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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
THEY LOVE EARLY
Topeka Mexican Girls Also Are
Fond of Jewelry.
Miss Eva Corning Tells. of
Work Among Them.
PARENTS SHOW MUCH SENSE
They Want Daughters Educated
Like Americans.
One Little SenOrita Wants To
Be a SalesIady.
FORECAST.

Mexican girls In their love for jewell
cry and finery differ little from Amer
Jean girls. A wrist watch or cavalier
often finds greater favor with them
than an American education. But not
so with Mexican fathers and mothers
who approve of our compulsory edu-
cation. and contrary to Mexican Gus
tom, that the marriage day for SEN
orita shall await a future time. The
following stories of Mexican girls are
told by Miss Eva Corning, probation
officer:
Monchelia, a young Mexican girl ac-
companied by her lover came into the
probate court one day to apply for
marriage license The girl, several
years younger than the man, gave her
age to comply with the Kansas laws.
Presently relatives appeared in pro-
test They wanted her to go to school
and receive an education. A time was
set for a hearing for all parties When
Monchelia was sent for she hesitated
some minutes, then ran to a secret hid
ing place and brought out little
velvet case in which reposed a beauti-
full cavalier, the gift of her lover. Only
after the jewel was placed around her
throat would she consent to appear
in the court room. She believed that
the jewel would bring her good luck
and that her great wish would come
true. And it did. Monchelia was then
and there married by the probate
judge. the lover agreeing to educate
her by private teacher in special class
work, such as she was studying.
In Love at ii.
Rezena, a Mexican girl of II years,
was attending the public school. but
one day she was wooed by a dashing
senior, who hid her away, and later
when she was returned to her home,
her mother brought her into the
Juvenile court and asked that she be
made to go to school and that the law
! should prevent the lover from inter
ference.
Rezena was required to go to school
/ and every week she would report for
| instruction and advice. Even then
the mother would accompany her to
and from school for fear she would
| be kidnapped by her lover, tho officers
| had forbidden him to meet her. The
mother wanted the little girls to be
/ educated like American girls.
One Wants To Be a Clerk.
Another bright young Mexican girl
is making rapid progress in school
/ She admires the American girls who
| sell goods in the big stores and is
/ dreaming of the day when she may be
real saleslady, displaying the jew
/ elry and finery that is dear to every
girl
| Such a dream may not be improb-
able. for the Mexican girl is likable
and has a pleasant voice and winning
personality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
TO INCREASE PAY
Navy Men Will Get Same Money
Received During War.
Assurance Given Bill Will Pass
Congress.

In the current appropriation bill
now before congress is included a bill
which provides for the Increase in pay
for enlisted men in the United States
navy.
This bill provides that the present
war pay be made permanent: this in
creases the pay of all enlisted men
from $500 to $500 per month. ac-
cording to rate.
While this bill has not been passed,
assurance has been given that it will
be and all men in the service are ad-
vised that their pay will undoubtedly
remain as on present war basis.
This increase in pay provides that
any man enfisting on first enlistment
will receive $32.60 per month and
that the pay for all men in the service
will be from s3260 for apprentice
seaman to $500 for chief machinist's
mate.
Ratings for first enlistment are
open in the following branches with
the following rate OF pay:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
aANY INQUIRIES RECEIVED
Administration Bureaus Are
Furnishing Information.
Few Special Rates to Attract
Tourists to East.

