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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
SOMETHING NEW IN CLOTHES

Probably few persons have failed to
note the displays of knitted dresses
and wraps in the show windows of
the ready to wear" stores for women
along Kansas avenue. The Dry Goods
Economist says that the public has
very convincingly demonstrated that At
likes knitted outerwear. 1t demon
strated this fact to the extent of
$2s7,0O0.OO0 in 1920, which repre-
seats the production of approximately
100000 pieces knitted by $4,000
employees in 1,176 factories.
The amount of business done in
1920. continues the Economist. repre-
sents q per capita expenditure of
about $3.50 and yet the surface has
only been scratched. This Is evil
denced by the fact that the average
turnover of knitted outerwear in the
year 1920 was only about one and one
half. True some garments showed
considerably greater turnover. but the
average in excess was negligible. 1t is
believed that if knitted outer apparel
were given a proper merchandising
push an average turnover of four
times a year might be expected.
In a discussion of how this is to be
accomplished the paper says:
Advertising will play an important
part. Window displays will do much
to stimulate demand. Proper repre-
sentation in their respective depart
ments handling different articles OF
knitted outerwear would aid material
| ~. Sales persons should be and must
| be fully informed as to the selling
possibilities of knitted outerwear
Last, but not least. there should be
given to knitted outerwear the execu-
tive and administrative stimulus nee
| essary in the merchandising of any
commodity for which there is a poten-
| tial demand awaiting stimulation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
RUSSIAN TRADE.

News from Washington indicates
that the United States definitely has
declined the proposal to renew trade
relations with Russia. Probably it is
just as well. We are thus enabled to
maintain a principle without any seri-
Gus sacrifice of business.
The fact seems to be that while
Russia has much to sell she has no
way of getting her goods to market
and if she cannot sell she cannot buy.
If her transportation be in such shape
cannot take them in.
Arthur Ransome, who has written
book entitled, 1.-The Crisis in Rus
sia," quotes the president of the So
Wet supreme council of public econ
omyN as saying:
Actually we have in hand about two
million pools "a pood is little over
thirty-six English pounds) of flax, and
any quantity of light leather but in
districts where we have raw material
for ourselves or for export are far
away. Hides, for example, we have in
great quantities in Siberia, in the dis
tricts of Orenburg and the Ural river
and in Tashkent. 1 have myself made
the suggestion that We should offer to
sell this stuff where it is, that is to
say, not delivered at a seaport, and
that the buyers should provide their
own trains, which we should event.
ually buy from them with the raw ma.
terial itself, so that after a certain
number of Journeys the trains should
become ours.
In the same districts we have any
quantity of wool. and in some of these
districts corn. We cannot, in the pres
ent condition. of our transport, even get
this corn for ourselves. In the same
way we have great quantities of rice
in Turkestan, and actually are being
offered rice from Sweden, because we
cannot transport our own. Then we
have over a million pools of copper
ready for export on the same condi-
ern countries are unable to help in the
transport, they cannot expect to get
raw materials from us.
Even in 1914, Mr.. Ransone says,
the Russian railway systems were in :,
deplorable condition. owing to the de-
terioration in the locomotives and the
condition now is indescribable. Com
bined with the great shortage of the
commonest necessities of life and with
the great labor shortage. he declares
Russia is facing utter collapse. New
ertheless, it is Mr.. Ransomes opinion
that Russia cannot be forced from
without; her regeneration, according
| to him, must come from within.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Watts berning down stairs, whose down
there. is enything berning?
Sir? I called up. and pop sed. Is
enything berning down there?
I don't smell enything, 1 sed. WITCH
I dident. then. and I quick snuck up
and put pops pants back, and this
morning pop came down to brekfist
with them on, looking down at them
saying, Well for the love of Mud and
all the little Muds, I thawt these trou-
sers were in pritty bad shape but /
had no ideer they looked like Belgium
jest after the war. wy there's a mill
lion creeses in lem, I'm fine looking
spectacle to be doing down town.
And he started to eat his brekfist
with a Impression as if it wouldent
be good time to ask him for money
for the movies. WITCH dident. think
ing, G. hope he don't try to look at
the back of them ware the skortch is.
WITCH hope he never does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
EASTER.

They found the great stone rolled away
And Him whom men had crucified,
With cruel spears had pierced His side
And Knocked with jests and jibes that day
Gone from the darkness aud the gloom
OF Deaths grim tomb.
Where He had slept in Deaths embrace
The linen of His shroud v0s piled.
And white-robed angels gently smiled
And babe them walk into the place,
THE Lord is risen !, to them they said,
"He is not dead"
Keep We the faith and still be brave!
From every tomb that Easter day
The stone of death was rolled away,
The soul lives on beyond the grave,
Death is but rest from pain and strife
The gate to life! IN
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
Dorothy.Dix Tails
81 DOR0THY DIX
WaaHfs Highsse RafA WsHan Wslss.

