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The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

was. Yet as reread it. realized that
she was conscious of her own weak
nesses. She had feared that her pride.
her peculiar temperament would give
them unhappiness-as l knew it had
from what 1 had learned of their life
together.
Who but one with just such ma
ture would hold roses until they
dropped and faded instead of putting
them in water to preserve them? ]
such a thing. Yet in a way, sensed
how such a confession would appeal
to a man who was in love.
why am I such a practical crea-
ture?" / asked. as ! dashed the tears
from my eyes--angry tears that
Leola. Then half laughing. half cry
ing. added: '1 should Eave put them
in water, cut the stems, and probably
on the second day have put salt in the
vase to preserve them as long as pos
sible."
After a bit I drew out the next
My own: am sorry I was so
naughty. I 1onged even while being
disagreeable TO thrown my arms about
your neck and tell you how 1 loved
you and ask you to forgive me. But
this terrible pride, this contrary nature
of mine. would not allow me. feel
like saying what Prosper. Merimee did
in his Letters to an UnEnown'-you
recall he said: You wfifInever know
all the good or all the evil there is in
me. have spent my life being
praised for qualities which have not.
and being illuminated for faults
which are not mine 1t has always
been so ever since / was a little girl
in pig-tails and pinafores. 1 am afraid
| 1t always will be so, altho for your
sake 1 shall strive desperately to over
come the faults
"Aftex you left me, dear, I gathered
all the roses from where ! had SO
spitefully thrown them. and gave them
| the kisses I denied you. How love
them, those red. red. roses you send
or bring me- Do. dear. come early to-
morrow. 1 shall be unhappy until you
| take me in your arms and tell me that
/ you forgive me and love me not as
much. but more than before+Youl
naughty Leola.''
II never can be like her, never, new
eri" exclaimed vehemently as fin
ished the second letter. There is nj
use to try," And because could no
be like the first wife of whom wai
so jealous. I wept bitterly. Then
! laid the letters away until anothel
time. I could read no more of them
/ (Tomorrow-Life's Contradictions
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

The trade figures for the nine
months ending with September, says a
statement by The National City bank
of New York, indicate that the total
value of our imports in the calendar
year 1919 may reach nearly $4,000
600, 900 as against less than $4,000
100000 in 1918. Practically all of
this increase is in manufacturing ma
terials and foodstuffs. Manufactures
show a decline of about $T5,00O.-
600, while manufacturing mater
ial shows an increase of approxi-
natsay $40, 600, 600 and foodstuffs an
increase Of over $15O,oOO.OOO. But
even these heavy imports seem power
less to bring about any reduction,
either in the price of food or of manu-
faetured articles.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
The Price of an Engagement Ring-2.
BY DOROTHY NDfx
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

The Price of an Engagement Ring.
American society, so far as men are
concerned, is run too much on the
open door policy, anyway. We need
little more home projection. ANY man
with a decent coat and half way decent
manners can secure an entree into any
house he chooses. This has produced
a class of social free booters-men
who have no inclination towards mar
riage, but who use the parlors of their
feminine acquaintance as a kind of
free club where they are entertained
without money and without price.
So far as married women are con-
cerned, this make little difference. If
a. woman of mature years hasn't skill
enough to rid herself OF the society
hobo, she deserves to suffer for her
stupidity. 1t is another matter where
young girls are concerned, and many a
young woman who started out with
bright prospects of making good
match owes her collapsed matrimony
book to the man whose love making
never4eads to the altar.
We often wonder why such and such
a girl whose beauty and wit render
her unusually charming. is drifting
into old maidenhood when her less at
tractive sisters are marrying well all
about her and establishing themselves
in life. Ninety. y.nine times out of a
hundred the answer is because she
has been silly enough TO tie herself up
In an endless engagement to some man
who either does not wish to assume
the responsibilities of marriage, or
else is in no position to- do SO.
The managing mamma has been
much derided in the public prints, but
in real life a mother who knows her
business is the most useful possession
any girl can have, and her first care
should be to see that her daughter
does not get tracked into one Of these
sentimental pockets.
There is. nothing to be said in favor
of the long engagement. 1t rubs the
bloom off of romance, 1t becomes a
burden. and 1T ties two people together
with a bond that sooner or later begins
to chafe, and that one or the other
would break if they had the Courage
to do so.
Especially is it hardship on the
girl. Her anomlous position as
neither bound or free, neither @5naid,
wife, nor widow gets on her nerves.
and makes her old before her time
Nor in the end can she ever. avoid the
suspicion that even when a man DOES
finally make good on his promise to
marry her that h~is dol 1t because
he is a good sport. and hash' t the hea IT
to leave her in the lurch sitter all her
patient waiting.
Therefore, 1t is encouraging to see a
good. stiff price being put on the long
enga cement. Perhaps when it costs as
10 marry her, it will start a matri-
I fCopvrirht 1919 bv the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