The volume of passenger traffic on
the American railroads is a great deal
heavier now than it has been at any
time during the last two years.
to capacity. Locals on the minor
branches are doing a heavy business,
and the main lines and more impor-
rant branches are constantly receiv-
ing an Gbnormally large flow of
traffic.
An unprecedented summer season
for Colorado and other Rocky Noun
tain resorts is expected. A passenger
official of Topeka explains the prob
able heavy business to Colorado along
the following lines:
Big Traffic TO Colorado.
The rates to Colorado are OF
course. considerably higher than the
old season rate of two or three years
ago. But judging from inquiries re-
ceived, and from the early trend of
traffic to Colorado Springs. Denver
and other points. We expect to be
pushed the limit this summer.
The railroad administration has
not placed into effect many special
round trip rates to eastern points, and
that is perhaps why the bulk of the
tourists will seek an outing in the
Rockies rather than the Atlantic sea-
board, or the larger cities in the east
"a year ago 1t was almost impos-
sible to take care of summer tourist
business properly. This year we have
many more cars at our command.
and it looks like we will need them
ALL"
Bureaus Give Information.
The railroad administration has es-
tablished travel bureaus in several of
the principal cities, and these bureaus
offer information to the traveller
about the summer resorts. The travel
bureaus are maintained without dis
elimination for or against particular
railways. The roads themselves are
unable. now that they are under gov
eminent control. to make the proper
solicitation OF tourist business and
the government bureau has under
taken the job of assisting the summer
pleasure and health seeker, and at
the same time render a service to the
railroads
The Rock Island lines. in putting
back into operation trains No. 80 and
40, popularity known as the Colorado
Flyer. have shown what managers of
that road think of the 1919 season in
the Rockies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
What They TELL
All Returned Yanks Asked
About the Same Questions.
Answers Vary, but Many Are
About the Same.
SOME QUESTIONS ARE FOOLISH
OF Course, Heroes Are Glad To
Get Into "Civies."
Very Few Fell in Love With
French Girls.
SOME QUESTIONS ARE FOOLISH

The questions that confront the re-
turned soldier have a smacking of uni
formity that is becoming rather mo-
notonous to the discharged Yank.
A few of them are:
Are glad to get home?'
Certainly he is glad to get home.
Peeling spuds and eating slum is not
to his liking.
Does it feel good to get into your
civies ?''
Easily answered. He likes to pick
his own clothes. and not have them
thrown at, him regardless of size.
Then, too, he enjoys wearing light
buds in the warm months. and heavy
ones when the snow flies.
Love Answers Easy.
Did you fall in love with any
MAIDEN oiselle ?"
There is only one way to reply to
that oft repeated query. The Yank
invariably says that the French
mademoiselles aren't even in the rum
ming. OF course there was Marie, or
Antoinette, way back in Besancon or
LeMans-but then. they were excep-
lions, and do not count any more.
Don't your legs feel funny without
any leggings?"
Not after a few hours In cold
weather, the change might be for the
worse. Now it is for the better.
Were you seasick ?"
If the Yank is truthful. he will ad-
NIT that he was.
How does it feel to be back into
the harness."
Perfectly natural. except that there
is a little itching about the feet. II
will be some time before the restless
ness wears off.
Yes, Many Saw Paris.
did you see PARISH
Yes, or no. The Yank generally
tells the truth here. But If he didn't
see Paris, he will tell you about some
other city just as enlivening as the
capital.
over there?''
If he can do so without blushing,
the Yank remembers seeing Bill at
Brest just before he sailed.
Did you have the cooties?''
That question. and the query about
his experience at the front. are an
swered similarly. II the Yank saw
the front. he had coolies.
do the French girls have big
feet?"
Some of them have and some OF
| them haven't. If the memory of q
! very pretty mademoiselle remains
with the soldier, he will deny it. But
| if she gave him the cold shoulder
and fell for second lieutenant. the
! Yank will say that all the girls OF
France wear No. 10 boots.
Opinions of the British.
What do you think of the Brit
ish %
Thru propa ganda of well suspected
origin. the idea has spread that the
Yanks hate the British. II the sol
| der has really done some observing
he will say the British. particularly
the Canadians and Australians, are o
X. If rationed with the British. he
may have i poor opinion, because ht
| doesn't like the way they feed. A
mans heart can be reached via hi
/ stomach.
| BY the time he has answered these
and a few more. few score Of times
and used his right paw like a pumI
handle. the Yank gets so he reptile:
mechanically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

Of the dogs who are led from the
death chamber into the corral and
shot. Maybe, this dog suffering with
canine melancholia has seen other
members of his race led from his lone
ly cell. has heard the shots and the
agonized yelps of his cell companions
and realizes in his dumb way the fate
awaiting him.
There are a lot of funny things
about this dog business Topeka is talk
ing about these days" said Kilmaurs
King. But how can a person with a
heart come down here and look thru
these bars at these two beautiful dogs
who unknowingly have created the
displeasure of some man or woman
and not have pity for the dog. Sure
ly there is some way better than this
to protect the few flower beds and
white painted posts in Topeka"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

