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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12
The Woman Who Loved and
Earned : Modem st2.y q Home aad Business
By JANE PHELPS

genuinely. and my time and mind
were so engaged with my work when
not with him. that / had no time for
doubt, save when just 4 shadow of one
would creep in when he had been
with Marion Hovey.
Aunt seems to have very little con-
fidence in me-" he said after mo-
ment.
"Oh 1 don't think she meant just
YOU. when she talked. She seems to
think all men rather weak, and that
if is a wife's duty to see they are
not led into temptation. She didn't say
a word about wife having any temp
tations."
II suppose she knew you were too
busy earning our living.
The bitterness in Roberts voice
penetrated even my stupidity as re-
garded money matters.
why. Robert Meredith! Aren't
YOU ashamed to talk like that? lou
know that just rs soon as you get
larger salary [ shall be glad to play
lady, and that it is only fair until you
do we use what 1 earn for our living
Have 1 ever said n word about earn
ing more than you do?'
mo" the flush on his face deep
ened but you do. You re not saving
anything doesn't alter the fact. You
are paying aunts expenses TOO.
'she doesn't know that unless you
have told. her.
NO. and 1 am too much of cow
ard to tell her. 1t is too Illuminating.
Yet [ allow myself to be Inundated
not only in that, but in many other
ways It's too bad you married me
Gerry. 1 thought 1 was going to make
good or l wouldn't nave asked you.
We'll, Robert, l don't think it toe
bad / married you. You're the only
man ever wanted to marry. If / am
satisfied YOU shouldn't kick. That is
unless you-regret marrying NEE
Il wanted to make you happy
but"
You do when you are yourself and
don't fuss about foolish things. You
firm is sure to advance you soon II
not you can go with some one else
1 was positive it was the fact that 9th
ers had been advanced and their sal
aries raised that bothered Robert; mo-
that 1 worked, or that We lived in {
boarding house.
(Tomorrow-Gerry stays home will
Aunt Felicia
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Me and Skinny Martin took a wawk
throo the park Satidday AFTERNOON jest
to take a wawk, and we saw buntch
a little kids standing neer the entrants
as if they was waiting for sumbody
Skinny Martin saying, Hello kids, watts
you waiting for? and one of the little
kids sed, We're waiting for fletcher.
she's going to tell US about different
trees and things.
G. Skinny. lets pertend to tell them,
| Wlspered to Skinny. and he whispered
back, G, all rite. And he sed to the
little gids, Come on. kids, Wen start
to tell you a vile, there amt mulch
about trees we don't know. is there.
Benny
There amt hardly enything. I sed.
And we started to wawk up to the diff
trent looking trees and : the kids
wawked in back of US, and 1 pointed
to tree, saying, Do you know wat
kind of tree that is. kids?
No. sed all the kids, and I sed,
That's a pinwheel tree. once every
hour 1T says, Pinwheel. pinwheel- pin
wheel, and 3 leefs drop Off of it.
Me jest making it up but the kids
wunted to wait and see, and 1 sed we
d1dent have time, and we went over
to, another tree, Skinny saying, Do
you know wat kind of tree that is,
kids?
No. sed the kids. and Skinny sed.
That's munkey rentch tree, it takes
1000 yeers to grow and ony about a
second to stop And we went up to
another one, me saying, Hers a CRATE
tree, kids, do you know wat 1t is? and
they sed No, and l sed Its a pickle
tree. there amt eny on now, but when
there is you half to pick them off, and
that's wat makes them pickles.
And we started to wawk to another
tree and jest then a short lady with
long feet came running up, saying.
Children wat do you meen by this.
dident I tell you to wait at the en-
trants? and one of the kids sed, These
boys have bin telling us. fletcher,
they've bin telling us about the mum
key rentch tree and the pickle tree
and everything.
Wat nonsents. how dare you deform
the minds of these little Children wen
they're in the formative state? sed the
short lady with the long feet
We dident know they was. sed
Skinny And We quick wawked away
as If We jest remembered q ingase-
ment-
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Earned
CHAPTER IS.

