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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16

The telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS have not been self-sustaining un-
der the government control, the post
master general has finally admitted.
While the amount of money which
must be paid out to fulfill the prom
ises made to the companies by the
postoffice department when the sys-
TENS were taken over by the govern
ment has not been disclosed, Mr..
Burleson has acknowledged that "a
number of these properties are now
being operated at considerable loss"
That government operation of the tel
egraph systems has cost the taxpayers
at least 81 900, 10000 was admitted by
inference recently by the chairman of
the wire control board in testifying
before the house interstate commerce
committee
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should leave them BEHIND twenty
years. After about that time, they
become quite unrecognizab
once heard an ex-governor begin
a great speech with these words: Il
would rather have been a Monkey
twenty years ago, and a Man now.
than a Man then and a Monkey
now!" And / have never forgotten
the impression that that statement
made upon my mind at that time.
Mistakes are bad enough. But
there is one thing that is worse-tc
REMEMBER them.
I never want to see a person who
has never made mistakes. He would
mt look human. Even Christ, OF
whom it is written that He was
tempted in all points. as we. yet with
out SIM" never condemned the mis-
taker. Was it not Mary Magdalene.
who came with that precious box OF
expensive ointment to anoint the feet
of Him who had spoken so kindly and
with such love when those who con-
deh1ned her. stole quickly away at the
sound of the voice of this great Man.
! am sure that the woman who did
not feel like signing her name is a
very useful woman. and a very good
woman. I hope that she Gill never
think of her "one mistake" again
and be happy!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BARBARA DECIDES TO WITH
HOLD MRS. ORTON'S LETTER
CHAPTER xCI.

CHAPTER XII.
1t was a demeaning act to open a
letter addressed to Neil. yet that view
of it did not occur to me. 1 was SO
worried over the contents, so anxious
to know the meaning of my husbands
intimacy with Blanche Orion that /
had no thought for amenities.
After we reached home. however. 1t
came to me that by withholding the
letter, Neil would know nothing of
the party at Mrs. Orton's for that eve
ming. 1 reread the letter carefully
and saw the inference it contained
that if Frederick could not come she
would write him. Evidently he would
not go unless she telephoned him.
decided to say nothing of the letter.
If he did not come home 1 would,
of course, know he had gone to her,
but if he did-why 1 would at least
have kept him with me one evening.
He came in about six o'clock. Aunt
and he talked until dinner was ready
at seven. He had excused himself
from dressing on the plea that he had
had a hard day, and was tired.
We were scarcely seated at the
table when the telephone rang. My
heart almost stopped beating for a
moment as I waited until the maid
had answered.
Mr. Forbes is wanted on the tele-
phone" she said. a knowing look on
her face. 1 knew as well as If she
had told me THAT a woman had called
him. Her expression proclaimed it
l turned hot, then cold. If it were
Mrs. Orion would she tell him she
had written and would he question
me? Aunt had told him we called
at the office and how much she ad-
mired the way he had fitted up. She
also had told him she thought his
Ste0Opra Dher rather impude0t and
that she would advise an older woman
who would be more attentive to his
business.
But I have found her extremely
capable, and alive to the needs OF
my business. Perhaps you mistook
natural curiosity at two handsome
women calling for impudence," Neil
had returned so pleasantly that moth
ing more had been said. 1 had not
joined in the discussion at all. II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
- Stewed Prunes.
Broiled Mackerel. Toast.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Scalloped Corn (canned).
Homemade Bread.
New Onions Cookies.
Tea.
DINNER,
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Veal Tongue with Sauce.
Baked Potatoes
Lettuce with Sour Cream Dressing
Brown Bread. Lemon Pie
Coffee.
The Table.
Old-Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes
One and three-fourths pints milk or
water. three cups pure buckwheat
flour, half teaspoon salt. half cake
compressed yeast; stir flour and salt
slowly in liquid and beat until
smooth, then add yeast dissolved in
half cup warm water and set to rise
over night. Next morning add half
teaspoon baking soda and bake on
creased griddle.
Eggless Gingerbread-Half a cup
shortening. half cup brown sugar. one
cup baking molasses, one teaspoon
soda, one cup hot water. two cups
flour, two teaspoons ginger, one tea
spoon cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoon
cloves, one-feurth teaspoon salt:
cream sugar and shortening well; add
molasses and soda dissolved in hot
water; flour sifted with salt and
spices; beat well and bake in moder-
ate oven.
Steamed Salmon Leaf-One can SAL
mon, ane cup bread crumbs, one cup
milk, pepper and salt. one egg. Steam
one hour. White sauce may be served
over this.
Casserole Dinner - Three -fourths
pound round steak, one tablespoon
drippings, one-half cup rice. two cups
boiling water, two tablespoons flour.
one-half cup tomatoes, one carrot.
small onion, seasoning to taste. Cut
meat in small pieces and>fry in drip
pings till brown. Dredge with flour.
put in casserole. add other ingredients
the vegetables having been cut fine.
Cook one hour.
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TO THE WOMAN WHO DIDN'T
SIGN HER NAME.

