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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30
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big" She measured an imaginary
yard with her hands, while she gazed
comp1acentiy at her own blunt-toed,
high-heeied. French-shod feet.
THE French women, they have Il
heart" she pointed out tactfuliy.
dead relatives. This one is for my
brother, but over here my husband say,
Take it off. take it off. My people
not understand why you wear a black
veil when we are just married. 1t
is also becoming she sighed bitterly.
But. il some of the brides criticise
our fashions, few of them criticise our
food. The Y. W., C. A. runs a cafe
terra in the Hostess house, where meals
are sold at low cost and where the
war bride sometimes renews her ac-
quaintanCe with small luxuries which
became extinct in many parts OF
Europe with the war. Among these
are several meat dishes and all des-
serts. 1t is not unusual to see a war
bride staggering to a table with tray
laden with three different kinds of
meat and five different desserts. A
pleasant feature about the cafeteria,
also, is the italian chef, who NOT only
speaks Italian but four other Ian
guages. He is able to show the brides
how to use a cafeteria and to give
them much valuable advice as to
During the first six months of the
war bride invasion, according to Mrs.
Macdonald. the hostess house cafe
terra was a pathetic sight, it was so
much appreciated. 'The girls, many
OF them only fourteen and fifteen. y
she says, Hall showed five years of war
in their faces. The babies accempany-
ing some Of them and the babies born
to others while here in New York.
were sad, wizened little creatures. We
realized that all were undernourished.
and We opened two clinics here at the
house-one, a general health clinic,
and the other for babies and prospec-
tive mothers.
1.-The girls and the few babies who
are coming over now are in much bet
ter shape. They have had the benefit
of last seasons harvest and a year of
reconstruction"
Some of the children now at the
hostess house are surprisingly old so
that the American troops have not
been in Europe that long. These are
the step-children of our returning SOL
diers, who in acquiring war brides
have also acquired their children. In
some of these cases the father and
child are the only genial members of
the family, while the bride sits list
lessly by, preoccupied in her thoughts
and lingering a 1ocllet.
So many of them wear lockets, and
the lockets always contain the pictures
of their dead husbands. There are a
few which contain a picture of the
dead hero on one side, and a picture of
the new one on the other.
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1D
Ea3arIG Gue5Z
POOR LITTLE FELLOW.

POOR LITTLE FELLOW.
Poor little fellow, your case is sad,
You must go to school when you'd like
to play,
And you want to be old Ike our doting
dad,
Who may come and go in his own sweet
And you seldom have Travelled on railroad
And never alone You may wander fer.
You long to be done with your growing
pains
Poor little fellow. your life is hard.
There SO many things that you may
rot do:
So many pathways to you are barred
And so many rules that are made for
YOU:
oh. you see men come and you see them go,
Old and battered and worn and gray.
And to win the freedom you think they
know
Poor little fellow, time was that
Looked out on the world thru the self
same eyes,
And the years seemed long and wondered
why
couldn't be old and grown and wise;
Then l used to dream Of the days TO be
And the joys I'd claim and the things
I'd do
When the years had fashioned a. man of
Now I'd give them all to be Just like you.
Poor little fellow. dont sigh for age.
For the years are swift and their cares
are great;
Bitter the battles that men must wage
As grown-ups learn when it's all too
Oh soon. too soon, shall you como to see
When the work of the world shall be
yours to do,
Why there's never a man but would glad
poor little fellow once more like you
Copyright 1919, by Edgar, A. Gucstl
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the number-of friends which he has
oh. a friend is worth-EARNINGi
And a lew of the things that one
has to do 10 earn a friend are these:
First, be the kind of friend that
you want. Consider your friend-first
If he is worth while at all, he is worth
being loyal to all the time.
Save for your friendly having a
stock of little heipfuinesses, surprises
and whatnots, ready for instant giving
Defend your friend - against all
comers.
I knew a man who has lot of very
choice enemies (for he is a big man
but never once have heard him say
an unkind thing about a friend OF
enemy. You see. he keeps working al
the job of earning the friends that he
has.
Friends must be earned.
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Reports from Washington state that
an official effort to cut the cost of
living has been inaugurated under di-
rection of the government 1t is de-
clared that the movement will take on
the form OF a closely organized cam
paign of consumers to combat the
high cost OF living by refusing to buy
things they can do without. The
treasury department has enlisted wO-
mems organizations having member
ship OF 100000 The campaign will
begin with the New Year and con-
tinue until April I. The members will
be asked TO keep strict account of ex-
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LittkBefltlNS
NOTEBOOK Z

