The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-09

But when he's bid his wife adieu
And for the summer he is freed
He turns unto his single friends,
And keeps them out until break of day
With him the evening never ends;
At least while WHEY is away
The summer may be full of cheer.
Will gladly see it disappear,
III, Mnen they can settle down again.
rms single blessedness, I swear
Has many joys in glad array;
BUT, Oh, bid you to beware
Or married men with wives away.
Detroit Free Press,
Summer in a City's Parks.
And then there are the people. Thew
are not splendid like the tulips. and
probably not all of them are as reIie HE
as the fountain They are not emn1ou7
ed TO sit on the benches for the en-
Dellishment of the park, but 90 there
gratis, and for reasons of their own
and with little concern about how they
become the park. All day long and IN
summer, late into the evenings. there
are children in the park, and If is thev
VINO most contribute to it's adornnenf
IN May they abound in great variety
Dareneaded, careless children from he
yond Third avenue, and children cIean-
er, better dressed, and of a more repu-
lated behavior, who come with nurses
1here are babies, too, especially in the
morning; some of them of a most de-
lectable quality. There are MANY rer-
sons VINO give the impression of heine
unemployed, and some of helms, So corr
tlnuously and by profession; there are
uiany readers, chiefly Of newspapers;
tnere are convalescents taking the air
ana people ordered by doctors to keen
out OF doors; and there are others whom
you wish were conValescent but who
40 not look So There are old men and
women Who appear in the morning stav
all DAY, and vanish in the dusk They
ana the professionally unemployed come
10 nave proprietary interest in the
park and its visitors, and take an easy
pleasure in whatever can afford it. and
especially in the babies and the nurse
maids and the small children, mothered
by sisters or brothers a little older
conversation may always be had in the
park by those who seek it. All the
languages are spoken there, and re-
nlarkable experiences of the vicissitudes
OF life are to be gathered by whoever
has ears to hear and time to listen.
And In the evening there are often
lovers Who might perhaps prefer seclu-
sion II they could get it, but are not
SO set In their preferences as to feel
constrained to let the evidences of af-
lection wait on solitude. They come
with other thousands to the band con-
certs which crowd the park on summer
evenings. Their hearts being attuned
to harmonies, they love the music, and
in the solitude of a crowd they find
themselves sufficiently secluded.-E. 8.
Martin, in Harper's for August.
Putting 1t Politely.
There is a well known clubman in
Washington, man of such conserva-
tism that he is rarely known to answer
a plain yes" or mo" to the most trivial
question. -,51 80 u 2e JGsl r-T
On one occasion two women of his ac-
Quaintance were discussing this peculiar
ity of the clubman, when one of them
wager that she could make the conserva-
tive individual say mo" fatty The
wager being accepted. she addressed the
clubman thus:
Let me see, Mr. Robinson, you are a
widower. are you not?'
"As much a wfdOwer, madam" he an
swered, with a polite bow, las it is
possible for a man to be who was never
married."-Harper's Monthly.
Animal Curios.
Storks devour kittens.
The horse has no eyebrows.
Fish never chew their food.
Turtles and tortoises have no teeth.
The Sleeps upper jaw is toothless.
A we'll grown kangaroo can leap
sixty feet.
All cu6-ch ewing animals have
c1oven hoofs.
Hares and snakes sleep with their
The frog can only breathe with its
The mother condor must keep her
young a year In the nest before they
are able to f1y.-Exchange.
For Summer Vacation Use.
THAT idea is novel," said Thomas
A. Edison of a new aeroplane. 1T is
a striking idea. I have seen nothing
to beat it since last summer.
"Then a young man showed me an
engagement ring that he was going to
patent But said 1. examining the
very ordinary-looking circlet, what Is
there patentabIe about this?'
cit is adjustable. sir said the
young man proudly
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1
Some strait-laced men have gone
crooked.
The man who boasts of his ignorance
has reached the limit
To the bunko artist one mans money
is as good as another's.
It's up to a man to sit down ond
standing offer.
One way to put money in circulation
is to take 1t to the race track.
When a man has occasion to defend