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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-12

takes time for these to ripen and de-
velop. The woman who reads. studies,
and thinks grows more and more in
teresting year by year. The woman
with a heart and soul becomes more
lovable as experience broadens and
meiIows her, and to compare such a
woman to a crude ignorant girl is to
compare new wine to old.
Nor is the young girl Invariably the
better looking. There are women who
were plain and homely in their youth
whose features life chisels into beauty.
There are other women who become
lovely thru sheer beauty of spirit,
and there are still other women who
only needed the dignity and back
ground of their own homes to turn
them from awkward, gawky girls into
magnificent grande DANES.
Therefore women have no need TO
fear age. or to lie about it. and they
would not do SO except that men still
sing the praises of sweet sixteen, and
expect women to cover the wisdom
and experience. and self control of
maturity with the camouflage of ex-
treme youth.
That is why a clever woman always
says she is 20 and sticks TO it for the
next twenty years.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 was en-
gagged to a young man who had an
unpleasant disposition. At first l
loved him, but he pouted and acted
disagreeable so much that broke my
engagement. He seemed to be heart
broken and begged me to become en-
gagged again. 1 forgave him and we
tried all over again to get along.
We were engaged five times and had
to break it off every time because we
could not get along without quarreling
got sick and tired of the whole af-
fair and started to go with another
young man. He is very different and
has fine disposition.
Now the first young man feels ter
ribly. He is working hard and saving
money in hopes that will forgive him
and we can be married soon. l do
not love him, but l am interested to
see him do the right thing. If | dis
courage him I am Fraid he will give
up and never amount to anything
Do you think it is my duty to stick
to the first young man for his sake
when l do not enjoy his company
ROSE.
II the young man has not backbone
enough to get along without your sup
port now he will never amount TO any
thing. Let him get along as best he
can alone. since a relationship with
him would be an annoyance to you.
When you were friends your influence
did not help
1t may be that when he sees he has
lost you he will try all the harder
Then you can accept him as a friend
and enjoy him.
Dear Mrs Thompson: 7 was plump
and pretty until last winter when
lost weight after long sickness.
What should / eat to increase my
weight? T. H. X
|. TO gain flesh. take plenty of olive
ioil, eat eggs. butter. cereals and fat
ty broths, potatoes, peas beans, corn,
carrots and parsnips. figs, dates nuts
bananas, rare besfsteak and rCast
beef.
Drink plenty OF milk. cream and
cocoa.
Avoid food that will not digest
easily. and be careful to masticate
thoroly what you eat.
Give up pickles and vinegar.
Exercise freely in the open air. and
take plenty of sleep.
/ Don't fret or worry; this will keep
one thin more than anything else
Cultivate an easy going disposition, if
you possibly can.
In reply to "A. NJ. B.: Remain
silent for the time being Do not
answer your husbands last letter
and If he writes others, ignore them,
too. When he thinks he has lost you
he will want a reconciliation, prob
ably, and will either come to see you
or ask you to return to him.
If. in a few months, you find that
he does not care, get a divorce. Since
you are minor you will have no
difficulty in obtaining one.
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DINNER STORIES

General Plumer, who has recently
been recalled to France from Italy,
can be very ironical when he chooses,
as the following story proves:
Shortly before the war, when he
held the Irish command, a regiment
was being Unanswered before him on
a field day and the colonel in charge
succeeded in getting his men mixed
up pretty thoroly.
However, he went grimIy on and at
last. calling a halt, rode up to Plumer
with an air of importance.
Il flatter myself that was extreme
1y well done, sir" he said, evidently
nothing had gone wrong
"Oh, excellent" was General Plu-
mer's suave reply. But may 1 ask
what on earth you were trying to do ~
Pat and Mike were working on a
enew building. Pat was laying bricks
and Mike was carrying the nod. Mike
had just come up to the fourth floor
when the dinner whistle blew. His
lunch was on the ground.
II hate to walk down after it," he
said.
