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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned a Modern sto.y Of Home and Bushes.
Blu JANE PHELPS
Blu JANE PHELPS

lar. anything new that made you so?"
mo, nothing but the same old
story"
He had flushed and at once I knew
he would be pleased il I asked no
more question. But altho 1 seldom
questioned him, I was determined to
find out what had happened that
night.
"where did you get your dinner"
st had dinner at Marion's."
How did IT happen you didn't take
her 10 the theater if you dined with
her?''
"oh. she had a previous engage
ment"
Suddenly 1 thought 1 knew the rea-
son be had been depressed and why
he had been so absent-minded and
careless when cross the street. He
had been either jealous or annoyed
because Marion could not go with him
and depressed for the same reason.
1 asked no more questions. I had
learned all L wanted to know. Mary
Ryan could talk all she. pleased-it
would make no difference. Robert
would probably be and do just as he
He was in iove-or something very
| like it-with Marion Hovey. Yet, even
thinking this, I never doubted that he
still cared for mel
: That night / slept very little. and
| the next day was so tired, so inatten-
| tive, that madame asked me If 1 were
ill.
why. no. I am perfectly we'll"
told her.
F.. Mrs. Wade left in a huff-said she
hadn't been getting the proper atten-
ton. I noticed you had been waiting
on her, so 1 concluded you were ILL"
Her sarcausm effectually made me
pull myself together. and for the rest
of the day Z compelled myself to at
tend strictly to business.
] 1 walked home. I felt I needed the
air and exercise. 1 had nearly reached
the boarding house when met Gard
ner Kenyon.
him about Roberts accident, and he
insisted upon walking home with me
you say he is perfectly all right now
Why not play hooky and go to dinner
with me?'
! Commonwealth Job.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
Things to Drink.
BY LEE PAPE.

