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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Ouestions-Ansuers

O. Is there any specie of rat that will
leave refuse in place of the food 1t steals =
| A. The wood or pack rat. common in
! the northwestern part of the United States.
has this peculiar trait 1t leaves bits OF
wood, leaves or trash as substitutes for the
materials it carries away.
( q. Have any of the war loans advanced
by the United States to its allies been re-
pa. a. To date SCI ,164, oo7 has been repaid
by Great Britain; $12.147.00 by France
are very small in comparison to the sums
loaned to each Of these countries.
Q. How many chaplains served with our
A. The War Department says that there
! were at least 1,250 with the American Ex-
1 peditionary Force.
hair pompadour originate ?-J. F. q.
A The style of arranging the hair POM
about the middle Of the eighteenth CEN
| fury. This style of hair-dressing is be-
lieved to have derived its name from the
notorious Madame de PompadoDr.
Q. How long did the Reign of Terror in
France last?-o. E. F.
a. The Reign of Terror was that period
| Of the French Revolution beginning with
the fall of the Girondists in June, 1873. and
| lasting until the overthrow of Robespierre.
July "a, 1874 During this time the country
was under tie domination of faction
which carried on wholesale executions re-
sa5dieSs , OF age age; sex, os or position ha,sh,
! A. The Navy Department says that the
| approximate cost Of a modern battleshfp
/ is $4,000 00o- This is more than 1t cost
to build the capitol at Washington.
! O. How many soldiers are buried In the
A E. F. cemetery at Romagne. France!-
\ A. A. C.
| A. In the cemetery at Romagne. Sous
Montfaucon. In the Meuse department,
there are 23.061 American soldiers graves.
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toiler is the gracious gift of sleep;
how full of welcome this drapery of
darkness to him who has thought and
planned and done his best
How wise a philosophy-this early
to bed and early to rise!" For sleep,
in reality, is a benefactor of power.
Tired. worried, characterization
lit is then that sleep creeps up to
offer balm and comfort, and to re-
shape in the night that which became
ruffled during the day. And like the
new visions that flash into our senses
in a glorious country. so do the new
days come to us-made fragrant by
the touch OF the night.
20 sleep, It is gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

So long as a portion OF the public
finds itself IN possession of an amount
OF money to which it has not hitherto
been accustomed and insists on spend
ing 1t, shall the merchant be blamed
for taking it? And If a man be insistent
upon exchanging his money for things
he does not need, why should anybody
worry about the price paid? The de-
mand for furniture is said to be so
great that no furniture dealer in the
country can keep any stock in his
warehouse. Men who have never be-
fore been able to buy expensive fur
niture now walk into the furniture
stores and purchase the highest priced
mahogany furniture without the
slightest regard to the cost. The ex-
pensive haberdasheries of the country
are overcrowded. They are selling
more stuff than ever in their history,
and muclNof it of the most expensive
Kind to a character of customers that
formerly did not trade with that class
OK stores.
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The Park Ave. News.
Weather. Stree for all but not APP
priciated by some.
To His Bed,i Sid Hunt was confined
to his bed late Wensday AFTERNOON and
wasent allowed to either get up for
suppir or eat it in bed on account of
sessing his father back during al ar
gewment about going to the movies.
Bizness Notes. Artie Alexander.
who was in partnership with Leroy
Shooster, to go wackys on everythin g
each of them found. has dizzolved
partnership on account of him find
ing SO mulch and Leroy Shooster not
finding hardly enything.
Heeve Hoi
Pome by Skinny Martin.
There was a Ship a sailing
A sailing cross the sea
But did it ever get there?
Sertch me.
Sissiety. A new ger1 with short
brown cerls has moved in next store
to Miss Mary Watkinses house. but no.
body knows her name yet on account
of Miss Mary Watkins saying No every
time enybody asks to be interdoosedi to
her.
wy be robbed when its not neces-
sery? For 10 sents a munth We will
watch your back tents and parler win
dows for berglers going in or coming
out The Lew Davis and Ed Wernick
Bergler Insurants Compinny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
BEING YOUNG.

