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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

noon, however, fat and indignant
lntddle-aged lady. accompanied by a.
policeman, pressed thru the crowd and
demanded to be heard.
THAT man is a fraud" she an
nounced distinctly. Il saw him pull
the same trick day before yesterday"
and she named the time and the place.
Maybe I oughtn't to interfere, but I
don't like to stand by and see a lot of
kind-hearted people taken advantage
of
Thus, it is plain that the New
Yorker is not the hard. Hinty- eyed,
suspicious individual he is represented
to be thruout the provinces. Instead,
he is a simple, trustful soul who is
easily deceived by appearances, and
whose sympathy is readily aroused by
la hard-luck story. Every once in
awhile the legislature at Albany be-
comes much concerned about him and
promises to pass few laws for his
protection. But they never seem to
naterialize. Perhaps the assembly
finds it comfortable to have a simple,
good-natured constituency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

1--WE are just good friends" the
Hon. Jack Dempsey is quoted as say
ing in discussing the runors that per-
sistently link his name with that OF
Bebe Daniels. We hope the Hon. Mr..
Dempsey underestimate the gravity
of the situation. 1t strikes us as a
very suitable match. If we were pick
ing a husband for Miss Daniels we
should choose the Hon. Mr.. Dempsey.
If we were selecting a wife for the
"champeen" our choice unerringly
would fall upon Miss Daniels.
If you care to leave tito us, they
were made for each other.
Newton C. Gillian, of Kansas City,
is credited by the public prints with
having sprung a baseball puzzle on
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands. Mr..
Gillharn suggests such change in the
rules as will permit a batter to steal
first base. and the ledge" is repre-
scented as not knowing what to do
about it.
We should not characterize Mr.. Gill
hams suggestion as puzzle. We'd
call it nut stuff and let it go at that.
ST don't recall having seen anything
in your column about the length of
women's Skirts writes a highly es-
teemed customer. The probabilities
are LIIdL ne Won {. WpI1leH ShAEIS
suit u.s. We regard their length as
an unimportant detail.
Since We first knew women, and we
were cognizant of them at very early
age, they have passed thru many
looked as we'll as they do today, and
they become more attractive, more
fascinating, every year. And no ar
ticle of personal adornment which
they have discarded is to be preferred
to the one which supplanted it.
That ought to square" US with
the women for quite a spell.
The request of a reader that we
open the column to a discussion of the
daylight saving" proposition is re-
spectfully but firmly declined. This
column is uninteresting enough as it is.
We are willing, however, to inaug-
urate a contest, that being our fav-
orite method of avoiding work. II
anybody can write anything interesting
about daylight saving" we'll agree to
print such 1ucubration in the column.
He may take either side of the pro-
position and make his own rules. Our
contention is that the thing can't be
done.
The reporters who are covering the
story finally have discovered an in
teresting piece of news in connection
with the Taylor case. 1t is that Tay-
lor's salary as a motion picture di-
rector was $500 a week. While other
details of the case have been of pass
ing interest to the reading public, that
was what everybody wanted to know.
"What does he get?'' Is the most
frequently recurring phrase to fall
from human lips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
LITTLE BEHNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Me and pop was in the setting room
after suppir, me thinking about doing
my homework and pop smoaking and
reeding the spoarting page, and the
door bell rang and ran down to open
it to take my mind off my lessins, and
it was some man with a brown derby
hat, saying, Id like to speak to Mr..
Potts.
He's up in the setting room, sed,
and he sed, Well, if it's good enuff up
there for him its good enuff for me.
And he came up in the setting room
and looked at pop, saying, Mr.. Potts?
The same, sed pop, and the man sed,
Mr.. Lewis sent me over to see you,
and pop sed, o, Mr.. Lewis, yes, yes,
and the man sed, Mr.. Lewis thaWt you
the reel stuff at a very reasonable
figure, you mite even say dert cheep,
of corse you cant depend on most of
the stuff that's floating GROUND nova
days at ixorbitant prices but can as
sure you ony handle the reel genuine
bonny fidey article and you can take
my word for it.
Certeny, 1 wouldent think of doubt
ing your werd, you're got to take
peoples werd for that sort of thing, jest
now or you'd never. get enything, I
realize that perfeckly, its a case of
give and take and maybe we can taw1
bizness If you're sure its genuine
Wiskey, sed pop.
Wich Jest then ma came in, saying,
Wiskey, wy Willyum, I hope and prey
you're not thinking of taking a chance
on eny strange wiskey with all this
wood alcohall in the papers, and pop
sed, Certeny not, that's wat was jest
about to say, how am I to know wat
the stuff is made of, wiskey label IS
ony a meer scrap of paper nowadays,
I'm sorry. but I don't think there's
enything doing, and ma sed, Isshould
say not. And she went out agen, and
the man sed. Its a grand little PROPOSE
ton, perhaps you'd like to tawk It over
at your office some time, and pop sed,
No, absilootly no, I've made up my
mind, you can take one of my bizniss
cards but its absilootly no use.
understand, sed the man. And he
took pops card and put it in his
pockit and put on his brown derby hat
and went and I sed. Well G. pop, sip
pose he comes down to the office
+ never thawts OF that, sed pop.
Wich maybe he dident.
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Ouestions-Answers

