the limit
A politician is the man who event
ually wakes up and discovers that he
has a lot of warm enemies and cold
friends.
Some day the kaiser is going to
rear every time he hears about
Colt" and the 'invincible sword of
Germany"
The war served this purpose: 1t
gives the women's clubs something
worth while to do. Before the war
the women's clubs were so anxious
to accomplish something that they
did many foolish things and butted
more or less into other peoples bust
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
LIouoR KNOWS NO Law.

News comes from Harrison, o., that
investigation reveals the double life
of a handsome gray motor hearse
which has been leaving Harrison fire
quently at night bound for the vicin-
ity of Munci,, Ind, which is dry. 1t
develops that the hearSe has been
serving as a conveyance for cases of
beer and jugs of whisky, its patrons
enjoying the somewhat grim humor of
the deception as much as they haYe
enjoyed their consignments of drink
abies.
1t is stated in the dispatches that a
man who drove the hearse drew extra
pay because of his peculic-' ability tC
maintain detected appearance,
deemed suitable to the office of
hearse driver. and to wipe a tear &C.
casionally from a trimming eye as he
passed along the road, observed by
possibly suspicious persons.
To many persons among the multi
tude whose thirst is not importunate
it might appear probable that the
spectacle of a hearse serving as a beer
wagon might put possible patrons out
of the mood to buy beverages. but
there is nothing to indicate that the
gray hearse from Harrison frightened
any one in the Muncie region into get
ting upon the water wagon instead of
waiting with watering mouth for the
beer wagon.
Persons who are habituaIly thirsty
are not timid, or even discriminating
or exacting about means of quenching
their thirst. In regions where whisky
is ''bootlegged' the quality of the bev-
erage rarely is questioned.
There is a story, in a novel Of sea-
faring, about>some sailors who, when
no grog had been served, appeared
upon deck drunk and were locked up
for their violation of the ships rules.
Their conduct. was deemed especially
| abhorrent because the ship was sailing
with her flag at half mast bearing
home the remains of a distinguished
admiral who had died in the South
seas. When the men were ordered to
the brig for punishment the cap
tain delivered them a lecture touch
ing the sad circumstances of the
homeward bound voyage and the ex-
ceptional Appropriateness of hilar-
| ity. 1t was beneath his dignity to in
quire where the sailors procured the
| liquor, but one of their number, hap
PLY drunk and overwhelmed by the
humor of the situation, cbuId not re-
frain from hurting out:
THE admiral, sir, was the cause OF
the Spree"
you were overcome by grief?'
queried the captain sarcastically.
mo, SIR" replied the tipsy tar, but
sir. we tapped the admiral for the
rum"
There being no pure alcohol avail.
able, the body of the admiral hac
been placed in a sealable receptacle
and submerged in Jamaica rum t.
preserve 1t during the voyage.
Thirst knows no law, says tn,
Louisville Courie-Journal. comment
ing on the Muncie incident Like love
it laughs at locksmiths and override
| conventions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

The shortage of sugar, like every
other shortage called to the public
mind, must soon disappear before
American energy and push. Just 100
sugar-beet mills in the United States
now are ready to turn out sugar as
soon as the harvesting of the sugar
beet crop begins. Sixteen of these
mills were built during 1917 and
equipped for handling the 1917-1S
crop. The capacity of these mills
ranges from a few hundred tons to
5000 tons of beets each twentyfour
hours The first mill was built in CAL
ifornia in 1870. During 1915, seven
teen mills were built in wyoming,
Idaho. Nebraska. Utah. Oregon, Col
orado, Montana, Iowa, California and
Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON

