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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24
PARK OPENING POSTPONED
Garfield Concessions Will Be Opened
to Public Next Week.

The opening of the amusement con-
cessions at Garfield park, which was
scheduled to have taken place Thurs
day, has been postponed on account of
the rainy weather, and will be held
some time next week.
A band concert which was to have
featured the opening of the park
Thursday night. has also been can
celed as has the proposed concert in
Chesney park Friday evening.
The next municipal concert will be
held at Edgewood park Sunday after
noon, Commissioner Robert D. McGif-
fert stated TODAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24
GAS CASE TO SUPREME COURT
,Wyandotte County Company Files In
tervening Petition Today.

The Wyandotte County Gas COM
pany today filed an intervening petit
ton in the gas rate case in the su-
IRENE court The action involves es-
tabIishment of a. rate increase to dis
tributing companies in this state and
is directed against the Kansas Nat
ural Gas company.
Recently the Kansas Natural noti-
fled distributing companies that rates
would be increased at city gates. The
rate was boosted from 50 cents a
thousand cubic feet to 40 cents. The
public utilities commission brought
action in the state courts to enjoin
collection of higher rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24
ST. AUGUSTINE CONCLAVE

A new conclave will be Instituted in
Kansas City. Kan, Friday evening. May
% Leave on L 2. 2:4O D. m Back
same night All members invited.
Regulation attire
IRA w BURDICK.
Adv. Acting Sow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24
North Topeka

Items for this coIumn may be left
at Petro's drug store or telephone
Eleanor Kimball, 1891, before 10 O'Clock
or after .. Other hours $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24
Look Here

We have lower prices on
Mason Jars. best caps. very best
rubbers. and the wonderful Kerr
Jars with the economy seal caps,
than any place in town. Always
buy these goods at the 'Owr'
and save money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24

The Memorial day G. A R. services in
North Topeka will be held at the Central
Avenue Christian church Sunday morning
at IL o'clock Blue post No. $50. Blue
corps No. and Sons of Veterans will be
present. The services are open to all and
the public is invited to attend.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
How You Can 30 Transparent.

A liquid that renders flesh invisible
or transparent has been invented.
II hand or arm is Immersed In this
liquid its flesh will disappear almost
entirely from view: the bones, how
ever, viii be visible, as under X-rays.
The mixture makes the flesh of your
hand transparent because 1t has the
same index OF light .refractiOn as the
flesh. The light rays passing through
the liquid are not bent. or refracted.
when they pass through the flesh.
though they are bent by the bones.
which have different index of refrac-
ton.
Different parts of the body have diff.
ferent indices or refraction: any part
can be made to disappear by submerg-
Ing It In the proper liquid. But not
all parts at once, so the magic cloak
of invisibility is still to be discovered.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
How TO Keep Young.

For the preservation OF youthful
ness a placid temper should be assid-
uously cultivated by every woman
who values the youthful appearance
of her face and skin. A worrying
temper is most ageing. II makes q
woman Of thirty look more than forty.
Ii adds years-in appearanee-to her
age. 1t Is a powerful foe to the
magic Of youth and often makes daugh
ter. look older than her mother. be-
cause the daughter Is persistent wor-
rier over small tribes. while the moth
er has become a philosopher.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
FRY EGGS WRONG;
SHOOTS up SHIP
Mess Boy, Put In Brig, Escapes
Irons and SWims Mile
TO Shore.
NEGRO IS BAD ACTOR
Question Of Whether Eggs Should Be
Fried on One or Both Sides Causes
Lively Doings on the Steam.
ship Carolyn.

