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The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
rhe rorture of Ungratlfied Tastcs-1

The Torture of Unqualified Tastcs.-1.
When a man permits his family to
indulge in extravagances that he can
not afford he justifies his weakness
to himself by saying that he loves his
wife and children SO dearly that he
cannot bear to deny them anything.
He thinks he proves his affection
by working himself to death SO that
his husky wife and daughters may
not even have to make up their own
beds, aud the sons may loaf thru coll
lege and acquire discriminating taste
in imported cigarets and clothes. He
even consoles himself, as he lies
awake at night worrying about how
he's going to get the money to pay
for dressmaker bills, and millinery
bills, and imported lingerie bills, and
automobile bills, by thinking that
mother and the girls have had the
things they wanted. anyway.
In reality if a man hated his wife
and children with a deadly, hatred
and planned the cruelest and most
subtle revenge upon them, he could
take no surer way of venting his spite
and enmity upon them than by teach
ing them the tastes and habits that
they will not have the means to
crafty. For sooner or later there
comes a crash in the affairs of such
man. Some day the flimsy struc-
lures of his overstrained credit
dies, and his pampered family is
thrown out on a practical world that
has scant sympathy Tor those VINO
have been living in a gilded luxury TO
which they had no right.
Poverty, heaven knows. is hard
enough for any of us to bear. but its
deprivations are thousand fold more
bitter to those who are unaccustomed
to them than they are to those who
| have never known anything else
| Those who have never had anything
| but coarse and ugly clothes, and plain
| food. and cheap lodging may vaguely
| long for something better, but such
| things are not the nightmare of horror
| to them they are to those who are
accustomed to fine and beautiful raj
ment, and exquisite food, and artistic
| surroundings.
| There is no torture equal to the tor
| lures of unsatisfied desires. of tastes
| that must be crucified at every turn
| of habits that must be denied every
| hour of the day. To have to veal
shoddy when you are accustomed tC
! broadcloth; to have to eat margarin
| when you have never eaten anything
but gilt edge butter; to have to wall
to save car fare when you've ridder
around in limousines; not to be abl'
| to have any of the little luXuries tina
long custom has made necessities t.
you. is to be plunged into a misery a
| acute as can fall to any mortal.
Yet it is this particular brand o
| misery that the man prepares for hi
family when he permits them to de
velop a champagne taste on a beer in
come. and it isn't fair to them.
! isn't playing the game with them. 1
isn't giving them a square deal.
Copyrighted 1919 by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Incl
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Tested Recipes.

