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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
Observation-Disclosures

g. What is the origin OF the expression
The cups that cheer but not Inebriate"?
A. This phrase is found in William
Cowpers Task" which was published in
1875 The phrase Ito cheer but not IN
e R3Th , had been employed previously by
Q. How much was the coin called the
pagoda? V. X. d.
of various kinds and values, formerly cur
rent in India. The star pagoda of Madras
had an intrinsic value of 81 so to $1.93.
@; How did the Interrogation point
A. Probably the question mark orig
mated in the placing of the letter q over
letters of the Latin word questo. meaning
question.
:, Q. Please give, some Information about
the Rosierucians? r. ". +.
A. Rosicrucians were the members Of
secret societies, processing to be philoso-
pliers. but in reality charlatans, who in
made themselves conspicuous by claiming
to be possessed of secrets of nature. in
Guiding the power to transmute the baser
metals into gold, to prolong life by the
use of elixir vitae, to have a knowledge
of passing events in distant places, and to
discover hidden things by the application
of the Cabbala. Rosicrusianism stood in
some connection with FreemaSonry and
owed its vogue in the 18th century to the
passion for secret association and for
pseudoscience-
tAny reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. This
Bureau cannot give advice 90 legal med
Teal and financial matters II does rot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles nor to
undertake exhaustive research on anv sub
ject- Write your question riainy and
briefly Give full name and address and
enclose two cents IN stanlpe Tor return
postage. All replies are sent direct to the
tRQuireE.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

An Atchison man writes to this de-
partment asking why England has 50
much trouble with her colonies, and
desires to know who is right and who
is wrong. It is so difficult for an
outsider to determine the right and
wrong of a family quarrel that it will
not be attempted here. However, the
fact that the trouble up to this time
has not been serious is attested by the
manner in which the colonies rallied
to the British flag in the recent war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

The American Economist, organ of
the Protective Tariff league, COM
plains that: I'VE are still living I'M
der the free-trade Underwood tariff
which the people rejected at the polls
a year ago. 1t IS true that the agri-
cultural interests have received the
benefit of the emergency tariff act.
and it is true that the farmers of the
country have been saved from disas-
trous foreign competition in a large
number of their products, but that
was not all that was required This
joke about the saving of the farmers
from foreign competition would be
enjoyable il it were not so CHASTITY.
Prices of farm products have been de-
Ginning ever since the saving process
began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
Dorothy Dix Talks

By DOROTHY DIX
worries Highest Paid Nyomaa writes.

GiverS and TakefS-2.
If you are wife are you giver
or a taker? In your heart do you
regard your husband as nothing but
a bond slave whose mission in life is
to give you all you want
Do you deny him the comforts of n
home and make him live in hotels or
boarding houses? Do you feed him
out of paper bags and ruin his di-
gestion by bad food? Does he come
home at night to house of strife, and
reproaches. and determinations be-
cause he doesn't make a bigger salary
than he does. and can't give you all
that rich women have?
Plenty of women are like that.
They do not feel that It is their duty
to give anything to matrimony. They
take all that their husbands lavish
upon them and make no return. They
idle away their time while their hus-
bands work. They go to cool places
in summer and warm places in winter
while their husbands toll the year
round in sultry summers and icy
winters to supply their needs.
Apparently it never occurs to them
that they have any duty towards their
husbands, or are responsible IN any
way for their success, or that the wife
who doesn't make her husband COM
Portable, peaceful home is a Stacker
and gutter, and has defaulted just
as much on her part of the matri-
monial bargain as a man does who is
too lazy and trifling to support his
family.
Are YOU giver or a taker in love?
All of Us crave affection and tender
ness. We not only want to be loved.
but we want to be told that we are
loved. We hunger and thirst for little
endearments. for caresses. for words
of praise, for some tangible evidence
that those for whom we care, care for
us, and that they can appreciate what
we do for them, and that they ad-
mire US.
Yet there are men who from the
day they marry a woman until they
see her lying asleep in her coffin
never say one solitary word of love to
her, never give her a kiss that isn't 4.
perfunctory peck of duty that is an in
suit, who never show her that they
regard her in any other light than AZ
a cog in the household machinery.
And there are women who treat
their husbands the same way yet
these men and women themselves
crave the very love and tenderness
they deny to their wives and hus-
bands. They want others to be de-
monstrative to them, and lavish upon
them the affection and praise they
are too niggardly to bestow on others.
They rarely get it. You can't make
a pet of an icicle. A cold heart chills
the enthusiasm of all who come in
loving those who do not give us love
in return.
When all is said we have to play the
game of life fairly. We cannot win
out by grating and trying to get more
than our share. We have to go fifty
fifty with the world. and give as much
as we take if we achieve happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

