The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

tFrom the Atchison Globe. -
What a lonesome time setting hen
must have! =
Every man often says to himself:
mo man works as hard as 1 do"
HE is the second biggest fake in
town." a man said today. Who is the
first?
Saying Here's to you!" is about all
there is to taking a drink of liquor in
a saloon.
If men were not such poor shop
pers, what a lot of old stuff the stores
would have left on hand.
1t takes more patience to train a
dog than to put a baby to sleep, but
not many men believe it.
If any airy woman could hear what
is said about her, behind her back, it
would take some OF the airiness out of
her.
The girl who wanted to know if her
steady would love her in December
as in May wasn't figuring on this kind
of a May.
This is the season of the year when
editors begin to make suggestions
about commencement exercises, to
which no one pays any heed.
About the third day of a guests
stay, her host feels like smashing the
motto welcome" hanging on the
parlor wall, every time he looks at it.
Theoretically it is a Beautiful
Thing for parents to visit the schools.
but in reality they disturb the regu-
lar routine and worry the teachers to
death.
What has become of the woman
who didn't think her parlor was fur
nished good enough for company un-
less it was furnished too good for the
family?
A man will pull his money out of
his pocket, miss a dollar, and try to
recall when he spent it; in the same
way, as he grows older, he will occa-
sionaIly count his friends, find there
is one less. and wonder what he did
to lose him.
The Don't Worry club will make
study during May of the life of the
late Mrs. Blank. 1t is recalled that
she worried four years over what
school to send her boy, and that he
died when he was and never had to
go to school. Mrs. Blank also worried
a great deal over the prospect of go
ing to the poor house, and saved and
scrimped in way that made her life
wretched. She died with her husband
owning q big bank account she had
denied herself to help save, and now
a second wife is helping to spend 1t.
Many incidents like this in the life of
Mrs. Blank will be recalled at the
during the merry month of May.
They tell of an Atchison woman
who seasoned her breakfast; found
food for conversation during the day.
forgot to enjoy her dinner, and still
found the subject interesting at sup
per in complaining about That Boy
Next Door. If there was a paper on
the lawn, if there was a peach less on
the trees, if the cat had a stone bruiSA
and if anything was out of order with
her home she laid it on That Boy
Next Door. Even her plumbers in
cooking were laid on him because she
would get so angry thinking about
him she would forget the proper
amount of baking powder. And every
thing was sailed twice, and peppered
with such vehemence, the family
couldn't eat it. Just about the time
that her husband was thinking she
was crazy over the meanness of That
Boy Next Door, the Boy took sick
The woman was professedly glad of IL
for two days; on the third day she
wondered how he was; on the fourth
LAY she went over to inquire, and on
the fifth night she sat up all night
and was with him every night for two
weeks, ana 1t was her tender care
hat saved the Boys life Isn't that
lust like a woman?