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New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

Right-CATHERINE
DALE OWEN, who is
appearing in Clare
Runners ne wes st
play, "The Mountain
Man." which was pre-
sented at the Maxine
Elliott Theatre last
Monday as the first
New York production
of Charles L. Wag-
ner. Sidney Black
mer takes the leading
male role. White.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

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week "Th Married Woman, by Chester Bailey Fernad the
the presented by the Norman Trevor
ducng corporation under of the sewyns Others
play which produced in London several
are Margaret Dale Stewart and Percy Waran.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

Above D O R I s
NJ A Y, the winsome
screen star Of the
R-C productions, is
interrupted by the
ubiquitous ca m era
man as she indulges
in the housewifely
task of pairing a col
ander of spuds in
the spick and span
kitchenette Of her
Hollywood bungalow.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
of MAKE-BELIEVE

Lett-LOUISE FA-
ZENDA. II this at
tractive young lady
Of our camera study
was coiRured with
kinky curls and at
tired in a calico you'd
doubtless recognize
her as the popular,
albeit homely, come
dienne Of the Educa-
tional Punch screen
comedies - but the
hairdresser's art pre-
sents her rs a dark
eyed, vivacious vamp.
SeeleU.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Satidday morning me and Loretter
Mincer was standing tawking about
| different things in particular, sutch as
who has the best times. boys or gerls,
and Mary Watkins went past on her
way to the store with a new hat on,
being a red tommo shanter over one
| ear but not the other, looking all rite,
and Loretter Mincer sed, My grayshiss
sutch a looking hat, it looks like a
munkeys hat, my hat is ever so
mulch more prettier than hers, don't
you think so, Benny?
| l don't know, l guess so, maybe, sure.
| i sed. Jest saying it to sound polite,
and Loretter Mincer sed, >Hee hee. you
certeny are u funny by saying her hat
looks like a munkeys hat, hee hee.
Hay. l dident say that, you sed that,
| l sad, and she sed, Well you admitted
it, dident you? and 1 sed. Yes, no, /
dident admit enything about mum
key, gosh, wat the heck.
Q, Benny Potts, you know yeu did,
| hee hee, sed Loretter Mincer.& And
Satidday aftirnoon Mary Watkins was
| s. nding on her frunt steps and I
started to axsidently wawk past to
tawk to her, saying, Hello Mary, and
| she sed, Don't you dare to tawk to
me?
G, wy not, gosh? I sed, and she
sed, 1 herd all about how you sed my
hat looks like a munkey hat ana Lo-
lretter Mincers hat is mitch more pref
| tier.
Wy I did not, that a big story and
a fearse lie, L never sed a werd about
a munkey, / sed.
o then you admit you sed her hat
was mulch more. prettier, de=yon? sed
| Mary Watkins. *
Aw, I dident say a werd,sI inesn
dident hardly say enything, 1 meen
wat the heck, dident nleen it, meen
l dident say it holeys G, that's fearse, L
7 sed.
I should say it is, sed Mary watkins
And she wawked in the house mad and
proud and 1 went home thinking,
Holey smoaks, darn it, heck, watts you
know about that.
Proving the .ony safe way to tawk
| to gerls is to Jest lissen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
CONFIDENCE.

At a big convention of statesmen of
the National Cash Register company,
representatives from all parts of the
United States as we'll as from foreign
countries voiced a sentiment of cour-
age and confidence. In a speech by
f. J. Edwards of New York, known
as a newspaper correspondent as
"Holland," he used the following ten
short. terse, pointed paragraphs:
1--WE can all look forward to a re-
turn to normal business in the spring.
This nation has nothing to fear.
The condition of its basic Industries is
good.
Agriculture, mining. transportation
and commerce are on sound basis.
you cannot have so stupendous
crops as those produced in this nation
and have stagnation.
"You can have the assurance of i'm
mediate activity iii your territories
Depression will not last long il we
face the future with courage.
There may be temporary difficult
ties, but they will soon pass.
you can look to the future with
confidence.
''You can go forth from this con-
ution secure in the knowledge that
sound business conditions are here
with consistent hard work you will
double your business within very
few years"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

