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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIT DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Husband Testing.-1

A young woman writes:
Can you tell me any way by which
a girl can tell what sort of a husband
a man will make? 1t is not enough
to know that man is moral. and up
right, and industrious, for I have OBJ
served that many men who are models
of all the virtues as men, are also hor-
rible warnings against what a husband
should be.
Nor is it enough for a man to be
charming, and companionable, and
generous, for l have seen many a man
who was a fascinator before marriage
turn into dummy after marriage,
and more than one of my friends is
pinching and econOmizing TO pay for
the presents her husband lavished on
her when he was counting her.
It's no particular trick to judge
men, but how can girl tell what kind
of a husband a man will maker"
She can't. There is no acid test
that is infallible that you can apply
to a man, and see what sort of hus-
band material he is, for there are good
men who are bad husbands, and bad
men who are good husbands, and how
a man will react to 1natrimony is one
of the mysteries that nobody can
solve.
Granting. however. that girl has
let her fancy fall upon one who is a
gentleman and a regular fellow. there
are several small tests that she may
use which will go a long ways to-
wards giving her his number as a
husband.
First let her observe his attitude
towards and those under him. Let
her take note of whether he. is gen.
ial, and kindly, and human towards
walters, and taxi cab drivers. and
street car conductors, and the others
that serve him, or whether he is ar
rogant, and insolent, and overbearing
with them. Nothing will give her a
better idea of how he will treat his
wife.
A sweetheart may be a goddess on
a pedestal and worshiped as such, but
the minute she becomes a mans wife
she climbs down and off and becomes
his dependent. She is in his grip. He
can treat her pretty much as he
pleases. His attitude towards her
makes her happiness or her misery,
and if she wants to know whether he
will be kind to her, and tender, and
considerate she can find out by seeing
how he treats others who are. in his
power.
No man can have a finer testi-
monial to his character than to be
adored bl chambermaids. and be a
hero to his office boy, and to have
those who serve him do it with a
smile Nor is there any condemnation
of a man more sweeping than for him
to be hated and feared by his en-
ployes.
Second, observe your man closely
when he takes you out to a restaurant.
Marry no man who does not like to
eat because the cooking stove is a
wife's best friend, and she can con-
jure more with a good dinner than
she can with all the arts of all the
sirens, but there is a difference be-
tween the man who enjoys his food.
and the man who is pernickity
about it.
Copyright 1919, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
Dinner Stories

''What!' cried the careful house
wife. You charge me a shilling a
pound for these apples?"
Yes, ma am" answered the polite
grocer. that is the very lowest price
we can sell them for"
''How is it that I can get them from
Todd's for eight pence them"
IT cannot say, rna'an1> Perhaps Mr..
Todd has taken a fancy to you. He is
a widower and you are beautiful. In
fortunately I-Yes'm two youngs?
Certainly
do you know what the hanging
committee have done?" said the first
artist. They've absolutely ruined my
picture by hanging it next to the worst
daub in the exhibition"
i've the same complaint" said the
second artist. 'I looked in yesterday
and found mine hanging beside q
frightful thing"
"How do you do, fellows?" said
artist number three, joining them. 1T
see they've hung your pictures side by
side this year"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
DEFEAT OF THE TREATY.

The thirty-nine United States sena-
tors who decided more than a year
ago that any treaty that President
Wilson might bring back from Yer
sailles should not be ratified have had
their way. The treaty has been de-
feated and an effort will be made to
paramount it as am issue in this years
campaign. It is doubtful that the peo-
pie can be aroused on the subject.
The League of Nations on which the
politicians split is working and will
continue to operate whether or not
the United States become party to
it. A majority of the nations of the
earth has enlisted under its banner.
Opponents OF the president have set
up as a reason for their opposition to
the treaty the patriotic fear that this
country might be driven into a war
against it's will and did this in face Of
the fact that the whole purpose of the
league is to prevent any nation from
being forced into a war.
The United States simply has lost
an opportunity, temporarily at least,
OF being a party to a world policy
which 1t has urged and fostered for
years.
There can be little doubt that any
form Of treaty which President Will
son might have brought back would
have proved equally unacceptable to
the Lodges. Borahs and Johnsons.
But these gentlemen will experience
much difficulty in working the public
f.,k@ L. MI.
people have seen thru the treaty fight
from its beginning and know that no
principle which concerns them has
been involved.
The League of Nations can function
without the aid of America and
America can get along without the
League of Nations; or with it when
she decides to become a member
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lust FOLKS
so EASY TO COMPLAIN.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