BEING YOUNG.
There is no treasure, sought or sung,
So sweet as that OF being young:
Monarchs look down upon the boy
And ENVY him his years OF JOY:
Rich men the barefoot lad behold
And for his chance would give their gold
All men of skill would give their fame
Their vanished youth once more to claim.
He that hath youth still holds the seeds
of greatness and fits manly deeds:
To him the morning skies are fair
And there is beauty everywhere,
Upon his heart no8burden lies,
Tears have not oyer-drained his eyes;
The glories of tie world remain
For him to fight for and to gain.
There's none so great or rich, but he
Wishes once more q boy 10 be;
Life grants to none such treasures rare
As those which youth aIcne may share
The glow Of health, the radiant smile,
The freedom from the sham of style
Great deeds not done. and songs unsung,
Belong to him who still is young.
Richer Is he than millionaire
Who has not yet come into care:
Monarcbs with all that they possess
And all their pomp and regal dress
Have no such fnnk accounts OF Joy
As those belonging TO a boy;s
Like shining pearls the years are strung
For him to count who still is young.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
APPLE PIE LURES ROBERT AWAY
FOR DINNER.
Chapter IS.

Cnapter Ia.
whatever made you tell me Rob-
ert looked sick?'' 1 asked Mary Ryan.
81 haven't seen him as gay as he was
last night in long time
There's more'n one kind of sick
that? Perhaps it don't come in books,
but there's a kind of sickness of the
mind and heart, too, I guess. what is
worse than all the fevers and other
pains folks have. You see they have
doctors when you break leg, or git
some disease. but these amt no one
going to doctor your mind when that's
sick-not that know of"
You mean that Roberts mind is
sick?''
''Perhaps-perhaps not. But when
folks, 1 don't much care if they are
on something they can't have, just as
likely as not they get something they
ought not to have, that they amt got
any business wanting"
You are a queer girl, Mary. You
seem to think Robert lis not con-
tented"
Mary only smiled. and asked me to
tell her about that new girl had met;
Marion Hovey.
"She's very pretty, and an accom-
plished housekeeper if Robert and the
rest are to be believed"
Robert talked about that = he1
housekeeping, and her cooking?"
Yes, 1 accuse him of always think
ing of food
Men, do-quite a lot she returned
then changed the subject. We often
had little chats during the day, now
that We were not SO busy. And al
ways Mary would bring in something
about a home, or Robert.
Now even tho I was able to gel
home quite early. Robert was otter
late. Occasionally he did not come
in to dinner, but would telephone me
not to wait.
Where have you been, dear?"
asked one evening when he had not
been in to- dinner. Where did yot
have dinner?"
Marion Hovey was good enough
to take me home with her. I met hel
just as I left the store, and we walked
along together. She told me what
she was going to have for dinner, and
when 1 said it sounded mighty good
to me. she told me to come along and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

A correspondent of the New York
Times. who writes from San Antonio.
has collected figures which go to show
that the American border patrol has
cost the United States more than
$1,000 900 since the days of Ma
dero. A force of regulars has been
distributed along the international
boundary ever since March, 1911,
when President Taft ordered the army
mobilized at San Antonio. other large
expenditures, not included in the
$1,000, 100000 estimate, were for the
occupation of Vera Cruz and General
Pershing's expedition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Dorothy Dix Talks
The Ounce Of Prcvcntion-1.


The other day woman,>>who IS
violently opposed to the marriage of
blood relatives, was telling me with
tears that her daughter was rnadly I'm
love with her first cousin, and refused
to give him up in spite of all the argu-
ments and prayers and entreaties of
her parents.
my sisters son. moaned the
mother. why he has practically lived
at my house, and seemed just like one
OF my own children / never dreamed
OF such a thing as he and Estel1e car
ing for each other III any way except
as brother and sister,
You are blind and stupid IL you
didn't" | replied, because the cousin
relationship Is the most dangerous
sentimental relationship in the world.
1t breaks down all the barriers that
FENCES Cupid out of the hearts of the
young, and gives him a fatal chance
to get busy. The very fact that a
couple OF young people are cousins
permits them an intimacy and fannil-
iarity that no stranger can have, and
you Know it was kiss that awakened
the sleeping beauty.
More than that. there is nearly al
ways special congeniality between
cousins that springs from the common
root of their blood and environment.
Ihey have the same tastes. and be-
1efs and have been raised in the
same. traditions. and so 1t is no WON
tt4cJ attract each
other, and become pals, and Comrades.
and at last, lovers. I should never
invite one Of my children's cousins
to pay me a prolonged visit IL I had
marriageabie children of my own. un-
less VENTED him or her for a son i'm
law or a daugEter-in-law."
"Oh, If bad only thought of this
danger in time" walled the distressed
mother.
why cont mothers think?v
asked. Every day some woman
comes to me with a tale of woe such
as yours, asking my sympathy because
her son or daughter is going to marry.
some one of whom she disa pproves-
and yet nine times out of ten she has
simply made the match herself. and
chucked the young people into each
others arms.
"A woman will give the run of her
house t6 some fascinating, but utterly
ineligible Elsn, apparently without the
slightest thought of the danger 10
which she Is exposing her daughter
Sometimes ii will be a pfcturesoue
soulful eyed. long haired ue'er-do-we1
who has never made a dollar in his
life. and hasn't practical sense enough
to earn his own bread and butter inf
who talks like an angel. and makes
love in manner to wheedIe the birds
out of the trees. Mother thinks that
no girl in the world would be fool
enough to take such a man seriousIv-
or think of such a thing as the sui.
eide II would be to marry him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Last year, according to an official
report. over 6l.OOO.oOO copies of gov
eminent publications were distributed;
the employees in the government
printing office numbered $500, and
the value" of the product was placed
at 100000. The list sof govern
ment publications alone would make a
small library. Titles of publications
relating to education exceed fifty
pages. 1t is safe to say that the bulk
of this enormous output goes into the
waste baskets of the country without
being read. Whatever is worthy of
perusal finds its way into the newspa-
pers long before the government pub
lication makes its appearance. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
OCH ME. IN THE CRADLE.