Last Sundey aftirnoon me and Mary
Watkins was wawking along taking a
wawk with each other, her having a
red coat en- with about 20 buttons,
looking CRATE, and we started to pass
a yard with iron railing erround it
and a lot of diffrent cutler crissan-
themums growing in it, Mary watkins
saying, o, look at the perfeckly bew-
tffilI adorable crissanthemums.
Aint is funny sutch big flowers
should have sutch big names? sed.
I wish I had one, sed Mary Wat
kins. s ~,
If they was mine you could have
all you wunted,- L +sed, and sheT sed,
/ bet if told Leroy ShoosterI wished
[ had oneeI bet he would clirnet over
and get one for me. f sc icrs
/. So would LII ssed, andsp sheused,
Then wy don't youy and 1 sed, Because
that would be steeifng and L don't wunt
to steel, espeshilly on Sundeys.
it wouldent be steeiing, enythipg
of the kind, sed Mary Watkins, and l
sed. Wy wouldent it, theys don't blpEtg
/ to me, do they and she sali, No. pat
: jest taking one weuldent bs stesAllgj
If you took a hole bunteh it Tnitel be
steeling. bot jest taking one would
ony be taking a sample. Z.
Well, il it was eny day but Sundey,
sed, and she sed, o all rite then,
don't il you don't wunt to, don't if you're
afraid. ~ -fifrs-
Whose afraid, wat do ! care? /, sed
And Z climbed over the iron railing,
being a hard one to CLINE over on ac-
count of having pointy parts TO it, and
/ was jest starting to brake off a wife
erfssanthemum wen spmbody quick
| opened q window ON the 2nd floor and
! lady stuck her he'd put mad, saying
Boy, wat are you doing there2 y
/ climbed over to smell this. cris-
santhemum, I sed, and she sed, Well
/ hurry up and smell it and get out OF
/ my yard.
witch did, and me ard Mary Wat
skins started to keep on wawking,s hel
/ saying, Benny. I'm perfeckly ashamet
| of you, you told that lady lie.
Well, lie aint as bad as steeling
I sed, and Mary watkins sed, Benny
Potts, how dare you accuse me o,
steeling? And she ternedserround and
started to wawk rite back, and would
ent hardly tawk to me agen all the
4 way.
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use their own coke. so that one source
of supply was greatly diminished and
the price went up.
Just before the war. the Bureau of
Mines made an investigation which
showed that coke was gaining slightly
in popularity as a household fuel 1t
was not gaining as fast as the popula-
ton was growing, but still, its use
grew perceptibly- 1t seemed that If
educational ,propasanda on the subject
become general Hence the present
campaign of the Bureau of Mines.
In the old days, coke was seldom
sized" Coke which has not been
sized is very difficult if not impossible
to burn in a furnace. Anthracite coal
could not be burned unless it were
sized, for that matter. Most of the
producers OF by-product coke now size
their product. and this makes it much
easier to use than it Formerly was.
The use of coke has been gaining
with special rapidity in Chicago, ac-
eording to the Bureau of Mines. Chi
cage lives under a heavy pan of soft
coal smoke. The smoke problem there
has been studied byNan Important COM
mission, and a voIuninous report is
sued upon it, but nothing, apparently
has been done. The means of lifting
the smoke incubus is now in the hands
of the Chicagoans, If they only realized
H. H Inc DQfnlHS OF COKE should be-
come general. the smoke nuisance
would be at an end. And Chicago has
a. plentiful supply of coke.
The bureau Officials mention one
Chicago coke firm which put a large
force OF salesnen- -denlonstrators in the
field. These men not only sold coke
TO the householder. but they advised
him what stEe to buy, showed. him>how
to fire it. and did not abandon him
until he was getting satisfactory re-
suits Tho spread of such methods
would rapidly establish coke as q
domestic fuel,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING.

WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING
In the course of his testimony on
the Kenyon bill before the agricultural
committee of the senate, L. H. D.
Weld, of Swift & Co.'S publicity de-
partment was asked-Ssy senator if
thealarge sum mentioned as spent by
Swift & Co. for advertising did not add
to the COST of the products. TO be paid
by the consumer.
There is a wide miseonception as to
the .'cost of advertising" which the
consumer must pay. The belief that
advertising adds any appreciable
amount to the selling price is not jus
titled by the facts. On the contrary,
generous advertising is the harbinger
of plenty Prices therefore are always
as low as the nature of the product
admits
The sanction for advertising is that
it|creates demand. All large adVertis-
ers are large producers, because their
| own advertising forces them to that
condition. AS production increases
prices decline; the greater the produc-
! tion the less is the overhead" and
/ lAiS SOitSdHlST S6lS the benefit. 1naL Is
the whole secret; advertising creates
demand; demand creates supply; the
| greater the supply the less the cost
| per unit. No business illustrates this
cycle of facts better than the packers
whose enormous output meets a de-
mand that is at once inevitable and
unceasing, but which by advertising
can be directed along definite chan
nels without in any appreciabIe degree
adding to the cost of production that
can be added to the selling price per
unit. The same is true of soaps, gum
and innumerable other commodities
widely advertised; the supply created
by the demand caused by advertising
reduces and does not add to the cost
t-ef the article itself
4 Service advertising is of the same
9 nature. All miscellaneous advertising
in trade papers is of the nature Of de-
nand creators. 1t is not enough to be
table to offer valuable services-the
& public must be made to know that the
sservice is obtainabie. Merely produc-
ling a good-an misrepresentation
is not enough, even the it is produced
cheaply. unless demand is set going b,
stimulating and educating advertising
4 the creation of a new want or tbs
showing how an old unsatisfied wan
is filled by a new device or method.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

II our laws and institutions founded
upon the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution are to be torn
up. AMI the lives and liberties of no.
100000 people entrusted to the ten
der mercies of a scant one-tenth of
their number-those who happen to
belong to a society called union
the issue might as well be met and de-
termined now The defiant attitude
of the coal miners,indicates that there
will be no loss of time in bringing on
the contest. Great as may be the suf-
fering that their revolutionary tactics
will precipitate. it will be preferable
to an abject surrender to class tyranny
and the woes it would bring to our
selves and to posterity,>
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

In a hearing before the congression-
al committee on military affairs it was
shown that the sovernment has been
paying stevedores in New York-now
on strike-wages of $50 a week. The
government is paying its brioklayers
much more than it is some of the
ablest surgeons in the medical and
hospital service-men who have spent
many years and thousands of dollars
in Acquiring the education and expert
ence so valuable in their service. 1t
has started something in the matter
of wages which it now finds difficulty
in stopping 1t all began with the
passage of the Ada mson law.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

