The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
When a bachelor is among women, he
always claims to be lonelier than he
| really Is.
| license to laugh at the man who has
| lumbago.
When a man fails in business, some
people are sure to say, "I'n bet he
| feathered his nest"
| After a man reaches 40, he cannot
| be expected to tell the truth in speak
ing Of his age.
| When boy goes on a visit, his good
| ness is wonderful: he will carry in
| wood without being told.
When people try to give the impress
sion that they are rich. 1t is dead
sure thing that they are poor.
A man imagines he is misunderstood:
that he is too deep to fathom, though
everyone sees clear through him.
A boy gets an orange so dirty when
he peels it that no one but his mother
will take a bite when he tries to be
gallant.
When a boy goes out west hunting,
and writes home that he killed a deer,
he can fool his. mother, but he can't
fool his father.
Times are SO hard since the financial
furry that men are cutting their mus
taches off that they may smoke their
cigars shorter.
After a widow has read the lovely
inscription she has had engraved on her
husbands tombstone, all doubts as to
whether he was a good husband van
ish.
In the savage countries, as soon as
a man becomes burden to himself or
others, he is put out of the way: in
PEELED to walk mighty straight, or get
killed.
You frequently hear it said of people
that they do not amount to much. This,
unfortunately, is a common complaint:
all of US are guilty of amounting to very
little; therefore, we should have charity
for each other.
Sometimes I think have nothing
to be thankful for. but when 1 reflect
that 1 am not a woman, am content
Anyone who is occasionally compelled
TO kiss man, and pretend to like it, is
entitled to sympathy."-Drake Watson.
What do you mean" correspond
ent asks, when you speak OF an over
rated MANI" We mean one who ac-
cepts every favorable opinion he hears
of himself as the truth, and every I'M
favorable opinion as a malicious lie. A
wise man pays great deal of attention
to what his enemies say about him.
We are acquainted with married
woman who is ALWAYS declaring that
her happiest days were passed when
she was school teacher. Lately, we
met a man who knew her when she
was a girl, who says that she was al
ways QSCldTluS IHdl IL Suo COuio OiiJ
get rid of school teaching, and get
married, she believed she would be per-
fectly content.
when I passed my thirteenth birth
day, I could not help thinking I was
growing desperately old, and made some
preparations for a suitable funeral.
When I reached 40, I regarded a man
of 80 as a giddy youth, congratulating
myself that no one reaches his prime
until he is 45, and was greatly en-
couraged one day when man of 20
said that we young men should stand
together. I am satisfied now that the
older a man gets. the more he is con-
WINGED that age is respectable; that no
brain Is clear until 1t has been in op-
Grafton 80 or so years, and that men of
middle age are ships and boys. 1 have
an idea, also, that when 1 die. 1t will
be very unexpected, and that will be
making preparations to greatly distin-
guish myself a day or two before the
event, fully convinced that my illness
is only temporary, and that will be
better tomorrow."-Parson Irvine.