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be tempered with the joy and pride
one always feels when a man doe
his duty well and bravely. There
quite enough sorrow and shame an
suffering and baseness in real life, an,
there is no need for meeting 1t un-
necessarily in fiction. As police con
missioner 1t was my duty to deal VIII
all kinds of squalid misery and hide
Gus and unspeakable infamy, and ]
should have been worse than a cowart
If l had shrunk from doing what waS
necessary; but there would nave bee
no use whatever in my reading novels
detailing all this misery and SOU
and crime, or at least in reading them
as a steady thing. Now and then
there is a powerful but sad story
which really is interesting and which
really does good; but normally the
books which do good and the books
which healthy people find interest
ing are those which are not in the
least of the sugar-candy variety, but
which, while p~ortraying foulness and
suffering when they must be por-
noble side.
We have had a very mild and open
fall. 1 have played tennis a good deal,
the French Ambassador being now
quite a steady playmate. as he and /
play about alike; n 1 have ridden
with mother a great deal. Last Mon
day when mother had gone to New
York I had Selous, the great African
hunter, 10 spend the day and night.
He is a perfect old dear; just as sim
pie and natural as q be and very
interesting. l took him, with Bob
Bacon, Clifford Pinchot, Ambassador
Meyer and jim Garfield, for a good
scramble and climb in the afternoon,
and they all came to dinner after
o. rro tIa nafapa N.Y. IN n o dnyVn IN din
ner / got him to spend t~hree-quarters
of an hour in telling delightfully."- ex-
citing lion and hyena stories to Ethel,
Archie n Quentin. He told them
most wildly and so enthraned the
little boys that the next evening had
to tell them a large number myself.
Today is Quentin's birthday n he
loved his gifts, perhaps most of all
the west, cunninEest live pig you ever
saw, presented him by Straus. Phi
Stewart and his wife and boy, VOL
colt (who is Arches age), spent a
couple of nights here. One afternoon
we had hide-and-go-seek, bringing
down Mr.. Garfield and the Garfield
boys, n Archie turning up with the
entire football team, who took a day
off for the special purpose. We had
obstacle races, hide-and-go-seek,
blind-man's buff, and everything else;
and there was times when / felt that
there was a perfect shoal of small
boys bursting In every direction up
and down stairs, and through and
over every conceivable object.
Mother and ! still walk around the
grounds every day after breakfast,
The gardens, of course, are very, very
dishevelled now, the snap-draFons
holding out better than any other
flowers.
ITO be continued.)
copyright, 1919 Charles Scribner's
Sons.)
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Three-fifths of the employees of
twenty-one leading Industries in this
country are reported to be of foreign
birth, and sons of persons of foreign
birth constitute another fifth. These
figures go far toward explaining the
revolutionary tendencies of the work
ers. Their only interest in America is
to get what they can out of it. 1t IS
beginning to look as tho some of them
may get more than they are counting
on. Government statistics. covering
these industries, reveal the following
figures: In the iron and steel indus
tries, 81 per cent of the employees are
foreign born; soft-coal mining. 81 per
cent; copper mining. e5 per cent; oil
refining, Sc per cent; meat packing.
woolen textiles, leather, cotton textiles.
farm implements. so to 20 per cent:
railway construction and sugar refin-
ing, 20 to SIS per cent.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Baked Sweet Potatoes-Arrange
two pounds of sweet potatoes in bak-
ing dish, over which pour the follow
ing dressing. Two tablespoons butter,
one and one-half tablespoons flour.
one tablespoon sugar one cup hot
water. Cover and bake thirty min
uteS.
Apple Pudding-Take tart apples of
uniform size, and peel, halve and core.
Place the cavity side up in a bake
dish, and fill the cavities with chopped
raisins. cinnamon and sugar. or a lit
tie grated lemon rind instead of the
cinnamon. Raisins and chopped nut
meats also make a good filling of
ounce jelly mixed with nut meats.
Make a batter with one cupful milk,
one or two eggs, one-quarter cupful
sugar, and about two cupfuls flour
into which has been sifted one level
teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoons
of baking powder.
Pour over the apples and bake in a
moderate oven until the apples are
tender and the pudding is nice brown
on top. Serve with cream. or a va
nilla or cinnamon sauce.
Cottage Cheese Salad-Mix with cot
tage cheese a generous quantity of
chopped nuts. Put about table
spoonful on lettuce leaves on each
salad plate-> Surround with green pep
pers previously parboiled for ten min
utes and cut in strips Add mayon-
naise or other salad dressing. This
Is delicious for luncheon.
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ever, upon consumption. and the de-
mand for luxuries and the better
grades of goods continues steady.
Pleas to the general public to save
have had no more effect than appeals
to industrial to increase their
output. The dangers in the present
situation are understood by everybody,
says a bulletin issued by the Guar
anty Trust company of New York, but
there is no pessimism anywhere. The
confidence of the average citizen in
the ability of the United States to
weather any storm is profound, it adds,
and there is not the slightest chance
of any revolutionary movement max
ing headway.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs Thompson: I was prop
erlyN introduced to a fine young lady,
and on seeing her the second time she
encoura ged me by asking whether I
would care to call sometime, to which
L readily consented.
have seen her few times since
the introduction and sent some flow
ers. Did 1 do right in sending the
flowers when our friendship was so
short?
I already admire the lady, but do
not know if / would make a good
companion to her. I have no bad
sha bits, do not use tobacco in any
form or drink and the one thing
which I hold above all I have treated
all women as 1 would my sister, even
in France.
Would you advise my making the
friendship more intimate or wait for
the present? 1 really care a great
deal for the girl. WALTERS.
1t was all right to send the flowers
and very thoughtful. / see no reason
why you should not become closer
friends now. because thru friendship
you can judge whether OF not you
will want to be more. You seem to
hesitate too much in going after what
you want. Since you admire the
young lady so much there should be
nothing to hold you back.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27
DINNER STORIES


