The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-11

said. give me a good horse every time"
Thus the one word automobile has
brought forth a fund of the good old
safe and sane observations that were
shopworn one month after the first
motor honked through our Streets and
each speaker is quite sure he has said
something particularly wise and orig
inal, whereas he has but proved him
self a hopeless Bromide. ANY mem
Der of the group could at least have
said something new If he had re-
marked: i've never been in an auto
mobile in my life and I don't know a
thing about Them but perhaps this is
too much to expect.
Other examples of bromidions
heard in passing are given by the Sun:
There are just as many chances
now to grow rich in the real estate
business as there were in the days
when Greeley Square was COW pas
ture-if We only knew where they
are"
Hearst is stronger than most people
suppose"
Newspapers make one statement
: today and deny 1t tomorrow"
1.-THE stage was never lower than it
IF they only knew enough to cover
4 the third rail they wouldn't have these
| troubles on sleety days.
you would think it was taken from
a novel;
]
I've never read The Jungle but
I've heard of IT,
TT costs only half as much to live
/ in Europe"
"She isn't pretty but she Is aWf'ly
/ good hearted"
''But, of course. you never can get
/ any information out of a hotel clerk -
did you ever see a brilliant mans
son that amounted to anything"
Half this gush over the Old Mas
/ ters is put on
I'm my opinion a college education
never made genius of man. Lin
coin never went to college"
If any one said a. hundred years
ago a man in New York could talk to
a man in Chicago, why
mo doubt there are many good
women on the stage"
If half the stories told about White
are true, he deserved it,
Mark my words Thaw will never be
! executed"
"A dentist will always find teeth to
| fill whether they need 1t or not"
IF I had Carnegie's money I'd do
/ something better with 1t than build IL
braries. Book don't feed the hungry"
IF were a Millionaire I'd never go In
for society. That sort of thing would
never have any attraction for me-"
''Gibson's women are all alike"
"Of course the conductor shouldn't
be blamed for refusing the transfer, but
/ he could at least be a gentleman"
Lots of men say they can stop snok-
| ing whenever they want to-but they
/ never want to-"
There isn't any artistic atmosphere
| in America such IS one finds in Europe. 2
The wealth or poverty of the girl
| would marry would not have the slight
est bearing on the matter
THE most ignorant Italian laboreT
seems to be able to appreciate art
Society goes to the opera because it's
the thing to do and not because they
understand the music
All old friends these, and the number
could be multiplied indefinitely with lit
| tie effort Through each of them runs
| an undercurrent of se1f-satiSfied wis
dom and as has been pointed out, it IS
this habit Of mentally patting oneself
on the back while circulating these safe
and sane epigrams that makes the
Bronnide's case incurable.
| But il is during the distressingly polite
conversation of the drawing room that
one observes the bromide symptoms after
the death rattle has set in
you don't mean to say you're going
It's very early. one woql,qi. THINK you
1--WE spent a simply delightful evening
you don't mean to tell me it's ter
minutes past IL Really, it doesn't seen
half an hour since I came. "
'Oh. do play something. Bertha"
Il should be only too happy to take
cue in the game, but you must make al
lOwances for mel haven't played game
Of billiards in two years" (Why does thu
Bromide always say two years? Why il
he never known to make his last game O
billiards one year ago or five or fourD
Fl trust your father is enjoying his usu
al good health?'
| Now, I hope you will not stand on Ger
emony but run in whenever you can"
Good night cant tell you how muel
I've enjoyed myself"
mot nearly so much, I assure you. a
we've enjoyed having you with US.
At the studio teas and similar gather
. ings of the near-hig'h brows the cloud
of bromidions obscure the lights of tn
= I rs q T6eIS
l usually her-duty to air his knowledg
of pictures, music and the best sellers 0
! about BY turning loose all the can
phrases that have not actually died o
general debility. One hour in this ciga
rette smoked and heated atmosphere vii
caused an able bodied Sulphite almost t
long for the oft-quOted bromidiom: g
l don't know anything ABOUT art but