O. Why do so many ranches have names
beginning with Lazy? w. A.
A This name refers to the brand used
on its animals by the ranch. When letters
of the alphabet are used, they are often
varied by their position; when tilted at
an angle of 40 degrees, they are said to be
tumbling; when lying fiat on their back
face. lazy.
O. How many nationalities are there in
the United States and how many languages
are spoken? NJ. A.
A. There are represented about 30 diff
ferent nationalities in the United States.
The number of languages and dialects
spoken in America is 1,624
O.. OF just what do belles-lettres con-
A. Formerly the expression was some
times used as the equivalent to the humanf
ties but it is now applied rather vaguely
to literary. works of styles, taste and mag
ination-if other words, polite literature.
The term has no recorded use ID English
before Ito, when it was used by Swift in
the Taller.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
JACK MEETS MIR. BARNES.
CHAPTER 2S.

CHAPTER Is.
t'Did, Helen know they were coming %
the question popped into Jacks mind
almost Immediately when Mrs. Layton
introduced their friend.
Il am glad to know you, Mr.. Hun
ter, have already met your charm
ing wife" Barnes said, a bit too fer
vently Jack thought.
Yes, Mrs. Hunter told me she en-
Joyed your dancing" If there was a
bit of sarcasm in the reply, Barnes
took no notice.
you must join us the next time
answered Mr.. Barnes, then turned to
Helen and they chatted gayly of things
that had happened the night they were
out, while Jack talked to the Iaytons,
all the time catching bits of the
conversation between Helen and Mr..
Barnes.
What shall we do, play bridge?''
Helen asked after a bit.
Yes, indeed, that's what was just
going to propose" Mrs. Layton said
with enthusiasm.
"Ill look on, keep score for you if
you like Jack quickly proposed.
you play, Hunter, and let me look
on" Layton spoke.
mo, indeed! I'm out Of form with
cards-haven't played in an age" Jack
returned, then helped Helen with the
table.
They were to pivot but Helen start
ed off playing with Mr.. Layton, Mrs.
Layton and Mr.. Barnes playing to-
gether Jack was astonished at
Helen's knowledge ana experiences. She
really played unusually well. They
played for small stakes. yet Jack saw
she won right from the start.
your luck has changed, Helen, "
Nell Layton remarked after while.
Perhaps you have brought her luck,
she addressed Mr.. Barnes.
81 sincerely hope sou he returned
with a glance at Helen that someway
made Jack want to say something IN
pleasant.
That's nice Of you" Helen MUIR
INJURED, and went on playing. She put
her entire mind on the game and when
they stopped, long after midnight, she
was the only winner.
Late as it was. she insisted upon Civ
ing them something to eat, and when
Jack saw the little cakes and sapd-
witches she served with the coffeef he
again felt sure she had known they
were coming. Why hadn't she men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

toned it to him? After they left she
said:
count that money please. Jack"
Ten dollars and eighty cents,'' he
announced.
''Um-not so much, but it helps''
did you know they were coming ?''
mot for sure. Nell Layton said they
might drop in for a little while. How
did you like Mr. Barnes p"
He seems a decent sort" Jack
guardedly replied.
4 think he's awfully nice, enters
Helen returned. clearing away the re
mains of the supper as she talked-as
usual leaving the dishes.
.'rll wash them in the morning,
there's only a few" she said in so con-
descending a manner that Jack felt
like shaking her. 1t was said exactly
as if she were doing him great favor.
"Pll give you the $40 in the morn
ing, send it up" he remarked as she
switched off the lights.
You promised me $50. need
gloves and stockings. I can get them
with what 1 won tonight"
But, Helen, I give you enough TO
dress yourself. why shouldn't you use
your winnings to pay your losses ?
Then there's the supper, that cost
something" He hadn't meant to men
ton that, but he felt on edge. He had
not enjoyed the evening, altho he had
tried to and when he couldn't, had
tried to make pretense.
"Of all thingsi Can't you pay for
cakes and sandwiches for a few peo-
pie? You ate as many as anyone ~
Jack was glad Helen couldn't see his
face as he replied:
''I11 pay for the spread, but I shall
send you only $40"
He heard Helen mutter ''stingy'' as
she turned from him, but he paid nc
attention. She must be fair.
Don't forget that money! Get il
here early, the club begins to play al
2 o'clock" Helen called after him
the next morning just as he was leay-
ing for the day.
IT shan't forget"
(Tomorrow-Jack keeps his success
from Helen.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
Dorothy Dir Talks
Look in the Right Place..
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds highest Paid Woman Writer.