Take hold of this rope" said Pat,
land I'll let you down.
Pat let him down half way and
then let go of the rope. Mike landed
in the mortar bed not much hurt but
terribly angry.
And why did you let go of the
roper" he demanded.
II thought it was going to break"
said Pat. land had presence of mind
enough to let co.
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Report comes from Paris that the
United States will be asked to become
the mandatory for Armenia. We have
sent an immense amount of money to
that country and probably will be
called upon to send much more. 1t
might be well to give official super
vision to the expenditure of future do
nations. 1t might save us much
money. Besides there is a moral ele-
ment of obligation upon the United
States to act for Armenia. Because
the massacres have reduced the Ar
menian population to a minority in
their own country, Armenia cannot
stand alone. Her national develop
ment will be opposed, possibly pre-
vented. by her enemies. or be subject
to International exploitation. This does
not mean that she will need an Amer
lean army of protection. She already
has a nucleus for a national army
The need is that this force be under
American command with few Amer
lean gunboats to police the Black Sea
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
A Wonan,s Acc.

= A man writes me that he has made
a terrible discovery of his wife's du-
plicity. He has found out that she is
two years older than she declared
herself to be in their marriage GER
tificate, and he is horribly shocked
at this revelation of her perfidy, and
he wants to know If she can be trust
ed, and if a woman who deceives her
husband about her age won't deceive
him about other things.
Nonsense. Every woman tells tar
radiddles about her age woman
who would be burnt at the stake for
the sake of the truth lets go all hold
on veracity when it comes to a mat
ter of her birthdays, and Diogenes IN
search of an honest man had an easy
task compared with the gentleman
who starts out on a still hunt for a
wife who does not juggle with the
number of years that have passed
over her head.
Therefore, because a woman yarns
about her age is no sign that she is
not truthful Jane, and that the bal
ance of her life is not an open book.
1t is merely that women consider that
their age is a private matter with
which no one else has any concern,
and they reserve to themselves the
right to be any age that they please.
And, after all, what does it matter
what age woman is If she looks
good to a man? Age isn't matter of
mind, of spirit, of soul. There are peo-
pie who are 10 years old in the era
die. and there are others who are
debutantes at 10.
A woman who is narrow minded
and set in her ways, who thinks
her own little point of view the only
possible way to look at a subject;
who is sure that everything and
everybody is wrong who differs from
her; who has no enthusiasm and no
interest outside of her own affairs
and her small circle, is old no matter
whether she is 16 or so.
On the contrary, the woman who is
vitality alive; who is interested in
every new thing under the sun, whose
sympathies are as wide as the world,
broadening in chara cter is young
even when she becomes an octogenar-
/ ian.
Women know this. They also know
that instead of age being a woman's
deadliest enemy it is often her most
beneficent friend, and endows her
with charms and graces and even with
looks that she never had in her youth,
and they would like to indulge them
selves in the precious privilege OF
frankly being as old as they are, II
men would only permit them to do SO.
But they won't, for men are welded
to the ancient superstition that only
youth is attractive in the feminine sex,
and that woman may as we'll be dead
as to be forty
This is a silly theory that experience
contradicts at every turn. 1t is only
the most vapid and brainless of women
who are at their best in their teens.
A girl who has no more sense than
kitten and who is 1.-THE, and slim,
and glossy of hair, and jumps about
like kitten. may have her little hour
of charm in her kittenhood, but the
kitten type of woman is the lowest
ideal of the feminine sex.
The real woman, and the woman
worth marrying, is the one who has
intelligence. heart and soul. and it
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MY HUSBAND AND L
BY JANE PHELPS

would see if he were in town. went
to the telephone and called the hotel
where he usually stopped.
rs Mr.. Fredericks stopping there
at present." I asked.
NO, but he is apt to come in AT
any time. Any message" l was tod
after a moments waiting.
