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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
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OPTIMISTIC YOUTH.
CHAPTER LXXXI.


On the train 1 spoke of mothers
visit to us, and thanked Everett for
inviting her and dad.
You do not need to thank me.
dear. Your father and mother will
always be welcome in our home. The
reason I did not wish them to come
before, you know did not want you
to appear to a disadvantage; neither
did 1 want them to get the idea that
you were an abused wife because L
couldn't let you do as you pleased in
all things. Your mother was not
keen that I should marry you-be-
cause of my age, SO near her own.
felt sure / could make you happy if
I had time 1 may fail, but you have
learned to handle yourself better, and
shall no.longer be denied the pleasure
of entertaining your own people when
you wish
Thank you, Everett. May I have
Buster and Toodles too, some time ?"
''Of course you may! Any time you
them. 1 shall enjoy having them.
Don't ask them during their school
term. They are at an age when it
is quite necessary their school rou-
tine should not be interrupted. But
ask them in vacation"
That will be nice. 1 am so glad
you like them"
NO one could help liking the lit
tie beggars," which was great praise
from Everett.
Youth would not so often be dis
appointed if youth were not SO OPP
timistic. Because Everett had been
kind, because he had appeared to
good advantage in my home, because
he had shown me attention, 1 built
air castles of what he would do when
we reached our own home again
air castles that crumbled before we
had haeD home an hour
He did not go up to the house with
me, but stopped at the office to look
over the mall 1 asked to be allowed
to wait, but he told me impatiently:
Drive on home, Sandra-I may
be some time"
You will be home for dinner?"
yes"
He was only little late, but as far
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. thompson: 1 have been
going with young man for about
eight months and my folks do mot
like him, and SO they caused trouble
between US. l love him. dearly and it
nearly killed me when my folks broke
us up.
The boy I love does not want me
to go with any other boy, altho we
are not going together. Whenever
he sees me talking to another boy he
says he is going to give him a licking.
one night he saw me with a boy and
the next day he showed me a gun and
told me if he ever saw me talking to
tEat boy. or any boy, he would shoot
him. Do you think he loves me?
iove MIN dearly and cannot forget
him. BROWN EYES.
You are wasting your love on
cave man" lover who disregards law
and wilfully carries a pistol on his
person He should be reported as n
menace to public safety He does not
love you in a noble way or he would
not want to couple your name with
anything SO disgraceful as shooting n
man.
Your parents have your interests at
heart when they refuse to let you as
sociate with such a character. Tell
your father of the threat. He can
take some action so that you will not
endanger other young men to whom
you talk A young girl should be free
to associate with whom she and her
parents think best.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
of nineteen. While at the seashure
this summer I met a young man of
twenty-five, whom / am deeply in
love with and who 1 know recipro-
Gates this love for me.
When we returned to the city we
had quite q. few appointments which
i could not keep on account of my
mother. the reason being that this
young man is of a different religion.
My mother is very narrow minded and
l can't convince her that religion does
not matter.
Kindly advise me what to do. as L
insist upon going about with this fell
low. Whenever / have an engagement
tell my mother that I am going some
place else. ADELE.
THANK You:' You certainly did
the right thing by insisting that you
know the truth. Something must be
wrong with the girls sense of honor
or she could not have lied SO often
and SO readily.
I do not think. however, that you
should have condemned the other
mans character. Do you know abso-
ultely that he is undesirable, or was
Jealousy the cause of your state
ments? 1t Is human nature to be con-
trary. and, after hearing what you
had to say. 1t would be like the girl
TO stand up for the man you attacked.
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SANDRA, THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

as I was concerned he might as we'll
have remained down town. / saw
him, 1 heard him speak when he
wished something. but as far as his
knowing or caring about meas far as
his being company for mel might as
well have been looking at a picture of
him placed in a chair at the foot of the
table: or talking with him over the
long distance telephone where the
service was so bad / had to wait an
uncomfortable time for an answer.
1 asked him if he found everything
at the office all right. He made no
reply Added to the hurt of being ig-
nored was the hurt that he never con-
fided in me "a sny way, that as far as
his affairs went we were strangers.
He had that firm, determined look on
his face all thru dinner that used to
brighten me to speak. but which now
made me fele so shut out.
go to bed early You look, tired"
he remarked as he rose from the ia
Bile.
Are you going out?" cold hand
seemed to clutch my heart as asked
the question. Was he leaving me to
hurry to Irma Barton?
Yes shortly Il may be late"
He kissed me lightly, as if it made no
difference whether he kissed me or
not, 1 thought bitterly as the front
door closed and 1 stumbled up stairs.
scarcely able to see for my tears.
"Oh, Everett, L said aloud when
reached my room. ''I keep thinking
you are going to be different. and you
never are. You just act as if you cared
a little, then as If you didn't care at
ALL"
1t was as have said. The optimism
engendered by his occasional show of
affection, made harder the times like
this when he seemed cold. hard. and
unthoughtfulof me.
I had been SO pleased at our well
come. All the servants. as well as
Mrs. Gray, had seemed so pleased to
see me- 1 felt they must like me to
be so glad to have me back. The din
ner, too, had been an extra effort on
Mrs. Gray's part, and cook had carried
out her instructions faithfully Had
Everett only remained at home with
me, reading or smoking, I would have
been perfectly happy. AS it was, was
perfectly miserable.
(Tomorrow-Sandra is impressed-)
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STRIKES MUST STOP.