Recently 1 received very beautiful
letter of encouragement from a wom-
an reader. She said that she had
made one big mistake twenty years
before and that all these following
years had been years of~trying to live
down that zone mistake"
And then she ended her letter with
the statement that she would not sign
her name-but would like to!
I wish that she had signed her
name. 1 would like to write TO her
the same kind of an ging let
ter which she wrote to me- And |
think that here are a few things that
l would have included in that letter:
There is no more zone mistake
to woman than to man. Not a
one of us but who has fallen short,
at some time or other. In face. our
daily lives are but factor instances in
an Eternity of Mistakes toward Good
ness. planned for here and now. But
our mistakes are for the past-not for
the now.
It does not do one ounce of good to
remember the blunders which we
have made. Instead of carrying
them with US for twenty years, we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16

twelve r. o. T. c. districts. In each
district there is an inspector. with
assistants in direct charge of the units
in the colleges and schools. Direct
headquarters are located at the follow
ing cities: Boston, New York. Phil
adelphia, Raleigh, Nashville. Column
bus, Ohio; Chicago, Minneapolis. Kan
sas City, Mo-; Austin, San Francisco
and Spokane.
The r. o. T. C. is proving very
popular with high school students. In
certain large cities, the high schools
consolidated to form-junior units. For
example, the high schools of Chicago
maintain a junior unit, the strength
of which. is 1926. To this unit army
officers have been assigned, and the
students are manifesting great in
terest in the training. Other cities
which have established high school
units include Detroit, Cleveland,
Memphis. Los Angeles. San Francisco,
Salt Lake City, Ogden, Minneapolis
and Indianapolis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16

into the window of a restaurant where
some proud fisherman had placed on
display a large muskalonge, nicely
mounted on a board.
The man gazed at the trophy for
some time. and then, as he turned to
go. he put his whole soul into the ex-
clamation:
We'll, the man who says he caught
that fish is doggone liar"
A man from a bone-dry Arkansas
community went to a wet Missouri
town and was invited by an acquain-
lance to have a drink. In the saloon
the friend asked:
What are you going to have?"
"Have?" dreamily returned the
visitor, blinking at the glorious ar
ray of barrelled and bottled goods.
II amt going to have noth'n'."
What do you mean, Gabe? You
won't have a drink after coming all
this distance?"
Nope answered the Arkansawyer.
There hain't no such place as this.
I'll wake up in minute"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16
THE H. C. L. SECRET.

