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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19
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Q. What does the I'D" stand for in
John u. Reckefellers name? H. II.
A. Mr.. Rockefeller's full name is John
Dawson Rockefeller, sr. HIS middle nane
was that of his mother whose maiden
name was Eiiza Dawson.
g: How m may y,nne wo9len soess tnat are TOO
washing them first in hot and then In
q. Do people of France and England
pay income tax?-G. II. J.
4. Both France and England have an
time. pays an income tax rate OF one and
one quarter per cent to twelve and one
half per cent. The rate Of income tax in
England is from eight aud one.half per
cent to fifty-two per cent.
Q. What exemption is single man with
n dependent mother allowed In making out
his income tax returns?-Q. n.
A. A single man residing in the sam,
house with his mother, who is entirely de-
pendent upon him. Is allowed 4 sa,ooa eA-
emptlon. the same as a married man
Q. When was the coldest New Year S
Day on recopd IN. T. s.
A. The United States Weather Bureau
says that the coidest New Years Day re-
corded since the bureau commenced to keep
records forty-eight years ago, WIS January
tered fourteen degrees below zero In wash
ington, and much lower in many other
places.
rural delivery route ?-F. 5.
A.. The postoffice department says that
one of the requirements OF the rural deliy-
at his own expense: which must conform
to postal regulations.
@. Who said: 1T Is not surprising tina
America should produce great men. since
she can boast of such mothers"s-J. ID. II.
A This remark was made by French
general on retiring from the presence of
Mary Washington. mother of the first
president of the United States.
Q. How much time Is wasted by people
looking at themselves in mirrors ?--S. w.
A. A German statistician has. figured 1t
months of her life admiring herself before
mirror. She begins, as a rule at the
age of six, in which year she devotcs seven
minutes daily to self-inspection. The
amount Of time SO spent Increases steadily
for ten fifteen years. Her vanity is less
pronounced after thirty This same sta
tfstician figured that a man is less vain.
Hs he only spends seven months of his life
before 4 mirror.
@. What is the proper dress for men
A. Men guests at n formal noon wedding &
should wear the conventional afternoon
dress, consisting Of black frock coat, gray
trousers, a four-iu -hnnd or Ascot tie OF
light color, vest OF white pique or one
matching the coat, patent leather shoes,
gray gloves and a silk hat
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do SO. I love muffins and coffce.''
.'I think the landlady is quite WELL
Grace answered, as she put her hand
kerchief to her cheeks to hide a
blush.
That evening Marshall sought out
the landlady. He commenced to
thank her for her kindness, but she
interrupted him. 'tIt isn't me that has
left breakfast for you You COULDN'T
expect it with the low rent 1 charge
she said.
He left her perplexed. Who had
been leaving the tray at his door?
Had some fairy-godmother turned
up? 1t was somebody's mistake that
was the more practical suggestion.
Monday morning Marshall 4 woke
with a start Had he been dreaming?
He would have sworn that he had
heard a rap on his door. He listened.
There was an unnlistakable sound of
squeaking shoes going down the haH
Apparently the wearer was attempting
to muffle the sound. 1t flashed upon
kinson who had been leaving the good
things. But why? That was no time
for questions. If it was there, that
coffee would be getting cold. He
opened the door just a little. The
odor of coffee greeted him and he
seized the tray. How much better
those muffins tasted when he knew
who made them. After he had fin
ished he dressed, and as he was going
out stopped to put the tray back
where he had found it, but. struck
with a thought, he put it back in his
room and locked his door as he went
out
Grace Atkinson was preparing sup
per that evening when there was a
tinid knock ON her door. She opened
it and was confronted by Marshall
Bell, tray in hand.
II have come to bring you back
your tray and Dishes" he said, "and
I wish to thank Sou for your. kind
ness. 1 crown you queen of muffin
makers. You will accept my thanks,
won't you. even tho you did intend
them for a sick gill you thought was
in my ROOM"
II didn't think that this morning."
she laughed. How did you guess it
was 1 %
THE next time you want to play
fairy, don't wear squeally shoes
fairies never do, especially when they
are visiting shoe clerks. but I smell
something good cooking. Can 1 stay
to supper ?"
yes: but I don't make everything
as we'll as I do mullins"
81 could live on your muffins for
life." he replied calamity.
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
peper, Syndicate.j
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a maHger. That is the most present.
and practical and important of all
words for our day. To find a solution
of our riddles, the calming of our un-
rest. the way Of light in our hour of
darkness. we need but to go back to
Bethlehem and find the reality OF
Christmas.
Our times turmoil takes a thousand
forms: its real need is only one. Cam
ouflaged by humanity's hectic nursuit
of pleasure, is g. deep~flowing desire
for real peace-peace among men and
peace in the human heart We are
weary of war; and much of our cur
rent rest1essness is only reaction
against its work and its woes We
think We want easier lives and pleas
anter times and greater prosperity; in
truth. our need is for peace of spirit
and for an era of good will among all
men.
Until our -overwrought and light
seeking world follows the shepherds
to the place of the Christ il will not
be healed of its fret and it's fears
The love of God, made personal and
near in Christ, is alone sufficient to
satisfy the present quest. If red
stained Russia. distraught Europe, and
bewildered Asia, and our perturbed
America could only hear, as If for the
first time and in fullest reality, the
message of Christmas. they would not
need revolution or Bolshevism or any
of the desperate remedies they are
now seeking.
For the Christmas truth is the truth
of a living and supreme God, interest
ed in man; of q loving Savior, making
clear the character of God: and of a
divine spirit of good will which alone
can bring i'll that golden age which is
best described as the Kingdom of
Heaven. The Brotherhood toward
which the race struggles will be real
lied only when Christmas Day has
truly broken everywhere
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SANDRA THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

