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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

worrying about the ordinary private
who not only provided for his wife
and paid his life insurance, but made
an allotment to his mother. What did
he get out of it? When asked this
question, one soldier replied that
there were only two ways to spend
money in camp-at the canteen and
at the poker table. So by not having
any money to spend. he said. both his
digestion and character remained I'M
impaired.
One of the most interesting forms
of allotments handled by the finance
division of the war department are
those for liberty bonds. When the
second liberty loan was launched
somebody conceived the idea of per-
! hitting soldiers to buy bonds on the
monthly allotment basis, but the gov
eminent lacked authority to put over
such a proposition
The Federal Reserve bank of New
agreed to lend the money to the SOL
diers. who were to pay it back in
monthly installmepts thru the finance
division. Accordingly bond-selling
squads toured the training camps and
sold bonds to $4,000 men. Unfortu-
nately. this loan was staged before
| the war risk insurance laws were en-
acted, so that many men bought
| bonds who were later forced to give
| them up because they could not keep
up the payments on them and have in
| surance too.
For this reason, the third liberty
| loan was restricted to men who had
come into the army after the second
| loan. As result. the number of sub
scribers fell to $1,000. This time the
money was put up by the government
| the necessary authority having been
| discovered by the secretary of the
| treasury. Otherwise. it could not have
| been opened to thu army on the allot-
fRent plan, because the Federal Re-
serve bank was heartily tired of Its
end of the transaction and bitterly re-
| GREETED ever having loaned the money
for the second bonds to the army. Ii
did not object to loaning the money
/ but it did resent the thousands of let
/ ters it afterward received from bond
holders all over the country, inQuiring
about the terms of payment and other
matters-letters that were to have
| been attended to by the army
! The fourth liberty loan bonds were
also sold to the army by the treasury
even larger subscription than for the
| second loan, $4,000 soldiers buying
! bonds up to the value of s38. 100000
The majority of these are still unpaid
for and are on the allotment books OF
| the finance division. Others are al
i ready in the hands of their owners
Still others are being promptly deliv-
cred to the returned soldiers who con-
stantly pour into the liberty loan
branch of the finance division, and
make out affidavits that they have
paid for bonds and have not received
| them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
IN THE BEGINNING.
NII PsEE u
CHAPTER 1.

was born in little mid-western
town, and had lived there all my life
My home was a long, narrow, white
building shaped a good deal like the
toy Noah's arks they sell to an1use
children. There was a small, unpre-
tending entrance. which opened into a
shallow hall. The interior was as
unpretentious as the entrance. yet 1t
was in every way comfortable
The house was set almost in the
center of a large lawn C'yard, We
called it, In the season 1t was filled
with flowers of all kinds. in not very
symmetrical beds, and in borders along
the walks that led both to the front
and back door. Then there were flow
ering shrubs and bushes set down hap
hazard. and several large trees. When
everything was in bloom It was a very
attractive looking place. But In the
late fall and winter when the wind
whistled thru the shrubs and rocked
the giant branches of the trees, strip
ped naked of their summer dress. the
long, low white house had rather a
pathetic look. I hated the winter. 1t
was always so unattractive in Hunt
ington. where many of the houses were
almost a replica of the one in which
we lived. and where the streets so
beautifully shaded in summer by the
interlaced shade trees, were bleak and
unattarcitve because OF the bare
trunks and branches OF those same
trees.
I used to think tht there could be
no other place In the world where the
wind howled and groaned. as if in
agony, as it did in Huntington. But
as my experiences afield had been
only to neighboring towns, / was per-
haps incapable of judging. Yet now
after years of city living 1 still shud-
der when think of the way the wind
whistIed and moaned thru the trees
and shrubs in my old home.
Father kept a small store. We new
er knew what it was to really want
for anything: yet mother couI.ed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worid's Highest PaiA Woman Writer.

