The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atehison Globe.l


People you owe always tell about It.
If you have a secret. you may as
well tell 1t to so as to one.
No man can afford to say all the
things he would like to say.
A young doctor calls diseases by
their Latin names: an old doctor Is
not so particular.
We have noticed that If you think
before you speak, the other fellow gets
in his Joke first. sfs ~
The women are particularly pleased
with marriage ceremony so impress
sive that it makes the chills run down
their backs.
The reward a man receives for go
ing to bed early regularly, is that he
feels very tough If he stays up late
once in awhile.
When man comes up to me. and
asks, Haven't 1 always been a friend
of yours?' I know he Is drunk" said
a Missourian the other morning.
Take 30 cents worth of cotton wash
goods, a rose or two, pair of shoes,
and a hat, and put them on a 16-year-
old girl, and you have a great result.
Mother is so popular in her family
that the only reproaches she ever gets
from her children originated in their
inability to comprehend why she ever
married father.
What has become of the old fashion
ed girl who, when she wanted to learn
song she had heard someone sing,
asked the singer to write 1t out Tor
her." instead of paying the music dea-
Ter so cents for 1t?
You may abuse your enemy. your
friend, and your kin and possibly es-
cape punishment, but If you abuse your
stomach you will have to account for
it. No matter how good the stomach,
it will not stand for abuse.
If the little things. of life annoy
you, there Is every prospect that you
will be miserable; If the same trivial
affairs please you, you will be happy.
For it is the little things, after all,
which make up the most OF the aver
age life. Few great events come into
the lives of most men, and there are
indications that they are not always
satisfactory when they do. But every
day of every life is filled with small
affairs, which will make you happy
or miserable. Perhaps IL ooesn al
lie with the individual how these little
things will be received. temperament
may have something to do with the
case. and so may the CONDITION OF your
liver, but the fact remains that IT Is
the little things which count, and the
monotonous life is apt to be more
happy than the life made up OF Dig
strenuous events. Surely this IS true IL
the commonplace life has any capacity
for happiness. or adaptability TO cir
cumstances.
An Atchison church society met re-
Gently to talk of the Work Of Our
Missions" in India, and decided oeiore
adjourning. First, that money taken
in for the sale of old furniture pc.
longs to the wife; second. that peer
loaf Is better If one-third OF the meat
is pork third, the neighborhood row
in West Atchison, is the worst ever,
and fourth, that committee OF women
not present be appointed TO LOOK W
India missionary work and report az
the next meeting.
When callers come in the evening ana
ask for Father they are told tnat ne
has gone to bed" This gone to peo
is so often said of the father OF nome
that it would make very appropriats
inscription for his tombstone. CalIeu
Home doesn't seem appropriate sIne
Father was always home every mruu.S
he was allowed to be- and Gone hisn-
err isn't always suitable, but Zone "
Bed" fits every father who ever nveo
who worked hard all day to support ms
family, and was tired out Wnen nisnl
came Moreover, such an INSCRIPTION
would contain worlds Of comfort TOT tne
weeping widow, for II was wnen am
err was upstairs in bed that sne knew
where he was. and didn't wonder what
he was up to now. and she ana the
older children could have company In
the parIor and talk. and talk. ana
tank. without the feeling that a GER
tain men was wishing they'd shut up
and let the company go home