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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned AModszn sto:z q Home and Bushes.
. Modern Stosy or
By JANE PHELPS

long as I could look stylishIy dressed,
he would be satisfied.
Il will try to look so you won't be
ashamed of me-" 1 laughingiy assured
him.
1 did not explain that one gown
an ultra" one, perhaps-for my work
outside of the house, and my house
gowns when at home, simple dainty
affairs 1 made myself, wouldn't cost
me anything like what my shop ward
robe had cost. He would be sure to
think 1 was doing without to save So
l proposed:
Every three months We'll compare
our accounts. You'll be surprised how
much we will save if we try" L told
him.
Remember, I pay all house ex-
penses-"
Don't worry, dear! have a
scheme of my own for my money. I'll
only buy my clothes, and the rest 1
will put away"
AS I look back, think that Robert
and I We're just beginning to know
each other at this time, just begin
ming to appreciate each other. We
were SO happy when together, nothing
seemed hard any more. 1 almost for
got that I had nearly lost Robert, his
love And he was SO happy. so con-
tented with our simple way of living.
1T seems too good to be true. Ger
ry." he said one night, as he settled
| himself with his pipe and evening pa
per. Talk about dreams coming
| true-why, this is better than ever l
| dreamed, and I did a lot of dream
ing,"
I'VE are happy, are't WEI" ]
stopped washing dishes long enough
to press my lips to his hair. When /
would not allow him to help me, he
always sat in the kitchen and smoked
until I had finished. He declared he
waS Ion esome in the other room alone.
! Often we visited the girls and had
them with us for the evening; alone,
and spent the evening reading aloud,
talking over his work at the store,
his ideas for making the business OF
his employer more successful.
! OF my own work I said little.
had not forgotten how he claimed a
woman could not forget the business
part of her life il she were a bust
ness woman; and one part of my plan
was TO efface my business from our
home life.
(Tomorrow-Bob's great news)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18

Exports of confectionery from the
United States reached record proper
lions in 1919. the value of such ex-
ports, according to the, figures of the
department of commerce. being $12.-
305,OS2. or more than ten times that
of the 1918 exports. The total for that
year was $1,225.92S, and for 1917, s2,-
10S,OS1. In pre-war years exports of
confectionery were below $4,000, 900
in annual value. 1t will be seen from
these figures that candy makers find
no difficulty in obtaining all the sugar
they want. American housewives
would like to know how they do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18

company, which has been making a
great effort for the past three years
to keep its wages on an equality with
living costs. 1t was not content with
mere superstition, but appointed
committee of the clerical force itself,
as early as 1917, to investigate condi-
tions caused by ever-rising prices
The investigation was not merely per-
functory, either; its results were ae-
cepted. Acting upon its recommends
ton, in December. 1917, the company
put a 20 to 40 per cent increase into
effect. giving the little fellow the
greater increase, because it was de-
cided that living standards are less af-
fected by the rising prices the greater
the salary. A mans responsibilities
were also taken into account.
Since then, these investigations have
taken place every six months. They
are in no way connected with the
bonus system" says the investigating
committee. The increases never get
mixed up with the payroll. and they
are considered as an emergency
measure. to be discontinued as soon
as conditions right themselves. And
here is a ray of hope for the future:
We estimate that there will be only
one more raise, and that by fall a re-
duction in the emergency compensa-
ton will come"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18