Topeka has a real death chamber
away in a corner to the west of the
City park. 1t is dark and lonesome,
contains no furniture and the food for
those awaiting a speedy end to this
world of trouble and turmoil is scat
tered all over the floor
1t is where the indiscreet Topeka
dogs who may have torn up a few
flowers or caused the displeasure of
man or woman by some other little
act, await their death. Under the
law they are permitted forty-eight
hours behind the damp cement walls
awaiting the arrival of a friend who
will claim them, or if their tax hasn't
been paid someone may enter into an
agreement with the dog catcher to
pay that tax.
The high wooden fence shown in the
picture hides the place of execution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

The good roads campaign steadily
progressed thru Friday. much to old
Dobbin's delight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
They Made Him Cry, saNuff."

Kansas City, No. June 14.-Never
againi So spoke W. P. johnson to
Judge Hall in Independence circuit
court. 1t was his third divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
BANKER BOOM BURSTS
Vandcrlip's Mention for Presidency
Doesn't Interest Washington.

Washington, June 1.-THE incipi-
ent boom of Frank A. Vanderffp for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton created scarcely ripple in Wash
ington. Whether 1t is put out as
feeler by New York financial interests
to see how the country would take
such a suggestion is not known, but
there is no doubt it fell as flat as the
earlier suggestion of Henry P. Davi-
son. former head of the American Red
Cross. in the same connection The
big financial interests have had a very
large part in the government during
the war and the making of peace. but
no evidence has reached Washington
yet of the desire of the people to turn
the government over completely in
time of peace to the financiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

5000 new customers BY July 1.-'-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

= 5000 new customers by July l. -"-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
FIND HOLE IN CITY WELL
No Surface Water Contamination Can
Enter Mains Now.

A hole found in the wall of well
No. 3. the west well. at the city water
plant. has been allowing the entrance
of surface water and contamination.
according to a statement made this
morning by Commissioner Wilbur
Sta nfield
Upon the discovery of the hole
Stsnfield Immediately set a force of
men to work bricking and cementing
up the hole in the wall. This work
was finished Thursday afternoon.
There is no leakage into the well now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
IN ELMDALE CAMP
Boys Work Conference From June Fl
Until August 4.

Leaders in boys work will hold a
state encampment at Elmdale. Kan.
beginning next Tuesday. From June
81 to August 4 this camp will be open
to the boys in the state and the time
divided into To-day periods.
The boys camp, which has been in
session for several days, closed at
noon today and will not open until
June 81. f. NJ. Leaman and G. A.
Raster. of Topeka, are in Elmdale to-
day for the closing day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
CATTLE ARE TAKEN

Broel<er Ranch Reported Missing. =
Persons holding mortgages on 2.sOO
head of cattle on the Lefferdink-
Broker ranch in New Mexico have re-
moved the stock and the cattle have
been sold to satisfy mortgages. This
announcement has been made by Off
Gals in the state house. None of the
cattle has been turned over to the
state to satisfy claims against the Kan
sas State bank of Sa1ina.
More than 1000 acres of Texas and
New Mexico ranch land has been
turned over to the state in the Salina
case. This land, OF course. is held sub
ject to mortgages. but returns from
the project may aid in meeting the
shorta ees of the bank
, 1919-09-12

thecary Store and Establishment and
mere antiIe business in the Town of
Christiansted, that he has empowered
Mr.. A. E. SCHROEDER, at present re
siding in Frederiksted, to sign on his
, 1919-09-12

behalf, per procura, in all matters touch
ing his said lines of business.
The Police Office, Christiapsted, St.
Croix, September 9Th 1919.
D. NOLL.
, 1919-09-12

j. URSUANT to Ordinance of 18th Au-
! gust 1874 il is hereby made known
that | have received announcement from
Mr.. HANS BOJE that he has purchased
The Firm of JEAN SHTERSEN with the
Frederiksted Apothecary Store and estab-
lishment and the mercantile business
heretofore carried on and combined I'M
der said firm; that he will continue the
said Apothecary Store and Establish
ment and mercantile business under
the Firm of JEAN PETERSEN and that
he is sole owner of the firm and the only
one entitled to sign the firm.
Mr.. A. E. SCHROEDER, at present
residi 70 in Frederiksted, is empowered
to sign on behalf Of the firm, per pro-
The Police Office, Frede1iksted, St.
Croix, September 9Th 1919.
D. NCLL.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
-vIcToRY-APRIL 81
WHERE ERNIE STANDS

