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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29
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Q. What service in the navy Is some
times referred to as the Suicide Ciubf-
A. The Navy Department says that the
navy are known as the Suicide Clnb.
Int sI.. 69w maPy periods is
A. With much diversity of opinion
minor points, there 10 a general agreement
three great periods: the first from the
birth of Christ TO the time Of Constantine;
on nd thru e to
the present time.
Q. Is It proper to wear military medals
A paragraph from an article on mil
that in civilian life decorations should be
casions. On civilian evening clothes mini
atures may be wern; These are exact
hens made on the scale of about ons-haif.
This authority on the wearing Of military
insignia further states that military men
m uniform wear medals only on full dress
q: What should feed my parrot7-
A Parrots in the wild state live. on seed
and fruit. and should. while in captivity,
be fed as nearly as possible the same kind
seed. hemp seed, boiled yellow corr stats
bread soaked In water. an occasional piece
OF apple or banana, roasted peanuts dry
should be Eepe In The esse T rse ps srass'
cage should be cleaned every day.
Q. Who presided when Aaron Burr, at
states. was tried for treason7-M d. e.
A. John Marshall, presided at the trini.
The trial ended abruptly as the chief JUS
tice declared that an overt act Of treason
must be first proved and then Burr con-
nected with 1t. The government was not
even able to convict Burr Of misde-
Q. Has "a widow with family and who
maintains bone. the right to an exemp-
,s1 2, xz;Vp N making out her income
A. widow who maintains n home for
herself and dependent children NAV claim
the same exemption as that allowed mar
ried man: II the children are minor chill
dren. and solely dependent upon her. she
nay claim an additional exempted Of 500
Q; what pension. win be allowed to
Sivli war veterans in the event that the
Fuller bill. now pending ia congress. he
comes law ?-E- w. N
A. The terms Of the Fuller BILL previde
that the minimum pension of veteran of
tial disability. s7s: and total dissbiatv p sao
rms proposed Increase In pensions for Civil
war veterans viii not be retroactive ~ was
the Sweet bill, recently passed BY con-
X, xress etsnung Increased compensation to
tne oisaDied soldiers Of the world War. 4
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diner is handicapped by having to eat
seated crosslegged before q lacquer
tray, while chop sticks are offered as
natural means OF conveyance for
bling. cheerful little japanese maid
might be appealed to for a spoon, but
sign language would convey no~fdea
to her, as she probably never saw q
tablespoon in her life. A request in
English is equally futile. as her mas
terry of that tongue consists of strange
words reputed to mean Good morn
ing " What will the honorable guest"
and "Hot water" So the chop stick
lesson continues to the end of the
meal unless the guests has warily pro-
vided himself with more modern i'm
plements beforehand.
A feature of the native inn is the
Japanese bed. made up of quilts and
head rest, which is arranged on the
floor every night by the maid.
Then in the native inn there is the
bath ceremony to which few foreign
ers ever grow altogether accustomed.
The typical inn boasts one bath for
the household. and this tub is TILED
with water heated to around 115 de-
grees Fahrenheit, into which guests
have the privilege of plunging. Only
one tub of water is drawn each day,
and the guests use that in the order
of their rank, II there is any great
distinction, or more often in the order
of their arrival The latter plan, as
various westerners have Commented,
is certainly a fair arrangement.
The japanese bath is impossible in
any case to the European mind. but 1t
is only fair to the Japs to explain
that they really battle outside the tub.
and then dye into it's sizzling depths
to enjoy the luxury of being parboiled
for few minutes.
These are the native ways of feed
ing the honorable guest and making
him happy. When he departs he pays
the bill which is quite small compared
with the hotel rates of the cities, but
he is expected almost to double the
amount by making a gift of tea money
to the proprietor. This takes the place
of the American tip. \
The Japanese inn Is one of the
sights of the Islands, but, like Full
yama or the Great Buddha of Kama
kura, it is usually done" but once.
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The Woman Who lLoved-and
Earned Modem s.e.y Of Home and Business
By JANE PHELPS
A Modern Stosy of FioI