Wen a person gets thersty the ferst
thing they think of is sumthing to
drink. AS soon as they drink it they
start to think of other things agen if
they wunt to proving that Nature
never lets enybody die of therst with
out them knowing it.
One of the most popular drinks to
drink is 1emminade, but just because
you see some lemmin skin floating on
top Of il, that don't say its full of lem
min jooce, wich 1T generally amt.
Lemminade that hasn't got enuff lem
minis in it generally hasent got enuff
sugar either, thus taking your mind
off of the fack it amt got enuff lem
minis. The best lemminade is lemmin-
ade and cake.
Cawfee makes peoples harts beat
faster than wat the doctor wunts them
to, and they say they're going to stop
drinking it and don't
Tee was invented by the Chineez and
still has ChiReez writing on some of
the packages. Children are allowed
to drink tee half full of milk, not be-
ing mulch of a privilege.
Coco is a pritty good of a drink If
its got enuff coco in it, wich it awffen
hasent Some people call COCO chock-
lit to make it sound as if it tasted
better.
Milk is supposed to be good for chill
dern, proberly being the reason wy
they would drather drink sumthing
elts insted. Milk comes frum COWS,
but not cold milk, even If the COW is
standing in snow at the time. Babies
don't get enything to drink but milk
and don't find out wat they missed till
yeers Afterwards.
Waiter is one of the best drinks and
would proberly be mulch more famous
if it wasent so free.
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In all the history OF the world, no
Instance is recalled in which a mon
archy suddenly has been converted
into a democracy and remained per-
manent. Russia is proving to be no
exception to the rule. In that country
the hereditary monarchy has been
abolished. but Lenine, the present
ruler. is as much an autocrat as was
the car. But there is this differ
rnce: Lenine cannot hand over his
power to anybody else. except the Rus
sian people. lie may be able to main
tain control during his lifetime, bat
at his death il not sooner the Russian
people will take over the administra-
ton OF their own affairs. other auto
Gratis may arise and wrest power from
the people. but the country has started
on the road toward a democratic gov
srnment and there will be no turning
back. They may be halted along the
road as they now are halted. but they
viii arrive at their destination in time
Recent Russian history is being re-
peated In Germany but events may be
expected to move more rapidly In that
country because the people are more
generally educated.
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hazardous business because his crop
may at any time be destroyed by frost.
The great all-destroying froets like
that of 1894 are comparatively rare,
but frosts that destroy a part of the
crop are frequent. There were bad
froSts in 1917. A frost which destroys
part of a-crop, however, does not gem
orally mean a loss to Florida, for
prices will then rise. and more money
may be brought into the state by the
short crop than by a large one. This
is the same phenomenon that may be
witnessed III many other phases Of
farming. The only economic lesson
which the farmer has learned we'll is
that he tends to make more out of a
small crop than out Of a large one,
under our supply -and-demand system
of distribution. AS long as demand is
the only thing that regulates price,
abundance for\ the consumer means
poverty for the producer.
In the citrus fruit business, this
factor is not nearly SO obvious as in
other lines of production. because the
citrus regions of the United States are
limited, and the demand for the fruit
steadily increasing. The Florida citrus
groves are steadily expanding, and
there is little danger that. they will
ever be too large for the NEEDS of the
country.
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fore him in painted letters, he knew
the truth.
Her eyes were alight and her cheeks
were soft flames while now from her
words like the rushing torrent of an
impatient brook. An explanation,
wonderful, deep with thought, and put
forth with such brilliant understand
ing as to make the soul of Rylance
glow within him, came from that other
soul-the soul that Rylance had loved.
Beth had been making frantic eff
forts to stop the flow of words from
Paula's lips. Her alert eyes had
caught the knowing expression in the
westerner'S quiet smile. and somehow
she felt a keen relief.
you are fortunate in your friend
ship" Rylance said with queer look
in his eyes, there are not many chums
who could so get under the mind of
the other and in fact sense the poetic
press it SO magnificently-"
Paula had the added grace to blush
and Beth jumped up suddenly Dent on
brewing a cup of tea. Having beaten
her retreat, she wondered what meth
cd Paula would take to extricate her
self from the false position they had
assumed.
Paula was not troubled about hav-
ing given away her identity. but she
felt bit startled at the new emotions
within her that she knew were not
destined to spend themselves on the
mere writing of verse.
Then Beth. from tn little kitchen
cite. heard Rylance speaking;
'sYou couldn't have hidden your
soul long from me, Paula Raymond.
have loved it too we'll for it to escape
me under a camouflage."
Beth couldn't hear Paula's answer,
but it must have been satisfactory, for
when she returned with DAINTY Tea
tray there was an atmosphere of hap
pines sthat prompted her thoughts to
stray toward orange blossoms and
weddings in a tiny flat.
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
BEGINNINGS.

several years ago young fellow by
name of George j. Whelan stood on
the corner Of Broadway and Seven
teenth street, New York, and decided
he wanted a smoke.
He looked around for a cigar store
but found none. He walked four
blocks before he got what he wanted.
Then he stood outside and--thought
That district at that time was one
OF the busiest in New York And a
man had to walk four blocks to get a
cigarl There ought to be a cigar
store on every busy corner in this
city," said Whelan to himself.
And so today there isl And Whelan.
as the great head of brains back of the
United Cigar stores, is the greatest
cigar man in the world.
When a brain and an idea get 70
humping together-watch out Things
happen.
Long ago. Wendell Philips said that
! the biggest brains don't go to Con-
gress." And it holds true in every
walk of life. that ideas and a lot OF
faith are what makes the world keep
growing.
The other day I talked with a auet.
modest man in little real estate Of
flee at Miami, Florida. l marvelled
at the great growth of city that IS
so little known to the millions of
America. They sell climate" down
; there. AND the man Whom / TAXED
to, owns one of the largest stretches
of that Climate And tho he is still
but middle-aged. he told me that
when he went there to live, there were
only two houses! But he saw a city.
And now he owns large part of it.
Here are the names of a few other
beginners whose achievements have
become mmortal:-Columbu Edison.
Morse, Bell Westinghouse. Fulton.
Marconi, Ford. Schwab-each starting
with an idea, and unkillable faith in
himself
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MILES poCroRs p1sAeREt.