alleviated his pain. but it did not
cure. He heard the vbice of his love
in the softest bird song-he Thought
of her in the daytime and he dreamed
of her at night He lost many a good
shot because he was day dreaming
and he bore the chatting of his COM,
panions with -equaninaity. Dick Lati-
rner left him severely alone. One
fire, waiting fer the others who had
trarnped off for the mail and seine ad-
ditional supplies.
The two men sat in silence for half
an hour, smoking deep in thought.
Once or twice Gavis raped his pipe
against log and refilled it; Latimer
was smoking eigarets in his extrava-
CANT way. tossing them aside half
consumed. He regarded Gavis from
under dropping lids. At last he spoke:
Looking rather seedy, old chap.
Gavis grinned. mot up here,
wishing you might land a big trout
tomorrow, Ell? Maybe you're just
eat?s
seTreut would be good" admitted
Gavis. Think I'll try the upper stream
tomorrow"
Dick yawned 'Better take my
wishing ring along for good luck
he volunteered. ar-es--
wishing ring?"
Latimer twisted ring from his
little finger and tossed it to Gayis.
"onee belonged to an East Indian
head on it? Man who sold 1t told
me if one wished on it, good and
proper, wish would come true. Awful
rot, eh?''
"Once-wished I'd never lose it, and
l haven't, SO far
Dick watched Beb's face as he ex-
amfned the ring; the glow from the
campfire gave it fictitious color, but
it betrayed the lines about the eyes
the brown hair. He thought of the
girl he loved and who was going to
marry him soon. and he smiled ten
derby. He wanted everybody to be
happy.
Ilast week" he said carelessly, said
she wanted to make a wish, and she
blushed deliciously when she said il.
She sent 1t back to me Just before
left town, saying it had failed" Dick
lighted another cigaret and whistled
softly.
Gavis stared at the ring and d great
light slowly dawned in his tired eyes
do you mind telling me her name? ?"
he whispered tensely. '1'd never
tell
"Of course I won't TELL" declared
Dick, winking at himself in pure adj
miration of his town talents. Bound
not to. but she's the prettiest girl In
our set, and if | wasn't engaged to
Dorothy Lee What the deuce
Gavis had jumped up and was pull
ing his kit bag out of the tent. He
stuffed it rapidly in a crazy way and
picked up his guns. "Take your bag
and beat it, commanded LatiTner.
"1'n send the guns and other stuff
after you. If you hurry you can rea CHI
Pierre's camp in time for him to carry
70 ,In oh h
he chuckied delightedly, picking up
the rajah's ring and slipping it on his
little finger. ''Some little ring!" he
muttered after a while, and days aft
erward when he received Bob Gaviss
incoherently happy telegram he fin
ishee tie sentence. Some little ring.
and some wise old guy, that rajah
mani"
Copyright 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

gotten on each others nerves. Years
upon years ago they said everything
to each other that they had to say
They have heard each others pet
stories and "reminiscences over and
over again, until each feels like
screaming when the other hits the
old familiar trail of the hoary joke,
or the chestnutty recollection, which
wasn't interesting in the first place,
and has acquired no charms thru age.
when things reach this pass in the
family, if one or the other would only
buy a ticket around the world instead
of to Reno. how much misery and
heartbreak ceulc be savedi
Absence would work its perfect
cure, and the travelled one would mo-
only come back with fascinating line
of conversation. but after having seen
the men and women of many coun-
tries, would not find his or her choice
SO bad after all
But the main advantage of travel
is that it gives you imperishable mem
cries that are joy to you as long as
you live. 1t broadens your. horizon;
1t makes you a millionaire in expert
ence, and you can never be duh or
lonely, because you always have thou
sands of strange peoples to bear you
company in your thoughts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
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Ouestions-Answers

