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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
Ouestions-AnsOers

Q. If the woman suffrage amendment is
ratified befNre the presidential election,
how many TSmen will be entitled to voter
A. The suffrage headquarters in Wash
ington estimates that approximately 2I;-
100000 women will vote for the next presi-
Constitution Is ratified by two more states
before the election. At present there are
about 100000 women entitled to this
vote.
q. Does Thomas Edison, the great in
ventor, use tobacco ?-E. n. 7.
is never ar r to a strong cup Of coff, e.
He is also fond of fruit and pie.
Q, Where does. the national capital get
A. The drinking water in Washington
comes from the historic Potomac River.
sThe plant is mHnissiP a owned o and the
feet: over that amount 1t is four cents per
hundred cubic feet.
Q. How many motor cycles did the
United States army use in the World
War?-H. H. L.
A. The war department says that dur
motor cycles Of various makes.
Q. By whom were the four books OF
John in the New Testament written IN.
A. There is satisfactory evidence that
Saint John. the. beloved brother of James:
fhe gospel Episfe. snd ne
ascribed 10 him. The Revelations were
written during his exile on the Island Of
return under amnesty to Ephesus, where
he was supervisor of the churches.
Q. Is Ella Wheeler wilcox dead?-L. L.
A. This well-known authoress died on
October so. 1919. Her death was due to
a nervous collapse resulting after her relief
9. what is the earliest aud latest posi-
Bile date for Easter snnday:-J. ,. V.
cannot come earlier than the twenty second
of March, nor later than the twenty fifth
of April The reason for this is the fact
that the Spring Equinox comes near the
twenty first of March, and Easter sunday
falls upon the first Sunday after the first
full moon following the Spring Eeninox.
P. Z g. Is it correct to say ~y's an'-c
would be 'aII OF you" AS language is to
an extent governed by usage, this col
loquialism is not regarded as bad gram
q. How did Senator Newberry. Of Mich
iran, get the title OF Commander " l.
A. This title is not an honorary one, but
was conferred upon the senator when the
president appointed him commander of the
been captain for many years. and Of
which he was one of the original founders.
Q. Do the members Of the Naval Re-
when not in active service M d. U.
A. They are entitled to SO year re
tainer pay.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk

Lights.
As I write, the greatest physical
light in the world is fading. Little by
little the shadows lengthen. Soon
there will be darkness-comparat
tho billions of lights will star the blue
sky.
With what inspiration is each sort
OF light touchedI
1 have been thinking of this idea of
lights for a long time. It struck me
nearest when on an evening, before
retiring, l sat upon a great porch op-
posite a. large apartment building.
There was one lovely light burning in
front. Every few minutes someone
would pass under it and into their
home for the night. Presently the big,
beautiful light went out! Soon the
brilliantly lighted house light by light,
became dark.
And then got to thinking of all the
lights that made up life and the world.
What would We be, where would we
go, without them?
L thought of the old oil lamps and
the candle lights. and pictured the
scores Of wonderful lights of every
magnificent design that electricity has
made possible. thought of the great
lighthouses with their moving head
towers: telling ships to bear their
precious cargo we'll.
I thought of the millions of lights
lifting the darkness from the stree s
OF the great cities, and how they were
worth more than double their number
in policemen
thought of the miles and miles of
roads being given over by autom obiles
guided by their lights. And of the
millions of people who were comforta-
BILE and safe and happy and assured
because they were helped to be so, by
lights.
But marvelously wonderful as are
all the lights of the world. there are
those things which hide in the human
heart that outshine them all--beau-
tiful thoughts, kind and generous inn
pulses, and love-which always fingers
long.
For THE light Of the whole world
dies-when love is done!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
Household Hints
Variety From One Recipe.