Me and Puds Simkins and Mary
watkins was wawl5ing along taking a
wawk last Sundey. and Puds was say
ing things and Mary Watkins was
Iaffing at them as if they was about
twice as funny as wat they reely was,
and 1 thawt, G, that guy must think
he's sumbody CRATE. Meening Puds.
and I sed, Hay. Puds, did you ever
get that big hole fixed you tore in
your pants climbing over your back
tents? .ssg.-
o, Puds. for shame. for shame, sed
Mary Watkins.
LAW, he's krazy, sed Puds, it was
sntch a little hole wouldent of had
to have it fixed at all if hadent of
wunted to, it wasent hardly a hole at
ali, I don't bleeve it was a hole cny-
ways And he started to blush and
wawk along without saying eny more.
me thinking 1 CESS thatll show him
he aint SO darn mutch.
And I started to say some funny
things myself. making Mary.W Watkins
laff like -enything, and all of "a suddin
Puds sed. don't see what you're tawk-
ing so Inutch about, if I had a pic
ture of me in my house like / saw of
you in your house, / wouldent tawk
for a. week
wat pickture. wat pickture. Puds :?
sed Mary Watkinus. and Puds sed, o,
I wouident even mention it. I'm glad
it aint a pickture of me, that's all.
He's jest making it-up. I sed. and
! Mary Watkins sed, Vow. Puds don't
be meen tell me wat pickture, think
your ackting awfilI meen, Puds. and
/ Puds sed, All rite Ill tell you its a
pickture of him setting on a cushion
wen he was baby. and do you wunt
to know wat he's got on
Wat? sed Mary Watkins
He's making it up. 1 sed-
He aint got a single thing on. and
! hos n
! it. sed Puds.
| o, Benny, for shame. I'm shocked.
o, Benny. sed Mary Watkins and 1
| sed Could I help It'll couldent even
tawk yet, how could I help it?
! And 1 kepp on wawking without
| saving enything more. and Pads
started TO say things agen that wa $
,sipcosed to be funny. and Mary Wat
| kins kepp on laffing at them as if
they RELY was
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ALICE SLOANE is CAUTIONED.


Suddenly 1 stopped laughing What
in the world allied Everett. usually so
self possessed He was flushing like
a school girl. Never had L seen any
dawned upon me: He HOD been to
the beauty parlor. and he was
ashamed.
Don't look so ashamed" I said. "or
never shall be able to stop laugh
ing" as once more 1 gave way to mer-
riment. II can't see why you should
be SO embarrassed because you had
your hair dyed. Women never mind -
81 know, Sandra," his blush deep
ened, but it seems different in wo-
man. did it because of you. I don't
want you to be mortified by refer
ences to my age"
"One. TO hear you talk. would sup
pose you a Methuselah at least. You
do not look bit old to me. Everett
really you don't
...That's because you are accustomed
to me. I SEEM old to you. tho
Sometimes. At others you seem
quite young" L answered honestly.
rs it very noticeable2" he asked.
again referring to his hair.
No, not at all. Had you been more
gray, it might have been. But you
only had few gray hairs"
''Then FIJI keep it up For heavens
sake tell Alice Sloane not to talk about
it, he bIushed again as he mentioned
Alice.
"I'll promise she will say nothing"
replied 1 was awfully amused, al
tho now I tried to hide it. That my
dignified. proper husband should
spend time in beauty parlor was to
me about the most incongruous thing
he could have done. Every time
thought of it I wanted to laugh.
I took particular pains to let Alice
know how he felt right away. Tht
next morning after breakfast 1 walked
over to her house. and told her as she
valued our friendship to keen still
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in the last ten years and I want to
give you something as a Christmas
present that will be useful to you and
that you will enjoy. Which do you
prefer, ton of coal or a gallon of
good whisky?r
Boss" Dobson replied, "Ah burns
vood."
The 'orn of the 'unter is card on
the Ill., said the little boy at the
Regged school treat. But somehow
his version of that line in Kathleen
Mayournecn" Jared on the nerves Of
the old squirei
My little man." nc said, kindly.
why don'tyou put few more aitches
.Garn,'' advised the little man. po-
litely-s Don't you know there amt
no m IN ntoesic2 It only goes up
TO Co.
Before we were marrfed." :" she COM
planned. you always engaged a CAB
when yoH took me anywhere. Now
you think the street car is good
enough for me-
"So darling. don't think the
street ear is good enough for you:
IT'S becatee I'm proud OF you In \
cab you would be seen by nobody
While can show you off to so man.
people BY taking you in street car"
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A THING WORTH EARNING.