What Is the secret of the contin-
ued high cost of living? The secret
is no secret" says Leslies in an illum.
mating summary of the causes of ex-
listing economic conditions, which fol
lows:
Railroad wages are increased by
several billions. and up go passenger
and freight rates.
Wages of telephone companies en-
ployes are increased, and Straightway
the tolls are advanced 20 per cent
Wages of packing house employee!
go up, and the packers promptly an.
nounce that no reduction in the price.
of meat products can be expected dur
ing the ensuing year.
The price of wheat is fixed at $22t
a bushel. as against the pre-war price
of 81, and the high cost of bread ha.
no prospects Of a decrease.
Employees of the wooden mills ash
for double wages. and the cost o
clothing keeps moving forward.
Cotton mills grant higher wages. and
everything made of cotton, from
spool of thread to a summer dress
helps pay the increase.
Wages in iron and steel mills arr
increased by over 100 per cent, and tn,
prices of iron and steel products. in
Guiding hardware and structural stee
That cillcIS lillO lAlS Oh MONIES
remain at figures that double the cos
of building and add to rentals.
Wages of coal miners are advanced
and we are admonished that we mus
expect to pay more for fuel.
We have no objection to increase
of wages, continues the writer. but lie
wage-earners bear in mind that a
long as high wages continue the,
must expect the high cost of living I
continue. They should sharply re
buke those who denounce the manu-
i facturers of and dealers in the neces
stiles of life as pirates" and prof
iteers.''
And here is the one big fact tn
| trust-busters have discovered, at las
i 1t is in the report of the United State
tariff commission, which says: 'Ad
hitting individual exceptions. the hi
concerns are the low cost concerns an
the small concerns are the high cos
concerns"
! So Big Business after all lowers an
does not raise the cost of living.
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HEART AND BEAUTY.
PROBLEMS
By MRS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

r. Dear Mrs. Thompson: Cd Is pure
vaseline good to put on the head to
restore hair? 1 have SO much dan
druff on my head. and my hair is all
falling out. What causes dandruff?
CD Please give me cure for dan
druff
go Does it make the hair grow
thicker and faster to have the old hair
clipped close to the scalp?
A WORRIER BLONDE.
I'd Vaseline is good to put on the
scalp to restore hair and to cure dan
| druff Dandruff is caused by poor
circulation and sometimes a lack of
oil. Many kinds of dandruff are com
I-municable and so there is danger in
using the same brush and comb.
CD One dram boracic acid, two and
one-half ounces lavender water. Mix
and massage into the scalp every 9TH
er night.
go Yes, it makes the hair grow a
little thicker and faster to slip the old
| hair. but it is not worth the trouble
and embarrassment it causes To use
the above hair tonic every night for a
while and to masSag the scalp gently
but thoroly every night will bring
about healthy scalp condition and
around with short hair. Do not worry
So about the condition of your scalp
worry is one thing that keeps it in
bad condition.
| Dear Mrs. Thompson: am IS
years of age and am senior at school.
% There is a soldier in France
who has, unknown to me. received my
address and has been writing to me.
Would it be proper for me to answer
his letters? He is a stranger to me.
90 When going out riding with a
boy friend in a Ford machine is it
proper for the girl or boy to get in
first as the door opens only on one
side?
t3) When a boy comes to visit or
court" a girl. what should the girl
say when she opens the door for h.Sl
! ca Is it proper for a girl to drive
a machine when the boy asks her to
DIMPLES. n
| % If he had told who gave him
your address it would have served as
an introduction. but since he did not
J tell you'll would not advise you to an
I swer his letters.
CD The boy should help the girl
into the machine before he gets in
| himself but if he is thougntless and
| gets in first for convenience she should
not feel badly or neglected.
go Good evening" Then she can
talk about anything she wants to-
how cold it is. how warm it is. etc.
(4) The girl should not drive the
machine If it belongs to the boys ia
Their, but if it belongs to the boy him.
helf it is all right because it is at his
own risk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16

Again the seemingly impossible has
been accomplished. The dream of fly
ing across the Atlantic ocean without
a stop has come true. Unlike the trip
to the North pole, there is no room for
doubt regarding this performance.
Two airmen left Newfoundland and
landed in Ireland sixteen hours later.
All the romance. novelty and glamour
surrounding the performance has de-
parted. Flying across the Atlantic
soon will become commonplace and
aviators will begin to seek new worlds
to conquer. The glory and the prize
money must be awarded to the Wick
ers Vimy machine and its occupants.
The American machine which made
n nonstop flight to the Azores prob
ably could have made the direct flight
to Ireand but it did not. 1t may be
confidently expected that before long
flying from America to Europe will
become so safe that persons possess
ing an abundance of money and nerve
and a desire to reach the other side
quickly will be able to buy transporta-
ton by the air route. Next!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-16
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid wor.an Writer.
Spruce Up!-2.