One Egg Muffins-Two tablespoons
shortening, one tablespoon sugar. one
egg, one cup milk. two cups sifted
floor, one-half teaspoon salt, three
teaspoons baking powder.
There are two methods for combin-
ing the ingredients.
mix and sift the dry ingredients.
Beat the egg, add milk and stir into
dry mixture. Beat until smooth, stir
in melted shortening and pour at once
into well creased muffin pans. Bake
in. a moderate oven about twenty-five
minutes. If the muffin pans are OF
iron or other heavy material they
should be previously heated.
Cream the shortening, add the
sugar and well beaten egg Add the
milk and the flour sifted with the salt
Beat well. then add the baking pow
der and mix in thoroly. II this latter
method is used it is possible to have
the ingredients except the baking
powder combined the night before if
the mullins are desired for breakfast
The next morning all that is necessary
is to add the baking powder beat well
and pour into the creased muffin
pans.
Pastry flour was used in the above
recipe. If the bread flour is used. the
amount should be decreased by two
tablespoons for each cupful.
Corn Meal, Graham or Rye Mullins
Substitute one cup OF the desired
grain for one cup flour in the founda-
ton recipe.
Whole Wheat Afuffins-Substitute
one cup of whole wheat and add two
tablespoons molasses.
Rice MISUNDERSTANDING one cup
boiled rice for one cup flour. Mix
with dry ingredients
Oatmeal Mullins - Substitute one
cup rolled oats put thru meat chopper
for one cup flour. Let mixture stand
in muffin--tns five minutes before
baking.
Fruit Muffins-Double the amount
of sugar and shortening in the founda-
ton recipe, add one cup chopped rails
ins, figs or dates.
Burberry Muffins-Add one cup
raw blueberries to muffin mixture just
before putting into pans.
Buttermilx Muffins-Substitutc but
termilk for sweet milk. add half \
teaspoon soda to dry ingredients and
decrease the amount of baking pow
der by half.
Leftover Cereal Muffins-Substi-
tute one cup leftover cereal for a cup
of the flour. Combine the cereal with
the milk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
BIG YEAR FOR CORN.

Indications point to larger acreage
of corn this year than was grown last
year in all of the corn states. There
are many things to be said in favor OF
the cultivation of corn that cannot be
said for other crops. Chief among
them is that the planting of the land
to corn in a large measure solves the
problem of farm labor scarcity. A
farmer can plant, cultivate and har-
vest from forty to eighty acres of corn
almost without assistance and with
little outlay for machinery or its use.
At prevailing prices corn is by far the
most profitable grain crop the farmer
can produce.
According to the latest report of the
department of agriculture, the average
price of corn. wheat, oats and barley
on the farms March /, showed an in
crease compared with the figures
quoted March l of last year, notwith-
standing the many predictions from
government and other sources that the
prices of foodstuffs would decline.
The average price per busheI for
corn on March L was 31.4S. as COM
Will SA-ot - AOASB lliS
average price for wheat on March 1
was $2.2s, compared with $2.oS March
/, 1919; the average price for oats
was 81 cents, compared with 81 cents
last year; and barley was /$1.29 on
March 1, as gainst SIS cents March 1,
last year.
The advance in the price of corn was
made despite the fact that the stocks
on farms March l amounted to 1892
O95, 900 bushels, or 2s6,s2s,OOO bushels
more than was reported on the farms
at the same time last year, and the
stock of wheat on the farms March 1
was 165,53e,0o0 bushels, or 1886
900 bushels more than on March 1,
1919. However, there are but 422,-
SIS, 900 bushels of oats reported on the
farms March 1, or 167,455, 900 bushels
less than the year before. and 3S,O10.-
600 bushels OF barley, or 4S,726. 900
bushels less on the farms of the coun-
try than on March 1. 1919.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Satidday aftirnoo1 me and Puds
Simkins and Leroy Shooster was TAX
ing a wawk and we came to a big
moving pickture place with sine
saying, Take advantage of cur Satid-
day speshil, no charge for children.
G.. watts You know about that, !
sed. And We started to wawk in, and
the man at the door sed, Hay, not so
fast wares your tickits?
I'm a child, 1 sed, and Pubs sed, So
am I, and Leroy Shooster sed, Me too.
And we kepp on wawking in, and the
man sed, Mining doing, ony Children
with their parents are allowed IN
without tikits.
And us wawked out agen feeling
verse insted of better, and pritty soon
5 ladies bawt tickjts and started to
go in together, and me and Pubs and
Leroy Shooster quick each got along
side of them and started to wawk in
with them with our caps pulled down
fellows Ony our disguise proberly
wasent good enuff. on account of the
man at the door saying, Hay, waite,
this wont go.
Wat do you meen, how dare you
sed the ferst lady. and the End lady
sed, Hoom is he addressing, Id like
to know, and the 3rd lady he'd, I-never
herd of sutch thing. the ideer. and
the man sed, Are this 8 children yours
ladies'?
Serteny not ised the ferst lady, and
the End lady seq, I've got trubble enuff
of my own. and the Srd lady sed, l
never saw them before. Meening US
5. and the man sed, Then You cant
take them in
Who sed we could? sed the -ferst
lady, and the End lady sed. Who sed
we wunted to? and the 3rd lady sed,
Who sed enything about it?
Us Jest going out agen without
saying enything. and We put our caps
on rite agen and kepp on wawking
me saying. o well, 1t was proberly a
bum movie anyways.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY K. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedSerJ

Relieved of the verbal foliage
which, to some extent. obscures it. Mr.
Bryan's statement reads as follows:
Il want it and I'll take it if can set
it."
Guy NJ. Walker, a New York attor-
ney. has written a letter in which he
says Leonard Wood was the brains
and the directing force behind Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Instead of being an
echo of Roosevelt. the latter. when he
was right, was an echo of Wood. and.
as a rule, when he was without Wood
he was wrong"
The moral as we see it is there Is so
much bidding for cheap -notoriety in
this country that those who attain it
must go the limit to do SO.
News of the president and his fam
lily connections is always a matter OF
public interest. In the course of a
speech delivered three or four years
ago, Mr. McAdoo, the presidents SON
in-law. said: .tThere is only one man
fit to be president and he is now &C.
cupying the White House." What We
are curious about it whether Mr.. Nc
Adoo wishes to correct the record or is
willing to let it ride.
The column points with pride 70
what it believes to be record. 1t has
survived a winter in Philadelphia
without having once been uplifted by
a visiting poet. If the performance
isn't record. We should be glad to he
accorded honorable mention for tbs
same.
There is, we shall admit. one unus-
ual thing in the claim that General
Wood made Theodore Roosevelt. Gen
orally speaking, when the credit for
the making of a great man is awarded
oft n c nit. =
chief clerk.
A friend in the old home town has
written to ask us the chief point of diff
ference between people in the metro
politan centers and those who live in
the less congested districts. The chief
/ difference. it seems to US, is that the
! metropolitan centers pay less atten-
! ton to lodge work. Everything else IS
about the same
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Earned
ROBERT MAKES A DECISION.
CHAPTER 81.