ROCK Me. IN THE CRADLE.
How wonderful is that force which
takes the lids of our eyes and gently
presses them tightly-to sleepi
Completely lost as We are in a quiet
and serene oblivion, while darkness
wraps US in its arms, yet are we cared
for watched over, and renewed for
the great activities of the open day.
Mysterious as death must inevitably
be. still it is little more so-nor more
wonderful-than is our nightly sleep.
Knowing no more about the pne than
the other, so far as its mysterious ele-
ments are concerned, yet do we trust
the one and fear the other.
How precious to the horny handel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
MouHon Musings
BY ROY X. MOULTON.
b. Y. O. L.

b. Z. o. u.
ct see that a new form of abbrevia-
ton has taken the place of the old
familiar r. S. V. P. on banquet invi-
tations." said a member of a promi-
nent club.
Whats that?" inquired a friend.
IT'S B. Y. o. L." he replied. THE
other day I received from a well
known country club an invitation to
a dinner which bore the initials B. Y.
o. L. + couldn't dope out what the
letters stood for until member of
the country club told me that they
represented bring your own liquor. -
The former crown prince has in
vented a cuff-link. Now If somebody
would only give him a cuff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

The railroad administration is re-
ported to be making an hysterical ef-
fort to buy rails for delivery by March
!, when the roads are to be returned
TO their owners. Mr.. Hines has stead
lily refused to pay the Industrial
boards price of SAT ton. Now he
is willing to pay the price but is I'M
able to obtain the goods in the desired
quantity
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A LESSON OF THE WAR.

Turning over the pages of the cur
rent newspapers and magazines one
can hardly fail to realize that one Of
the lessons taught by the Great War is
the value of advertising. Never before
has the pressure of business for space
in the public prints been so great.
Were it not for the enormous increase
in the cost of production publishers
might now be reaping a golden har-
vest. But under existing conditions
even with greatly increased business
many are finding 1t difficult to make
ends meet and Withdrawals from the
field and consultations are not in
frequent.
There still, however, are persons
who think that where great resources
are found there is no need for agrees
sive publicity, holding the thought
that these advantages will of their
own force prove a magnet sufficiently
strong to draw all of the capital need
ed for their development. This is a
mistaken position. No industry is so
vast that it does not need publicity.
No government is so strong and
powerful that It could afford during
the late war not to advertise. England
thrilled with patriotism in the early
days OF the war, but England found
that it could not raise its vast volun-
fteer army except by a tremendously
persistent advertising campaign. This
government, backed by one-third of
the wealth OF the world, found that it
could not sell its liberty bonds except
for a campaign of publicity such as
had never before been known in the
worlds history. This campaign in
VOWED the broadest advertising in the
newspapers and magazines of the
country. Business houses everywhere
were urged by the government to de-
vote much of the space which they
were already carrying in newspapers
to specific advertising of liberty
bonds.
When people are inclined to believe
that ceaseless advertising is not nee
essary to their particular industry,
reverently 1t may be suggested. says
the Manufacturers Record. that the
supremest thing in all human life IS
the salvation of the individual soul,
and yet for nineteen hundred years the
campaign for making this fact known
has been pressed by millions of minis
ters and hundreds of millions of lay
men, and by all the papers OF the
country, thru their editorial and news
columns, as well as thru their adver-
Using pages, and still there is limitless
room for expansion of this work. Not
withstanding the fact that all intelli-
gent men and women know they are in
existence, and that they cannot pos
sibly get out OF IL in this world or the
next. notwithstanding the, fact that
they know they must spend eternity
somewhere, and that they have read
and heard of the meaning OF the Cos
pei which has been preached, there are
only about 100000 of the ITO. O0o.-
coo persons in this country who are in
any way as yet directly connected with
the religious life OF the country.
II a matter of so supreme impor-
lance. reaching thru time and eternity,
kstill find the necessity for uncsasing
publicity work, how narrow-visioned
must be those who think that pub
licity work is not needed for any pure
ly human affair. however small or
however great it may be!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY n HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