LITTLE GIRL wILEs.
What's q fellow going to do
When his busy day lie thru
And a dainty little miss,
Places on his cheek kiss,
Boldly climbs upon his knee,
Fondles him caresslngIy
And then whispers IN his ear:
Need a new dress, daddy deaFf"
WHAT'S grown up man to say
when soft little fingers stray
Ger bis eyes so be ean't see
Al the many things which he
wants and hopes aud ought TO DO
Whieb are passing In review
And he sees ont one who f,leads
Fer the finery she needs,
Who could duty's summons hear
with so sweet charnler neari
VINO could count the cost and bring
Tears to eyes so glistening
By rejecting such a plea, -
Telling her II cannot be?
" hen love wants another dress
Man can only answer Yes"
Little girl 80 you1g and rxise,
Wen you use those glorious eyes Z
Wen you use those dimpied arms
ana your many tender cha rms.
1ou have learned. whate,er Il be-
How to have your way with me.
And your mother sits and smiles
As i fall before vopr wfles
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. cues
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
THE PuBLIc,s PosITIoNe

In its fight sfor it's own rights.
fight which has grown cut of the ex-
listing labor situation, the public Is
likely to lose sight of the merits Of the
controversy between labor and capt.
tai
1t Will be unfortunate If public opin-
ion reach the stage where it adjudges
either side wholly right or wholly
wrong. The just attitude for the pub
lie to take would be to recognize the
fact that the relations of employer
and Amploye are very much the same
as the relations between buyer and
SELLER Each. tries to safeguard his
own interests and each sometimes
overreaches in trying to get the best
of a bargain. They are on the same
plane, contending in a wholly unsen-
timental manner, not necessarily for
rights, but for advantages and privi-
leges. Sometimes one is right, some-
times the other; but it is seldom cor
rect to presume that either party TO a
labor controversy is wholly right or
wholly wrong until the facts in the in
dividual case are carefully studied and
accurately weighed.
The public should recognize the fact
that the employe is at least as well
equipped to get what he demands as is
his employer, and it should withhold
sympathy from either side in any
specific dispute until it has had full
opportunity to compare the merits of
the rival claims; it should recognize
4.
nothing more nor less than a business
proposition, an effort at collective
bargaining in which as high a price
as possible is sought for labor that is
already at high premium. Above all,
blind emotion should not be allowed
to displace' reason. 1t is as absurd. for
instance, TO beeomei sentimental over
would be to weep when the corner
grocer balks at a Jobber's demand for
20 per cent profit on shipment of
potatoes. In weighing the arguments
for or againstany strike. consideration
should be given to general principles
as well aS specific motives.
Just now. it is almost universally
i-COSllAAC0 lAldl lA4C OIAC SACdL A0SO VI
the nation is production. to make up
for the tremendous waste of war and
correct the unfavorable balance be-
tween money and commodities. If the
urgenc% of the need for production
were realized by the sentimentalists
/ who approve of trivial strikes that
make production impossible, public
oDiuion vvovId~4onD foroe +I1a strilxar,
to defer their disputes until the ma
tfon had recovered from the shock OF
war.
But the immediate concern of the
public in the existing situation is.seli
preservation. That it Must and viii
| have, regardless of which party suf-
| fers. 1t will look out for number
one, just as labor and capital is do
! ing. Being in the majority. it is GER
| tain to prevail
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT

BY ROY K. MoULToN

The H-c-L Of 1t.
/ am in love with Isabel
For Isabel is a belle
/ care not whittier with her.
But without her must wither;
s9 WITH If goSps S sans snS e fSesh as kSpa kSses
And not without some fear.
l bought ring,
: The finest for my gold,
And offered It TO Isabel.
what this7" she child y
With sSsnts sGesSif ass ssy out KID Ht
Let's have a microscope
So can lamp It right.
Why YOU poor thing
And Russian sable doubling overnight,
You can't support VIE
Now roll along, sweet shriteled pruner'
In vain my ring, In vain my zeal,
And Isabel still is q belle
Poor me can't be with or without her.
Ond know l shall wither without her
"A. Alexander Thomas.
Informed that feminine night attire
was growing more and more daring,
Yes, we. may soon have a musical
comedy entitled, When Nighties Were
Bold
During the French revolution the
condemned had right TO elect
whether they should be burned at the
stake or have their heads cut off,
which led. Raymond Hitchcock. at a
dinner party tie other might, TO say
| that the people of those ancient days
/ had their choice between stakes and
! chops--but not any more. Goldfish
! that's all.
4Soon we will fly>to the moon" says
a scientist. Where does he get that
| I'VE" stuff
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03


