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been injured by long hours, not only
is the Working efficiency of the COM
munity impaired, but the deteriora-
ton is handed down to succeeding
known authority on economics. I'm
FAINT mortality rises. while the chill
dren of married working women, who
survive. are injured by inevitable neg
lect. The overwork of future moth
ers thus directly attacks the welfare
of the nation
The Equal Opportunity league
seems to fear, however, that if the
eight-hour day is obtained for women
in factories and stores, that it will
somehow be forced upon them un-
trifle wary of it for fear it may yet
be extended SO as to cut off their
night shifts; women lawyers say that
with such reform legislation gaining
Roadway, they may at any time be
interrupted in the preparation of their
briefs, and women doctors say that
# the law is ever extended to cover
them, they will naturally have to quit
the medical profession and learn to
make buttonholes and shirts. The
most recent agitation against the
eight-hour day, moreover, has come
from the hotel women's contingent OF
the league, which claims, that hun
dreds of women will be released by
the hotels as soon as the eight-hour
day begins.
while L am willing to concede
that the Albany welfare bills show q
lovely spirit on the part OF society
ladies and other gentle SOULS said a
hotel woman the other day, 1.-THE
eight-hour law, if enacted, will IN
Aoubtedly end in throwing many
women out of work. WsInen hotel
workers are employed mostly at tasks
that must be attended beyond ten
o'clock at night. If there is any inter
ference in the present ssiifts. women
will be fired and men put in their
places.
women in the hotel industry work
in shifts of one day. eleven hours and
one day six hours. with one day a
week off. On one day they go to
work at Z o'clock in the morning.
work until noon, and then are off until
six O'Clock. At six o'clock they go on
This is their long day. They are salts
fled with it, they say. The eight-hour
law would mean that a great many
women would-be thrown out OF work
and that, at time when ali employ
ers are protesting that they cannot
get enough labor"
Since the hotel women workers are
not affected by the bill, and since even
if they were, the hardship would not
fall so much on the women who lost
their jobs as on their employers who
cannot get enough labor" advocates
of the eight-hour day feel that their
nature of the legislation, or are will
fully misguided. Altogether, the feud
among the feminists is very bewilder-
ing.
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The Woman Who Loved and
Earned 4 Modem sto:y Q. Home and Business
Blu JANE PHELPS
BIZ JANE PHELPS

Aunt Felicia I am afraid we can't
entertain you any longer. Robert may
not secure work for some time, and
my salary will not take care of three
people. Robert refused to tell you,
so had to-altho since you are his
aunt. 1 think he should have done So"
You mean you want me to go?"
"Yes-unless you ave money
enough to pay for your own accom-
mediation. 1 surely can't do it any
longer
Amy longer. My nephew has en-
tertained me. I shall go now that he
can no longer do so. YOU have never
done anything for me. I do not eX-
pect you to now"
Yes. she has, Aunt Feliciai Gerry
has paid for you ever since you came.
She has earned more than I. and so
paid for your visit. But now that she
has a husband to support. she can no
longer do so. We are both sorry, but
it can't be helped"
Aunt Felicia looked first at one of
us. then the other. anger. Indignation
on her face. Finally she said in cut
ting tones:
st had intended to leave at the end
of the week. 1 can easily cut my visit
short and so tomorrow"
81 will help you pack in the morn
ing" Robert told her. and then we
filed down to dinner. I doubt if three
4
together. Robert tried to talk. and
to second him; but his aunt main
tanned a strict silence. Not once all
thru. that meal did she open hef
mouth to speak. I was thankful
when we were once more up in our
rooms. away from the prying eyes OF
the other boarders
Robert went out almost at once
and did not return until midnight
While went thru the most gruelline
evening. his aunt taking it upon her
self to tell me just exactly what she
thought OF me a woman. and as 8
wife-the wife of her nephew.
BY the time she had finished,
really wondered if I was the most
stupid, the wickedest wife in the
world. or if she was the most unpleas-
ant old woman.
I had not decided when Robert
came in.
(Tomorrow-Aunt Felicia has hel
SAY
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HIGHER FREIGHT RATES.