Drcams-2.
1t is because women are foolish and
idle dreamers that they so seldom
think it worth while to prepare them
selves for even the work they Under
take to do. They are not willing to
go thru the apprenticeship to any call
ing, or to thoroly master the details
of any business or profession, because
they are incoming over some halcyon
dream of life in which there will be
no labor nor care nor responsibility.
How they are to achieve this state of
earthly beatitude they have no idea.
1t is as vague and nebulous as the
day-dream of my young friend who
thinks how nice it would be to be
adopted by an elderly rich couple with
a mania for a grown-up daughter.
OF course, the almost universal
dream of a working-girl centers
around the fairy prince who will come
roadster, and snatch her up from her
desk, or typewriter, and bear her off
on a matrimonial joy-ride that will
have no end. She is so busy dreaming
this dream that she never takes time
to learn how to do her work properly,
or to acquire the skill that would en-
able her TO climb to a higher level
Also, she is SO obsessed by her vision,
worse luck, that she is not wide enough
awake to see clearly the men she
meets, and only too often she gets a
rotter for a husband instead of the
princeling she thought she was marry
ing.
The pitifuI part about all of this
dreaming is that it brings disappoint-
ment, and failure, and misery to so
many girls who might have success
and happiness If only they would Gull
tivate the right sort Of dreams instead
of the wrong sort. If the cash girl
would dream of the day when she
would become a cashier. or the sales
girl dream of the time when she would
go to Paris as a buyer, or the stenog-
rapher dream of being a highly paid
secretary with the strings of a whole
big business in her hands, and they
would work towards the realization of
their visions. they would see them
come true. Likewise they would have
much better chance of meeting up
with the fairy prince, for fairy princes
in these days motor along the paved
| highways instead of hunting the Doggy
rural lanes.
Women, who are old enough to know
better, waste as much time on fruit
less dreams as girls do. Watch the
face of a mother as she bends over
full of dreams that leap down the
years. She is seeing her son a great
and good man, honored by the people,
successful in every undertaking. a
great lawyer or merchant, or states
man, perhaps even president of the
United States. But does she set some
goal for the child and train him to
reach it? Not at all. She lets him
grow up idle. shiftfess, without disci-
pline or control. She takes out her
dreaming in wishing a great career
for him, instead of trying to secure it
for him. a
Yet nine times out of ten, a woman
can make her children what she wants
them to be if she has the vision and
the courage to do it. 80
Women have stultified themselves
with dope-dreams too long. It is time
| they walked up and found out that the
only dreams that come true are those
that we put pep, and energy, and good
hard work into ourselves. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

of which has never been enacted
heretofore in the history OF the world.
The only proposition that know that
compares with it at all is a statement
of a member Of the other house from
my state a number of years ago, who
said that he invariably voted for every
appropriation bill bat voted against
every taxation bill. The two situations
are somewhat SIMILAR"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Another big automobile factory in
Detroit has resumed work on full
time. The management probably read
about the big increase in excursion
fares announcedsby the railroads and
felt that there will be an added de-
mand for cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28


In the headlines over an article
published by the "Analist'' reviewing
problems confronting congress. it is
said that Leaders are inclined to
forget party lines in the interests of
the country" AS a rule. probably this
is true. But that leaders do not
always act with an eye single to the
good OF the country is shown by the
steady refusal Of congress to enact n
budget" law. True, congress passed
a budget bill and sent it to President
Wilson who returned it with his OBJ
jections. The house sustained these
objections. but the senate let the
measure die and partisan leaders later
charged the failure of the bill to be-
come law. to the. president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Membership in the League of Ma
lions is costing Nicaragua $4,000 a
year and she is growing tired of it..
She wants to get out. Meanwhile I'm
Gle Sam is looking out for her welfare
and is not charging her cent for the
service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

What has looked like a slump in
business is due largely to measuring
transactions in dollars instead of in
volume handled. Transactions do not
loom so large when expressed in the
lower prices now prevailing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

For killing his wife Carl Wanderer
was sentenced to serve twenty-five
years in prison, but for killing tramp
at the same time he has been SEN
fenced to death. Reference is made to
the circumstance merely to call atten-
zion to the relative values placed on
the lives of wives and tramps by an
American jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is there any
thing one can do for large ankles?
Mine are so fat they cause me embar-
rassment. TORMENTED SISTER.
Some people claim that they have
reduced their ankles by soaking them
in starch as hot as the feet will stand
every other night. The soaking should
last from twenty minutes to half an
hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

II the Germans must fight, why do
they attack one another when there
are foreign enemies all along the
Rhine? 1t may be that they are not
yet ready to renew the war and mere
ly are trying to keep their hands in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
Is YEARS ago m TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
TIE TOPEKA 0TATE JOURNAL