The farmer represents about half
the consuming power of the United
States. The prices of crops are de-
termined in the international market,
and there are no reasonable grounds
for an expectation of marked in
creases in those prices at any time in
the immediate future. Reduction in
the prices of what farmers buy would
have exactly the same effect as high
err prices for agricultural products. 1t
is futile to contend, says the National
Bank of Commerce, that because of
high labor and transportation costs
the prices of other articles and COM
modities cannot decline to the level of
agricultural pricesl If ways are not
found to lower the prices of all classes
of goods which they need, and would
like to buy, by means of lower money
wages, higher labor efficiency, cheap
er transportation and lessened distri-
button costs, the farmers themselves
will not suffer greatly, but business
of all kinds will be forced to operate
on a restricted basis. This is a hint
to the business interests of the coun-
try. that should not pass unheeded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
The National Grange has aiken the

The National Grange has taken the
position that mortgaged property
should be exempted from taxation to
the amount of the mortgage That is
good as far as it goes but it still leaves
the rnortgagor paying taxes on his in
debtedness in the form of high in
terest rate. at least theoretically. The
law provides for the taxation Of mort
cages but the law rarely is obeyed.
Real estate loans are made in Topeka
at s and per cent. The tax rate is
about 3 per cent. Does anybody be-
lieve that a lender of money will put
it out at the prevailing rate Of inter
est and pay out any part Of the pro-
ceeds in taxes? 1t simply is notsdone.
The law taxing mortgages not only is
wrong in principle but it is almost
wholly ineffective in it's application.
If it were enforced interest rates
would advance to and 10 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
INFORNsATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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fered the unlimited use Of the largest III
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It can answer practically any question
aon want to ask, butt can't give adFIce'
or make exhaustive research.
The war forced so many changes IN the
dsflv life of the American people that the
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Invaluable to all who use IL
Keep in touch with your government a, az
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

I have done myself and the college
Justice.
I've failed miserably. Saw Reggie
Van Winslaw and his record beats
mine. He managed to get in three
more dances and one of his girls has
foIlewd him down here-says she
won't leave him. Mine only wept at
my departure. After all, it was rot
ten vacation.
Now that your boy is out of col
Iege, is he helping you on the farm %
mot enough to notice." said Mr..
Cobbles Hes given the old home
place a fancy name he found in d
book, and invites his college friends
out to spend what he calls weekends,
but me and the hired men are keeping
the same hours we always did,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

Since Postmaster General Hays
placed armed marines on mail trains
two trespassers have been shot. So
the killing or manning of human be-
ings continues, the difference being
that the victims are persons other
than government employees. The only
way to stop bloodshed is to prohibit
the manufacture. sale or possession of
firearms. If the thugs could not get
them the officers would not need
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

maid or second girl. as they call them
now. Could you give me some sug-
gestion of what the second maid has
to do and what she needs to wear.
whether she is dressed in white or
black? FORA.
The duties of second maid differ.
Often she takes care of the up
stairs work waits on table, assists
with the mending and sometimes
looks after the children. The mis-
tress provides the costume, which is
usually an apron and cap to be worn
over any neat and simple dress owned
by the maid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

Young Mr.. Rockefeller's Colorado
coal miners again have left the reser-
walton and gone on the war path.
When last heard from John D. Jr. was
in China. Somebody should cable him
to come home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
Dinner Stories

This is the diary Of a ysung college
man;
Back to college again with a fine
record behind me, to-Wit: Twelve
dances, seven teas. several theaters
and a long line of broken hearts. It
was a great vacation and feel that
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GCcpy=isht. 1926. by The Wheeler EyHdIcats.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28