I have never liked to have anyone
give me anything-excepting simple
things that carried a heart fragrance
with them.
believe that the only things worth
having are the things that one earns
In this connection, I. am thinking
of the friends one gets. They have to
be earned. too. For friends that Just
come your way soon. go THEIR way.
And the real friend likes to be earned,
also.
How shall you earn a friend? BY
working-very hard-for one
Human heart-touch is the finest
thing in the world. Without it. the
gold and glamor of material affairs
darken everything that We come in
contact with. A mans wealth should
always be measured by the sort not
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30

The price-reguiating commission in
Chicago has announced a fair price
list for necessary clothiEg, fixing
s24.50 as e fair price for mans suit
or overcoat, $25 for a woman's suit,
$15.25 for a woman's dress. $5.95 for
a mans shoes and 1896 for a wo-
mans shoes. Those may be fair prices.
to be sure. but does the fixing of them
insure a purchaser fair goods in re-
turn for them?, This fair price fix
ing that has been going on has been
done as a public service just as if the
public hadn't sense enough to know
what a fair price is or what it can af-
ford to pay.
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According to estimates made by the
Carnegie Foundation for Permanent
Peace, twenty million men were tenn
porarily out of productive. employ
ment during the war; and the ten
million dead are permanently out of
the productive ranks. The loss be-
cause of the dead is estimated at
thirty-three and a half billion dollars,
and the loss because of the non-pro-
duction Of the twenty million is
placed at forty-five billion dollars
The loss by sinllings on the sea is es-
timated rs six billion eight hundred
millions. the direct cost of the war at
one hundred and eighty-six billions,
and the indirect cost at one hundred
and fifty-one billions. making a total
loss TO the world of three hundred and
tlfirty-seven billion dollars. This is a
total loss which the productive power
~ the world must make up. But in
stead OF putting forth redoubled eff
forts to reproduce the goods that were
destroyed. production is reduced by
Acn who have had large wage in
crcascs. Reduced individual output is
adding to cost of living its pro rata
along with profiteering at certain
points. The world can never indulge
in q war without paying the price; and
this three hundred and thirty-seven
billion dollar debt cannot be paid in
rny ether way than by work. There
Is no other way TO get back to pre-war
comforts except by individual produc-
fie,f, ~ .-pod sneeI
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The only purpose of the anti-strike
provision of the Cummins railroad
bill is to impose upon railroad en-
ployes the same obligation that is i'm
Gus transportation service. Whenever
employees are given the right to strike
to force payment of higher wages, it
win be proper TO give owners the right
TO suspend traffic to force payment of
higher rates. One privilege is just as
reasonable and just as absurd as the
other.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY hrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Two years
sight. I did not have the pleasure of
his company, as he volunteered for
service in France, where he spent
eighteen months. While he was in
camp we corresponded in a friendly
way. After he returned from France
I met him at a party again and from
that time on we were together fire.
quently. He works in another town
About four weeks ago We quarrelled
because of another girl in the town in
which he works.
A few days ago / received q letter
from him asking me TO be sorry for
the way I acted. L really am sorry,
but don't think 1 should tell him. Or
should [? How can I win him back
and not compromise myself?
Probably the boy wants TO be
friendly and tried to put humor into
his letter. l should take it that way
if 1 were you. Answer his letter and
tell him that you have forgotten the
incident. Do not apologize or men
ton the subject at any length. Never
show jealousy Of the girl agais.
Dear Mrs Thc-.pson: am a girl
fourteen years old and in love with a
boy fourteen. He has gone off to
to corresponds If so, how often
would it be proper to write?
WAITING.
Wait for the boy to write to you.
If he does it would be all right to
answer him. Do not let love enter
into your correspondence, however.
Write once in two or three weeks.
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Dinner Stories