NO, yes. Tell him to call Plaza
1894 When he comes"
Perhaps 1 should decide, to say
nothing to him if he did not arrive
in town for several days, but l could
give some excuse for calling him If
1 concluded not to tell him anything
of what l had heard.
knew he did not approve of Neil's
methods, but even so | had taken
Neirs Judgment as final when he had
called Mr.. Fredericks an "old woman"
and not up to date in his ideas of bust
ness.
1 knew-I had been frightfully- ex-
trayagant, but Neil had told me to go
ahead. and to be sure and have the
best of everything while 1 was about
it. He had good taste, and hated any
thing shoddy. So all the furnishir gs
of the house were of the finest woods
and materials procurable. My~home
was exquisite. Yet as 1 looked around
1 thought of what Lorraine had said
to give up all idea of social success
and enjoy it with the friends l now
had" l was not willing to do so. 1t
was a great deal OF care and hard
work to run such an establishment
properly. A small house and fewer
servants were all we should ever have
required had l not intended this on
slaught upon society.
1 had ordered Several very expen-
sive gowns, so that they would be in
keeping with my surroundings, eve
ming dresses that would be of no Use
if my plans failed. No, no, they
couldn't fail, 1t was just that puri-
tanical str eak in Lorraine that had
made a mountain out of a mole-hill.
l would go on just as l had intended.
That is, l would after l had a talk
with Neil.
Friday seemed a long way off. 1t
would be hard to be patient until his
return.
Tomorrow-Is love blind?
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Thus far six officers of the United
states army, beginning with Sir John
], Pershing. have been knighted by
the King of England. Recently the
first carload of gifts from European
royalty to the Wilson's arrived at the
White House. Section of Article
one of the United States constitution
says: NO title of nobility shall be
granted by the United States: And
no person holding any office of profit
or trust under them, shall without the
consent of congress. accept any pres
ent. emolument. office or title of any
kind whatever, from any king, prince
or foreign state" These titles and
presents have sheen accepted without
the slightest reference to congress to
obtain the consent of that body. But
perhaps these violations o. the consti-
tuition will be classed with the other
war emergencies. like taking over the
telegraph and telephone lines.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY K. MOULTON

We love 1.-The Little Fly Upon the
Wall" We think it is one of the
greatest poems of the ages, in all its
variations; but for alb ut six weeks our
mail has been so full of little flies
upon the wall, written in every con-
ceivable form from John Milton to
Walt Mason, that we now hold up our
hands and cry "Kamerad." Twenty
nine different versions of the poem ar
rived in today's morning mail, and
while we love these contributions and
are interested in all of them. this
column is only a column long and so
far as little flies upon the wall are
concerned, in the future it will be our
painful duty to t them. Only two
subjects barred-prohibition and little
flies.
An advertiser informs US that up
to-the-minute stockings have clocks
on them.
This is the season, notes Mrs. Homer
Hoch, when the small boy is busy
greasing up his fathers lawn mow.r
in the hopes of getting a job cutting
the neighbours grass. (
A scientist says the fewer garments
people wear, the longer they will live.
If that is the case they will have to
shoot Annette on Judgment Day.
An Indian squaw in Washington
state sues for divorce because her
husband is too lazy to support her. In
the good old days before civilization
struck in, nobody would have expected
him to.
There are days when a column
writer feels about as necessary as a
whistle on a cemetery. One of these
days comes when a contributor writes
III: For the Iowa Mike. print some
thing new" and incioses a joke taken
from Tit Bits" which has already
been published three times in the Bos-
ton Transcript"
The Pasha boys Enver and Tewfik,
seem to have dropped out of sight in
Turkey: and. by tho way, what has
become of Turkey. itself?
Who Is He?i
Headline says: "Three-Ton Cheese
Comes to the City"
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ANOTHER ALsACE-LoRRAINE.

First it was Italy, then Japan and
now it is China that threatens to re-
fuse to become a party to the peace
treaty. ItaIy,s stand won for her con-
cessions, Japan's caused the other con-
ferees to grant her, in roundabout
way, all she asked, but who believes
that any attention will De paid to poor
old China?
