The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS

GLOBE SIGHTS
TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
How many level-headed people do
you know?
Some mems idea of a good time is
to spend Sunday breaking a horse.
Lots of fancy and expensive things
to eat are not as good as beefsteak-
An Atchison old girl is far too coy
for her age; she is at least sixty years
old.
Every woman. according to her neigh
bors, has closet full Of clothes at
home.
What has become of the old fashioned
fuss over the word obey in the mar
riage service?
Probably every Aunt Ophelia can't
understand why she was not cast for
the part of Little Eva
4 woman's idea Of art is to make q
not know how TO eat it
Your rival in business tells pretty
tough stories on you; it's fortunate the
neighbors don't believe them.
Every man has his special weakness.
And the man with a special weakness
usually has a special strength
People never seem to pay much at
tention when your enemy does wrong
But how they howl when you do
wrong.
The trouble with the neighbor's
that they are not the kind that taste
good fried
About the most helpless man you see
IS the merchant standing in his store
door. watching his neighbOr getting all
the trade.
When a man is sick. some people are
shocked if he has woman nurse. An
AtchisOn woman is getting even by
hiring a male nurse.
During the strawberry season plenty
Of boys can be had to pick them on
shares the boys are allowed to eat
every fourth berry
It pleases a woman Immensely to
have the neighbors tell her that the
child her child plays with puts him
up to his naughtiness-
In small town there is considerable
talk about extravag ance if a woman
buys a new dress the first year she is
married.
After a boy gets a job at which he
his sisters at home to cook anything for
him he wants
Lying comes so natural that when
people have ten cents worth Of good
luck, they give out the impression that
it was a dollars worth.
An Atehison girl is getting on in the
worth about Sc. her second was dear at
$40, and her third is a diamond worth
A young man returns from college
feeling that he has been away an age.
To his older friends it doesn't seem he
has been away long enough to shake
hands.
Tt signifies not at all whether a man
live thirty, or fifty, or a hundred years:
for all he gets by it is only to see the
same sights. 50 much the oftener-"-
Marcus Aurelius.
What the neighbors call extravaganza
depends largely upon the size of the
town. In the country a woman is ex-
travagant if she has the washing and
ironing done.
If there were a wounded dog lying out
in front of your house, would you walk
when you repeat gossip: YOU are simply
cruel.
When the average woman cleans
house, it is discovered that she IS keep
ing. from year to year, a lot Of useless
things which she expects win come in
some day
President Mckinley will not do any
handshaking in Kansas City. his man
ager announces. Still ne is shaking
hands all over the south. why discrin-
mate against Missouri Kansas City is
in 1t, and must be shown.
Il IS New York fashion to relate in
telling Of a wedding what schools the
bride and groom were graduated from
and their records at golf If this per
nicious thing ever creeps into the west
We might as well lock the house, and
run Off
An Atchison man IS so badly hen
pecked that he is really in need of help,
but who is bold enough to go to his
assistance II he needed money. Or
work. or business. the people could do