Com nbinatioR Vegetable Salad-One
cut watercress, five green onions. slit:
one tomato, diced; one-half cucumber.
sliced; let stand in chill ice water
thirty minutes: ten small radishes.
leaf of head lettuce. Chill and thoroly
cleanse all ingredients. Arrange let
tuce on plate. Arrange cress, tomato.
cucumber daintily among the leaves.
Cut back rGdishes. Hide one or two
in lettuce. Lay one or two onions 1t
side of each salad plate. Serve with
French dressing. Dash of paprika.
Tomato Soup-One pint can toma-
toes, two teaspoons sugar, one-fourth
teaspoon salt. tiny pinch soda, two
ia tablespoons corn starch dissolved in
cold water one and one-half cups
boiling water one-half cup milk. hot;
two green onions. sliced as fine as
possible; two stalks of inner celery or
one large outer, sliced fine as possi
ble;. three to five tablespoons, as de-
sired, rice, steamed; steam tomatoes.
add boiling water. sugar. drippings,
onion. celery, rice. Simmer fifteen
minutes. Thicken with cornstarch.
Sprinkle in soda. Cool slightly; add
milk or half and half is very good and
makes soup more creamy. Remove,
season, salt, pepper. Serve with crou-
tons.
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conceived and painted it right out
from his soul-the artist who delIv-
cred to the canvas what he saw.
1t is like this in every activity of
our daily lives. You are constantly de-
livering yourself. And IL anybody mis-
understands you, YOU have been in
error to your own personal under
standing of yourself,
Try TO analyze what you are. For
until you adequately know what you
represent in the world. as human
among humans. you will never be able
to deliver honestly what you are, tc
anyone.
And be not afraid to reveal all
that you are.
When man buys an automobile or
watch or a suit of clothes, he wants
to know every point about the thing
for which he expects to pay money.
III there are some disadvantages or
imDerfections, he wants to know them
and he wants the salesman TO accur-
ately tell him. Then he knows what
to expect when he buys.
In all you do. deliver the best ron
have-but deliver-everything.
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along the main street in Nikko one
day when she was approached shyly
by native student, who said:
Please, may 1 speak English with
you?"
BE brief-what is it," the lady
replied.
For a minutes the student swayed
back and forth in his agony of phras-
ing foreign sentence, and then he
exclaimed:
Verify. verify, 1 say unto you, it is
warm day."
One infantry sergeant, badly wound
ed in action in Argonne, did not really
come to till he woke one morning in
snowy bed in a distant hospital.
The nurse, a benevolent vision, was
bending, over him.
Are you feeling better, Lieutenant
Johnson ?" she asked.
He thought that over for a while
and then decided the voice was not
part of the strange dream that had
been haunting him.
You've got me wrong, miss" he
said. I'm Sergeant Johnson"
'Oh, no. you're not" said the nurse,
you were promoted while you were
asleep"
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of a voice so near him and put out his
hand instinctively in the direction 1t
came. 1t fell on the girls shoulder
and he kept 1t there as he answered.:
You have entered like a ray of light
into my darkness. Miss Forbes. If it
were only possible to keep you there!
But-' The major. gaining victory
over himself in a mo rentary struggle,
shifted to the commonplace, remark
ing in his usual kindly tone, This
seems to be the storm that never
cleared up. doesn't 1t, Miss Forbes?"
mo" the young nurse answered.
the moon is even now breaking thru
the clouds. And, major. call me by
my first name if you will 1t is
Hope"
copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. Can the wives or mothers Of men in
the service now get passports to go to
A. The war department has just re-
moved the ruling prohibiting wives and
mothers of men in the service from going
abroad. Wives and mothers may now OBJ
tain PASSPORTS provided they agree to stay
in Europe six months. This ruling is nee
essaFy because all available westbound tom
and Canadian troops home. Soldiers
widows. or mothers who have lost sons in
the six months period is up. The ruling
takes effect June ID.
Q. How can a man who has lost his citi-
zenship by eniistins In foreign army re-
A. Such a person resume his citizen l.
ship by taking the oath Of allegiance TO
uralizatioR regulations, before any court
authorized to naturalize aliens, or before
any consul of the United States.
O. Where can get the translation of the
Seven Bibles of the world. mentioned in
this column few days ago?-G. +. s.
A. Our Washington information bureau
will upon request. send a list of the pub
fishers of translations of the Koran.
Tripitka. Eddas, vedarthaytna,. Avesta, and
the Confucian Analects which. with the
Christian Bible, Constitute the seven great
Bibles of the world
Q. What is a good treatment for in
flammation caused by poison ivy ?-F. d.
|. A. One of the best treatments is bathing
with salt water, sea water preferred. BoriC
acid, one teaspOonful in n glass of hot wa
ter. is a good application. The large blisters
should be punetured and the contents al
lowed to run out. Every day or two the
affected parts should be bathed with warm
water, carefully dried without rubbing, and
the bOFic acid treatment resumed.
(Any reader of The State journal who
wants the facts on any subject can secure
prompt service by writing The Topeka
| State Journal information bureau Frederic
J. Haskin, director. Washington. d. c
State your question briefly and enclose &
49, F.r ksars,
F! inquiries are confidential. the re plies being
sent direct to each Individually
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ON DELIVERING YOURSELF.

When a salesman goes into a place
of business. the biggest thing he sells
to his prospective customer is-him-
self The product which he repre-
sents is really secondary. Because no
man is going to buy a product with
out the stamp of some character put
upon it.
If I handled a thousand statesmen.
1 would want those thousand sales
men to represent themselves first, to
my desired customers. But 1 would
want them to represent thsmselves as
a covering to the product j desired to
sell.
1 would want that prospective Gus
toner to feel, the moment that any
one of those statesmen opened his
mouth, that my product had an intro
ductIon which even its fine qualities
might not surpass.
What we are is infinitely better
than what anyone may say that we
are. We deliver our best as we live
bur best
No one can quite feel the masterful
painting SO thoreIy as the man who
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BARBARA SPENDS THE EVENING
AIONE.
CHAPTER LXXI.