The German general who escaped
in his pajamas and ran down the road
toward home probably cursed the man
who invented pajamas without sus-
penders. 1t is always difficult to make
good time in those things.
Backward INIT Gott."
Back, back, back
Back to the Hindenburg line.
Back with princes,
Field marshalS and ounces,
Back while the backing is fine.
Pack up the kulturist bunk,
The medals and scepters and junk.
The Yankees are Hunning,
They're coming aruning,
The road into Paris is punk,
"Invincible armies" beware,
For freedom is filling the air.
The Yanks can't be trusted,
Divine right Is busted"
There isn't minute to spare.
Aboard for old Potsdam, toot-toot,
Drop all the lutte quickly and scoot-
The Huns have been faced,
The game has been raided,
The kaiser is getting the boot.
So the young tikes thought they
were going to get all the glory out
of this war! Well, what do you know
about that
to hit a 1o-cent piece with a squirrel
rifle at 500 yards, gets busy.
Then we shall see what we shall
see.
Note that the government will place
an extra tax on pleasure cars. Does
-fliyver come under that head?
The Old World.
tbs hard to recognize 1t now,
For it's a vastly different place.
Since we, perforce, are face to face
With sordid Fate
Impelled by hate.
Illusions each day we inter.
Yea, gflded folk and laborer
And potentate.
The pain, the anguish of 1t all,
And cleanses both the small and great
OF petty things
And vision brings
A golden phase of human life.
A world reborn of woe and strife
And suffering.
We are being given ample proof of
the theory that DR.. Garfield should
give US our heatless days in August
| instead of January.
We don't know what the mean tenn
| perature of the eastern states for
August has been, but we feel safe in
saying that it has been mean enough.
six Alien Enemies Interred."-
Headline.
| Unfortunate, we might say most un-
| fortunately, this was a misprint. 1t
was meant for .interned," of course.
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use. The joke censor will regulate all
Jokes, even as Mr.. Hoover admins
tiers the national food supply. With
the humor industry of the country
taken over by thc government and
properly administered. the stale, the
flat. the Improbable joke should dis
appear. The standardized government
joke, running at least so per cent hu-
NOR, and 30 per cent substitutes,
should make life one grand sweet
scream
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
MENU HINT.
BREAKFAST.

MENU HINT.
BREAKFAST.
Cantaloupe
Cold Boiled Hominy, Sliced and Fried
Maple Syrup. Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Macaroni with Tomato Sauce
Corn Flour Biscuit Apricot Jam
Cup Custard
Iced Tea
DINNER.
Meat Loaf Stuffed Baked Potatoes
Lettuce and Cucumber Salad
Rice Flour Mullins
Peach Tapioca Iced Tea
Tried Recipes.
Stuffed Baked Potatoes (from above
menu.)-Bake large smooth skinned
potatoes. When done cut off one side
of the potato and remove the inside.
leaving the skin whole. like a cup.
Mash or rice the potato. add milk.
butter, pepper and salt as for mashed
potatoes. beat very light, fill the
skins, put small piece of butter over
each potato and return to oven to
brown When ready to- serve place
small piece of parsley in each.
Conservation Pie.-Mix one table,
spoon flour or cornstarch to a smooth
paste with one-quarter cup of milk.
Add one ounce melted chocolate, one
| teaspoon butter substitute, three
tablespoons chopped raisins, three
tablespoons honey or white corn syrup.
a pinch of salt, three-quarter cup of
milk.
Cook In a double boiler until 1t
thickens. then add two well beaten
egg yolks and one-ha1f teaspoon
vanilla. Pour in a baked crust. Beat
whites of eggs, spread over top and
brown in oven.
Rice pie crust for above filing:
Two-tnirds rice flour. one-third wheat
flour. Make just like wheat pie crust.
only do not use quite as much shorten
| ing.
Potato Scones-Take cold mashed
potatoes, moisten with milk and work
| in sufficient flour with which baking
powder is mixed to form a firm dough.
adding pinch of salt. Roll out, sprin-
kle with flour. roll in beaten egg;
again in flour: cut in rounds. Bake
on hot griddle. Butter hot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

While the present war has been the
most destructive IN the experience of
mankind. says bulletin issued by the
Guaranty Trust company. it has also
leen one of the most powerful con-
structive elements the world has ever
known. 1t has affected. directly or
indirectly, every nation on earth, and,
thru the dire necessity occasioned by
1t, has energized practically all hui
mainly. The impetus. too. which it
has given to nearly all peoples will
not>Rave been spent by the time peace
is declared, and, unquestionabIy, will
result in great worldwide develop
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

dicative of unheavals past and future.
The law endeavors to guard the public
safety with an iron hand and obvious
ly trusts in the motto that a person
is guilty. until he is proved innocent.
and that even in the latter event it
might be just as we'll to get rid of him
anyway as a preventive measure. The
safest thing to do in Asuncion is to
make friends with the CONSUL be seen
with him as much as possible, and
when your business Is over depart
with as little ceremony and delay as
the law OF the land allows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