Then it was with pity. as / visuafized
again her face from which all joy
seemed. to have fled. The woman who
loving a man. living with him. had
watched him die with the name of
careless. pleasure-loving Leola on his
lips.
Some day I may tell him." / said
to myself when thinking of Leoia.
Some day I'll tell him how that other
woman called her a vampire. Per-
but as yet l had not the courage to
do so.
Now my jealousy was again aroused.
I watched Miss Pierce closely, yet I
could not see that she sought to at
tract Everett in any way. But the
slightest attention to her on his part
would make me furious, and terribly
unhappy.
Have I done anything to offend
or annoy you. Mrs Graham" she
asked one day when Everett had
given her some little thing-a rose,
1 think it was He had brought me a
box of flowers. I was cut of the
room. When l came in neither of
them heard me. Miss Pierce was ex-
claiming upon the beauty of the flow
ers and he selected one and gave it to
her.
1 had turned and crept quietly from
the room. When Everett brought me
the flowers, l took them most ungra
ciously, scarcely thanking him. He
lolSed hurt. but said nothing. I could
not act natural with Miss Pierce
hence her question.
mo. you have done nothing" the
rose was pinned at her waist, and 10
save my life could not avoid looking
at it. She flushed. bat said no more
A little time afterward when she came
to me about something. 1t had disap-
peared.
1 felt ashamed. but as usual apollo
gized to myself by muttering: 81
couldn't help it." That was my plea
when I did such things. 1t was my
nature to be jealous, and SO could
not help it.
I wish ardentiy that / could make
every girl understand, to give way te
Jealous impulses is a sure road to un-
happiness. To love, to trust-that is
happiness.
(Tomorrow-Rose again.1
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JUNIOR HAS a NEW NURSE.
,hapter CXXN


My boy was two years old Miss
Lane had remained until he was 20
months, then Everett had yielded to
my persuasions and hired young
woman. graduate from babies hos
pital. and highly recommended.
Miss Pierce was a little younger
than I. She was pretty. agreeable
and. congenial. l was delighted at
first to have so pleasant a. person
around instead of Miss Lane. whom I
obliged to accede her capable.
Junior had had several slight ILL.,
nesses, aside from cutting his teeth
and Miss Lane had carried him thru
them without any trouble: yet with
good deal of anxiety on my part. He
cunning. When he was two I said
that was the cunning age. and there
after. every year, until he was seven
I repeated the same thing.
Miss Pierce fitted into our house
hold from the first. Mrs Gray and
Hetty liked her as well as the other
servants. The baby took to her at
once; as also did Everett.
Il think she is going to do nicely
he said a few days after her arrival
She seems intelligent, is good to look
at. and will be an addition to the
household"
"Yes-I think-she will do" I re-
Joined, thinking only that he had said
she is good to look at.
Suppose had brought someone into
the house only to have Everett fall in
love with her? Not yet had / stopped
fretting because / felt / had not pos
sessed the same kind of love he gave
Leola. l was more sure of his affec-
tion as time passed. but it was quiet,
undemonstrative affection. while
craved the passionate expression he
gave his first wife. The note I had
found and which had caused me so
much agony. I still kept. do not pre-
tend to explain why. I knew every
word by heart, and I surely did not
intend to show it to him.
1 never had told him Of the visit
from the wife of the man who had
loved Leola. Occasionally I thought
of that strange visitor who had come
and gone, like ship in the night.
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price of silver these have. been sex-
changed for silver dollars to be broken
up for bullion. The only way in
which the exigency can be met is by
the printing of treasury notes, and
those can be issued only in exchange
for other treasury notes of larger de-
nomination. The latter are being
held by the banks. it is said, because
of their legal tender feature. 1t is
claimed that they will be released the
moment gold certificates are made le-
gal tender.
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The gold miners are besieging the
government for help. They declare
that they are unable to carry on their
business at a profit and that unless
something be done to increase the
price of their product they must quit
business. But why should the gold
miners feel that they are entitled TO
special favors? No consideration was
shown for the silver miners when
their business was ruined by the pas
sage of u law which deprecated the
value of their product. But gold al
ways has been an aristocrat among
metals and has claimed and obtained
special privileges. Now that it has
been hurled from its high estate it
whines like common clay, as its place
is taken by the once despised white
metal That immutability in value of
gold once proclaimed with pride by
the worshipers of the yellow metal has
returned to plague its inventor. Inn
mutability is the very thing of which
the gold miners are complaining.
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Moulton Musings
By ROY X. MOULTON.
The Income Tax,

