davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
Betty Would Be SEARCHED.

Betty, aged three, asked numerous
questions. One day, while her mother
was washing she asked: "Why do
You starch clothes, mammal" Her
mother told her that clothes did not
look nice if they weren't starchcd
The next day Betty asked her mother
if she locked all right, and her moth
er said that she should put on a clean
dress, and Betty said: "0h, mamma,
You can starch me instead
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07

about it Nothing too expensive mind
you, and l don't want anything too
cheap, either He's a mild-mannered
man and not fond of sports, so don't
show me anything in that line, Fol
goodness sake, don't offer me any OF
these trashy novels, and no matter
how much you try to persuade me }
don't take anything in the way of his
tory or biography. Come now. I'm il
dreadful hurry, and I've ALREADY
wasted too much time here. Ot
course, You don't know my husband,
but from all I've said can't you sug-
gest something APPROPRIATED
Eyes, maam,p was the assistants
reply, after an instant's reflection,
Here is little volume entitled. How
TO Manage a Talking Machine
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07

Bacteria germs actually exist in
most telephones. This has been con-
clusively proven by microscopic ex-
aminations. Take a pen knife and
scrape off little of the cheese that
has accumulated on the inside of
the average telephone mouthpiece
and place same under powerful
magnifying glass and you will see a
wriggling, squirmling mass of germs,
too nasty to talk about; and the dan
ger of inhailing the germs of tuber-
culosis, pneumonia, diphtheria, la
rgippe and numerous affections of
the lungs, throat, nose and mouth has
not been exaggerated. Scores use
your phone. Some of them are sure
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
Sleeps Any Old Way Now

Il am 80 years old and never was
sick until years ago when | got
'tomach trouble. | have spent for
ure for medicine which did not
cure. kept on suffering and getting
worse. A fellow worker told me about
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. After
caklng three doses felt like diff
terent man; before taking it l could
not lie on my back nor right side.
Now | can sleep any old way" 1t
IS simple, harmless preparation
that removes catarrhal mucus from
the intestinal tract and allays the
inflammation which causes practical
ly all stomach. liver and intestinal
ailments, including appendicitis. One
dose will convince or money re-
'unded.
FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
WHEN AM A SPIRIT.

When ! am spirit-leave me alone!
Don't prick at the tough-skinned riddle!
Would you turn from feast to snaw
on a bone?
Go, dine while the fiddlers fiddle!
Why lure me back TO play the fool
To bridge your brief hours yearnins
With maudlin talk through three-legsed
stool,
With raps or table turning?
IL lend no aid to an old DANES trance,
AS she plucks at the air with her hn-
gers.
She'll bid no spirit of mine to pranee-
Let her cluck to the spook who fingers!
Oh, leave me alone, Co drink your wine,
And look to the moments living;
Lest you in your world. l in mine.
Lose precious drops of living
Mildred Plew Merryman, in New York
Times.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
PLENTY OF GROUNDS

list Friend: Hello Bill! Coin to
TIL doctors again? thought he had
cured you of your cid complaint.
End Friend: He did but I've got
another one now.
list Friend: Wassamatter with
yuh now Bill?
End Friend: Why jes got his bill
his mornlnfA.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
COlOred Man Invents Telephone Dlslnfectant.
Saves Health Keeps MOuthpiece Clean.

to be suffering from disease. Their
foul breaths infect your phone and
your phone infects you. This UNI
sanitary condition of the average
telephone and the need of some sim
pie, inexpensive method of destroying
germs and keeping the telephone in
a state of cleanliness, free from dust
and foul odors, has be conclusively
met by the HERB-A-CURE Tele-
phone Disinfectant.
Recommended By Physicians and
Health Boards
Price: :. =. so Cents
HERB-A-CURE REMEDY co.
1902 Cottage Grove Ave-. Chicago.
Adv.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
A Humble Opinion.

'What this country needs is more
production"
"What the country needs" replied
Farmer Gorntossel, with slight trace
of irritation, sis less talk about what
it needs an more enthusiasm about
deliverin' the goods"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07

young DOOkStdll
clerk from his
reyerie.
IL o o k here
she said. 81 want
a book for my
husband. It's his
birthday. And l
want it for a pres
e Il t. Show me
what you have
a n ii h q quick
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
Vain Remorse.