A man who seemed TO have hazy
ideas of what he wanted entered a
shop. He looked at playing cards
and he looked at pencils. He inquir-
ed the price of this mas agazine and
that, and examined the postcards and
the books.
charge of, the counter became rather
wearied~ answering questions without
making sale. At last the prospec-
tive customer asked:
Have you any flypaper?"
'Yes, SIR was the prompt reply.
I've have the Airmans Journal and
the Aviators Gazette"
"A certain member of the California
legislature is given to making very
elaborate and florid speeches, and one
day recently he closed an address with
s.Nox populi; vox Dei.,rg
One of the audience said to a
friend: iii bet you don't know the
meaning of that last phraseT'
II don't know, Why, of course L
know"
"You don't know for $I0," sug-
gested the challenger
The wager was posted.
We'll, now, tell US what it means''
said the challenger.
"Vox populi, Vox Del" quoted the
the acceptor of the challenger. SOL
emily, "as everybody knows, is
French for God helps those who
help themselves
p 'Give him the money" said the
challenger. "Darned IL he don't know
after ALL"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27
Eighty building permits were issued

Eighty building permits were issued
in Topeka in September. The esti-
mated cost of the structures to be
erected was $112.5S5. These figures
represent gain of 957 per cent over
September. 1918. Reports of build
ing operations in the principal cities
of the Tenth federal reserve district
show that building has>really got back
to normal. The September reports show
a total OF 1857 permits for buildings,
estimated to cost S6.9SO,175. as COM
pared with S95 permits issued in Sep
tember. 1918. for buildings estimated
to cost s1,S5O.12s, an increase of 277
per cent.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27
SANDRA THE JEALOUS.
BY JANE PHELPS

the girls who marry poor boys their
own age. Then by the time they got
where they could give me things
wouldn't care a hang whether l had
be mostly gone, and would be so old
1 wouldn't care for. lovely clothes
and motor cars and things.
Don't fool yourself, Sandra. You
care Just as much, and more, too, be-
cause you had helped earn them
That's what mother says anyway.
Father was poor when she married
him and they worked hard together.
Now she has it easy. and she just
loves it" knew Roses father was
considered one of the few very rich
men in town. and that her mother
had luxuries that my mother never
had dreamed of having.
!. You talk like a minister I said,
with a laugh. I hated to keep telling
Rose how much cared for Everett.
but when she talked as Il I had done
the most foolish thing possible in
marrying him, I just had to. Very un-
wisely 1 had confided to her that I was
studying, that Everett had engaged
Mrs Barr to tutor me IN the things
in which I was deficient. Now ste
spoke of that:
II would be so insulted to have a
man married hire some one to teach
me as if were a school girl. l don't
see how you endure it-b
Il was annoyed at first, Rose, but
when l saw how clever all the women
in Everett's set were, even those who
were very young. 1 made up my mind
L would be clever too, and since then
1 haven't felt about having Mrs. Barr
teach me. If / was Just taking French
or some language, no one would think
anything of it. Why shouldn't ons
study other things as well-that is, if
they need to? You see. Rose lots of
girls nowadays go to college, and they
learn things that help them appear
well-because they are associated with
the teachers and older. girls--wh hich
girls who live at home and only go
to high school do not learn" Ny
argument sounded foolish and weak,
but it seemed to impress Rose.
Perhaps it's all right she con-
ceded, grudgingly, but 1 wouldn't do
it" Then she changed the subject
and began talking of Barrett Ed
monds, as she invariably did. He had
made a great impression upon her,
and she constantly hinted for another
invitation to visit me-which l did
not extend owing to Everstt's caution
Anyway Barrett was in Europe on
business trip. / missed him, toe
but I didn't tell Rose so.
(Tomorrow-Confid talks with
mother.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27
TELLS ROSE SHE Is
HAPPY.
CHAPTER LXXIX.