"Oh, Gerry, I'm SO discouraged
This from Mary Ryan meant more
than from anyone else. She was in
variably SO happy natured; never
morbid. or down in the dumps as so
many of US are at times.
What is it, Mary?'
II am-so stupid. L know hardly
anything. I hadn't any education, you
know, except that I got in the street
and in the shops-not after 1 was 10
years old"
Mary. even if you could not stay in
school,,
7 "Oh,' but Gerry. When I hear edu-
Gated people talk. peopfe like Gardner
Kenyon, and you, why 1 feel so
ashamed. 1 try to remember the
things you told me, but 1 say amt
and words like that all the time"
You can break yourself of that
Mary. if you try I said to her. But
L feit that same little stab because Of
Gardeners detection that I had felt the
first time Mary went out with him.
I had no thought of Gardner Ken
yon as anything save a friend, but l
had seen nothing of him since the
night of the Weeds party when he
met Mary. and felt rather neglected
even tho l had no reason to-because
of it
Mary anxiety 10 Improve nSIselA
showed plainly her interest in Card
ner. He was an educated man, spoke
correctly, and she naturally would feel
her deficiencies. especially if she were
at all interested in him.
Perhaps Robert was right and they
would make a match" 1t would be
good one for Mary.
IF / had stayed in the boarding
house with you little longer you
would have learned me more, i"
Taught me-" I interrupted.
you sect" tears were in her eyes,
"al can seem to remember is not to
drop my g's as I used to-
eff you can remember that. you can
, remember other things. Try not to
say amt and that will make your
conversation sound much more cor
rect. A good many people use the
word carelessly. but it is very bad
habit. and a grammatical mistake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned A Modern Sto.y of Home and Business
Ru ZANE PHELPS
By JANE PHELPS

For my own part, 1 dislike it i'm
mensely. But Mary, you must not be-
come discouraged. Rome was not
built in day. Neither can correct
speaking be acquired all at once
"Oh, well. don't suppose it makes
much difference. No one is ever go
ing to want an ignorant wife, so l
should worry"
said no more, but once again
had to give Robert credit for his
Robert was at home when I got
there. I saw at once that he had
been drinking. He was not drunk
by any manner of means; he was not
obnoxious in any way; But he was
liquor on his breath when ! kissed
him.
Aren't you going to get ready for
dinner?" I asked after l had fresh
ened up a little. Robert was very
punctilious about his appearance and
invariably washed and changed his
collar, II nothing more, before going
to the dining room.
mo! I'm not going down to dinner!'
DO come down with me-" I urged.
thinking it would be better for him
to have his food and then some cot
fee. You know how I hate going
| down alone"
Then don't go!"
But it costs extra you know when
they send it up and it isn't half so
good"
''who said anything about sending
it up!" he was becoming pugnacious.
But We must eat. dear"
81 have made up my mind not to
eat anything more in this damn place!
If can't have a home of my own,
il It is only two rooms. I am thru"
Thru with what?" / asked, trying
not to become angry at him.
Thru with everything! What's the
use of a fellow trying, when he hasn't
any heart in him? -
so you won't come down."
mol" he almost shouted it at me
I said no more, but went down alone
1 thought he would probably fall
asleep.
1 hurried thru my dinner and then
carried his up to him.
Robert. wake up. have your din
ner," 1 called switching on the lights
There was mo answer. Robert was
gone. +
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The verbose Samuel G. Blythe
thinks he has discovered something,
and has prevailed upon the editor of
the Saturday Evening Post to yield
him valuable space in which to pre-
sent his discovery to the more than
two million subscribers of that enter
prlsing journal" says the head OF the
Republican Publicity association.
whereas il the truth were known 1t
probably would be found that the Post
employed Mr.. Blythe at a high rate of
pay to write the article referred to,
which article was written with the evil
dent intention of booming Hoover for
the presidency. The latest issue of
the Post contains another article of
similar intent written by viii Irwin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

There has existed for a long time
more or less curiosity regarding the
origin OF the present style Of wearing
the hair adopted by young women. 1t
seems TO have been borrowed from the
IIopt Indians. The prevailing manner
OF dressing the hair is almost identical
with that OF the Indian maiden when
she starts out in search of a husband,
according to a bulletin issued in the
National Geographic society. The bull
letin says: "a maiden does not WOO
the man OF her choice. but simply and
foreibly states her proposition to his
mother without any encouragement on
his part. Her only preliminary pro-
ceeding is to do her hair in two gigan-
tic whorls, one over each ear. This is
her announcement that she is going
acquiring. These peculiar knots are
intended to represent the blossoms of
a squash vine, symbol of virginity. but
TO those untutored in their meaning
they resemble huge doorknobs set Al a
rather violent angle. When some
debutantes thus announce that they
are "out on the trail'' it is said that
as many as six or eight of the eligible
young men Of the tribe literally take
10 the woods"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