II is really amazing. says the De-
troit News. that people will remain
in ignorance of the reasons for the
simply explained by the worlds fore
most authorities on the subject.
The News continues:
They told US in 1914 that the heavy
flood OF gold to this country started
Il because when gold is plentiful cred
ats expand. But during the past year
.ee million dollars in gold was de
ported TO South America and the
Orient. Yet with SO much OF the
wicked gold gone the prices remain
the same That, however. ds easily
explained. It's the initiation which is
still with us. Every gold dollar in the
Federal Reserve vaults may serve as
tho basis of deposit liabilities of $2.50.
Anothis deposit given over to the credit
OF a member bank may be stretched
on a credit basis TO the extent OF $S5.
Therefore it isn't actually the gold but
the credit against the gold or the in
fiatioh. which causes it all. In fact,
the world is flooded with paper
money. Statistics of the National City
bank shows that while in 1914 there
was paper money to the extent of
only seven billion dollars, today
there il 81 billion. The ratio of gold
TO paper money has fallen from 40 per
cent TO 49,.
So that settles that. It's the infla-
ton. The American Mining congress
has even adopted resolutions on 1t,
and has petitioned congress to pass
laws about il. The miners and bank
srs want Il law taxing the sale OF gold
used in jewelry. the money raised BY
that tax to be turned into a fund 10
pay a premium Of $40 an ounce to
miners for all gold they bring to the
minis. This because the miners are
going broke and quitting the business
OF digging out gold. Gold is the
standard OF value and all they can get
for es.22 grains is one dollar. because
one dollar IS 1922 grains. With this
premium the miners hope to get gold
back to production. Harold n. Law
rie. a nationally known economist
representing the miners. says the pur-
chasing power of gold has shrunk
? more than one-half thru the infla-
ton Of the currency"
II gold is so scarce, one who didn't
understand would think that prices
would drop because it would take
more goods 10 set a dollar, under tbs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
Dorothy DIX Talks
The Family Quarrel-i
M DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest raid Woman Writer.


One of the most amazing things in
the world is why married people who
are, otherwise, well bred, and good
hammered, so often fight in public.
Matrimony is. of course, a dull and
drab state of existence when 1t slides
into the long, long trail that goes
winding thru the year and nobody
would interfere with the pleasures OF
the man and woman who seek to vary
its monotony by little scrap now
and then.
But surely there is ample opportun-
ity for these domestic bouts to be held
in privacy. in the time which a hus-
band and wife perforce spend at
home. and the doors can be shut and
the blinds pulled down, and the key
holes plugged up SO that neither sight
nor sound of the encounter will pene-
trate to the outside world.
To fnfiict these affairs on the in
| nocent bystander is a criminal cruelty
| to dumb animals. for there is no other
situation in life that is so acutely en-
barrassing, nor so filled with poignant
and helpless agony as to be forced to
assist, IN the French sense. at a quar-
rel between married couple.
Neither discretion. nor tact, offers
! the victim any safe way of escape
To take either side is to invite as
sault and battery. The lady may call
her husband a brute. but IL you agree
with her she will turn upon you like
a wild cat, and tell you that her hus-
band is perfect gentleman. and that
you are beast of low degree your
self to traduce that noble and gener-
Gus man.
The husband may say that his wife
is pin headed idiot, and demand OF
heaven to know why he was ever fool
enough to marry her. but il you assent
to his estimate of his spouse he will
acuse you of being jealous cat, if you
are woman. and punch your nose
for insulting the pearl of her sex it
you are man. In either case you
will have made two enemies for life
for there is this popularity about a
husband-and- wife quarrel - that it
brooks no interference. and both COM
batants invariably turn upon the out
slider who butts int it.
| Nor is it any safer to try to pour
oil upon the troubled waters No hand
| is artful enough to apply the lubri-
cant just where the friction is. so the
thing that the unfortunate SthlEd party
can do is to keep still, anu non-com-
mital and preserve an unmarried neu-
! trality until the storm has blown over
1t is far from exhilara ting expert
ence, however, and nobody's idea of a
pleasant and enjoyable time, vet it is
one of the social martyrdoms that we
are all called to go thru far too often
| Copyright 1919, BY the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
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ANOTHER WARNING AND AZ
INVITATION.