so EASY TO COMPLAIN.
It's the easiest thing In the world to COM
plain,
The grumbIer can always find reason to
one cloud in the sky is an omen OF rain,
But why should we fret if the weather
is fine:
Fault findings the easiest thing we can do.
It's seldom that things can be rated at
But what the worlds wanting of me and Of
Is to try and be cheerful with things as
they are
There's many flaw in the pleasures we
There's many thorn on the stem of the
Life never makes perfect the pathway OF
There are troubles to meet him wherever
he goes
The wilmer can always find reason to
whine.
The worst we can see when the best
seems afar.
There are bound to be days when the sun
So try to be cheerful with things as
they are.
1t is easy TO grumble and find fault and
1t is easy to criticize manners and men
The cynies can tell what Is wrong with
And the scoffers are ready with tongue
Btu here's to the man with the courage to
The joys which exist. not the faiIings
which mar.
Who looks for the best and is trying to be
Contented. and cheerful with things as
Copyright Sp at 1920 by Edgar A, Guest.
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Earned
GERRY BEGINS TO WONDER.
CHAPTER 60.


Robert took the position with Burch
& Company, a small sporting goods
house, but where-after talking over
with him imagined he might have
a. better chance to advance than in
larger place.
1 could not get him at all enthused,
however. and in way it discouraged
me- I had made up my mind by this
time that Robert never would be
success financially. Added to my love
for him had come feeling similar, l
imagined, to that a mother has for d
child who is either mentally or phys
lcally deficient. 1 felt-like mothering
him, as if he were child dependent
upon me.
This feeling induced another-that
must treat him as a child, and not
take what he did too seriously. 1 found
myself thinking this whenever Mar
ion Hovey came into my mind. loved
Robert completely. He had been the
one man in my life. 1 was sure he
loved me, that he had been playing
around with Marion Hovey because
he was depressed. ashamed because he
had not made good, and that he went
there because he could forget Marion
was a silly little thing, knew nothing
beyond housekeeping and cooking. She
thoughts of his inferiority away, and
SO he would of course enjoy being
with her.
Yet even as 1 thought all this, a
wave of jealousy swept over me.
While I was working hard to get
along, he often had given her the
time 1 felt belonged to me. But l
would not allow myself to play the
role of neglected wife-hardly even in
my thoughts; yet I often wondered
just WHY I could not make Robert
happy, WHY he was not contented to
remain at home with me as he had
been when we were first married :?
I had not changed-so I thought.
Later 1 learned that my manner had
become tinged with my own impor-
tance-to put it crudely-and that un-
consciously I made Robert feel it.
well, how about it2'' Mary asked.
about WHAT"
"Robert? Shall I speak to the
boss?"
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The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned Modern Sto.y OF Home and Business
BIZ JANE PHELPS
Blu JANE PHELPS
A Modern Sto.y OF

mo. He has position with Burch
& Company. Anyway, he told me
that he wouldn't work for Mr.. Leets."
Mary made no remark. simply
when she disapproved of anyone or
anything. Then:
Its rather a dinky firm. but per-
haps he'll have as good chance as
with a larger house." She always
tried to think of something encourag-
ing.
That's what I told him.
I'VE must all help brace him up.
He's had hard luck almost every since
you were marrfed-anyway after the
first six months. 1t is discouraging.
Would be for anybody. And then 1t is
hard to change places SO often, and
bosses-especially the bosses. I know.
Didn't 1 have a new one every little
while until Ma Game found out was
a little treasure? You don't know any
thing about it. how it makes one feel.
because you've never worked anywhere
but just here
1 was anxious for the day to end
anxious to talk with Robert. The sal
airy was pitifully small for man Of
his age, and 1 was afraid he would be
so discouraged because of it that he
would not try to do his best. 1 was
desperately anxious he should succeed
in this position: not because of the
L
slowly losing him, or rather. his con-
fidence. 1t hurt me. and I laid 1t to
his disappointment in not being able
TO care for me as he wanted to.
He was fond of going, too. When
we were first married we often went
to the -theater and concerts. But of
late We had gone nowhere together
If he went at all it was with Marion
Hovey. And 1 had been left at home
until in desperation at my lonely ev-
enings 1 had accepted Gardner Ken
yon's invitations. and gone out several
times with him.
Robert never seemed to mind. and
it was lonely sitting alone all the
evening after working hard all day.
Had l known that he didn't object to
anything 1 did because he felt he
couldn't when 1 was the Garner of the
family, I should not have gone quite
so eagerly, or-so often.
(To be continued
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk

lhL IIAODCSlIh.
Eventually, those who become solely
"spongers'' and users-up get into a
very unhappy frame of mind.
The producer is Natures useful
man.
If you want to be thrilled, dip up a
idea and develop it. Or formulate
a new plan or scheme for the better
ment of the immediate section of your
world. The world was never in such
need as now for men and women of
ideas.
The higher any civilization develops,
the greater does the opportunity for
the producer loom.
For the more angles to any PROPOSE
ton, the more chances are there for
improved ideas for each. Take such
inventions as the automobile and air
plane-every year finds them more
plane has entered its great sphere as
a commercial asset. And I'never see
the perfection with which these air
cars move, but I think of two
bicycle boys working over a crude
contraption in Dayton, Ohio.
1t doesn't matter so much what
you produce, so long as you produce
something worth while-and produce
to the full extent of your ability.
Two great producers in every coun-
try are the farmers and the school
teachers. And somehow, to date, the
least credit has seemed TO go to them
both.
Everyone should be a producer in
some way or other.
To leave your day better than you
found it. is to have produced There
is no finer production than that of a
good example - whether it be in
thought or action.
And to produce an influence that
people can't get away fronts there
anything in the way of job that is
more inspiring?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
WHY ELouR Is HIGH.

Last year there was a good deal of
talk in congress and out to the effect
that the government would be COM
make good the guaranty of $2.2s a
bushel for the farmers wheat.
Recently Julius Barnes, president of
the United States grain corporation,
boosted that the United States treas
ury would not be called upon to put
up a-penny to make good the wheat
guaranty. He showed proudly that
the United States Grain corporation
had proved so great a financial sue
cess that out of it's profits it could well
make a substantial contribution to
Starving Europe"
The manner in which these profits
were made may prove interesting. Mr.
Barnes in a letter to Mr.. McCulloch, of
Ohio, admitted that the Grain corpor-
alton bought wheat of the farmers at
the guaranteed, price and sold it to
The charge was made in congress that
the Grain corporation had in some in
stances made 30 cents a bushel profit
dealing in wheat.
Obviously, flour prices responded to
that kind of treatment and bread
prices did not lag behind. That is one
reason why the people of the United
States in time of peace and in a year
when their grain harvests were, with
one exception. the most abundant in
the country's history, are paying more
for bread than ever before.
The other reason points to the de-
llberate tying up of 100000 barrels
Of flour by the United States Grain
corporation. With a flourish and at
considerable expense for advertising.
Mr.. Barnes attacked the high cost of
living with surplus government flour.
He fixed a price about a cent a pound
, below the inflated prices for standard
makes of flour which the people are
accustomed to buy. The people did
not buy it.
This is the 10000 900 barrels of flour
which Mr.. Barnes wants to present TO
Europe. The gift represents two sacks
of flour for every family in the United
States.
OhuSI OEu4udIS BUSINESS manage
ment. says the Detroit News. this
wheat would not have been ground
without admiXture OF other grades,
for it is soft wheat and does not make
a quality of flour which the American
people like. But it suited the policy
Of the United States Grain corporation,
which. had in mind the great enter
prise of sparing the administration
wheat guaranty embarrassment.
Accordingly, the price of wheat ffss
! remained high. other grains have
been kept correspondingly high. Meat
prices follow grain prices. Living
costs depend upon costs of basic food
stuffs And the government of the
United States is fighting the high cost
of living. Everybody pays and nobody
| is benefited
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

steady and beautiful growth of the
city itself. There is no city in the
south which has more of the southern
charm and atmosphere. as many have
observed before. The squares and
parks filled with paimettos and live
oaks. the wide streets with rows OF
trees and of Towering shrubs dividing
them in two; the many fine and we'll
preserved examples of old time south
ern architecture in homes and
churches together with the clean sun
ny spaciousness of the city, give it
character typically southern and yet
all its own. And Savannah has some
how added modern business blocks
and hotels and all the other parapher-
MALTA of modern industrial city with
out in the least impairing this charm.
Business here has not abolished
beauty as it has in so many growing
American cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

The supreme court, so the Manufac-
turers Record says. has been making
history as well as building up conf
dence during the last two weeks. Its
verdict in the case of the United States
Steel Corporation, its decision on rail-
road valuation and its wise and just
determination of the stock dividend
case, it points out. constitute notice
TO business everywhere in the country
that justice has not fallen under the
spell OF radicalism; that the law will
be upheld. and that enterprise and
progress can still garner their just re-
wards. The country has needed con-
fidence, and tina. is what the supreme
court has given it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.
BY LEE PAPE.