Titled Husband-Alas! that was an
unlucky stroke of fate for me.
Friend-What was?
T. H.-The blow [ gave my rich
American wife in the face.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
A Proof.

"Are you good at guessing puz,
zles?"
Il rather think so. l can generally
tell what my wife is going TO do next"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07

A small bottle of 'Danderine' costs
but few cents at any drug store.
"Danderine' is to the hair what fresh
showers of rain and sunshine are to
vegetation, making the hair grow long,
strong and beautiful Besides beautify-
ing the hair, "Danderine" stops hair fall
ing out, all dandruff disappears and scalp
never itches.
Try 'Danderine' and just see what
'ong, soft, attractive hair you can have.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07
o. The ~
Scrap'book
CLERK HAD JUST THE THING
Possibly He Didn't Make the Sale, but
He Surely Knew What
Hubby Needed.

She was evidently in a hurry, and
the fierce glare in her eye aroused the
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-08-07

The apparatus is not much bigger
than a shoe-polish box and much the
same shape; it is hung by cord from
the neck. the operating cord hanging
below in sasition convenient for
pulling.
s-Tire-qss,,e:laa gIs;sE .fosed in tin
box, pahnevFe $780,. 12.-e-.u4 -ls-~li-
removable, but is watertight. Every
time the cord is pulled the spring re-
turns it instantly to its position Of
rest, so that one can have steady
light by keeping on pulling the cord.
The mechanism is strongly made.
and there seems no reason why it
should not last indefinitely. 1t is not
quite so convenient as a fiashlight
with a battery, but it has the adyan-
tage over this of containing no essen
tial part that must constantly be re-
newed and that has habit of giving
out just when it is impossible TO re-
new and when it is urgently needed.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE REST DOESN'T MATTER.

The other day my attention was
called to a long article in a prominent
paper from "critic2 who didn't seem
to like these little Talks of mine at all.
He said that as literature" they
were far below mediocrity, and when
II came to style" they were vulgar"
Well. when it comes to CHASING them
as literature, suppose he is right, for
they are not written to be bound in
books that find places on shelves to
play hide and seek with dust and time.
These little Talks are written solely
to help people.
+ If they don't do this, they are not
worth appearing anywhere.
But when my unknown friend called
the style of these daily Talks vulgar"
1 am sure 1 do not know what he
meant. C"Critics" are prone TO such
talk.)
After one of Henry Ward Beecher's
stirring sermons. a man stepped up to
him and said, Mr.. Beecher, did you
know that you made d grammatical
error in your sermon this morning."
"A grammatical error" exclaimed Mr..
Beecher. I'll bet my hat that I made
a dozen.'
And that is the way feel about
these brief Talks that you honor me
by reading from dag to day. I do not
aspire to make them literary classics.
I want them to help you L want them
TO inspire you-to make you think 1
want them to suggest something to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
Dorothy Dix TALKS
BIZ pOnoTHx DIX
The Ideal Nfother-f,