Carteret, n. 1.-The profound ques-
ton of whether fried eggs should be
cooked ON one or bo.sa sides started b.
Leonard, Jamaica negro mess boy of
the steamship Carolyn, which locked
here recently, on IA series of adven-
lures which included shooting up the
ship. escaping from his irons In the
brig, jumping overheard, swimming
ashore and making good his escape.
His adventures are probably not
ended. for the police are looking for
him. The last seen OF b. Leonard was
when he drove away on an automobile
truck from Princes Bay, Staten Island,
where he came ashore.
Trouble With Cook.
"The trouble really started soon af-
ter the Carolyn lee. Boca Grande,
Florida, on her way NORTH" explained
Third Officer William G. Kelly. who
was In charge of the steamship at the
dock In Carteret. Leonard was the
oilers mess boy. and he didn't get
along well with the cook, v. Donmaro.
Thursday morning he went into the
gally and ordered eggs turned over
fried on one side.
Leonard got mad and there was an
argument, which caused the cook to
ladle out some hot water and throw II
ut him. Then Leonard rushed down to
oilers quarters and came back with an
automatic pistol. The cook ran. with
Leonard at his heels. shooting. His
first shot missed, the second went
through the left hand of NJ. Charlton,
the steward of the ship. The third went
through my cabin.
Capt Alonzo Nash heard the shoot
ing and hurried down with Chief Off
GER ]. +. Evans. Leonard saw them
and became quiet Immediately. He
handed over the automatic and then
he was put In irons and sent below.
Jumps Overheard.
Yesterday morning, when one Of the
men went to his breakfast, he found
Leonard was missing. Some one had
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

cut the irons and he had slipped them
of, leaving them on the floor of the
brig. Then he jumped overheard In
the dark.
After swim OF more than a mile
Leonard came ashore at Princes Bay.
aud later went to garage owned by
John Hoag. where he asked II he could
rent an automobile to take him to New
York. When told there were no cars
for rent. he displayed roll Of SO to
show he was able to pay. That failed
TO get him car and so he waited until
an oil truck driven by a chauffeur for
A. Halliwell. an oil dealer at 341 West
Thirty-first street, Paterson. N. j.,
came along. Leonard persuaded the
driver TO give him lift. and when last
seen was headed for the ferry at Tot
tenville.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS


The king can do no wrong. II the
other fellow holds four aces.
What every woman knows: How to
manage her daughters husband.
Talk Is SO cheap that most Of II has
to be disposed Of at big discount.
An old bachelor says that marriage
Is the permanent injury that results
from falling In love.
Give the average man half chance
10 talk about himself and he will de
liver the goods.
Some folks would Judge the popular
ity Of an actress by the flowers she
presents to herself.
Some women get red In the face
from modesty. some from anger and
others from the druggist.
Every man likes to have II saiu
that his baby looks like him, but gets
mad II told he resembles the baby.
Chicago Daily News.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
How Films Aid In Education.

More than 500 motion picture films,
dealing with more than 115 subjects.
are now being circulated by the United
States Department OF Agriculture. A
recent one. photographed largely from
a drop Of water. represents the origin
and spread OF rhubarb blight. a dis
ease that brings great loss to the truck
farmer. Besides the organisms and
their spread. the film includes field
scenes, the symptoms Of the blight.
and methods OF eradication. This is
one OF the few series of pictures pho
tographed largely through the miscro-
scope. thus showing objects invisible
to the naked eye.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

for license did not know the age of
his bride-elect he had to show her
Judge her age. When the applicant
went after the girl she naturally
asked why she had to go along to
get the license. When told that the
law required her exhibition. she re-
marked: "Oh, you've got to show
mer This occurred many times dur
ing the first year or so of the laws
enforcement and became a byword.
Thus Missouri became known as the
"Show-Me" state.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
DERIVED FROM EARLY CUSTOM
How Missouri Got Its Now Generally
( Used Nickname of tho "Show-
Me" state.