The railroads will be returned to
heir owners next Monday and an
early advance in freight rates is gem
orally expected. Hitherto every pro-
posed increase in rates has been op-
, posed bitterly by the shippers of the
, country. This opposition did much to
] bring the roads to the position which
! made it necessary for the government
they saved for themselves the shippers
will psy heavily IN taxes.
The opposition to every increase in
rates is difficult to understand in view
of the fact that it is the consumer
who pays the freight. Many remem-
Der the advertisement which appeared
, in most of the newspapers in the
United States a few years ago in which
it was set forth in bold type Jones.
he pays the freight" But nobody
doubts that Jones included the freight
charges IN the price of his goods.
Compared with the cost of other
goods and services today. declares The
Nations Business. railroad transporta-
ton is the cheapest thing the public
buys. Never in the history of Amer
lean railroads has transportation been
relatively so cheap as it IS today 1t
is being sold at less than the cost of
production, when we fairly take into
account all the elements of cost.
Before the war suit of clothing
from one of the Chicago factories, sell
ing for $50 in a retail shop was car
ried from Chicago to Los Angeles for
161a cents. The suit of clothing now
retails at $50 or $50, but the freight
rate on that 2.20O-mile haul has ad-
vanced only 5 Il cents while the price
of the suit has gone up $40 or $40.
Take shoes for another example:
New England shoes are shipped from
Boston to Florida at cost of less than
6 cents per pair. No matter what the
rate was before the war, it is plain
that a very insignificant part of the
increased cost of shoes can be attrib-
uted to the increased cost of Transport
tation.
The railroads are carrying beef from
Chicago to New York for charge of
about two-thirds of a cent a pound.
ct so great is the freight traffic of
this country, that an increase in rates
which would create an almost infini-
tesimal addition to the consumers ex-
pense. would change the railroad bust
ness from a hand-to-mouth existence
into n condition of prosperity that
would be beneficial to the entire pub
lie
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observation-disclosures

q. Where can I get a good book ~
plastering that will give me better unA
Outstanding of my trade?-E. S. +.
A The Washington Information bureau
of this paper will send you a book list of
this sort II you will write them and enclose
two cents in stamps for return postage.
This list gives the same informa ton for al
most any trade or calling. .
Q. How much does the United States
pay its amba ssadors and ministers 10. l..
A. Ambassadors are paid SdT.5O0 per
year. while the ministers get $4,000. except
in China, Cuba, CzechO- SlOvakia Neither
lands. and Poland. where the salary is
$4,000 and in Liberia, where it is S. O0J.
q. What is meant by right of dower!-
A This is legal term which means the
right of widow to life interest in one
third of her deceased husbands land. Dow
er does not refer to personal property.
Some states have abolished dover.
Q. Who wrote the first Bible in English
A John Wycliffe, an Ehglishman. made
the first translation of the Bible into the
English language in 1882. This Bible was
Latin version. 1t was written by hand,
and at first circulated in manuscript form.
q. What is the record bowling score in
A. The record score for series Of three
gaines In bowling is held by Walter Swift.
Of Milwaukee. who rolled I:G points at the
world record was us points made by
Harry Cavan, of Pittsburgh.
q. Where were the old broche shawls
a. The original broche shawls were
woven by the Persians and the East In
dams. They are quite costly. and are still
Persian broche shawls are made In Scot
land.
@. How is President Wilson paid?-s.
month. 1t is made out by John Burke.
treasurer Of the United States.
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THEY TELL AUNT FELICIA.
CHAPTER SO.


