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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25
Father Interferes


Dear Cynthia--I am a young man Of
twenty-one and in love with a girl one
year younger than myself | love her
dearly and she says she loves me. But
there is one thing which spoils our
friendship. and that Is that her father
once treated me very discourteously and
does not allow me to visit her. Although
my relations and hers are very friendly
and we visit each other frequently | am
not permitted to see her and she is not
allowed 70 see me. Her father just can't
stand me, but | cant see why he de
prives his daughter Of her happiness. We
have loved one another six years
UNHAPPY.
Why not call on her father and ask
him what he has against you? Perhaps
II is something you can explain or per.
haps you have been unknowingly rude
to him. There Is no harm in finding
out just where YOU stand. II he remains
obdurate YOU can only wait till you
are both older and free to marry II you
so desire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25

ing forward to this
walk with Miss
Eve Rochester.
Best d g S. the
White Lodge was
a place he partic-
ularly wanted to
avoid. 1t h o ! d
unhappy memories
for him. 1t al
ways would.
ooh, here you
arc. That's fine ~
Eve slipp d a
possoss;ye n n l
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25
CHAPTER vi
IL Am Putting Her in Your
Charge."

A BOvE the rattle of the car and the
n tapping Of the worn out side cur
tains Nancy could finally hear the roar
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25
Please Tell Me
What to Do
nv CYNTHIA
To HwIee Guvv
by CYNTHIA

To "Wlse Guy"
Just keep on looking, wise Guy" and
YOU will find your ideal girl some day
You are still young and can afford to
work and save now, so that when you
do meet her you will be able to offer
her your love and home TO back 1t UP.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25
He "Stood Them upn

Dear Cruthia--Wc are constant readr
ers Of this valuable column, but We
have never written TO you for advice
before. We are both in our teens and
we don't find Il difficult To make friends
with either sex We met a young tel.
low few weeks ago. and we think lie
is very nice fellow. He took liking
to one Of us and made date, but never
liked another girl better than the one he
had the date with. DO you think he
owes us an explanation about standing
US up? The girl he had the date with
lkes him very much and would not like
E'Sntblao 0' '
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25
RORRIE AND EGL.EEY

The young man was certainly very
ruue not to Keep his engagement with
you and owes IN apology for not doing
SO put the fact that he likes some one
else better is nothing against your
naNinr him for a friend. too We cannot
al Ike all our friends in the same dc.
gree some We like better than Others.
ana ana so Il will b. the world around.
simply be natural and polite IL the
young man apologies. and IL he docs
not let him alone
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25

For names OF shops address Woman's Pag,
Editor or Phone Walnut or Maine 5000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-25

Continued Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LElE PAPE

We all went in the dining room to
eat suppir Friday. me feeling exter
hungry and wondering wat we was
going to have. and wat did Nora bring
in but a big thing full of cut UP fish,
me saying. Aw heck. fish.
Benny, how merny times must. I
tell you If you don't like a thing to
keep strickly quiet about it: sed ma.
Well gosh G, ma, all I sed was Aw
heck, fish, if I started to say every
thing I really thawt about fish it would
take me from now 10 the middle of
next week, sed.
Never mind eny long explanations.
if you don't wunt envy fish you don't
need to eat eny, but never mind ex-
pressing eny opinions one way Or the
other, sed ma.
And she started to put some fish on
pops plate, and = sed, I haven't got
enyth.ng agenst fish. fish would be
all rite If they dident look SO funny.
but nuthing looks as funny as a ded
fish.
Father, make him<stop. sed my sis
ter Gladdis.
Benny, would you injoy being sent
away from the table, 50 you could be
as far away frum the fish as possible
sed pop.
No. sir. I sed. And ma started to
put some fish ON Giaddises plate. me
saying, I dident say 1 had enything
personal agenst fishes. they'd be al.
rite if they lived on land ware peepIe
could see wat they was doing, but
how do we know wat they're SWIM
ming GROUND in down in the bottom
of river in the mud and everything,
how do we know wat things people
throw in the river?
One more werd on eny subjeck and
you leeve the table, sed pop.
Yes sir, 1 sed. Meening that was
all was going to say.
WITCH 1 was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
Local Mention