OHAE L 41<A<NAs
1 did as Mr.. Frederick suggested
thought 1 would call for Lorraine or
some other friend, then l decided L
did not care to talk, and would take
my boy. He would chatter right
along paying no attention If l did not
answer.
We had gone but a little ways
when I saw someone bowing to me,
motioning at the same time. L told
Thomas to draw up to the curb and
greeted Mr.. Rayburn whom / had not
seen for long time.
Where have you kept yourself? 2"
he asked. Il have been to every
blessed affair in the hope of seeing
you, only to be disappointed. Been
busy with that wonderful house 1 ex-
pect. l hear it is gorgeous"
Yes, we think it very handsome But
really it is not the house which is to
blame for my remaining at home. Mr..
Forbes has been away a great deal
lately, and L seldom If ever go with
out him."
Foolish lady. Does he never go
without you?" A meaning in his
suave voice which 1 ignored. altho l
felt myself flushing, and to cover my
EN- Embarrassment 1 changed the subject
by saying:
Cant 1 set you down wherever
you are going? Robert and L can
easily make room for you" My son
was sprawied boy-wise across the
seat.
Thank you. that will be an unex-
pected pleasure. L have an appoint
ment at the club. But don't let me
spoil your drive. 1 have half an hour
yet"
Then we will go on around the
park before we let you off" / said as
he took his seat l had lifted Robert
up and put him between us.
rs Mr.. Forbes at home now" he
asked.
Yes. came back from the west last
night"
His business is prospering, hear. -
"Yes-but he works terribly hard"
1 so wanted to add: land what else
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hand over the difference when he
went into the home market to buy
the necessaries of life, aside from food.
While we have boasted in the past
that our workers were better paid than
those of Europe, few of them have
had anything to show for it. They
simply have been transferring money
from one pocket to another.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Government figures prepared for
the joint congressional committee on
roads show that England has 2.571
miles of road to every square mile of
area, France It's miles and United
States .739. There are 1OS French
citizens to every mile of road. 2s9
Englishmen and but 41.S1 Ameri-
cans. On the basis of these figures,
the highway system of the United
States will not equal the ratio OF
French mileage to area until we have
100000 miles of highways, while
800, 900 miles will be necessary to
meet the English ratio.
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.1IEg5at;;;
Folks
1p
E23arU UGue5k


Aint fond of potatoes much.
An parsnips / don't like at all:
Don't care for sparragus an such
Green stuff we have wheu strangers call
Tho Ma says they are good for me,
An allus piles my plate up high
With vegetubuls. l can't see
Why / can't live on apple pic.
| never pass my plate for more
When We have spinach, you can bet,
An carrots I'm not asking for
Enough of them | always get.
/ don't care much for bread an meat,
I'd Just as soon they'd pass me by,
But | can't get onough-to eat
Whenever we have apple pie.
Ma makes me cat lot of stuff.
That I'D get out of If | could.
She says / never eat enough
OF things that really do me GOOD.
She allus buffers bread for me
An ! cant see the reason why.
A dandy eater I would be
If all we had wuz apple pie.
When | grow up to be q man
An have a little boy of eight,
I'll never put potatoes, an
A lot OF carrots on his plate.
BecoZ | know Just how that feels
An 1 won't want to make him cry:
When he sits down to eat his meals
Ill fill him up on apple pie.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

The Huns declare that 50 drastic
terms of peace never before were i'm
posed upon a vanquished foe. But
they should remember that no other
nation in history ever so richly de-
served these terms. In all the san
culinary recitals of 4arbaric warfare,
nothing more inhuman has ever been
recorded than Germany's conduct.
Hers was campaign of frightfulness
such as the world had never dreamed
of before
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
Ry ROY X MOIJITON

The Big Hop.
An aeroplane felIer he wanted to sail
Across the wide blue, salty sea;
The papers all said he would start without
fail.
OF course it amt nuthin' to me
But every burned day he would point her
nose east,
And on the old briny his eyes he would
feast;
He'd say his fareweils while some sad folks
would scOff,
He'd claim that he surely was gOln' to
jump off
But he didn't.
Said that he might jump
Next mornin' st ten
Said he was goin
To try 1t again
But then!
Each day he pulled his old machine to the
shore.
And folks got all set for treat,
And always they let out the same cheerful
roar
When he climbed up into the seat.
Today they thought sure he was going to
fly,
But the ocean was dusty so he didn't try;
There's something the matter with things
every day.
The mud or the slush seems to stand in the
way.
So he didn't.
He'll sure jump tomorrow
Morning at ten
Says it's cinch
He'll fry it again
But then!
The recent cold snap is said to have
frozen all the parsnips from Maine to
California. Nothing is in vain in this
world.
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II is difficult to understand why
the Huns are So particular regarding
the kind of treaty they shall sign. To
them treaty is merely a scrap of pa
per, to be tossed aside whenever it
suits their purpose. Holding that view
they may as well sign and end the
discussion. But a Hun seems just
naturally to like to argue.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