'aThe trouble with you modern
young men," I went on, lis that one
kind of girl comes up to your ideal,
| while another fires your fancy. Your
sober common sense tells you that the
type of girl who makes a good wife
is the quiet, practical domestic giSl,
who makes her own clothes, and helps
mother with the younger children,
and is a good free hand cook, and
who reads serious books, and goes to
symphony concerts. But the girl that
you like to go about with, and to be
seen out with, is the girl who knows
the latest razzle dazzle, who is the
best dancer, who can knock out the
jazziest jazz, who looks like a daily
hint from Paris, and who keeps man
on his tip-toes trying TO keep up with
her
"As long as your guardian angel
stays on its job, it keeps whispering
warnings in your ear not to marry the
jazz girl, but she has spoiled your
taste for the quiet girl just as much
as a steady diet of highly spiced food
ruins your appetite for bread and
milk.
81 know dozens of splendid girls
who are gentle, modest, refined
ladies; girls who are cultured, who
read, and think, and have high ideals;
girls who have been trained by their
mothers in all the arts of domesticity.
and who would make model wives.
But they never have beau.
''They are not SNOWY, and no man
voluntarily takes one out to places Of
amusement. Their brains are not IN
their heels, and no man dances with
them except under compulsion. They
do not carry the flubdub line of con-
versation that men seem to crave, and
so no man volunteers as fireside
companion for them, hence the poor
girls are left severely alone as II they
had the leprosy instead of possessing
all the virtues that go to the making
of the ideal wife. 90
"And girls know this. They know
that it is absolutely fatal for tito be-
come known that they are serious
minded, or really intelligent, or do
nestle, and so they pretend tus be a
lot mere frivolous, and wild, and silly.
than they are. In fact there are very
few. girls who are really as big fools
as they sact.-As lot of them would like
to wash their faces clean, andgwear
decent clothes. and get down to a nat
ural key, if only the men would let
them.
But you men won't do it. The
only women you will chase are the
wild women who give you run for
your money. The stay-at-home,
stocking darning, sit-by-the-fires girl
hasn't the ghost of chance of at
tracing a mans attention, or getting
a husband. The girl who wants to
marry has got to go out and whoop
things up, and then a man knocks her
for wearing a cap and bells, instead
of bungalow apron.
You say you can't find the quiet,
modest, domestic girl you want as a
wife. It's because you look for her
in cabarets, and at jazz parties. If
you will sleuth around for the quiet
girl, you will have no difficulty in To-
eating her in her own parlor. The
woods are full of them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

it, The landlord, however, complains
loudly of his tax burden, altho he is
collecting from ibis tenant the money
to meet it.
Rarnun said the people like to be
humbugged Perhaps there is moth
ing in which they so like to be hum
.bugged as the matter of taxes.
II every person would pay his Just
proportion of the. taxes, the, rate
would be so reduced that few would
object to it. Evasion of legal taxes
places a heavy burden on those who
pay. There will be evasion as long as
the attempt to tax intangible property
continues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
JUST FOLKS
THE NEW SILVER DOLLAR.
ny EDGAR A. GUEST.