CHAPTER 2S.
To a woman who has loved strong
ly, loving is almost a necessity. And
from the very first had loved Robert
strongly, but with a certain reserve
that 1 could not overcome. Had I
married at 20 instead of rs. 1 would
probably have been more outspoken
in my feeling for him, as we'll as in
regard to other things-our manner
of living, etc.
1t was hard for me to breach the
subject of my work. Beginning with
Mary Ryan. everyone had made me
feel was in the wrong. yet 1 myself
believed 1 was doing everything for
the best-not entirely on my own &C
count either, but because of Robert.
Robert. do you feel that / should
give up my position?" 7 asked, land
that we should try to live on what
you can earn"
I was looking straight at him as I
spoke and there came into his eyes
peculiar gleam-just for moment
But before I had finished it was gone,
and his face wore the same quiet eX
preston TO which / was fast becoming
accustomed, altho it was so different
from the one he wore when We were
married.
Then he looked happy, carefree, and
was always laughing and joking. Now
he did not do so, save occasionally
he surely had changed, and it made
me anxious.
What do you think about IL" His
question annoyed me. He, everyone.
knew what / thought.
That's a Yankee trick, answering
by asking a question yourself. 1 want
to know what you think
Il want you to be happy, Gerry.
You know how little I earn. Unless
you could be happy living as we would
have to live, I would far rather you
went on at the shop, and SO having
what you want"
There! I knew that was how you
felt about it. But your aunt was so
sure you would be tempted to do
wrong because you had no home that
I had almost determined to give up
my position so that 1 could wash
dishes and cook for you in some cheap
place.
He had flushed when I spoke of
temptation, but I7had not given it a
thought, beyond feeling he was an
noyed that his aunt thought him so
little worthy of trust. I loved him so
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While we have been feeding Europe
our own elk are reported to have been
starving in Yellowstone Park Rep
reseutative Mondell is advocating an
appropriation to care for the herds of
elk which are said to be suffering
severely from cold and hack of food
during the winter months. Mr.. Mon
dell says that last winter hunters Wis
tied Montana and slaughtered a herd
Of 5000 elk in that state, who had
venturcd outside the boundaries of the
park in search of food. He asserts
that they were shot down ruthlessly
within sight of the park boundaries,
and their carcasses hauled away by
the carload. 1t is to keep the animals
within the protection of the park that
Mr.. Mondell is seeking to provide
them with food. If. however. a way
could be found for taking care of the
hunters, the elk might be able to take
care of themselves.
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PHILOSOPHY.

know of a man who loves to study
the stars. He owns a very fine tele-
scope. At night time he goes to the
roof of his house and scans the
heavens. One night he discovered a
constellation OF stars so small that
they cannot be seen with the naked
eye.
This group. however, contains more
stars than all the stars one is able to
count that are visible without the tele-
scope.
My friend was at his job one night.
studying his new-fo1nd nest of stars,
when all of a sudden, he told me, he
remembered he had not paid his
grocery bill which was long past due.
Down to earth he came.
And 1 thought how like us all my
friend was. We spend all too much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12
Dorothy Dix Talks
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.
The FAMILY Martyr.-f.