A well-known furniture dealer OF
a Virginia town wanted to give his
faithful negro driver something for
Christmas in recognition OF his un-
failing good humor in toting out
stoves, beds, pianos. etc.
FDobson.' he said. you have help
ed me thru some pretty tight places
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30

II the Democrats decide that they
cannot win next years election they
may turn the presidential nomination
over TO Mr.. Bryan. He is reported to
be standing around in the outer cor
ridor already.
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The flying parson" has resigned
from the governments aerial service
and will return to his job of directinf
persons to the realms above without
himself plotting the way.
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Moulton Musings
BY ROY X. MOULTON.
A Little slice o. Life.

Little Slice o. Life. T.
The baby has been crying G
Nearly all night and
Nobody had slept much.
About o'clock in the morning .i.s-
We dropped off for n few winks
And were just enjoying a snoeze
When the house was shaken
By an unearthly commotion.
The noise was terrific
And We were figuring
That it was the end of the world
Which has been predicted for this month
BY lot of scientists. lt f1...-
The maid knocked at our door tat
And said: e.
THE man has just left tt
Forty eight dollars worth of coal
And wants his money"
1t was Z 10 O'Clock and we had
To get up and write a check
And the ink was frozen.
We believe in ''early deliveries
OF coal" but it IS possible ~
To overdo q good idea.
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When the weather bureau. an
nounced positively that the world
would not come to an end December
Il. it took no chances. If it had
failed there would have been nobody
TO say: Il told you So"
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The Detroit News is inclined to as
cribe the paper shortage to the i'm
mense amount of that article con
sumed in writing notes to Mexico
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reaches out to the man she Graves, and
stirs his appetite, not for meat and
drink alone, but for the mama of
home life and the sparkling waters of
love?
Copyright, 1910. by the Mcclure News
peper, Syndicate.l
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General Woods presidential candi-
dacy probably will be welcomed by
headline writer's on the newspapers
since his name contains but four let
tass
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To the governments statistics o
exports and imports soon may be add
cd others covering it's deports.
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They Call 1t That


They call this u storm
And refer TO 1t,
In phraseoloey that is picturesque.
As icy winter gripping.
With fingers that CONCEAL and deaden
A naked world by the throat.
They say, in places.
The valued Thermometer got down
To degrees below. -
And SO. defining it as a
Boreal blast. they wrote an epic
To its rigors.
We've braved some storms
And they were not like this.
But they We're all so much alike
That one description answers
For them all.
A dreary rolling prairie,
A treeless,, markless, desolate prairie
Which stretched away
As far as eye could reach
To east and north and south and west
A leaden sky. and out of it
Recurrent volleys of singing ice
Ranging in size
From infinitesimal to the pea
A furious gale blowing it's icy breath
| Upon a. numbed countryside.
| Huddles of light and airy snow.
Twisting and turning with the wind
I And piling hero and there
In curious and fantastic contour.
Cattle. heads to the wind.
Protected from relentless nature
By @ strand of barbed gire,z-
Lowing. In miner chords.
| Their misery to deafened world.
A boy with nun1bed hands
And stinging ears, =,
Digging fodder fronfstfie drifts OF snov
With which the wind had covered It.
Horses running amuck in a corral
And pigs sduealing in tlicir pens.
No fuel, and inside the house.
A father feeding wisps of twisted bay
Into rusted barrel stove
That those who huddled round it
Might not perish.
They said it was a storm g
That icy winter with congealed fingers
Had gripped a naked world.
/ They called it that.
While a good many sympatbize with
those who. are about to suffer finnn-
ciaI loss in connection with their own
ership of certain distilled liquors, the
column remains cold and clammy on
the proposition. The column, OCCASION
ally weeps in public but 1t is never
for those who have suhreptitious;y
sold whisky at $50 case.
Nor do we purpose to lament loud
" any financial calamity which be-
falls those who seek to retail the in
nocuous loganberry highbali at forty
cents a throw.
Our sympathy, such as it is, all
goes to the gentleman who collected
the profit on the pair of shoes for
which the salesman demanded and
got S21. --.,
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You Have Our Permission, Judge.

