The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.l

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1 II an old man is rich. he is i'm.
posed on; if he is poor, he is neglected
! The people who ask favors are the
ones who would almost rather die thar
grant one.
Let any woman talk about her past
and you will discover that she has
| been sick good deal.
The members of an Atchison family
are so lazy that the family clock hasn't
been wound in six months.
Considering how many ways there
| are or being mean, there is not so very
much meanness in the average person
A woman becomes chilly on the ap-
proach of winter, and never becomes
| thoroughly warm until the following
| spring.
How many rumors are true? We
| once kept count, and found that only
one rumor in twenty had any real
foundation.
Perhaps one reason a woman makes
her husband take medicine, and fails
to take it herself, is that no woman
can nag herself.
What great amount of good some
men could accomplish If they put to
useful purposes the energy they use in
trying to keep their pipes lighted
This reporter met girl On CONNER
How is the financial flurry?" What
difference does that make to you ?" the
reporter replied: "a girl never has any
money"
How people enjoy a Joke" on a man.
Instead Of bothering a man unneces-
sarfly, why not devote the same time to
pleasing him? A man has so many
rough places to climb over that he
greatly appreciates a little kindness.
And If you give him a kick instead of
finally get even"
We have a new worry, and one that
should put the currency troubles in the
garnet: A wise man named Pfnchot
says that at the present rate of con-
sumption the forests of the country will
be wiped out within ten years. Oh,
grief! When that time comes. how
will we be able to knock on wood with
no wood left to knock on?
Advertisements for a new graphic
phone say it is an ideal thing to have
in the house to arnuse guests. This
indicates that the manufacturers think
women do all the graphophone buying:
No man would buy anything because IL
was calculated to amuse guests. What
the men are looking for is something
that will make the guests go home
We know a remarkable woman who
is teaching a little country school
Some day she will marry a little old
Decent man, and spend the rest OF her
life in retirement. If that woman were
a man. her ability and strength of char
acter would bring her to the front No
man of ability is neglected; many wo-
men of ability spend their lives in OBJ
security.
When an old country man begins
telling about the great things that oc-
cur where he used to live, he makes
good lob of 1t. Theo. Arensberg was
telling today of an old couple in Hol-
land that lately celebrated the one hum
dredth anniversary of their marriage.
The husband was 123, and the wife 11S.
That will hold the Americans for some
time
Some women just naturally know
how to use dry goods. and we imagine
they do not work any harder than those
who think. and think, and think, and
look sIouchy In the same way, some
men can do thing easily. while others
can't. That's about all there is in luck
a man born with poor taste. and little
sense Is sil1nIucky," while a man born
with ability, and a little common sense.
is lucky"