Spruce Up!-2.
In many a case he sacrificed an
ambition that was dearer than life to
him, for he knew that when he came
back the little handful of customers
that he had gathered together for his
shop would have drifted away, or an
other would sit in his chair at his
desk. But he went with a smile on
his lips, and never a word of COM
plant at what he was giving up. And
It is our duty to salute these men with
a special reverence as uncrowned
cross without the crown of glory.
It's UP to US to show our apprecia-
ton by doing something practical for
them, and the war department has
pointed out a way in which this may
be done. 1t is by the simple process
of having done now all the things
that need to be done, and that you
are planning to do.
If you are going to build a new
house, start it. That will give work
to carpenters and bricklayers, and
skaters and roofers and decorators and
so on.
If your old house needs repairs,
make them now. Build the porch you
have been longing for Put fresh
paint and paper on. fix your walks,
do all of the things that you have
been leaving undone during the war.
and in this way you will give work to
thousands of soldiers.
Have your old furniture renovated.
Repaint your automobile. Get all the
new clothes you can afford for every
member of the family, and generally
spruce up 1t is just as much your
patriotic duty now to help make work
for the returning soldiers. as it was TO
buy liberty bonds. :
This is a big public movement in
which every woman can help by doing
her bit, and if every woman did, there
would be no difficulty about the prob
lem of getting the soldiers back to
| work.
1t isn't often that one has the privi-
lege of helping others and helping
oneself at the same time, but here is
that rare chance. We can eat our
cake and have it too. We can give
the soldiers work, perform a great
patriotic duty and save ourselves
money by having grand national
house cleaning and repairing bee
Go to 1t, ladies. Uncle Sam asks it OF
you. Have a regular orgy of fixing
! things up. It will improve your Owl
morale to be spick-and-span once
more, and it will save the morale OF
the men who have come back from
the front with nothing to do, and the
necessity of beginning life over again
Spruce up. A newly painted house
is IS much of sign of patriotism nov
as a service flag IN the window was a
year ago.
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FIRE! FIRE!

n L
Scene, outside of house berning
up in flames.
Lady. My goodniss grayshiss, there
wont 'be a thing left, and that's the
ony house L goti
Ferst sitizen. Look at those flames,
amt they bewtifill?
Lady. They're more bewtifill than
wat they are useful. Ill tell you that
If l had another house L would ent
mind SO mulch o. my goodniss gray
shiss. help, help, help!
End sitizen. Wat kind of help?
Lady. Save my child. Shes on the
top floor and she's be berned to deth
and proberly suffercated.
Ferst sitizen. WY dident you bring
her down with you?
Lady. I was in too big of a hurry.
End sitizen. That amt eny Excuse.
Fire engines. Bong! Bong. Bong!
End sitizen. Heer come the fire.
men.
Lady. Help, help. help. Save my
child on the top fioor?' She berns
awful easy. Shes SO. delicate!
Ferst fireman. wy dident you save
her vile you was saving yourself?
Lady. 1 was in too big of a hurry.
End fireman. That's a heck of a
Excuse.
End sitizen. 1t aint eny.
Fersr sitizen. Heer she comes down
the fire ixcape by herself! f:erray!
IIerray. uerrayi
Lady. Enybody says she amt brite
don't know wat they're tawking about
Everybody. Herrayi
The End.
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EVENING STORY
Council Rock.
BY IZOLA FORESTER.

