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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ AIRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am twenty
three wears old and have soldier
friend in France who has caused me
lot of hearta les.
We went together long before he
entered the service and were TO De
married. Finally the engagement was
broken before he left for overseas
duty.
have only heard from him once
since he arrived over there and his
folks hear regularly
since he has been gone heve heard
things that lead me to believe he
wasn't the fellow he was before he
entered the service. In his last ana
only letter he spoke Of being sorry
and wanted TO make up
After such a disappointm l re-
manned at home over A year without
keeping company. Just few months
ago I met fellow VINO took my eye
and I have beea keeping conn any
with this fellow. He has been a gen.
tleman in every respect He seems to
pay great attention to me.
Please advise me what to do. Do
you think i would ever lac satisfied
with the soldier for he has treated
me terribly without any reasons?
Also, ! would like to have you sen |
a few suggestions on what to get g
boy friend for his birthday.
can ever be happy enough together
to become engaged again. Love is
never satisfactory when one person is
unkind Keep your new friend and
let the soldier earn that he went too
far in the way he treated you.
1t is not at all necessary'to give a
birthday present to a boy friend ami
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

continued. After the mad nightmare
at the theater. however. the battle for
bargains seemed to Sadie like a very
calm and sedate affair. Nevertheless
she was kept SO busy that she had no
time for words with Tillie until late
in the afternoon.
We'll. cfr. Jewels coming after you
again this EVENING"" Tillie inquired
during lull. as she leaned up against
the wall uttered sigh OF relief and
placed a stick of gum in her mouth.
Sadie's lip curled.
NO" she retorted: but Mr. Piper
is. 1 decided to marry him, after all,
and let Mr.. Jewels go even if he is
rich and owns a motor car. I'll take
my chances on the poor factory farm.
See, here's the ring Jasper gave me
last night. I'm going to send it Lack.
Tillie took the ring and held it up
to the light. An expression of scorn
crossed her face as she placed her
arms akimbo and stopped chewing
gum long enough to say:
Some jewel. Sadie, some jewel.
Must have cost all of quarter. Pure
glass and brass that's what it is. So
you're goinss to take a chance on the
poor one, are you? Why. you poor
deluded kid. I've been investigating
last night. and I've found some inter-
esting facts; and one is that your Sec
ond choice is the best you could have
made. 1 thought that Jasper person
looked kinda suspicious, and 1 was
right. Do you know who he chauf-
feurs for? Well, I'll tell you. The
fellow that owns the big green ma
a factory over in Brooklyn; and he's
all to the good, that fellow is"
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

tile group. Eight other groups fell
off in February, oils. hides and
leather. chemicals and drugs and pro-
visions and metals each helping to
bring down the levels slightly, white
breadstuffs, coal and naval stores
showed smaller shadings. Only three
groups. livestock. fruits and miscella-
neous products. advanced, while build
ing materials were unchanged on the
month. Three quarters of the entire
net decrease, however. was accounted
for by the decline in textiles. In Feb
ruary. as in January. decreases were
almost twice as numerous as gains,
there being thirty-four of the former
and eighteen of the latter, while fifty
four products remained unchanged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

In a discussion of the labor situa-
ton in Seattle the Iron Trade Review
presents the idea of a sympathetic
strike in a new light. Suppose, it says,
the officials of a shipbuilding COM
pany, because they had no orders for
vessels, would demand that other
Seattle manufacturers who are well
booked with business and who employ
clerks. gas-workers. electricians, etc,
close down their plants; suppose a
condition such as this became an
actually, what would happen? Seat
tie would become as a great mega
phone of incompatible size, and as
far east as the Rocky mountains there
would resound the wailing of work
mems voices bitterly complaining of
the high-handed and unfair manner in
which their interests had been treated.
Yet this is exactly the position in
which Seattle manufacturers recently
have been placed by labor unions of
that city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
MY HUSBAND AND |
By JANE PHELPS