It appears that the government is
about to take over the joke business
OF the country. A recent government
bulletin calls for the mobilization of
American Jokes to be turned over to
the war department commission on
training camp activities. commit
tee of seven, appointed by the gov
eminent. is to pass upon the merits of
the Jokes submitted for army and navy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

People who are given to asking,
when will the war end?" says the
Louisville Courier-Journal, should
change their query to. when will the
Germans be whipped?" America is
not fighting to lend the war" She is
fighting to whip the Germans. When
the Germans are whipped there will
be no occasion for asking when the
war will end, for the war will end
when the Germans are whipped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
1.-THE weaker nations

me weaker nations must be
crushed to make way for the strong
err" Germany proclaimed loudly four
years ago, as one of her foremost ex-
cuses for the war. The allied nations
now are proceeding to carry out this
program. They are taking Germany
at her word and the crushing process
will be carried out thoroIy, not. how
ever. to make way for the stronger.
but to. make way for democracy and
peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

training corps are administered by the
committee on education and special
training, new branch of the war
department, composed chiefly of well
known college professors. 1t is the
committees work to plan higher edu-
cation along such lines that the col
leges will turn out the most valuable
material possible for the army. Tween
ty-five thousand graduates of the
training detachments are the first
practical result of the committees ef-
forts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

It is announced that the govern
ment has. ordered 100000 watches
for our soldiers in France. This is a
new version of THE Watch on the
Rhine"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

II all the nations which have cause
to enter the fight against the Huns
would do so now, the war might be
brought to speedy close. These would
include the Scandinavian countries,
The Netherlands and Spain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

pears to have overlooked one prolific
source of revenue. 1t has neglected
to impose an income tax on burglars
and bank looters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

If the I. W. W. case had been left
to the jury of public opinion it would
not have been necessary to extend the
trial over a period of three months.
The verdict would have been the
same as was that rendered at Bisbee,
Arfz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

Germany and Austria are arranging
to erect a throne at Warsaw and seat
thereon an Austrian archduke, just
as tho they expected to get by with
the plan. William and Charles will do
well If they are able to retain their
own crowns. They are not in a posi-
ton to confer these ornaments on
others \
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21

It appears that the role of the allies
in Russia is to act as seconds to the
Czecho-Slovaks in their fight with
Germany and the Bolsheviki.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-21
DINNER STORIES

In Ohio a negro was arrested on
charge of horse theft and was duly in
dicted and brought to trial When
his day in court came he was taken
before the judge and the prosecuting
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shot, after the Germans had put out
their eyes and tortured them with
| bayonets. Three others were brought
before their wives and children and
sabered.
The Belgian told me he was at Ma
muir when the Germans began Smelling
it. The bombardment lasted the whole
of August 81 and %, 1914. They CEN
tered their.fire ON the prison, the hos
pital, and the railway station. They
entered the town at four o'clock in the
afternoon of August %. During the
first twenty-four hours, they behaved
themselves, but ON the 24th they began
firing at anyone they pleased, and set
fire to different houses on five of the
principal squares.
Then they ordered every one to leave
his house, and those who did not were
shot. The others, about four hundred
in all, were drawn up in front of the
church, close to the river bank. The
Belgian said he could never forget how
they all looked.
81 can remember just how it was"
he said. There were eight men, whom
/ knew very well, standing in row
with several priests. Next came two
good friends of mine named Balbau
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the RECRUITING
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Exact Copy Of Wrapper.
Wouldn't Have to Go Abroad.

big marine sergeant stood on the
front steps of the Star building to
take look at the busy avenue before
going up to the Devil Dog" recruit
ing station.
While he stood there along came
soldiers, sailors and marines. They
streamed by. The sergeant came to
salute time after time. His arm be-
gan to grow numb. AS husky as he
was, saluting at machinegun rate be-
came tiresome.
The sergeant grinned as he saluted
for the steenth time.
eff salutes would win this war;" he
said, pleasantly. ''we would win it right
here in Washington" = Washington
Star.