The question of whether kansas
school teachers shall be called upon
to attend a summer institute lasting
one week or one lasting four weeks
promises to be an issue in the State
Teachers association convention,
which will assemble in Topeka No
vember 6. The four weeks institute
originated in 1876, when the superin-
~tendent of schools in Shawnee county
issued ean for an institute, which
Included wabaunsee, Jefferson. Usage
and Douglas counties. The institute
was held in the old Lincoln school
building and was attended by approxi-
matefy 200 teachers, 1t was conduct
ed on the plan which has prevailed
since in the long term Institutes. It
was utilized by ambitious youths and
girls for the purpose of 'cramming"
Tor examination and enabled many to
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
SLOW poWN-FoR TIE CURVE.

SLOW DowN-FOR TIE CURVE!
The more complex life becomes. the
more some think that they can take
chances with it. But the opposite is
true.
The finer the machine. the more
attention it must have; the longer the
journey, the more details there are to
take into consideration. And no mat
ter how keen your eyesight may be
You cannot AFFORD for a minute to let
your mind wander. for it lis the mind
that sees.
-ofttimes, too, where you least expect
them.
There are literal curves to every
phase of experiences. And it should
become a grounded habit-to slow
down when you see them shsad.
The only folks who make curves
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Slslsls6Sslss5lsslslslsl

correctly and with safety are the,aiert.
1t is Impossible to take a curve at
full speed ahsad. Those who have
thought so. nexer lived TO prove that
1t could be done. And if we are to
learn, we must learn largely from
those who have made mistakes. unless
we are ready in advance to pay. the
price of making them for the benefit
of others.
Live and learn IS all right--but to
learn and live is all right, 100.
Somehow, the curves saloHg our day
routes keep, appearing, so. that it be-
comes US to be very watchful,e. and
alow down that we may take them
with safety and ease.
Great speed is always full of dap-
ger. Curves appear. like .suick storms
out of clear skies. So always lie pre-
pared for them.
Slow down-for the curve.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

pass who otherwise probably would
not have been able to obtain certifi-
Gates. 1t was thus a help to those
who aspired to become teachers, but
its usefulness to- trained teachers is
open to question. At any rate there
are better summer schools open all
over the country every year
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

TIE primary reason for the preoipi=
tatlon of general strike by the coal
miners at this time does not rest upon
a desire for shorter working time and
higher wages, but on the hope that
the naturalization of the mines can
thus be brought about. In the pres
ent temper of the government, it
s'Seerns' improbable- that the strikers
would find themselves better off
! should their plan succeed,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

Certain senators continue to fight
the shsAtung clause of the peace
treaty. Japan has Shantung. What
do these senators propose to do about
it? Would they have us take It away
from her and give it back to China I?
1t would be big job even for Uncle
Sam.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

The federal court strike injunction
hit the. rniners' organization a solar
plexus blow when 1t forbade the
paying OF strike benefits. A strike.
like every other enterprise, cannot be
carried on without money.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03

Picking presidential candidates by
the process OF. elimination has begun.
Governor Harding has dropped out of
the race.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Bananas and Cream
Broiled Tomatoes Cream Sauce
Mullins Coffee
LUNCHEON,
Eminee of Giblets on Toast
Tomato Salad
Canned Peaches Iced Tea
DINNER.
Olives Pickles
Cold Cuts of Duck Tartar Sauce
Drowned Potatoes Asparagus
Coldslaw
Iced Cantalonpe Coffee
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
DINNER STORIES
A Name for Him.

s'Why?" said Miss links.
Because" answered Mrs. Binks,
she shrinks from washing"
'.Ill work no more for that man,
DoIai1.''
IAN why?'
.'Shure, it's on account of re-
mark he made Says he. Casey, ye're
sacked"