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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-20
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
about rs years old and have Kept
company with a very fine fellow flor
two years We are engaged toi be
married. 1 want to get married next
June and 1 am willing to put up with
all kinds of inconvenience in order
to get married. We both have money
and so that will make no difference.
He wants to start business first or
else get a home and settle down.
Kindly advise me.
SUBSCRIBER.
I should judge from your letter
that you want advice about marrying
in June. Personally l do not believe
in long engagements. The late hours
which usually accompany engage
ments are bad for both parties. From
the standpoint of the two drifting
apart, however, a long engagement is
a good thing because time is a great
test of love. If love is going to die,
it is best to know before marriage.
AS long as you have enough money
to live comfortably, 1 see no reason
why you should not marry in June.
Perhaps you do not realize what a
great deal of money it takes to live
comfortably and your fiance does. In
this case he should not be persuaded
to assume responsibilities which will
be too heavy.
Dear Mrs Thompson: % We are
two girls eighteen years of age and
have been going with two fellows.
One is twenty-one and the other
twenty EIGHT. Are these fellows too
old for us?
co We are deeply in love with
these boys. How can we find out if
they return our affection? If they
return our affection, why don't they
call us pet names?
AUBURN TWINS.
% The young man of twenty one
is not too old. but the other young
man is too old for girls of your age.
90 If the young men return your
affections they will make it evident
by their actions and their speech. All
men do not show their affection by
the use of pet names
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-20

Some ma was painting the frunt of
a house this aftirnoon, being a long
fat man and short house with q
portch, me watching him and Won
dering how 1 would like to be q
painter and get different colored spots
all over my overhalls without caring
a darn, and after a vile L sed, Are
you going to paint the back of the
house. too, or is it painted allreddy, or
don't it need it?
No, no, yes, sed the man. Meening
he wasent going to paint. and it was
ent painted allreddy, but 1t needed il.
And he kepp on painting with un-
satisfied Impression as if he would
painter, and prity soon I sed, Do
you like being a painter, have you
bin one all your life?
No, yes, sed the man. Meening he
dident and he had. Being Jest the
way he looked, and 1 watched him an
to put up a Watch Out Wet Paint
sine wen you go or amt you got one
and If you don't put one up how will
people know to be careful?
Wares my dog? Did you see a 5
legged dog GROUND enywares? sed the
man.
No, l sed, has yours got s?
Yes. take little run erround the
corner ana get him for me. will you
sed the man.
Watts his name? l sed, and the man
sed. Jest call him Five.
And 1 ran Ground the corner and
there wasent eny kind of a dog there,
and looked up the alley calling, Heer
Five. heer Five, without enything hap
pening and / asked 2-men, one saving
he hadent saw enything but a legged
COW and the other saying he had ony
saw ! 6 legged horse. Proving they
| dident think there was eny sutch thing
| as legged dog, witch maybe there
Wasent. SO 1 went back to tell the
| painter and heer he wasent there eny
more me thinking, G, he jest did that
| to get rid of me-
Wich he proberly did.
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houses-so powerful are they. But as
l watched them and realized their ire
mendous power. 1 have said to myself,
"A great deal of this power of onward
ness comes from the fact that-they
carry their own track with them"
Nearly every one of our days pesents
some sort of emergency. And we
never quite know when the big
emergency is going to show up. This
presents another reason why we
should be ready with our own track, to
travel the pace to evey victory of
which we are capable.
But keep your track in good repair
For tank would be useless If its track
should become disabled. just the same
as svhen you get off your own track.
you are going to prove yourself vey
helpless indeed.
Let us learn something from every
thing. Try TO keep your eyes open and
your mind working toward this end
a1wayfc And il you ever see tank or
a picture of a tank, think about the
lesson that it teaches.
Carry your own track with you'll
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MY HUSBAND AND |
nv JANE, PHEJPs
BY JANE PHELPS