CHAPTER LXXIX.
AS had expected, my wardrobe
made quite furore. While I had
lost my sapphires 1 still possessed
enough jewelry to cause comment and
envy among the girls had known be-
dresses with tissue paper. to have a
pattern they might use when they
added to their own wardrobes. When
I told them it would soon be out of
style they paid no attention, save to
say they would risk 1t.
was most childish in my desire
to show them how much I had. Per-
haps had it not been for Roses, visit,
and her gossip after she returned
home, 1 should not have been quite
so silly. Rose, frank as ever, told
me one day that the girls thought 1
was "awfully stuck up" and that the
boys were afraid of me-" I laugh
ed, but in reality 1 was pleased.
II told them they needn't envy
you even if you did have lovely
clothes and a, wonderful home. with
servants and everything - that you
weren't allowed to do a single thing
you wanted to-
You told them what wasn't so!"
I retorted angrily. Il wanted to come
home and here L am
Then L recalled Everett's actions
when Rose was with me, and said
more quietly: Everett has changed
Rose. He is lovely to me-most of
the time now. We go to the theaters
a lot, and now he dances with me
when we go to supper He thought
L was too young to do the things 1
wanted to, do when I was first mar
ried-that I hadn't poise enough to
know how to meet so many new peo-
pie. But 1 wouldn't change him now
for anyone in the world When I see
other men-and the boys here at
home-I am SO proud of him I don't
know what to do. He is so clever, so
handsome, and people all look up to
him" To save my life I couldn't help
Dragging a little.
I'm sorry for you just the same
You needn't be, don't need sym
pathy I tell you. Goodness Rose, !
almost shiver when 1 think 1 might
have married one of the town boys
Why, all they think of is taking a girl
to the movies, or the corner drug
store! What kind of home would
l have had with them?"
Perhaps as good as the enc you
have now by the time they were as
old as Mr.. Graham"
Yes, and I would be a tired or
worn out old woman by that time
This was a new thought to me so 1
expatiated upon it. "You see I would
have to work hard to help, like all
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

! A New York economist figures that
we're next years taxes to be collected
equally from the families of the
Gnited States the average cost of liv-
ing to each would include $235 for
federal taxes. In 1914 federal taxes
amounted to less than $36.75 family.
In other words. this element promises
to show an increase of more than sac
per cent. And in the end the gov
ernment cost to each family will aver
age $235 because these federal taxes
are slowly but surely passed on to the
family. Is it remarkable then that
living costs are high?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

the window and watch it go by, since
1 missed it last year"
Going to take old Mr.. Burrows?"
asked Jane, with a grin
Carl answers without any evasion
Sure, and Natalie, too, if you want
to know
Bring Natalie home to dinner with
you, Carl" Mrs. Fairfield interposes;
and the boy smiles his thanks at her
True to her sex, Jane-tr for the
last word: MARY Garfield says her
sister says that Burrows girl is dead
stuck on you; says it's only because
our father has lot of money" Jane
paused to swallow what was in her
mouth before continuing; but Carl
burst in:
''Now you let up on that for good
and all. Don't you ever mention that
Garfield brat to me again: nor her
made-up ninny of a sister. either
get me?" Evidently Jane did, for she
remarked meekly, I'D rather have
Natalie for a sister anyway. She let's
me stay when you try to drive me out
of the room"
Mr.. Fairfield's hearty laugh rang
out. Guess you two are quits. Bet
ter call it off" Then. turning to his
son, he asked seriously: Sorry you
gave up that picnic last year, Carl?''
You bet I'm not. father" the boy
answered. "Picnfcs are all right in
their place; but they don't belong on
the one day in the whole year given
up to honoring our patriots"
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syhdicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

Afternoon. is for the more routine
affairs of the day, and for play Night
time is for rest and sleep-but the
morning, that is when decisions
should be made
How necessary 1t is, then. that the
body gets its undisturbed rest at
night, with plenty of sleep and that
during a portion of the afternoon at
least some form or phase of play or
recreation should enter
To decide means that you must
have the will with which to decide.
And no strong. healthy, clean mind
in a body of subtleness and power
ever had a weak will.
Learn to decide the important
things in the morning-when the sun
comes upi
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

