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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS ELIZABETH rHo1IPsoN,

Dear Mrs. Thompson: (OWhiIe
away on visit, would it be proper
to drop a line or two to a certain bow
friend in my home town?
Cd When young man calls for
you, should you let him come to the
door ana wait for you. or should you
De ready to go out when he comes?
CD When your escort leaves YOU
at your door after an entertainment,
what should you say? How should
you thank him or his company. /
mean? Should you invite him to call
again? EDDIE
% Send him a card If yCu are
very good friends, but otherwise do
not write unless he made that re-
quest.
CD Let him come to the door and
invite him in to sit down while Won
put on your wraps.
(S) Say, Il enjoyed the evening
very much" Yes. invite him to come
again. but do not set the time.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is it proper
for a young man and lady TO bpId
one another's arms when walking On
the street or in the park?
steps? yin ;
Does the time that they have been
acquainted have anything to do with
When a young man escorts a ladv
10 her home should he go to the door
or leave her at the gate il he is not
asked to come in?
A SUBSCRIBER.
A young man should take the lady's
arm when walking in crowds, cross
ing streets and where the walking is
difficult. 1t is all right for the lady
to take the mans arm or for him to
take hers when promenading in the
park.
When ascending or descending steps
he should take her arm.
The time that they have been &C
quainted has nothing toe do with it.
He should take her to the door when
he escorts her home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

wives did not have to worry much
about where and how they would OBJ
tain food. The American housewife
would rather pay a few pennies m ore
for a commodity at the corner store
than take the trouble to make the
purchase a little less conveniently at
a cooperative store. Washington has
made this careless shopping easy by
developing 1000 little corner stores.
The prices that are charged for
foods thruout the country continue to
increase month by month. That re-
lief which was expected from war
time food prices has not arrived. In
fact, foods are higher today than
they were a year ago. To be sure,
there is such prosperity in the land
that these prices are not generally felt.
In Washington, however, where price
profiteering has always been motor
Gus, the government clerk has no OPP
portunity to participate in the general
prosperity. is generally getting the
same $l4o0 or $500 he got before the
war and is supporting a family on it
He is trying to protect himself by CO.
operating buying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
ROSE DOUBTS sANDRA'S LOVE
FOR EVERETT.

wish l could describe under
standingly the emotions I felt in those
weeks preceding my wedding. One
day was all eagerness TO try that new
life that was to be mine, the next all,
fear. and unwillingness. l tried to
think of Everett as all a lover should
be, as my idea OF what one should be
Chad been) before / met him. But /
felt often depressed. gray and overcast
like some of the days just passed. The
sweet urge of spring was gone; that
time when l felt the buoyancy of
youth, and l sometimes felt the tears
beneath my lids, as l thought of the
leaves and buds having lived their
short lives and fallen, and wished like
mother that Everett had been content
to wait until spring came again.
never had liked the fall OF the
year. In a way 1t always saddened
me. 1t seemed to me that when the
wind sighed in the tree tops. or when
it whistled so mournfully thru the
shrubs, that it was moaning with re-
gret because of the coming death OF
all about. But never had I given
voice to this feeling. 1 feared no one
would understand.
And much of the time I was so ex-
cited over my pretty clothes, my gifts.
the linen shower the girls gave for
me. that l had not time for sad
thoughts, or to worry about the future.
Sometimes I wondered in a vague
sort of way just why Everett Graham
had asked me to marry him. How he
had come to look at me at all in the
light of a wife But like others had
heard that love goes where 1t Is sent"
and his was probably sent to me.
When said so to Rose, she replied in
a real sharp way:
II wish it had been sent to some
one else"
Rose couldn't be reconciled to my
marrying Everett. Not that she dis
liked him, she said often:
He is a charming man, Sandra.
But you can't be happy just because
a man has nice manners, and knows
how to wear his clothes. A girl has
got to have something besides that
1 am not older than you are Sandra,
but I'd be frightened to death to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

