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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
MARY RYAN TELLS GERRY THAT
ROBERT IS DISCONTINUED.


I had not forgotten my promise to
help Mary Ryan gain a better educa-
ton. had very little time. so asked
her to come to the same boarding
house with US. There was small
room on the upper floor she could
have for about what she was paying.
and it would save her carfare, as she
lived some distance away.
stIt will seem as If am buttin' in,'
she demurred.
gs" I returned. So it was arranged
that she should come and take the
tiny hall bedroom just vacated.
never thought when / planned
for Mary, that was once more wrong
ing Robert, cheating him, We had
very little time together, and I was
planning to take several hours each
week to teach Mary! Naturally it had
to be in the evening. Robert made no
objection. after the first time.
But, Gerry dear. we have so little
time together as it Isl he said. 81
scarcely see your at all. Now If you
take an hour or more for Mary. where
will 1 come in?'
But I promised. Robert"
You also promised to love and
cherish me-" he said whimsically. yet
with that wistful note in his voice
which always came when we talked OF
the way we lived.
Teaching Mary won't interfere with
that, silly!''
"AlI right. Gerry, but don't forget
you have a husband. and that perhaps
he is entitled to something"
at won't. dear"
Long afterward Robert told me thai
he felt he could say nothing to me
about what I should do. In. a way he
felt that he had no right, because he
did SO little for me. 1t took over hall
his salary for our room and board
I dressed myself entirely, and otter
paid for any little extras. Then
saved little. That he also knew, ant
encouraged me to save as much as
could.
.'I wish you could put all you carr
away-every cent" he once said, ''bu
I can't dress you as you dress your
self"
LAS have to dress to get the salar.
do" I corrected. Then explained
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
THINGS THAT LIVE FOREVER.

Everything that is useful is beauti-
full, an. everything that is beautiful is
eternal in its life.
I stood before the wonderful paint
ing by Rosa Bonheur, THE Horse
Show the .her day and I said that
if she had not done another thing in
her whole life, she had made herself
immortal. For she had produced one
of the masterpieces of the worid-one
that will continue to inspire and uplift
so long as there is intelligence alive
No fine thought or generous i'm
pulse is ever lost. 1t wends its life
thru countless ages. continually being
born. anew in the lives and efforts Of
people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

The main obstacle to a compromise
on. the peace treaty in the senate now
is reported to be the granting of votes
in the League of Nations to Australia,
Canada and other British depend
encies. There is no valid reason why
this should have been done when the
treaty was framed. These countries
are not nations; they are colonies.
But the matter is hardly of sufficient
Importance to make so much fuss
about. If their votes should be cast
in a manner detrimental to the inter
ests of this country we could with
draw from the league and neither
England nor any other country would
like that. They all want to get US in
and keep is in. The British colonies
probably were given recognition in or
der to preserve their pride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

and equipment is generally below
standard. AS things stand at present
it is not in. the least degree an exag-
geration to say that the government.
which took over at the end of 1917 \
solvent system of railroads in reason
ably good physical condition, will
hand it back to owners in state of
physical deterioration and financial
insolvency. The government cannot
make good its promise to restore them
in as good condition as they were De-
cember 81, 1917, but it can and prob
ably will pay the bill of damages. Re-
turn OF the roads will not relieve the
taxpayer from the obligations laid
upon him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

I'VE BEEN DOWN TO THE BARBER
SHOP.
I've been down to the barber shop,
An got my hair all trimmed on top,
An smell as nice as my Ma when she
Is all fixed up for some company.
1 sat in the chair that the men sit in,
An the barber said in q real nice way.
well, how'll you have 1t trimmed today 2"
I've been down to the barber shop,
An Ma she didn't have time to stop,
So she left me alone, coz she couldn't walt
To see that the barber cut IL straight.
He rugged up a seat like little shelf,
An, climbed right up in the chair myself,
An the barber said, as he got shears,
VIII you have 1t clipped behind the earsf"
at looks like snow said the barber then,
Just the way that he talks to men.
The winters long an the weather's rough
An feel almost like I'd had enough
An / talked to him IN his barber chair,
Got hair in my eyes. but didn't care
Then be said: VIII you try my dandruff
cure?
An showed me bottle. an 1 said sure p
He rubbed some in an it burned a lot,
For didn't know that the stuff was hot.
But didn't cry-f was sittin' there,
Just like my Pa in BARRIERS chair.
Then ! gave him the money when he was
An. I got my change. an tipped him,
I gave him a dime for myself. becoz
I've watched my Pa, an he always does.
Copyright 1870 By Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
Dorothy Dix Tails
How to Select a Wife-1.
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.