thing is done. You couldn't UNDER
stand if 1 tried to tell you."
Lorraine said today th-t IL she
married she would want to know al
made me realize I knew absolutely
nothing of yours"
She probably would have to tsks
1t out in wanting. Men aren't apt to
tell their wives very much of their
business. Women gossip too much,
has to talk business all day. and ne
doesn't want to talk it all night as
WE'LL
1 said no more about the business.
but told him of the conversation
had heard at the Waldorf. I de-
scribed the men. and asked if he knew
them, He said he did not recognise
them from my description. so | re-
peated what they hal said. If il was
some other Forbes there was no rea-
son why l shouldn't tell Neil.
watched him as repeated the CONVEX
: sation 1 had overheard. l had for
gotten No word of what they had said
lit had made me too anxious Just
as / finished l looked up and was
surprised and puzzled to see wave of
! crimson rush across Neil's fae-e. ,,ut at
the same time he said carelessly:
There are several families OF
Forbes in New York. But we are not
! related
Once again 1 had been uneasy for
no reason l must stop 'imagir ing
things, I decided.
The remainder of the evening we
spent planning when we should M We
always supposing we found an
apartment that suited us--ani what
| we should do about the disposal of the
one we ere then occupying
If YOU rent it furnished or unfUr-
| nished you may have the rent" he
said.
"Oh, I'll surely rent it, but / hate
to let anyone have our things"
We shant needs or want Them
| Might as well let them stay here"
| The very next day l found a teri MT
for the apartment who VIC uld lake
/ possession whenever we were ready to
vacate. l had spoken to the superin-
tendent. and he sent his ma n to me
| bachelor who would take 1t eff of
our hands if we would leave tie frrni-
tuFe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
DINNER STORIES

A noted humorous Lecturer, who
was invited to deliver al address to
an audience of convicts in a western
penitentiary. noticed that the audience
laughed heartily. but did not applaud.
After the lecture the warden of the
institution ventured an apology
They didn't seem very appreciative.
did they" he asked
II thought they seemed to enjoy it
very MUCH the lecturer replied.
But they might have clapped y
little" the warden remarked. instt ad
of just sitting there with their hands
folded
well, welr.' the lecturer laughed.
Il noticed that they sat with their
hands folded. but 1 thought they were
all manacled."
Marriage with so many of our
manageable young men in France is
quite difficult" remarked Congress-
woman Rankin. TT reminds me OF
a Paris tea room.
I'm going to learn teaching one
of them said.
i" Teaching cried the other. why.
I'd rather marry a widower with six
children than be a teacher
'' All, so would T. sighed the first,
but where's the widower'
Mr.. Simpsons voice rumbled thru
the house. MARY. here's the baker.
How many 1oaves? Two. as usual?"
Two 1oaves, indeed" replied Mrs.
Simpson. Have you forgotten that
Jack is coming home on leave today ?"
"Of course." said Mr.. Simpson. as
he suddenly remembered his sailor son
was coming home. Here, Mr.. Bak-
er. back your cart up against this
door, and tip her up"
There are not many women preach
ers, but there are a few. One of them
has a parish in a small city that is
surrounded by many miles of uncuIti-
waited territory. The station agent d.
rected a Scandinavian farmer who
wanted to get married to the girl of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE
BY LEE PAPE

Beds.
Beds is wat you sleep in and set on
the edge of to put your shoes on. If
a persin was educated on a desert is
land and then saw a bed for the ferst
time, he would proberly jest go to
sleep on the floor as usual and leeve
the bed standing there. Proving habit
is a CRATE thing.
A bed has no top and bottom of its
own, the top being warever the pill
lows is, and people sleep with their
he'd up at that end by instink.
The room ware a bed is is gen.
reilly called a bed room on account of
that fack. Wen people have beds in
the setting rom they fold them up to
look like bookcases in the daytime.
not because they're ashamed its a bed
but because they're ashamed ware it
is, and if enybody says, Look at the
pritty book case. they jest let them
say it. Proving the effect of thing
depends a good eel on ware it is.
Wen people are we'll they would
awffen rather be in bed than ware
ever they are no matter ware they are,
but wen they are sick the longer they
haff to stay there the less thankful
they are. Proving "a thing is no use
as long as you cant injoy it.
In winter bed usually contains
sheets, blankits and one quilt. You
mite feel jest as warm without the
2 sheets but you wouldent feel as re-
fined.
People in bed awffin dreem they
are sumware elts, but they always
wake up to find out different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
ONE OF NEILS DEAL GOES
THRU.
~rrA r,r,r.n Wv


