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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
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Dorothy Dir Talks

M DOROTHY DIE
wOrla's fiShesS Paid W0msn WFttnR.

The other day a worn and weary
man who is going thru the soul agon-
king and pocket depicting business
adjustment OF the present time, came
home, and sat down and buried his
face in his hands.
For heavens sake" cried his wife,
cant you look a little pleasanter
around home! You are a pleasant
ray of sunshine, you are! You make
me feel like going out, and tying crepe
on the front door"
81 know replied the husband, but
if a man can't crouch and gloom in
his own home, where can he? All day
long at the office I am compelled to
wear a gay and cheerful look, and
register optimism and prosperity while
everything looks to me as if it were
going to the nation bowwows.
''All day 1 have to wear the smile
that won't come off until my face
muscles ache with the strain of try
ing to look pleasant when L am feeling
L would like to go. All day / have
to be suaYe, and polite, and diplomatic,
and If you could just realize the re-
lief it Is to get to place where you
can drop the mask, and slam the door,
and Kick the cat, and be just as
gloomy and grumpsy as you want to
be L think you wouldn't begrudge
me the pleasure.
Il Know 1 have no right to take my
temper and nerves out on you, and
dump my troubles on the hearthstone,
and turn the home atmosphere blue
with my pessimism, but what is a
home for if it isn't a place where you
can let yourself go. and be as you
really are, instead of pretending to be
what you want the world to think
you are? AS I said before, what is
a home for il it isn't a place you can
crouch ?"
MY aim in life is to make you a
happy home" said the wife, who is a
good sport, land if it makes you happy
to crouch, go to it for an hour, after
which we will cheer up"
"Al I ask is an hour in which to
relax, and straighten out the kinks in
my nerves and disposition" replied
the man, land if you let me gloom that
long without nagging, or worrying, or
questioning, or having your feelings
hurt, I'll be ready to look on the
bright side, and thank heaven for
having given me that pearl above
above price. an understanding wife"
IT never thought before said the
woman, "of a mans having a right to
give way to his moods in his own
house yet, to a degree, I can see the
justice of it. It's the pay he asks for
all the work he does. for the average
man spends his life in toiling to pro-
vide the upkeep of a home in which
he would like to do as he wants to
do"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
LITTLE BEHNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LER PATE.

was doing my lessins without eny
plezzure last mite and pop was look
ing at me, and he sed, Benny, think
III try a little Experiment with you,
now heers a quarter.
Yes sir, / sed. Sounding like good
Experiment, and pop sed, Take the
quarter. its yours TO do with as you
please.
Yes sir, I sed. Sounding better and
better. And I took the quarter and
pop sed, Now, if you wunt to spend it
you can spend it and if you wunt to
save it you can save 1t, but this ixperi-
ment is to see weather you have sents
enuff TO start a little savings account
think it over for a day and if by this
time tomorro you have decided to save
it for the future insted of sQuandering
it on the follies of the moment will
give you another quarter and then you
can RELY start to- save and thus form
a habit that will make you a better
eitizin.
And tonite pop sed, Well. watts the
anser, are you a spend thrift or
future Rockefeller? and I sed, I'm a
future Rockefeller, I got it in a safe
place all rite, pop, so you can give me
the other quarter.
Good. I hope your story lissens as
well as it sounds, in other words 1
would be glad of a few details, sed
pop and 1 sed, yes sir, well, you see,
L
and / went GROUND to a lot of stores
looking in the windows numbering wat
wunted, and 7 was standing in frunt
of Brants candy store and I was jest
going to go in and spend it all on
choeklit mushmeIlows without being
a better eitizin, and Jest then all of a
suddin 1 decided to save it and be a
better citizin-
And wat made you change your
mind so abruptly? sed pop, and sed,
Well. you see, Jest then the quarter
got loose and dropped throo a grating
on the pavement and I looked throo
the grating and I could see it away
down there. so its safe all rite. and
I can get it eny time I find out how
to get down there, il find out how to
find out, so anyways you mite as well
give me the other quarter a vile.
Nuthfng doing, the Experiment is
over as far as I'm concerned, sed pop
Meening ne wouldent give me the
other quarter
Wich he dident-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