McAdoo has been retained by heirs
to break the will of multi-million-
aire out in the Pacific northwest.
Perhaps he has given up having the
presidency bequeathed to him, and
isn't afraid of establishing precedents
in the withdrawing process.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Germany's dilatory attitude toward
the peace treaty has caused the war
dogs of the allies to show their teeth.
The American army of occupation is
preparing for a quick advance if such
a movement become necessary. Ne
eessity for an extension of time for the
Huns to make up their minds is not
apparent. They. know and everybody
else knows that they must accept the
terms offered them now or later
Why not now? Huns are like Mexi-
cans; they cannot understand any
thing but force.
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DINNER STORIES

The biggest problem facing the
Japanese studying English in his
fowery' home is finding some one to
practice his oral English on. one
might say, he is up against it for
laboratory facilities.
But, says E. F. s., who has just
come from Japan, the students are
eager to seize every opportunity. Miss
Mann, an American, was walking
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Some Of the things said of Mr. Will
son in other countries must make
him wish his sedition law could be en-
forced everywhere. Why not incor-
porate such a law in the league OF
nations, So that the people of any
neNber nation will be forbidden to
Say what they think of the chief ex-
ecutive OF another?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Huns Howl at Terms" says a head
line. But not nearly so loudly as they
would have howled if Marshal Foch
had been given one more round with
them
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

The Bolsheviki rulers of Russia
have established anew year contain
ing ESQ working days. But what use
have the Bolsheviki for working days?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

We have no fear of Bolshevism in
this country. There are too many
public baths and nearly everybody has
a little bathtub in his home.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Name Your Own Ticket.
Dear Roy: You refer TO a mar
ried-lifer" What do you mean? a
person who writes Married Life
stories or a person who is sentenced
to marriage for life? r. d.
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The recent cold snap is said to have
frozen all the parsnips from Maine to
California. Nothing is in vain in this
world
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COUNTY NEWS
WEST FRANKLIN.

Mrs. Rowland Clark of Hartford, Conn.,.
and Mrs Harvey Pratt of Somerville,
Mass, are visiting their father, AdeIbert
CLARK.
Mrs. Howard Osgood and children re-
turned to Bluehill Monday, accompanied
by her sister, Elizabeth Coombs, who will
remain for visit
Mrs Caleb Bradbury and four children
OF Oldtown have been visiting Mrs. ELLA
Bradbury.
Mrs. Garland Hardison and daughter
Ilene, of Butler, Pa, are visiting Mr..
Hardison's parents, Henry Hardison and
wife.
Mrs. Irwin Rollins and daughter Wini-
fred were here from Gouldsb oro last week,
Mrs. Rollins coming to attend the funeral
OF her father, William E. Tracey.
Alton Darling of Brewer has been visit
ing here the past week.
Jesse Rollins spent last week at Brewer.
Mrs. Brown OF Washington, ID. c., was
a guest OF Mrs. Nellie Worcester several
days recently.
Ernest Hardison has returned from an
extended visit With his brother in Ban
gor.
Mrs. Roy Bragdon and daughter of
Ellsworth visited her rents, E. E.
Coombs and wife, last week.
Miss Murie DeBeck has returned from
visit at Rockland.
Mrs. Linda Savage is visiting her sister
at Stonington.
DIR. DeBeck and family motored 10
Stonington Monday. While there they
were guests of j. Willard Clark and
family. Mrs. Dyer remained for a few
days visit with her sister, Mrs. Clark.
Cecil Butler and family OF Plalnfield,
Conu., are visiting relatives here.
Harvey Saunders and family motorec
from Boston for few weeks visit among
relatives in this vicinity.
Miss Lula Sawyer of Brewer is the guest
OF Muriel DeBeck.
Bradbury & circuit, the first firm in this
| section to go into the manufacture OF
bases extensively, made an important deal
last week in buying three acres of valu-
able granite land, including their present
location, from Miss Cassilena Springer
This progressive firm has added power
and improved machinery to its outfit, and
now has the best plant in town. Besides
base work, the firm has done considera bic
bridge ard cemetery work.
Merle Smith has gone to Brewer tc
work.
Carroll Dunn and family OF Mattawam.
keag we're recent guests OF Henry Wor
cester and wife.
Mrs. Alice West and son Chauncey
Stetson of jefferson are visiting Mrs
Vests sister, Mrs. Nellie Rollins.
Irwin Salisbury and wife are spending
few weeks at Otis.
| Aug. Is. ECHO.
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4rnErussmgnts
Why IT SUCCEEDS
Because it's Enr One Thing
Only, and Ellsworth People
Appreciate this.

