Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

And while his ScadS last.
As "A liver. he's fast.
But his walk is painfully sleau
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Pcstime is just slightly personal
this week, but it is hoped no bones
will be broken.
These frequent storms make the in
valid long for days when little birds
Will be singing duets amid the leafy
branches.
The month comes in like lion all
right In fact. the weather was quite
leonine for week in advance.
Theodore seldom takes a walk with
out seeing or hearing something that
will serve as text and he has no more
sense than to preach as long as he can
get an audience. Look out for him
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Down at the store the other day
lady was buying material for kitch-
en- work shirt. She is an energetic,
industrious lady and wanted some
thing that would stand the wear with
out tear-drag the boxes or draw nails.
when they happened to ''catch on,
as such things often do. Now what
sort of dress goods do you think she had
in mind? 1t was cottonade pantsing.
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Don't be shocked, good people, al
any foolishness you may find in this
column from time to time. 1t has to
be spfced a little to give it a taste"
or make it palatable to the average
reader.
Some fellows are always ready t.
say that the little country paper has
no influence. nothing in it, etc, and
vet they are tickled half to death at
the mereSt mention of their names in
its columns and some of them would
have fits if it gave them puff" or a
roast" Now this is not stab at
any one in particular. Neither does
it have any reference to the writer or
to the readers Of this column, nor to
the persons mentioned in it now and
then
We used to like salt rising bread
but seldom get it any more so Theo-
dora thought she would make loaf
for the old man, just for u change
Well, it was pretty good bread and
yet it was not just what you would
call a humping success. Neither was
it IA flat failure; it did hump little.
Perhaps it was because the baker was
out of practice on that particular kind
of bread or there might have been
something wrong with the ''ingredi-
ents," as Dan Martin called them.
The salt was there all right but the
rising was very much like that of the
sluggard. Even the old familiar odoI
of the .'emptyin's" was not quite a
energetic and self-assertive as il
should have been.
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"That reminds me of the Story'' OF
the woman who was unacquainted
with the sailing process of bread
making, but who determined to Learn
it. She followed directions careful
ly. kept the stuff just warm enough.
and, in course of time, the compound
got move on itself and was giving
fourth emphatic olfactory evidence oi
readiness to do business. Now the
experienced housewife knows thai
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the better the bread is going to be
when baked, but this woman had not
been coached on this point. She
thought the stuff was spelling and
dumped the whole batch into the
Swill barrel.
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Theodore received some circulars
the other day recommending the use of
a nostrum called giant FOOD There
was a mistake somewhere. They
were most likely intended for ..little
Brown or s'f,oots' Sellers or ssShorty':
.tMorelll OF some other athlete in their
class.
l have just received wireless,
from Mr. Tatman. He refuses to
move his new house back out of my
line of sight Diplomacy has failed
and am forced to issue an ultimatum:
If he don't move his house within a
reasonable time / shall look right
through 1T. He can't blockade me.
lie may expect a leak in the roof near
the southwest nip, half way between
the caves and the deck.