IL got your note from the air
A smile broke thru the tears and
fear. "Oh-h.-not really?"
George nodded. >He found out the
whole story from her and told her of
his chase.
The girls brother. and one of his
college friends had done this trick in
order to extract ransom money from
her father.
THE boys want to go on a cruise
in their hydroplane and they are both
broke this summer. Dad can't see 1t.
was bathing on our own bathing
beach, from which they often fly in
their plane. They. took me bodily, and
when 1 am missed there will be an
awful row. Father adores me and will
do anything to keep my name from
the papers Do you begin to see?"
George did. He also began to see
why her father adored Der. He was
dazzled by her beauty and dumb from
excitement.
''They are to have father place the
money in a certain spot tonight and
L am to be returned at midnight if it
is forthcoming. They have promised
to tell dad some day-poor dad, I
know he is little close with money,
but it's his own to do as he pleases
with"
George had fished out the key viii. e
she spoke. This key?"
She began to laugh. 1.-The key to
my bathhouse where my clothes are.
Oh, can never thank you enough
for coming to my rescue"
George smiled ironically. e'Rescue q?
Indeed, wish 1 might really rescue
you" He was turning to go.
You're going to leave me-aIone %
the girl asked.
"'But-''
But nothing. I want you to stay
since you saved my life
George turned back.
Don't they always get acquainted
when they save girls lives-in
moEies?" she asked, blushing slightly.
boldly. I'll try to do all that the
movie hero does even unto the last
reel" he added
Copyright, 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
QuestIons-Answer

O., What language is spoken in Haiti ?
A. The current tonnage Of this Repub-
lie is French, but the peasantry speak
dialect.
Q. How many cases of typhoid and flu
were there in the Army during the war
A. The Surgeon Generals Office gives
the following statistics for the period he
tween April 1, 1917, and December n .
1919; typhoid, 1929 cases and influenza
Q. | would like to know where Sir
Ernest ShackletOn was born. p. l.. A.
A. The late Sir Ernest ShackletOn was
born in KiIkee, Ireland.
Q. Aliusion is made in n story to "The
Swamp" in New York. To what did the
writer refer? II. A. r.
A; region in the lower part Of New
York, east Of the postoffice, is known as
The Swamp. 1t is center Of the leather
and hide trade.
Q. What was the name Of the child
born on board the Mayflower in 1920? r
II. q.
A. Peregrine White was the name of the
child born on the MayflOwer.
O says that cucumbers are vegetables
of recent deveIopment-B contends they are
in the Bible. II. L. ID.
A. In Numbers II. 9th verse, Revised
Version Of the Protestant Bible, there IS
to cucumbers, melons, leeks.
onions, and garlic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

Nearly six hundred banks in the
United States suspended payment. and
there were 10000 commercial bank
ruptcies. Greece was in the abyss
OF insolvency" and italy was on the
brink In Russia famine and pes
thence prevailed, and in Australia
nearly every bank OF consequence had
closed its doors. American farmers
were so hard pressed that they could
hardly find wherewith to buy smok-
ing tobacco. Such were the conditions
in 1893, as revealed in newspapers
and ma gaines of that time. Looking
back on them, says The Nations Bust
ness. the period from which the world
is now emerging seems not so gloomy,
after all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: kindly give
me a remedy for wrinkled hands. My
hands are very old-looking and red.
caused from factory work. If not too
much trouble l would like a prescrip-
ton for my face and neck as a skin
Whitener. THANK YOU.
Apply the following lotion to your
hands several times a day after you
have had them i'll water: Bay rum,
two ounces; glycerine. one ounce; car
bolic acid. twenty drops.
A teaspoonful of the tincture of
benzoin to an ounce of rosewater
forms a well known lotion which is
excellent for whitening the skin.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: The boy I
have been going with wants me to
accept a string of pearl beads for a
present. Should I? MAY.
DO not accept the beads unless you
are engaged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
George Matthew Adams
Daily TGlk
THE RIlEssEnNEss or

Not every man is able to impress
his personality on one at first glance
or meeting. Nor are the depths of in
telligence fathomed with eyes alone.
But there is one thing that stands
out from a mans face and manner
and words and acts that is as true as
n weather vane in a stornl-and that's
his sincerity.
You can't get away from the bless
edness of sincerity-for it looks RICH.
thru you!
Sincerity is so much higher in value
than mere brilliance of mind-and
there is really no end to the miles and
miles of distance that It is able TO
travel behind great purposes and no.
BILE achievements.
For sincerity is a quality of the
heart-and not the mind.
1t cannot even be acquired-it must
be born within one. on the other
hand. it can be developed and en-
larged. The more you think of others
and their interests the deeper does
your quality of sincerity grow.
Friendship without sincerity is like
the withered wood from flarinG
flames thing that can be blown
easily away and forgotten.
But when you have a friend in
whom there is real sincerity you have
what more than a mine of wealth as
a refuge would be.
Just let me know that man is sin
cere and honest, and am willing to
trust him-let him believe or aspire
to what he will.
The sincere man doesn't have 20
apologize for anything. You see what
he is and all that he represents him
self to be. And that is enough.
Sincerity is even higher than great
wealth or elevated social standing or
fame. It stands apart from gram
NAUTICAL errors and the latest fashions
1t takes its place alone in human
chara cter-dke a white lily in a vast
valley of grass and weeds
Blessed are you if you are sincere!
You have something on which to build
and live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