A Mothers club asks me if I will
give it my definition of an ideal
mother.
Well, if I were a baby and could
choose my mother, would pick out a
strong and healthy mother. I would
want a mother who would start me out
in life with a robust body, with steady
nerves, and with clean blood, free of
any faint of disease, for 1 should
choose to be born of a mother who
had exercised as much thought and
judgment and care in selecting my
father, as she would in buying a new
hat.
1 should want strong and healthy
mother, also, because 1 should want
to be raised in a quiet, peaceful home,
and 1 couldn't hope for that if my
mother was a peevish invalid, with
raw nerves, that every little noise ir-
ritated to distraction, and who was
fretful, and fault-finding, and COM
| planning because she was half-sick all
the time.
And I should choose a mother who
wanted me, and who did not regard
children as one of the major Affections
of life. 1 should want mother VINO
was more interested in me than she
was in clubs, and who thought it more
| fun to play with me than she did to
play bridge. I should pray that l
would get a mother who wouldn't turn
me over to nursemaids and servants TO
bring UP by hand, but who would give
me her own personal attention;
| / should choose a woman VINO was
very tender and understanding, for
mother l should want a mother who
knew that child's soul is the shyest
thing on EARTH and who would not
try to force my confidence, or pry into
my little secrets, but she would Know
7 Mt il
things when I b1undered out my con-
fession to her in the twilight, or when
she tucked me in bed at night.
I should want her to be the kind
of woman who knows things by the
grace of God, without being told, ana
that no matter how much / stumbled
and fell, she would know why, and be-
lieve in me to the last.
And I should want my mothers
breast to be very soft for me to cry
out my childish heart upon, when I
! was little and hurt myself. and her
arms to be a refuge to me, to which
could always turn when I was big and
the world buffeted and beat me.
I should want my mother to be
good-natured woman, one who always
laughed with you, and not at you.
should like to be reared in home
that was bright and gay, where people
made merry over misadventures, and
turned deprivations and sacrifices into
jokes.
1 should like to have a mother who
encouraged every form of innocent en-
joyment, and who could enter into the
spirit of things, the sort of a mother
who is never too busy to put up a
lunch for q boy who is going fishing,
or to add a new frill to a girls dancing
frock. should like to come into a
cheerful home where the mothers
smile made sunshine. no matter what
cloud of adversely darkened the bal
ance of the world.
Copyright. 1929. by the wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

LUCK.
Luck had a favor TO bestow
And wondered where to let il go.
mo lazy man on earth,' said she
shall get this happy gift from me-
"Iawill not pass 1t to the man
Who cannot do the best he can.
II will not make this splendid gift
To one who has not practiced thrift.
EFT shall not benefit deceit,
Nor help the man who's played the
cheat
sHe that has failed to fight with pluck
Shall never know the Goddess Luck.
It'll look around q bit to see
What man has earned some help from
me-"
She found a man whose hands were soiled
Because from day to day he'd toiled.
He'd dreamed by night and worked by day
To make ife's contest to go his way.
He'd kept his post and daily shaved.
And something OF his wage he'd saved.
He'd cIutched at every circumstance
Which might have been his golden chance
The goddess smiled and then, kersIap. 4.
She dropped her favor in his lap.
Copyright, 1920, By Edgar A Guest9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
THE SLUNTP.IN WOOL.

Much has been said and printed
about the low price of wool since the
bottom fell out of the market. The
manner in which the slump was
brought about is recited by the Man
facturers' Record as follows:
1t so happened that just about the
time the wool clip was coming on last
May, getting ready for market, and
the eastern buyers had their men in
the field. that there were large impor-
tations of wool from Australia and the
Argentine, and our own war depart
ment had large stocks of wool, which
it sold at auction, and the British gov
eminent had large stocks also on the
auction market. The result was that
the market for wool was obliterated
over night. The wool men in the east
telegraphed agents in the west to come
home; that they did not want any
wool.
That is not our statement of fact.
It comes from the lips of Governor
Harding of the Federal Reserve bank,
who is fully acquainted with what
happened. At just the moment when
the crop was coming to market the
government dumped its own surplus
on the market, permitted the British
government to have wool auction sales
in Boston and countenanced heavy inn
port dumpings from Australia and the
Argentine. NO wonder the market
broke. No wonder that in the wool
producing sections the November cleo
ton became a mere census. And yet
some people maintain that govern
ment policies have nothing to do with
prices.
How different was this action of the
government when compared with that
toward food suppliesi When food
prices were at the peak the war de-
partment refrained from placing its
supplies on the market. except in a
small way, thus enabling the packers
and large dealers to save themselves
from loss. The wool men appear to
have just cause for complaint on the
ground of discrimination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
LITTLE BEKHY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE PAPE-
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.

THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
Weather. Cold winds blowing like
heck.
Spoarts Sid Hunt is thinking of
taking up boxing lessin so. wen Reddy
Merry insults him he wont feel so
nerviss about insulting him back.
Pome by Skinny Martin
THE INNOCENT CHASER
A dog chased after AUTOMOBILES
Barking loud as the dickins
But nobody elts got ixcited
Like they would if he was chasing
CHICKENS.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. During a argewment on likes
and dislikes witch took place erround
the lam post last Wensday IL was dis
covered that the following people have
the werst dislikes for the following
things as follows:
Sam Cross. stummick axes
Pubs Simkins. bangs on the nose
Skinny Potts, skool-
Skinny Martin, bred without butter
or enything.
Skinny Mullin. gerls.
Artie Alexander, Sundays.
Ed Wernicks skool.
Lew Davis. skooi.
Leroy Shooster. empty soup without
noodles or enything.
Sissiety. Miss Mary Watkins wishes
to announce the fethers on her new
hat are ostrich fethers and not chickin
fefhers no matter wat enybody says.
Lost and Found Nuthing.
Advertisements. None.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

The ruests had come Her fathers
voice was raised in hearty greeting.
and there replied q mixture OF InaScu-
line and feminine voices in CONFUSED
happiness. She shrank back INTO a
niche by the stairs and watched the
new arrivals being whisked off TO
rooms above by Briggs, the solemn
faced man about the house.
Then she stepped out again and
again stood under the mistletoe 10
snatch one more second of memory De-
fore she should have to go and pre-
pare herself to face the guests ana
simulate a happiness she dld nor teei.
Rapt in her dreams, she did not
hear the hall door open nor see Iig
ure that stood upon the threshold ana
looked about undecidedly. One OF the
guests had arrived a moment later
than the others, and had missed the
welcome and the guiding ministrations
of Briggs.
about to call out; then he caught sight
of the white figure under the nlistie-
toe and started and remained siieht-
Silent, but not motionless- be put MS
heavy suitcase down and tiptoed across
the room.
In the dusk Edna looked almost
ghostly as she stood there, ner
thoughts far away. The intruder came
closer and closer, and then Edna sud
denly felt arms around her and lips on
been that she yielded to the caress be-
fore she realized what she was doing;
then, recollecttng herself she sprang
away.
"Oh-h, How dare you?" she cried:
almost exactlyNt the words you used
to me a year ago tonight" replied a
well-remembered voice.
Edna's face went white for a mo-
ment. and then flooded with crimson.
"Why-Billy!' she half sobbed.
Eyes, it's Billy-I've come all the
way from Seattle to be with you this
Christmas. Aren't you glad to see
me?"
"Glad?" Edna's voice quivered.
Then she suddenly became aloof.
DO you remember that other time
when you-when you"
Eyes, yes," his voice was happily
hooking.
well, made you promise never to
do 1t again-and you've broken your
! wordr'
(Copyright. 1919. bv the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

During the war the government de-
termined by investigation and by ex-
pertinent that 10000 tons of steel cost
ing s9,50o,O0O, was sufficient to con-
struct enough barges and towboats to
carry annually a million tons of
freight between New Orleans ami
St. Louis. The government in the
same investigation determined that
to construct rail equipment suf-
ficient to carry that amount of
freight would require $1,000 tons of
steel costing over thirty million dol
lars. In other words, the amount and
cost Of steel to build equipment suffi-
Gent to carry a given amount of
freight by rail IS three times as great
as the amount necessary to build
equipment to carry an equal amount
of freight by water. Furthermore, it
has been demonstrated that to carry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