US are to be neglected as soon as you
get where she is
But 1 haven't seen Marion in
ages" Robert answered, then turnec
to me: '.You remember I spoke OF
her being away at the time We were
married.
"oh, perfectly,u I lied with a seri-
GUS face. Robert never had mentioned
her. to me. He may rave thought he
him the benefit of the doubt. ALSO i
did not. propose to act the part of
jealous wife, so 1 added: "And 1 am
very glad TO meet her at last"
But Mr.. Tate was not as good at
pretending as l was. and glared quite
openly at Robert. when he and Marion
turned and began TO chat again in the
liveliest sort of a way.
Come on, Marion, you promised to
rupted eve will do it before we
play and we needn't stop until time
for supper y
60 along. Marion-they are deter
mined we shan't talk" Robert said In
pretended pique. 49,
| but Robert. You know you, always
said no one could make salad dressing
like Marion" Betty Weed broke in.
..And they can't. defy them! Go
! on. Marion. I'd let any girl leave me
for such salad as you used to make
stood quietly by while all this
repartee was being thrown back and
forth, feeling very much out of it. and
wondering Just how we'll Robert had
known Marion Hovey.
you see. Gerry" Betty explained
after Marion and Jane had left the
room. Marion is a famous little
housekeeper. No one in the crowd
can cook and do everything about a
house as she can. And she does 1t so
easily. too. Really. it seems no effort
at all for her"
who does She keep house for?" 1
asked.
Her father and brother. Her
mother died when she, was only Is
and she has kept house for them ever
since she left school,"
| "Whoever gets her. will get a
prize" Carson Murphy added. 1--WE
used to think Robert would carry her
off"
"Nonsense! we were just good
friends" but Robert flushed again as
he spoke.
| (Tomorrow-Gerry refuses ITO be
jealousy
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WOMAN.

WOMAN.
A woman is queer. there's no doubt about
that.
She hates to be thin and she hates to be
fat.
One minute it's laughter. the next it's a
You can't understand her, however you try;
But there's one thing about her which
every one knows
womanss not dressed till she powders
her nose
You never can tell what a woman will say,
She's a law to herself every hour of the
1t keeps man guessing to know what to
And mostly he's wrong when his guessing
But this YOU can bet on, wherever she goes
She'll find some occasion to powder her
nose
I've studied the sex for a number OF years.
I've watched her in laughter and seen her
in tears;
On her ways and her whims have ponder
To find what viii please her and Just what
But ali that I've learned from the start to
Is that sooner or later she'll powder her
At church or ball game. dance or 8
show,
There's one thing about her know that I
At weddings or funerals, dinners Of taste.
You can bet that her hand will dive into
And every few minutes she'11 strike up
And the whole world must wait till she
powders her nose.
Copyright 1870 by EdgarA- Guest
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best and finest desires. we shall rise
high
If we didn't have our peaks to look
up to. how disheartened we would get
in the deep and darkened valleys
into which all so often find our way.
Not very many Of US are faithful to
our ideas. We betray them, many
times at their birth. And then we
groyel in the dark and wonder be-
cause of our isolation and fear.
Isn't it much to be ordinarily brave ?
If it is, then to glance at the peaks
that climb before our very eyes, is not
an ordinary affair but an extraor-
binary act of courage and foresight
Live in the rugged Have peaks.
Human legs must have them, to make
better muscles and so must the
heart. to give it impetus.
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Moulton Musings
BY ROY X. MOUIToN.
BY RO,

