The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

IFrOm the Atch1SOn GlODe.J
After certain time life becomes
he has heard it all, seen it all. and
doesn't like any Of it.
Though the machinery in a mans
body is the most delicate in the world,
he neglects the care Of it, and bowls
II it stops running right
Very few people reach old age with
out suffering from some complaint
that is the result Of having too good
time when they were youne.
Getting an idea into his head that
| he is a good horse-trader, has as bad
an effect on a mans business pros
poets as if he had gone into politics.
When a man says he can't afford
believes he is stingy. But the express
sion is used a great deal by sensible
men.
People don't pay much attention to
compliments after they are fifty: after
you are fifty a compliment will make
you blush because you are not worthy
Of it.
When a woman with a big family
of little children makes up her mind
! to go somewhere, and not take child
| with her, she has that reckless air a
man has when he starts out on .
spree.
1t does a gosling no good to have
an eagle as his ideal. On the con-
trary, good goose is often spoiled in
its efforts to become an eagle. There
is q great deal Of foolishness in the
ideal business.
Remark that girl is pretty. and
someone who is present VIII say, 20,
but you should see her younger sis
ter" These younger sisters are a
great drawback to a girl getting q
reputation for beauty.
When a visiting girl comes across
her photograph in her hostess album,
she gives a little shrek, and says,
Mercy, have you one Of those horrible
things of me?" She says~it just the
same when she knows the picture is
good.
Some women drive their horses the
way they drive their husbands: They
keep a gentle tapping on the animals
back with the whip that only annoys
it. but does not change it out OF the
jog trot it wants to travel. They never
whip hard, but never cease whipping.
The best friends a man has are
himself The $40 man finds his adj
mirers in the IS circle, and the IS man
among those still poorer. A man Is
inclined to snub those poorer than
himself, but they are the ones who
come to his help when he is in trou-
BILE.
when was a boy, my father was
a great hand to whip and work. He
kept me hard at work, when he wasn't
whipping me, and the only vacations
I had was when he sent me out to
hunt an old horse named Charley.
This horse was noted for getting out
and running away. And when I was
sent to look for him, made the most
of the opportunity. Once I was gone
FIVE days, and, when returned with
out old Charley I found the horse
had returned home three days before.
of his own accord. And then my
father gave me thrashing for re-
naming away SO long. "-Parson
Irvine.
we remember, twenty years ago.
when a certain Favorite had the run
in Atchison. A rival camped beside
him, and people made a rush to de-
sert the Favorite. In course OF time,
the Favorite was ruined, and retired.
Disguised and sore. The New Man
prospered several years, but finally
people began to hate him. Another
rival appeared for the New Favorite'
and again the people promptly de-
serted the Old Favorite. Let the man
who is now basking in the smiles OF
the public remember that his day Is
coming: people win fnAlly hate him.