The bill that permits farmers to CO.
operate in selling their products says
dividends on stock OF membership
must not exceed per cent per an
num-" II one ask "why?' he IS told
that government gives special permits
sion and has the right to regulate.
This leads Arthur Brisbane TO ex-
claim: What about national banks
that also operate by special permits
sion Of government, issuing currency
against government bonds. Many of
them have paid 25 per cent dividends
and more. What about the federal
reserve banks, that have made as high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

II the proposed bonus legislation
for ex-serTiee men be passed by con-
gress, the machinery necessary for
the administration of the law, it is
estimated, viii require something like
1000 clerks. This estimate is based
on the experience Of the war depart
ment in disbursing the $50 bonus 20
ex-serviee men at the end OF the war.
A. that time as many as 100000 let
ters a day were received, and there
was days record of issuing and
mailing $4,000 checks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

The attitude OF the tariff advocates
has undergone a change. Time was
when they assured US that the for
eigner paid the duty. Now they say
most of the goods taken from Europe
and the Orient can be bought here.
and those who choose to import be-
cause low wages abroad make cheap
err goods, ought to be compelled to pay
the duties on those imports in order
that American living standards NAV
be maintained. But whether the for
eigner or the importer pays. the con-
sumner foots the bill in the end, as he
very well knows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
CTrom Philadelphia Public LedgerJ
Thru which a secret Is Revealed.

Thru Which a Secret Is Revealed.
Sir-Since you sometimes print
communications from the boys at the
Good Luck Garage, feel that you will
not ignore an epistle from one of the
girls at the Busy Bee. I admit that in
telligence and all other things being
equal, a woman cannot hope to COM
pete with a man in politics or in run
ming the world, but why go out OF your
way to rub it in? Why not be a little
kind to the ladies? Think how their
hearts would warm toward you after
all these years of knocks and cracks.
You know it isn't as if you were
handsome old bachelor who could af-
ford to play the deuce with the wom-
en-. VINGT EFT UN-
If our correspondent will regard the
communication as inviolate, we don't
mind revealing the secret of our pro-
cesseS in dealing with the attractive
sex. We chasten them because they
like it. Women grow unutterably
weary of the slavering simpleton who
is eternally kissing the hem of the
feminine garment.
However, if there be those who pre-
fer the unguent of soft and meaning
less words. it will be perfectly all right
with u.s. The avenues of communica-
ton are choked with gentlemen who
fancy it is polite to utter them.
-T can't say read the column care
fully every day." postcards H. B. G.,
but last week was the first time 1
noticed meticuIous. have often Won
dered why on had not taken it up, as
Saturday Evening Post writers have
been using it for some time past"
1t is at once apparent that H. B. G.
doesn't read the column carefully
every day. Probably she doesn't read
it oftener than once every six months.
'MeticulouS" is one of our standard
adventures in the realm of ornate
phraseology, and has been since 1903
or 1910. But we make nc pretense of
having invented it. Truth to tell, we
got it from Arnold Bennett.
We suggest that H. B. G. read the
column every morning. Likely she
would find other Arnold Bennett
words, of which there is an inexhaus-
tible store.
All About Babe" Ruth.
By New York sports writer.
Babe" first laced on a brand-new
pair of spike shoes that are to carry
his huge hulk thru the season.
Then he began the preliminary
work of breaking in the first-base-
tween both big paws, then placing it
on his right hand, he pounded the
palm deep with a new ball, forcing a
cup=like hole for the ball.
AL times ne SpaC tremendous
mouthful of liquid sailors delight into
the ball hole, telling the sightseeing
ladies and gentlemen that tobacco
juice had no equal on earth as a means
of seasoning a ball players glove.
Marvellous, we say, but the New
York sports writer omitted one preg-
nant detail: He neglected to say.
whether the "Ba be" laces his right
or left shoe first. That's what the
people want to know.
Colonel George W. Harvey's ac-
credited ambition to run for president
should be taken not too lightly. Those
who laughed when they heard he
wanted to be ambassador TO the Court
of st. James now admit their hiIarity
TO have been premature and ill-tim ed.
The practice of combing the long
hair over the bald spot never fooled |
anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10
JUST FOLKS
~ EDGAR A. GUEST.