W. II. Davis of the Parkhurst-Davis Mer-
camille company suggests that more whole
sale merchants come farther down Kansas
avenue. He says some OF the houses In
town which are doing both wholesale and
retail business might with profit to them
selves divide their business so as to carry
on part of 1t up town and part Of it OF
lower Kansas avenue
The Eu Reggie Whist club met Tuesday
afternoon with Miss Grace Jilson. Mrs.
George Parkhurst, Mrs. l.. S. Ferry, Mrs.
Robert DeIahay and Mrs. Edwin Knowles
played at the guest table. Miss Thatcher
substituted for the hostess.
Miss Emily King entertained at high five
last evening for Mr.. Don Sebastian of Chi
cago. Miss Helen Wilson was awarded
beautiful etching for having made the high
est score among the girls, and Mr.. Guilford
Dudley IT., a silver handled pearl paper
knife for the highest score among the boys.
About thirty guests were present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

who was literally killed by it. The
trouble is that an almost undiminished
army of patriots seeks the greatly re-
duced list of jobs. Perhaps all the
jobs will be put under the merit sys-
tenn some day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Elyria, ohio--Joseph Coon. jr, is suing
Sam Macy for 5000 damages. alleging that
raisin Jack Macy sold him completely ruin
ed his digestive organs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Effingham Revel. who knows the wenther.
made his annual pilgrimage Into Yonkers
on his high wheeled bike. Traffic suffered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

copyright, 1920. by the wheeler cyndicats
Inc.1 ''-t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
!. we KNOW Her we'll.

Sir-If you are acquainted with Mrs.
Fulmer, please add my congratula-
tons to yours on her courage in omit
ting the radishes from her menu.
Can't we now find some hostess with
the temerity to dispense with the
customary sprig of parsley which deco
rates the butter balls and the roast ?
r. E. r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28

Nearly everybody is glad General
Leonard Wood is to head the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania. He is a very eff
Efficient citizen, whose capabilities as
an executive are well established.
But the New York Tribune was the
only newspaper to signalize the incl
dent by kissing the ground on which
the general walks
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06
Philanthropy
Geography VIII
Help You Clean

The study OF geography Is one.
my child, that you should be indus
triously welded 20; just think what
il can do for YOU 70 learn that Span
!ards love 10 dance, that Hollanders
wear roomy pants. and Neapoitans
viii sing, az any time, o. anything!
That Goldfish make Norwegians rich,
and Eskimos eat candles, which en-
able them 20 think that fee u
months a year is very nicei You
learn that Hindus coddle snakes,
and Honolulu sometimes shakes be-
cause Of nervous mountain peaks;
that Scotchmen call their trousers
"breeks," and Russians wear their
whiskers wild; that Hottentots can
be beguiled with strings OF beads
and kegs OF bOoze,-concernin
which. they share the views of
many persons not so black.-that's
true; shall not take il back
Yes. child, this wealth OF learning
can inform you so that you viii scan
the travel pictures on the screen
without confusion in the beam
very prominent result observed
among the movie cult.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06

or her own? The first proposition
was too absurd for second s
thought, considering the brevIry Of
my acquaintance with her, and yet.
1 reflected. Betty Kane was not the
woman TO send for me on her own
account. ! had seen enough Of her
relations 10 her townspeople to
know that she had hosts Of old
friends. She did not need to call up
on new ones for any favor.
This impression became a certain
~ as watched her wheelchair
weaving in and out among the peo-
pie seated in her little tea room.
That she was not pitied, but revered
and actually beloved by her neigh
bors and customers, 1 could sec by
the tender glances which were given
her and by the intonatlons of the
voices which greeted her.
The aroma of the tea distilled by
Betty Kanes quantity figured brown
teapot was no more delicate ana FRA
grant than the mental atmosphere
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06
faBride3
NCoPg1ght 1870 By The Neuspa 2er Enterprise ASOciaton)

gave a comprehending nod to
Betty Kane. then spoke quickly. cas-
ually in order that the other women
in the little tea room might have no
suspicion OF anything out OF the or
binary in our murmured colloqUy.
Would you mind making my tea
extra strong today?" I asked.
I'll have it stand alone If you
wish" she retorted lightly.
Not quite that strenuous" I
smiled. and turning, seated myself
unobtrusively near the case of postal
cards, TO wait for my order of tea,
and 10 speculate upon the probable
reason for this odd request or Betty
Kane's that 1 should come 20 the tea
room at this time.
Ii was preposterous for me 70 sup
pose that the lines OF worry on her
usually placid face had anything 10
do with her summons, and yet the
idea persisted in my mind that the
two things were related in some way.
Was the summons on my account
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06
Confessions OF A Husband!
The Mans Side Of Married Life

Dot Refuses to Share Her Secret
With Edith.