james Goodheart of Denver, chap
lain of the grand lodge of Colorado,
A. F. and A. NJ, will be the speaker
at the Y. NJ. c. A. lecture next Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Orpheum
theater.
Liberty bonds. Phone Kleinhans.
ADV.
Try Chi-Namel furniture polish 1t
does not leave the surface greasy; at
c. NJ. Hill & Son, S26 Kansas Ave.
ADV.
Bishop James Wise spoke to the
members of the Military Sisterhood at
the home of Mrs. c. l. Martin, 1907
Tyler street, Tuesday afternoon.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone
5o50.-Adv.
Raymond. Chiropodist. Orpheum Bldg
Adv.
The Rev. w. c. Conwell of Omaha,
Neb., is conducting revival services at
the Mount Olive NJ. e. church this
week. Special music in connection
with the meetings includes folk songs.
Eat at the Y. W. c. "A. Seventh and
Van Buren,. Open to men and women.
Breakfast 7:15-S; dinner 11:30-1:30;
supper 5:15-6:45.-Ady.
Dr. Lyngar. Dentist. SOC Kansas Ave.
ADV.
New officers installed at a recent
meeting of the w. re. No. 81, by
Mrs. Dora Candy. past department
president. Were: Martha Fitzgerald,
president; Blanche Whitmer, vice
president; Anna Baughman, Junior
vice president; Sella Staten, treasurer;
Viola Crouch, chaplin; Nettie Schlegel,
guard; Nancy Kline, secretary; Edith
Supple. patriotic Instructor; Lola B.
Goodwin. press correspondence Flor
enee Williams. musician; Byrd Har-
giss. assistant conductor; Lizzie Dick
son. assistant guard; Alice Adds JEFF
fry, first color bearer; Kate Grindel,
second color bearer; Della Suney,
third color bearer, Eva Bradley. fourth
color bearer; Martha Candy, post
councillor.
Art Lamp Shop. 923 Kansas ave.
Cover Jones & Birch.)-AdY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Time-Limit of Youth.

A correspondent wants to know at
what age a woman should give up the
night to appear younger than she is,
and frankly surrender to age.
Are paints, and powder, and trans
formations virtue up to a certain
point. and the unforgivable sin after
wards?" she asks.
This is difficult question to an
sWer, because no woman on the sunny
side of ninety ever admits to being
anything but mere girl, and, there
fore, while she would agree that it was
foolish for other old sheep to camou-
flage lambhood, she would have no
doubt but that she could do it and get
away with it, without rousing a sus-
picion in the breast of the beholder.
Admitting. however, that there are
women who, in the privacy of their
boudoirs, look into their mirrors and
behold all of their fifty-odd years star
ing them in the face, what shall they
do? Shall they do and dye. or be griz-
,zled-headed? Shall they paint or leave
their countenances as weather-beaten
as time had made them?
1t seems to me that the whole ques-
ton of the ethics of cosmetics depends
upon whether the results are artistic
or not. If a touch of rouge, discreet
ly applied, makes a sallow cheek rosy /;
IL a little dash of peroxide puts a CLINT
of gold into mouse-colored hair and
turns home1y woman into one who is
easy on the eyes instead of being a
scarecrow, then it is a highly moral
and philanthropic act for the said wo-
| man to have recourse to such adven-
titious aids to beauty.
But, on the other hand, cosmetics
improperly applied are highly immoral
and Objectionable. However, 1t be-
hooves the woman to be very sure that
the end will justify the means before
she dips her hand into the paint pot,
and gets busy with the hair-dye bottle.
And that is what the woman who
tries to keep the Illusion of youth, aft
err youth has fled, is too apt to do.
Youth means so much to a woman
that no one can blame her for hang
| ing on to it with both hands, as long as
there is a shred of it left, but the i'm
portant thing for her to realize is that
there does come a time when it is
gone, and that she only emphasizes its
loss by pretending that she has it still.
No hair looks SO old as dyed hair.
: No cheeks look SO withered as those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
RACE CIRCUIT is PLANNED
Kansas and Oklahoma Association To
Make State and County Fairs.