In order to tighten the burdens of
the income tax patients who have
usually been Obliged to retire from
their usual occupations for a month
to read the income tax blank and then
for another month to fill il out. we
offer the following advice:
First get a large scratch pad and
half dozen lead pencils. good PEN
holder and two dozen steel pens and
a quart of ink. Then go and collect
all the wrapping paper in the house
and buy three more large scratch pads
and you will be ready for work.
Then fill out your blank. After
spelling this one, write to the collector
of Internal revenue for another and
wait until it comes. While you are
waiting you can do few trial flights
with the figures.
First take the amount of money you
have received during the year. If you
can find out what il Is. and subtract
the amount you paid for the punk
bunch of early radishes last spring:
Multiply this result by the best golf
score you made during 1919 and sub
tract what you lost in the poker game
at your neighbor's house.
Add your telephone number and
subtract the number of telephone bills
you had to pay during the year .for
other people who used your phone:
add the age at which your maternal
grdn0latner ole0 ana Supd act the COs@
per pound of brussels sprouts at their
highest price during November; add
the date of the signing of the Declara-
ton of Independence and multiply by
your wife's card number in her club:
subtract the average annual rainfall
and multiply by the mean tempera-
ture for the entire year
The result will be the amount you
owe the government. Then. you will
go out and pawn the fliyver and pay
the tax.
We maintain that the man to send
after Carranza to scare him into any
kind of a concession would be
barber.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

When the bill covering emergency
appropriations for military camps and
cantonments was reported out of the
house military affairs committee It
was found TO contain a provision for
the sale and salvaglng of Camp Cor
don in Georgia, the proceeds to be
turned into the United States treasury.
An amendment designed to save the
camp was voted down and the Atlanta
Constitution yells ''partisanship." It
looks as If it might pc right. since 81
Republicans voted against the amend
ment and 50 Democrats for it, but
which are the partisans?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Poison gas foils would-be robbers
who blow open safes or vaults
equipped with a new protective device
described in the Popular Mechanics
Magazine. A thin glass bottle. filled
with chemicals, is placed in metal
holder inside the doors. When an eX-
plosive is used to break them open,
the concussion skaters the flask and
releases its contents. Exposed to the
air, the chemicals form a gas which
suffocates and causes temporary
blindness.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

President Wilson continues to main
tain silence regarding his intentions
toward the railroads. Meanwhile
congress keeps up its seeming efforts
to hammer out some sort of railroad
law with little indication OF early sue
cess The railroads have been
termed the backbone of the country"
When the railroads are prosperous the
country is prosperous and vice versa.
1t is now within the power of con-
gress to make or break our largest
industry and to make or break many
holders of securities of the railroads
such as surety companies, life insur-
ance. and all kinds of other insurance
companies. other corporations widows
and orphans.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

for the thougfts and the aspirations
Of your heart. And you will always
be the greatest gamer thereby For
there is always most wonderful sense
of personal satisfaction over the fact
that one feels right and just within.
Your character is better than any
bank-no matter how strongly as
setted.
You may become very lonely at
times But your fiae character at that
time will always be in a position to
tell you things to keep you strong
So that you see there is in a char
acter that is fit and worthy. something
that is yaxt-greater than money,
friends-or anything.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

The coal mines are to be returned
to their owners before the first of the
year. The federal government might
learn a lesson, applicable to the rail-
road situation. by watching Kansas.
Taking over an extensive property
and then returning it to It's owners
within sixty days, with everything
done legally and in order, establishes
a record,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

The federal departments are asking
for $4,000, OO0, 900 to Oover next years
expenses. 1t, is too much. OF what
use is it for the government to urge
the people to turn from extravag gance
b savins and thrift while It remains
the greatest and most reckless spend
thrift of all? The country cannot con-
tihue to pay five billions year for
government, nor ought it to do so for
what it is likely to get
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19
YOUR MOST VALUABLE POSSES
SION