Dot Refuses to Share Her Secret
With Edith.
All that evening Dot carried with
her suggestion of being about 10 go
off in Mysteries if l opened my
mouth.
The next morning IL was the same.
She spoke TO Edith over the tele-
phone as ate my breakfast. I
heard her say:
I do wish, Edith. I could tell you
what Tom said last night II was
too delicious for anything. Yes. alb
soIuteIy delicious. I've been laugh
in gabout il ever since.
This afternoon? Yes. I'll be glad.
30. 1 don't think I'll tell you what
Tom said. Ii was so very funny
think I'll keep IL 10 myself. No, its
going 20 be a real secret"
1 wondered whether she would
tell.
When she came back 70 the table
I said 10 her coldly:
I'm glad I have been able 10 az
for dyou so much innocent amuse-
ment. But don't you think the joke
has worn rather thiE? ."
Please. Tom. don't make me
laugh again"
You can be mighty sure I won't"
Not another word was spoken at
the meal. When I had drunk my
coffee I kissed Dot on the forehead
and left I felt had trouble enough
OF one kind and another without my
own wife trying 20 make a monkey
OF me.
I had hardly gotten 20 the Office
when ! was called 70 the telephone.
IL was Edith.
What on earth did 20 usay TO
DoL2, she demanded
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06

Nothing at aIl-its just some
nonsense"
Please tell me" she begged.
You two women between you will
make squirrel food out CT me yet, q"
I complained. Il don't know what
I said and 1 don't know why she
found ii so funny, and, anyway if
a free-bOrn American can't be a
humorist in his own home. what is
this nation coming to?"
I spoke in an offhand way, but
was thoroughly exasperated.
You're certainly touchy this
morning" was Ediths comment.
What right have you TO speak 10
me so rudely? One would think I
were your wife"
You couldn't be much more trou-
cheerfully.
Very well. If YOU won't tell me.
I'm sure Dot Will. 1 thought I'd
give you a chance 70 tell me- be-
cause TO get it from her I may have
change There was meaningful
pause. you refuseR Very we'll
Goodbye"
She rang off and wondered
whether she would fuldl her threat
She could certainly cause a lot Of
trouble II she told Dot that the &C
cident 20 the engine had been
fake.
Dot would want 10 know why I
hadn't informed her OF &. But how
could Edith do this without hurting
herself more than she hurt me?
I was stall angry at Dot because
or the way she had made fun OF me.
I felt that II there were 60 be any
determinations they would not be
all on one side.
10 be ConunuedA
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06

will meet with Mrs A. Paul. E
Bowman 81.
Thursday. June q.
a meeting of the Young Woman's
Foreign Missionary society OF the
First NJ. r. church will be held.
Members of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary society OF
the Sunnvside Pres yterian church
viii be the guests Of Mrs. L. S. Ack-
erman. SOS r. Ohio st.
Mrs L. s. Vaughn, r. Sorin St.
will be hostess to the Woman's For
eign Missionary society of the
Lowell Heights NJ. r. church.
There will be a meeting of the
Friendly club held at the home OF
Mrs. David Switzer. Blaine av.
The monthly meeting of the La
dies Aid society of the Grace NJ. z.
church will take place
Mrs. Mary Obenchain, 1921 Miami
ST. viii entertain members of the
Womau's Bible class OF the FRS.
Brethren church
Mrs Frank Ritter Lincoln way,
W. viii act as hostess TO the mem
bers of the Mount Pleasant Home
Economies club.
The bi-mOnthly meeting of the
Womans League OF the First NJ. z.
church will be held at the home OF
Mrs F. B. Ripple Chippewa I'd
Mrs. Edward Baker. III Pennsyl-
vania av.. will have as her guests
members Of the W NJ \. of the
Conference Memorial United Breth-
ren church.
The regular meeting Of the Eel
lowship class of the First Baptist
church viii be held.
Mrs. Charles Uhl I'll Cleveland
av.. will act as hostess TO the
Pleasant View ". c. T. L.
Beehive club members will BE-
entertained 10y Mrs. Lottie O'Den,
al Elmer 81.
There will be a meeting OF the
Ladies' Sewing circle Of the Zion
Evangelical church.
a social meeting Will be held by
the members of the Noster Clarus
club with Mrs. r. Conant. Califor-
MIA av.
Mrs. August HoElund viii act as
hostess 10 the Ladies' Aid society Of
the Gloria Del Swedish Lutheran
church.
Members Of the Twin City Sewing
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-06
(To be Continued.)

One OF the most interesting fea-
lures of Westminster Abbey is its
collection Of wax figures which have
been carried in the funeral process
sions of monarchs. statesmen and
warriors. They range from Queen
Elizabeth, in ruff and velvet robes
with rich embroidering Of silver TO
Lord Nelson, in cooked hat and blue
coat, with a galaxy Of stars on his
left breast.