The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-05
Rather Out of Hand.


iedo's veteran educator, is one OF the
Few remaining schoolmasters who still
cling to corporal punishment
believe in corporal punishment"
ne said stoutly, In recent address. ST
take no stock in moral suasiOn. Good
healthy boys under moral suasioni
have too free a time of it, They get
out of hand.
There friend of mine" said Prof.
Lorimer, with grim smile. "who is
raising a family of six boys with the
help of moral suasion. The mild lit
tie CHAP argued about the matter the
other night at a club.
And do you believe said I, that
moral suasion is better than corporaI
yours?'
Yes said my friend.
For nay part, 1 sneered
And do you mean to say that Won
asked.
AS true as I sit here my friend
declared earnestly, L have never
s saIe one OF my children except in
His Ham-lilxe Honesty.
Mrs. M. G. Quackenbos, whom At
torney General Bonaparte has made
one of his special assistants in fine
campaign against the trusts, is a New
york lawyer of great brilIiance. Mrs. |
Quackenbos has the faculty of under |
scoring a remark with an appropriate |
fable. Thus, discussing the other day
the character of a certain notorious |
millionaire. she said:
suppose there is some honesty in |
the man, but 1t is hard to find. 1t re- |
minds me Of the railway ham sand |
wich. A man paused bitterly in the |
consumption of a very hard, dry rail-
way ham sandwich, and. said to the |
maid behind the bar:
I don't see no ham in this II
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the maid, with smile.
"a minute or two passed. The mans
jaws worked gloomily. Then they
stopped again, and he said:
man.
"'Oh.' she replied, you've gone and
bit over it now"
The Pickle Look.
Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden told a
New York reporter that Americans all |
worked hard and looked happy.
'In my country" the prince went on
eve work hard. too, but we have not
your happy look. Perhaps it is the
in Sweden that is typical, story that
will give you some idea of our ma
tional expression, though not, I'm
sure, of our national character.
"a Frenchman visited a Swede in
and one morning the two
friends set out for walk. Suddenly
the Frenchman exclaimed impatient
ly:
"'You look as sour as a pickle. Why
don't you smile? Why don't you have
a pleasant, good-natured air when you
are out of doors?'
WHAT growled the Swede. And
have everybody stopping me for
match or asking me how to get some
The Peoples Choice.
Senator LaFollette was talking In
Madison about crushing monopolies.
These concerns" he said, live on
the people, and therefore they try to
fiatter and delude the people. They
pretend that it is on the peoples suf-
ferance that their existence depends.
But this, really, is not the truth. The
people have no choice in the matter.
The senator smiled.
1.-The people and the corporations, he
said, remind me of a lady and her lit
lie boy. I was 1unching at this lady's
house one day. There was very large
chicken and a very small duck on the
table, and the lady. pausing with the
carving knife raised, said:
Johnny, which will you take. chick
IN OF duck?'
Duck piped Johnny.
ssBut the mother shook her head.
"'No, Johnny she said, In firm yet
xindly voice you can't have duck, my
lear. Take your choice, darling, take
your choice-but you can't have duck |
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