She was a youngish woman, bag
gard, and worn, and nervous. and too
old for her years. Her shoulders
sagged, and her mouth dragged down
at the corners. Her hair was pulled
back off of her face, and her clothes
looked as if they had been fished out
of the rag bag. and she was indulging
in woman's favorite indoor sport of
complaining about her Let in life.
In a peevish. whining. querrulous
voice she was telling about how hard
she worked, and that she never Went
anywhere or had any pleasure, and OF
how she sacrificed herself for her hus-
band and children, and got neither
thanks nor appreciation for it.
oh! for heavens sake, cut out that
martyr stuff. Can it, Forget it,
cried the afflicted ones sister when
she could stand no more. If there
is anything on earth that makes me
tired it is you women who deliberately,
and with malice aforethought, mar
! tyrize yourselves. and then want the
world to stand around and just give
you the glad hand for doing it,
! Il can be as reverential as the next
one before a martyr who has martyr
dom thrust upon her, but when 1 see
! a woman go out and hunt up her
J cross and nail herself on its-I don't
worship her as saint. despise her
I lOr 1901.
"Of course you are a martyr. OF
course your life is just one long sacri-
! flee TO your husband and children, but
you elected yourself to the role. Your
/ husband doesn't want you to be a
martyr. Neither do your children.
I They would a million times rather
have you just a human being who was
/ enjoying things with them, and CAD
ding around with them. and who was
laughing, and jolly instead OF melan-
! choly and fearful.
You say you have not time to go
anywhere because you have your work
to do. Well you would have If you
/ would use a little more common sense
about your work. AT least half of the
labor that you do is absolutely I'M
necessary. You kill yourself in dust
ing silly pieces of bric-a-brac, and
putting dinky little doilies on the table
and taking them off again, and in
sweeping floors that are already clean.
and polishing things that already
shine.
why don't you have house clean
ing and eliminate every single useless
| article. and get your housekeeping
down to where you can do it with the
least possible expenditure of time and
effort? If you did, you'd have plenty
of leisure in which TO get out in the
fresh air and sunshine instead of be-
ing shut up in the four walls of your
house all the time.
"Why don't you give your family
simpler meals? Why don't you put
fewer tucks and ruffles in Jennie's
dresses? Why don't you buy ready
made clothes for the baby instead of
putting your eyes out. and breaking
your back making every garment by
hand?"
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THE PURPOSE.

THE PURPOSE.
One worked for riches day by day.
One toiled to know the joy of fame,
Another shaved his life away
The friendship of the world to claim;
Yet these men missed the goals they
sought.
While one who ..sked no golden crown
Or glory for his work. but thought
OF serving only as he ought,
Was given both fortune and renown.
One worked because he would be rich,
One toiled because he wanted fame,
One saw in glory something which
He thought it would be nice to claim;
But one gave little thought to these,
And tried TO serve q greater plan
He found in work the joys that please,
The thrill of solving mysteries
And building for his fellow man.
Better it is to love the task
Than its reward of fame or gold;
They that the glory only ask
Shall be forgotten when they're old
But he who'll stand from day to day
And give up thought unto his fate,
Working to build a better way
Where men may walk and children play,
Shall in good time be counted great.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
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wells have been of incalcuIable inter-
est and value, enabling them to con-
duct experiments nearer the center of
the earth than ever before. Probably
the results of the scientific investiga-
tions conducted in the wells will so far
exceed the value of the oil they might
have produced that the driIlers will
feel amply repaid for their venture.
Most valuable of the experiments
conducted SO far have been those of
Doctor Van Orstrand of the United
States geological survey. According
to his Investigations the temperature
in both wells at about a hundred feet
is 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat
gradually increasing with the added
depth until in the Goff well at a depth
of 1910 feet it reaches 1898 degrees
Fahrenheit In the Lake well, how
evT, at 1900 feet the temperature was
only 1885 degrees Fahrenheit, while
at 7.2S7 feet in the Czuchow well it
reached 1871 degrees.
These results convince Doctor Van
Orstrand that the temperature at the
same depth in different localities
varies, tho he believes the boiling
point in each of the American wells
could be reached at 10000 feet. In
volcanic regions, of course, the boiling
point would be much nearer the sur
face as in Lardarello and in Alaska,
where a temperature of 213 degrees
can be found in certain wells at a lit
tie more than 60 feet.
If Doctor Van Orstrand is correct in
his belief that the boiling point lies
only 10000 feet below the surface,
then natures vast resource of energy
lies just at hand, waiting to be tapped
for the benefit of mankind. Thru its
use the vast quantities of coal now
burnt in generating steam for motive
power would be saved, and the coal
fields of the world given a much
longer lease on life.
The source of the enormous guam
tity of heat stored in the center of the
earth is not known, some scientists
holding that it is due to the disinte-
grafton of radium in the rocks, while
others believe the earth is a cooling
globe, radiating heat developed dur
ing condensation from the original
nebula. Still others contend that it is
due to other causes, such as radioac-
tivity, chemical reactions. impacts
from meteorites or condensation from
nebulous material. But whatever its
source the heat remains, waiting to
be tapped as an inexhaustible supply
of energy for the world.
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Dinner Stories