path into the ravine which ran for
miles, bisecting Glen mountain. Care
less of distance she rambled on, never
doubling her ability to retrace her
steps in place where trail was more
or less plainly evident.
Now in the mountains, when the
sun sets, it sets quickly-simply drops
behind some peak and is gone. Sud-
denly, to her bewilderment, Louise
found that she was being enveloped in
twilight. Hastily she turned back and
was amazed to find that, while ap-
parently there had been only one way
to come, several trails offered them
selves for her return.
Startled and realizing that she was
on the verge of undergoing that dread
full experience, being lost in the noun
tains, she sat down on q lichen COW
cred rock to recover her thoughts.
Lost in the mountains. Welh a
search party would find her ultimate
ly. She wished she had left word that
she was going down into the ravine.
Hank! What was that? Was it the
wind in the trees, or did she family
hear a voice? Trembling little with
apprehension lest she was mistaken
| she made a trumpet OF her hands and
called. Somebody answered. Again
| she called-again the answer, nearer.
| Then followed the rustic of trampled
underbrush, and a dipn form appeared
on the edge of the precipice-
A moment later, her hands were i'm
prisoned in those of Bob. THE girls
missed you and L had a bunch you
were in the ravine. I've walked miles
along the cliff calling"
Louise started to speak-choked-
then managed to get out, IN othins
ever sounded as good as your voice!"
| ut was "a voice on the mountain
top for fair" he hummed. Then: eve
must get back and relieve the anxiety
of the others he said. But first,
am going TO take advantage of this op-
portunity when 1 have you to myself to
say something. L love you, Louise;
love you'll"
"Why-why-but Peggy" gasped
the girl.
Don't breathe a word" he said
| but I'm hoping Peggy will be my
sister. She is as good as engaged te
my brother Tom, who is coming up in
August
| Louise couldn't speak for sheer hap
piness.
You remember the next words Of
the song you sang?" went on Bob
Let us all unite in love- How soon
dear. can we unite in marriage? My
whole family are in love with you, al
well as !, and there isn't a bit of use ir
wasting the rest of the summer"
! So tenderly he looked at her thai
Louise capitulated utterly. Besides
what a choice she had to makel A
furnished city room in August, or
| Bob and the mountains!
"Pll marry you whenever you sayr
she promised.
| Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

I was standing in the kitchin door
wateahing Nora make rice pudding
yestidday aftirnoon, and after a vile
L. thawt, Gosh, she amt putting eny
raisins in. And sed, Hay, Nora, you
amt putting eny raisins in.
Tell me sumthing 1 don't knew, sed
Nora. Meening she wasent putting
eny in because she dident wunt to. Me
thinking, G, holey smoaks, watts rice
pudding without raisins. And I sed,
Well amt you going to put eny in,
Nora?
I am not, that's the anser to that,
have you got eny more puzzles you d
like to ask me? sed Nora. Proberly
thinking she was funny. being the ony
one that thawt so, and l went up to
mas room and ma was sewing on the
sewing macheen, and l sed, Gosh, ma,
G, watts you think, Noras making rice
pudding without eny raisins, gosh ma,
you cant make rice pudding rite with
out raisins.
You cant make it rite without rice,
maybe that's wat you're thinking of,
sed ma.
No mann. I'm thinking of raisins,
watts the use of making rice pudding
if you don't put eny raisins in, you
mite as we'll not make it at all and
be done with it, I sed.
Do you know wat economical
meens? sed ma, and 1 sed. Yes mann,
but gosh, G, ma, who wunts to be
economical?
do sed ma and I sed o all rite
but don't Expect me to eat eny of it.
And ma sed, Very we'll, then there
will be that mulch more for sumbody
elts.
And wen Nora brawt it in foy diz-
zert at suppir I ony ate q ssTsers full
insted of 8. which I probsrly would OF
If it had of had raisins in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
DO uRenlember
|9L When?

the Spooner Comedy company
played at the old Crawford
"opery' house?
the Andrews Opera company made
an annual visit?
the event of the theatrical year was
Fay Templeton singing For
Goodness Sake, Don't Say I Told
You?
we all thought Lincoln ]. Carter
wrote the greatest plays on earth :?
Topeka filled the theater to over
flowing each season for such
melodramas' as The Silver King"
The Romany Rye" The Sha-
dows of New York. 1.-The Lights
of London" Michael Strogoff,"
Hazel Kirk" "Esmeralda," blue
Jeans" and 1.-THE Stowaway."?
the favorite comedians of the
theater patrons were Sol Smith
Russell. Ezra Kendall, Digby
Bell, Tim Murphy, Frank Daniels,
Jeff DeAngeles, Otis Harlan,
Stuart Robson and William H.
Crane?s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
HAPPINESS.
CHAPTER ITO.