Patriots Lament.
"Oh. let me live the sick man said,
II do not wish to die;
I'm lone, forlorn,
With none to mourn
Altho my spirit fly;
Yet let me live"-they raised his head
And heard his prayer Of pain,
az must survive" the sufferer plead,
while Bryan runs again! Of.
1--WE seen the dodo disappear
Upon its ocean isle; =
The horse car and
The peanut stand
To their oblivion file.
Yet all the while'-he dropped a tear
And more that fell like rain,
I've known no presidential year
But Bryan ran againi ~
81 fain would see that nappy day
When all shall hear the news:
Nebraska's blast
Gives up at last,
He's quit and will refuse,
And they may lay me then away,
Let none my soul detain,
While all the weary voters say,
No Bryan runs again."
Frederick P. Latimer.
What Do You Mean. 'sPeace?"
Danish King Thanks Wilson fol
Peace" - Headline in New York
World
When a fellow gets so old that his
age sounds like a telephone number
he gives the census taker a scant wei
come.
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the next instant they were in the air
Peltier had jumped
A contractor from Boston had
bought, cut and piled some hundreds
of Christmas trees that he was to have
shipped out over the log road. The
market had broken. The trees were
still there. Peltier remembered. And
as he leaped for them he threw HIM
self on his back-and Janice Greener
escaped without a scratch. It was a
month, however, before Peltier was
able to leave the hospital. When he
did it was with a warm joy in his
heart, for Janice had written him:
Come to me as soon as they will let
you. Because, Dave dear, you are
such a wonderful, valorous one that
you are always going to be-my
buffer"
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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Dinner Stories

why, Norah," said her mistress.
"how nice you look in your new dress
and hat. I hope you will meet all
your friends this afternoon so that
they may see you in your fine
clothes"
sMe friends. NUM-" returned
Norah. ''Whatll I be wantin' to see
them for? Sure, 1 don't care to make
me friends jealous. Its me enemies
1 want to meet when I'm dressed up"
Ever borrow an idea ?' asked the
young humorist.
Among US professionals it is con-
sidered permissible to borrow back
and FORTH" said the old-tinier. How
ever, L hope you'll avoid something a
friend of mine once did, and has been
sorry for ever since"
What was that?
He stole a joke from a religious
paper''
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1t may be like locking the barn
door after the horse has been stolen,
but Senator Calder of New York has
succeeded in passing thru the senate
a bill intended to facilitate the mar
riage of discharged soldiers with
alien women. AS the literacy test of
the immigration law now applies SOL
diers who met their intended wives
abroad are prohibited from sending
for them and marrying them in this
country unless they can comply with
that test. The only recourse is for the
soldier to return to Europe. marry his
wife there, and bring her back with
him. Mr.. Calder has had called to
his attention specific instances where
men have been compelled to make the
ocean trip to comply with the techni-
cality of the law. His bill provides
that the secretary of labor may admit
such women upon the request of an
If the marriages takes place
ii some United States immigration
fstation. Probably most marriages of
this sort already have taken place
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The building record for 1919 in the
Tenth federal reserve district, accord
ing to the January bulletin issued by
the bank at Kansas City. shows that
operations have got back to some
thing like normal Notwithstanding the
fact that the cost of construction is
about double the pre-war cost, by rea-
son of the high prices of material and
labor. 1t is evident from reports COM
ing from all cities and towns thruout
the district that only a start has been
made toward catching up with the in
slstent demands for buildings. Build
Ing projects involving millions of dol
lars in cost apparently are awaiting
more favorable price conditions. But
regardless of pricesit is predicted that
the year 1920 will see greater activity
than 1918. as the needs are so urgent
back. The total for 1919 of buildings
erected or started was $64,176,965, as
against $27,s1s,o7s in 1918. an in
crease of 1919 per cent for the year.
Permits taken out in fifteen cities for
the erection of buildings numbered
1928 as compared with 1884 permits
issued in the previous year. The aver
age estimated value for 1919 was
ss.70s per building. which compares
with 5000 as the average per build
ing in 1918. Every city in the district
reporting showed an increase for 1919
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29
LOWERED PRODUCTION.