The time has arrived when means
should be found for the elimination of
the strike. The League of Nations has
been organized to prevent wars. Why
, can't a way be devised to prevent
strikes?
War is great curse. tho fortunately
it does not occur often. But industrial
warfare is an everyday occurrence.
This is a strike-ridden land. Always
there is concerted idleness on the part
of the workmen somewhere.
The steel industry is now hampered
by a great strike which is slowly
dwindling away. The coal industry is
threatened with another great strike.
The longshoremen in New York have
paralyzed shipping in that harbor by
their strike. The magazines have sus-
pended publication while a dispute in
the printing trades is fought out.
The railroad men are formulating
fresh demands which they are ready
to enforce by brandishing the strike
weapon.
The strike fever spreads. industry is
demoralized by these stoppages
workers everywhere are losing their
wages. and prices are forced still far
ther upward by this enormous eco
nomic loss.
The strike is barbarous and out-of-
date and should be abolished. 1t does
not cure the ills for which it is in
voked. 1t causes untold sufferings
and losses. not only to those who are
actually battling against each other.
but to innocent neutrals who have no
responsibility for the conditions and
no power to change them.
The strike is often attended with
violence and disorder. and always with
loss of earnings to workers and of
profits to employers. Both sides
come out of a prolonged struggle in
a weakened and impoverished condi-
ton, no matter what the settlement.
And usually the public, or a consider
able section of it, suffers almost as
much as the participants in the war
fare.
Both employers and labor unions
should be held responsible to the pub
lie for the losses which it sustains as
the result of strikes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

THE LONE TREE.
All summer long It stood out there
A STRIPPING tree ill-shaped and Door
The field that mothered # seemed bare
AS any wind-swept Scottish moor.
l saw 1t first one sunny day
As / was passing in train
And something in me seemed to say:
There stands tree which grows in
vain"
Behind it were the distant hills
On which were ranged majestic trees.
Surely thought L. this weaklfng fills
No place in natures harmonies.
This is an outcast from it's clan,
Deserted by its its fellow kind,
OF little use To God or man,
And then l dropped II out OF mind
Then came a day in autumn. when
Thee woods with gold seemed all abIaze
l passed along that way again
And turned upon the scene to gaze
There stood tie outcasc. CARRIED Ia red,
Blending its scarlet with the green
No longer poor and gaunt and meant
1t seemed as II some Master Hand
Had rightly placed that lonely tree
Upon that stretch Of barren land
Exactly where 1t ought to be.
The landscape with its spIendors rare
An incomplefed work had been
without that STRIPPING standing there
To splash its scarlet on the scene.
Who, knows. when iife's great tasks are
done.
Bat what the outcasts. mean and base,
Shall. In the scenes we look upon
Find that they also fill a place?
Perhaps as lonely trees they stand
Seemingly lost TO God and man.
Yet spending their days on barren land
To serve the beauty Of His Plan
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
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announced. Mrs. Lowell departed in
search of her pocketboek, which she
habitually mislaid.
Billy turned to Amy. You won't
be reminded of fall any more by that
lid of my sisters" he remarked;
land she won't get another right off,
not if dad has to pay the BILL
BILLY Jones"-Amy looked at him
with suspicious eyes-"what happen
ed to it?"
Il could tell you-but 1 won't. A
fellow'1 do a lot for a girl he likes"
was Billys reply, uttered in a mean
ing voice. Amy smiled upon him
sweetly.
Billy couldn't decide afterward
which reward he appreciated most,
Amy's sugary smile-or the dollar his
mother gave him when she wormed
the truth out of him. But his lean
ing was toward the smile.
Copyright, 1919 by the Mcclure News
pepper. Syndicatel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

1t may become necessary for the
public to organize to protect itself
from the consequences of the unceas-
ing war between organized labor and
organized capital. Capital is organ
lied for self-prcservatiOn. Labor is
organized for self-advancement. But
the unorganized middle-the section
which is the butt. the buffer and the
burden bearer when capital and labor
are contending-has no standing and
no representation. Within this body
are the brain workcrs-the CONNER
cial and trading. the professional and
administrative and managerial classes
and those whose income is derived
from pensions or savings.
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FOLKS WHO THINK OF YOU.