What happened, Robert?r asked
as 1 finished putting dinner upon the
table
why, one of the clerks proposed we
make a showing for children, just
sporting goods suitable for young
boys-and girls also. We fitted up
one of the windows. and it wasn't long
before fathers and mothers came in
with their kids. The old man" Gas
Robert always spoke of his employer,
without however meaning any disre-
spect) wanted to know what thought
of making it sort of a feature. We're
going to talk it over in the morning.
Kid wax works dressed UP, ct cetera.
But what I was getting at was that
you were right in your theory that we
could always learn. This fellow is
only about II, been in the store only
a short time, and none of us gave him
credit for being overly. bright. But
we have learned that it pays to cater
him"
MY, what long speech for You,
Bob! Come on, i have dumplings to-
night"
Ever since Robert had given his
consent to my plan, had taken more
than my usual pains to have the house
clean and dainty, the meals well
cooked. and the food he liked. /
would not allow him to say even once
that I neglected him for my work, or
that he knew could not do both wen.
Lets start keeping books. Robert.
I think we should now that We are
both earners. Let US try to save all
we can and still be comfortable"
now had another plan in my mind.
almost before / had tried the present
one. But 1t was plan for the future.
perhaps a distant future, and would
take money.
'All right, Gerry. anything to please
you. But dear. I don't want you to &c
without pretty things-like you used
to have-to save out of what you
earn"
/ This was almost an obseSsion with
Robert-this idea that to be happy 4
must have the same sort of clothes ]
wore when / was head saleswoman n
a fashionable shop where they were
part of my necessary equipment But
like most men. he had no idea of the
real cost Of women's clothes; so a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
HOW PALMER BOOSTED SUGAR

Herbert Hoover, who should know
about such things, places the respon-
sibility for the high price OF sugar at
The big advance came when the at
torney general fixed the price for the
Louisiana producers at IT cents He
now is trying to square himself by or
dering the prosecution OF profiteers.
Technically, Attorney General Pal
mer may claim that he did not fix the
price of the Louisiana sugar crop at Z
cents a pound. Just what he did do,
says the Western Confectioner. was to
notify the Louisiana people that altho
the beet sugar men must not take over
nine cents a pound the Louisiana men
would not be prosecuted for profiteer-
ing if they extorted IT cents a pound
And that they proceeded to do. The
Confectioner continues:
'Palmer did not affirmatively fix
the price at IT cents. BY violation OF
his oath of office to enforce the laws
of the United States he by negation
accomplished his purpose"
! When Palmer promised immunity to
Louisiana people we were buying Gu
ban sugar at between six and seven
cents pound, which was about dou.
BILE what they had been. accustomed tc
receive and satisfactory. The moment
Palmer fixed the price OF sugar at II
cents the Cubans promptly raised
their price to meet it. and this country
is paying IT cents a pound today and
is likely to do so indefinitely. The ex
ira cost to the people of the United
States will be more than a billion dol
lars.
II nine cents was fair price fol
sugar anywhere in the country it wa.
a fair price everywhere. Louisiana
planters claim that II cents to then
was not profiteering because they has
n crop failure. They might havi
added that It is never possible to rails
cane sugar in Louisiana at a profit.
Farmers ALSO had a crop failure II
the Dakotas. but the attorney genera
did not try to get them five dollars
'bushel for their wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18

Congress continues. to indulge in
horse play" over the question of
peace. The house passed a resolution
declaring the war at an end The
senate passed another resolution haV-
ing similar purport. The two reso-
lutions now are in conference. There
is little doubt that an agreement will
be reached and a peace resolution will
be passed and sent TO the president
for his approval. Members Of both
houses are convinced that the presi-
dent will veto the measure. Also they
feel certain that they cannot in either
house muster a sufficient number of
votes TO override the veto. What
then is the object of spending a lot of
time over a fruitless bit of Legislation
something that can get nowhere?
The answer is politics. An election of
a president and a new congress is ap-
preaching and both parties hope to
gain an advantage. Meanwhile need
cd legislation, such ss-the budget bill,
is being neglected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
George MatthewA Adams
Daily Talk
A LETTER.