A dispatch from Washington says:
ernest Lundeen, former pacifist
member of congress from Minneapolis
declared today that he is whatever is
good in bolshevisn. He has offered
his service as counsel for the private
soldiers and sailors legion.
The program of the legion is near
bolshevik. 1t calls for distribution of
agricultural, mineral and timber
land and vacant city lots to discharged
soldiers. sailors and marines, $500 for
each discharged man and repayment
of fines imposed on soldiers by the in
competent and unfit officers courts
martial. Lundeen declared that this
country belongs to the soldiers. The
American congress he warned, had
better listen to the returning soldiers.
The attitude of Lundeen on war and
CONSUMPTION, which was repudiated so
vigorously by his district, remains un-
changed. "If | could have voted a.
gainst the supply bills without depriy-
ing the soldiers and sailors of their
pay, | would have done So" he said.
Lundeen would make first class boil
shevik.-M ankato Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
THE AUTHOR ELIMINATED
.vIcToRY-APRIL 21

Dallas News: When Robert Brown
ing's long ''Sordello" was first pub
lished-it is doubtful if he had the
courage to proof read tit was sub
ject of much discussion among his
literary admirers.
It is said that Tennyson wrote to
him as follows:
My Dear Mr.. Browning: I have just
read your new poem, "Sordello."
could only understand two lines in the
whole poem, and they are both lies.
refer to the first line, which runs,
Segoin- ebmesGhe ;p's Now gan. KID
''Now you shall hear Sorello's story
told" and the last line, which reads
"Now you have heard Sorello's story
told"
What is the story about
The answer of Browning. as report
ed, was as follows:
Ny Dear Mr.. Tennyson: When ]
wrote that poem only two in the uni
verse knew what ! was trying TO get
at. They were God and Robert Brow
iing. Now only God knows.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
WRITES SPRING POETRY-AND
LIVES.

Editors ordinarily have little low.
for poets who write of spring. r.
fact there is supposed to be spe-
cial corner in every editors private
burying ground for spring poets who
have presumed too much on editorial
patience, but there is at least one per-
son who can write spring poetry and
get away with it in safety. That is
LARRY Ho," whose more dignified
''moniker" is Lawrence Hodgson,
Mayor of st. Paul. Here is a recent
effusion on Spring from his pen, I'M
der the title "Waitin".
| o the feet of the morning are dancin'
along
Down the long laughing highway in
ripples of song:
And soon all the world with rev mu-
sic will ring
And so | am waitin'-jest waitin' for
| Spring.
o winter was lovely with nights when
desire
Could dream DER pipe by the bright
kitchen fire,
But the heart of Teller gifts lone
some bit
For the wind in the grass he can
never forgit.
The earth's waking up from the snow
and the cold,
And the sunrise is piling a harvest
of gold;
O the world spruces up as she sprouts
a new wing
And so | am waitin'-jest waitin' for
Spring.
o | long for the open-doored joys of
the sky.
Where the bird and the flower charm
the ear and the eye;
Where the fragrance of clover drifts
over the day,
And turns all my longing to dream
and to play.
Ny heels is just itching, my knees
stretches out
And I ache for a riot of spring and
it's shout;
The old fishin'- pole getting anxious
by jung
So there's two of US waitin'-jest
waitin' for Spring Mankato Re
| wv" ,I,o-1aU n1pu
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
-vIcTORY-APRIL Oh
SOUNDS REASONABLE