Japan is to be permitted to retain
her rights in the Shantung peninsula,
and this, it is declared, lis satisfactory
to Japan, and consistent with Presi-
dent Wilson's fourteen points" The
latter part of this declaration is hardly
true. The fifth point declares for "a
free, open minded, and absolutely inn
partial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon strict observance
of the principle that in determining all
such questions of sovereignty the in
terests Of the populations concerned
must have equal weight with the
equitable claims of the government
whose title is to be determined"
The report states that the Japan
csc displayed to President Wilson and
others copies OF lrOnclad instructions
from home directing insistance that
Germanys concessions be transferred
to Japan, otherwise the Japanese dele
gates would have to return to Japan
Immediately.
Shantung is claimed by China on the
ground that the war, to which she be-
came a party on the side of the allies,
revoked the concession which she
made to Germany. The inhabitants of
Shantung are almost exclusively Chi
nese who unanimously desire the re-
turn of that territory to China. 1t ap-
pears that the mother-country has not
even been consulted with regard to
her claims to this territory.
Japan, unwarned by the fate of
Germany. has entered upon a course
of Prussianism which, if persisted in,
is destined to prove her undoing. The
world will not stand idly by and watch
her entertainments upon her neigh
bors as long as it did in the case of
Germany. Shantung may yet prove to
be another Alsace-Lorraine.
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of fat, and thoroly scar it on all sides.
This should be done at high tenn
perature, in order to close all the pores
and thus prevent the juice from escap-
ing. When completely scared, apply
the seasoning. Never apply seasoning
scared, however. because it has the
opposite tendency to! open the pores
and let out all the juices. To season
a roast of this kind. Miss Chinn sug-
gests a bay leaf, or a little bit of
thyme, onion or dried celery tops The
economical housewife these days holds
on to a bit of parsley OF a bunch of
celery tops as tenaciously as she did
to box of currants during the early
part of the war. For crushed up into
fine powder when dry. they consti-
tute the finest kind of flavoring.
In imparting this seasoning informa-
ton to her class, Miss Chinn issued a
warning. Do not become a season.
ing person, she admonish ID. In other
words, don't get the habit, and use
this kind of seasoning on everything.
SO that one dish tastes precisely like
another. If you have any of this
roast left over, by the way, you can
turn it into Hungarian goulash by
cutting it up into small pieces and
cooking it with half can of toma-
toes, one green pepper, an onion, salt
and pepper, and little rice, If you
The cheapest kind of meat, of
course, is ham, 1t has a higher
caloric content per pound than any
other meat, and need be used. there
fore, in smaller quantities. A delicious
result from only a small slice of ham
may be obtained by placing it in
deep dish, preferably a casserole, COW
ering it with slices of raw white pota-
toes and a pint of milk or a small
amount of milk powder. and cooking
it in the oven for about an hour or
three-quarters of an hour. The same
thing may be done with a veal outlet
first rolled in bread crumbs and egg
and scared, or a piece of breast of
veal, although this, of course, is not
quite so cheap.
To prove her theory, Miss Chinn
passes samples of the recipes advo-
Gated, which all the time have been
cooking in the homemade fireIess
cooker. about the class room. They
do prove it!
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Us fellows was setting on my frunt
steps this AFTERNOON wondering if there
would ever be another war, and who
with, and Pubs Simkinecs sissy cuzzin
Persey started to come up the street,
Sid Hunt saying, Heer comes Persey,
let's don't leeve him set down, these
steps is full enuff allreddy as it is.
G, all rite, let's don't, US fellows
sed. And Persey kepp on coming, and
when he was about a pavemint away
he sed, Has eny of you fellows got
change of a dime?
Us fellows all thinking, G. he's got
a dime, G. And Persey started to
wawk past, and Sid Hunt sed, Set
down a vile, Persey, watts your hurry.
maybe I got change, set down a vile
and Ill see.