Don't Call Attention to Your Faults
Hence. the average husband is con-
tent until wife herself wales him up
out of his complaoency, and shows
him what a poor. feeble faulty crea-
ture he tied up with.
1t is curious that women do not
appreciate how dangerous it is for
them to institute comparisons between
their own weaknesses and other wom-
ems strength. No woman can COM
plain that she isn't a splendid cook
like Mrs. A, or that she doesn't know
how to get the value out of a dollar
as Mrs. B does, or that she cannot
manage her children as Mrs. c does
without making her husband feel that
A and B and C have drawn luckier
numbers in the matrimonial lotttly
than he has.
Yet, left to his own devices, he
would never have discovered but his
own choice was entirely satisfa Glory.
A still more fatal mistake do wives
make when they call their husbands
attention to their waning beauty. The
very first time that many a man no
tees that his wife is growing fat and
old and that her hair is not all her
own and her complexion is camouhage
is when she begins to grow jealous Of
girls young enough to be her daugJ1-
ter, and to worry about losing his
affection.
The poor. dear man had never OBJ
served that his wife was going off IN
her looks until she pointed it out to
him. When he thought of her he
pictured her as the sw setheart he had
wooed and won, and he rad never
really taken a critical luok at her
until she had focused his gaze upon
her. Then he saw the ra ageG of time
which he never would have observed
If she had not directed his eyes to
them.
All of which emphasizes the Wis
dom of a wife blowing a trumpet
about about her virtues. but putting
the soft pedal on ner faults in roe
family circle. Let her celebrate her
thrift when she makes u good bargain
but keep mum as .he grave about
those injudicious purchases that she
makes in the deliriuIn CT a marked
down sale. Let her rraisc and give
honor to herself when her cake Is
angels food. But lei her chuck it
into the garbage can and say nothing
when her baking is HAT and sad and
sour. When she burrs the gravy let
her not weep salt tears into 1t. but
douse 1t with the contents of the con-
diment shelf and ofYc: Il to her lord
as a new sauce.
So she shall have honor with Ter
husband, and be exalted by him, for
as a wife esteems herself SO does
her husband esteem her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
THE CASE IN A NUTSHELL.

In all of the mass of discussion rel
alive to the future military policy of
this country there are two phrases
which are used seemingly with the
understanding that they are inter
changeable, whereas. as a matter of
fact, tho related. they express two
distinctly different ideas. We refer
to the phrases Universal Service"
and Universal Training" Further,
a careful reading of the various edi-
torials on this subject bear out the
belief that this confusion of usage has
resulted in confusion of ideas.
What then is the meaning of the
two phrases? Universal Service" is
an existing fact which does not admit
of dispute or argument. 1t is the re-
tsultant Obligation of the benefits of
citizenship and can be escaped in but
lone way, granted physical fitness, and
that is by remuneration of citizenship.
If this were not a recognized national
obligation there would be no basis of
legality in such legislation as the re-
cent draft. Whether or not we be-
ilieve in Universal Service" is there
and statement against it is a state
ment of antinationalism.
We are left then with the PROPOSE
ton covered by the phrase "Univer-
sal Training" That can comprehend
but one thing and that is a nation
wide preparation. Granted the exist
.ence of the universal obligation to
sserve, the discussion resolves itself
Unto this-shali we as a nation pre-
pare ourselves to fulfill this obliga-
ition before the necessity arises or
shall we wait until the national peril
demands our service before we fit
Yourselves to do our duty.
Who would dispute that it is wise
to learn to read before the exact time
comes that we find something we wish
to read; who is there who would dis
quite that the farmer should gain a
knowledge of farming before he seeks
to wrest from nature living; who is
there who disputes that fire fighting
apparatus should be secured and held
in readiness for use before the fire
in of the alarm the signal for the
opening of bids for hose and engines;
who is there who disputes the wisdom
of fitting ourselves to fulfill our ma
&ional obligation to serve our country
before she is attacked instead of wait
ing till war is declared?
There may, and properly so, be diff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

a few of our statesmen appear to
fear that the league of nations con-
stitution is fraught with danger to the
liberty and welfare of the American
people. But similar opposition to the
federal constitution developed at the
time it was submitted to the states for
ratification. 1t served for many years
before any serious attempt was made
to disrupt the compact. Probably
there will never be another similar
attempt. The Civil war not only
taught our people a lesson but the
whole world as well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K MOuLroN