I found a horseshoe on my way
nome frum skool- yestiddy, being a
hole horseshoe exsept little hunk
broak off of one end, me thinking, G,
good luck.
And 1 took it home to male it up
over my door, ony 1 couldent find a
male, so 1 used a pin, getting up on a
chair and hammering it in with the
back of my hair brush, thinking, Now
if l suddinly start in having good luck
after this. Ill know the reason.
Wich l dident have eny speshil good
luck the rest of the day, and this
morning pop called me to get UP 8
times without me realizing I was heer-
ing him, and the 4th time he called
up, Benny, If you don't hop up out of
that III come up there after you, and
If do you'll wish 1 hadent. Proberly
meening he would give me a cupple
of kracks, and I laid there a vile
longer keeping on starting to getfup,
and the ferst thing 1 knew 1 was
asleep agen, and the next thing i
knew sumbody was yelling. Owtch,
confownd it to blazes, owtch, holey
smoaks owtch. .4
Being pop standing there holding
one ankel an account of the horseshoe
having fell down and hit it, me say
ing, 1t aint my fawlt, pop, it amt my
fawlt. 1T must be on account of the
hunk out of the end of it.
w hat are YOU DillHeTlHS ABOUT, you
confownded merderer? sed pop.
The little hunk out of the end must
of kepp it frum being lucky, 1 sed.
o, how intensely intristing, you lit
tie assassin, how did you have it
fassened, up there, enyway? sed pop.
With d pin, sed.
With a pin, of all the bone hedded
tricks L ever herd of, that's the bone
heddedest, get up now out of that and
go to skool and lern little sents, sed
pop.
And he gave me 4 fearse kracks
with his hand some place, me being
lucky I was under the covers but
wishing I was under more. And /
quick got up and started to get
dressed, thinking some time 1 mite
try a horseshoe without a hunk out
of It, but not being sure.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

correct, the ad is promptly eliminated.
Since the need for cutting out the
false ad has become recognized thru
out the newspaper business, newspaper
advertising has enjoyed a tremendous
growth According to James Wright
Brown, president of the Editor and
Publisher, over 500 million dollars
worth of advertising will be placed in
newspapers this year. Much of this i5
being distributed with the help of the
charts compiled by this magazine, and.
in accordance with a new idea recently
developed by its officials. This is the
idea that products should be distrib-
uted first and advertise afterward.
For years, it has been The advertis-
ing policy to advertise goods first
thereby creating a demand for them,
and to distribute them among the re-
tail stores later. This method is now
recognized as being wasteful. and must
&C.
Because" says Mr.. Mulftrd of the
Editor and Publisher, here is how it
usually works OUT The other day 1
saw an advertisement of new cigaret
in New York newspaper. My cur.os-
ity was aroused, went and bought a
box, and found that liked it. A couple
of days later l went on to another city,
attempted to buy the same cigaret and
found that it hadn't reached there
yet. So L bought another brand, and
proceeded to forget all about the new
one. If the makers of that cigaret mad
only distributed it thruout the coun-
try before advertising it, then the
stores would have had it when people
asked for it, and there would have
been no advertising waste
OF course. under this SYSTEM, the
manufacturer must distribute a part
of his goods on the consignment plan,
which means that the retailers pay for
it after it is sold and not beforehand,
But he is not taking much of a chance,
because the effect of advertising is
now so well known that it is usually
possible to calculate its approximate
returns. Advertising is not yet an ex-
act science. but it is fast becoming one.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

When the steel strike was called
the Colorado Fuel G Iron company
and its employees were working under
the Rockefeller Plan by which all mat
ttrs of wages and working conditions
were fixed by a board composed of
representatives of the company and Of
employees elected by their votes. The
company contends the nationwide
strike called by the heads OF the ma
tlonal organization was. so far as its
own employees were concerned, in vio-
lation OF the contract under the Rock
cfeller Industrial plan. 1t is reported
that a large number of the employees
were opposed to the strike and desire
to return to work, but the company is
making no move to reopen the plant
unless the strike is declared off or
majority of the employees should sign
petitions asking that operations be re-
sumed When it comes to a question
Of who can best stand a period of
ieIencss. Rockefeller or his employees,
the answer is obvious.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

The time had arrived when it was
necessary for somebody to make
stand against the unreasonable de-
mands of radical labor leaders and
Judge Gary had the courage to do it.
1t must be pleasing for the head of
the steel corporation to find hundred
million people wishing him success in
the fight he is making against the at
tempted dictation of these leaders
The people OF the country sometimes
have grievances against corporations
and will not hesitate to express them.
but neither will they hesitate to stand
with the corporation when it is right
and fighting for the public welfare.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-27

( High and constantly increasing
rents have led to a suggestion from
Cleveland. o., to limit rents by law
Is interest rates are limited. The
surest way to keep rents down is to
build more houses. The man who is
paying more rent than he can afford
is privileged to build his own home
and every city has numerous concerns
which are ready to lend him the
amount of money necessary for that
purpose.