The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
rNIrsT no KANsAs.

A Texas editor tries to lay the blame
for a recent cold wave down there on to
Kansas. He goes further-he says dog
gone Kansas" Think of that, We proud
Jayhawkers!
The Texas scribe, in his ignorance,
does not know that these cold waves
are Matched in Alberta or Medicine Hat.
Instead of thanking US for trying to stop
them with our wealth of sunshine, this
Texas man goes grouchy because little
cold evaded US and swept down on him.
Come to think of it, all the "howling
northers" that have happened this year
have gone around Kansas. but still Tex
as blames Kansas for them just as
though Kansas invented them and turn
ed them loose upon innocent and unsus-
pecting Texas. Listen to this Texan
as he dreams in the Fort Worth Record:
Wasn't yesterday a joyg
"SuEshiny as a brides lace and sweet
as a baby fresh from the BATH
1T wasn't a spring day, for there was
q lingering feel OF frost, but there was a
challenge of spring in the smell of the
air. You could almost hear the sap
starting in the peach trees, and the
mother rose bush seemed to be trying
to proclaim the borning bud.
The housewife went out looked at
the sweet peas and hummed a song un-
der her breath. The farmer man exam
ined his seed corn and Whistled q tune.
THE small boy tarried by the win
dow of the sporting goods store and eX-
amined the fishing tackle.
THE weather wise had predicted rain,
and the rain-soaked, mud despatched
people who are early in bed went to
sleep frowning. The dry goods man
groaned and the milliner wished she
were a man so she could say what she
wished. Only the shoe man chuckled
--H=Nns nnTr etc -
rubbers. The school children were glad
and hoped for a sO9ker to keep them al
home. The all-nighter knew better. He
had gone home in the wee small hours
with a clear moon and bright stars
lighting his Wobbly way.
when the folks walked up it was a
little cloud and the day seemed DOOM
ed. Breakfast was glum and dour. The
biscuits were soggy- the coffee was
druggy and the milk was sour. 1t was
all slush, and bad words getting to the
cars
Then the miracle.
The sun climbed over the fog bank
in the east and it was resolved into
sweet vapors. The washerwounan hung
out the clothes, the rooster crowed and
the dog chased his tail The housewife
turned the hose on the front steps and
let the fire in the crate die down.
"A bird sang and the whole Of crea-
ton thrilled.
Down town the dry goods merchant
grinned. The milliner put away the win
ter hats marked down and brought out
the spring CONNECTIONS marked up. The
shoe man threw the rubbers infa box
and put spring slippers in the show win
dow The butcher teIephoned to the
packing house for lamb and wondered
where he could find some mint The
haberdasher got out his new ties and
white vests and the tailor tackled up his
spring style sheet
Anon milady came tripping along
and the clerks got busy with parasols
and fluffy stuff.
THE afternoon fairly sung itself into
delirium. and the night came down
like an intangible fleece that was FL-1en
with the sunset and then silver as the
moonlight, pinned against the sky with
a million diamonds.
Love walked abroad naked and un-