An early-day custom In Missouri
regarding marriages is said to be re-
sponsIble for the famous expression.
"I'm from Missouri; you've got to
show me-"
A good many years ago the marriage
laws In Missouri were so loose that any
one could get married without answer
Ing many questions. In 1881 law
was passed making II d misdemeanor
for a minister or a justice to marry
persons not having a state license. IL
also set the age OF marriageabie
women II eixhteen II the annllcanf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
VARIOUS NATIONAL DANCES

The Irish national dance II the
"jig."
The Bohemian national dance Is the
''beseda."
The English national dances are the
"hornpipe" and 'laneers."
The German national dances are
the "gallopade" and "waltz."
The Neapolitan national dance Ii
the "tarantella."
The Polish national dances are the
"mazurka" and "krakovieck."
The Russian national dance is the
"cossac."
The Scotch national dance Is the
.reel."
The Spanish national dances are
the "bolero' and "fandango."
The French national dances are the
'contredance" Country dance). ''co-
tillion" and 'Quadriile."
Is your subscription past due /?
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

The king can do no wrong. II the
other fellow holds four aces.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
Can't Kiss wife In Swimming Pool

North Bergen. N. J.-If man must
kiss his wife, he should not kiss her IN a
public swimming pool. Matthew
Marquard, thirty years old, became af-
fectiOnate with his wife Margaret.
twenty years old. Ia a pool here, and
appeared In court ON disorderly con-
duct charge.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

Whiting, Ind.-A bullet, fired by q
policeman at target practice. lodged In
the neck OF Andrew Serencik, sixteen
years old. who was just diving or a
pier for a swim. Other swimmers
carried Serencik ashore and rushed
him to q hospital
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

This expression. now common. arose
out Of the custom once prevalent In
France of serving to guest who had
outstayed his or her welcome a cold
shoulder of mutton instead OF hot
roast, as q hint for them to 20.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10

Copenhagen.--When King Christian
visited little town In northern
Sehleswig, German woman remarked
to a companion as they were passing
the king: You can't call him good
looking. anyhow" The king turned
and answered In German, but his
hearing Is excellent"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-03-10
HOW:

HOW=====
MOORS FArTEN FEMALES
FOR MARRIAGE MARKET
In Egypt u quaint wedding Gus
tom Is the visit paid by the bride
and her friends to the bath. The
progress to Ii partakes OF the
nature of u procession, headed
by Arab musicians. with tam
bourines, flutes and other instru-
ments. The bride Is usually
seated ON a camel and covered
with a sort of tepee from the top
of which the greatest palm
leaves obtainable are projected.
Over the door of the bathhouse
a handkerchief Is hung to denote
that only women may enter. At
ter the bride and her friends
have bathed, they abandon them
selves TO the enjoyment of the
entertainment provided 10y the
musicians. story tellers and sing
ers.
Among the Moors, girls are
fattened for the marriage mar
ket much as the poultry farmer
treats his livestock. The staple
food of the women is bread, and
It Is chiefly with this that they
are fattened. Long-shaped pellets
Of It are constantly forced down
their threats for a period OF
about three weeks before their
marriage.
The bride has to be put
through a strange ordeal. She
Is placed In an ill-ventilated
wooden cage. usually white
washed. and Is taken In II in pro-
cession through the streets to the
bridegroom's dwelling. After a
two weeks honeymoon the dis
carded box Is placed on the roof
of the house in prominent posi-
ton, so that all may see II. This
is an official intimation that the
newly welded pair are ready TO
receive friends.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
HYDRAULIC HORSEPOWER

The combined hydraulic horse
power of the United States and
Canada is 50,O00,OOO, or slightly
more than that of Europe. The
power developed both in the United
States and Canada, again, is slightly
greater than the grand total for all
of Europe. The percentage of power
developed is, then, about the same in
North America and Europe. The
British empire, apart from Canada,
cuts a poor figure in these totals.
Leaving out Canada, the power uti-
lied by Great Britain in proportion
to her resources is far below that of
other countries.
The possibilities of future wealth
in the United States in this respect
are amazing. In a single month the
total output of water power for the
country was 1,226,770, 900 kilowatt
hours. incidentally. California pro-
duces twice the hydraulic power Of
New York. By developing such nat
ural resources, this wealth, it is en-
couraging to remember, may be in
creased more than 500 per cent.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
DEFINING THE PICTURE SPORT
Pen Portrait That May or May Not Be
So Very Much overdrawn or
caricatured.