Hot Springs, Va, Nov. 80.
Dear Roy: I would like to pass the
following laws:
That Sunday papers shall not be
sold Saturday evening.
That Saturday magazines shall not
be sold on Wednesday,.
That December copies of magazines
shall not be sold November 3.
JUDGE GARY HAUS.
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Under the heading, Poultry in its
classified columns, a. local paper has
the following: Now for sale, nice
large Texas pecans." The question
rises as to what sort of bird a pecan
is. Isn't it possible they mean
tOucanS?
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Sir Thomas may think he can lift
the cup. but well bet a doughnut he
can't lift the BAN
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30

asked for the best recipe for angel
cake. Our opinion is that the best
angel cake is made by the young
bride who has spent her life in a
cooking school. The person who eats
it is liable to become an angel at any
moment.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30

hex is worried. He asks: "Inas-
much as a person who eats vegetables
is a. vegetarian, is a person who eats
fish a fishetarian?" We refer this
question to DR.. Lowell of Yale.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-30

AS to Mexico, an ounce of interven-
tion may be better than a pound OF
cure.
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Ny Lassie's q dazzling beauty,
With golden hair bright as the sun.
Her 1ashes so long and curling
Shade bronze eyes dancing with fun.
Her gaze Is wistful and tender,
Her %,rm Is graci isul and free,
But her tail gets so full of old briefs,
And she hates to be combed-my collie.
&c. A. w.
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A downtown firm displays a twenty
, foot sign reading: Holiday Presents
at UneQualed Prices" which leads j.
L. Beers to ask: What do they mean
by unequaled %
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

1t was in July that Adelaide encased
the family heirlooms in packing cases
and consigned them to the custody OF
= storage warehouse The tempera-
ture was los in the shade, and she
took no thought of the morrow. The
winter overcoat is in one of those
Eases. But Adelaide doesn't remen-
Der which one. Should We, in rum
maging thru our personal deposit at
the storage warehouse, discover a
packing case and learn, after dismant-
ling 1t, that it contained books or arti-
cles- of virtu, we should be utterly dis
couraged.
And, being one of those who prefer
personal discomfort to disappointment,
We shall engage in no mad and un-
certain adventure in a. storage ware
house until every other means of OBJ
tanning an overcoat has been e9-
nausted.
The twenty-seven members of the
I. w. w. on trial in Kansas City hav-
ing been convicted. it is suggested that
Eph Wiley call his cheering party to-
gether for the purpose of giving the
class yell.
Secretary Lane. we point out. in -
further attempt to embarrass and
humiliate the administration, is one
cabinet officer, who will retire from
his post with self-respect and reputa-
ton unimpaired.
Having thus rung in the cabinet. We
are afforded opportunity to say that
no member of the official family OF a.
Chief Executive who had the foresight
to quit while the quitting was good.
has ever been elected President of the
United States.
However. We merely quote history.
attempt 20 forecast the immediate fu-
ture.
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Our sympathy. such as it is, all
goes to the gentleman who collected
the profit on the pair of shoes for
which the salesman demanded and
got S21.
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Nor do we purpose to lament loud
" any financial amfty which be-
falls those who seek to retail the in
nocuous loganberry highball at forty
cents q throw.
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This usually means the 1engthening
of Yvonne's skirts. and the discard
ing of a long black veil. which trails
to the end of them. And Yvonne does
not always approve of this part of
the Americanization pro5 ess.
Your fashions here" declared one
resentfur Yvonne the other day, "they
ten years too late. Your Shoes they
make the feet of the women appear so