An official of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing company
says that the American workman has
fallen off 20 or 80 per cent in pro-
ductive effort compared with the pre-
war man-hour output, and that this
condition transcends in it's vital i'm
portance all questions of strikes,
wages, prices, and, in fact everything
else, and predicts that IL continued
long, prosperity will surely be de-
stroyed. There is shortage of labor.
decreased number Of workers. as be-
cause these workers are not doing a
prevail days work.
There seem to be, therefore, three
principal causes for the unusually
high prices of today: Reckless per-
sonal extravaganza; excess profits
taxes, which citizens delude them
selves into thinking will be paid by
corporations and big business houses.
but which are simply passed on to
and paid by the consumers; the fact
that. on the average, labor produces
for one dollar only approximately fifty
cents worth OF work.
Labor began to shirk work when, as
we entered the war, the government
began to employ labor. directly or. in
directly, in war Notwithstanding the
cost-plus contracts. The government
by its methods as an employer, really
encouraged laxity in labor, and all
labor thru example became democrat
lied. This did not stop with the armi-
stice and will not stop until govern
ment goes out of business altogether.
The forces have been cut down, but
there are still hundreds of thousands
sides the railroad workers, who are
still under government control.
II cost OF labor and price of ma
terials continue to increase, some such
situation in the retail trades may fol-
low, as is said to threaten in the gar
ment industry. Here the employees
have demanded a 80 per cent increase.
Some retail dealers claim they are
facing a crisis; that the consumer has
already stopped buying on account of
the fabulous prices asked.
In the hearings before the special
committee appointed by Governor
Smith OF New York, to bring about a
settlement on the wage demand, one
dealer said that before the armistice
he made a custom-made suit for $S5.
Today the cheapest suit he can make
with the same materials costs $1s5.
OF this, 500 had to be paid for labor
Customers who used to buy three or
four suits at a time hesitate on one
now, on account of the higher price.
In the east the consumer refuses to
be made the goat any longer. and has
stopped buying. Since November,
1919, the volume of business in the
trade, it is claimed. has fallen off SO
per cent. and the retailer has been
forced to cut off his profits to get rid
of his goods.
One dealer asserts that there is very
little buying going on, because of the
forbidding prices asked by the whole
saler even for the cheaper grades, and
predicts failures all over the country if
prices do not take a sharp fall, and
that 30 per cent of the men in the in
dustry will go out of business. The
public appears to be making a stand
against high prices by stopping pur-
chases. This is one cure for high
prices and a sure one. however, dis
tressing to the industry. ~
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Household Hints
Recipes for a Day.

Grape Fruit Salad-Peel one grape
fruit. remove all fiber and seeds from
sections: arrange on two lettuce leaves,
salt the grape fruit lightly. garnish
with two or three nut meats and use
your favorite salad dressing. Serve
grape fruit in some form every day.
They are Inexpensive, pslatabie and
furnish a number of substitutes neces-
sary for & balanced diet.
Lemon Pie-Take one cup sugar,
one heaping tablespoon OF flour. two
egg yolks and beat together; add Juice
and grated rind OF one lemon and one
cup of water boil until quite stiff:
place in crust and cover with
meringue.
Excellent Pie Crust-Two cups
flour. sone cup lard, pinch salt. two
teaspoons sugar. two and one-balf
cookspoons of ice water; mix lard and
flour with q knife; chill.
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THE PEAKS OF YOUR LIFE.

Standards are what rule Us. They
are either high or low. Either We
live on sort of plain that keeps fus
''so-so," or we have esta blished peaks
toward which We climb and aspire
And no mountain climber ever
climbed his highest peak firsti
The peaks of our experience and
tolls are what keep nudging US to do
just a little better-just a little more.
Maeterlink had something of this
thought in mind, 1 believe. when he
wrote: After all. what is a true and
worthy prayer, If not the most ardent
and disinterested effort to reach and
grasp the unknown" For in US all it
doth not yet appear what we shall
be-" But this we know, that if. we
are guided by the highest peaks of our
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29

The decision of the state not to
prosecute the striking miners at Pitts
burg on a charge of violating the new
law intended for use in such cases is
a wise one. The explanation offered
by the miners has been accepted at
face value. Nothing, could be gained
by assuming that it was their intention
10 defy the law If the miners have
a feeling that they have defied the
court and got away with it. let them
have il. Sentiment is of little conse
quence as lon5 as they continue to
mine coal
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Dorothy Dix TALES
The Mothers Union-1.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman VIZ