p 4 lLO1<A EONRES4 En-
Something had happened to the
canoe as they tried to ride the smaller
rapids. Creston said afterward he
a hole large enough to start leak,
and it had been twilight then, too
dark to notice until they felt the water
in the bottom iof the canoe.
There had been no real danger, he
kept assuring her after he had
beached the boat. and they stood on
the tall spur of gray rock in the mid
ollie of the silent river. They would
be missed at the cottage by dinner
time, and, of course, Barclay or some
of the others would put out to the
rescue in the motorboat.
In the meantime they could build a
fire on the rock as a signal and take
things easy. There was nothing TO
worry about
Dorothy was silent as he talked.
She knew how Connie would say she
had managed the whole affair clever
ly. 1t had been her mothers pride
the way she had married off her four
girls to wealthy men. The lovely
Warnings, they called them, Evelyn,
Winnie, Phyllis and Dorothy. and only
the youngest remained.
She wondered II Creston suspected
that he had been selected by her
mother as the man whom she was to
marry. he was SO easy SOlHes ~
careless, apparently. that she doubted
whether ne would even care. And
yet it seemed as If he had followed
them down the coast with deliberate
intent in his yacht. and ahd taken
the cottage at Palmetto Beach so as
to be their next door neighbor. II
was all so businesslike and unro-
mantle. Evelyn had said to her the
night before they left for the south
as they sat together in her box at the
opera:
Don't let mother persuade you into
marriage like mine, Dot. / have
everything-but love or comradeship
am less to. my husband than his JAP
butler. 1 am sure he would far rather
| lose me than Suroki with his knowl-
edge of mixing drinks artistically
Marry the man you really love"
And the worst of it was she had
cared for Creston Clay from the frs
time they had met. 1t had been al
the country club. at tea after a gamt
of golf. Winnie had watched hel
amusedly as they talked together. and
on the way home in her care she hal
said:
Its just your luck. kiddie, to picl
a winner like Clay without realizing
/ it, He's worth millions"
Dorothy had felt the chill of dis.llu
sion then. Was everything in lif,
touched with gold to make it worth
while? She remembered this now
| watching him bend over the build ms
] of the fire. 1t was so beautiful OF
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The select committee on investiga-
ton OF war activities recently provid-
ed for by the house is made up of fif-
teen members, ten Republicans and
five Democrats Since it is the pur-
pose of the committee to split into
about five subcommittee of three
members each this was necessary in
order that no man should serve on two
different subcommittee. There will
be two Republicans and one Democrat
on each subcommittee Under these
conditions 1t is a safe prediction that
the committee will find anything that
it may look for.
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a. Mitchell Palmer. attorney general
of the United States, is asking congress
to grant his department fund of
100000 to be used in hunting anar-
ehists. So large an amount seems I'M
necessary. Anarchists are easily
found. Agents of the department of
justice already know where they are
and when there has been a bomb out
rage promptly arrest a considerable
number. of them. What congress
should do is make an appropriation
for shipping all the anarchists. I. w.
WIS. and Bolsheviki back to Europe,
from whence they came.
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COMMON CARE.
Rain and shine and joy and woe
Everybody here must know;
No one ever went thru life
And escaped the touch o. strife;
No one ever lived and died
But has had his courage tried
And has suffered grief and pain
Cares as common as the rain.
Yesterday / shed some tears.
And the joy of all the years
Seemed to me was fading fast
Bat today the storm has passed.
/ am smiling once again.
Peace haB driven away the pain
From the heavy clouds of doubt
/ have seen my sun come out.
In the hospital today
Gray with anxious care, and he
Pitifully looked at me.
As he paced the corridor
With his eyes upon the floor.
What he suffered well l knew,
1 had walked and waited, too.
/ had lived those hours Of care,
Paced, as he was pacing there.
But a day or two before
/ had walked that corridor
And il struck me as a blow
What a common thing is woei
Day to day some hearts are torn
By the cares that must be borne
Now / smile and he is sad.
Now he grieves and I am glad.
And tomorrow there shall be
Some one else where now is he.
Rain and shine and joy and woe,
Everybody here must know,
Each in turn ere life is DER.
PAGES doubts grim corridor.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Cues