At the solicitation of the president
the house of representatives has decid-
ed to abandon its Nero-like policy of
retiring to the hills while the country
burns, and will remain in session. 1t
is doubtful that It can do anything to
relieve the feeling Of unrest and dis
satisfaction which pervades the ranks
of labor. but it at least can try. The
situation appears to demand action
by the executive branch of the govern
ment. the branch which is largely re-
sponsible for existing conditions. The
president and his lieutenants having
got the country in a bad mess. by
their efforts 60 carry on its business.
should now proceed to extricate 1t and
not attempt TO shift responsibility to
congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

marry man unless Just felt /
couldn't live another minute without
him. You don't love Mr.. Graham like
that, do you?
"No-I guess II = could - live =
without him." / said slowly trying 70
analyze my feelings as answered
But Rose, have read stories where
people didn't care so terribly much
and then love came in a binding flash
those are just the very words a
binding flash Perhaps that lis the
way 1t will come to me II don't love
Everett enough now"
binding flash nothing. Maybe you
do love him all you can, Sandra.
Maybe you aren't the kind that cares
very much about love" Rose was
sentimental. yet of the two 1 was far
more alive to all that was emotional
than was she.
1 made up my mind that just as
soon as we were married l should ask
Everett about lot of things
wouldn't dare before. of course But
he must first of all tell me all about
his first wife. and tell me he loved
me far better than ever he had loved
her. That was the most important
thing OF all. Then he must tell me
all about his women friends those
he had called upon since he had been
widower, and IL he had been in love
with any OF them, and a dozen other
things 1 wanted desperately to know.
Then I would write Rose and tell her
how mistaken she had been, and show
her how foolish she was tn think
Everett was too old to make me
happy.
My faith that all his answers would
set me at ease shows the little knowl-
edge OF what the replies to such ques-
tons as / meant to ask might mean to
me-if they were honestly answered.
There was one thing abou me /
was sure Everett liked, that was my
name. He had told me so often, and
everything he sent me was marked
simply ''Sandra." No initials, or mon
ograms. He had told me that an un-
usual name always attracted him.
Mine surely was unusual 50 of course
he was pleased with IL.
Had I known that even the liking
he had for unusual names Wa TO be
distressing factor in my life.
should not have been so proud that
mother had called me Sandra-
(Tomorrow-Sandra wedding eYe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

The government might find it prof
table TO return the railroads to their
owners and devote the money which II
is called upon to pay in increased
wages to railroad workmen, to reduc-
ing the high cost of living. It would
thereby benefit a much larger number
OF persons and would be no worse off
financially in the end.
The theory that wages and prices
must be permanently higher in order
that the situation Of the wage-earnine
class may be improved calls to mind
the old attempt to lift oneself to a
higher level by pulling on ones own
bootstraps. The condition of the
masses cannot be improved by raising
the cost of everything they consume
or by any policy that reduces the pro-
duction of those things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY x. MoULToN