You carry it around with you. You
walk with it. sleep with it, think with
it. dream with 1t, you do with it, and
go everywhere that ii goes.
Your most valuable possession is
your Character!
1t condemns you or praises you. 1t
comforts, inspires-and may con-
tinualiy build you. For mans char
Hacter is what he actually is.
Your character may be rnisunder-
stood. misjudged. criticised-but II
cannot be altered by these things
But you may constantly better your
character and make II more fit, both
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

gas mask when Harold began to tell
of the wonderful improvements he
had made in his bosss methods
When the returning troops of the
Twenty-ninth division were received
with acclaim in the streets of their
own Baltimore, one 4-year-oid daugh-
ter of that community was not only
impressed but puzzled.
Where have they been?" she Won
dered.
'In France"
And what were they doing there %
Fighting, my dear
There was long pause, during
which she shook her head disapprov-
ingly.
We'll" she said finally, they look
to me like pretty big boys to fight"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

The pressing need for one and two
dollar bills to meet the demands of
trade is, expected to be met thru the
passage by congress of a measure
making gold certificates legal tender.
Most - the bills of small denomina-
tion have been in the form of silver
certificates. and with the rise in the
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIzABETH rKoMPsoS.

Dear Mrs Thompson: I am a young
man and have been keeping company
with a girl for three years. We were
not engaged, but might as we'll have
been.
I want to give her a good Christ
mas present. but do not know what TO
give. She has about everything in the
jewelry line that she uses. Her birth
day also comes the same month and Z
would like a suggestion for that occa-
sion, too. READER.
For the girls birthday send her
candy and give her a choice book OF
piece of pottery. At Christmas time
] would suggest a gold mesh bag. a.
fountain pen. beautiful stationery. or
a print of some good picture.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19
Dinner Stories

ct understand the returned soldier
Harold met insulted him. What did
the soldier say to him ?i'
Nothing. He merely put on his
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

The treasury department shakes
hands with itself for going. into the
market and buying bonds at a ''saV-
ing" of $4,000 900. However. those
bonds cost the American people 100
cents on the dollar. Treasury off,
eials would be performing a greater
service" says the Rochester Demo-
crat, '1f they would direct their efforts
to keeping the bonds at par But
isn't that what the treasury officials
were trying to do? Every additional
purchaser tends to maintain the sta
bility of the bonds. regardless of the
price he pays.
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THE facts, as presented, tell a
story of achievement declares Mr..
Burleson in his annual report on pos
tai activities, "They do not call for
explanations or apologies and none
are given. The administration stands
squarely on it's record" The only
reason the administration does not try
to cover up its record in the postal
service is because the public is too IA
miliar with the facts, and deception
would only react on the deceiver. Mr..
BurIeson will. indeed, have to "stand
squarely on his record" The public
will not permit him to escape from it.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

New York--Emna Goldman got an EN-.
broidery get TO while away the hours" en-
route to Kussig. Hundreds of pounds Of
sugar, scores Of sweaters fool eHd mys'er.
ions bottles were dDnsfed for anarehists
In priseu when New York Reds had =
slower.
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International
SundaySchoolLesson
NO axx m FLING
BY WILLIAM 7. ELLIS.

For December 21 is 1.-THE Prince of
Peace" - Isaiah 11:1-10; Matthew
2:1-12: Luke ASIA.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Whatever makes that first Christ
mas real and near is a message for
our own day. for we need to hear,
above the clash of class, the strife of
strikes. the pandemonium of profiteer-
fing. and the harried hunt for happi-
ness. the old. old truth sung by the
angels over Bethlehem's little hills
that the Peacemaker has come: and
rnat GoSdwilI has been-fncarnated in
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

In watching the work of the regular
humorist we have OBJ
served that the high cost Of living or.
as they have nicknamed it. the II. C.
L.. is one of the most fecund of their
sources of inspiration. Therefore. as
our first essay into the field of the
humorous. we shall write joke about
the II. &. L.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Since nobody ever tried TO he funny
without the aid of the Irish. IL is now
our purpose to compose an Irish joke.
Pat and Mike were looking into a jew
eler's window in which many dis~
monds were displayed. Faith" said
Pat. ''how would ye loiite To take yer
pick? ?" "Begorra!" said Mike, IRA
rather have me shovel"
There's your funny stuff Go ahead
and laugh till your sides ache.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Where" said a friend to Jasper
Ellington. did you meet your wife 30
'I didn't meet her" Jasper replied.
she overlook me-"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Mrs. Alonzo Muchmoney has given
her pearls to her maid and appeared
at the opera last night wearing q
string of fresh country eggs. Miss
Tessie Terwiiliger's engagement ring
is beautiful two-carat lump of coal
set in case-hardencd steel.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

We maintain that the man to send
after carranza to scare him into any
kird of concession would be a
barber.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19

Another OF the standard and eacruci-
atingly funny jokes is the one bearing
upon one of the many details OF the
marital relation. Here is a very funny
one about marriage.