The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-20

song, 'I'm a Graduate of Coins Finan-
cial School"
The woman who wears blue dress
| during hot weather, is told oftener than
the wearer of any other color, that she
is becomingly alfred This is princi-
pally because blue has a soothing fash
ion of looking cool in hot weather.
Apropos of colors in wearing apparel,
it is said that a wise woman will not wear
a color that is not reproduction of tint
found in her hair, eyes or complexion.
A man who got one and ought to know,
says Charley Scott gave the Pop senate
knives more advertising than such
poor grade of steel deserves. Those
knives couldn't have cost over 40 cents
gross.
In Atchison a man who has curly hair
would not sing in choir or be a mem
Der of quartette. Curly hair and
singing voice are considered danger
Gus combination there. But Secretary
Edwards who confesses to both these
defects, fortunately for him, lives in To-
peka.
A Topeka woman who is troubled by
| an association of ideas, calls the mana
| ger of the ball team Mr.. Beam. She
| thinks there is something more than q
mote in the eye of the Leavenworth
team
Your belt pin will look better if it is
the same color as your belt.
A Topeka young man recently sent to
lady friend who was i'll with typhoid
fever some cucumbers
A letter written to a Topeka woman
recently, contained this bit of news: "We
are all well but Mary; she has steady
company"
If you knew that tomorrow you would
be taken dangerously, perhaps fatally,
i'll what would you do today?
mamma" said a little 10-year-old
| girl, ''the next time I'm introduced to a
gentleman Pm going to say real quick,
you, sixty? Ny, but you're small for
your age! I'll just let grown people
see how they like that sort OF thing"
One of the brightest of Topeka chill
dren is the 3-year- old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Wear. She is being
taught Mother Goose ditties. Arrived
at the point in the song where the cow
| jumped over the moon, and the little dog
| laughed to see such sport" she rendered
it 1.-THE little dog laughed to see its
papa"
Hon. Joseph sibley remained in To-
peka till 4:4O yesterday afternoon, be-
cause he found it SO delightfully."- cool
here. Mr. Sibley reminds me of Eugene
Debs, whom l interviewed nearly year
ago, and looks not unlike him. He has
a clear grey eye instead of Debs' blue
grey, and it is deep set. He possesses
the quality of personal magnetism to an
unusual degree. He is particularly OBJ
servant, and sees all that goes on around
| him. Evidently. he is not afraid to look
at anything or any body that interests
! him.
Yesterday saw him on a street car,
smiling into the upturned face of a little
girl who had attracted his attention, and
his good natured face, which is even
stronger than it is handsome, dimpled
like girls. It is a face that one wants
| for friend
1 told Mr. Sibley had been unable to
hear his speech of the night before.
sim sure you did not miss much" he
said.
Pm not a speaker. I'm a business
man, and anything 1 may say comes
from my interest in the cause, and not
from my ability to handle a subject well.
"Pm plain business man, interested
chiefly in manufacturing and agricul-
ture
Pm what they call a crank, I sup
pose, but cranks have become so much a
force in society, that it is now rather a
mark of honor to be called crank"
Mr.. Sibley wore a dark coat, white
vest and light trousers. In his button
hole was a silver button, bearing the
legend ''16 to l."
| was sorry to have only ten minutes
to talk to him, but trains do not wait.
BECKY SHARP.