My Summer Resort.
I'm going to spend the summer
Right where l did last year.
The place lacked no convenience
Conductive to good cheer.
had there every comfort
did not lack for food,
The cooking was a marvel
And everything was good.
The beds were soft ard downy,
did not lie awake:
The coffee was delicious
Like mother used to make.
Nobody tried to sting me
On prices for my board;
Mosquitoes didn't bite me,
No irate boarders roared.
motored out quite often
At very slight expense;
L was quite close to tennis.
And golfinK was immense.
Yes, l will spend the summer
With no desire to roam,
Right where l spent II last year
I'm going to stay at home.
Now, with women taking mems
places. any woman who has chased
shirts up and down a washboard for a
number of years is eminently fitted TO
operate handcar.
Just when We thought there was
never going to be another war, the
London town corporation presented
General Pershing with a new sword.
1t is rumored that the man in the
postal airplane accidentally dropped
somebody's love-letter overheard the
other day, and the thing was so much
lighter than air that 1t floated upward
out of sight and was never recovered.
Soldiers always grew tired of beans
as a steady diet. Was it not General
Grant who said: Let us have peas %
It Is a wise galcct vino knows
enough to stay off the witness stand.
AS a diplomat and philosopher Uncle
Henry IS a great little old automobile
manufacturer.
Dear Roy-"Parlor Panther" was
good. We calls 'em sofa Snakes
c. w. Wills
Apologies to Poe.
Hear the postman with the bills.
Drafted bills.
Hear the whistle Of the postman as 1t
shrills.
How they dun, dun, dun
On accounts that have outrun.
How the increased cost o. living
Keeps me giving. and giving, and giving.
Yet merrily make fun.
OF the missives as they come
On the run.
1t is not worth while to curse
For l know they will be worse,
Piling higher. higher, higher,
As my cash is growing shyer.
Yes, know what they're for.
I'm still paying for the war
With Its bills. bills, bills, bills,
Bills, bills, bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
RENIvING ENTERPRISE.

The country is just entering a period
OF the greatest business activity; the
harvest of crops is un1er way. This
harvest will prove an unusually profit
able one for the agricultural districts
in site of yields falling somewhat
below early expectations. Western
merchants and eastern manufacturers
alike will feel the consequent stimulus
in a larger demand for all necessities
and many iuxuries.
1t must be remembered. says Henry
Clews. in his Financial Review. enter
prise IS reviving; many new ventures
are starting: old concerns are enlarg-
ing or improving their plant; houses
and office buildings are being started
on a growing scale; almost overnight
we have bee, me the second maritime
power the world: 'Gr export trade
Is growing at fabulous rate, and our
iron trade has scarcely had time to
shift from; a war basis to peace basis
before it finds itself taxed to meet
onoonning orders for both domestic and
foreign trade.
Demands for shipbuilding. automo-
biies. construction, engineering and
export trade are reported as already
taking so per cent of the steel output.
and will soon require more. AS yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

Even gold, which in the past has
been regarded as the most stable COM
modify in the world. is said to be ad-
vancing in price. 1t is reported that
manufacturing jewelers. are paying a
premium for it. There has been a
considerable reduction in the produc-
ton OF gold due to the high cost Of Ia
Dor. At many mines it is no longer
profitable to produce the yellow metal
at its coinage value. The increased
price paid by manufacturers may serve
to stimulate mining. The output of
gold in the United States in the cur
rent year. it is said, will be nearly all
taken by manufacturing jewellers, and
mining men say that I.ext year the
banking reserves will be drawn upon
by that demand. With gold growing
scarcer and commodities more plenti-
full the tendency may be to a restora-
ton of the old relationship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. Did examinations OF men for military
service show what parts OF the country
A Reflections Of men because Of physical
unfitncss we're fewer in that strip from
Texas TO cunada than elsewhere. The next
east Gwe' Of ' the MISSISSIPPI ana IN The the Gulf
states. The percentage of reflections were
greatest in New England. New York. Mich
Washington In the first Of these The cause
Is set down to the presence OF great num-
bers Of immigrants and industrial conren-
trations while In the western states II 10
health seekers.
O. Is the mock orange ever ediblel-
A. The mock orange is OF Japanese
origin and Is used only a. an ornamental
the orange and lemon but Il hardler and
Will grow much farther north The de-
partment Of agriculture has taken adyHn-
tage OF this fact and has crossed the mock
thus developed a new citrus fruit that may
be grown a. far north a. the ohio river.
Q. Where DO the most valuable einerslds
A. The most Important emerald mines
are IN Columbia. They are government
owned ana are worked under concessions
which limit production that the market
interior and in the high mouptaIns.
corn 70 ! crib I'll. G. W.
Inches. multiply this figure BY its width
IN inches, then multiply this figure ~
the depth Of the corn in inches. This gets
TIE cubic contents ~ the crib in inches.
Divide this figure By 2.T4s. which IL the
number OF cubic inchrs in a bushel The
result Will be the number of bushels.
Roughly two heapinR bushels Of corn on
corn
Q, Can stars be seen with the naked eve
IN the daytime from the bottom ~ weli1
Il r.
A. In the reduced light at the bottom
~ well the pupil ~ the eye would dilate.
letting IN more light and stars could be
seen In the daytime.
Q. IL the Star spangled Banner our
national anthem f-H. N.
A. No song has ever been made our ma
tional anthem by official action. Foreign
countries consider "The Star Spangied Ban
ner" our national anthem and the army
navy 70 recognize II when they require our
soldiers and sailors 20 stand at attention
when Il IL played.
(Any reader can get the answer 10 any
question by writing The Topeka state
Journal Information i-urrau. Frederic y,
Hnskin. Director. Washington. ~ C. Give
full name and address and encirEe 2-ccnt
stamp for return nosfnEe Re brief All
INQUIRIES are confidential the replies being
sent direct TO each Individually
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