At any rate, we are relieved of one
score: we didn't split an infinitive.
The fear that we may do so harries
our waking hours and disturbs our
slumbers. Not so long ago we made
that atrocious and unforgivable blum
der. One of the older readers of the
Public Ledger became so indignant
about it that we blamed near lost the
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-04-20

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
OBITUARY

Thomas II. Eiliget, eldest son of
Charlotte and James Elliget, was
born in Toronto, Canada, Dee. 81,
1858, and died in alma Dec. 13, 1921,
aged 90 years, eleven months and -
days. He came to Lawton, Mich, in
1895, then to Middleton in 1901 and
to Alma in 1918 whore he resided un-
til the time Of his death. He was
married to Carrie Bowman in 1919,
who together with one daughter, two
stepdaughters and two stepsons sur
vive him. He was a member Of the
Middleton lodge, I. O. O. T., and a
second degree member of the Ma
sonic lodge at Middleton. He leaves
besides his widow and daughter, Mrs.
Edna Smith and grandson Of Almeda,
California, four stepchildren, Mrs.
Amanda Hayes Of Yale Mich, Mrs.
Laura Hancock, of Nestaburg, Mich,
Irven and Clayton Bowman Of Sc
dalia, Alberta, Canada, a host Of
friends to mourn their loss.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
Hunter Elected
AZ Alma CAPTAIN

Fay Hunter, center on the 1921
football team at Alma College has
been elected as captain to lead the
1922 Maroon and Cream fighting ma
chine on the gridiron.
Hunter is a Sophomore in Alma
College and halls from Newberry.
Last year Capt. Hunter was AT NJ. A.
c. and was a member of the Michigan
AAgie All Frosh eleven. During the
entire season Hunter played a highly
consistent and steady game, and
played every minute of every contest.
AS not man is lost on the entire
Alma squad for next year there is
every expectation that Hunter Will
have the opportunity OF leading a
winning team for Alma College.
Hunter is the third Newberry man
TO be elected captain of Michigan
Siege football team for arlext year.
Johnson of Newberry is captain at
VI. A. c. and Larson of Newberry is
Captain at Hillsdale.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
Local Happenings
* Tersely Told

Mr.. A. Kerr of Detroit spent Sun
day with his sister, Mrs. S. Cafrney.
Cinderella is back to town. Call
Little Rock Coal & Lumber Co.-ad-
vertisement BOP
Or. +. G. Sluyter, osteopathic ply
stefan, State Savings Bank Building,
Alma, both phones. Stiff
&. II. Goggin was delegate for the
Holy Name Society held in Grand
Rapids, Dee Is and lG.
James Dodge OF Bay City spent
the week end in Alma, guest Of
Miss Margaret friedrich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Burgess are
the proud parents Of boy, born to
them last Friday evening.
Mrs. Mary Church of ithaca visited
Mrs. Walter Brown and other friends
few days the latter part Of the
week
Commencing December 20 we will
do custom grinding. Call us for
prices. Alma Elevator Co., pos
Woodworth Observation-Disclosures 31tf
Is your liver out of order? Do
you suffer from billiousness, head
aches, constipation Ii so. Tanlac is
what you need Iook-taterscn DRUG
Co.-advertisemcn,
Willard Beshgetoor, who is attend
ing Northwestern University at Even
ston, H., this year, is spending the
holiday vacation at the home OF his
parents in this city.
President H. ~ Crooks Of Alma
College spoke at the Presbyterian
Church at Ludirgton Sunday and
Monday gave an address to the high
school students in hat city.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage Of Mr., Ellis Reed Of
lthaca'to Gertrude Marie Walker on
December 18th at Che Baptist par
scnage here, Rev +. +. ShouAcr per
forming the ceremony. They were
attended by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd c.
Dunn.
Midnight Mass win be celebrated
on Christmas eve at the Catholic
Church. There viii be special sing
ing of Christmas carols by the chill
dreh and also by the choir The sec
ond Mass will be at II a. m on
Christmas day. Everyone is cor
daily invited
a. L. Davies. superintendent Of
the Republic Motor Truck Company
plant, underwent a serious operation
at Ann ArDor Saturday. Reports in
dicate that his condition is rs good
as can be expected at The present
time He has host Of friends here
who wish him a speedy recovery.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
Trivial Accident Brinos Disaster.