But any old dollar looks lovely to me!
Now fresh from the mint
To welcome in print
Come a cartwheel Of silver to brighten the
Aglowp with the smile on a pertty girls
But the bank clerk announces with looks
that are black:
THAT thing may be art, Dut the dollar
won't stack"
I wish ia a million all strewn on the
They might clutter the place and 1
wouldn't get sore!
They might tumble and fail
Re1i under der the bureau or under the bed,
I'd still be admiring that young 1ady's
Those glorious dollars ia never attack.
Or curse or despise them because they
won't stack
Some call her "napper"-the young lady
Has loaned her fair face to the dollar SO
I've seen long bearded men
On Five" or a ten"
The greenbecks that wore them still looked
So it's silt little I care for the fault finding
Good dollars are dollars altho they won't
stack.
The bank clerks may grumble. the art
critics sneer,
But the new silver dollar I'll cherish and
cheer.
To my life journeys end
And its charms Iii defend.
I'll sing of its praises wherever l roam
And should 1t be friendless, Ill give it a
home:
Oh. never in hatred will turn my back
On the new silver dollar because 1t won't
stack
Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A GuestJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

Farmers lost three and one-half
billion dollars in 1921" asserts the
kansas Stockman." But did they?
Or did they merely fail to receive the
amount to which they felt they were
entitled? Can it be said properly that
persons who are receiving salaries this
year smaller than those that they
were paid in war times are losing an
amount of money equal to the differ
ence7 Can one lose that which he
never had?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23
TAXES AND TAXPAYERS.

Congressman Dickinson sees in the
sales tax a plan ito transfer the war
burden from profits tax to sales tax
on the ordinary necessities OF life''
But where does the profit tax come
from II not from the Ordinary necss-
stiles OF life?"
such unpopularity as attaches to q
sales tax probably is due to the MIR
sake made by congress in the war rev.
enue measure when it caused the
purchasers OF certain articles to paw,
Instead of collecting from the seller.
There is no real difference in the re-
suits OF the two methods. but people
take much more kindly to a tax If it
he made to appear that someb 7dy else
Is paying il.
What might prove to be an ideal
method of taxation would be one by
which every person is taxed, on what
ne has instead of on what hs owes
or what he spends. but the difficulty
in the way of such a tax lies N the
many opportunities for evasion.
A sales tax would fall upon all and
should be handed over by the seller.
The purchaser then would foot the
bill just SIS he does in the case of the
tariff. without realizing It, and would
be happy Ill the thought that some
body else was supporting the govern
ment
Men who live in rented houses
would be indignant If they were asked
to pay taxes on the property. but they
90 right on paying those same taxes
to the landlord and think nothing of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

If The Democrats be seeking an is
sue on which to enter the ring with
the Republicans, why not make a
declaration against the primary law
Probably it would get them more
votes than would opposition to the in
dustrial court. Labor unionists never
vote for the party espousing their
cause. They are too suspicious and
are devoid of gratitude. See what
they did to the Democrats following
passage of the Adamson law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

Spring really is bringing better
times, declares Farm and Home
and adds: mo wonder everyone feels
that things are improving" 1t backs
up its assertion by calling attention
to the evidences as follows: Stiff
advance in corn, wheat oats and
ether grains. Potato market firmer
at better prices. Sheep and lambs
selling at double the price current in
autumn. The new clip of wool to
be sheared this spring is being con-
tracted for in the southwest and on
the Pacific coast at double the prices
offered a year ago. Hogs higher,
having advanced some so per cent
within a few weeks. Seeds and nurs-
cry stock, implements, machines, fer
tilizer freights. supplies-all down in
price. money easier and cheaper,
wages lower farmers encouraged.
Consumption begins to increase as re-
tailers cut profits. Factories are
starting up as the shortage in manu-
featured goods comes to be realized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

It is estimated that motor car and
truck owners already pay more than
100000, 600 in special taxes annually.
A very small proportion of motor We
hicles are used chiefly for recreation,
and the burden therefore falls chiefly
on necessary transportation. Yet,
when it is proposed to raise additional
money thru taxation, the legislative
body turns its eyes toward the auto
mobile as the most promising victim
OF the new levy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

The census returns show 36,10S
more bachelors than old maids past
so years of age. The remarkable
thing about these figures is that the
enumerator could find enough I'M
married women past SO to bring the
totals so nearly together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

The news that the state peniten-
tiary has been quarantined probably
will be welcome to a considerable
number Of persons scattered oyer
Kansas.
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Fake Fit Nets So.

For few seconds the man lies per-
fectly quiet before a sympathetic au-
dience, then he begins to -twitch con-
vulsively. The crowd becom es
alarmed. Some one suggests sending
for a doctor But at that, the man
slowly RECEIVERS, opens his eyes and
sits up. A few of the bystanders press
forward to ask If they can be of help.
Slowly and painfully, they drag forth
the mans sad story. He is the father
of six children, who are starving. He
cannot get work because he, alas, is
subject to fits. He coughs CRU esome1y.
The crowd is touched-quite literally.
Someone picks up the mans dilapi-
dated hat and passes it around. When
returned it often contains over SIS.
just at this point the other after