| How to Select Wife-1.
A young man asked me If can tell
him how to go about choosing a wife
The first bit of advice that should
is to sit down and have a quiet session
with himself, and try to find out just
what qualities he desires in the wonla an
who Is to be his life companion. Let
him classify his own preferences, and
then go out and seek a maiden who
fills the bill.
Certainly it is rank ifiocy for a man
to marry without having taken the
trouble to find out the sort of a wife
he wants-whether he desires his wife
to be a society woman, or a home
seeker, or a saver or spender. whe ther
he prefers to sing hymns with a pious
wife or to go to the races with a
sporty one.
Now the world is full of charming
girls, any one of whom would make
some man a good, suitable wife, and
the trick is. for each man to find his
own partner, instead of getting the
other fellows and having to go
thru the divorce court in order to
exchange.
Success in marriage is merely a
question of getting into your own class,
and staying there.
7 Suppose. for instance. a man is a
sensible, practical man who likes a
| time. Let him go wooing among the
business women. The business woman
| is level-headed and reasonable, and
her husband is guaranteed against
Mysteries, and unfounded jealous re-
proaohes. She has learned to look at
life as it is. and not to demand the
impossible.
| She knows that a man whose mind
| is numbered with weighty affairs, and
whose hands are fun of a big deal.
should not waste his energies on fool
ish household errands. Therefore, she
will not ask her husband to stop on
his way downtown to match a piece OF
elephants breath chiffon, nor WIN she
expect him to walk the baby at night.
| when it has the collie.
I. The business woman is also a good
choice for the ambitious man who
wants to get on in his business and
have Al rating in Bradstreet,. for
having earned money herself. she
knows its value and that every dollar
is baptized in blood. She will not be
hoodwinked by servants. or cheated by
tradesmen, and having felt the fret
and stress of business that wears the
strongest nerves to fiddgestrings, she
patience, and easier to get along with
than the purely domestic woman who
thinks that going down to the office
every day is nothing but picnic.
| BUT the business woman Is no1WlIe
! for the conceited man because she Is
accustomed TO forming her. own opin-
| ions and acting on her own Judgment
and no man is a little tin god to her
Nor is she the wife for the domestic
tyrant for she has celebrated her
Feuth of July Declaration OF Indepen-
dence and lets no man tell her when
to get off, or where she gets on. Vel
! Their will she suit the stingy man fol
she has experienced the joys of her
own pocketbook and will insist on q
fair divide. of the family income.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
The Woman Who Loved-and
Earned a Modern Story OF Home and Business
A Modern Story {
Blu JANE PHELPS

that 8 saleswomany in a smart shop
was obliged to be smart also.
$50 she will blend with the shopt"
.'Yes-in q way"
stBut why work so hard just to wear
clothes that only the people you serve
see? It seems to me you women have
things figured out wreng, some way.
Work early and late, just to dress
nicely. That's about what 1t amounts
to, isn't it q,
mo, dear, you don't quite under
stand how a woman who has made
good position for herself, feels. We
work hard to raise ourselves, just as
you do. We have pride in our ability.
chosen trade or profession that ap-
peals to us. we are happy in it. just as
a man is happy If he is in some bust
ness which interests him. Really our
outlook is identically the same as
yours"
Robert looked bewfidered. but not
convinced.
Hes just as disappointed as he can
be that you won't wear that frtily kind
of apron 1 told you about" Mary said
one morning. The evening before she
had sat with me for an hour while we
both sewed and chatted, Robert occa-
sionally joining in. but for the most
part reading-as L thought.
That magazine was. upside down.
saw it when 1 dropped my thinble.
,
Meredith, I am sorry for him. If you
won't give up your job, why don't you
do two jobs?''
What do you mean?"
"Just what I say. Get busy. learn
/ all you can about keeping>a house, and
cooking-there I said both g's'-then
rent little place, get a young girl. or
an old woman who needs~a home. and
! just let. that poor man put his feet
under his own table"
Don't talk nonsense. Mary. / am
! going to learn to cook some little
| things in chatting dish so we can give
a. little supper once in a while right
here in our room, but I never shall
| try to keep house and sell hats at once
| Sometime-in a few years perhaps
when Robert earns more, we may keer
house"
| Robert is very good looking
Gerry"
Whats that got to do with it?"
| ooh. nothing-he's alone lot
tho
(Tomorrow-Gerry is troubled with
misgivings.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