My feet dragged as 1 climbed the
stairs of the boarding house. but not
from WEAKNESS. I dreaded so what
had to face that I scarcely could
resist the impulse to turn and go
. back, out of the house, somewhere
anywhere-and stay until things were
all adjusted. How. or who by, I did
not think
I heard voices, and when I opened
the door was surprised to see Mary
/ Ryan sitting with Robert and Aunt
Felicia, talking with her usual anima-
ton.
BEAT you to it, didn't ?" she said
turning to me.
Il don't see how you did You were
in the shop when left"
Il don't walk as if my feet were
being pulled the other way. 1 passed
you-on the other side of the street.
You seemed to be thinking so hard 1
came right along without disturbing
you. 1 thought perhaps you were de-
signing a lid for some of the Gus
toner's
mo, indeed"
well, must be off to the roof
My last night, Robert. You should
see my palatial home. I have been
to the decorators today and have
given him almost carty blanchy to
furnish it,. I'm going to be Just
scrumptious. You and Gerry /are to
dine with me tomorrow night 1 amt
got no time to have invitations en-
graved. so you'll pardon me asking
you this way. Come early and stay
late"
"She is a nice girl" Aunt Felicia
said when Mary had left. But as she
had made the same remark every
time Mary had been with us. it had
little effect
Yes. she is very nice. Did you
get a line on anything today, Rob
ert?' I asked.
"No-not thing, No one seems
to want me. places all filled. Then
altho the boss gave me a reference il
isn't much good. Says 1 am honest
and that's about all. 1 guess it was
all, the old man could honestly say,
even if I am peeved over it,
In desperation I turned to his aunt
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Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Don't Give Up the Ship, Old Dears-2

For old, people are like old trees
that have stuck their roots deep down
into the soil. They cannot be trans
planted. They wither and die if you
take them away from their old en-
vironments.
For this reason an old woman is
happier and better off in her small
house, without a single convenience
in it, and in the obscurc village In
which she has spent her life than she
will be in her sons Firth Avenue
palace with servants to wait upon heI
and every possible luxury at her COM
mand. No society can be brilliant
enough to interest her as much as the
gossip of her own neighbors. No play as
thrilling to her as the meeting of the
missionary society to which she has
belonged for fifty years, and at whose
festivals she always contributes the
prize cake.
Moreover mother in her own home
is a parsonage. She is free and in
dependent and monarch of all she
surveys: whereas is her daughters or
her sons home she has no authority.
and is but a guest, welcome or unwel-
come according to the kind of an in
law that luck has foisted upon her.
And the old man VINO dies in har-
ness will not only die less soon but
happier than he will as an idler. No
job is such hard work as killing time.
That is why few survive 1t unless they
get accuSt Omed to Ioaflng early In
life. 1t takes a natural talent for
laziness that few Americans possess to
enable one to get any fun out of doing
nothing.
The old man who remains in bust
ness has, something to think about.
somewhere to go, something definite
to do, and even if he comes home
tired and worn out, he Is better off
than ne would have peen han he spent
his days in the exhausting occupation
of trying to make work for himself.
or thinking about the state of his liver.
or engaged in that most melancholy
pursuit of attempting to learn how to
play after the play time of life has
passed.
There comes to all people a psy-
chology hour when they begin to get
elderly. when they are tempted to give
up They are tired. and their chill
dren say, Come to US and let US take
care Of you. You have worked