didn't have at least one friend Some
body is always thinking of you-even
tho you may. not be conscious of
it. And the folks who do think of you
are the ones who should spur you on
and make you he everything of which
you are capable.
It's the folks who think of you who
make you.
Perhaps it may be a mother or
father or sister-but someone, sure
~, who loves you and keeps account
on you thru the years
And here is a pretty true statement
folks whom you think of. are usual
ly the folks who think of you. There
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
DINNER STORIES

They had been engaged a week.
DO you believe in dreams?" the
yound man asked
Sure" she replied
We'll, had an awful one last night
dreamed of a coffin and"
"Oh, JIM" she exclaimed chats a
sign that you are going to be mar
ried."
The young man looked at her in be-
wilderment.
IF that's the case" he responded
calamity, Fl wish 1 would dream it
a dozen times"
ST think you're mean" she ex-
claimed. "i'd like to know what on
earth you would do with a dozen
wives. I bet you couldn't manage one
by yourself"
What do you think of that Scotch
soldier and his kilt?''
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
rhe Perpetual Lottery-2.


Men are also told to pick out an
amiable, sweet tempered girl for
wife. but how is a man to do it? All
girls are amiable before marriage.
They have to be. They are on the
husband hunt. and their saccharine
smile is their deadliest weapon.
If a man would believe his observa-
tons he would conclude that all girls
are patient Grizeidas, and that he
couldn't go amiss in picking out any
one of them. Many one does go
upon this insufficient evidence. and
finds out to his CONSERVATION that he
has caught a tartar who has saved up
to say to her husband all the things
she didn't dare to say to her beauX-
And Just as there are no infallible
signs and portents by which man
can tell what sort of a wife woman
will make, neither is there any way
by which a woman can dope out what
sort of a husband a man will be.
A stingy husband is the type of hus-
band a woman most prays to be de-
livered from, but there is no way by
which she can judge whether a man
will have a yale lock on his pocket
book or rot. That he is a lavish
sutton is no sign of fair weather. be-
cause many a man who spends money
like water away from home, is tigntA
Wad at home.
There are plenty of men who open
champagne like princes in restaurants,
who growl over the babys milk bill.
There are men who deck their wives
out like a show window because that
adyertiseS how successful in business
they are, who never give their wives
nickel to spend as they please. Be-
cause a man trots a woman around in
taxis before marriage isn't any in
dication that after marriage he won't
make her walk to save car fare.
All women crave husbands who are
loving and tendep and chivalrous and
romantic, but you can't judge of the
quality of a husbands daily convcrsa-
ton by the line of talk he hands out
in the days of courtship. There are
plenty of men who call their wives.
Angel face" before marriage who
never address them as anything but.
say after the honeymoon has waned.
Alse the husband who is tender and
chivalrous and a glib love maker has
his drawbacks. He is always seeking
a fresh audience.
Nor can a woman be assured that
the man who has been a good son
will make a good husband. Generally.
| he makes the most aggravating of hus-
| bands, because he is always telling
/ his wife about how mother does
| things. ana forcing mothers bread and
mothers pie down her throat.
| No, there is no way to make matri-
mony silt edge investment. 1t is
the eternal lottery. That's why we all
take chance on it.
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isn't very much beyond human COM
partnership, when it comes to measur-
ing values Material possessions crum-
BILE and the finest works of art or of
time, inanimate tho wonderful, can
not express to you their feeling.
. It's the folks who think of YOU that
bring you happiness and success and
position.
And these are the people who de-
serve all that you can give to them.
1t is to them that you can give your
thoughts, your feelings, your fellow
ship. and such generous measure of
your success as you are able.
have often wondered what kind of
a world this would be if we did not
have folks who thought Of us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

Frank Bertram, a well known actor,
tells the following story:
Il was playing at Leicester during
the fair week, and in the market place
there were several merry-go-rounds.
Il noticed one melancholy indiYid-
ual, who. despite the fact that he was
apparently suffering greatly, persisted
in riding on one of the merry-go-
rounds. -
Eventually I spoke to him and
asked him if he liked it.
1.-The man replied: No, I don't like
it a bit: the blamed thing makes me
ILL.,
'I then asked him why he persisted
in riding, and his reply was: L can't
help it. The man who owns this
roundabout owes me money and the
only way I can get even is by taking
it out in rides"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

1t appears now that the friends of
Jenkins paid the $4,000 demanded
for his release by his abductors. It
was hardly expected that the Mexican
government would pay it. 1t is an
nouneed that the United States will
look to Mexico to reimburse Jenkins's
friends. Probably Uncle Sam will con-
tinue to look. with the same result
that has followed the demand that
Mexico salute the Stars and Stripes,
which she insulted several years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit
Pancakes Syrup
Small Sausages Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Beef on Toast
Pineapple and Cheese Salad
waters Hot Chocolate
DINNER
Cream of Corn Soup
Hamburg Steak Tomato Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Radishes
cocoauut Pudding
Coffee.
Salmon Loaf-One egg, one can sai.
mon, one cup n.ashed potatoes. one
half cup milk, juice one lemon. one
tablespoon melted butter. salt. pepper.
Bake thirty minutes in a moderate
oven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