The Mothers Union--1.
In these days when life is just one
union after another, it may seem to
be a work of superogation to suggest
that another union of workers be
formed for offensive and defensive
purposes.
Nevertheless, there is crying need
for one more union, and that is a
Union of Mothers.
Probably the idea of mothers
union will strike your funny bone. 1t
Is to laugh to think of mother de-
handing an eight-hour day, and a six
day week, and a Is per cent raise in
wages, and threatening to 30 out on a
strike If she doesn't get them.
Nobody has imagination enought to
picture mother refusing to go to work
until o'clock and knocking off at s.,
and calling it a day. Or demanding
overtime when she has to work all
day Sunday getting up an extra, good
dinner for all the other members of
the family who are loafing and rest
ing. Or refusing to cook up some
thing extra for father. or the boys, or
girls because they have come in late
after the regular meal hours and the
dining room is closed.
Or stopping walking the baby when
it has the collie because her time is
up. Or refusing to nurse someone who
is sick because she is a regularly
qualified cook, or seamstress, and not
a sick nurse, or joining in q sympa-
thetic strike because some other wo-
mans husband is stingy to her, or
some other woman's children treat her
with ingratitude.
No. It doesn't look, at first sight.
as if mother was really good union
timber. But even so, there is des-
perate need the mothers of the coun-
try should get together, and form an
organization thru which they could eff
feet some greatly needed reform that
they can never bring about individ-
pally.
The purpose of this mothers union
and enforce mothers sacred influence.
Perhaps that seems unnecessary to
you. 1t isn't. Mothers sacred influ-
ence is the most over touted, and over
press ACCENTED thing In the world. 1t
does not control even her own chill
dren, and, it is nullified by the opin-
ions of the other children with whom
her own associate.
individually mothers Influence
amounts to almost nothing, but the in
fluence of a mothers union would be
so great it could change the world,
and save it.
For instance, you cannot find in all
the length and breadth of your ac-
quafntance. a sensible, right minded
mother who approves of the manner
in which girls dress. and dance. and
generally conduct themselves, nova
days No woman really wants to see
her innocent little girl go out to a
party looking more like a woman of
the streets than pure young girl. She
deplores the plucked and dyed eye
brows, the painted face, the indecent
exposure of her gown, but she cannot
prevent her daughter from getting
herself up in the same sort OF style
that all the other girls affect
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Election returns from Hungary in
dictate that there is a good kingship
job awaiting somebody in that coun-
try. Probably the country will not be
overrun with applicants. Monarchs
have been faring badly in Europe
within recent years. But it is not sur
prising that the people desire to return
ITO a form of government that seems to
promise at least temporary peace and
dIIiet
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women than men are coming over
from the old countries. This is the
first time in history that the majority
is women instead of men. 1t may be
due to the fact that so many men were
killed in the war.
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Oklahoma City is making a bid for
the flu business of the country. 1t
is announced that the government will
release, whisky it has on hand, for the
benefit of sufferers from the disease
in that town.
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over the previous year both in the
number of permits issued and in the
estimated cost of the buildings.
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Everything except cornet playing is
now taught by mail. Everything ex-
cept hot water can be purchased in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29

Joseph was sold down into Egypt
by his brethren. And the youngest of
every family of boys has been getting
the worst of it ever since
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-29

Mr. William Jennings Bryan. we
gather from our casual perusal of the
Hearst newspapers, writes as DULY
and as uninspirediy as ever. but within
his meter Mr.. Bryan has no superior
in the list of American Statesmen, rear
and assumed. z
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Turn a man loose in a cellar or in
an attic and he will do more damage
in an hour than his wife can repair
in a week.
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What is Mr. Bryan,s meter? 1t is
climbing to a commanding position
alongside the mechanical equipment
and dropping a monkey-vgrench into
the bowels OF the machinery.