The gypsy moth has caused a great
deal OF trouble In this country. and
much money and energy have been
spent In the effort TO exterminate II.
The trouble started when a French
naturalist named Trouvelot. residing
In the town OF Maiden, Mass. left a
paper box containing gypsy moth eggs
on window ledge and II blew or.
That was In the early eighties, and
he was making experiments with va
rious kinds Of caterpillars as silk
splnners.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
EAST ALMA

The Parent-Teachers Club was en-
tertained last week by q Christmas
cantata given by some Of the children
in the second grade at Republic
school. Mrs. Sigsby, who did the
drilling deserves great credit for the
success Of the oantata. An audience
Of about 250 groWn-Ups witnessed tAe
performance with high appreciation
The students Of Wright Han, Alma
College, gave q Christmas party to
"a number OF children from this end Of
town on Thursday evening.
The 18th and sth grades at Republic
school enjoyed fine Christmas ban
quet on Tuesday right.
The Rev j. II. Gelston will preach
Sunday morning at 1890 ia Eastmin-
ster chapel. He viii continue his
lectures Illustrated views on Sunday
evening at T.
Mr.. Counselor, father Of Mrs Della
McFarlane, Hannah avenue, died Sun
day The funeral service took place
Tuesday.
Esther Bowen, Hickory street, is
suffering from blood poisoning in her
feet.
The meat market formerly at cor
ner Of Michigan avenue and Highland
avenue, has been moved to new quar-
tiers on. Grover avenue.
Little Merle Campbell. son Of Or
land Campbell Highland avenue, has
been very i'll for some days post.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
CARD 0E THANKS

We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us
during the sickness and death Of our
beloved husband and father. also for
the beautiful flowers; also the minis
ter for his comforting words and the
choir the singing.
Mrs. Carrie Elliget, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. 3. Smith, MIR. and Mrs. Roy Hayes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Hancock, Irven
Bowman, Clayton Bowman.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
X or p LODGE ELECTS

At its recent meeting the Fitz-
James Lodge No. 80. Knights OF
Pythias elected officers for the com
ing year as follows:
c. C.-Lyle f. Hopkins.
V. C.-Dan Dickins.
Prelate-Caris Sartor.
X. p. & S.-Edward Titus.
M. E.-John S. Knoertzer.
VI. F.-Jesse +. Fuller.
NJ. W.-Martin J. smith,.
NJ. A.-Clifford Dickinson.
!. G.-Robert Friedrich.
O. G.-Floyd Luchini.
representatives,. j. Smith.
Alternate. +. Titus.
Trustee--John ID. Spinney.
Club Room Committee. Il. ker-
,San, Frank Rapson and j. ID. Holman
The Record office is the place to
- for your Christmas greetings be-
cause Of the fine assortment found
Observation-Disclosures.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
To Write Good English.

To he able to write good and pure
English, one must habitually dwell
and sympathize with men and women
who write English OF this character.
Any young student who reads and
enjoys Goldsmith. Jane Austen. Wal
ter Scott, Macauley. Froude. Steven
son, and other writer's of similar rank.
will certainly come In time 10 write
good and pure English himself
Meiklejohn.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22

Advertise your wants in The Rec
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
KEEP THE Gas =
BILLS LOWER
PROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE
GAS BURNERS is ONE IN.
PORTANT FACTOR.