President Wilson has taken issue
with the United Mine Workers of
America on the question of the end
OF the war. The president holds that
the war has not yet been brought to
a close. The miners take the oppo-
site view. But if the war is over now
it was over the 18th of last Novem-
Der. Why. then. have the miners waited
a year to declare their contract void i?
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON

The Rural Resort.
Ez Binks found that farmin' is not So
blamed charmin' and that it's NOT
A man may stay healthy and slowly grow
wealthy, but there's too much WORK
mixed in 1t.
schemin' to find a way to get rich
quick.
For arduous toiIin' when weather was boil
in made him good and properly sick.
The neighbor derided, but Ezra decided us
how he might jes' bout as well
Stop work atogether hfe hot
The old farm he, altered and he never fall
tered wheni figgerin' on theaexpense.
He spent almost fifty TO make it nifty
.resort and results were immense.
New Ez n meiler and comical felier-
n great entertainer rs well,
1t seemed like pity how folks from the
city and folks that seemed purity
blamed swell
that were funny and rooms that wer1
stuffy and small.
But they kept arrfvin' and lsz kept a
thrivin': twas crowded from spring
until fall.
No one made a boiler when he charged n
dollar for one e-ass of nearly ICED
They seemed to be wiIIin' to pay fifteen
shillin' a night for cot meath a
tree.
New liz has a million. he hopes for bill
lion: he'll get ii Mt his present rate.
His wealth is increasn' and he is still
fleecin' the folks who think they re
up-to-date.
Pittsburgh minister says he would
rather see the women going about the
streets nude than dressed the way they
now are. Well, maybe he would at
that.
Many a young man goes away to
college to get a liberal education while
his old man stays at home and gets an
education in liberality.
Well if they do prohibit tobacco we
can still smoke the same sort of cigars
we have been getting since the war
started.
Friends.
In prosperous days
l lert to Bill Higgins,
john PAWS, Jim Mays.
Tim Hale and Cal Virgins
And now while I'm down
While they're up in the land,
They GIVE me frown
But won't LEND me a hand,
IT r. f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

Senator Johnsons amendment to
the peace treaty has been rejected as
everybody, including the senator him
self. know it would be. But it has
served its purpose. that of advertis-
ing Johnson and at the same time
delaying action on the treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

The president of the United Mine
Workers says it would be a physical
impossibility now to stop the strike by
November l. Following this, he de-
clares that the controversy could be
ended in three days if the operators
would come to the miners terms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

Senator Borah expresses the fear
that in handling the miners strike the
militia may be used to ''decimate the
people" Apparently he would prefer
to have the people decimated by cold
and starvation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

The time the law of supply and
demand never fails, says theSDetroit
News, is when the price of something
on the hoof has dropped. You de-
mand from your meat dealer an ex-
planation OF why the retail price hasn't
dropped and his supply of alibis is in
eahaustfble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

Retail meat dealers appear not to
have heard that there has been a drop
of $40 hundred in the price of hogs.
If there had been an advance of $40,
they would have heard of 1t at once
and would have acted on the informa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

While employers and employees are
wrangling over the division of the
proceeds of industry, the country is
rapidly approaching the point where
there will be nothing to divide. How
will either mine operators or mine
workers obtain a living out OF idle
mines?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
ADAM AND EVE.

ADAM AND EVE.
Adam and Eva had no father
Or mother or other relations,
Wich proves that everything has to
have a start
Before it gets envy variations.
Adam was the ferst persin in the
world
OF eny size or gender,
And he sed, II don't see eny shoe
stores,
Wat of it? My feet amt TENDER
Eve was the End 'persin in the werld
And the ferSt you could call Madam,
And she sed, Its a wonder I'm so
comfortable.
Being made from a rib out of
ADAM
And they went and married each
other.
Because there was nobody elts err
round,
And for a vile they was petfeekly
happy,
And they both felt safe and sound.
They lived in the Gardin of Eden
Ware all the wild beests was tame,
And their house was short and ven
tilated,
And the clothes they wore was the
same.
Then Eve went and ate u appel,
WITCH was strickly not allowed,
And jest for that they was both put
out,
Wawking fast but proud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

1t may have been noted that Willie
HohenzOllern postponed his visit to his
fathers home until wood enough for
the winter had been chopped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29

Probably nowhere outside of Okla
homa could a man have been found
willing to finance that attack on Sen
ator Reed with a shower OF eggs
Oklahoma people are notably lavish in
the use of their money.