Life constantly grows>more complex.
There was a time well within the
memory of the middie-ased when a
girls wedding dover consisted OF
of the Log Cabin and "Rose-of-
Sharon patterns.
/ The rule is that the small town at
which the actor laughs and about
which he cracks jokes Is no funnier
than the actor himself.
Decorative art makes considerable
progress. Go into the attic of any old
fashioned house and the probabilities
fare that you will find a dusty whatnot
and pink seashell.
When city man takes bis vacation
he spends 1t at some mountain or sea-
kshorc resort. When a farmer tekes his
vacation he gets on 8. train and goes
away somewhere to look at land.
Once in q great while there is q very
unusual performance. An Englishman
who never saw Abraham Lincoln, nor
any one who knew him, has written a
play about our martyred president
which the dramatic critics. who never
lifelike and veracious.
Nearly every farmer wishes he had
as little to do as the men who live in
town and conduct restaurants or run
grocery stores.
Probably the fiercest competition
this country ever saw was that which
/ formerly existed between the women
who prided themselves on making good
salt-rising bread. The competition no
longer exists. and the woman who
knows how to make salt-rising bread
now is the exception rather than the
rule. But there was a time when II
was considered one of the arts.
To a woman marriage is an inde-
\ terminate sentence at penal seryituae,
with no time off for good behavior.
| 10 man marriage Is a permanent
/ lecture course. for which he must pay
a certain guarantee every month.
The secret of the gentleman who
sold an average of 100000 worth of
life insurance for a period of thirty
five years has been revealed He at
tributes his success to the fact that
/ ne never harried his prospects. Gem
tlemen who have fallen GREATNESS
and exhausted by the roadside in an
effort to elude those who write life
insurance will be glad to learn there
is more than one method.
In this country reform seldom lasts
beyond the political campaign in
which it was projected. Reformers
/ are<much like politicians. in the re-
| spect that they speedily forget the OBJ
ject of the campaign in the row over
| the spoils.
Probably the earlier heroes who
| spent long evenings before the cabin
fire absorbing wisdom and informa-
ton from chance volumes by the
!, Pickering light of a pine knot or a
| tallow candle are entitled to less
credit for it than they generally have
been given. When the adolescent male
| spends the evening porting over book
| it is because there is nothing going
| on in his neighborhood.
After an immigrant has learned 10
| swear in English he takes up the
study of the language as a whole.
This should be the ambidextrous
politicians greatest year. man who
can wave the old flag with both hands
has considerable advantage over the
citizen who is restricted to the use OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Before committing himself to the
support of Herbert Hoover for the
presidency, the voter probably will as
sure himself that there is nothing in
the Hoover platform pledging control
of the food supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

A movement has been started look
ing to revival of the coinage CT two
and three-cent pieces. But what can
be bought with a coin of that size?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Three possible candidates for the
presidency already have been re-
moved from the field. Senator Jim
Reed has disposed of Hoover, while
Wood and Pershing have been elm
mated by a Topeka editor who de-
clares that the country is not ready to
accept a military president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

The Bolsheviki are reported to be
invading Armenia. The Armenians
probably soon will be saying: Give us
back the Turks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

The latest suggestion for bringing
down prices is: Always put off until
tomorrow what you do not need to
purchase today. The success of the
formula lies in the fact that tomorrow
never comes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

waste OF good white paper in Wash
ington doubtless contributes extensive
~ to the shortage of newsprint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

thought I was following a comet. but
it was only a will O. the wisp beside
the real thing!"
copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News.
paper Svndicatel
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50 * 49,
Copy right. 1919, By the Wheeler syndIeat.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Life constantly grows>more complex.
There was a time well within the
memory of the middie-aged when q
girls wedding dover consisted OF a
feather bed and two or three quilts
of the Log Cabin and "Rose-of-
Sharon patterns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

The rule is that the small town a
which the actor laughs and about
which he cracks jokes Is no funniei
than the actor himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

When a city man takes bis vacation
he spends 1t at some mountain or sea-
shore resort. When a farmer tekes his
vacation he gets on q train and goes
away somewhere to look at land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

This should be the ambidextrous
politicians greatest year A man who
can wave the old flag with both hands
has a considerable advantage over the
citizen who is restricted to the use OF
one.