O.. What is trench gun or mortar?-I
A. This IS a small portable cannon, or
mortar used at short range, for dropping
bombs or similar projectiles into an en-
emys trenches.
q. 1t is necessary for me to use Ford
car going 10 and returning from work.
Can l deduct upkeep expenses OF car from
my income take reutrn Nv. f. S.
A The Cureau of Internal Revenue in
forms us that it is unlawful for you to
deuct the upkeep expenses OF your car
Q. How is Amelia CALI Curci's surname
pronounced?-Q. X. T.
A. This name is enunciated as follows ::
q. Who were the Octobrists ?-F. A. NJ.
A. This hume was applied to members
Of moderately liberal political party in in
Russia, originally supporting principles of
constitutional government. which were ex-
pressed, and measures of reform which
of October, 1905
@. What IS a snow banner?-B. L. c.
A. This is banner-like stream of snow
blown into the air from a mountain peak.
often having a pinkish color, and extend
ing horizontally for several miles across
the sky.
q. What is bridge tower for &C N.
A. This is a tower for the defense of
a bridge, usually erected upon the bridge
its lower story, which could be closed by
gates Bridges were commonly defended
in this way in the Middle Ages, and many
such towers remain, IS at Cahors in France,
and notably at Prague, in Bohemia. =
Q. Who was known as the Pathfinder p
d. o. r.
Charles Fremont, on account Of his success
in exploring the passes of the Rocky Noun
tains. This is also name given to Natty
Bunppo in James Fenimore Coopers THE
pathfinder which was the third in the
Misunderstanding Series.
Q. Where can the quotation Music hath
found -E. II. B.
A. These lines. are from the play '.The
tiss7j. y imam ps :
Q: Who was 'Peeping Tom of Coven-
A. This was the only person in Coven-
try who disobeyed the induction not to look
put on the street while Lady Gediva rode
f fd name haf pec0@s conventional
"a. Is there fine for druggist who
does not put war tax stamp en- box of
A. There Is a specific fine of 81 900 for
q druggist who wilfully violates the law by
failing to place war tax stamps on suen
articles as come under the ruling.
Q. Who composed the Te Deum?
A. The authorship of the TIE Deum'' is
shs produat is 81 Em assbsd Ana e.
Augustine, who are thought to have given
expressed to the beautiful words upon the
baptism of st. Augustine by St. Ambrose.
Its use dates from the 9th century the
Catholic church being among the first to
use 1t.
in the last election ?-F. II. F.
A Eugene V. Debs received 91o,477 votes
In the last presidential election.
tAny reader can ger the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Joarnai Information bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director, Washington, d. C. This
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

At a recent mass meeting OF lum-
bermen in Chicago, the following
come-on resolution was adopted: 10
the end that construction activity may
be resumed, and the needs OF the peo-
pie be supplied on fair. just and STA
BILE basis, all construction industries
and labor in the building traces
should recognize the deflation whlcn
has taken place, and should place
their respective activities upon a pa
sis consistent with the public interest,"
in the revival of building activity
We. therefore. call upon all other IN
,dustries, and labor, which furnish the
essential elements entering into the
costs of construction, to join with us
in contributing their just part toward
the resuscitation of the activity OF this
needful industry"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

The British mint is issuing a new
silver currency. half silver and half
alloy. consisting of 500 instead of 925
parts fine silver TO the 1000. The lat
ter has been the authorized quality
since the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
In course of time the present silver
will be withdrawn from circulation
and this new coinage will replace it.
The currency cannot be used in pay
ment of foreign debt and is intended
only for use as small change in Eng
land. Will this act go down in history
as 1.-THE crime" of 81?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

come accustomed to it, as they have
to other metropolitan inconveI1iences
There are the slot machines on the
elevated and subway stations, for ex-
ample. A slot machine is an innocent
apparatus in itself, and is a great boon
to a gum-chewing public, but the slot
machines of these stations are grave
yards of ruined hopes. They are sup
posed to contain chewing gum, and
occasionally they do, but, ah, how
often they don't. Yet never are they
empty of nickels and pennies thrust in
by truStful persons who sigh and swear
and miss their trains in an effort to
get something out.
But perhaps the most suspicious
establishments in New York are the
hat-checking parlors. where surprising
frauds of one kind and another are al
ways coming to light. Most astonish-
ing of these was one discovery recently
made when a couple of hat check boys
got into a fight When the guests
rushed into the check room and sue
ceeded in separating the irate princi-
pals they found that the cause of the
hostilites was a spool of white thread
By degrees, the story came out. 1t
seems that when a stingy dancer or
diner refuses to tip for an Unnecessary
brushing off, he is permitted to get
just as far as the door. Then a boy
politely requests him to stop. Rushing
up to the guests back, the boy begins
W pfusH OIL clusler OIL White faVel-
ings, conveying at the same time his
keen distress that such a well-dressed
gentleman should be SO careless. This
is where the white spool of thread
comes in, and also its immediate result
"a dime. Always a dime, and some
times, if the guest is much embar-
raised, quarter.
Thus, dent be too impressed when
you hear about the sagacious invul-
nerability of the New Yorker. Live
here for a few months yourself, and
YOU will find him out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
JUST FOLKS /
THE SILENCE OF sNowsToRMs.
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE SILENCE OF sNowsToRMs.
I don't know how to say it, but somehow
there gems to be -
A silence to a spowstorm that Just grips
the soul of Inc.
The rain drops have n patter as they splash
against the panes,
And the thunder rolls and rattles like u
thousand railroad trains,
But a good old fashioned snowstorm has
no tumult in its sweep
As 1t spreads its spotless blanket where
the roses lie asleep.
There's no herald of it's coming, no black,
angry patch of sky,
No great gust of wind to whistle of the
storm that's drawing nigh
But the birds give up their singing, and
the trees stand straight and still
And the snow begins to flutter round the
humblest window sill,
Then the noise OF busy traffic seems some
how to die away
While the world takes on the silence OF a
country Sabbath day.
He who rises with the dawning, ere tile
trade OF men begins,
Sees world of wondrous beauty, washed
completely of its sins.
And the splendor of the tropics and the
glory tf the palm
never KNOWS such robes of silver or snca
sweet unbr0ken calm
AS the hum5lest northern lilac or the
toughest fence rails know
AS they gland on winter mornings In their
uniforms of snow.
Copyright 1921, by Edgar A. Gaest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