Gas engineers, manufacturers of
household gas appliances and home
economic specialists have recently
elaborated in the preparation of
number of suggestions as to the
thrifty use of gas in the home. Their
conclusions made very weighty re-
port and this was placed with the
American Gas Association for distri-
button 70 the gas companies over the
United States.
Working i'm large number of
kitchens, the Investigators made their
tests on actual installations during
the progress of routine domestic
VIZ. 1t was found that most women
used their gas appliances that did not
return them maximum efficiency.
Here are few notes from the
findings of the Investigators. Your
locargas company wants you 10 have
them, so that you will use its serv-
ice wisely. Ask about anything at
any time that you may wish to know
concerning the use Of gas.
Keep gas burners clean by month
~ bath i'm hot water and soda.
See that the burners are properly
adjusted TO give right proportion Of
air and gas. If your gas flame is
long. yellow and smoky, the stove
needs adjustment. You are using too
much gas and getting TOO little heat
A small blue flame is the ideal one.
Ehen about to use the gas oven,
plan 10 use it TO capacity. You can
roast meat while making a pie or bis
cults. There is plenty of heat TO go
around. Use the oven to capacity.
The same flame heats the broiler
,Vme.
|gAGet out of the habit of using the
giant burner on your gas stove for
everything. Smaller ones will do for
half of your requirements.
Don't heat kettleful Of water
when you want only pint. And, if
you have an instantaneous heater,
don't start it up every time you must
have tiny bit of hot water.
Scale in kettles and cooking uten-
bottom of pans and other kitchen
ware, are great little insulators to
keep heat back. Scale is the result
kpf chemical action. 1t can be easily
emoved. SCOT is the result of poorly
dJusted burners or careless accunlu-
ation. Either is wasteful and I'M
hecessary, and work against good
esults. Your kitchen is yoln labor
tory. Keep your instruments in such
ne condition that they will give the
best results.
Get acquainted with the simmer
,Hrner. 1t will keep boiling water at
,Hat temperature. It will furnish all
the heat you need for a hundred pur-
posS that you now require Of the
giant burner.
Don't try TO use gas for heating
until you have learned about what il
will cost The woman who warns up
her kitchen in the morning by light
ing the gas in her oven and leaving
the door open is running up healthy
gas bill.
When baking, heat the oven before
using Ten minutes is an average
time for a baking oven and five min
utes for heating the broiling oven
This is not wasteful, for If you put
your dishes in right, off, it takes that
much longer to warm the oven any
way and results are less reliable.
Sheet iron and agate pans hold heat
apd burn your food on the bottom ans
| Yes. Tin is the best conductor Of
| heat, and most satisfactory for over
| use. Hftt
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
IIlIIIIIIIlIllI[lllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllll
ST. Nicholas, the E
Holy Man of the E
Fourth Century z
Observation-Disclosures
~ THE entire category of the
saints none continues To enjoy

more extended popularity than
ST. Nicholas. archbishop OF Myra.
Al this time, when preparations are
being made for the celebration OF the
birthday OF the Chrlst-chlld it is par
ticularly fitting that we recall some
thing OF the character OF this. holy
man of The Fourth century and re-
member some Of the legends which
brnS MIN SO close 10 Us at Christmas.
time.
Strange 10 say. while st. Nicholas is
regarded ~ the special guardian OF
children. virgins and sailors he came
10 be regarded as the patron saint OF
robbers, from an alleged adventure
with thieves, whom he compelled TO
restore some stolen goods TO their
proper owners.
Tn various parts Of the old world II
is customary for the elder members Of
the family TO place little presents in
the shoes rs wen as the stockings Of
the Younger relatives on the eve OF
~. Nicholas day. In converts the
young women used TO place SILK stock
incs M the door OF the apartment OF
the abheSs. with a paper recommends
ing them to Great ST. Nicholas OF
her chamber"
While the emblem Of the three
golden balls is derived from the Lom-
bard merchants. yet St Nicho-
las is freQucMly pictorially represented
as bearing three golden balls or purses,
the origin of which can he traced to
an act of the saint which has come
down To us in the form of an ecclesi-
astical notation.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-22
Treat Catarrh new way
Head colds, too, yield to the double action
of Vicks VapoRub

Apply Vicks up the nostrils.
Snuff it we'll back. Also melt
some Viclls in a spoon or tin cup
and inhale The vapors. AT night
repeat and rub IN neck. Vapors
will be inhaled all night
Sufferers from chronic catarrh
will get welcome relief and better
sleep thru this treatment, and
persistency will be well re-
warded.