(1faE 1I51s 90
when are you coming back to the
shop?"
Mary asked the question after 1
had followed her to the door.
an a day or two. The doctor says
Robert will be all right. He will be
confined to the house longer of course.
s self "e VIII DC aD'e 'os"a'' 'po' mn"
ST don't know, Gerry wonder
sometimes about you and Bob" She
spoke very seriously something un-
usual for Mary. You're so
are doing. what you want to do that
you don't bother much about anything
else-whether you are going to be
happy, or make him happy. You're
looking all the time to see what you're
going to get, thinking only of what
you are getting out of life that you
don't stop and ask if there's anything
big or fine you are missing because
you look at everything from the bust
ness end of things-your own business
end. I wonder If you ever think you
amt treating yourself quite fair-or
Robert either"
what a queer girl you arei' I wa.
bit impatient I'D like to know
what we would do if I wasn't bust
ness woman? What we would dc
now?
! Maybe Robert would have come
home if he had had a home TO come
to. Then he wouldn't have been
hurt"
you have that home idea on the
brain since you took that flat I re-
| turned, not taking anything she
said seriously.
Good night, Gerry. 1 am awfully
sorry for Robert, but / am sorrier for
ysu. The woman always gets hurt the
most in the end when things &C
wrong" and without waiting for al
answer, she left me.
Yet I thought of what Mary had
/ said, even if 1 did not consider it al
the time. A day or two afterwar6
! said to Robert:
( you told me the reason you didn't
come home that night you were hurt
| was because you were blue and de-
pressed. Was there anything particu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
! JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR 4. GUEST.
WHEN THERE'S HEALTH ~ THE
HOUSE.

WHEN THERE'S HEALTH IN THE
HOUSE.
When there's good health I'm the house
there is laughter everywhere
And the skies are bright and sunny and the
roads are smooth and fair.
For the mother croons her ditties, and the
father nuns Il song.
Altho heavy be his burdens, he can carry
them along.
When there's good health in the house.
there are smiles on every hand
Luck is dancing down the roadway to the
music of band,
Then the hum OF wheels is CHEEKY and the
daily tasks are fun
And the toiler smiles at evening at the
sum of work he's done.
When there's good health in the house,
hearts are light and hands are true
And the poor men count their blessings and
the rich are happy too;
Then the cares which life abounds with
seem but trifling things and small
bravely thru them all.
When there's good health in the house, in
the house he's left behind.
He is happier than monarch for he's blest
with peace Of mind
For with all pc has to struggle he is master
OF his Tears.
For the laughter Of his childrens sweetly
ringing in his ears
Copyright 1920 By Edgar A. Guest
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Moulton Musings
BY ROY X. MoULToN.