the receiver effectually prevented my
saying more. My eyes filled again at
his tone, yet / also experienced a feel
ing of relief. I would have to make
no explanations. and I could talk
alone with Mr.. Frederick.
1 had not decided to confide in him.
Really 1 thought 1 would say nothing
of my awakened doubts of-not Neil,
but his business methods. I would
just chat of impersonal things. and
forget 1 was unhappy.
He came promptly, and seemed so
glad to see me, he held my hands in
his so warmly, that l had all l could
do not to again burst into tears. 1
was SO nervous. upset because of my
worry, my sleepless night, Neil's man
ner toward me. and my fear that l
should not be able to make him I'M
rderstand my motives. So the hearty
greeting of this great-hearted bluff
Westerner, touched me deeply.
Fortunately luncheon was all ready
and we Immediately sat down. 1 told
him Neil had a previous engagement
SO could not join us. I'm fact, he was
in such hurry 1 did not have time
to tell him you were to be here" L
told him, then blushed to think he
might imagine l didn't wish Neil to
know since he would not join US
Il can understand that, he has been
away has he not? I saw his name in
Chicago paper as guest at one of
the hotels"
Yes, he only came home last
night" 1 replied, then we chatted of
ourselves. He told me of much he
had done, where he had been. He ad-
mfred the new furnishings. and / ex-
planned that L also had veen very busy
had almost forgotten that 1 Ionged
to tell him my suspicious. almost for
got that Neil was angry with me, so
pleasantly did the time pass But af-
ter we had finished luncheon and we
were slipping coffee in the library, all
my anxious thoughts returned to me-
The cause, g question he asked:
You have been crying, little lady.
May 1 ask if you are in trouble and
If you are. is it anything can help
you bear?"
Tomorrow - Mr. Frederick cannot
give Barbara much comfort)
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR.
CHAPTER LXVIII.

went bitterly after Neil had gone.
For over an hour l cried and sobbed
before 1 could reason myself into
calmness Then 1 bathed my swollen
eyes and wondered how l should ever
get thru the day. Neil had been SO
disagreeable, he might be still more
so when he found out that had made
a second visit to his office asking to
look at his letters. l could set myself
at nothing. Even my boy annoyed
me with his childish questions, usual
" so interesting. l had just about
decided to order the car and take him
with me for company. and ride out
into the country, when the telephone
rang.
Hello" a masculine voice called,
At should like to speak to Mrs
Forbes"
81 am Mrs. Forbes"
This is Mr.. Frederick speaking. 1
just got in and found your telephone
number in my box with a request to
call. You are in no trouble, I hope ?"
real anxiety in his voice.
"No-not anything much-I am
glad to hear your voice. Won't you
run up and lunch with me? I will call
Neil and ask him to come home"
81 shall be delighted to come. One
o'clock
"Yes-1 o'clock"
I Immediately called Neil. Not I'M
III Idu nm Ch INC WI Nio INN
he might wonder why NJ Frederick
should come up to luncheon with me,
instead of remaining down town with
him, as he often did. neither did l
think that it might. look queer to Neil
that Mr.. Frederick had called me up.
What is it?' he asked shortly.
had told the operator who was.
Cant you come home to lunch,
Neil? / have'-
I was about TO say, 'T have asked
Mr.. Frederick" when he interrupted
me gruffly:
mo 1 can't! I am going elsewhere
to luncheon. Goodbyei" The click of
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TEACHERS, UNIONS.

