The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-03
LAYHA AWKER JOTS

AS an evidence that the world is
growing better c. E. ingalls, tells of a
Washington man who sWears off smok-
ing every other day.
Washington Republican, Register: Sol
omon claims to have the most Dhon-
ograDhs of any town in Kansas. We
know of a town that beats Solomon
several million but we aren't Dragging
about It.
The Neodesha Register admits that
the hand organ Is the only kind of in
strument that it ever learned to play
Its youthful education must have been
sadly neglected if it never turned out
the joyful strains of the jewsharp.
Since Wichita is knocking on the
proposition to hold a Kansas semi-cen-
tennial exposition in 1911 because it is
proposed to hold it at the state capital,
Harry Woods suggests that it be held
in two sections, giving Topeka and
Wichita each a section, it being agreed
that Wichita shall have the wet section.
Some women are mighty exacting.
The Clipper tells of a farmers wife
near Haddam who hitched UP the team
and went out and brought in several
loads of fodder, shuckiuE the corn for
the hogs, and just because her husband
refused to unhitch after the last load
while she was getting supper she rails
ed a row about it. Men are being
abused more every day.
The pretty high school girl who
writes the school correspondence for
the Concordia blade asks: WHO
throws kisses to the girls in school;
we want to knOw?" And the gallant
young man on the Washington Repub-
lcan- Register steps forward and asks
suggestively: Whats the matter, little
girl; aren't you getting your share %
A few weeks ago a bright young
Kansas newspaper woman became the
bride of a newspaper editor, and now
she is conducting WOman's depart
ment in her husbands paper, the Coun-
Gil Grove Guard. Here are some of her
observations; A woman doesn't have
to be thin to go through her husbands
pockets. Tt is not at all neces-
sary for a woman to learn lin iitsu
in orSer to know how to throw a man
down. Every siXty-ninth birth is
twins W1dOWers remarry more
frequently than widows "A woman
is a 2uzzle there is no answer to.
When the stOrk visits a home it leaVes
a bowling reminder behind. It's
the most difficult thing in the world to
forget what you want to forget.
There are three things that few women
can keeP--your money and secrets.
When girls return from the sea beach
they Dover show the extent of their
tan. T hey don't wear the bathing suits
in tow-.
Next time your wife throws your
pocket book into the stove with a lot
of bills in it, do not scold her. says
the Atchison Globe, or think the
money is lost. Gather the ashes a s best
you can. and take them to some bank,
and they viii send them back to the
government. and in nine cases out of
ten they will be redeemed. An Atchi-
son woman, when she went down town.
put her pocket book in the oven, and
when she came home she started a fire
without thinking of it. She found the
pocket book in a charred condition
next day and took it to the bank. It
IL,
were, but the government redeemed
them. They haye a method of telling
from the charred ashes whether it is
good money and on what bank it was
issued, and what the amount is An
other Atchison man lost his money in
the same manner and took~t ashes
to a bank in a box. He got his money
from the government, all right.