"Do You know the picture sport ?"
asked girl who was wearing Nor
folk tweeds, fiat sport heels and a
tweed hat.
"Any kin to the tin horn ?" asked
her man companion.
"N-no-I'd say not. Because
this kind is not Objectionable except
as she is inconsistent and that NAV
be her prerogative. Who knows I?
She is the girl who fills up her ward
robe with the most fragile of So
called sport clothes, silk skirts, en-
broidered ribbon hats to match, silk
hose, dainty ties or pumps, sweaters
In the most perishable of colors and
fabrics, bathing suits that won't wet
and rubber picture hats that would
make you drown if they were caught
by wave. That's the picture sport.
"She never plays golf in her golf
toys; she never swims in her water
suit; she never rides or hikes in her
breeches; she never plays tennis in
her becoming tennis skirt. Oh, no,
but she sails in to tea with the rest
OF us after the games are all over
and we are hot and red and covered
with perspiration and sits down to
the table as fresh as paint, giving us
the once over for being so blown and
blowsy looking, She fans herself
and makes up with her vanity case
wide open-she's the picture sportl
Watch her H-Chicago Journal.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
SONG THAT TINY GIRL LOVED
Naturally, AZ She Understood II, u
Made a Strong Impression
Upon Her.

She had lost her government POI
sition and, as keeping company with
. wolf has absolutely no attraction
for an aspiring young woman, she
matched at the opportunity to teach
. country school in the green hills Of
Virginia, not so very far away.
She discovered that her duties in
cluded sweeping the school, keeping
up the fire AMI so on, but as every
good teacher is a Tom Sawyer at
heart, the boys and girls were soon
outracing each other for the grasp
ing of such honors-and she in turn
became so interested in her work and
in the little people that she thought
up many pleasures for them and
taught them many simple songs. In
no time they were on piping terms
with patriotic anthems and old
fashioned hymns, which they dearly
loved, especially Coward, Chris
tian Soldiers" because of its swing
and infectious rhythm. As one tiny
girl confded to her with shy srdor ::
"Teacher, | love all the songs, but
what l love best of any is Coward,
Kissing Soldier" - Washington
Star
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
80 The Pacific Telephone -
49, And Telegraph Company 2I

tries ordinarily called cream roll,
but which they called ''lady luck. "
She put her fork in one end and the
cream camepopping out the other.
This amused them both, and the
older suggested she turn it around
and all would be right. She did,
but the same thing happened; so
after battling withit for few sec
onds, in despair, she took it up in her
hand and started to eat. The sis
ter, with a look of horror, stopped
her, exclaiming: Suppose some of
my swell friends should see your
After protests, the younger put the
"1uck" back on the plate and finish
ed it as best she could.--Chicago
Journal.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
NEW KIND OF FUEL

Successful experiments have re-
Gently been made with a fuel COM
posed OF anthracite dust and an al
most pure carbon obtained by distila-
ton of coal-tar pitch. The stuff is
pressed into briquets, the coal-tar
pitch product serving as binder. In
this shape it is hard, dense and in
color silvery to grayish black. The
briquets burn like anthracite, not
going to pieces like coke.-Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
A CAREFUL ESTIMATE

The recruit was anxious to get a
noncom's billet in the Tenth artil-
lery, and the first sergeant was CIV
ing him preliminary examination.
GLOW many pieces will a r.
pound shell burst into?" asked the
sergeant.
The recruit did some rapid-fire
thinking. He rubbed his chin
drew an imaginary line on the floor
with the toe of his shoe-scratched
his head, and finally drawled out:
"Well, sergeant, l should Judge
not less than two"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
COUGAR MADE GOOD SHOWING
Man and Three Dogs Engaged In Long
and Fierce Battle With Preda-
tory Animal.