Hip hip hurrah.''
Neil it was whose voice had rung
out in the cheer. 1 was waiting din
ner for him, but had not heard him
come in.
whats it all about?" He had
grabbed me around my W and was
whirling me about the room for all
the world like mad Dervish.
Its overi The deal went thru to-
day. My. but your husbands some
me, Bah. Say it quick or I'll go and
find someone who VIII" Anxious as
always for praise.
''Of course l am proud of you, You
dear boy. I'm always proud of you.
Come. You shah tell me all about it
while we have dinner"
Neil was very gay all thru dinner,
yet he really told me nothing. Again
and again he reiterated that the deal
had gone thru" and more than once
I had to tell him that l was proud of
him.
We'll go and look at those apart
ments 1 told you of. ON Sunday, or
would you rather have house?" he
asked.
"oh. let US have the apartment. a
to manage. But Neil, why not stay
here until our year is up? Wen hav
to pay unless we find someone to take
it,
Stay here! Well, I guess not!
Well get out of this joint just about
as fast as We can. then we'll show
them a few things" cThem'' being
his friends of course.)
He was SO boyishly happy, I said nc
more. Yet 1 dreaded the thought of
change. The apartment. while not
large. was comfortable and was almost
luxurious in its furnishings. With
the two servants I had little real care,
and We had been happy therein our
first home.
After Neil's first ebu1lition of joy
had somewhat subsidized, as we were
sitting in the library. slipping our cot
fee, I tried again to question him..
Never mind the details. Bah. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

when the cats away. the mice
will play is a saying which has been
exemplified this week in Paris. TAX
ing advantage of President wilson's
a bsence, Secretary Lansing has seized
the opportunity to make a speech. in
which he pleads for food for the
Huns. Is anybody objecting to SELL
ing food to the Teutons provided they
pay the price and furnish transport
tation? Their money is as good as
anybody's and there is food enough
for everybody in the world. with an
other big crop coming on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
THE WAY TO BUILD.

The way to build roads is to build
them. The state highway department
of Pennsylvania has just called for
bids for the construction of fifty
miles of permanent roads in various
sections of the state. This mileage is
in addition to fifty-three miles for
which bids were asked earlier in the
season. This action marks an earnest
endeavor to give the people Penn
sylvania the earliest possible benefit
of the constitutional amendment voted
at the November 8, 1918. election I'M
der which s50,OO0,000 of bonds will be
issued to provide funds for improving
Pennsylvanias highways. A notable
feature of this program is that the
money will be expended for perma-
nent construction. Instead of build
ing one-way roads Pennsylvania will
double-track its highway system, as
nearly all of the contracts call for
eighteen-foot pavement. Within the
next few weeks. it is reported. bids are
to be asked on the construction of
several hundred additional miles of
highway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
DEMOCRACY.

bEMo(nA&1
He thought the wcrl,I a lonely place,
He growled. about the human race
And Thought that crowds were vulga
things
And not worth while to know:
He wanted men of high degree
Always to share his company
And go he spurued he humber men
Who daily come and go.
He could not see the fellowship
That lies i'll every friendly grip.
He never paused along his way
To talk with humbleness;
He thought the only friends worth while
And so he sought the worldly great
And worshipped their success
But few men rise to wealth and fame,
And few the distant heights may claim.
Who waits to share the pomp or Kings,
Must tread a lonely way.
Who spurns the pleasures commonplace,
The glittering joys of life to chase,
Must miss the daisies at his feet
Where all the children play.
He'll miss the charm of friendship true,
The deeds that kindly people do:
He'll find the world a dismal place.
Who lives alone for fame.
For all the joys that poets pen
Are in the breasts of humble men
Aud he Is rich who finds a friend
Whate'er his rank or name.
So do not hold yourself afar,
But walk where all the people are,
Rejoice in every smile you see
And share in every song.
You'll find the word n happy place
And lit by many n smiling face.
And warned by many kindly heart
If you will join the throng
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