enough But II is a mistake to give
up. If they do they are always sorry
for it For in a little while they get
what Professor James called their
second wind, and they are good for
many more years of useful work and
independence
So say to every old man, Keep
on with your business. Slack up a
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Probably Attorney General Palmer
thought the west was good place to
launch a verbal attack on the meat
packers. but it is doubtful that his
course would be worth much to him in
the way OF votes should he win the
presidential nomination The people
OF Kansas are accustomed to that sort
of thing from their own politicians
and have learned to take little stock
in It. If the question of whether or
not the business of the packers should
be broken up ever came to a vote,
probably the livestock producer of the
Sunflower state would vote no.
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Evelyn, NO. But If you're interested
in that sort of thing 1 think I can get
hold Of it from Miss Baker. the pretty
little girl with blue eyes who was
reading something like that when I
loaned her a book of mine about Italy.
AS for me, I am a perfectly useless
member of society, and when teas and
receptions and committees for Red
Cross get too tiresome I run away up
here. Do you find that soap or wash
ing powder sells BETTER" asked Evelyn
sweetly.
Stuart looked at her in amazement.
Then, II give it up he said. What
is the answer? But I'll ask Bentley.
He knows
At which remark Evelyn bIushed
-blushed to think she had paid any
attention to the silly chatter, in
corherent and unreliable, of a couple
of school girls.
But Stuart was talking. Miss
Sherwood. 1 have been deceiving you
in a, way. My name isn't exactly
Stuart Bruce, but Bruce Stuart Nc
Donald" He ignored the start his
listener gave at the revelation that he
was none other tha1 n young we'll
known sportsman and. during the wsr,
one of its bravest aviators. Il rather
went to pieces after the armistice and
had to give up flying. My physicians
tOJd me to get away where L knew
nobody and could live simply. L was
fool enough to think you were playing
a game, too. Please forgive me. and
we'll. isn't it too wonderful a night to
waste IN further Apology
He stood up an held out his hand
"Wil you come out in the canoe"
For answer size laid her slim hand
in his. and together they walked
slowly down toward the mocnlit rip
pied lake.
Copyright, 1920. BY the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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There is good evidence that the
passing "flu'' epidemic is essentially
different from that which prevailed
in the last quarter of 1913 and in the
early month of 1919. says a bulletin
issued by the Metropolitan Life. First,
there is. it points out, the compare
lively mild character of the disease
and the relatively few deaths caused.
It reports death rate from Influenza
pneumonia in January. 1920. Of 142
per 100000 lives, as compared with
1.747 in October to December, 1918,
and 125 for the seven year period,
1911 to 1917. The second. and even
more important point is the fact that
the age distribution of the deaths from
these diseases in January did not at all
conform to the peculiar age distribu-
ton in the previous epidemic. In the
last quarter Of 1918, the age distribu-
ton of the deaths showed Il high peak
at early adult life. the maximum being
at about age so. The period OF old age
was only slightly affected. In the
deaths this year from influenza and
pneumonia. the distribution repeated
what has always been found in large
numbers OF pneumonia. deaths. name
ly. high peaks in childhood and old
age and low points in early adult life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-25
| LITTLE BENEY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.
There Goes the Bride.