School teachers have Jagged behind
other wage and salary earners in the
matter of organization for mutual
benefit, but recently they seem to have
determined to do so no longer. The
American Federation of Teachers. an
organization affiliated with both the
American Federation of Labor and the
National Women's Trade Union
league, has chartered since its forma-
ton a total of seventy local unions in
the various states.
Relief from the present inadequate
salary scale of teachers. which in the
whole United States averages 5000 per
year, with thousands receiving only
$500 and $500 per year, is announced
as one of the principal aims of the new
organization.
Already, it is claimed, gratifying re-
suits have been achieved by means of
the teachers affiliation with the or
ganized-labor movement. In New
York, with the assistance of the New
York State Federation of Labor. the
passage of a bill in the legislature
has been obtained allowing an average
advance of 800 per year in the pay of
teachers.
The teachers unions in Washing
ton have, within the past two years.
obtained congressional action raising
their minimum salary from $500 to
$3.50 per year. After July / they will
also share in the $240 increase OBJ
tanned for all government employees by
the National Federation of Federal
Employees, with the teachers cooper
ating.
a local in Madison, Wis, which is
less than six months old, by taking
active part in the local primaries and
election, elected a nonpartisan board
of education, and SO impressed itself
upon the community that the retiring
board granted an annual increase of
$3.50 to the teachers before it's term
of office expired.
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INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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Offered the unlimited use Of the largest IN
formation bureau i'll the world.
This Service Bureau is located in the ma =
tional capital, where it is in immediate
touch with all the great resources OF the
United States government.
1t can answer practically any question
SOU want to ask, butt can't give ad-
vice, nor make exhaustive research.
The war forced so many changes in the
.haily life Of the American people that the
Services of this information bureau VIII be
Invaluable to all who use 1t.
Keep IN touch with your government at
all times. 1t can help you in thousand
ways If your wants are only made known.
The State journal pays for this splendid
Service in order that every one of its read
ers may take free advantage of it. You are
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l. Write your request briefly, sign your
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
An Anchor to the Windward-2.

OF course such women say that
woman who is cooking and sewing
and baby tending has no time to study
a profession on the side. That is true.
But what she overlooks is the. tact
that she was apprenticed to the most
profitable trade in the world for wo-
men-a trade whose experts are In
universal demand-and that she was
so stupid. so trifling so shiftless that
she never learned it we'll enough TO
turn out even a half way decent JOB
Or else she would not have to be ask
ing people what she should do to sup
port her children and herself. She
would simply turn he skilled hand to
her own craft, and have to ask charity
of no one
Why the woman who knows that
she must some day make her own lv-
ing does not see ths-t housewifery is
one of the most lucrative professions
that any woman can follow, and why
every woman who has a house does
not perceive that in making herself an
expert cook and judge OF foods, and
crackerjack manager, who IAN run
things on schedule. and extract the
last penny of value out of what she
buys, she Is acquiring the best Of all
trades, is something that passes COM
prehenSion.
ANY woman who can read can ac-
quire all the arts of a chef. No woman
hthan her own kitchen. No domestic
science university can teach woman
as much about how to buy meats and
vegetables and stop waste rs her own
practical experience will 1t is simply
up to the individual woman whether
she will turn herself into a pSofes-
sional housekeeper, who can practice
housewifery as a gainful occupation,
| or whether she will keep on doing II
| in an amateurish hit-or-misS way that
will lose money instead of making
| it, as every ill-conducted business
does
The woman who turns housewifery
| into a profession not only conseryes
| the health and money of her family
| but she has d memory making occu-
| patton right in her hand to which she
! can turn in her hour of need, for there
way in which women can so surely
and easily make a living as by keep
| ing the despised boarding house.
This is proven by the fact that every
woman who has ever run one on any
sort of business basis, who has set &
good table. given good service, ant
| looked after the leaks. has made 6
| fortune, While millions of incompetent
! lazy women who leave servants t.
waste and steal and who never have {
really well cooked meal on their table!
| still manage to make living out o.
| the occupation.
Therefore, ladies. look not on You
| daily work as mere drudgery, to bt
| accomplished in the most haphazarC
| way that you can perform it. Loci
upon it as a high art that will reward
your devotion to it by providing yot
with a good, warm shelter when YOU
| rainy day comes.
AT Is
| copyrighted. 1919. by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inca
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THE SIMPLER SUCCESS,