According to a Husum Wash. J
special to the New York World, a
man, three dogs and a big cougar
engaged in a frightful battle near
there in the foothills of Mount
Adams, according to Gus Olsen, who
is under doctors care for several
dozen deep cuts on hisabody.
Olsen, seeking cougar guilty of
robbing him of several calves, start
ed three experienced hunting dogs on
the trail and they intercepted the
furious animal in a hollow. The
cougar backed upward into a low
hanging cedar and coolly faced the
dogs which went after il from all
sides.
The first dog within range of the
sharp claws of the big cat had it's
head nearly severed and the second
dog to launch an offensive was
ripped open from end to end. The
third plucky dog was sailing into
the flying claws of the cougar when
Olsen arrived and fired.
Thinking the animal dead. Olsen
reached for its tail to pull it from
the tree. The cougar suddenly be-
came dynamo of destruction and
in a few minutes had torn Olsen's
clothing to shreds and left him
bleeding from several dozen deep
scratches.
Olsen was entirely exhausted when
the cougar fell dead from the slow
effects of the bullet in its lungs.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
USE LAMPS TO STUDY PLANTS

Large electric lamps, 1000 watt
capacity, are being used in an inten-
siye study of the rate of respiration
and the process of photo synthesis in
plants at the University of Wiscon-
sin. The plants are allowed to grow
under these powerful lamps in a
room cooled TO about IS degrees
Fahrenheit.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05

The Waiter-How'd you like a
slice of nice hickory-cured country
ham with three or four fresh eggs,
right off the nests?
The Customer-Finel Just the
thingl
The Waiter-Ain't it So? Too
bad, We amt got none.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
DRY BANQuETS

"You are not going to attend your
class reunion?"
"No," said Mr.. Jagsby. "The
college spirit is still strong in me
after twenty years absence from
the academic halls of my alma
mater, but ! don't feel equal to
emitting the college yell with moth
ing behind it but a few glasses Of
cold wafer" - Rirminaham Aa>-
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
IMPROVED CAMERA

Formerly a specially built camera
was required for taking "slow-mo-
ton" moving pictures, produced by
running the film through the camera
at high speed and projecting it at
normal speed. Now an attachment,
says Popular Mechanics Magazine, is
available by the use of which any
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05

motion picture camera will produce
films at the rate of 1873 to 400 ex-
posures second, instead Of Is a
second, the normal rate. The device
can be attached or removed in about
one minute, and, when removed, the
camera may be used in the regular
way without further change.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
HAD MORE HEAD THAN HEART

Mother-Jessie, the next time YOU
hurt that kittie, am going to do
the same thing to you. II you slap
it Ill slap you. II you pull its ears
III pull yours. If you pinch it I'll
pinch you.
Jessie latter moments thought)
Mamma, III pull its tail.-Life.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
MIGHT MISPLACE EYEBROW

at takes a man of courage to
face the accusing eyes of his wife
without fiinching."
"That's why usually pick
quarrel with Mrs. Gadspur when
she's putting ON her makeup" said
Mr.. Gadspur.
"Eh?"
"At a time like that a woman
isn't going to run the risk of TAX
ing her eyes off her mirror"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
BON VOYAGE

Passenger (from car Window
Hey, you darn fool, here goes the
train and you haven't put my bag
gage aboard.
Porter-You're the darn fool ;
you're on the wrong train.--From
lie Rire, Paris.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
UNCLE EBEN

ode stranger" said Uncle Eben,
always gives you de most interes-
tin advice, but when you's lookin'
fob real help, you's mos likely to
git it FUN de old friend"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
SAFEGUARDING A REP

Today the Woman went in for
one of those put and take lunches,
20 popular for the hurried business
woman. At the table sattwo sis
tiers. When they we're ready for des-
sert. the older took a baked apple,
the younger one of those fancy pas
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
UNCLE E6EN

"You never won't hab no trouble
gettin' work, son." said Uncle Eben,
'if you coaxed fob job as hahd ss
you does fob seven in a crap gsms."
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05

A CAREFUL YOUNG MAN.
"You want TO marry my daugh-
teri"
I'm not certain. but I'd like an
option on her hand, SIR"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-05-05
HER VIEWS

hEh VIE WE
I don't un.
derstand this
stun a b o u I
sealed pro-
posalsf
Huh7
II must be q
very strange
young man who
would send a
girl a proposal
that W a q n e
sealed.