1here Goes the BRIDE
A Play.
Scene, Mary Watkinses frunt steps
with her setting on them. The Dock
of Ingland comes up.
Dock Miss watkins. you are look
ing PERFECTLY bewtifill today.
Mary Watkins. (proudly) Is that
so?
Dock. Yes. How would you like
to marry me and be my duchess and
wear the family jools all day if you
wunt to?
Mary Watkins. I wou1dent like TO,
thank you just. the same.
Dock Perhaps you love another
Mary Watkins. No perhaps about
it. 1 do.
The Erl of Frants comes in.
Fri Miss Watkins, 1 have bin all
over the verdi sevrel times and you
are the most bewtifill gerl I have
ever saw i'm all the times put together.
Mary Watkins. (proudly) Do
you think so?
Erl Yes. Wat would you say if I
laid my hand and hart at your feet
in marriage?
Mary watkins. Id say no.
Erl. All, I see it all. You love
another.
Mary watkins. AbsiIootly.
Fri Heck.
= I come in.
Me- Hello Mary. You serteny are
bewtifirl-l VIII you marry me?
Mary Watkins. o Benny this is so
suddin. Yes
Me. The piezzure is all mine.
The end.
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THE NEW JERUSALEM.

Among the many innovations grow
ing out of the war, one that seems
especially worthy of note is the is
suance of a daily newspaper in Jeru-
salem. Thus does one of the oldest
cities in the world emerge into the
light of the modern day. The first
issue appeared on the second ami
versary of the taking of the city by
the British. In its salutation to the
public the paper said. editoEially:
The time is propitious. The need
for accurate Geographic news of the
world is very apparent here in Jeru-
salem. which is itself a world center.
Preparations are under way for Great
Britain to accept the mandate over
Palestine and the growing English
speaking community needs a mouth
piece.
The Jerusalem News will support
the constituted authorities in their
righteous endeavor to restore the an
cient glories of Jerusalem, to pre-
serve the health and increase the
happiness of the whole population.
irrespective of race or religion
The Jerusalem News will give due
appreciation to the good which re-
sides in all men and help to make
Jerusalem what it deserves to be, a
6Iedt WHOAesOIie center lot the WnOle
world. Animated by a common pur-
pose and inspired by a genuine love
for this city the different sections of
the community can unite in produc-
ing worthy civic consciousness.
Hitherto there have been many Jeru-
salems. The time has come to make
it one, and to lift that one thru de-
votion and loyalty into the pure air
OF a veritable new Jerusalem. This
is an ideal. The Jerusalem News in
vites all to strive for this noble end.
The prospect broadens. out of the old
rises the new. Who will follow the
ascending path?
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little if you like. but keep the reins
in your own hand, and don't turn it
over to the boys. nor sell it out" And
1 say to every old woman, Don't give
up your own home and go to live with
your children. Visit them as much as
you like but have your own home to
come back to, some place where you
are mistress"
Don't give up living, old dears, while
you are still alive.
Don't climb into the grave until the
coroner has sat upon the remains and
pronounced you permanently dead.
Copyright 1919, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
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JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE GREATER PART.


The rain comes pelting down, and thu
The sun begins to shine again;
One day misfoItun comes along,
The next we sing n cheerful song;
But when it all Is understood
The greater part of life is good.
What If today we're deep in woe?
Tomorrow all our cares may go;
Today as failures we come in.
Tomorrow We may fight aud win:
And when the sum of life we add,
The good we'll find exceeds the bad.
There's more of sunshine thnn of rain.
There's more of pleasure than of pain;
Turnout each nortal's span OF years
There's more of laughter than of tears,
And seldom God sends down n care
That is too much for man to bear.
So lets be brave in grief or pain
And wait till skies grow blue again;
Let's live our hours o. darkness thru
Until the sun shall shine anew
And keep our faith. wate'er befall,
That good is written thru 1t nil.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest
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A slight decline in food prices is
noted by Bradstreets. The past
weeks index number, based on the
prices per pound of thirty-one articles
used for food. is IS. which com
pares with $500 the previous week
and $3.50 for the week ending Feb
ruary 20. 1919. This shows a loss of
six-tenths of 1 per cent from the pre-
vious week. but a gain of 81 per cent
over the like week of last year. The
decline is attributed to the lowering
OF wholesale prices on meats and dried
fruits.
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1t appears that prices must remain
high until the public runs out of sur
plus cash. 1t is noted by an eastern
financial authority that the least low
ering OF prices precIpitates a buying
movement that carries prices up again
Immediately and indicates a continu-
Gus want of goods. Fundamentally,
therefore. It is pointed out, conditions
continue favorable to the producer.
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For many years the public has been
treated to stories of watered stocks.
and many of the burdens the people
have been compelled to bear have
been charged to this dilution Of cor
poration securities. But the most no
table case of watering has taken place
in the currency of the country and
nobody seems to be demanding that
the water be squeezed out.
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1t has all along seemed inevitable
that sooner or later the price of cattle
and hogs on the hoof would come
down. Now the decline has arrived
and probably it is just as inevitable
that the packers will be blamed for
tho drnn
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Incr; neither does one elevated sphere
OF the Scotch variety but there are yet
among MS those who feel that either
would go far in that direction.
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1t has been discovered that a snail
can travel half mile in seven days
Burleson might employ snails il he
cares to improve his mail service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-25

1t may interest you to know that
the oldest black Spanish hen in the
country is dead in Connecticut at the
age of thirty-two years And then
again. it may not The longer one
lives the less he knows to a certainty.