The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-25
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Hutchinson News is particular
to explain that a dirigible balloon SIS a
balloon with steering apparatus"
The Lebanon Times has a girl
friend who uses los hairpins to hold
her own and other peoples hair on
her head.
verd Napier remarks that you will
never get any profit from your mis-
takes as long as you give some one
else credit for them.
Some folks never forgive the Lord,
says Miss Anna Carlson in her Linds-
borg News, for not consulting them on
how to run the universe.
The Ottawa Herald advances another
excellent reason why it should rain this
fall: The dogs can't track the 'coons
we'll when the ground is so dry.
As the Lawrence World says: Peo-
pie who madly follow the cry, Turn
OF the reflection that is cast upon
them for voting the rasca1s in.
If we are ever able to locate the man
who invented work, says the usually
mild but now murderously-rnin
Lawrence World, there will be an i'm
mediate demand for the undertaken.
The Meade County News refers to a
young Benedict as being "cupidized.
This. says the Hutchinson Gazette, is 4
refreshing assurance in the light of the
fact that so many men enter the mar
riage state, mesmerized.
Something in the way of modesty
from the Wichita Beacon: Chicago has
gained 112 per cent in bank deposits
| and 1874 per cent in bank capital in the
last ten years. Really Chicago is get
ting into the Wichita class.
We heard two men arguing politics
on the street the other day, states the
Lawrence Journal. They talked a long
time and each went away feeling mora
convinced than ever. We asked each
man after it was over if he had read
the other party's platform. Neither
had. Then we asked each if he had
read his own party platform. Neither
had. Have you?
The defendant acknowledged that he
hadn't spoken to his wife in five years
and Judge Brewer took a hand from
the bench in examining the witness, re-
ports the Troy Chief. What explana-
to- have yOu,' he said severely to the
defendant. "for not speaking to your
wife in five years ?" your honor re-
piled the husband, IT didn't like to In
terrupt the lady"
Ralph Faxon's serial editorial in his
Garden City Telegram on Soft Water
is a whole x ahead of his serial or
Concrete bridges. At least, it would
look so from the score on a recent day
when the Concrete Bridges was des-
ignated at CCCLXVIII while the Soft
Water registered in at CCCLXXVIII
Nobody but Brother Faxon knows just
what these signs stand for. He's ap-
parently the only newspaper man in
Kansas who took a post graduate
course in Roman numerals. Certain
~ the ordinary courses in this method
of figuring never carried one that far
Here is the way, says the Troy
Chief, the papers will write up we'd
dings ten years hence; 1.-The bride
looked very well in a travelling dress
but all eyes were conferred upon the
groom. He wore a dark suit that fit
ted his form perfectly. and in his dain-
ty gloved hands he carried a small
rose. His curly hair was beautifully
done. and a delicate odor of hair oil Of
the best quality fioated down the aisle
as he passed. The young people will
miss him now that he is married. He
is loved by all for his many accom-
plishments his tender grace and hi:
winning ways. The bride command:
a good salary as bookkeeper and the
groom will miss none of the luxurie!
to which he has been accustomed. A
crowd of pretty men saw him off a
the depot-Troy Chief