Lies Little oseries.
Two things no more perpiex me,
I'm sure you know them we'll:
Or what is Charlie Chaplin?
And what did Olive Tell?
Edward A. Bumberg.
Tell me, and I'll Npay any price,
For I can well afford:
Where does Sir Oliver Lodgef
And where does Ouija Board?
Two questions that my sister knew,
The answers do need:
What is il Doris Rankin Drew?
And what did Florence Reed?
Hattie NJ. Flanders.
II they really want to signal Mars,
what's the use OF using g. rocket or a
smoke screen? Let all of the discon
tented consumers get together under a
competent yell-master and give one
yell. Mars and all the other planets
will hear it,
About two years ago we went to one
OF these insomnia banquets-one Of
the kind that keep you awake when
you should be at home and in bed.
The last surviving auditor had finally
gone to sleep with his head in his
empty dessert dish and a dead cigar
clamped in his teeth when strange
thing happened.
Suddenly every man was brought
out of a sound slumber. He sat UP
and rubbed his eyes and muttered:
Can this be true or am l dreaming
Is it possible for any man to get up
at the speakers table and wake up
this gang of sleep hounds?"
But it was done and the man who
did it was this same Bainbridge Colby
who has just been appointed secretary
of state. He took that dead banquer
by the scuff of the neck and shook ii
until its teeth ratified. He passed out
to every man there about four gallons
of 140-proof, unadulterated Old Pep
per Americanism and sent him home
with a jag of patriotism that lasted
him for months. If Woodrow will let
cambridge talk to the foreigners the
way he talked to that gang of home
folks, and not try to turn him into a
carbon-copy, ribbon-stamp statesman
he'll make good.
How would you like to be a gas
meter reader
And go into thirty or forty cellars
every day?
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There has been much criticism of
the governments course in guarantee
ing s2.26 a bushel to the farmer for
his wheat. But wheat has been con-
sistently selling at a price above that
figure. And the fact that less wheat
was sown last year than the year be-
fore indicates that the farmer has not
been making an inordinate profit.
When there is big money in sight he.
like other business men. may be de-
pended upon 10 go after it.
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Good houses and plenty of them
would be the best asset Topeka could
boast in these days. For a shortage of
housing means a serious drain on the
efficiency of labor. Large employers
OF labor should feel a personal respon-
sibility for the housing OF their en-
ployes. They should assist in financ-
ing building schemes. The Chamber
of Commerce should lend a hand.
The banks should offer builders easy
terms That is the way to solve the
housing problem A sufficient supply
of desirable houses would put money
in everybody's pocket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16
Household Hints
Oatmeal
Coffee

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Baked Apple Oatmeal
Toast tot1ee
Omelet Fried Potatoes
Jelly cocoa
DINNER
Pork Chops
i Apple F'ritters
Potato Balls with Parsley
Chocolate Covered Cherries
Coffee
Beef With Lima Beans-One pint
dried lima beans, one pound cheap
cut beef, three small onions, two table
spoons fat, two tablespoons flour. one
and one-half teaspoon salt, dash OF
mace, dash of pepper. two cups to-
mato Chome canned). Soak beans
over night. Cut beef in one-inch
cubes. brown with onions in fat, add
flour, salt, pepper and mace. When
nicely blended and brown place alter
natelyin layerswith beans in casserole,
pouring tomatoes between layers.
Barely cover with boiling water and
cook three hours in slow oven re-
plenishing water as needed. keep
moist but not too liquid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16

1t IS estimated that there are two
motor vehicles in this country for ev-
cry square mile OF territory and one
car for every 1896 persons. Horses
to the number of $500, 600 were dis
placed by motor trucks last year At
the same time it is estimated that 49,
100000 acres OF land were released
for food production by the use of
trucks. Figures on the number Of fill
ing stations are not available but an
estimate based on those, in Topeka
would reach a large total
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16

one plank that may confidently be
expected to appear in both political
platforms this year is a promise to re-
duce the cost Of living; another is a
demand for a reduction in taxes. But
the reading and thinking voters know
that political action alone cannot bring
down prices and what political party
ever reduced taxes?
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Dinner Stories

An Irish sailor. after pulling in fifty
fathoms of line, muttered to himself:
Sure, it's as long as today and to-
morrow It's a good weeks work for
any five men. More OF it yet? The
says mighty deep, to be sure" Then
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he suddenly stopped short; and. look
ing up to the officer on watch, he ex-
planned: bad luck to me, sorr. If
don't behave somebody's cut off the
other end of this Incl"
''I see where an heiress married q
waiter
Dear me!'
<'Oh, the match isn't so bad He
already has the manners of the fash
ionable world. 1t will only be neces-
sary for her to break him of the habit
of carrying a napkin on his arm"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-16

How would you like to be a gas
meter reader
And go into thirty or forty cellars
every day?