The Kansas and Oklahoma Racing
Circuit association met today noon at
the Chamber of Commerce and organ
lied the circuit for the year 1921.
Eight county and two state fairs will
be on the circuit, and the entries and
races will be made public on July 1.
L. G. Jennings, prominent race horse
owner of Anthony, was elected presi-
dent of the association, and S. S. Beat
tie of lola was elected secretary.
The circuit will make the state
fairs at Topeka and Hutchinson, on
September 18th and goth, respectively.
The county fair at Anthony, will be
the first stop of the circuit, in August.
Fredonia. Eureka, lola, and Ottawa,
are next in order. After making the
Topeka and Hutchinson fairs, the
racers and their horses will go to Okla
homa City, Okla, and Chanute, Kan,
in the same week, of September 27th.
Uniontown, Kan, and Muskogee,
Okla, will be the final stops of the
circuit.
About forty members of the associa-
ton were present at the meeting. All
were race horse owners. secretaries of
county and state fairs, jockeys or race
horse drivers. The association enters
both harness and running races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
REeullTI0N Of AVIATION
Senator Howard Would Provide for
Flying Control in Kansas.

State regulation of aviation is pro-
vided for. with the creation of an
aviation department of the state gov
eminent, in a bill which is to be in
troduced in the Kansas senate at the
present session by SEN. r. c. Howard,
of Arkansas City, editor of the Arkan-
sas City Traveller. for the past thirty
years. Howard is serving his first
term in the senate, but has been in
the representatives end of the state
Howard's bill viii provide for avia-
ton fields at various points in the
state, under state regulation; the IL
censing of pilots in the state under
rules to be set forth by the aviation
department, and inspection of all
planes by state inspectors.
Howard will also introduce bill
providing for the issuance of bonds by
cities of the second class for the con-
struction of incineration plants.
| Before coming OF Topeka, Howard
announced his intention of presenting
a bill closing the season on all game.
forever, in Kansas. and forbidding it
to be hunted with any other weapons
than a bow and arrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12

The cause for the sudden reversal
in general business conditions during
1920 is stated by John Moody, finan-
cial statistician, to have been that
prices OF commodities advanced more
rapidly than per capita incomes. The
outlook for 1921 is said to be construc-
tive rather than destructive and a
rather optimistic note is struck in the
statement that while seemingly a par
adox. greater real prosperity might ex-
list during long period of declining
costs than during a period of boom
prosperity. The restoration of the
price levels of 1914 would result in
the public getting down to work and
it is pointed out that it is efficient
production that builds up civilized
scouutries--not speculation-and that
the next revival will be a real revival,
not a speculative mania. Altho the
ultimate consumer is coming into his
own again, the deflation process has
brought, and is bringing, disaster to
many and the situation may grow
more acute as the new year wears
on. However, even on lower wages.
the worker. if employed, is better off
than before as a result of the increase
in buying power of the dollar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
TUST.FOLKS
OLD YEARS AND NEM.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

OLD YEARS AND NEW.
Old years and new years, all blended into
one,
The best of what there is to be, the best
of what is gone.
Let's bury all the failures in the dim and
dusty past
And keep the smiles of friendship and
laughter to the last.
Old years and new years, ~life's in the
making still,
We haven't come to glory vet but there's
the hope will;
The dead old year was twelve months long,
but now from it we're free
And what's one year of good or bad to all
the years to be.
Old years and new years, we need them
one and all
To reach the dome of character and build
its shelterfng wall;
Past failures tried the souls of u.s. but If
their tests we stood,
The sum OF what We are to be wet be
counted good.
Old years and new years, with all their
pain and strife.
Are but the bricks and steel and stone with
which we fashion life;
So put the sin and shame away, and keen
the fine and true
And on the glory of the past let's build
the better new.
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
Questions-Ansuers