The cost OF harvesting this years
crops has broken all records in the
wage history Of the grain belt. As
high as so cents and 81 an hour with
board and lodging is reported to have
been paid to competent farm hands in
sections of harvesting activity. New
ertheIess. the farmers stand to gain
an immense amount of wealth. which
is much better diffused this year than
ever before A land craze of consid-
cradle magnitude has developed nat
urally from the increased earnings of
farm lands and the prospect of the
broader foreign buying OF American
foodstuffs. Land sales in various sec
lions show exceptional increases over
pre-war prices. the rise being so pro-
nounced in some quarters as to lead
occupants of prosperous farms to sell
out at a good profit and to move to
more remote sections of the United
States, or across the border into Can
ada where highly productive land is
available at a much lower price per
acre. Others again have taken up
their residence in the cities and towns
and this movement has given a con-
siderable stimulus to the urban real
estate market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

THE DOG.
We never known a dog to wag
:. His tail in giee he didn't feel
nor quit his old-time friend to tag
At some more influential heel
Ipe yellowest cur ! ever knew
was. to the boy who loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to show
Halfway devotion to his friend,
10 seek kinder mai to know,
OF richer. but unto the end
The humblest dog | ever knew
was, to the man that loved him, true.
I've never known n dog TO fake
Atiection for present gain,
A false display of love TO make,
Some little favor TO attain
l We never known a Prince or SPOT
That seemed TO be what he was not
But have known a dog to fight
With all his strength 10 shfefri a frieuA
And, whether wrong or whether right,
To stick with him until the end
And have known dog TO lick
The hand of him that men would kick
And ! have known dog to hear
Starvation pangs from dav 10 dav
With him who had been glad 10 shara
His bread and meat along the way.
No dog. however mean or rude
Is guilty OF ingratitude.
The dog is listed with the dumb,
No voice has he to speak his creed.
His messages to humans come
BY faithful conduct and by deed.
He shows. as seldom mortals do.
high>ideal Of being true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.



