The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-14
LAYHA WKER JOTS

Here is one of Bert Walkers ideas:
Every henpecked husband wears a
small black necktie, and when he
needs a new one his wife buys 1t for
him."
Mamie the Clothesline stripper" is
committing depredations at Arkansas
City. Wouldn't it be more modest to
refer to her as the Clothesline Dis
rober?
Advice from Tom Thompson: You
should be polite to the young boys you
meet Perhaps some day one of them
will be superintendent of the poor
house of which you are an inmate
Ralph Tennal makes this suggestion
to book agents: Why not make
chalk mark on the gate post as tramps
do, indicating an easy mark? If the
book agents adopt the suggestion
there's an editor uD at Sabetha that's
likely to get into trouble.
Abilene feels like It IS going some.
1t is spending $4,000 on new
churches, $4,000 on new school
houses. $4,000 on parks, to say moth
ing of the new homes. If that isn't
blowing the coin. Abilene would like
to know what you call it.
Here's the way they do it up at
Mankato. A year or so ago Joseph v.
and the court ordered Baker to pay
her alimony. Instead of complying he
left the country. Judge Picker who
sits on the district court bench UP in
that country, issued bench warrant
for the skipper, charging him with
contempt, and the sheriff has been
watching for him, and when he ap-
peared in the county short time ago
he was not long in finding the interior
of the county jail He will probably
stay there until he changes his mind
about obeying the orders of the court.
Here Is some apparently expert ad-
vice from the Deacon of the Osborne
Farmer. my friend, when you take
out a stack of chips in any game, you
want to make uD your mind to be a
take out the chips. You can't always
win. Never bet more than you can af-
ford to lose. The world loves a good
loser and always does him honor. and
Fortune never fails to come from be-
hind the clouds and smile on him some
other day. But the bad loser becomes
the laughing stock of the community
and the butt Of ridicule. It is bad
enough to lose the game, but worse to
lose your temper. If you lose enough
and smile enough, the day viii come
when YOU won't care which Wav the
wind blows. In other words, you
should always remember that laugh
and the world laughs with you: crv
and you cry alone Therefore laugh
when you are n winner and come as
near as you can 10 II When you are
loser"
Now talk about a newspaper man
not being of a forgiving spirit says
Tom Charles. of the Belleville Free
man, mo one is afflicted with such a
thing more than the average newspa-
per man. no one has more continuous
need OF it. If that hadn't been so: and
we were not trained to expect most
anything we would have broken down
this week under the shock Of having
certain man send in a dollar for the
paper for the coming year. now hold
on: that wasn't what shocked US, but
when we looked up his old account we
And that he quit the paper three years
ago indebted to the shop to the amount
of $500. and that any amount of duns
couldn't TAR him loose from his
money. We had a notion to send him
a credit slip for $500 on the old ac-
count but we didn't, we sent him the
paper and marked the card IN to Aug.
1, 1907. We will try to forget 1t if he
will"