Weather. Time to get warmer.
Spoarts. Sam Cross has gave up
trying to teetch his black and wife
baby fertile Sam Jr. to do tricks after
trying in vanefto teetch it to stand on
its tale, shake hands. and set up.
Exteri Lew Davis Is A Brother
Agen. There is another baby in Lew
Davises house. not being a serprize to
enybody exsept maybe itself. on ac-
count of everybody Expecting it. Lew
Davis says its hard to tell wat its go
ing to look like on account of its fee
lures not having eny speshil shape yet.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Loretter Mineer loves all kinds
of flowers, considering daisies the cut
est and roses the smelliest.
Sissfety. Mr.. Charles tPuds) Sim
llins was getting dressed last Thersday
morning before brekfist wen all of a
suddin he thawt he must be getting
thinner till he found he was axsidently
putting on his fathers belt insted Of
his own and insted of shrinking he was
getting fatter if possible.
Advertisement. Visiting cards print
ed, 10 sents a dozen. Ones with one
finger mark on, s sents a duzzon, ones
with or more finger marks. sents a
duzzon. See Artie Alexander
Lost. Nothing.
Found. The same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

most insidious kind. The laborer. the
clerk. those dependent on small in
comes from investment, and all whose
earnings are less than the exemption
allowed under the law, are not taxed
under the law. Few of them. per-
haps. realize that they are taxed at
all. This entire class. however, as well
as others with larger incomes. pays a
heavy toll each day for the necessities
OF life and would. if it realized the
fact, be among the strongest advocates
of excess profits tax repeal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

The house ways and means commit
tee. spurred on by the recent supreme
court decision, is manifesting a dis
position to take up the revision of the
revenue law. Chairman Kitchin still
Is insisting that the profiteers shall
bear the heavy end OF the burden. in
the face of the fact now well estab-
lished. that this class not only passes
the tax on down to the consumer but
that it makes use OF the law to in
crease its net profits. The> excess
profits tax is an indirect tax OF the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

1t is announced by the United States
grain administration that it is unable
10 sell a large quantity of flour now
on hand to the American people be-
cause of it's inferior grade. Similar
conditions are indicated by the reports
concerning the wool market and the
meat trade. 1t is explained that altho
the government is having trouble in
disposing OF its accumulated stocks of
wool. yet the market for wooden goods
continues high, this condition being
due TO the fact that Americans de-
cline to purchase goods made of the
coarser grades OF wool. The finer
grades OF wool continue high in price.
American workmen also decline to
buy the coarser grades of meat, and
Il is due to the demand for the higher
grades. it is claimed, that the prices
are maintained. 1t seems, therefore,
that those who complain most loudly
OF the high cost of living have the
remedy in their own hands The trou-
BILE seems to be that they want the best
OF everything while at the same time
doing less work and keeping their
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20

Mexico is reported to be preparing
permit the importation of arms and
munitions of war into that country.
Hilario Medina. Mexican subsecretary
OF foreign affairs. is said to have is
sued statement that as Mr.. Lansing
is no longer secretary OF state it is
probable the Mexican request will be
granted. Mr.. Colby has announced
himself as fully In accord with the
presidents Mexican policy, and wheth-
er he is confirmed as secretary of
state or not, it is practically certain
that the policy. OF ''watchful waiting"
will continue.
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Moulton Musings
BY ROY X. MoULToN.

A pastor tells US salvation is free.
He probably says that of salvation be-
cause he can't say it of anything else.
The slogan of borrowing European
nations is: "See America First"
Signing a receipt for two tons OF
coal that have come in a one-ton
truck also adds considerably to the
spirit of brotherhood in this country.
One of the main causes OF Boil
sheyism in this country is trying to
eat the toast that comes under the
mushrooms.