THE SIMPLER SUCCESS.
I'm not denying that it's fine
To claim the gold that's in a mine
Or make some needed thing well
That for a profit it will sell.
In every sort of world success
There lies q lot of happiness.
But this is something that l know
It's fun to see the roses grow.
There are successes other than
The sort which brings great wealth to man
Not all the joy not all delight
Are born of feats of skill and might,
And some who never rise to claim
The splendOr of undying fame
And lived their share of happy days.
Some find their happiness in gold.
And some in deeds of conquest bold;
Some find 1t in uncharted seas:
Some in the fellowship of trees:
Some in the blossoms of the rose
Attain the joy the rich man knows,
And 4by that road to happiness
Achieve the summit of success.
Who breaks the ground with spade and hoe
Is thrilled to see the roses grow;
To him the tender buds of spring
Untold delight and gladness bring,
And in the beauty blooming there
He's well repaid for all his care.
Success is not alone in gold.
Sometimes in humble things it's told
Copyright 1910 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-20
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

May 20. 1894.
The meeting of the employees of the San
ia Fe shops at Trades Assembly hall Sat
urday afternoon to make final arrange
ments about the excursion was well at
tended. =. f. Cook presided and Secretary
Fred Lyman presented his reports from
the different park associations IT was
decided that the excursion would take
place on Saturday, June o. and IL would
be to Lake Contrary. st. Joseph, Mo. At
least three special trains will be required
for the party.
Topeka firm has finished large crayon
pictures of Mary f. Lease and Governor
l.. ID. Lewelling, which will be placed
in the State Historical society room.
Misses Ida and Anna Umpleby have re-
turned from trip thru Colorado and 9TH
er western states.
Misses Mabel and Helen Curry will at-
tend the Kappa Kappa Gamma party in
Lawrence Friday night.
NJ. and Mrs. A. Marburg have returned
from an extended visit to Germany
Miss Louise Kimmerly will come nm
from Herington next week TO attend TIC
high school commencement.
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A PRESSING PROBLEM.