THE CHOIR BOY.
They put his spotless surplice on
And tied his flowing tie,
And he was fair to LOOK upon
AS he went singing by;
He sang the hymns with gentle grace,
That little lad of nine,
For there was something IN ms race
Which seemed almost divine.
His downcast eye was good to see,
His brow was smooth and lair
And no one dreamed that there could Be
Al rascal plotting there;
Yet when all heads in prayer were bowed,
Gods gracious care TO beg,
The how next to him cried aloud:
"Quit pinehing o. my leg"
A pious little tyke he seemed,
An angel born to sing,
Beholding him none ever dreamed
He'd do a naughty thing,
Yet MANY a sudden touch y proclaimed
That he had struggled in
For mischief making, unashamed,
A most disturbing pin
And yet I think, from high above
The Father, looking down,
Knows everything he's thinking OF
And smiles when Inortals froWn,
For in the spOtiess surpiice white
Which is his mothers joy.
He knows he's not sc angel bright,
But Just a healthyrboF.
Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A. GuestD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

1t is estimated that the soldier DO
nus will cost the country approxi=
mateIy ss.0OO.OOO. 900. But whatever
the amount. it should not be forgotten
that it is only a starter. The Civil
war ended fifty-seven years ago but
the pension bill has grown steadily
and today is 100000 600 larger than
it was 4 few years ago, notwithstand-
ing the rapidly with which the old
soldiers have been passing to their
eternal reward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

Government expenditures in Janu-
any dropped to the lowest point of
any month since the pre-war period.
They were 2s1.24s.sS5. This is a
reduction of sss.5IS.OOO below De-
csmber, 1921. and a reduction of
ss2T.O39. 900 below January. 1921. De-
spite this reduction, however, there
was a considerable increase in the
governments indebtedness. Uncle
sam's new group of collectors should
set busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

as 80 and 100 per cent IN a year?"
But why look for consistency in legis-
lation or among law makers? Most
OF our laws are made in the interest
of one class or another. and are put
thru by a politician who is largely
dependent upon the class to be bene-
fitted for sufficient number of votes
to keep him in office. Nobody ap-
pears to give much consideration to
the general welfare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-10

There may be many things in the
science of government which Lenin
and Trotzky did not know. But one
thing they understood thoroly and
that is how to maintain themselves
III power. Hence their large, well fed
and well equipped army. 1t is the
means in use by tyrants since the
dawn of history.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-10-14
GERMANY LOST ONLY THE WAR

Truly America is nothing if not magnificent Germany can
attest to that While country in the world carrying more than
OF worthless paper marks the United States the
proud posessor of German to the extent of
S0000000000 marks bought OF S12 thousand
Today German marks selling at 20 cents thousand
Translated into American America has invested
S960000O00 Germany money since the armtce and the in
today only 56000000 The loss therefore
1904 100000 with strong possibility that will increase
end of the than twice the amount of gold the Gemanc
has paid ndemntes the entire combination
of the Allies up to date.
Surely greed and the desire to get something for nothing has
led the country into dangerous paths The consolation America
gets the situation laugh because indirectly the whole
suffer the Saturnaa of speculation that has led
down the lane of folly.
However big brothers undoubtedly will hesitate before
smiling again when the simple unsuspecting counyman falls
victim gold swnder of the city Germany
has unoaded the city sckes the gigantic financial
gnus fatuous in the history of the The Mississippi
like the wisdom of the Lord paseth all understanding Truly
be said that Germany has lost nothing but the
Facts hand show that the absorption of this printing phan
currency been brought about chiefly by American citizens
origin which only to show that sympathetic
interest the fatheand did end with the laying down of
But this has been added greed for gold the part of
city eeches of undoubted American origin and has created
situation that deporabe both from moral and financial stand
point
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-10-14
For Member of Congress
T. ALAN GOLDSBOROUGH
of Caroline County
THE BANKERS ARE AT LoGGERHEADs

And the bankers at oggerheads 1t the old fight
fellows against the big eowscountIy against city
The great fnanciers would the several states with
branches of the banking that the banking ss
might be brought into harmonious organization that
would be able function with greater elasticity
The small bankers such suggestion their emna-
ton They the fact that the branch bank would mean
the presence of the in the community who is not OF the
community and that consequently credits would be in
a topsy turvy condition
1t fact that the most astue fnancers may ma
worthy consideration that intimate knowledge of resources
character which the basis of credit form strong bull
war of financial security the country where than 100000
900 of the American people live and have their being.
Eugene Meyer L undoubtedly candidate for the Governor
ship of the Federal Reserve indirectly makes the plea for the
branch system the ground that unified organization
would be able work better system of financing the farmer
There need he contends for gradual marketing OF the
product which This of spells longer
credits accommodate the slower process of selling
Paper based upon the security of nonperishabe commodities
Meyer should be made eligible for redscount for the
length of necessary market seasons product before the
harvest To which the little fellows reply wall Street
eye profits of agriculture and would like to con-
centrate the wealth of the nation in spot
1t bitter fight and it will prove unfortunate conflict if
the be caught between the neither millstones
The world of finance has produced remarkable brains
Perhaps they be applied the solution OF the farmer
problem which they appear be concerned without finding
the sword the thousands OF local banks OF
which each community is justly proud.
study surely find strengthen and use the
local banks, rather than to annhiate them.