Don't think that a child doesn't I'M
derstand the significance of such a
scene. There are no other such
shrewd judges of character, and no
such merciless critics as children An
older person may make excuses for
only the bald facts. and 1t takes the
full measure of its parents failings
without giving them the benefit of any
extenuating circumstances.
Parents seek futilely to instill moral
maxims into the minds of their chill
dren unless they first set the example
inculcated by the maxims. You ask
in vain for a child to honor the father
and mother who do not honor each
other, or TO submit to the control of
parents who cannot control them
selves.
The queer part of all this is that in
gratifying their momentary temper
and Irritation by fighting with each
other and hurting home truths at each
ther, the husband and wife seem to
have no conception of what they are
doing, or what the consequences are
bound to be. or that they are destroy
ing the very safeguards that they must
some day depend upon to save their
children.
There comes a time when the father
expects his girls to listen to their
mothers advice and to be guided by
her. But how can the girls have any
| respect for mothers opinion when all
their lives they have heard father de-
| ride mothers judgment. and ridicule
her for a fool?
There comes a day when mother
| finds herself unable to cope with her
headstrong son. and appeals TO
fathers authority to control the boy.
But father has no authority because
mother has undermined him by years
| nf RrfffCfcr11 LOT ~ o.
and by teaching the boy to secretly
| disobey him.
And there comes a time when the
parents would give their heart blood
to keep their children at home, but
the children will not stay because their
home has been nothing but a place OF
| argument, and pickering, and crimina-
| tons and recriminations. and they
want to flee 1t as soon as possible, and
! get out into a world where people
treat each other at least with outward
politeness.
1t takes team work to rear chill
| dren properly, and that is something
you do not find in many homes, hence
the number of delinquent children.
And the pity of II Is that there are
millions OF perfectly good, well mean.
ing. people who quarrel just because
quarreling has become a habit with
them without realizing that by doing
so they are running their children.
Home influence is the most impor-
tant factor in the development of any
life. but II is powerful for evil as well
as for good. and heaven may well pity
and judge leniently. the helpless chill
dren whose misfortune ii Is to be
brought up. in house of strife.
A~@ 81
| Copyright, 1919, by the wheeler Syndicate,
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-05

My cuzzin Artie came GROUND last
mite. and me and him sat on the
setting room floor and started to make
up riddles, and pop sat in the morris
chair smoking and thinking, me say
ing to Artie, Wat goes up and never
goes down?
Wat? sed Artie, and I sed, Do you
give it up?
Yes, sed Artie, and I sed. A eleva-
tor.
Go on. a elevator goes down, sed
Artie. and I sed, No it don't neither.
That rite, sed Artie, and pop sed,
zee gods.
Hers one, sed Artie. wat wawks
with legs and cant stand on its
he'd?
wat? I sed, and Artie sed. Give it
Crate Seezer, sed pop:
Hers one. 1 sed. wat is it you cant
lift up by its handle?
Wat2 sed Artie, and I sed, Give it
up? and he sed. Yes, and 1 sed. A
sootcase with the handle broak off
Help. ade. sucker. sed pop.
Hers one, sed Artie. wat has a
thousand feet and none of them
touches the ground?
Wat? / sed. and Artie sed, Give it
up? and 1 sed, Yes. and pop sed. I
enything like the other ones I may
not be able to stand it, I'm dizzy all
reddy.
A centerpede. sed Artie, and sed,
centerpedes feet touch the ground,
don't they? and he sed. Not wen its
on its back
Hoiey suffering cats. the last straw
that broak the camels back. cleer out
of heer. both of you, sed pop.
Wich we did.
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WAKE Up ALIYEr

A day usually ends in about the
same way that it starts.
If you start it in good humor. with
lots of zest and the determination to
put something thru that is worth
while, then you are pretty sure OF fin
ishing up better than you began.
The trouble is. however. that SO
many people wake up only half alive.
ness and their minds with inactivity
and poisoned thoughts.
1t makes all the difference in the
world whether you wake up alive or
not. A rested body. quieted nerves
and a determined spirit. plus ten min
utes of exercise. mean that you who
are wise enough to follow this plan.
are very much alive when you wake
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up-with all the faculties OF your mind
alert and ready for the fray. 1t al
ways works
Go to sleep happy and you are al.
most sure to wake up happy.
And the man who wakes up happy IL
always alive-and finely equipped for
whatever turns up.
How about il? Do you wake up
alive2 II you do not there are rea-
sonE, and the most profitable hunt
that you can enter into is 10 find these
reasons Then correct them-and
start TO live.
Care for the thoughts you think
the things you eat and drink. and the
manner in which you use the mocha n
ism of your body. and the world is GO
ing to be a good world 10 live in-when
you wake up