The artist is the one who appreciv
ates-whether the thing be a work of
skill or just an act of heart.
Once a beautiful song is sung, its
echoes battle the air forever!
And if it ever comes over you that
you. are worth little in this world of
work strife, just remember that one
splendid act each day is sufficient to
make you one of the immortals- Even
you may live forever.
Fame and glory are fleeting-but
the voice OF the heart, tho dead in
its action, may speak on and on.
The things that make you happy.
nobility sieve thru the big world--and,
as time goes on-thru dozens and
dozens Of worlds!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

Otto H. Kahn has come out in op-
position to the excess profits tax and
in favor of substituting a tax on sales
for the purpose of raising revenue.
others, Including financiers, brokers
and bankers are working along similar
lines. 1t will be said. perhaps, that
these men are interested in shifting
the tax burden from their own Shout
ders to those of the general public
but it should be remembered that they
make their living off that same public
and it is to their interest that the
masses should prosper. Because a
man has money or deals in money
should not be regarded as evidence
that he is more selfish than other per-
sons. 1t frequently has been demon
strated that a man may be rich and
prosperous and at the same time be
interested in promoting the general
welfare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

to Mary Watkins outside of her house.
and all of d :suddin some gerl as pritty
as enything with red tommer shanter
came up the street and started to
wawk in the house rite next door to
Mary Watkinses. saying to Mary Wat
kins, Hello.
Mary watkins not saying anything.
and the gerl went in and closed the
door.
G, did she jest move in? sed.
I don't know. I bleeve SO, sed Mary
Watkins with jellus Impression, and
Pubs sed. She's pritty, amt she?
Some people mite think so. l cant
help it If people don't know eny better
than to think so. she's got freckles on
her nose, sed Mary Watkins.
Not me, I don't think SO. l think
she's pritty ugly, ] sed.
So do I, she amt neer as pritty as
wat you are, did you take notice to
the freckefs on her nose? sed Pubs.
Maybe she thinks she's pritty, sed
Mary Watkins. she wawks as If she
did, enyhow.
It's good sumbody thinks so, I sed
will you fnterdoose us If she comes
out agen? +--rs
wat for? sed Mary watkins, and ]
sed, o jest out of curiosity.
Jest meer curiosity, sed Pubs.
Curiosity killed 3 cat, sed Mary
Watkins. And pritty soon she went
in, and me and Pubs kepp on standing
there, me saying. Maybe she'll come
Out agen il we wait a vile. Meening
the new gerl. And we kepp on wait
ing, and after vile Mary Watkins
opened her parler window and stuck
her he'd out, saying Watts you waiting
for boys?
o, nothing, I sed.
Nuthing. sed Pubs And he yawned
as if he wasent thinking of enything
speshil, and SO did I and we wawked
away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

1t is reported that hotels are plan
ming to charge for rooms by the hour.
This recalls memories of Bill Nye. He
was visiting San Diego, Calf, and
crossed the bay to Hotel del Coronado.
He looked over the rooms and having
selected one to his liking. asked
the price. He was informed that it
would cost him $50 day, whereupon
he replied that he would take it for
fifteen minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

The census bureau urges citizens
who have been overlooked by the
enumerator to make the fact known
to the officials. This is your affair
rs much as it is the governments.
We all want to know how many per-
sons live in Topeka. Always there are
those who are overlooked. even by the
most difigent enumerators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

we're glad to know how it's done-for'
future use. That's the only real one
we've ever witnessed. COMFY almost
fell over US when she went upstairs to
dress. She certainly can yell.
1.-THE Undaunted Twins"
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
MouHon Musings
BY ROY x. MOUITON.