Q; conduct small business. My
husband. works when possible. For .pur-
counted? We have one dependent child.
j. S.
A. File an income tax return stating all
will be exempted from paying income. tax
ON $1,000, the $500 exception being for
your dependent child. haf..'
z. When an official altitude record is
given is it meant that it is so many Rect
above the surfing point or above sea
A. The Air Service says that an official
altitude record is reckoned from sea Level.
O. What percentage is required to. pass
the railway mail clerk test Wv. L. NJ.
A. The Civil Service Commission SAYS
$50 is required for ex-service men Il ana
I0% for others in passing the railway mali
Q. Does Il captain in the army receive
the same pay as a captain in the navy!-
A. The rank of captain in the army
is not the same as captain in the navy
An army captain and a navy senior lieu
tenant receive the same salary while the
pay OF an army colonel and navy captain
9. What kind of drin should be ''i used
to make a hole thru porcelain? Thru
A; The Bureau of Standards says for
drilling porcelain, an ordinary twist drill
and should have low pitch. The porcelain
should be kept wet with turpentine. The
same procedure can be used in drilling
Q. How fast, does a canvasbaek duck
fly: Also teal duck and Canada goose :!
A. 1t Is estimated that the speed of the
eanyasback duck in 9s miles per hour ;
the the blue wing teal duck. 50 miles and the
biological Survey says these speeds are
probably in excess of average flights.
@; Give date of the Iroquois Fire? &c
A. The fire which Destroyed the Iro-
quois theater in Chicago occurred on
December 80, 1908
@. Are banks allowed to sell money for
more than it is worth, such as the PHI
grim half dollar?-G. b. s.
A. 1t is legal for memorial coins to be
sold for more than their face value.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
HANCOCK IS MENTIONED
Street Commissioner Urged To Mako
Race for Mayor.

One of the latest suggestions for
candidate for mayor at the spring cleo
ton is w. S. Hancock. commissioner
of streets. A number of citizens have
been urging Commissioner Hancock to
enter the race. Hancock refuses to
consider the proposal.
81 wouldn't have the mayors Job on
a platter-well seasoned" Hancock
said this morning. mot that do
not appreciate the honor. but l feel
that my work has never been in a
more satisfactory condition and L
would not like to give it up at present
to take any other job 1 know that I
am worth more to the city as street
commissioner than could possibly be
as mayor. I have nearly seventy-five
blocks of paving to put in and would
not like to release the job to any one
else"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12

The farmers of South Dakota plan,
by cooperative effort, made possible
because of a tremendous buying pow
err. to eliminate the practice of prof
iteering in the commodities which they
are obliged to purchase. To this end
they are establishing a chain of CO.
operative stores, with a central dis
tributing depot. which are to serve
as supply houses, and in the conduct
of which the farmers will share any
profits or losses. Perhaps, in time, the
South Dakota farmers viii discover, as
farmers in certain other sections of
the country already have discovered,
that a much greater power for their
own good rests in cooperative selling
rather than in cooperative buying.
When the farmer can fix the price of
what he has to sell and take unto
himself the profits, he can afford to
let the other man do the same because
his return can be based on the cost of
production and not on another's will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
REVIVE DEATH PENALTY
Increase of Homicidcs Arouses Sena-
tor Coleman to State Action.

If a bill which is scheduled to be
introduced in the senate by Rolla Cole
man, senator from johnson county, is
passed, Kansas will abandon the ira
dition which for nearly half century
has prevented the awarding of capital
punishment in this state for any crime.
The revival of the death penalty for
first degree murder is incorporated in
the bill, which is to be introduced on
account of the increasing number of
homicides in the state in the past few
years.
Kansas had a law providing for
capital punishment at one time, which
has since been repealed. For many
years before it was repealed. no gov
erEor would sign a death warrant, and
the state has led the Union in the
abolition of the death penalty.
Coleman plans to introduce only two
bills during the senate meeting. The
revival OF the death penalty is one,
and the other is for an increase in the
pay of court stenographers of the
state, who now receive only s125 a
month, and are required to pay their
own travelling expenSes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
KANSAS RETAILERS TO MEET
Members of Board of Directors Plan
For State Convention.