lar business bringing people to the
phone and getting nickel from them
when there isn't any CALI
a Child Absconder.
Perhaps the most notaF+. of all
child prodigies in affairs o this kind
is Elliott Kitchener. THE IL, ear-old Of
flee boy, who recently W .ked out of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works in
Philadelphia with $4,000 belonging to
the company in his pocket, and who
was arrested here in New York after a
long search.
Elliott is also blessed with a cher
ubic countenance, which attracted
every motherly woman to him on his
travels, and helped him to remain
above suspicion for a long period. Ell
lott decided to take the money as
soon as it was handed to him. AS he
told the police later, Sure / took it..
Who wouldn't? I was getting IS a
week as an office boy and they hand
ed me $4.30O-I had to count 1t, you
know-and told me to take it to the
paymaster. It was more money than
had ever laid eyes on before. 1t
looked awful big, and it felt awful big.
Sol blew"
With cool determination, Elliott
started for the Camden ferry as soon
as he left the Baldwin plant. He re-
manned in Camden just long enough
to buy an overcoat and three suits of
clothes, each with lcpg trousers-his
first-and then took a train to New
York. From New York he went to
Chicago, from which city he expected
to go to San Francisco. But here he
read an~account of his theft in the
newspapers, which said that he would
probably go to Spokane where his ia
Their was. So Elliott decided not to go
west at all, but to take the first train
back to New York. From here he re-
turned to Philadelphia and stayed at
the Bellevue-Stratford for several
days, after which he moved to the Ho-
tel Lorraine. which is only short dis
lance from the Baldwin works.
Finally, he became restless and
again went to New York. where he at
last bought a ticket for San Francisco.
1t was this act that betrayed him.
The ticket agent became suspicious at
a small boy paying s134.50 for a
ticket. and called in one OF the rail-
road detectives. Photographs of miss
ing boys were produced, and Elliott
was recognized as the most conspicu-
ously missing of them all.
That's who I am" said Elliott
when confronted with the photograph.
IT don't care. I'm tired of spending
money anyhow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

1t is announced that supervision of
the coal industry by the federal trade
commission probably will be provided
in bill now being drawn by Senator
Calder, of New York. If the federal
trade commission is to have anything
10 do with a proposed law that should
be sufficient to kill the measure be-
fore it can get out of the committee
room. OF all government agencies for
wreckinE business-and they are le-
gion-the federal trade commission is
-the most effective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

A delegate to the convention or
farmers which met in st. Louis, this
week advocated the establishment of
a chain of stores where the farmers
could sell direct to the consumers
About how long would it take such
system of stores to market whea'
crop. a corn crop or hay cropg
Farmers would better keep out of the
mercantile business. What they need
IS an Organization that will enable
them to market their crop in whole
sale quantities at prices of their own
making. Manufacturers fix the
price at which they will sell their
products and the public pays it. La
Dor unions fix the price at which their
members will sell their time and the
employer pays it. Why cannot farm
ers do the same thing? Let them sell
to the millers and the exporters at an
established and remunerative price
and permit the purchasers to make
what they can. If the producer of an
article receive fair compensation for
his product, why should he care how
much the next man makes or loses? p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOuRNAL-

Each reader OF The State Journal Is Of
fered the unlimited use of the largest IN
formatiOn bureau In the world. 49,.
Ti.ls Service Bureau Is located IN t1s
national capital. where 1T is-in lmmeui Az
touch with all the great resources OA 1He
United States Rt vernment; .,.to,
N can answer practically any question
Won want TO ask. butt can't give az
vice. or make exhaustive research. A.
TIe war forced so many changes IN the
daily life of the American people that the
service Of this Information bureau WILL De
Invaluable to al who use.it ,,,o,. a.
Keen in touch with your government az
ali times. 1t an help you in a Thousand
ways Il your wants an, only maze mao Rn0Tni
uervtce in orde- that every one or its
readers may take FREE advantage OF IL.
You are welcome to USE 1t as otten as you
Write your request briefly, sign your
name and address pluiniy. enclose S-cebt
stanip for return postage and ADDRESS, me
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFOhMA-
TON BUREAU. - ,r.A,,.,,
ton. II. q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

Farmers are being urged to curtaiI
production until prices of their prod
ucts improve. Yet everybody knows
instinctively. despite arguments to the
contrary, that curtailment of produc-
ton is wrong and entails an economic
loss that affects the entire country.
There is no wealth except that Gre
ated by labor. The more we produce
the better we can live. Many men
who have aided in limiting production
in the last three years now are without
Jobs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

a given amount of freightby rail con-
s''mes practically twice the amount of
coal which it is necessary to consume
in carrying the same amount of freight
by water. Yet the influence of the
railroads probably will prevent action
on the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

President Wilson has been awarded
the Nobel peace prize, in the face of
the fact that he has been unable to
get US out of our war with Germany.
All OF our fellow combatants are ahead
of us in this matter. Our ambassador
TO France has declined to meet social
" the German ambassador because
the cruel war still is in progress.