CALIFORNIA; anti-Japanese land laws
have been in effect but a few weeks,
yet it is already apparent, says the
Los Angeles Times, that their passage
was blunder. The group RESPONSE
BILE for the initiative petitions by
/ which they were placed on the stat
ute books, it says, is already busy
drafting new law to take their place.
The cause for this about-face is to be
. found in the provision of proposed
amendment to the present treaty be-
tween this country and Japan. This
amendment would guarantee to Jap
anese subjects in the United States
equal rights with the subjects of all
other nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
Dorothy Dix Talks
The, Travel Cure.
BY DOROTHY DIX
worries Highest Paid Woman Wrisss


And there is nothing like travel
as a promoter of Christian charity.
Most of the gossiping and scandal
mongering most of the ackening OF
characters is done by women who
think that all he world must be
judged by their little inch-high stan
dards, and that everyone who doesn't
do exactly as they think right is going
to the eternal bew-wows.
They will tell you that Sally Sue
Jones is no better than she should be,
because they think her frock is an inch
too low in the neck, and too short in
the skirt. They will call Jennie Smith
huzzy because she paints her cheeks.
They look askance at the man who is
supposed to be flirting with two girls
at the same time. But when they go
to far countries where a woman is
considered Inodestly clothed if only
her eyes are hidden, no matter how
much of the balance of her person is
naked, where even baby faces are
painted to show they have good moth
ers, and where the more wives a man
has. the better citizen he is thought
to be. they find out that morality is
merely matter of geography, and
they are not SO quick to sit in judg-
ment on others
For the only way to be sure that
you live in the only place whose stan
dards are absolutely correct, and that
your way of doing things is the only
proper way. and your point of view is
the only point of view. is never to go
anywhere else. The only people to
whom Squeedunk and Rabbit Track
are TIE centers of the universe. are
those who never get outside the limit
of Squeedunk and Rabbit Track.
Travel is also the only real cure
for the divorce evil, and for domestic
infelicity generally. Most married
couples really are more fond of each
other than they think they are. They
quarrel because they are SO fed up on
each others society that they have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

Opponents of the proposed increase
in the number of congressman, based
on the recent census are making a
brave showing at the outset but the
rabbits probably will be found to be
in the majority when a vote is taken.
No state is willing to have its repre-
sentation cut down in the interest of
economy or an already overcrowded
chamber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

1t is announced that the treasury
department Is negotiating with Great
Britain for the payment of interest on
negotiations are not meeting with sue
cess. If Great Britain owe the debt
land acknowledge it. no negotiations
should be necessary. The thing to do
is to pay it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

1t has required a long string of fig
ures to express the amount of money
spent for drink in this country in the
past The amount necessary to keep
people from drinking for next year
has been fixed by the house at ST.
100 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

For the credit of Kansas, senator
Coleman's bill designed to establish
capital punishment in. this state
should be smothered in the commit
, t.a ruou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

A "boyhood friend of Lincoln has
Z lust died in Springfield, ILL.,. at the
+ age of 96. Since Lincoln was g years
old when deceased was born he must
Z have been an unusually precocious
7 iod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
The Reluctant Slot Machine.

description is constantly increasing, it
must not be supposed that New York
has been free of petty fraud until this
year. As a matter of fact, it has all
ways suffered more than any other
city in the United States from this
evil.~ An a way, New Workers have be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

Copyright. 1926. by the Wheeler Eynaleate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

There was a time when fifteen
year-oId girl was expected to be at
home and in bed before IL O'Clock at
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

The telegraph yesterday carried a
story of a woman who is sixty years
old and looks twenty. The telegraph
has been imposed upon. Looking TWEEN
ty years old is one of the things that
cannot be counterfeited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19

We maintain that no gent. no mat
ter what his qualities of heart and
mind can maintain a solicitous, SYM
pathetic attitude when ne knows
blamed well he is catching cold.