A man who had lived many years in
the east visited the old home town and
was surprised to see that the village
pest was missing-the man whom
nobody cared much about and who
had kept the town in turmoil for
years. The missing one had been one
of those eminently successful men who
poked their noses into everybody
business.
well. have seen most everybody"
said the visitor when he accosted the
old village blacksmith. but where is
Old So-and-So, who used to be so
numerous around here?"
"Oh, him. said the blacksmith.
well, you see. he hasn't been around
here for ten year or more. We got
ridden of him pretty slick. We elected
him to congress ten year ago by the
largest majority a man ever got in this
deestrick. Nobody has heard of him
since"
Tom Marshall is the only man in the
history of the country to be reelected
to the vice presidency and he doesn't
advise anybody else to try it, either.
One trip to oblivion is enough to last
the ordinary man a lifetime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
Dinner Stories

Now. Tommy" said the teacher.
you may give me an example Of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

why, er-."said Tommy. with be.s.
tation. "why-rns ladder and me ,,,s,d-
der was both married on de same
day"
,.z1 are you sure. dear, that you are
.sSSola,,ta..s as mncn on the table 81
Dear me, yes. Why. It is only cost
ing us twice as much as 1t did before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

The government mint reports a
great demand for small coins. It is
believed many gentlemen use them as
weekly allowances to their wives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

A report says fur-bearing animals
are growing scarce in America, but
there are a lot of them left on Fifth
avenue, we'll say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

1919, by the wheeler Syndicate
Ine.) "7s7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

Et-F.reNenge'
The next time. We buy load OF
wood at IS or $3.50 we are going tC
pay the man in pennies. and theI
he'll have bigger load going hom'
than he had coming in.-PoIo News
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23

Constitutional prohibition should be
easier to enforce than the statutory
article. The source OF supply II
choked- But as one who has had ex-
perience, we wish the government of.
ficiais upon whom the job OF law en-
forcement is wished much Joy. Men
are willing to fight for their country.
They are anxious to fight for liquor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-04-24
REAL GIRL HEROINE
CAPTURES TWO CROOKS
WITH A FRYING PAN
Shirley Mason Accomplished Rare
Feat in the New Film
THE Final Closeup"

Shirley Mason. the dimunitiye and
role in The Final Closeup. her lat,
est Paramount picture. has had many
screen adventures. but she declares
| this is the first time she las ever
been assigned 10 capture a couple Of
thugs with an iron frying pan.
The picture viii be shown z. the
Auditorium next Tuesday night. April
24th,' presents Miss Mason in tbs roll
LOT Nora Nolan. q department store
clerk. who spends her vacation ar a
seaside town, At q hotel where she
stays there is man namei Gregory
who was there presumably in the train
OF Emily We5te-veit-3 Moore. d society
girl, but who is actually a thief 4
robbery occurs and little Nora. whom
they have discovered IS Just d NO, king
girl, is accused.
To show thsn that she is Innocent
Nora captures the rogues in the act
of robbing the hotel safe. hsr only
weapon being en.i.3H rTying pan
Supporting The star is Francis DC
honald. who plaas the leading male
role. James Gordon. Betty Bouton
Eugene Burr and Mary Warren are ali
well cast. Waiter Edwards directed
and James c, N3n Trees turned Inc
camera. The scenario vas written BIZ
Crawford Ives IroT an original story
By Royal Brova.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-04-24
HIGH COST OF L0AFIHG

There is much discussion about the
high cost Of living. the labor unrest
and the general turmoil. Ne do not
claim 10 be students OF economics nor
statesmen. bu; We believe we know
The reason for q loJ OF The existing
trouble.
We are Ioafing TOO much We spend
too much time in the pursuit Of pleas
ure We don't work ea5Ugh. K isn't
politics. Il isn't non-s-2go~t OF tie
churches. Ii isn't because We have
taken booze away from Lie working
man. They tell is this condition mas
arisen before in the history a. the
world Away back yOnCeT IN Babylon
the folks got the idea thal il vas more
fun 10 play than 10 work You all
know what happened. The lazy fever
hit the Greeks and the Romans some
time after that and their great govern
ment went 10 pot. They nave hsL an
outbreak Of the same disease id Mexi-
60 and Mexico has been Etsadily drift
ing on the rocks for years.
Il Is leisure more than labor that
men and women are striking fer 1t
is play they want. not EOTk. cur gen
Grafton ceaSlessIy Graves recreation.
not toll Long years as3 W. learned
as children thar "Sataz finds some
work for idle hands 10 Go and there
Is one boy that is never OF the Job.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-04-24
4 BATHROOM FOR
EVERY FARM HOME