his choice to the woman minister's
house. He didn't tell the farmer that
the pa cher was a woman.
When the farmer knocked at the
parsonage door, he addressed him.
self TO the young woman who an
swered his knock.
The man at the station say ay can
git married here"
''Certainiy-I'll marry you," an
swered the preacher.
"Ay tanky. ay better not" said the
farmer. lay got girl already"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Commodity prices receded farther
in February. but the downward ten
dency was ore deliberate than it was
in January, says Bradstreet's, and
than in preceding months, textiles,
both raw and manufactured, super
seding them in the Importance of the
declines shown. The feature of the
present price survey is the weakness
shown to have developed in the tex
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

The president has asked for the res
ignations of all members of the civil
service commission. the only reason
being that he wants to reorganize that
body. He could do more popular
thing by asking for the resignation of
his postmaster general But the CEN
sus will be taken next year and a new
civil service commission may be enc
of the ADMINISTRATORS necessities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULToN
Tragic Overture.
lInly L 1l1ll

A sleek. meek Greek, too weak to speak,
Once gave a wild despair:ng shrek.
He wept. The silver tears rolled down
His nose: his forehead wore a frown.
Let the bright highbal fadei
Let pass the golden fiZz!
The humble beer deserves a tear.
oh, woe that isl and oh. gewhizz.
Shall cocktails not be made?
Oh, let me die before July,
When old N York goes wholly dry.
Too weak to speak. that sleek, meek Greek
Gave forth Il dreadful dying shrek.
-Perley A. Child.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

A serious clash between japanese
and American armed forces is report
ed from China. Thus is afforded an
other reason for hurrying up the for
nation of league of nations If
there shall be an international court,
long docket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

The plea of excessive cost of labor
and material no longer holds good
against a program of extensive road
building. The federal government
now stands ready to bear half the
expense on roads costing not over
$4,000 q mile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Reduction in living costs to tn, con-
sumner is put forward by the federal
reserve board as thu key to the rea E
justment period. Reduction in living
costs probably will be soonest
brought about by the governments
taking it's hands off the business and
Industries of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

1t is said that the hen bases her
working day on the duration o. light.
Does this mean that we shall have
more eggs under the daylight extern
sion plan soon to become effective
again?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Down in Georgia, the farmers are
being warned to send no more hogs
to market until congestion has been
relieved. The best way to stop the
flow of hogs to market would be to
cut the price. Farmers will continue
to produce and sell as long as they
can get return approximatins SEQ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Arms and ammunition again are
being shipped into Mexico. Probably
it Will be necessary, at no distant day.
To follow them with an American
army
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

March IS. 1891.
A charter has been filed by the Mills,
Flower IL Adams Dry Goods Co.. with the
secretary of state. The firm will do
general dry goods business in this city.
The company will occupy the first floor
and basement at I23 Kansas avenue. for
meriy occupied by Fl. H. Mills Sons. The
officers of the company are W. w Mills.
president: c. ". Flower. vice president;
Charles Adams, treasurer, and W. Whit
ton. secretary.
quartette composed of Mrs. =. H. Ad-
ans. Mrs. Chas. Burnnam. Ed Epps and
Oscar Hollis is furnishing Sunday evening
music at the Cong regationa1 church.
Misses Jennie and Emma Hagan will
spend a few days in Kansas City this week.
Dr. and Mrs. w. A. McCarter entertained
about a dozen babies and their parents last
evening, March IT, being the first birthday
anniversary of their daughter, katherine
Davis McCarter.
Miss Lulu Ferdyce has accepted a posi-
ton with Warren NJ. Crosby & Co.
Miss Martha Mccoy has returned from
the Iowa State university to spend the sum-
mer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