Judge White is telling with relish
of his encounter with a certain young
matron of the Wiltshire district. 1t
seems her husband had been spend
ing most of his nights at the club
and the lady limited to His Honor
bring the matter into court. 1t was
serious. The other day, however, en-
countering the judge on the street,
she buttonholed him, saying:
Judge, Pm sorry 1 said all those
things about my husband. He is all
right, after all.
why the change of hearth" asked
White, curiously.
"Well, the other night a burglar
broke into the house and my hus-
band laid him out with poker. I
had heard that he was a poker ex-
pert and now L understand. The
dear boy has been spending his nights
preparing for just such an emer-
gency."
A foppish young man who could
only find a seat next to a fishwife, in
a north of Scotland smoking carriage,
expressed his disgust by many dis
dainful chances. At length the woman
remarked:
TN bet We, my NANNY. you an mes
bath thinking the same thing"
what is that, woman" demanded
the youth haughtily.
you are wishing you was sitting
next a gentleman?S
81 am, indeed" replied the youns
man.
so am IT, the fishwife replied
claimly.
"He seems very narrow minded in
an argument"
Not at all. He admits that there
are two sides to every question; his
side and the wrong sidei"
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lovers quarrel. 1 have never thought
of him except as a witty boy" She
hesitated an instant, then, mastering
the tremOr in her voice, went on: Did
you think l didn't know about you
that 1 didn't know you-long, long
before 1 ever saw you? Why, ever
since I was a little girl, my mother
has told me, over and over again,
about your great, splendid, chivalrous
heart, your strength. your patience,
your lonely, sacrificing life!
Did you think she didn't know, at
last, whose money it was that my
shameless father used for years to
keep us from starving while he idled
and gambled? And that she didn't
tell me? Why. you have been almost
a god to me since 1 was a child"
why, Bernice. H. Bedient's
floundering was HOPELESS now.
Listen" persuaded the girl breath
lessly, you knew me al a glance, be-
cause I had inherited my mothers
features, didn't you? Well, that isn't
mother. And after she had gone and
thought of you, day and night, living
on and on with your dear life empty
of the kind of happiness it ought to
to have known-that you were made
for-I promised myself that you
should have it if you wanted it.
, came here, Richard, to give you, if it
seemed to you worth while. my in
heritance. oh, man, mani Don't you
understand? Ny mother loved you
al%ays!"
And the homeward walk, side by
side. led them to the sunshine and
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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time in chasing butterflies and hunting
out new worlds without bearing in
mind that we have to carry the respon-
sibiNties of the world in which we live
and breathe and have our being.
Simple words are better than big
words, because everybody can under
stand them.
Demonstrated facts are always more
valuable than the most fascinating
theoretical ones. We grow only as we
know, and we know only as we show.
It is a beautiful world. and flower
picking enriches the heart But it's
the potato crop, and bean harvest, and
wheat fields that form the poetry of
civilization.
And just to be kind has its wonder
full part to play-in essence greater
than that carved out by emperors or
generals.
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be increased from s4.62 for a ten-hour
day. including two hours overtime, to
$5.0s. If the number of common la
borers be estimated at 10000. this
increase would add about $4,000, 600
year to the companys payroll. bring
ing it up to about s475. 900, 900. This
increase follows Immediately the fail
ure of the recent strike of steel work.
ers Since 1915 the increase of pay
for unskilled workers has amounted
to about 144 per cent over the So wage
prevailing at the end of that year.
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HEART AND. BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a boy
twenty-one years old and am in love
with girl three years younger than
am. l have been to her home four
times and have asked her for steady
company, but she refuses. She says
she has nothing against me. How can
win her love? SAM
The girl Is too young to go with
only one man and she realizes this.
Do not expect STEADY company" In
many circles of society there is no
such thing. Regard the girl as a good
friend for a few years and be salts
fled. At the end of, that time she
may care enough for you to marry.
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OUR DEPRECATED BONDS.

