The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
HYHAWKER JOTS

The older a man grows the more he
becomes a creature of habit and hates
to be jolted out of the rut, says Mack
Gretchen.
A man may retain his good name IL
he can keep out of politics. thinks Edi-
tor Brady of the Lawrence Journal,
and he ought to know.
The mammoth steel roller mill that
was to employ a million or more Of
less men, W hich Coffeyville papers built
a few months ago, has gone off chasing
with Halleys comet, because of the
high price of gas-at least that is the
reason given.-Chdnute Tribune.
An effort is being made to get school
children to sign a new pledge, entitled
kiss Not" and the obligation is to
discourage the custom uf kissing on
the lips whenever it is in my power
Now there is a pledge that a lot of us
could sign and actually keer.@Tola Reg
i.4ter. 5-a --f
A fiat dwelIer complains that her
neighbours piano drives her crazy and
asks US what the remedy 1t, says the
Hutchinson Gazette, and the Gazette,
which evidently hates peace suggests:
THE only remedy we know of is to
buy a photograph and include in the
case of records The Old. Gray Bon
net and Marching Through Georgia ."
MY viife-n1y children-I don't know
what to do,' were the opening words
of the confession of R. S. Groin, ex-
public administrator at Kansas City,
who stole $4,000 from an estate aid shot
himself yesterday. Wife and children
are a mans first consideration when
he's in trouble, but the last when he's
making that trouble.-Fort Scott Tri-
bune.
At every revival we have in our
church some deadbeat is converted. says
Deacon Walker in his Osborne Farmer.
Ixx-ox oh f,x1 o%e-
and the way they can give in tes+ imony
does beat the band. But we old dea-
Gems can always tell when they ars
sticking. If they don't go around to
the stores and ask for credit, but pay
cash instead and occasionally knock a
little off an old account, we know that
they are still in the straight and narrow
path. We always figure that If we per-
manenriy reform one de ID eat out CT
every go that strays into the fold, we
have dine a wonderful work Tor the
world at large.
A real old-fashioned woman, one of
the kind whose dominating instinct Is
hospitality. decided recently, says the
Atchison Globe, that she would take a
table boarder: The $50 month he pays
for his meals she said, will in one
month buy a complete set of table
; are: In two months it will put new
curtains all over the house, in three
months it will paper the entire house.
and in four months will buy an cr1en-
tai rug She took the boarder, and as
soon as he sat down to his first meal
her dominent trait of hospitality rose to
the top. She began to pass things"
ard before he had almost eaten himself
to death she had done so much pass
ing that her arms were useless with
cverwork. She found during this first
meal that her boarder liked spring
chicken, he was fond of almonds
b1anched and cooked in every style. he
never turned down rich fruit cake, and
he could eat four kinds of meat at a
meal, and it wouldn't hurt him. With
her dominating trait on top she began
to buy what her boarder liked, and be-
fore the first month was up, the fam
lily figured that the extra expenses that
month would put the family back three
months, the second months would ne
cessitate parting with their Dear Old
Home, and the third month would see
item all in the poor farm. And, in Sd
dFion, The arms of cverr member of
the family would be para1yzed, the re-
suit of passing things, and they would
be maniacs, forever shouting, do have
some more!" This EXPLAINS why .ha
family of the old-fashioned woman
whose dominating trait is hospitality,
took her boarder away from her.