Splash.
Just, as the rain began falling the
happy couple, led by the minister.
marched into the presence of the as
sembled guests. to the strains of the
wedding march, played by Mrs. Par
sons on the guitar, and as the pastor
spoke the beautiful and impressive
ceremony that united their two lives
in one, the heavens opened and
poured down a flood of blessing on
this union of home-making. and az
forded an appropriate setting to
abundantly launch their canoe on the
beautiful river of life.-Oberlin
(Kan.) Herald.
Detroit woman wants divorce
from her husband because he spanked
her with a hairbrush. News Item.
From whom do Detroit women usual
ly get their divorces and with what
would they rather be spanked?
r. X. M.-How do you pronounce
"bourgeoise ?''-Evelyn.
We don't.
His 1919 "Sccnery."
The male of the species. the vain,
handsome brute, who'd pose as mod
ish sartorial 'beaut," must list Dame
Fashion, tyrannical rogue, and go to
tight toys if he'd follow the vogue.
This fina1-word mandate comes out
of the East, where the tailors de luxe
have been holding a feast. They say
that male persons-the he-men and all
for curve showing, form-fitting gar
ments must fall; that the cool flannel
clothing of summer must go. because
it's p1ebeian and comfy, you know.
It's place will be taken by silk--save
the mark.-fine linens, and delicate
buds. light and dark. oh. can you
imagine a MAN dressed like that. and
not want to fan his bazoo with a bat?
To lat i'm ms a
be loath. Shouldst kiss him or kill
him instanter. or both? Fen the bust
ness-man suit, known to fame as the
sack, must cling to the waist and be
split up the back. Oh, say can you
vision q blizzard like me, who's push
ed down together and fat as can be,
with a form-fitting tailor made hung
on his frame? l would look like
hee- haw-be hailed as the same!
They'd put me in stays so I'd look
tried it. I'd square off and fight I'm
a regular guy and I won't wear their
silk any more than I'll give up my
bitters for milk. 1t is all right for
those of exquisite design, but a loose
fitting, hand-me-down neutral for
mine. If male-gender toys are the.
figure to show, why, half of the tribe
- nv HARLAN BABcocK.
Shine "Outside."
Dear r. K. M.-Now that saloons
will soon be relics, Is it pertinent to
ask what will become of that ubiq-
uitous Individual Shine" who bra
zenly and shamelessly flaunts the
legend shine inside" outside of most
thirst parIors? Will he at last return
to his patient wife, or will he take
his last stand inside of some ice cream
parlor, where a reminiscent bar will
remind him of the good old days be-
for the deluge? NIk-NUB.
Seems the Cobb family Is in little
difficulty over which one got the Lee
gion of Honor over in France. Frank
really got it, but Irv got the credit of
getting it But what is Legion of
Honor among relatives?
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jury indictment the world has ever
known soon will try the German of
ficers who are responsible for the
atrocities of the war. But it is admit
ted that it will be impossible to in
clude Ludendorff and Hindenburg
and the former kaiser. 1t is useless to
conduct a trial. The. world as a jury
already has brought in verdict Let
the tribunal spend its time establish
ing and carrying out a punishment.
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it to the utmost was what counted
after all. She had ruined her own
happiness by a false idea of what
real living was Slowly the tears
started down her cheeks.
-'Sylviai" 1t was Dick. They were
alone in the office and there was a
note of sympathy in his tone that
seemed to draw her to him.
Tearfully she confessed her new
discovery. "Oh, Dick, I don't care
whether you use slang or swear or
anything so long as it is you." she
,blurted finally.
Won't you even care If I get cafe
terra and help myself to kiss, dear ?"
he laughed happily
az should worry" The expression
sounded strangely new on the lips of
Sylvia as she raised them to Dicks.
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
DINNER STORIES

One of the most common supersti-
lions is the belief in a horseshoe as
talisman against evil.
1t was ST. Dunstan, the blacksmith,
and the patron of all smiths and
saints, who made the horseshoe lucky.
st. Dunstan was an Anglo-Saxon
ecclesiastic who lived in the tenth CEN
fury. He entered the Benedictine Or
der at an early age, and when not
engaged in religious duties he was
employed an a blacksmith.
One day he was toiling away at the
force, when a shadow fell across the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

No money spent in the building of
good roads is lost. 1t is an invest
ment which pays to the community
and to the nation great profit an
nually. often yielding in added wealth
to the community every year more
than the total amount expended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

The east is all wrought up because
there is a movement on to prohibit
unoccupied lingerie in department
store show windows. Imagine q
reg'lar man, a real honest-to- Gawd
man, standing on the street with his
face flattened against a plate glass
window, cruelty abandoning his NOR
ais as he gazes upon miIady's under
wear, draped over a stained oak hall
tree! 1t is an insult to mere man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

While the average citizen may not
have noticed it. the price of aluminium
declined in 1918, according to report
of the United States Geological Sur
vey. But aluminium was one of the
things left in private hands. If Burle-
son had got control of it the case prob
ably would have been different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST,
Grapefruit
Oatmeal Fried Ham
Graham Mullins Coffee
LUNCHEON.
French Vegetable Soup
Banana and Peanut Salad
Prune Whip French Rolls
Tea
DINNER.
Clear Beef Soup
Veal Croquettes with Peas
French Fried Potatoes
Lettuce Salad with Roquefort Cheese
Dressing
Bread Cheese
Cherry Pie Canned Cherries)
Coffee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

Congress adjourned and failed to
lions?-in appropriations. That e
you hear on the street is not grief
it is glee.
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done.
If YOU want to move mountains, IL
you want to stamp a city somewhere,
or put your character between the
pages OF histOry-just believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

II the Kansas legislature adjourns
March Is hundreds of bills will die
on the calendar. Let the funeral
services be held on the Fourth of July
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

Sh-h-h-h. 1t is mothers warning to
the children. Father is spread out
over the dining room table trying to
make out his income tax report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

Three thousand prisoners at Leav-
enworth struck and refused to leave
their cells. The best punishment
would be to let them stay there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

After an exhibition clad in olive
drab lasting a couple of years the
girls will have to admit that the boys
have 'efn pretty shapely. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05

What is preferable-a torn and
bleeding Germany in the hands of
revolutionists or an organized and sta
BILE Germany always ready to wage
another war?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
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THE GENTLE GLORY.