An anomalous feature of the bust
ness and financial conditions in this
country is that the/bonds of the great
est and richest nation in the world are
selling in the open market at about
90 cents on the dollar. Persons who
thru patriotic sentiments bought
these bonds altho unable to hold them
for any reason whatever, when forced
to sell must do so at the market price.
The loss on these bonds is being borne
by those least able to afford it. These
bonds, which were crowded into a war
market at a rate which did not make
them profitable as an investment, now
are sold in competition with a world
wide demand for capital.
Twenty millions of persons are esti-
mated to have participated in sub
scriptions to these bonds, the vast ma
jority of them having never before
invested in securities. and the effect
of the loss on the rank and file of this
great body of individuals is most dis
couraging. Large numbers of them
have sold or are selling their bonds
and are spending the proceeds, for
getting that it represents not income
but principal. A great extrava gance
has thus resulted from these unfortu-
nate circumstances.
Another bad effect which has fol-
lowed the unequal chances in the in
vestment market of a low government
bond rate, is the loading up of bank
ing institutions with a vast aggregate
of government obligations. thus reduc-
ing reserves and cramping banking
facilities. The national banks own
government obligations to the extent
of over s3.2 5O,0OO,OOO. The state banks
probably hold as many more, and, &C
cording to their last statement, the
Federal Reserve bank was carrying
government bonds to the amount of
1929, 100000. This makes a total of
these government obligations carried
in. the Federal Reserve bank and in
the national and state banks of more
than Sc, ,O00,0 900.
'The whole situation would be re-
lieved," suggests the Bache Review,
'if government bond with an at
tractive rate of interest were substi-
LuIeQ LOT the lON-Idlo liberty DOnuS-
Investors here and all over the world
would be attracted by them as the
most profitable. highest class form of
security. This could be accomplished
/ by legislation authorizing the refund
! ing of all the liberty and victory bonds
: Except perhaps the ~ per cent,
| tax-eXemp) into one issue maturing,
say, in 100 years, and at a higher
rate of interest, say per cent, for
five years or more, with perhaps
gradual reduction of the rate at stated
periods"
Bonds would then be taken out of
the banks by private investors, the
Review holds. reducing bank loans and
federal loans. Subscribers who are
now getting, rid of their bonds at a
| loss would be induced to hold them
tenaciously in view of the attractive
rates, advancing prices, and favorable
l future prospects of these bonds. The
credit situation would be impressive
ly and effectively relieved. The
whole country would be turned by this
one operation toward thrift, and the
100000 patriotic subscribers to the
bonds would be converted from ex-
travagant spenders or irritated inves-
ters into satisfied and contented hold
ers.
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Opponents Of the League of Ma
tions still insist that America must
have six votes in the council because
Great Britain and her dependencies
have six. Why. then, should not
France, Italy. Japan and other sig
natory powers have six votes each Z?
cit us have justice tho the heavens
fan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12
LINCoLNs GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
delivered Cemetery Gettysburg
November

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Ebert II. Gary, chairman of the
board OF the United States Steel Cor
poration, announced on January %
that the wage rates of day labor at
the manufacturing plants of the Steel
Corporation had been Increased about
10 per cent. to become effective Feb
ruary 1. and that other rates would
be equitably adjusted. This meant
that the wages of day laborers would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12

Samuel Gompers is urging the
unions to join together in electing
members of congress who will be ia
vorable to organized labor. But ev-
erybody is in favor Of organized labor,
except when it attempts to encroach
on the rights Of other persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12

\ bill has been introduced in the
italian parliament providing that
every able bodied man between the
ages of 20 and G5 must work. A law
of this kind probably would speedily
rid the country of Bolshevili
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-12

Old Irving Davis Says:
Those who are we'll to-do, are gem
orally hard-to-do,
= Many employees who have a good
employer, and really can't do too much
for him, are foolish enough not to!
Don't become a CO 1tractor, if your
speciality is Debts,
Fashion put taboo upon large hats,
because they emphas lid the smallness
of ones craniumi
Don't spend money recklessly, es-
pecially if it's your own!
Evidently Samuel Taylor Coleridge
had January 6 in mind when he wrote
the famous passage in THE Ancient
Mariner Water, water everywhere,
and not a DROP to drink"