The most important problem to
come before congress at the present
session is that of the railroads The
situation of this vast interest requires
Immediate attention. 1t represents
about 100000, 100000 of capital and
approximately one-tenth of our ma
tional wealth. Were it not for the fact
that they are backed by the United
States treasury. says Henry Clews in
his Financial Review, the railroads
would be in a bad way, which is really
not the fault of the railroads them
selves or the lack of freight business.
Before the war the drift was seen
and when the stress of mobilization
was added their breakdown was to be
expected. The war has only made
their position worse thru a heavy in
crease of expenses. which raised oper-
ating costs to the ruinous ratio of al
most SO per cent.
In the year before the war. under
private management, gross earnings
were $S11. 100000 and net $214,O0O,-
600; while this year. under govern
ment management, the net was only
1913, 500, 600. tho gross mounted to ST.
100. 100000. Government regulation
has proved unsuccessful financially;
while railroad efficiency fell to the
lowest standards in many years, not
withstanding largely increased rates.
Added to this is the physical deteriora-
ton of the roads, aggravated by war,
which will call for heavy OUTLAWS in re-
pairs.
Congress may take early action in
restoring the roads to their owners,
which according to promise the gov
eminent must do in as good condition
as when taken over. The railroads
will in due season be put on their feet
and their general status strengthened.
The lesson, continues Mr.. Clews, has a
close bearing upon the efforts to bring
other public utilities. such as wire
service, under public ownership. II
has been proved very effectually that
private enterprise. with all its faults
gives better and cheaper service than
the government. which almost invaria-
bly, compels the taxpayer to pay the
| losses.
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Now is a good time to go into Mex
leo. as we have done in Santo Do
minso, take control of her affairs and
manage them until it has been demon
strated that she is able to maintain a
respectable government herself We
have large army of highly trained
soldiery, many of whom doubtless
would volunteer for service in Mex
leo. We have a huge motor transport
tation equipment, plenty of airplanes
with trained pilots, ample artillery, RI
files and tanks for use in any expedi-
ton that might be undertaken. Our
military storehouses are stacked with
supplies of every kind for such VEN
ture. 1t is evident that the job could
be done quickly. thoroly and at a
minimum expense in money. and lives
Why not recognize the inevitable and
attend to the business while we have
the means at hand? A large ma jority
of the people of Mexico axe anxious
to live respectable lives and earn their
living, which they are entirely pre-
vented from doing by the outlaw bands
that rove the country. Asa result.
disease and starvation are killing them
like flies. The United States owes it 10
humanity to step in and give those
poor people the right to productive
employment that has been so long de-
MED them. 1t is not unlikely that the
whole thing could be accomplished
without a fight.
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II the cost of materials is not to be
appreciably lower and labor has been
placed permanently on a higher basis
while the demand for both city and
country homes is far in excess of the
supply, just why should there be any
reason for longer delay. in a general
campaign of building? 1t is evidently
the man with capital, large or small
says Architecture" who is hard to
convince that there is no use in wait
ing. There would appear to be ample
and convincing arguments at hand,
available to the architect, for proving
the fallacy and the wastefulness of
losing the present opportunities while
waiting for a problematical future. for
return to prices that all authorities
unite in saying can never come again.
New York, and practically every large
city in the country. is confronted with
rent strikes with open rebellion
against what they consider rent boost
ers. to which the owner of property re-
plies that it is only question of sup
ply and demand, selling to the highest
bidder. Apparently the only antidote
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to this condition is the immediate
building of places where people can
live. AS rents have gone soaring,
there is no place left for the family of
moderate means. the kind that usual
ly pays it's rent and looks upon the
small house or apartment as a home.
If private capital do not see its way
to go on with this crying need for
homes, it is not at all unlikely that
the matter will become inevitably a
question of municipal undertaking.
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Every employe of Swift & Company
is to be given an opportunity to be-
ecme a partner in the business, ac-
ccrding to an announcement made by
officials of the company. Distribution
Of o portion of the stock now held in
the company's treasury is to be made
at par to every employe who has been
OIL the payroll for six months. There
has been widespread agitation in ia
vor of a system by which workers
might share in the profits according to
their employers. The Swift plan prob
ably will prove as satisfactory as any.
While the demand that employees be
given a share in the profits of the in
dustries in which they are employed
has been insistent, nothing has been
s1id about sharing in the losses. The
employer takes all the risk apd fur
nishes all the capital. While his bust
ness prospers the profit sharing plan,
however arranged, should prove salts
factory. But should adverse condi-
lions change profits to losses there
would be nobody with whom to share
them If the employer of labor
should attempt to restore the balance
by reducing wages he probably would
be met with strike. The successful
business man sets aside a portion of
his profits TO meet possible adverse
business conditions. About all the
average workman lays up for this
purpose is what he pays into the fund
OF his union.
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CARRY YOUR OWN TRACK WITH
YOU,

1 have been very much impressed as
1 have watched the tanks produced by
the great world war. 1t is not evid emit
to everyone at once that these big,
clumsy machines carry their own
track with them. But each one does.
1 am thinking that if each one of
US always carried his track with him,
he would travel at a better pace. So
many of us wander around without
any track at all that we fail to get very
far.
Also. a great many people depend
upon using someone else's track over
which to move their own personal ma
chine. And a great many people think
that SO long as they furnish the en-
CINE. that some one else ought to fur
nish the track. Which Is not exactly
logical, either.
We can learn great deal from the
big tanks. 1 have seen them in NOV
ing pictures going right over trees.
entertainments, and even going thru
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mine" he cried as he kissed her again
and again. THE lawyers haven't come
yet; let's start all over again"
'Geralds story seemed so real" she
sobbed.
TOO real" he laughed, with an eff
fort to shake off the feeling of de-
preston that had crept over him.
He led me in here to >read it over
your shoulder He's a clever kid I
think I'll give him that chance he
wants in our fiction department"
You darlingi" Edith smothered
further promises with kisses.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)