The members of the board of d.
rectors of the Kansas Retail Merchants
association. held their regular quarter
ly meeting this afternoon at the Cham
Der of Commerce. A full membership
of the board was present and plans
for the state convention, which is to
be held at Newton, on March 1924.
were discussed. A discussion also
took place. concerning the organiza-
ton Of the retail business of the state
'Ali we are asking from the iegisla-
tors is that they will give us square
DEAL and not put over any Bolshevik
bills on u.s." said Dale A. Resing, sec
rotary of the association and editor of
the price Current" a retail maya
zine -....,
The following members of the board
of directors We're in attendance at the
meeting: Samuel Rotl,weiler, Bison.
kan, president; A. o. Wheeler. Pitts
burg, first vice president; Edward
Dorsey, Ottawa; A. l.. Archer, Well
ington; Louis 7. Bang, Emporia: g.
c. J. Mccarthy. Ernporia, and C. B.
Crosby of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY.
Mrs. Lizzie Dickerson Asks for Divorc
from Charles Dickerson..

Two years of cruelty and abuse were
enough for Mrs. Lizzie Diekerson, ac-
cording to her petition filed in the
district court today asking a divorce
from Charles Dickerson. Of Liberal,
Kan.
two years she was abused and called
insulting names by her husband and
that one time he struck her, knocking
her down. She say she has failed to
provide for her and that she was COM
PEELED to leave home and go to work
to support herself.
There are three small children, ac-
cording to the petition. Mrs. Dicker-
son filed a motion for temporary ali
mony, which she asks be made per-
manent upon final hearing of the
case. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
SANTA FE NOTES
Notes and personals by Mrs. III.
Wadleigh. Phone 468s HI or $3.50.

Mrs. A. D. Watts of Emmett street has
gone to Wichita, Kan, to visit her daugl-
ter, Mrs. Fred Chambers, and Mr. Cham
bers, and her son, Mr.. Hillary Watts, and
Mrs. Watts.
Mrs. w. W. Haggard and little son, Billy,
of WiHslow, Ariz., are visiting ffr. Hag-
CARDS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W, J. Hag-
gard. in Wilson avenue.
Miss Rose Deshler is a new employee of
the general offices.
Mr.. C. E. Baker of Greeley street, has
been called to Wichita, Kan, by the serious
illness of his sister
Mrs. A W. Berry, who has been quite i'll
the past two weeks at the home of Mrs
w. J. Haggard. in Wilson avenue, is recov-
erfng and expects to return to her home in
West Sixth avenue next Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
NO SMOKES TO MINORS
New Chief of Police Declares War on
Sale of Cigarets to Youths.

Frank Leech, chief of police, has
declared war on minors who smoke
cigarets and the dealers who sell them
to minors. Tuesday six boys were
brought to police headquarters and
given lectures by Chief Leech and Po-
lice Judge Rad Lee. Officers have
been given instructions to pick up all
boys under FL years old seen smoking
cigarets. Leech says there is a law
under which minors can be punished
for smoking cigarets and that he in
tends to enforce it.
Enforcement of the motor traffic
laws will also be strict in the future.
Leech said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-12
ELECT TWO NEW DIRECTORS.
Kansas Reserve Investment Compan,
Holds Annual Meeting.

o. G. Duff and Arthur j. Carruth.
Jr., were elected directors in the Kan
sas Reserve Investment company at
the annual meeting of the directors of
that organization Tuesday night.
of the investment eompany other Of
ficers reelected were Earl Akers and
George Godfrey Moore, vice presi-
dents; George @. Thompson, secretary,
and f. C. Mueller, treasurer. Direc-
tors in addition to those mentioned are
+. A. Anton, F. P. MacLennaH, w. w.
Strickla nd, Frank L. Travis, DR.. C. r.
silverthorne, Ed F. Grote and G. L.
Jordan