1t is quite evident that when
the people of the county once un-
derstand the proposed law under
which the hard surface roads of
the state are to be constructed
there will be practically no objec-
tons. The improvements are to
be paid for out of funds secured
from motor driven vehicles and
not from direct taxation on the
property benefited. And the auto
men in turn will save all they
pay in taxes on their cars in the
saving of gasoline and tires. So
as matter of fact when the pro-
position is well under way, the
Standard Oil company and the
rubber trust will be the ones who
will be the losers.-Mapleton
Enterprise.
Thus it will be seen that the count.
run no risk in goinl
ahead and pushing the work on har,
surface roads. The money expend
ed will all be paid back and the PEG
pie will get the benefit of the i'm
provement a year or two earlier THAI
as though they waited for the adop
ton of the Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
KNOCK THE KNOCKERS
Pv 0ouUIas Fairbanks

How many people have said to
Won today. Il am not going 10
buy any Fifth Liberty Bonds,
and then started in to give you
! lot Of reasons? They com
plain about taxes, and say that
the war is over, and that the
country is no good anyway, ana
and that the Democrats the
wrong. In fact they can give
you any number of reasons;
Where do you suppose they
got-them? From knockers!
Well. knock the knockers.
Every reason we ever had for
buying Liberty Bonds still holds
good. From every angie you
can think Of-investment, patrl-
otism backing up the boys-ey,
erything-still holds good, ana
in addition
Keep your patriotic STATE
cleani
The only thing that ever put
over the first four loans was
the fact that they were backed
by the peoples patriotic support
and enthusiasm. Without these
they would not have stood any
chance of going over, and with
out the peoples support and
and enthusiasm this coming
loan may fail. They are the key
to the success of the loan.
A lot of knockers are trying
to steal that key. They are a
mixture of ignorance, dissentiOn
and seditious propaganda, and
they have done their knocking
SO successfully that they have
got a lot of people who ought to
know better talking their way!
Let's stop them right now!
The next time they try to
steal your support and your pa
triotism, come right back at
'em and show 'em up! Turn the
tables on them! Give them some
of the same medicine the dough-
boys gave the Hunsl Throw
their own arguments back at
them and you can blow them
up with their own stuff.
Don't let anybody get away
with this undetermined criticism
that has so skillfully spread.
And if you can't do anything
else, for Heavens sake, don't
help these people along by tell
ing somebody else what you
have heard just from one of
these knockers.
If u. S. A. is worth living
in. it is worth supporting, and
that means you have got to
support it by buying Fifth Lib
erty Bonds, which are Victory
Bonds. Unlock your patriotic
support and enthusiasm!
Knock the knockers! Buy!
Buy! Buy!
- 4 Z 4 4 K
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
-vIcToRY-APRIL 81

81 have very abiding faith in the
real patriotism of the American peO-
pie, and ] very earnestly believe that
it may be appealed to as long as there
is any necessity for appealing to it;
and am going out into the country to
present these matters to the plain peO
pie and to the people who are not plain
and confidently shall appeal to them
to take a patriotic view of our diff
cuIties,, to help the Treasury and to
help the country to meet the honorable
commitments of the Government. p
Carter Glass.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-16
1T PAYS TO ADVERTISE.

Strasburg, O., is pretty much
a one-horse town. 1t has only
population of LOIS. It's trade
territory is not very large, for it
is bounded on all sides by big
cities, including Cincinnati and
Cleveland. Compared to most of
the little cities in Washington
county it is not much of a place
Carver Brothers store located in
Strasburg in 1915, did business
of $427,735.97. When Mr.. G. A.
Carver, the manager, was invited
over to Cleveland by the AID Club
to tell how he did it, he went.
And he told. His story may all
be summed up in one statement.
"Last year we spent SIS, 360.47,
or 8 1-2 per cent of our sales, for
advertising"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-29

Orange County: There il an unusu,
any heavy orange and grapefruit
oioom. A number Of groves being
sprayed to control scab. Tia live.
S'ock men are planting more feed
crops than ever before. One man
VINO planted ten acres Of corn and
seVenty'five acres Of cabbage last
year Is planting eighty.nve acres to
corn this year. The farmers pur.
chased 24e tons Of nitrate Of soda
nom tho government this year, with !
saving OF sS,7o7. About 30 per cont
Of this was used on citrus groves ius.
before blooming.