Nothing can he good for everything.
Doing one thing we'll brings success.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for Que thing
only.
For weak or disordered kidneys.
Here is relia bic evidence of their worth.
e. W. Smith, prop. black smith shop,
State ST., Ellsworth Fails, Ne. says ~
used Doan's Kidney Pills several years
ago. l have consluera BILE lifting to do at
my work and my back got in pretty bad
shape. There was steady, dull pain
across my kidneys and l felt miserable.
got Doan's Kidney Pills at the G E.Alex-
ander Drug Store. and after using them
for week or TWO. my trouble disappeared
and have been feeling fne in every way
since. DoaD's Kidney Pills helped me in
every way"
Price 60c at all dealers. DON'T simply
ask for kidney remedy get d. ans Kid
ney Pills the saIne mat Mr. Smith
had. Foster Mllburn Co., Mfgrs.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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Ought to Save Money.

A Lowell man works at the Law
renee street plant of the United States
Cartridge company and his wife works
on Market street. He works nights
and she works days. When he gets
home in the morning she's gone and
when she comes home at night he's
gone. But they see each other on Sat
urday long enough to go to the bank
together and tuck a nice little roll
away after the bills are paid.-Boston
Globe.
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Clay Long In Congress.

Henry Clay was elected speaker of
the house of representatives six times,
as follows: In November, 1871. Twelfth
congress; in May, 1913, Thirteenth con-
gress; in December, 1915, Fourteenth
congress; in December, 1917, Fifteenth
congress; in December, 1919, Sixteenth
congress, and in December 1928, Eight
eenth congress.
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Water and Air.

Water in contact with the air alb
serbs its carbonic acid in decidedly
practical degree. In densely popu-
lated districts this is of considerable
Importance. The difference is percep-
tible to the sense after a long drought,
as the common expression refreshing
showers" indicates.
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ScNatch Cbliterated.

A scratch on polished furniture may
be almost obliterated by rubbing Wig
Orouslv with linSeed oil.
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ECHO.

Eczema spreads rapidly itching almost
drives You mad. For quick relief, Doan'.
Ointment is well recommended. coo at al
stores.-Adtt.
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-12-27
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described As Torture
Relieved BY Blaek-Draught.


PcssvH'e. Ga Hrs Kate Lee able q
his Place. writes 50 husband is -
engIaeer and cree vrle hiung be IT.
iursd himself w.ll p.ece 81 heavy ra-
rhinery. across ire abdomen BE Nas
70 sore he could rot bear TO press On
himself ataif On chest or abtoren lie
weighed .f5 l5s and sen of url he
weighed so lbs 30 tuo weeks.
He became consnpated and 10 looked
like he wou.ddie. We had three different
doctors. yet with al. their medicine his
bowels failed 70 act tie would ,-sa Up
a ten-cent bottle oi caster oil. aid dnas
u two q three Gays IN s-c-essioa. He
did this vet va.hoa result We became
desperate he suffered So lie vas swol-
len terribly BE tod re his suffering
could only be desCrred as torture.
/ sen, ard bought Taeciort's black-
DrauQhi made him take bIg sose,
ard wien n began 90 act he tainted he
was in such misery al, he get c.iet and
bean 10 men1 ai ou-e. re E9i vel.
ard we both feel De owes h's .is %
Thediord's B.acs-l1rlgr,
Tredord Bacs-urmge, help y5u
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To 81! >--ls.
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DIED

IN New York Cry alone from kid
rey troubie last year. Don't allow
yourself % become Q victim b.
neglectipg pains and aches. Guard
sgains, this trouble ~ taking