The Atlanta CAL board of education has
repealed its order for the reading of the
Isibie and reneating the Lords prayer in
the public schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18
Antiqucs-Found In the City Museum
in 2121.

in 2121.
Brass Rail: A short piece of brass
rail standing six inches from the floor,
round in appearance and supported
by uprights. Presented to the museum
by Felix Dingweather, great-great-
grandson of Ignatius Dingweather
who rescued it from the wreck of an
old time ginmill on July 1, 1919. 1t
is said that the decided limp of our
present race comes from the habit the
ancients had of standing with one foot
on these ratings. s4ra
Fortified Pretze1:- Once used as an
article of food. Two hundred years
ago men ate these things to promote
thirst In those days there was some
sense to a thirst Altho the pretZel,
so-called, is now solid stone, it is said
to be but little harder than it was
when it was consumed in great guam
titles. 1t is bent into a peculiar shape,
but it is not known whether the an
clients bent these pretzels before they
were baked or after; but it is known
that the Pretzel Benders' picnic was
always a great event of the social year
in some circles.
Some men have queer ambitions.
Max of Baden wants to be kaiser
We dare him.
Me1ba says she will sing as long as
her voice lasts. Some of our opera
stars see this bet and raise it several
years.
Airplanes.
Why are they never camouflaged?
That was a question no one could
answer.
One night queried that of Con-
stance. Replied the fair miss in a
low tone, why need they be? Are
they not mostly in de skies ?''-M. H.
r. X M-"The ex-kaiser is in the
habit of going out every noon after
Lunch and picking grapes. He de-
clares it to be one of his greatest re-
laxations item.
His last chance to feel de-vine p
Mark Hellinger.
A Colorado woman whose husband
was giving a poker party got a revolt
yer and held up the game, getting
$500. Few men are blessed with such
wives.
Dancing and wine drinking have
been tabooed in Berlin cafes. They
have got to put up a hard-luck front
somehow
Charlie Hapsburg, formerly emp of
Austria, thinks of coming to America
to live. Well, there is no law against
thinking of it.
borrow enough to pay his income tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

All the 239 pettE-eriminals who enlisted
in the army at the urgency of the city's
reform agency in Philadelphia distin-
guished themselves in war service -over
there" and many have come back ideal
citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

The exact range of the seventeen
year brand is predicted as follows
Beginning at the eastern extremity of
Long Island. it sweeps west and south
to the Mississippi river at Cairo. ILL.,.
and extends as far north as central
Wisconsin and as far south as middle
Georgia. with some isolated colonies
as far northeast as upper Vermont,
and one as far west as the boundary
line between Iowa and Nebraska.
Twenty states are included. There are
three regions of greater occurrence.
one covering New jersey. Maryland
and eastern Pennsylvania, another
covering all of Indiana, the greater
part of Ohio and southern Michigan,
and third covering western North
| Carolina. eastern Tennessee, and
northern Georgia.
The thirteen-year brood is less to
/ be feared so far numbers are con-
cerned- 1t is made up of scattered
| colonies rather than of the dense
swarms that mark the seventeen-year
! tribe. Parts of Alabama. Georgia.
North Carolina. South Carolina and
Tennessee will be affected by the thir-
| teen-year locusts.
| 1t will be a great year for locusts.
| according to the scientists prediction.
| Still there is no cause for worry if
: precautions are taken. The 1ocusts'
/ vulnerable points are well known: so
| that if the pests are attacked in time
| with the right methods their cam
paign of destructiveness should be al
most entirely defeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Melba says she will sing as long as
her voice lasts. Some of our opera
stars see this bet and raise it several
years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-18

Some men have queer ambitions.
Max of Baden wants to be a kaiser.
We dare him.