n 20 way IS electricity serving the
farm family better than in making
possible a modern up-to-date bath
room.
When water Ea3 10 he pumped and
carried by hand when il had TO be
heated on the kitchen stove. and when
tubs had 10 he gotten ont especially.
then getting ready Tor and taking a
bath meant ; lot Of disturbance and
muss. Bat electricity has done away
with all this The small electric light
and power plants now in use on Sc
many farms all over the country fur
IniSh plenty Of power for the operation
Iof electric pumping systems. These
systems have been developed TO such
IA great extent in the last few years.
hat they are now almost entirely
automatic, Once installed. the pump
driven by Al electric motor and con.
tTolled by z pressure switch. keeps
water under pressure at faucets all
over the house. Tie water service
thus obtained i in result the same as
that enjoyed in the city. There are
very efficient heaters. TOO, which will
heat plenty Of wafer for g bath in q
half hour or less. or which will keep
the water hot all the tine if desired.
Al this means that any member Of
the farm family can now have & hot
bath in 2 real tub a. the mere turn
of the hot water faucet.
State health departments have fol
many years urged the adoption on the
farm Of sanitary measures such as in.
door toilets and sewerage disposal sys-
tens and the same authorities are
thoroughly convinced Of the value of
the health Of the farm family of con-
Yenient Teady-2t-Ihe-m minute bathing
facilities.
Many farms that have electricity
consider the hath room the best ser
vice electricity has given Il Elm. but
there are. OF course, many other reas-
ons for the increasing popularity of
electricity on the farm 1t gives the
best light IL ali parts of the house and
barn. il does all such chores as pump
ing. milking, separating and sweeping.
and IN doing these things il lightens
the labors Of every member Of the
farm family
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-04-24

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Parish of Jefferson Davis.
State OF Louisiana.
TO ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS and
non-residents whose post office is m
known:
You are hereby notified that all
taxes which have been assessed
against you for the year OF 1919 On
immovable property must be daid with
in TWENTY DAYS after the publ
cation of this notice. or will proceed
TO seize. advertise and sell according
to law all property on which taxes
are due, to satisfy same and the costs.
The names of the said delinguan t
tax debtor. the amount of tax due by
each. on the assessment roll for the
above named year, and the descrip-
ton Of the immovable property asses
ed to each. are as follows:
No. 45T. Dalfuse r. Dunlap. one Ford
car, $500.
No. 5$S Maggie Holiday. Lot -.
Blk II. s1IS.
No. $50 N. F. Johnson. all LOT q.
Y 10 and 2s feet off c side of In.
20, s10.0S.
No. 55S Harry D. Kile, lots -. 20.
blk ?, NeGarry tract, sl.62.
No. 601 Jos D. Marceneaux, lots 10.
II. u, blk l. Edg. add, $3.50.
No. $50 A Mcdowell, Lots | to 6
inc, blk Z, McGaTy tract. s2.05.
No. 1915 Mary Jane Huges. ct ais
blk ., johnson Sub. of S 1-2 of NE /.
1856, sI.98.
No. 4347 John H Jones, lot 80 Sub
of SW II of Sc IA of Sw Il S-s-s
sLI3.
No. 1895 John J. Walsh. 50 acres
E IL of Sc Il 24-7-7. sS.n.
No. 1855 Willie II. White, liz int
in the Sc Ii of NV IA of IS; WIZ
Of NE II SO; SW J.. of NE Ii of 81.
\ l-2 of NV IA, SW II of NE Ia
" 1-2 Of Sc IA, E 1-2 of SW IA Of
SW IA Of 3o-7-7. s4S4.
ISAAC FONTENOT.
Tax Collector. Jefferson Davis
Parish. La.
Tax Collectors Office. Jennings
louisiana, March 80. 1920.
Apr 3-l0-17.24.