killing frost. A third group. includ-
! ing cucumbers, carftaloupes, okra,
Swiss chard. snap beans, cauIiflower,
and tomato plants should not be
past. Still later planting is recon-
mended for a group of what are
known as heat-loving plants, includ-
ing peppers, egg plants, sweet pota-
toes, lima beans, and summer squash.
Here are few reminders for John
from the departments garden special
lists:
Buy seeds early and get the best
Good seeds will not sleep long, in good
garden soil, but poor ones may never
wake up. -
Many amateur gardeners have an
idea that they should plant everything
in the seed catalogs, but, as a rule,
not more than fifteen or twenty kinds
of vegetables should be planted in
small garden.
A screen of lima beans makes a
good shade for the back porch.
The advice of Pliny the Elder, who
lived nearly twenty centuries ago, is
still good for gardeners: Dig deep.
manure well, work often.
Soil should be pulverized as deeply
as it is plowed or spaded. No matter
how perfectly the surface is prepared,
il the soil is coarse and below the
plants will not thrive. Large air
spaces in the soil are detriment, but
large number of very small air
spaces are a benefit.
Plants can not thrive with their
roots in water Soil must be we'll
drained il garden crops are to sue
coed.
Don't brag about your. garden b1-
dig and keep on digging,
amy reader can obtain a copy of
the latest official garden book by
writing to the Topeka State Journal
information Bureau, Frederic j. Has
kin, Director, Washington, d. c.
Write your name and address plainly
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

Current trade reports indicate that
the United States is facing a large
business in steel manufacture. II in
the future. as in the past the condi-
ton of the steel industry shall. be an
index OF Industrial conditions, the out
look is exceedingly encouraging. There
seems every reason why the country
may expect a long continued activity
in the production OF steel and fabri-
Gated steel products. Prosperity in the
steel industry will be reflected in al
most every other line of enterprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

1t may shock some OF the good
people who arc hustling up and down
the highways with subscription lists
for the starving Europeans to know,
says the Los Angeles Times. that this
country IS importing potatoes, butter
and cabbage In large quantities from
Denmark and onions from Spain and
Egypt ard other foodstuffs in lesser
volume from some of these same pre-
sumably Starving countries. As a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

The petition which priests of the
Episcopal church plan to present 10
the president asking him to use his
influence to GUST the Turk from Eu-
rope probably will receive little con-
sideration. The great powers, including
the United States, number so many
Moslems in their population that they
fear to offend the followers of the
prophet to that extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

matter Of fact, while Europeans are
asking US to feed them, the outra-
geously inflated price which We are
paying for food in order to do our bit in
relieving the distress OF the world is
the magnet which is sending food from
Europe to this country. In some cases
we are eating our own supplies reim-
ported from the old countries and sold
back to US at increased prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

Double production, and the pur-
chasing power Of a dollar will be dou-
BILE what it is now" says the Buffalo
News. Not if the production be dou-
bled by doubling wages, the cost of
machinery and the number of persons
employed. Doubling Of individual pro-
duction at present wages and hours of
labor is what will do the trick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

There are millions of persons in this
country who are as loyal and patri-
otto as is Senator Lodge and who
would not have worried about the
country's future II he had permitted
the peace treaty to go thru as written.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

The finding of a surgeons clamp in
the body OF woman. reported in the
dispatches. probably will call for a law
compelling surgeons to take away
their tools after completing job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-29

The declaration of a Mississippi
congressman in the house, that the
president should announce his atti-
tude toward a third term candidacy
elected applause from members of
both parties. A similar declaration
as regards Mr.. Hooyer's candidacy for
a first term probably would win ap-
prevail from the rest of the country.