Sure, set down, watts your hurry,
Persey? sed Skinny Martin. And we
all asked him to set down as if that's
wat we had made # up to do insted of
the opposite. and Sid Hunt reetched
change he had. all he had being a
rusty key and four different shape
buttons, him saying, No, cant change
it.
Meaning the dime, and all us fellows
felt in our pockets to see if we could,
witch none of us couldent enywares
neer. And Persey took the dime out
of his pockit and looked at it and put
it back agen, proving he RELY had it.
saying. Well. 1 guess I'll go GROUND
to some store and get it changed.
Watts your hurry? sed Leroy Shoo-
ster, and 1 sed, wy don't you stick
GROUND a vile, Persey, you jest got
heer.
Do you wunt me to go with you,
Persey? sed Sid Hunt.
Do you wunt me to, Persey? sed
the rest of US fellows.
No, sed Persey. And he wawked
away with his dima.
Proving the induenfs of money.
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There is ample capital in the coun-
try to take care of building needs and
many institutions are showing their
faith in the future of the industry by
pie will be followed by others as the
process of mental STERILIZATION be-
comes more widespread. The general
outlook for realty conditions may be
viewed with optimism, for there are
no fundamental conditions that do not
indicate tremepdous building activl-
ties and the Substantial growth of
American cities for many years. to
emma
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many cities of the United States, show
an enormous increase over the CORE
spending month of the previous year,
according to a table of estimates pre-
pared by the division of public works.
In a comparison of construction costs.
as represented by forty-seven cities.
fifteen record a falling off, but the re-
naming thirty-two more than COM
pensate for the decrease by the great
gain represented.
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In the current report of the activi-
ties of the American relief admins
tration issued by Herbert Hoover, d-
rector general, in Paris, announce
ment is made that the organizatio
has shipped to various ports in Eu-
rope for relief work a total of 1913
$50 tons, of breadstuffs, fats, milk,
clothing and sundries. In Czecho-Slo-
vakia. Jugo-Slavia and Rumania. the
neediest of the southern liberated
countries, food to the value of $54,-
100000 has been distributed. Two
streams of food and supply ships are
kept constantly moving from Ameri-
can ports to Europe by the American
relief administration. At the time Mr.
Hoover's report was made eighty
American relief administration ships
had arrived at European ports outside
of Belgium and forty additional ships
were on their way across. The relief
program of the administration covers
Poland, Finland, the Baltic states.
Czecho- Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Ru-
mania and Christian and Jewish
Turkey.
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THE CROP OUTLOOK.

Crop conditions in the United States
grow better with each survey that is
made The grain growing sections re-
port ideal weather conditions and a
smaller acreage reduction from I'M
planted winter aged areas than
expected. The wheat crop is going to
be the largest on record, unless some
unprecedented disaster occurs.
The fixed price for wheat estab-
fishes the American farmer in advance
and gives him the surety that his la
bors to increase production will not be
penalized by lower prices for his grain.
America must feed the world, for it is
only here that so excellent a situation
prevails. The Argentine senate has
refused to ratify the treaty by which
loans were to have been made to the
entente allies to finance purchases of
grains, which means a still greater
call for American wheat
The May l condition of our winter
wheat was 1908 per cent of normal.
against 1876 per cent last year and
ten-year average OF S2.3 per cent. The
indicated yield of winter wheat is we'll
toward 900, 00O.0 900 bushels. The total
yield of spring and winter wheat this
year should run well over the 1,000,-
00O.O bushel mark, with a valuation
of at least two and one-half billions of
dollars.
The government estimates the value
/ of the products of the farms of the
United States in 1918 as $21, $50. 0O0.-
! 900, and judging from the present out
look 1919 may run close to $25, 000,-
| 100000, stupendous total.
Since agriculture is the basis of all
business and all prosperity, the out
look not only for the farmers but for
all the people of the United States
never was brighter than it is today.
Business of all kinds is certain to
boom in spite of any handicaps that
may be thrown in its way.