THE GENTLE GLOh1.
There Is in gentle ways and conduct true
More glory than In fortunes yellow gold.
That life which is in deeds of kindness
told,
Outshines the splendor of the mighty few
Who dare with might what right would
scorn to do
And strive for joys which they alone may
hold.
An honest man is nobler than n bold.
Worth is in how and not what men pursue.
He that would win mems love and earn
their praise
Must spurn the soruid battlefields of
greed,
Must find his joys in smoothing others
ways
And spend his substance for another's
need.
No greater glory here can mortal find
Than to be mourned as one whose deeds
were kind.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
Recipes for a Day.

AkNNaISS AOT
Veal Croquettes With Peas-Two
cups boiled veal, two cups cold boiled
riee,-sn cup cream sauce, one tea
spoon salt, pepper to taste. One and
one-half teaspoon grated nutmeg, one
tablespoon finely chopped parsley.
breadcrumbs and one egg. Put meat
and rice thru food chopper; add sauce
and other ingredients; mix WELL
spread on plate; put in cold place.
When cold and firm take a tablespoon
full into Toured hand and mold into
cones or oblong shapes. After all are
nodded, dip in well-beaten egg. which
has been mixed with one tablespoon
full OF milk: then in fine breadcrumbs.
Fry in very hot fat.
.Beets With Sour Sauce-Wash beets
and boil until soft. Cut into cubes
and serve in the following sauce: Melt
two tablespoons butter substitute, add
two tablespoons flour, one teaspoon
salt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, one
tablespoon sugar. two or three cloves
and a small piece of bay leaf. Add
gradually one cup of the liquid in
which the beets were cooked, and one
cup vinegar. If canned beets are used
the juice in which they were canned
may be used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
Discoveries.

For Thickeniug Gravy or making
white sauce use rice flour instead of
regular white flour. as 1t simply re-
fuses to lump. To make gravy with
it, add water to the pan in which
meat has been roasted or fried. mix
well with the drippings. Have ready
a little bowl in which you hav. mixed
three or four tablespoons of the rice
flour with enough water to make it a
thick paste. Add little Of this at a
time, stirring into the mixture in the
pan. You will never trouble with
Jumping. Keep a package of the rice
flour on hand just for making gravy.
To Make Crumbs for covering GRO
quotes and similar articles dry stale
bread in the oven and put thru the
meat chopper. They are better to use
when frying in deep fat than cracker
crumbs, as they do not absorb the
grease so readily
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This does not seem very large
sum until you consider that it repre-
sents in the majority of cases money
contributed out of the mems wages
after the cost OF their insurance and
compulsory allotment has been de-
Quoted. OF course, most of the Amer
lean army was supposed to have been
who would therefore escape the COM
pulsory SIS allotment. Then, the
nom commissioned class. drawing pay
of $50 to $50 a month, was compare
lively large. But one cannot help
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-08
WANT McMILLIN TO STAY.

Lima, Peru, July 3.-The Ameri-
can Society of Peru has initiated a
movement to have Benton McMillin
the American minister, retained here
as ambassador. Minister McMillin re.
Gently was nominated by President
Wilson to be minister at Guatemala.
The society, composed of Ameri,
cans throughout the Peruvian repub.
lie, at a meeting yesterday unani.
mously authorized its board of man.
ayers to send President Wilson this
cablegram:
"The American Society of Peru
sincerely regrets possible loss of Ben.
ton McMillin as American minister
and wishes to inform the preident
of the United States that McMillin's
appointment as ambassador here
would be most gratifying to members
of this society,""
A number of Peruvian newspapers
have indorsed the suggestion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-08
BRINGING THE HAPsBURG BACK

Rome, June.-A prominent and
well-informed member of an allied
mission, just arrived here from Vien-
ma, tells that the former Kaiser Karl
now exiled in Switzerland, the cradle
of the Hapsburg family, may once
more reign in Austria. His territory
would, Of course, be sadly diminished
and his revenues reduced to a frac-
ton, but even this would be better
than exile in Switzerland, where the
entire family is bored to death and
kainly tries to pass the time by NOV
ing from one castle to another.
"Nobody in Vienna, except the
most extreme socialists, speak i'll of
Karl" the informant said, "and even
the extremists don't blame him for
what happened, knowing that "from
the moment he ascended the throne
he tried to make peace. His picture
still hangs in banks, Offices and other
buildings. The present government
has abolished it from its offices, but
some public offices continue to let it
hang on their walls. The Viennese
refer to him as "Our Poor KAISER" or
"Our Poor Karl"