A LETTER.
About twenty years ago, when I was
junior in college, 1 arrived at a
point where 1 didn't know what TO
door where to go. Things looked
dark. 1 was discouraged needed
something and somebody to bolster
me up.
Then I remembered a man whom
had heard speak and who had in
spired me. 1 wrote him and asked
him what I ought to do. The man
was DIR. Stephen A. Northrop, a min
lister in Kansas City. His reply was
the means. of turning the whole course
of my life, and his fine influence has
inspired me thru all these years. And
so I believe that IL I reproduce that
letter exactly as he sent ii to me, IL
will help thousands of others as ii did
me.
My Dear Adams:
Your letter is mine. Will take a
moment before the rush of the day is
at hand, to reply. 1 do not know just
what to say to you. I will write you,
however. is if you were my own boy.
THE city is crowded with eager
men. facing the fearful odds of life.
and many of them are not well
equipped for its responsibilities. The
great need in commercial, business
and professional life today is for all
too many in the market places with
fringes and ragged edges; in other
words, an incomplete life
You can guess what 1 am aiming
at 1t will be the bane of your life.
the regret of all time with you. be-
cause you did not finish SOMETHING.
You will be sorry you did not have
the nerve and the force to complete
your college course. Brother. BAT
TIE 1T OUT TO THE FINISH
STAND BY THE GUNS TILL YOU
CAN LOAD AND RELOAD FOR THE
lGREATEST CONFLICT OF ALL
THE CENTURIES. GO THRU your
course, Be patient, Do not get un-
easy for the strifel You will have 20
work hard enough and long enough
as il is. You have the qualification
naturai-for a winner: plus culture
you will be more than winfer-a
conqueror, But count on me in what
ever you do, Faithfully yours.
STEPHEN A. SORTHRcP-"
Ten times more do these times call
| for well-rounded men Now read
Doctor Sorthrop's letter over again
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the roads increased 1851 per cent over
1915. while costs went up 1910 per
cent. The largest item in the higher
cost has been the increase in wages.
The question at issue is. where shall
the proposed billion dollar increase in
railroad revenues go? Are the people
to receive it in the form OF improved
transportation, or are the brother
hoods to receive it in the form of high
err wages? If the people are to be
called upon to pay the brotherhood
men billion dollars, why not pay it
direct, without passing it thru the
hands OF the railroad officials?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-18
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

YOC.
What if another doesn't see
That shady little trick you do,
What If you gain the victory
And men award its prize TO you
And think by skill you gained the crown,
There is one voice you cannot down
One little voice inside your breast
That never gives you any rest.
What IL the whole world you deceive
And take its glory and its pelf.
This thought must ever make you grieve-
You have no power to cheat yourself.
Tho no one else knows how you won,
Or just what little trick was done.
And strangers praise you as you go,
Deep down within your breast. you know.
What If dishonor leaves stain,
And all your friends shall think you fair,
If you have sold the truth for gain.
Think you that you shall cease to care
Tho prize you hold will jeer at you:
Il mark the hour you were untruei
A constant witness from the shelf
You fooled the world, but not yourself.
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Guest)
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Dorothy Dix Talks
Danger Ahead, LADIES'.
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

Danger Anea0, lAu1eS-2.
He who was a loving husband and
father, snaps and snarls at his woman
kind If they so much as venture an
opinion about the rate of speed they
are going. He who never makes a
move in business without getting his
wife's good, hard, horse sense on the
trade, looks bloody murder at her If
she reminds him that q certain road
is shut off for repairs, or that the Blue
Book says that you turn to the left in
stead of the right to go to SQueedunk.
AS for making suggestions to a man
who is trying to diagnose the case of
a temperamental machine that has
suddenly stuck, or entering into pleas
ant and cheerful conversation with
one who is changing the tire of a
wheel-well, that is something that
no sane woman ever does a second
time. 1t. makes her shudder to her
dying day to recall the short, sharp,
ugly word that her erstwhile chival-
rous and devoted husband flung at
her, and the baleful look that accom-
pjanied 1t.
That is why. when you see a car in
trouble by the roadside and a grim,
perspiring man with damn written
all over him tinkering with it, you will
also observe that the ladies of his
party are gathering wild flowers, or
are gazing raptly at the view. or 9TH
erwise communing in silence with ma
ture instead of helping the toiler with
his task or sustaining him with their
presence. Safety first.
But just as the automobile has a
deteriorating influence on the charac-
ter of men, it has an uplifting one
on that of women. In a few brief
years the motor car has done more
to teach women self control, and pa
tience and humility, and especially to
hold their tongues, than all the moral
lists and preachers have effected in
all the centuries. Indeed. it is not
too much to claim that the auto is
raising up q generation of women who
are as meek as Patient Griselda, who
have learned not to speak until they
are spoken to when they are out
riding with their husbands, and who
have achieved the supreme grace of
being able to refrain from audible
criticism when hubby finds out that
the reason the machine won't go is
| because it is out of gas instead OF
| having broken some vital part.
The attitude of a man when driving
| a car, and also the, sane and safe at
titude>of the woman towards the man
under the existing circumstances, be-
| ing matters of common knowledge, il
| is hard to feel any sympathy for the
wife whose husband beat her up for
| laughing at him because he couldn't
make balky automobile go. Courage
| is one thing. Foolhardiness is an
| other. Any woman who gets funny
with a man who is monkeying with
an automobile does so at her peril
and deserves the consequences